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Yes, that must be it.
Because all those big corporations that
enslave workers around the world are
always owned by black people!
(Tax Day Teabagger)
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Clearly, more effort went into the production of the sign than the thought process behind it.
/agree
I totally agree.
I completely agree
I refer you to the “testimonial fail” on Failblog.
That sign is indeed very stupid but the caption of this picture is just as bad. A cooperation hiring you is not even remotely comparable to real slavery no matter how crappy the wage is.
Those dirt poor third world people where not rounded up and shoved into the factories they choose to work there because it was better than their alternatives. And dispite popular belief global poverty was not invented recently by American Corporations.
I beg to differ on one point — I would say that paying a wage that might or might not be enough to live on, while not providing safe working conditions, is at least remotely comparable to slavery.
Choosing to work in those conditions (because it’s better than the alternatives) doesn’t make one’s situation any less miserable.
Is that the American English language, which was dying when it started, or the actual English language? Honestly, I wouldn’t mind Americans ruining our language if they called it something else.
Americans might spell some things differently to the rest of the native-English world, but I’m pretty sure we all spell “despite” the same.
troups…………….way to go grammar nazi
Ya well I agree even more then that so I win.
Teabaggers are absolutely hillarious. “I refuse to pay my new lower taxes!”
Considering some people are trying to position this fringe of badly organised wingnuts who can’t actually settle on what exactly it is they’re protesting about as some major grassroots political movement of people from all sections of society, I find it strange that out of all the tea baggers I’ve seen not one of them hasn’t been white. Why exactly is that?
You’re hilarious. Just because you vote based on what you can get out of it, doesn’t mean everybody does. Not to mention the fact that you totally miss the point that the tea parties are about out of control spending (that started under Bush XLI).
Had you gone to one you would have seen other races there. I was there with my girlfriend. I’m white but she’s Hispanic. It’s okay though, I understand your need to make it about race. It allows you to avoid a real debate on the topic. By the way, what I saw there were (almost) all working middle class people.
“you totally miss the point that the tea parties are about out of control spending (that started under Bush XLI).”
Really now? Click my name and tell me what reaction this guy gets from teabaggers when he mentions the previous adminstration in that context. Teabaggers don’t know what they’re protesting about, other than not liking Obama.
That guy tries to blame Bush ONLY. It’s not just the republican or the democrates. Both sides are equally to blame. He says Bush started the spending and you don’t hear anything, no reaction. He uses Clinton’s favorite line “there was a suprlus in 2000″ then says this is ALL Bush’s fault and that’s when he gets booed.
Click my name and see what they’re really about. Also note at about 2:10 what he says about it being democrates fault (and the cheering) then blames republicans (more cheering), then blames Obama and Bush AND both congresses.
It’s Democrats.
The Steve, I’m sure Thee John Galt would be able to tell you that spelling (and education in general) is a plot by black Jewish feminazis to keep the white man down.
That’s so phallogocentric!
I didn’t think Whitney Houston has been off the drugs long enough to organize such a plan.
Haha! greatness witnessed!
Tea-baggers are some of the most idiotic people I’ve ever seen. Do you even understand the ideology behind the actual Boston Tea Party? They weren’t doing it to say “We don’t like taxes!” like bunch of morons, they were protesting that they were being taxed by a government they had no say in. Just because your favourite candidate didn’t win doesn’t mean you don’t have a say in government, it means most people disagree with your political views. I’ve never seen any evidence that these “protesters” have any consistent idea of what they’re protesting, I’ve heard everywhere from excessive spending to voter fraud. They just don’t like Obama or his policies. Also they have a funny name.
Too funny. I keep having really weird imagery of their meetings…
“So, you lie down over there…”
Finally some recognition about the name teabaggers hehe!!
“He says Bush started the spending and you don’t hear anything, no reaction. ”
You hear stunned mumbling as they realise something is up, in contrast to the cheering and whooping that’s greeted everything else said by him and everyone else who’s been grabbing the mic.
You hear some talking at that point, but it’s too quite to understand. You assume it’s mumbling is disagreement, but it could just as easily be people saying something like “that’s right.” Based on my experience, I would guess the latter. If you watch my video, the boo for the republicans are louder than that of the democrats. And at the one I was at, Arlen Spector (R) got the loudest boo.
i’m sorry but i got to say, anyone who uses Gleb Beck as part of their argument is an automatic, mandatory fail for their own good
Glen Beck also
Word to your mother.
and Glenn Beck too
First of all, it’s not about Glenn Beck. It’s about the response he gets. We were talking about the mentality of the tea partiers. Second, if you have a problem with something somebody says, then discredit/rebut it. What you did is a way to avoid having to articulate your ideas because you can’t.
The problem I have is with people like Glenn Beck, Hannity and O’Reilly getting to believe their show is actual news and that this “tea party” thing wasn’t a fox-sponsored event.
As such, Beck and the other people at Fox ENTERTAINMENT news can’t be taken at any value beyond entertainment since anything on their show should be considered ficticious.
It is not news, it is not a credible source therefore if is a bad reference.
Take it like a TV show – those people, I consider them actors just like I consider the host an actor. If it were real news, I might be more willing to accept it and the people on the show as being worth listening to.
Well, if I used Beck as a reference to a fact I stated, then this would be relevant. However, I used it to show the response he got. It has nothing to do with what he says (other than the context of the crowd reaction).
The people on Fox picked this movement up and helped it grow to the level it reached. They didn’t start it.
You did use it as a refence by using comments from the show, hence you used the show as a reference, hence – FAIL, unless you find a better source.
(i.e. – i’m not saying there’s people out there that probably say what they said, i’m just saying you can’t trust what you get off that channel, it’s all spun)
Because the CNN Opinion is so much better, right?
than Fox? you’re seriously comparing the two?
Didn’t Beck have a show on CNN at one point too? Was he more credible then?
What do you think MSNBC?
I hadn’t been aware of that threejohn, so i looked it up and you are correct – headline hourly news and stood in for larry king in fact. however, i would presume he was far less eccentric on those shows and stayed within the realm of credible news. i will have to look up and find those programs when he was hosting them. thanks.
and msnbc, though i would say is more credible on the whole than fox, has its own shows that are just as much for-entertainment-purposes as well.
I’m talking about how the crowd responds to what he says. The crowd speaks via reaction to Beck’s words. It’s not Beck himself that I was trying to point out. I said to specificly listen to the reaction at one point, but it’s all about the crowd.
On a side note, like I said before, when you can’t refute the source, you attack it. Please tell what he says in this clip that you believe is a lie.
Haven’t I just mentioned what and why this source is invalid? How much clearer can I be?
I did refute it, and yes, I attack the notion that that channel is anything but entertainment. You find more credible news more often on the Daily Show than you do on most Fox “news” programs given how they slander most issues and topics.
No, you haven’t. You say they lie but don’t back it up. Oh well, I’ll play your game. You’re a liar and so everything you say is invalid. I guess that means I win because I just invalidated everything you’ve said so far. Wow, that was easy.
And you still miss the “it’s about the crowd” part. Please pay attention and try to keep up.
Three John – the bit that I was talking about is on an entertainment show, the crowd (believe it or not) is prompted for responses. I thought I didn’t have to say it outright assuming you had the intellect to infer that from what I said. Falling back on an infantile response such as “You say they lie but don’t back it up. Oh well, I’ll play your game. You’re a liar and so everything you say is invalid. I guess that means I win because I just invalidated everything you’ve said so far. Wow, that was easy.” is pointless and just reiterates the fact that you’re not paying attention.
I’ve added in a link for you (click the name) – it’s concerning how to work up a crowd for a music concert but the same application goes here. What else did you want?
Well the article is actually about the importance of getting the crowd involved in the show. What’s more, it’s not at all about manipulating the crowd to respond in any specific way other than filling in the words (usually by holding the mic out over the crowd) they know (which isn’t the case here). So their reaction is still genuine.
Are you seriously comparing CNN to Fox News? The only reason you think CNN is credible is because you choose to believe the liberal ideas they have. Fox News is the only network that isn’t completely left wing and so you have to attack it because you want no differing opinion than what you have.
So all your Tax paying dollars go to the banks and you think that Obama is better than Bush?
They are all just puppets controlled by the same masters. Regardless of the party Democrat or Republican you still have a “leader” that is controlled and at the whim of international bankers.
If Obama or congress wanted to stimulate the economy, why didn’t they just give Tax payers money so spend?
But you think it is better to give Banks a bail-out so they can loan you back your Tax dollars? How does that make sense?
Where the hell were you naysayers when Bush and his cronies were asleep at the wheel—if not actively enabling what would become this economic disaster? Where were you? Why weren’t you complaining then?
Thanks to your kind voting for Bush, TWICE, it is now too late to stop the economic collapse. It is already here, and it happened on the watch of your chosen leaders.
Whatever Obama does or doesn’t do, the damage has already been done, and you were silent and obedient all the while. You have no room to speak now.
P.S. Stimulus checks don’t work. Bush already did that. This had no effect on the economy whatsoever, which continued to sink like the Titanic in a minefield.
I tell you what, you can pay mine and my children’s fuure taxes. You are the one who doesn’t understand. Yeah, when you have nothing else to back up your reasoning just play the race card. Go put on your brown shirt and shut up until you know what you are talking about.
Lol….teabaggers…
Actually the tea party I was at didn’t mention the name Obama (to my recolection) it was protesting wasteful government spending. At both a state and federal level.
And you can click my name in this post for a simple explaination as to why these “tea parties” (I use the quotes because they’re pretty much the polar opposite of the original boston Tea Party) are so laughably idiotic. The people attending them are the people who lost the Republicans the last election, so the more they keep their gurning faces in the public eye, the better as far as I’m concerned.
Too true, cee. Even some Republicans are waking up to this fact. The teabaggers are the Right’s version of Code Pink: a loud, obnoxious albatross around their neck.
This is an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. You’re not really using that is a basis for factual argument or discussion, are you?
It’s an opinion piece that makes valid points about why the teabaggers are not in fact a bi-partisan grassroots movement with a coherent aim, they’re a bunch of morons who voted Palin.McCain and are butt-hurt that Obama got in. They’re there because their talk radio host told them to be there and beyond that, they’re clueless, which is why people who care about the future of the Republican Party decry them as half-wits – because they know toothless dickheads holding cardboard signs reading “This sign is the brownest thing on our block!!!” is not a great advert for those with political objections to the current administration.
Here’s a few things I noticed about the article. First, he misses the point of the parties. It’s not just about tax; it’s about spending (and the taxes that will necessarily result from it). Second, he talks about the cost of the Iraq war. The total cost of that is at about $662 billion according to costofwar.com, and that was spent over 6 years. Obama spent more than that in 4 months and one bill (the $700 billion bailout). So everybody who complains about the monetary cost of war should be outraged at this, but not necessarily visa versa. Next, the tax cuts resulted in higher revenue to the government so I fail to see how that increased the deficient. Finally, he says “The bailouts were also initiated by Bush.” We know. That’s what our other discussion is about though so I’ll refer you to that for my argument on this.
“Next, the tax cuts resulted in higher revenue to the government so I fail to see how that increased the deficient [sic].”
Facts not in evidence. Try again.
Agreed. How the hell does getting less money but spending the same amount, if not more, give you higher revenue?
The rich made more money so even though their tax rate was cut, they paid more. So the percent paid went down but the actual paid went up.
I’m aware of your Laffer Curve argument.
I say again, facts not in evidence. Try again.
Here are the facts for you. Revenues skyrocketed after the tax cuts (click my name).
I suppose you could make the argument that the increase isn’t a (direct) result of the tax cuts, but you can’t argue with the fact that revenues went way up after the cut.
Revenues went up from ’04 to ’06 or so, and then dropped again from ’06 to ’09. Click my name. Note that the “Bush Tax Cuts” are still in effect. So, how come revenues dropped from 06 to now, if cutting taxes solves all economic problems?
Also, you might want to compare that graph versus the party of the administration and of congress. So how come Reps are known as being “fiscally responsible”?
Check out
zfacts.com/p/318.html.
The revenues went up after the tax cut. Then the economy tanked and so did the revenues. And this tanking is a result of other bad bad mistakes by Bush and Congress, not the tax cuts (which is what I was specifically talking about).
So it’s okay to blame a bad economy for a failure, but not to credit a good economy for a rise? How about that.
“overall revenues have barely climbed back to the levels reached in 2000, and that the government has borrowed trillions of dollars against Social Security surpluses just as the first of the nation’s baby boomers are nearing retirement. ”
“”The fact is that revenues are way below what the administration said they would be a few years ago,” said Thomas S. Kahn, staff director for Democrats on the House Budget Committee. “The long-term prognosis is still very, very bleak, and the administration doesn’t have any kind of long-term plan.”
I don’t think your citation really supports your argument.
“you totally miss the point that the tea parties are about out of control spending (that started under Bush XLI).”
Actually, the out of control spending and ever increasing debt started under Reagan, continued under Bush I, reversed itself under Clinton, and doubled under Bush II. Obama’s not off to a very good start, but I’m prepared to give him a couple years to turn it around. Come 2012, I may vote for someone else if he hasn’t made the progress I want, but for now I’ll cut him some slack.
Incorrect again; it started under Carter with the gas crisis, made worse by Reagan-omics, got new taxes with Bush I, started getting better with “Slick Willy”, then Bush II got the reigns and sent us back to the economic dark ages where we stand now… and all we’ve seen is a 7 billion dollar bill with no change
Check your records: no ballooning deficits under Carter, Bush I had higher taxes AND higher deficits.
You’re right PortlandMark, Bush I, in an effort to undo the damage done by Reaganomics, instituted the largest tax hike in US history. Clinton instituted another tax hike (smaller in Percentage but larger in actual dollars) and the damage done by Reagan was fixed.
Then it was all undone by a Republican President and his Republican Congress who cut taxes and then threw a war that may have been justified and another larger war which was not, all without a finger being lifted to pay for either war. When the economy began to tank because of the deregulation pushed through by the Republican Congress, the Republican President started to shell out money as part of a ‘bail out’.
So now Republican people are pissing and moaning because 12 years of a Republican Congress and 8 years of a Republican President have put us all into a deep financial crisis.
Now the unpleasant work of fixing those mistakes has fallen to a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President which may require raising revenues (taxes) and limiting/cutting spending (entitlements?). The very idea of paying for their mistakes of having to make a sacrifice for the greater good has the Republican Americans so exorcised that they are taking to the streets. How do they justify their complaints?
With a penis… That isn’t paid for.
And once again I have to wipe off my computer screen…! Ah well, I guess it should be done periodically?
I am but a humble prophet of the Wang, here to bring lolz and joy.
In bed… If your credit is good.
because you watch CNN or MSN. Who only show you the white people because that’s what they want you to see. We limited government involvment in our lives.
No, it’s because the only people attending these parties are the same butt-hurt fringe of the Republican Party who helped Obama get into power with their daily dose of crazy.
Wrong, but you can believe what you want to believe, I saw plenty of non-white people. It’s not about race it’s about limiting the power of government.
As I said before, my hispanic girlfriend was there with me too.
Race argument = crutch of weak argument
Thee John Galt = Childish.
If you want to stoop to insulting peoples reasons for arguing, then so be it.
So your brother estimated and paid his taxes incorrectly, the IRS corrected him, and because of that tax rates are higher.
You, Sir, are exactly the reason that even mainstream Republicans think the teabaggers are a bunch of morans.
However, I do my taxes correctly. After I graduated medical school and I was a resident for 4 years, I made about 35-45k/year (during Clinton and Bush.) My tax totaled about 35% of my gross. Now that I am an ER attending, I make about 230k/year. My current taxes total about 28% of my gross. Every year since 02-present that has been within a percentage or two of 28%.
So screw off you idiot. The public schooling that you decry helped me become what I am today. Student loans helped me get through, since I had no help from my family and had to put myself through school. And unlike you I understand that the social contract implies that because I was given that opportunity, I bear responsibility to contribute in return.
So if my taxes bump to what the were when I was making 35k/year, that will be fair. It will hurt a little, but I am much better equipped to bear that burden than people who have less than I do.
Any yes, you are a racist, classist, ignorant hick. Grown up.
If your income taxes are lower, but due to Obamas policy changes, everything else in your life is now more expensive, have you saved any money?
i totally agree
those are some stupid white….i really wonder where they get there imagination from
i totally agree
those are some stupid white people….i really wonder where they get there imagination from
I disagree with the sign. It should read: “Obama’s plan: Enslaving the productive class.” Race has little to do with it.
But they need to make it about race…
Yes, the sign maker clearly did. Why do you suppose that is?
They are clearly idiots.
Amen, brother. Race is a shield that they will constantly hide behind. Keeps them from having an intelligent debate on the issues. How else do you think Obama got elected in the first place?
Bang on!! Bring down the modern noblemen and lords.
The trouble is that everyone for some reason believes that just tomorrow they’re bound to get the contract they always knew they deserved, and vote to protect the income it’ll bring them.
Belief that defending the wealthy’s interests is in your best interest is one of the greatest swindles of our times.
From the late Dr. Adrian Rogers:
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else isgoing to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
I’m jus’ sayin’…
Well if you think that HALF of the people in this country aren’t working, then I can easily point out the flaw in your logic.
you see that statistic alot in these forums despite that, even at the height of the great depression i think unemployment was in the mid 20% range.
falls in the whole, “if you don’t know what you’re talking about act like you do and hope no one notices” category…
Get Back To Work
The population of this country is 300 million.
160 million are retired.
That leaves 140 million to do the work.
There are 85 million in school.
Which leaves 55 million to do the work.
Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government.
Leaving 15 million to do the work.
2.8 million are in the armed forces
Which leaves 12.2 million to do the work.
Take from that total the 10.8 million people who work for state and city governments.
And that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.
At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals.
Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.
Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.
That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me
And there you are,
sitting on your ass,
at your computer, reading comments.
Nice. Real nice.
Sorry man, that just leaves you – I’m working right now (call it down time between projects).
So…Get to work lazy bones!! You’ve got alot of people to feed! And when you’re done here, we need some work done over in Africa. It’s a mess there in Somalia. Hope you had a good breakfast.
“Call it down time between projects”.
WallFly, is that what the kids are calling doobies these days? “Projects”?
All sorts of assumptions and nary a damn fact to be seen…
Ya know, insults work better when they have a bit of truth embedded.
nicely put, dwn, thx.
and, just for the hell of it – i meant what i said literally – i work on a project-by-project basis so, between projects i got time, hence my statement.
but, just so your hip when you kid comes home after doing “projects” at school, I don’t want you flipping out. so (also link my name): doobies are still called doobies, also: Weed, Herb, Green, Kinds, Kibbs, Kibids, Shwag, Shwiggs, Pot, Mary-J, Mary-Jane, Herbage, KB, Chronic, Spliff, Blunt, Ganja, Sensi, Sensemilia, Motta, THC, Buddha, Grass, Reefer, Shake, Bud, Smoke, Hemp, Dope, Draw, Dew, Sticky icky, Endo, Giggle bush, Blueberry yum yum, Purple haze, Matchbox, Messo role, Mo, Mighty Mezz, Joint, Roach
gonna be ass at least be more creative with it.
It’s not that half the people are UNEMPLOYED, it’s that half aren’t WORKING, for myriad totally legitimate reasons. I know that’s a “joke” above, but it is true that there are lots of people “not working,” although I don’t have stats.
It is true that the “unemployment rate” only includes people who are actively seeking work. I don’t know what the actual percentage of adults in the US who are employed full-time in at least one job is, though.
Exactamundo
There are PLENTY of folk out there who AREN’T actively seeking work, so they’re never counted in the stats.
Oh, you mean the Dr Adrian Rogers who was a well-known conservative? Yeah, I wonder whether his conservative prinicples might have affected his take on this. What was it Jesus said? Oh yeah – “pay unto Caesar that which you owe to Caesar, pay unto God that which you owe to God” – you know, pay your taxes as it’s the law. It’s funny how conservative ministers seem to forget this when they get their “mega-churches” with millions of dollars flowing in every year.
Also, quoting one man isn’t going to win you this argument, especially when you’re supporting people who actually choose to call themselves teabaggers. I mean, come on… Who’s doing their marketing?
Obviously, he’s dead now, but do you reckon Dr Rogers would have approved of the bailout of all the banks and motor companies? Because if they hadn’t been bailed out there’d be more taxation on the few people left with jobs in order to support the millions left behind. Needs must.
Anyway, I’m English so I find all this colonial infighting quite quaint
Anyone who would like to argue with ogre, please reference “France.” That’s pretty much exactly what happened there. As soon as people realize that they can vote themselves money, it’s all over. What’s messed up now is that our handy-dandy liberal government is doing just the opposite; taking money from the workers and giving it to the ruling class. Man, something is really screwed up here.
Huh. Well, the current problem in the USA is that there’s a minority that does no useful work, and yet receives a sizable chunk of the profits. The average worker is not fairly compensated for their efforts, and peers usually receive the same compensation regardless of how hard they work or how productive they are.
Sounds like the usual arguments laid against socialism, and yet that’s not the institution generating these problems or situations…
You make an excellent point, but I really think it’s up to the shareholders of individual corporations to decide on appropriate compensation for their chief executives, even if it’s excessive by any standard.
Caption makes about as much sense as the sign.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
I’m still getting a paycheck, and I’m white….in fact my paychecks are slightly bigger than they were a few months ago.
Well, The Steve, apparently what happened is that you were laid off five years ago and no one ever told you about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, you still were getting a paycheck…. So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
That’s it. I’m going to burn down the building.
I’m taking my stapler with me.
… it’s not okay because if you take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire…
I’m a conservative and this sign makes no more sense than the liberals who tell me I’m a racist just because I didn’t vote for (and do not support) Mr. Obama. For the record, I didn’t vote for him because I disagree with his policies. And also for the record, if one voted for him because he’s black, by definition that person is a racist.
Just a little more food for thought……………
Eh…both sides have extremists and loonies on the ends- any liberal who assumes you voted based on race is on the loony end of the left…Limbaugh and most of the teabag folks are on the loony end of the right. We all have our crosses to bear.
So 51% of the US population is on the loony end of the right? Because according to recent polls, that’s approximately how many people were in favor of the tea parties. I think what you meant to say was that the people that CNN chose to cover from the tea parties are on the loony end of right. For the record, that is not a representative sample.
Please cite these “recent polls” and explain how they are a representative sample.
“So 51% of the US population is on the loony end of the right? Because according to recent polls, that’s approximately how many people were in favor of the tea parties.”
Prove it or own it.
Link in name:
“Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans have a favorable view of the ‘tea parties’ held nationwide last week, including 32% who say their view of the events is Very favorable.”
SNAP! Ownership, FTW!
Excellent source, Nick.
Aren’t you a cute little sock puppet.
If you’re trying to imply that I posted that comment under a different name… there’s pretty much nothing I can do about it. Except say, nuh-uh.
When you can’t attack the argument/source, throw out the flaming scarecrow…whatever. Consider the source.
what’s with this sock puppet thing lately? seems every time someone agrees with something someone else says, some douche comes by and calls them a sock puppet.
btw, i looked up your link, Nick – Rasmussen or whatever, then looked them up and apparently they’re pretty well regarded in the polling industry. Sadly, the 51% bit is something I didn’t want to believe in, the whole notion of what they’re doing is so inane and moronic in my opinion that it does little more than show how sad 51% of our country really is. I’m just hoping that that poll is off for the sake of our country.
Good source though.
It is an epidemic in both sides. Isn’t that right Socky?
*holds up sock puppy* Damn Skippy! Damn, have you been working out? Jeez, put the guns away before you hurt somebody.
*narrows eyes* Thanks Socky, now they are going to think I am more of a sad and pathetic loser than I already am.
That’s because you’re a tool. Maybe if you washed me more than once a year, I would be nicer…
*puts sock away* But yea, the sock accusation is pretty much our favorite accusation…
… in bed
(because it had to be done, really)
*applaud* nice performance, encore!
I’ll need five to ten, I’m afraid.
And we won’t even discuss my usual “fee” as it were…
Mick? Mick Foley, is that you? Where’s The Rock?
Great, now my sock is possessed by my favorite Rightwing nutjob…
Blow me. Please.
One poll which contrasts sharply with the approval ratings of the president and his steps to improve the economy. Whoo.
Unless you have anything else, I’m going to have to call bullshit.
The fallacy is that you and everyone else who hates the tea parties think that they are anti-Obama rallies or something. They’re not. It’s a gathering to attempt to tell the entire government that we don’t like what they are doing. Which is probably why that same report said that only 13% of politicians had a favorable view of the tea parties.
Also, I don’t see how it contrasts that sharply with Obama’s approval rating, which has dropped significantly since he took office. Link in name.
a phone poll in inherently flawed to start with — not an accurate cross section of society — was demonstrated last year during the election hoo-haws, so that 51% isn’t reliable regardless of who ran the poll. too many people aren’t available via residential land lines during typical polling hours to represent an accurate cross section.
51% of the people who are willing to take a long survey on the phone are morons. Yeah, I’ll buy that.
Well, they sure as hell aren’t average working people. They have vastly better things to do, like coming up with some sort of plan as to how they’re going to feed themselves next week.
I am siding with boodog, this makes just as much sense as liberals calling me bigoted for being anti illegal immigration or not voting for Obama. For the record, I happen to think that Obama has a chance to be a good president, but a $700 billion plus stimulus package given to the banks when they didn’t even have a plan to start with was a pretty bad way to start it.
The money given to the banks with no strings attached was handed out under the Bush administration.
ROFL! You say that like it’s a fact. Where’s the proof?
Another fool with a short memory. The bank bailouts were set in motion in September and October of 2008, during which time you will note that the president of the United States was George Walker Bush. Also in that time, the Senate was nearly evenly split and the Republican Senate caucus was filibustering anything that didn’t have administration approval, so don’t even try to lay it solely at the feet of Congressional Democrats.
can’t we agree that ALL politicians suck?
No. No we cannot. Remember, unlike a monarchical system, or the strong man military leader system, under OUR system, politicians are “the people”. That means, if you don’t like what “the politicians” are doing, you have the opportunity to get involved and make changes yourself. Sure, there are financial barriers that make it easier for a wealthy person to get involved than it is for a person of modest means, but I understand right wingers don’t support doing anything to change that. Really, it isn’t “Politicians” that are the problem, it’s rich folk, and those people who can’t understand that concentrating power in the hands of the wealthy is inherently unamerican.
sorry mark, but the only ones who can really afford to go into politics are “rich folk”… the rest of us have to work to get by…
Power is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy by virtue of their being wealthy.
So, by your logic, it is inherently un-American for anyone to be wealthy, yes?
I agree… but then again, I am all for anarchy, to which my pillaging may go unnoticed
What about the looting and raping?
Did somebody say my name?
Only consensual raping allowed in this village–
But loot all you want!
Pfft, all my raping is consensual…
I know that–but what about those other pillagers?!
…ho, ho, ho…you are all very complex people with both ‘winks’ and ‘twitches’…we would like to know you better…also, stop touching me…
…no, we’re not your mother…nor are we fcsking…
…on the people who are still alive…
Because it IS fact. Look it up. Just because there were Democrats in congress doesn’t mean that G.W. Bush didn’t have the chance to shut it down without spending a dime. That would have been a poor decision, but it was available to him.
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The difference here is that the money handed out under the new administration is allegedly being more carefully tracked. I hope that is the case, but I don’t have faith enough in the integrity of politicians and big business to think that they aren’t just robbing us blind.
Correction, Bush was President at the time the money was handed out. Congress had a bit more to do with that than most people give them credit for. Yes, Bush did sign the legislation. But then again, he didn’t exactly have the time to give it back to Congress and tell them to “fixicate it” now did he?
and you guys all realize that obama did the same thing when he walked into office?
he sold us the same crap that bush did under a new name… but now it smells like roses!
…and it’s 10 times as big too!
nope, sorry… it’s at most twice as big… but i wouldn’t even go that far…
Ok, I exaggerated!
Not even Obama could get away with that.
My god! Thank you Jake! It hought no one read anything on here!And I can tell you in all honesty, I HAVE been called a racist for not voting for the current president. I do counter with……….did you vote for Obama because he’s black? if you did, you’re a racist. Did you vot AGAINST Obama because he’s black?if you did you are a racist. I voted against Obama because of his policies………note this: I did not say I voted for McCain, I voted against Obama. And Yes, Liberals, there is a HUGE difference. But once again, thank you, Jake!
A vote for anyone other than the major party candidate closest to your views is a vote for the other major party candidate.
Welcome to the two-party system. Enjoy your stay.
This is a crappy caption, and it makes no sense whatsoever.
Way to suck.
Difference being that if you don’t want to WORK for the big corporations, you don’t HAVE to. Wrap your mind around that, liberal weenies.
I think you may be missing the point that in many developing countries, any income is better than none, that does not make the abusive and shameful treatment of those employed acceptable- they do not, in fact have the choice to work for someone else in many cases (like we do have here). When you are locked in a company dorm at night (a practice that until rather recently Nike’s sub-contractors that only worked for Nike, so not really a separate entity-engaged in regularly). If you are trying to claim that liberals are claiming that Obama is enslaving the whites i this country, then you may need to return to your alternative universe- you are in opposite land, liberals were not part of the teabag thing (at least not very many).
These people sicken me. It seems they’re the same moral cripples that had no problem at all with Bush spending their tax money on murdering Brown People in Arabia, but now they’re having conniptions at the idea of a single cent of their money going to Poor People in America.
The “poor people in America” live in the most prosperous country in the world (yes, still) and can earn their own money in most cases. They live like kings and queens compared to the poor in other countries. Why do you think Mexicans are killing themselves to get here? Get some context.
Checked the unemployment rates, have you? You do realize that a lot of people can’t simply live off Burger King level of employment right?
I think you are the one lacking context of what it costs to live here.
Move to Mexico. You will see what I mean, you would live like a GOD on Burger King money. People in the US are spoiled.
yes… having proper working conditions, health care, and building codes makes us spoiled… go back under your rock, it clearly understands you better.
You’re angry at me? Yes, Americans are spoiled because it’s never enough, they always want more and more goodies. That’s what destroyed some of the most wonderful silver jewelry businesses in Mexico, unions wanting more and more stuff. Government takeovers. When will it be enough!? It won’t be enough ever because you are creating a monster in the government, it will grow and grow now with promises of this and that for the “poor and down trodden”, until it has complete power if it’s not kept in check.
So because people are living in hell elsewhere, I shouldn’t ask for fair compensation here? You do realize that the starving children in China is not a reason to work for substandard wages here, right?
Also, I shouldn’t lessen the future of my two sons by moving to a place with lowered standards and wages, let alone all the issues going on down there with the drug wars.
So you still haven’t explained why the woes of other countries means that I should be happy with crappy wages here. If anything, it means that their country is behind.
Arguably it’s not bad to have some perspective on how we define “poverty” in disparate ways in different cultures.
That is true but it doesn’t mean that I have to settle for something inadequate because somebody else has it worse…
Be grateful for what you have, work hard to have more of it.
I am grateful of what I have but I am mindful to realize that it still isn’t enough…
That’s great, no one should ever be satisfied as we all can always improve. It’s what you do with that realization that really matters.
Thus speaks a person who has never worked full time for lousy pay, then having to spend 30% or more for their share of the rent in a crappy apartment (pretty typical in Northeast cities).
I respect hard work–my father was a self-made man, graduated college after 9 years of night school. But he also made pointed out to me the turns in his life which enabled him to get to college in the first place. Without the help of a few people in crucial junctures, he could have gotten stuck at lousy-paying, lousy-opportunity jobs for the rest of his life…and he was always grateful. AND he was willing to pay his taxes so that others might have a safety net.
Thank you, I was going to burst a vessel if I had to explain this to him.
*hug* I miss my old man. Makes me feel close to him a bit, when I can talk about him.
Yes, but government is not supposed to save people from things like full time work for lousy pay. You are supposed to look for other employment, get more education or start your own business. The government safety net is for unemployment, disability, retirement, etc… I don’t get what you mean… Even your dad got help from individuals to get his education, which is how it should be. We should be helping each other.
And when people can’t or won’t help each other, you need the government’s help. It’s no good to say that people can just help each other because they won’t. Opportunity should be for all, not just those fortunate enough to be able to afford it. Things like looking for a job, getting an education and (for pete’s sake) starting a business are expensive, or at least time consuming. Lending a hand so people can take advantage of the opportunities available to them is exactly why you should have government assistance.
What do you mean by “opportunity” for all? Is the government supposed to get you a good paying job? Even if you don’t have the education or ability? Yes, everyone should have the basics, home, food – but the government is not in the business of making life “fair”. It’s not fair, not everyone is going to be rich or have a fancy house and car. Do we really want everyone to be the same? Have the same things? That sounds really strange to me. People generally will help their friends and family, but if they don’t then yes there should be a safety net, I think I said that above.
Not to ensure they get, but to give them the chance to get. There are plenty of able and willing people trapped in griding poverty because they can’t afford the education or won’t be given the job because of their background.
Life may not be fair, but that doesn’t excuse exploitation of the disadvantged. People should suceed or not on their own merits, not their circumstances.
Ideally, there would be some baseline—home, food, medical treatment, that sort of thing—and any work you do would result in rewards above and beyond said baseline.
Unfortunately this is, thus far, impossible. Automated labor (i.e. robots building your houses and making your food) does not (yet?) exist.
I look forward to the day when all people set aside their differences long enough to work together to create such a world. The rewards would be tremendous, as I believe humans’ inherent need to create, combined with not needing to worry about survival at all, will drive them to innovate at an ever-increasing pace.
That way lies utopia…
You’d also have no way of making Burger King money, at least unless you are a drug lord or have friends in high places.
Your point is invalid.
“The “poor people in America” live in the most prosperous country in the world”
Oh, you realized that, did you? Then shut up, pay your taxes, and let the adults get on with fixing damage the conservatives have done to my country for the last thirty years.
haha… the last thirty years… it’s always the same scape goats…
Ya know, I was sure I’d get a reaction to the “,urdering brown people” slur. But instead, all i got was someone telling me how good poor people in America really have it.
Compassion? WTF is that?
I rest my case.
Oh yes, the life of elegance and happiness that comes from poverty…
It’s all relative.
Unfortunately, that statement of yours doesn’t pay my bills. Neither does saying that somebody else in a foreign land whom I can’t affect anyway, has it worse.
Saying it is all relative is just a convenient wash to avoid solving a problem. It is basically insisting that I be thankful I only got a broken leg when the other guy got shot when neither of us should have been harmed in the first place.
So no, it isn’t relative. Two wrongs don’t make a right, even if one of the wrongs is less than the other.
And the government, a cold impersonal institution, is supposed to have compassion? Please, it’s a campaign promise, a ploy to get elected. They have no intention of caring for any poor people. It’s the job of the people, through charitable organizations and families and friends, to care for the poor and disabled. Yes, some government safety net is nice to have, but it has to have it’s limits.
Oh, and sorry about ignoring your “murdering brown people” slur, maybe that’s for another day?
Umm…. You’re kind of a dumbshit.
I <3 Teabaggers. Wait, it’s a political movement now?
yeah, right? first thing that came to mind was that guy on my team in halo, kept teabagging the people we killed..
i didn’t realise it was pissing off enough people they needed to have a rally about it, but seriously, if you don’t want to get teabagged then play better.
These two comments are win and made reading this far into the thread worth it.
Absolutely. The first time I heard they were calling their movement “teabagging parties” I thought, “This has to be a joke.”
Well, it is, and it isn’t.
This website really should stop hugging Obama’s nuts so much.
Because Obama “worshippers” are the only people who would ever come out and say that racist fear-mongering sucks?
Is that the position you want to defend? Really?
Either I’m a racist or a nut hugger… I can haz other option?
Hell, u can haz optionburger if u wantz.
Ow. That hurt my brain to type. I hope you’re happy.
*noms the optionburger*
Kickass and yes, I am appeased with your pain.
This might help ease the pain of your brain. I never quite boned up on the exact terminology, I just debate as reasonably as possible. *cue laughing*
Soooo, when the options are narrowed down to two negative connotations in effort to skew reality in a debate, what is that called again?
False Dilemma Phallacy
Oh, sorry, we ‘re not talking about penises, you say? Well, WTF not?
And back on topic: The noisy Conservatives down-thread are using exactly that tactic: “You can’t say anything bad about corporations if you’ve ever benefitted from their products!” i.e. you’re either for corporations or against them. There are no other alternatives.
Aha, many thanks.
I can think of better things to do with nuts than hug them.
This thread is relevant to my interest…
TeeHee
Why? It is what many of those here want to do- so why should we/they stop- you do not have to keep coming and checking it out
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to the hypocrit that made this “LOL”. What evil corporation made the computer that you typed this up on? What evil coporation provides the internet that you surf on? What company made the Koolaid that you’ve been drinking? HYPOCRIT
Probably the one using slave labor in some foreign land because it isn’t “cost effective” to pay a reasonable wage and benefits here.
Granted, this is a generalization but it is just as cited and well thought out as your profound prose…
Probably the one leaving the country to open up shop in another country with lower taxes…
Your missing an ‘E’.
“You’re”
yeah, i guess i’m a hypocrite.
You’re also missing an “e” as well as an apostrophe.
It’s hypocrite.
Is it hypocritical to correct someone’s misspelling of hypocrite and make another misspelling?
It would be but his two word sentence is correct.
Does it count as two and a half words since I used a contraction?
Only if I am feeling very generous.
This is a little complex, so bear with me.
My husband is from Bosnia. The horrific late war there started over the same issue-taxpayers in Croatia and Slovenia were tired of having all their money sent to pay for welfare recipients and government bureaucrats in the rest of the former Yugoslavia.
Never heard that, did you? That’s because it’s much easier and more politically correct to explain the late “civil war” in terms of religious bigotry and “ancient animosities”.
Sooner or later, those who produce get sick of carrying all the burden and……well, shrug it all off.
(Ducks and covers)
That’s actually kind of scary… I hope we can come to some compromise in this country before it comes to that. Because no one will win in a civil war.
So, to protest paying taxes to provide a social safety net, Christians started killing Muslims, and Muslims returned the favor?
Ummm….no. First, Slovenia declared independence, then Croatia, then Bosnia. Serbia didn’t like it, because they could no longer suck money from these more prosperous sections-Serbs, you see, filled the overwhelming majority of the jobs in government and the military. Slovenians tend to be entrepreneurs, and Croats tend to be entrepreneurs and intellectuals. Bosnian Muslims were, BTW, greatly resented by the Serbs because they tended to be the big landowners pre-Communist/Tito nightmare.
So the Serbs attacked Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia to get their taxpayers back.
Sorry. But whoever told you the Balkans was simple? Wanna hear an equivalent explanation of the Civil War in Lebanon explained in terms of economics rather than religion?
No? Why am I the only person on the planet who sees these patterns?
Yes, yes, I know-not politically correct, but political correctness has not made big inroads in the Balkans.
A friend I met in the service had all of the women in his village raped by invading Christians. They were well to do, had nice property and were Muslims, so why not? He proceeded to join the military and became a phenomenal marksman. He had that icy calm/ inner peace that you only find in men who have become comfortable with death. I’m sure good old fashioned ethnic cleansing like that had nothing to do with the war. Seriously, why not go deny the holocaust while you’re at it?
How is it corporate “slavery” if they’re paying you? Did the Dutch East Microsoft Company come to your neighborhood and drag you off to tech school and force you to make up TPS reports under threat of whiplash? No? No one did that to you? Oh, then maybe it’s not really slavery when you have a choice like you do in America. Think there are too many poor people here? Why don’t you work harder and make more money to give to poor instead of punishing others for being successful.
*eyes dart around office*
How did you know? I have escape plans…if you can drive by the back loading dock at about 5 mph with the trunk of your car open, at exactly 10:52 a.m., I can get away!
I would, but my cotton-pickin’ fingers are too swollen and sore to adequately open the car door, much less manipulate the steering wheel.
How about a cookie?
I’ll have Lynn pull around and I will offer cover fire if we are spotted.
*hopes handcuffs are ready for cunning plan* >_>
Thank you!
Thank me later.
With handcuffs
Nah, they’re for her. I wouldn’t dream of taking away her fun.
It’s called debt bondage. They pay you, sure, but they supply food, shelter, and everything else necessary for basic living. You go into debt trying to pay them back what you owe for living expenses, and they never pay you enough to get out of debt.
It’s more clear in other countries, where it’s single companies instead of global conglomerates. Well, it is still global conglomerates. Just in other countries it more relates to neocolonialism then it does here. But consider in those factory towns where nearly everyone works in those factories. The entire livelihood of the town rests on the factories shoulders. And the factories pick up and move. Businesses fail as their former customers, the factory workers, lose their income, and suddenly an area that was once doing fine is severely impoverished…
Perhaps not so severe as slavery, but we are all trapped by corporate chains. We are all dependent on them.
Right on. We’re sources of potential profit and/or labor to them, nothing more.
It is why they have no issue with outsourcing to other countries where the labor laws are less strict and the wages can be inhumanly low.
Get a good education in the right field, or start a business. You will make more money than you know what to do with if you have the drive and ambition. Invest that money in a thriving stock market and you will make even more. That’s what makes this country so great. I for one don’t want that opportunity taken away from me. I would like to be independently wealthy some day. There is nothing wrong with that!
And who is paying for that Education in the Right Field or Starting a Business?
So how are you funding this rise to wealth?
Wow, you are! You can get loans, grants etc. to go to college if you really wanted to you could do it. I’m not wealthy yet, I just hope to be some day, or maybe my kids. It’s not the most important thing though, family, friends that is more important than money any day. I like to dream.
Wow, you really think it is that easy…
I work for a small business. That small business is presently doing very badly because of the current economy. It may very well not make it at all. If starting a business were a ticket to riches, it would not have this problem.
Independent wealth doesn’t come out of nowhere. It comes from convincing others—lots of them—to part with what little is left of their hard-earned and rapidly disappearing money.
Don’t kid yourself. Life is very, very hard. The rich are rich because of connections, luck, and having no qualms with exploiting the downtrodden.
and who are your customers?
The key to ‘making more money than you know what to do with’ is realising what you actually want and how much it will cost you. If what you want is a Bugatti Veyron, you’re unlikely to make it. If you’re after a comfortable enough life and the means to raise a family, you might well already be there.
What I really would like is independence. I would like to not have to work, even if I live in a little house and have a used car and probably would work anyway.
In a capitalist society, you don’t get to not work. That’s the Invisible Hand at work there. I passionately didnt want to have to work, and have the kind of freedom that brings. It’s just not an option.
That’s not true purple! There are many independently wealthy folks that don’t work, or only work on what they want to work on. You have to make the money first though. It does take time if you aren’t born into it. I don’t know of another country were that is possible.
You might be able to retire early by working incredibly hard, being gifted in the right field or being set up very well, but you still have to do a whole lot of work. The kind of jobs where you can make enough to get out early are very, very hard to get.
I almost feel bad for trying to burst their bubble…
but watching the shock of reality cross their faces is priceless
Ehh…… right………… Slavery ended nearly a century and a half ago….. never mind where they’d be if they were still in Africa……..
Excuse me, what?
… you’re kidding right? Though it’s illegal, it can still be found in every country in the world. Of various kinds. Flat out chattel slavery isn’t as often found, though it was found in my home town. Someone had a little girl from Laos being forced to do the family’s chores.
In every major city, and in some not major cities in the USA have some form of sexual slavery. And nearly all third world countries are forced by the IMF and the corporate leaders of the world to basically have no laws protecting the rights of the workers there. Resulting in debt bondage.
Slavery is all over the place. Unfortunately.
this is a stupid sign, a stupid picture, and an equally stupid caption… yet it is quite funny watching everyone have an “intellectual” debate about how taxes are great or taxes are the devil…
Everyone knows that Mountain Dew is the Devil!
i <3 mnt dew, therefore i <3 the devil? if i drink mnt. dew, then i imbibe the devil and eventually… you know.. pee the devil out, but some sticks with me.. so I become part devil, right? the more I drink the more I retain so, assuming the devil was a fallen angel and though having fallen from grace is still a divine entity, could I, then, presume myself to be divine due to drinking copious amounts of mountain dew?
*Hugs* At last…I’m understood!
*looks at her Diet Mt. Dew can*
*ponders the likelihood of her divinity*
Kneel before me, mortals!
*kneels*
I heard there would be cake.
*eyes the divine ones expectantly*
Either that or death.
I’ll have cake please!
Yay Eddie!
Well we’re all out of cake.
So my choice is…or death?
So my choice is ‘…or death’?
I’ll have the chicken then, please.
But…I didn’t eat the salmon mousse…
Is there anyone aboard who knows how to fly a plane, and didn’t have the fish?
I had the lasagna…
You people are all WIN
*quirks eyebrow* Good thing you aren’t talking to me like that or I would have to do something about it… That being nothing since I would be outside bounds of consent, etc etc and other legal mumbo jumbo.
Mama says foos-ball is the devil!
Only if she tried to pee that devil out.
*wince*
I thought Vickie Vallencourt was de debil?
The tax protester is right and the captioner is wrong. The difference is that being “enslaved” by an “evil corporation” is 100% optional. You have to voluntarily WANT to be “enslaved”.
OTOH, we have NO CHOICE to be enslaved by Obama’s imperial federal government. We cannot opt-out of his Socialist-Marxist tax-and-spend policies.
Yes you can, vote them out of office when the time comes.
Slavery implies getting 0% compensation for any and all work performed, being forced to do said work with physical and fatal consequences if declined, and having no choice to leave or do something else in life. Sorry, the sign maker is wrong on all accounts.
Not to mention that “white slavery” has connotations beyond “forcing people to work for nothing.” It’s an old euphemism for prostitution, or more specifically for forcing women into prostitution.
So….think the protester knows this?
It’s an updated, slightly prettied-up retread of the Klan’s old scare tactics. Negro studs are coming to rape your virgin white daughters and force them into…white slavery!
Sounds like a movie… That I’ve never watched… Of course. >_>
No, slavery implies being treated as an object, rather than a person. The hierarchical structure of corporations enables and encourages management at all levels to treat their employees as objects, as resources to be tapped until they run out. You’re paid a wage or salary, and expected to do whatever you’re told. It’s not typically a transaction for work done. You’re paid for your time. Corporations rent people.
The ability to choose which corporation to rent yourself to doesn’t change the nature of the transaction.
Funniest thing is, you fail to see how “Tax and Spend” makes more sense than the position of the Republican Party “Don’t Tax and Spend Anyway.” Or maybe we should go for the libertarian option of “Don’t Tax, Don’t Spend, Don’t Do Anything, Everything Will Be Just A-OK and Work Itself Out, Banks Can Self Regulate No Problem, Just As Long As Ron Paul Rides In On His Magic Unicorn”
Are you saying he doesn’t have a magic unicorn?! @_@
Well, duh, it’s an invisible magic unicorn.
But it’s horn is so shiny!
and it’s shine is so horny!
Are you familiar with the concept of ‘The Invisible Hand’?
Capitalism works BECAUSE those without means ARE forced to labor. You can’t just choose to jack in your job tomorrow; you wouldnt be able to afford your rent.
Whether people are ‘forced’ by the threat of starvation or simply a belief that they must work is of little consequence. The bedrock of capitalism is making people believe they must work for what ‘the market’ is willing to pay them.
You and your damn Hippy logic…
Deduction is far out, man. Just look at that trippy analysis!
Ain’t no party like my nana’s tea party, hey! ho!
gr
Also, if these tea parties are about deficit spending and not just about “Oh noes Obama got in, waaaahhh, I wanted the white guy, Democrats are socialistsss!” where the **** have these tea parties been in the past god knows how many years? Cost of the war on terror nearly 900 billion, TARP fund up to two trillion, war on drugs tens of billions of dollar per year… This kind of stuff has been going on forever, but just after Obama comes in suddenly it’s Teabagger Festival Week? And how come 95% of the signs I see at these rallies are complete stupidity or anti-Obama stuff? We’re supposed to believe this is bi-partisan anti-government wastage and not just anti-Obama butt hurt? Nope, I don’t buy it.
Had to start sometime, now’s as good a time as any.
Why not after the cost of the war in Iraq first started to filter through YEARS ago? Your argument fails.
That isn’t completely fair, some of us have been protesting the ineffective and costly war on drugs for years…on the other hand, most of us voted Obama!
This picture didn’t even need a caption. That sign is a much bigger joke.
What a bunch of MORE-OFFS!!! LOLZ! Because they’re more OFF than ON. GET IT?! No but rly, they’re a bunch of jackasses. It’s a shame that in this day and age, we still have to put up with such utter arrogance. Close-minded tools.
I finally get a caption on the front page and then what happens?
158 comments arguing about politics and 3 comments telling me how much the caption sucks!
I is sad!
For what it is worth, I liked it.
Why thank you!
I made another 2 on the same pic, I thought the free speech one was better, here’s hoping for front page again
congrats on the front page, and don’t take the harsh comments too seriously… i had one of my favorite captions ridiculed for hours because some people didn’t like “yo mama” jokes…
Thanks. They don’t worry me, water off a ducks back.
grats indeed, sorry for the political talk, it happens
but, there was a delightful conversation about ducks somewhere.. oh wait that was you. ah, dew then! there was something about mountain dew up there. that was happy, too
Political talk is ok.
Although we do get too much of it here in Ireland. It’s slightly worrying that I know more about American politics than European!
I don’t know anything about Mountain Dew. It was on sale here years ago but everyone decided they didn’t like it.
People tend to be put off by the fact that it resembles urine. However, once you get past that, it’s fairly addictive.
But I usually have to spend money on hookers to drink stuff that resembles uri…
Wait.
I’ve said too much.
Disregard.
Seconded!
Your tab is overdue and my girls don’t appreciate it. Now I have to break your legs…
Break away. I don’t use my legs for it!
Fair enough. *breaks your legs*
Yeah, I think it’s pretty normal!
@GazUtd: I like the caption, by the way.
@ubr: Yo mama’s so dumb she bought Rosetta Stone for lolspeak!
Just have to point out that if they’re District of Columbia residents, they have a point.
Proof that Republicans are dumb as shit
this is goram funny
This person makes me lose confidence in the human race.
This poster is almost as stupid as the sign the guy is holding up.
Oh god, I lol’d. People actually think this?
Also, reading about all the butthurt guys debating in this thread about this ‘Tea bagging’ thing (Did you guys even realize this would happen, or are you just so fond of this stuff?
xD
bullshit. okay, everyone has their own opinions. get over it, dont you think its racist just to even say something like that. it sounds ignorant, obama has nothing against whites or any other for that matter, and if you dont like him okay but dont flaunt your ignorance.
but, but, but…they’ve got nothing else to flaunt
And he can buy me.
You say that now, but how will you feel in the morning?
Sore, mostly. Sore and disappointed.
“I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
-Senator Hilary Clinton
I was at a tea party in Cincinnati, Oh. They talked about what was in the stimulus package. There was a project that would cost the tax payers of Cincinnati over 1 million to build and coast to run every year after. It was turned down by the voters/tax payer for at least 3 year, but some how it was in the stimulus package. The tea parties are trying to get the politicians to listen to the people. If something had been turn down so many times then why are they wasting money now to build it, just to have the tax payers in the area pay the cost to run it for the next ??? years? It isn’t just about the pending today that is worry some but what are we committed to for years to come.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
More people I know voted against Obama because of what he stood for, his links to ACORN and Myers. Most of the people I know also knew that the Democrats were in control of Congress when Bush was president and they were the ones that were doing some of the spending. Bush could only do so much to keep the balance. Keep blaming the President for everything will make people think that we don’t have a Congress or Senate that has any say.
Democrats only had control of Congress for the last 2 years of Bush’s term, kindly explain the other 6 years. Oh yeah… silly me, i forgot, the Republican mantra of “personal responsibility” never actually has to apply to Republicans
You’re requiring them to see reality, good luck.
I know, it’s as if they’re all dosed with the hallucinogenic compounds that Glenn Beck secretes in his tears
I am reminded of an OS Star Trek episode…
The way I see it you don’t see the reality in what is happening. Or maybe it is the reality of what you want to happen. It isn’t what I want to happen to this great nation.
Personal responsibility? You really want to go there? Why is it that more people on welfare and low income people vote Democrat? Could it be that Democrats give more to the poor without requiring them to work for it? I work for every cent that I have in life. All I want is for the politicians (both sides) to provide me and my family a safe place to live. Everything else is up to the person to make it or to fail. If you fail, you get back up and try again. I don’t understand what is so hard about that. It is OK to let people fail. Failure can and will inspire people to succeed.
Really? You fail and you can get back up again? oh wait a minute, you can’t because you have no money, and can’t pay for your house. Hey, now your homeless! Guess what punk, you’re illegal now. Have fun in jail! Oh now you’re free, time to find a house! Oh wait a minute, can’t get much money with your record of being in jail, and who’s gonna hire a dirty homeless person, who can’t take showers, when they can hire the hundreds of immigrants who live in worse conditions. In my opinion, the government should provide the basics you need to live, and prizes for those that work more.
Yeah, you can get back up, it’s called NOT BEING A WUSS.
All of this “tea party” stuff really is just an out for large percentage of people who know that the rest of the general population would jeer or throw rotten produce at them if they truly unmasked themselves and all stood at the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania shouting “N***er Heathen!” as the subtext of half of the signs out there seemed to imply
slaves can’t quit, dumbasses.
I don’t call either dying of starvation or working for just enough to buy bread a choice.
So then go scavenge from trash cans belonging to productive members of society.
I laughed so hard it felt like aerobic exercise!
Argument for why we have higher taxes than 100 or 200 years ago in a nutshell:
Interstate Freeways with free bathrooms and DMV’s (I know you hate them, but imagine no licensing or training system for drivers) and Fire departments with big red shiny trucks all cost A LOT OF MONEY … I rest my case
that sign sucks balls
Amazing how many brain dead Obamabots just HATE to have their golden boy put down. Well get used to it as more people wake up and see that your little change boy is a loser!
Are we really going to have to put up with this frothing for the next 8 years?
of course the bushies have taft, harding, hoover, nixon, ford, reagan, and both bushes to live down so i suppose we can tolerate their whining about obama; not to mention they’re still twisted over clinton getting lucky all over the place…. think they’re jealous much?
FAILFAILFAILFAIL.
YOU FAIL.
In case you haven’t noticed, the brainwashed individuals in this photograph are the anti-Obama protesters. In addition, that sign id totally racist and just plain ridiculous.
Uh… the slave owners aren’t necessarily a different race than the slaves.
Logic FAIL.
stupid Americans.
Hey, not all Americans are stupid. Only the stupid ones are. *lame punchline cymbal crash*
LOL WHUT. This belongs of failblog, methinks. Seriously, WTF. WAAAAAAAAAY out in the right field.
How foolish.
But then again, I have heard that “Slavery, gets shit done !”
Um,… wow. That really doesn’t follow.
poor pic, poor caption.
I wonder if these people remember that Obama is half-white. So, which half of him would be enslaved, right or left?
The words “slave” and “slavery” are defined by the speaker or writer, not by the listener or the reader. They are relative terms. They are words that speak of any relationship where a person is subject to another with more power whether forced or not. Christians, for example, are people who, ideally, have surrendered soverign control of their lives to Jesus. In other words, they are slaves of Christ. Other people are forced, physically or by circumstance, into slavery where they feel forced to comply with the rules and behavior requirements of those in control. Every person who earns a wage in America is a slave. The money they earn is not profit on the sale of their energies, rather it is merely a loan that they can never repay in full and for which they are charged a tax (which is just a form of interest) on that loan. As long as someone has the right to tax you on anything, then what they tax you on actually belongs to them and you are just a borrower, or user. You are not the owner.