http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91398

Raleigh, N.C. – Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the state capitol building on East Edenton Street

Anyone going?

3/16/2009 2:00:05 PM

I think that would be fun.

3/16/2009 2:05:49 PM

hahahah WND is hilarious. You kids have fun now.

3/16/2009 2:15:51 PM

only hippies protest

3/16/2009 2:56:51 PM

^10/10

3/16/2009 2:59:34 PM

while you're at the tea party i'll be snaking your mom's bizkit.

3/16/2009 4:01:37 PM

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"only hippies protest"

Yeah, there probably wont be any loose hippy chicks at this one though

I mean, they dont pay taxes right?

so . . .. . . . . .. .I probably wont make it

[Edited on March 16, 2009 at 5:45 PM. Reason : seriously though I may end up going just to see how big it is, etc]

3/16/2009 5:45:20 PM

this is cute

3/16/2009 5:55:56 PM

Nice idea, but the crooked bastards won't pay it any attention because they know that the public is stupid enough to elect them whether they tax us to death or not. the 08 election proved that.

3/16/2009 6:18:40 PM

Thanks for having this retarded event after the Government Compound is shut down.



p.s. the State Capitol is at 16 W. Jones Street. I hope you enjoy protesting the LOB.

[Edited on March 16, 2009 at 7:14 PM. Reason : .]

3/16/2009 7:13:23 PM

WND is pretty wacky far right so it will be interesting to see what sorts of characters show up for this.

I mean, this is the site that gave us Jerome Corsi.

3/16/2009 9:19:49 PM

^ this may not change much but they were advertising this on Fox News.

3/16/2009 10:36:34 PM

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"this may not change much but they were advertising this on Fox News."

well, does hannity not have guys like him on a lot?

3/16/2009 10:59:45 PM

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"while you're at the tea party i'll be snaking your mom's bizkit."

Won't your boyfriend be jealous?

3/17/2009 3:02:34 PM

Haha! Insinuation of homosexuality towards a liberal! That's... pointless.

See, if you don't mind homosexuality, you probably won't be offended by it.

3/17/2009 3:45:36 PM

Considering the MSM is ignoring the hundreds of these events going on, somebody has to report on it.

I might make it out there. Its good to see the silent majority finally stand up to this shit.

3/18/2009 7:05:51 PM

The media is reporting on it and 10 people showing up isn't a silent majority.

3/18/2009 7:19:18 PM

TAKE TO THE STREETS TONIGHT!!!1

the government knows you'll be back in front of the tv tomorrow

3/18/2009 7:21:01 PM

^ pwnt

3/18/2009 7:34:35 PM

watching Marko in the soap box has made him my new favorite poster

3/18/2009 8:30:20 PM

almost a decade of doughnuts in here

3/18/2009 8:49:36 PM

oh yes, the 10 people that showed up at each of the hundreds that have already taken place. Riiiight.

3/18/2009 10:47:30 PM

Newt Gingrich doing invitations.

Michelle Malkin cosponsoring.

I'm there, dude.

3/18/2009 11:41:10 PM

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"oh yes, the 10 people that showed up at each of the hundreds that have already taken place. Riiiight."

1,000 people, congrats.ok

have fun storming the castle with Glenn Beck.

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 7:33 PM. Reason : .]

3/19/2009 7:32:44 PM

4/10/2009 4:49:04 PM

LOL

4/10/2009 5:01:21 PM

Ridicule if you wish.

I'm sure some people ridiculed the colonists who dressed up as indians and threw tea off British ships too. Those people are lost to history. Forgotten.

4/10/2009 8:34:05 PM

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"Newt Gingrich doing invitations. Michelle Malkin cosponsoring. I'm there, dude."

haha

4/10/2009 8:36:50 PM

4/10/2009 9:12:16 PM

That's what I love about MSNBC, one bitterly sarcastic and questionably funny leftist talking to another bitterly sarcastic and questionably funny leftist about their perception of the right.

4/10/2009 9:29:24 PM

Embed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnBiJfWlhs

4/10/2009 9:38:24 PM

Yeah I'm planning on going right now.

4/10/2009 9:44:35 PM

god i hate maddow

4/10/2009 9:48:46 PM

here you go andy

4/10/2009 10:38:07 PM

Thanks

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"Ridicule if you wish. I'm sure some people ridiculed the colonists who dressed up as indians and threw tea off British ships too. Those people are lost to history. Forgotten."

Minor difference:

That time, it was destroying the very object they were opposed to being taxed for, and destroying property belonging to their oppressors. Not only was it symbolic, it directly accomplished something.

This time, people are going to wal-mart, buying tea, and throwing it into a river.

4/10/2009 11:49:26 PM

rarely in life does one have the opportunity to buy up a stock before you know a bunch of people are going to buy the stock companys product

4/10/2009 11:57:18 PM

i rarely post in here, but it boggles my mind that this is their form of protest

it is literally one of the dumbest things i have ever heard

4/11/2009 12:16:06 AM

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"That time, it was destroying the very object they were opposed to being taxed for, and destroying property belonging to their oppressors. Not only was it symbolic, it directly accomplished something. "

I agree. It would be a lot more effective to have 20M people not pay their taxes imo.


JCASH, you nailed MSNBCs MO. Ive tried to watch that maddow show and I think WTF is this. Its like the SNL weekend update skit Really..only this time they take themselves seriously.

4/11/2009 9:38:20 AM

good thing nobody takes msnbc seriously

4/11/2009 10:53:57 AM

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"It would be a lot more effective to have 20M people not pay their taxes imo. "

It might take little steps towards that goal. It might have to start with low-level events like these "tea" parties to reawaken the natural American aversion to oppressive taxation.

Of course there will always be those with a smarmy Jon Stewart clip or two. Like I said, history forgot the majority of those who were against our liberty and independence.

4/11/2009 11:46:37 AM

you're either with us or against us

fucking hippies

4/11/2009 12:58:50 PM

So what's the point of these idiotic events beside causing traffic problems? Looks like a bunch of to me.

4/11/2009 1:34:42 PM

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"It might have to start with low-level events like these "tea" parties to reawaken the natural American aversion to oppressive taxation."

Or these "tea parties" will draw the exact historical parallel they evoke: to a time when the colonists were subjects and lacked a democratic means to voice their opposition to excessive taxation. And the average person on the street will look at it quizzically, as well they should, and say -- hey, wait, didn't the Republicans have their chance in 2008?

Oh, right, they did. Oops. So much for the tea party analogy.

Here's an idea: how about the Republican party has a "framers' convention" instead of some tea parties, and they figure out what went wrong, and fix it; instead of sending the less-than-subtle message that somehow Barack Obama's government is not a legitimate taxing authority. That seems easier.

4/11/2009 1:55:44 PM

from andrew sullivan (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/time-for-tea.html):

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"I spent the better part of an hour earlier today scanning the various sites and blogs to try and understand what specifically the Fox-Pajamas tea parties are about. Having absorbed about as much of the literature as I can, I have to say I'm still befuddled. Option 1: It's a protest of the bank bailouts orchestrated by Bush and now Obama. But surely these tea-partiers understand what would happen if we didn't bail the banks out. Are they advocating letting major banks fail? Or are they advocating a Krugman-style government take-over? No idea. Option 2: It's a protest against tax hikes. But there have barely been any! Are they arguing that the planned return to Clinton era marginal rates is an outrage worthy of the colonists ... only months after an election in which the winning candidate ran on exactly that platform? Is that postponed future increase so radical that it demands a protest modeled on one in which people were taxed with no representation at all? Truly bizarre. And when you consider that we have gone through a very long period of relatively low taxation for the very successful, and a very long period in which their wealth has soared, and after an election where a majority of such people voted for Obama, the extremism seems unrelated to anything substantive underneath it. Option 3: It's a protest against illegal immigration. Ok, so why the tea? Weren't all the original tea-partiers illegal immigrants? Option 4: It's a protest against government debt. Yay! I will leave aside the somewhat awkward fact that Fox News and Pajamas Media barely covered the massive debt racked up by the Republicans during a period of economic growth. Instead, I'll proffer a simple point: If the tea-partiers are concerned about debt and concerned about taxes, one presumes they favor drastic spending cuts. But what are the tea-partiers proposing to do to Medicare, Medicaid, and social security? I'd love to see a proposal that they support on any of these entitlement programs, but particularly Medicare which is the culprit for much of the debt burden. Where is it? Or are we really going to hear more diversions about "pork"? As a fiscal conservative who actually believed in those principles when the Republicans were in power, I guess I should be happy at this phenomenon. And I would be if it had any intellectual honesty, any positive proposals, and any recognizable point. What it looks like to me is some kind of amorphous, generalized rage on the part of those who were used to running the country and now don't feel part of the culture at all. But the only word for that is: tantrum. These are not tea-parties. They are tea-tantrums. And the adolescent, unserious hysteria is a function not of a movement regrouping and refinding itself. It's a function of a movement's intellectual collapse and a party's fast-accelerating nervous breakdown."

4/11/2009 1:56:56 PM

Not that I agree with every word, but...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/8/717683/-Dear-Conservative-Teabaggers

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"Nobody is trying to stop you from holding your "tea parties." Please stop saying you're oppressed when you're clearly not oppressed. You want to have a tea party? Go ahead! Get to it! Take to the streets, pleasantly aromatic baggies in hand! We've had a president who decided that he could revoke the citizenship of Americans based on his own say-so -- and no conservatives were worried about their loss of rights. We've had a government assert that it could spy on any communications, without warrant or cause -- and no conservatives took to the streets, alarmed at the threat to their Constitutional protections. We found out we went to war over a weapons program that didn't exist -- oops. We found out that we subjected innocent, though brown, people to imprisonment without recourse, and others to torture so cruel that it rendered them mentally incompetent. We buried the nation in a mountain of debt -- well, them's the breaks. We forked over billions of dollars in giveaways to oil companies that were already making larger profits than any other companies in the history of the world -- hell, gotta keep John Galt in caviar. None of it raised a peep from any of you, you were all fine with it. The government could do no wrong -- except not going far enough. But if returning to the tax policies that existed before Bush is the thing that's got a bee in your bonnet, claiming the end of the republic is at hand -- go for it. If you've suddenly decided that preventing government efforts to stave off a second Great Depression is the thing you're going to hang your collective hats on, or that saving one of the prime manufacturing sectors still left in the country is a bridge too far, by all means protest. Who's stopping you? Who's intimidating you? On the contrary, the rest of us find your "tea bagging" to be superbly instructive. It's increasing taxes that gets your goat, and absolutely nothing else. The only Constitutional crisis possible is one that might possibly affect your wallet; offenses to other people's freedoms don't rouse a tenth of the same emotion. And it stands as a dramatic act of solidarity with conservative leaders in government. Bloviate at every opportunity; remain steadfastly in opposition to everything; suggest nothing; claim that it is not even your responsibility to suggest anything. Like House and Senate Republicans, who have declared sitting on their hands to be an act of supreme virtue and who, when pressed, can only come up with a few terse pages of declarations that the only path forward is to give big businesses more tax breaks, and rich Americans more tax breaks, and eliminate even more regulations on financial behavior -- and that will work this time for sure, in spite of those same exact things bringing the country debt and corruption every other time they have been tried, finally leading to this current brink of economic ruin. No, it seems hard to compete with any acts of leadership as impressive as that. So teabag your little hearts out, my noble friends! Take to the streets, and demand the conservative dream -- absolute inaction on every front! Turn the economic crisis into an opportunity to finally, at long last, give a damn about the actions of your leaders, who we have just now noticed might be of an opposing political party! Yes, take to the streets on behalf of the John Galts of the world: that's what Fox News Corporation has told you to do, and what the stock traders of CNBC demand of you! Take a day off work and wave those little white bags so that an executive responsible for financial crisis will not find their yearly bonus jeopardized by scandalous government intervention, or people making one hundred times your annual income will not be taxed a Stalinesque three percent more (marginal rate) than they presently are! Throw your little pouches of aromatic leaves high into the air, shout your grievances, demand the factories close and the government remain unresponsive, because that's what conservatives everywhere want to see! By all means."

4/11/2009 2:36:58 PM

Did you really just post an article from Dailykos?

This thread is hilarious, from people that read Worldnetdaily to those that read Dailykos, glad to know we have the full spectrum of crazies in here.

4/11/2009 3:19:56 PM

I MUST THROW A FUCKING TEABAG IN A RIVER TO PROTEST A 3% TAX HIKE THAT DOESN'T EVEN AFFECT ME

4/11/2009 3:39:53 PM

^^ The Daily Kos is generally no where near as bad as WND. And being a collection of blogs, it's much more inconsistent.

In any case, that quoted part is how I feel. I think some of the people have a point in their grips with the Obama admin but the rest or just hypocritical naysayers. It's almost offensive they liken their plight to the Boston Tea Party.

4/11/2009 4:09:57 PM

First World problems

4/11/2009 5:18:43 PM

^^^ laws against gay marriage don't affect me, so why should I care?

4/11/2009 5:34:08 PM