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gawkimo
07/02/09

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It worked for the Russians!
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depardoo
07/02/09

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That General Nicholson is a real starfucker.
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Rumpelstilskin
07/02/09

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Martha Stewart parachutes in (with a beautiful block-printed chute) in 3-2-1.
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depardoo
07/02/09

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Slipped my tongue in someone else's pie...
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Awesome X
07/02/09

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"We wanted to occupy the real Afghanistan, not the touristy Afghanistan."
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CountryClubRepublican
04/16/09

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What frightens liberals is that if conservatives feel this angry to actually protest, instead of, you know, working to pay the taxes for the other 95%, then wait until the next election.

Who is John Galt?
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htotheomo
04/16/09

@CountryClubRepublican: Yes, because Republicans are polling so well these days, aren't they?
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Dickdogfood
04/16/09

@CountryClubRepublican: John Galt is a character in a horribly-written novel enjoyed by poseurs and putatively hetreosexual drama queens.

Just so you know.
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Wrapitup
04/16/09

@CountryClubRepublican: John Galt is my favorite manicurist. On weekends we moonlight at the Badlands club in SF's Castro district as a drag queen duo named When Harry Met Vadgy.
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Dickdogfood
04/16/09

@CountryClubRepublican: Also: frankly, even if the teabaggers had a coherent message behind them, I still wouldn't think 4/15 amounted to a hill of beans. No matter the size of the demonstration, the message, or the source, it's rare that demonstrations in this country rise above the level of a feel-good exercise.
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sample032
04/16/09

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Sometimes I try to defend these people, but the only defense I have is that most of the people are holding up tax protest signs and more general "Washington sucks" signs. There's just one racist guy in the money spot behind Hannity.
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htotheomo
04/16/09

@sample032: You know, I would put money on the fact that there is more than one racist in the money shot behind Hannity.
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TheMac
04/16/09

@htotheomo: Yeah, wildly, I'd guess the same.
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jiminy.peep
04/16/09

@htotheomo: @✪TheMac: It's a long shot, but I'll go ahead and agree that there is a possibility of racists in that crowd.
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sample032
04/16/09

@jiminy.peep: I'd also bet that there were racists voting for Obama. The fact that, in the primaries, women tended to support Hillary and blacks Obama, despite significant differences in platform, supports this.

There are racists on both sides of the aisle.
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TheMac
04/16/09

@sample032: We can all agree that racists hide among us in society with no immediately identifiable attributes. Fine.

But I'd say standing behind a camera with a stupid, unfunny, uncreative, racist sign pretty much takes 'possibility' to 'suspicion', and being that FNC has a long and much-recognized history of feeding into pre-existing race-and-class hysterics in their programming, I'm willing to bet their hard-core pimping of the Teabaggin' parties did exactly what it was supposed to do- send out their most devoted, and disturbed followers.

And I don't really get your point about Obama/Hilldog. Are you saying that blacks/women (or the ones who voted for those candidates) did so on the sole basis that they didn't want a white man to be POTUS. Like, that was their singular goal? No more white male presidents? Are you serious?
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Conan the Electrician
04/16/09

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How is it racist to call someone who is half-Kenyan "Kenyan"?

I thought it was racist to point out Obama is "half-black" instead of "black." How confusing.
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Dickdogfood
04/16/09

@Conan the Electrician: Pointing out Obama's heritage isn't, by itself, racist. The sign in question, though, by pointing out Obama and the pirates are African, arguably assumes that both act in a very uncivilized way because both are African--that Africans by their very nature act uncivilized.
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Ohcaptainmycaptain
04/16/09

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Dissent is patriotic, remember? Or am I getting my bumper stickers mixed up?

Oh my gosh, people on the right -- working people -- are protesting(!) This offends my Jon Stewart/NPR/CNN/MSNB/Gawker-sense of snarkiness. It's so much safer in my echo chamber...

Now back to jokes about Gossip girl and Twitter.
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Dickdogfood
04/16/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: Right now--right this very second--I am dissenting against the tyranny of dust, wire, felt, rugs, spit, and eels. The scope of my dissent is much, much, MUCH wider than any teabagger; ergo, this makes me the most patriotic motherfucker on earth. Believe it!

(More seriously, dissent does not in of itself ennoble a person or a cause.)
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
04/16/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: astroturf protests funded by their corporate overlords to protect the rights and assets of the owners -- that's republican politics and the people on the street are dupes and fools. or didn't u know that
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Urbania
04/16/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: It's not that they're protesting, yo. It's that their protest is against...Washington politicians? The people they elected in last November? Kenyan pirates? Taxation?

In short, it's funny because their protest is dumb. They are super far from actual dissent, which is, you know, actually disputing an issue.
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j.blo
04/16/09

@Urbania:

What's (most) laughable to me is the fact that they don't seem to understand the reason for the Boston Tea Party was that they were being taxed without representation.

Now, they're being taxed by their elected officials...at a rate lower than they were taxed under Reagan.

Oh, and they're slapping their balls against each others' faces.
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Sproing
04/16/09

@j.blo: Ha! Nice capper.
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Urbania
04/16/09

@j.blo: exactly. ultimately, they are protesting the fact that their political ideas are out of favor. they haven't even reached "we are against something" protest.
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Ohcaptainmycaptain
04/16/09

@j.blo: First off, whoever taught you that using italics over and over to emphasize points should have explained how its overuse can be annoying.

Secondly, the present income tax rates will not last (witness Obama's about-face on wirtapping, Iraq etc.). The new budget is otherwordly in its embrace of deficits. W's budgets were bad enough, but Barry's spending kick is pure fiscal suicide. Oh, and federal taxes/surcharges on everything from cell phones and internet, gas, cable, smokes are going up.

Reread the history books. It's not just taxation without representation. It's taxation all by itself. And now it's anger at bailouts and reckless spending that we know will be bring on higher taxes.
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Urbania
04/16/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: So the protest is against going back to the tax brackets of the 1990s, and against bailouts and reckless spending? Powerful.

Isn't most of our deficit problem caused by the fact that we have been at wars since 2003, and that we did not take the personal responsibility required to actually pay for them? Which would, of course, bring on higher taxes? Which is, of course, one of the things people protested in the 2000s when they were protesting the war?

I get it: this is a protest against the massive increase in public spending we've witnessed since 2003. Excellent. Better late than never, I suppose.
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Ohcaptainmycaptain
04/16/09

@Urbania:

Sigh. The tax brackets are in for a major overhaul with all this otherwordly spending. Just watch. There's zero precedent for this sort of fiscal fantasy.

The protestors are not damning the war spending b/c they believe that, unlike, say, massive entitlements and bailouts, it was necessary. Now that Iraq is on the road to being won (Obama has gone back on his early withdrawl promises in order to preserve the gains and initiated a "surge" in Afghanistan), where does that leave the anti-war crowd?

We obviously won't agree on whether the war was worth the spending. The real question is: how will an even bigger, unmanageable deficit make things better?
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Mediahohoho
04/16/09

@Ohcaptainmycaptain: That's cute that you say that the war Bush lied us into, and which we entered into unconstitutionally (no declaration), illegally (from the point of view of established international law, ie, we weren't fucking attacked by them) and immorally (depending on if you have fucking morals) is on the way to being won. Which will last as long as we're in the country plus five long seconds. But that war has always been about conservative fantasy, hasn't it?
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Maura Johnston
04/16/09

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i like how that one sign just looks like it says 'ugh!! ugh!! ugh!!!!'
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RonMwangaguhunga
04/16/09

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Sean Hannity is an amiable dunce.
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misslinda
04/16/09

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They need a better PR firm cause their message is getting a little muddled in all that crazy.
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Rhymenocerous
04/16/09

@misslinda: What message? If anyone knows what the message was supposed to be, I think there are a lot of us who would love to find out.
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misslinda
04/16/09

@czecher: Exactly. I have no frickin idea. Are they protesting taxes? Federal or State? Are they opposed to government spending? Does that include ALL government spending? Or is this some sort of existential protest where it can be anything you want it to be.
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Rhymenocerous
04/16/09

@misslinda: OBAMA IS A FASCIST KENYAN SOCIALIST PIRATE! That's all you need to know.
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misslinda
04/16/09

@czecher: Huh. And here I thought he was a Muslim.
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Helman
04/16/09

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Get a forehead, Hannity.
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SidAndFinancy
04/16/09

@Helman: There's some kind of issue with Hannity and combs.
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Wrapitup
04/16/09

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Get a brain, morans. It's just a joke. Free speech. Free speech. All you libtards don't have a sense of humor. I guess you'd prefer butt pirates to Kenyan pirates then? Shame on the atheist commie muslin. It's not racialism okay? It's called having the balls to be politically incorrect. Lets start teabagging!

Did I leave anything out?
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Private Hangnail
04/16/09

@Wrapitup: Let's start teabagging! is my new favorite party cry.
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Dickdogfood
04/16/09

@Wrapitup: Muslin is a GOOD fabric. I will NOT have it maligned! Some of my best garments are muslin!
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
04/16/09

@Wrapitup: sarah palin is being discriminated against because she is a woman. u left that out.

xxoo
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Carol Gardens
04/16/09

@Wrapitup: We have identified the existence of a magic marker created joke. But some of us find laughing at the teabagger more amusing than laughing at lame jokes about pirates.
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bytememehard
04/16/09

@Private Hangnail: Obviously, you don't get out much. That phrase is soooo over.
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Kirth
04/16/09

@Wrapitup:

..

Yeah. You left out: Republicans are dogs. And...ummm, let's see...oh, YEAH:

Ronald Reagan is in Hell with Alan Ginsberg's cock in his ass. And it's LOOSE.

Was THAT everything?

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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
04/16/09

@Private Hangnail: It's my new favorite form of salutation!
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Colonel Mustard
04/16/09

@Kirth: Please. Ginsburg wouldn't touch Reagan with a ten foot dildo.
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Paul_Is_Drunk
04/16/09

@Wrapitup: "Did I leave anything out?"

Your sense of humor?
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Niko Bellic
04/16/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk: 61% of American's found his post funny. Sorry Republican, you loose again.
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morninggloria
04/16/09

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"The Kenyan Pirate" sounds like a good alternate title for "The Gods Must Be Crazy III."
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