Christopher Hitchens Slams Tea Party Movement

[MrNellie2200]

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[JTHSanDiego]

Ha...a man of his intellect should've understood the 1st and 2nd amendment "signs" for what they were. Certainly NOT threats...

[Mr9ofdiamonds]

@JTHSanDiego Some "American intellects" don't know the capital of Iceland.

[JTHSanDiego]

@Mr9ofdiamonds Relevance?

[ScaryTeri101]

Hitch 22 <3

[stratocaster1986able]

Loved that joke about the death threat.

[acrovader]

If you voted for the current president because you wanted to show that you weren't a racist, vote for someone else in 2012 to show you are not an idiot.

[MisterExpertise]

Haha come to florida's tea parties and say that its not threatening. We use guns to defend ourselves and britain is trying to defend themselves from the muslims with baseball bats xD. They cant even use there own invention... the cricket bat! xD get a grip u libral phony.

[lumpheadthump]

@MisterExpertise His point is that you're more pathetic than threatening. If you think he's a liberal just because he thinks you teabaggers are morons, then you don't know Hitchens and you don't know you're a moron. He was right when he made the point that the losers who desperately try to be threatening are the ones you don't have to worry about.

[MEELATEHGRIL]

@MisterExpertise Learn to spell, you inbred cunt.

[eldiceuf]

I still can't believe that the Tea Party movement began under the foundation of representing the restoration of fiscal responsibility in Washington....only to end up as a shot of steroids to the religious right wingers. For a movement that bases itself out of influence of the Founding Fathers and their creation of the Constitution, they sure chose the Constitution-violating base of voters to associate themselves with. I want the Glass-Steagall movement back, not this anti-SoC&S movement.

[miket1m]

hahaha, What an asshole he was. Miserable, nasty evil piece of shit. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I hope he has to sit in hell and listen to himself endlessly for eternity. The damn son of a bitch deserves it. Opinionated big mouth prick

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m haha you must be a miserable person. And a moron at that too...

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59 Hey Dave, Take your head out of Hitchens ass and stop following the herd you brainless twit. There is a God. You don't like it, go fuck yourself in the face lol

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m You can say it over and over and over in your head and believe it without proof. However it still doesn't make it true. It only makes you slightly insane.

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59

In order to say there is no God, you have to have complete and absolute knowledge of the entire universe (omniscience). No one has that, if you did, you would be God.

In order to say there is no sufficient evidence, you would have to have seen all the evidence in the world. No one has done this, if you did, you would be God. So how do say there is no God.

I have seen overwhelming evidence for the existence of God. I know there is a God. Eye witness accounts, etc..

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m you are sooooooo wrong lol

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59

ok Dave, how do you say there is no God? This is a negative position. How do you prove a negative. Its impossible.

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m It's highly improbable. There isn't a shred of evidence beside a book full of nonsense (which is not evidence at all)... It's as improbable as fairies or gnomes existing. It's an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence. Fortunately, there is 0 ZERO. Plus, which of the thousands of Gods are real if you believe there is a God? Let me guess... YOUR God??? hahahaha how silly way of thinking!!!

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59

To say there isn't a "shred of evidence" is equally illogical as saying 'there is no God.' How can you say there is not a shred of evidence. Have you seen all the evidence in the world? No, I don't believe you have, so how can you say there is no evidence? The Bible is not a Book of nonsense? Your statement clearly shows you nothing about the Bible, so how can you make that statement and at the same time claim you are being rational?

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59

So your position is based on nothing but simple abstract possibility? There is evidence out there to support the existence of God. Evidence such as, the atheists inability to account for the existence of the Laws of Logic, Morality, Existence, etc. Have you even bothered to look? As for your statement, "theres not a shred" I would say No, you haven't. So Dave, Why are you an atheist, again?

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m I wish you knew how silly you sound! You're the one that came along and made this crazy extraordinary claim. It's on YOU to PROVE your claim. You either claim this because you have clear evidence or you're just a complete idiot or you've been brainwashed. But again, it's on you to prove your crazy claim. We're listening.... but all we hear is total nonsense thus far (us thinking people)....

[miket1m]

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@DavieDave59

Since you're making a defense, your defending a position. Is this not a positive assertion? Of course it is. If not, then why are you acting like it is?

Now, as far as my evidence goes, would I be wasting my time presenting it to you Dave? In the course of presenting my proof, I would have to ask you a simple question. Would I hear, "I don't know what this has to do with your God" or something like that? Would you objectively examine the proof I present Dave? Tell me that.

[miket1m]

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@DavieDave59

First of all, I totally agree with you Dave, that the one making the claim (the positive position), the burden of proof falls on. My argument is atheism is a postie assertion. Let me explain, atheism is a position that you hold to and defend. This means you have a position, a belief, an opinion. The evidence that shows you hold to a position is found in the fact that you defend it by attacking theistic arguments, attempting to refute articles regarding atheism, etc.

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m Good that you conceded the fact that the burden is totally on you. It's not very difficult to defend an atheists position. You religious folks can't convince shit. You have no evidence or proof. Plus, it seems very highly improbable. Maybe try harder? Brainwash more kids maybe...

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59 Dave, did you read my whole post? You're making a claim too. You're saying there is no God. Wheres your proof Dave? I told you there is proof Dave, lots of proof. Please take the time and read my whole post.

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m So, I made a claim about your extraordinary claim? Therefore I have to have proof? Look up "Logic" and then comment back.

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59 I know Logic Dave. Think about it? You're making a claim that there is no God. Is that not a positive assertion? You have proof that there is no God Dave? I have proof Dave. I believe I posted a list of them in earlier post.

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m You're making the claim and presenting no evidence or proof. You're coming to me with a ridiculous claim. It's impossible to claim there is no God like there is no fairies or flying spaghetti monsters. It's like if I come to you and saying the Spaghetti monster is God. And you say no it isn't and I say well do you proof, no. So it must be true! Come on, this is kindergarten stuff. You know very well you have no proof and you know you're most likely wrong, why are in denial?

[miket1m]

@DavieDave59

Grow up. Using a ridiculous concept of a FSM or fairies as a defense against the existence of God. What are you mental? We all know the idiot who invented the FSM and we know that fairies exist in the minds of children.

Look in my previous post and you will see a list of evidences. Choose one and lets deal with one of these proofs or shut the hell up.

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m Jesus should be under the fairy tales category. I assume you believe in Jesus, not the thousands of other Gods ever created by men. Read the bible in full and you may see how stupid it is. It's obvious it was written by morons from the Bronze Age. Grow up. It's time to quit superstitions and believing in fairy tales. You're a grown man.

[miket1m]

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@DavieDave59

Your insults are just words Dave. Christians expect this behavior. Anyway Dave, you atheists make it impossible to prove God exists when you have your eyes closed, your fingers in your ears, and your calling us names. Unfortunately for atheists Dave, God isn’t found under a microscope, in front of a telescope, behind an X-ray machine, or in a sock drawer. God doesn’t bow to the arrogant whims of atheists who demand he show himself to satisfy their criteria.

[pbmdh]

@miket1m

Because there is no such thing. You act as if you have proof of such a being. Present some testable evidence for this (other than the bible).

[miket1m]

@pbmdh First of all, how do you know there is no God? Just answer that question.

I do have proof. How old are you? Are you old enough to understand it? Lets talk about Morality. Objective and subjective. Hows that can you handle that?

To answer your well predicted question. It does have to do with proof for the existence of God. I want to show you something interesting. You want proof, heres your chance to hear it. That if you're old enough to understand.

[miket1m]

@pbmdh Will you open your eye and take your fingers out of your ears and stop calling me names long enough to hear it.

"Dissect Him" Stop taking things literally, child

[pbmdh]

@miket1m

"Will you open your eye and take your fingers out of your ears and stop calling me names long enough to hear it.". Wow, are you that butthurt? Also, where in my two comments did I call you a name? Or are you just grasping at straws to prop up your "Atheists are so mean!" defense?

""Dissect Him" Stop taking things literally, child" Again, where do you get the thought that I took "dissect" literally? You keep making things up in your head it seems (almost like your "god" ).

[miket1m]

@pbmdh

That is such a stupid statement.

"Atheist want to get their hands on him to dissect him, "

Because you said the statement was stupid. What other reason would you have for saying that the statement was stupid?

[miket1m]

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@DavieDave59

Gods a real person, a really big and powerful person (in a celestial form,) who's not in the habit of snapping to attention when summoned by the disparaging remarks of mere mortals.

“God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble,” (James 4:6).

You atheist Dave, need to rethink your approach and shift your criteria to look for a person, not a thing. You should realize that attacking someone doesn’t encourage a relationship.

[miket1m]

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@DavieDave59

It's common sense that when you attack someone, mock his character, dare him to do what you want, and insult him he will withdraw from you. Let me reiterate Dave, God, the same as any person, is not in the habit of answering the patronizing challenges of the proud. But you atheists treat God as though he were some kind of thing, some object to be judged, some celestial phenomena to be measured in their lab. Atheist want to get their hands on him to dissect him,

[pbmdh]

@miket1m

That is such a stupid statement.

"Atheist want to get their hands on him to dissect him, "

Why would an atheist want that, we know he doesn't exist, so we would just be dissecting the movement created to control people and keep them stupid.

[miket1m]

@pbmdh I know, I'm stupid because I believe in God. Thats what you have been trained to say. You all parrot each other. Why? Because you take such a strong stand on something that is based on nothing but simple abstract possibility. Atheist are suppose to be so intelligent (in their own eyes that is) yet, you all sound like spoiled children. Like toddlers. "You're stupid" or You're brainless" Just look at your post. Fools

[miket1m]

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@DavieDave59

and satisfy their own requirements. Sorry, Dave, it doesn’t work that way. How can any atheist ever expect to find God with such demanding attitudes? Oh wait, I almost forgot. You atheist don’t want to find him so you can construct excuses and ridiculous expectations to keep yourselves secure in your anti God delusion.

[DavieDave59]

@miket1m You're assuming that god exists... It's an extraordinary claim that you assume to be true without evidence. You must be a total moron!!!!!!

[bitherwack]

The quality of education determines almost everything about a country.

One can't help but believe that efforts to control the US are behind the failure of the education system. There really isn' t a comment here that inspires confidence in America's future.

[GABI2IEL]

@dhide14 You are a retard. Obviously the best part of you slid down the crack of your mothers ass and melted in with the rest of the numerous cum stains of your whore mothers dirty work mattress. ;)

[BloggerMusicMan]

Sums it up.

[dhide14]

Is there ANYTHING BETTER than this DEVIL getting cancer??!?!?!?!? What a fucking BEAUTIFUL example of NATURAL SELECTION!!!!! FAT. BALD. CANCER!!!!! PNWED!!!!!!!! Where's your tough talk now Mr. Clean????? You'll be pissing your pants crying for Jesus minutes before your death!!!! I hope you have the most painful death any Atheist can experience, you fucking deserve it. DIE BALDY DIE! DIE FATTY DIE!!! DIE DEVIL DIE!!!! Natural Selection WINS!!!! HITCHENS OWNED!!!!!!!!

[CytherLynx]

@dhide14

you detest atheists whilst championing your inane views on natural selection?

what a confused mind-state you must possess.

and what a contradictory insult.

[A2thedouble]

@dhide14 Hahaha, how moral of you. Faggot.

[TheCelticChimp]

@dhide14

Christian love in action.

[michweinersuckmydick]

Christopher Hitchens great!

[ViperRob42]

good job america, take the dumbest among you, create a club and know absolutely nothing about how things actually are, and prove to the rest of the world how much of an epic fail you are for everyone

[ultramanprime9]

Is it not funny and sad, that you don't have to watch Faux spews or the Tea Gang Fascists to know what they think. It's all dictated to them from the lobbyists and Big Corporations web sites and PR firms. Just look at what they want and pay Fox to sell and you will see the output on Fox and thats used to gin up the weak and unlearned. They follow these Judas Goats to their own ruin. Never debate, never listen to the facts on the other side..now they will get to tell their kids why they are poor

[EasyEs]

@ultramanprime9 What are you talking about, the vast majority of the Tea Party people i have witnesses through Canadian media, are adherents to Austrian or Chicago schools of economics, they quoted Tocqueville and Murray Rothbard.

It takes a special kind of dumb to believe that they are fascist or corporatist, because they want free markets, which isn't the same thing as being pro-business or pro big business.

[bjmensz]

@EasyEs The modern Tea Party only pays lip-service to classical liberalism, their actual politics are basically a complete grab-bag of the conservative end of the Republican party, which includes everything from Christian nationalists (who when they talk about unconstitutional, think that America is a constitutionally Christian nation) to quasi-anarchists (who think the federal government is unconsitutional). It's literally just the Republican party with new slogans.

[Hardryv]

@EasyEs true, but they don't know that...

[EasyEs]

@Hardryv Just how most liberals or nearly all of them don't understand how progressive monetary policy enriches the financial class, and lowers the standard of living for the middle class, or how progressive regulatory regimes and tax systems protect entrenched business interest from having to compete.

Yet no matter what the UK Sweden Canada, and now the USA, a political rich class of individuals and business arises as a result of progressive governing, all the left scratches their head.

[JackKangaroo1]

The Tea Party is a joke. How can it not be with a dimwit like Sarah Palin as its standard bearer? However it is serving a good purpose. Having been spawned by the ultra-conservative wing of the GOP, it has now morphed into a nasty, noisy disobedient offspring that is ripping its parent a new asshole by defeating GOP candidates at the polls in primaries. It is the best thing that could have happened for the Democrats and they will be laughing all the way home on election day in November.

[DaHonestAbe]

It seems like Hitchens doesn't care for mass movements in the US. Be it the anti war movement or the tea party

[ultramanprime9]

@DaHonestAbe Mass is the right word! Like a massive blockage of your colon! The crap compacted so thick, thats is black and hard and won't come out. It takes an enema flush to rid ourselves of this blockage. But, on the practical side....whats the difference...they already say no to everything....block everything...for the rich lobbyists! They want to go back to the last 8 yrs failed fascist govt? Why? So the rich get richer!

[DaHonestAbe]

@ultramanprime9 Yeah, but there are rational reasons underlying the irrational actions of the tea partiers. It's really just a sad movement, and I'm someone who loves civic mobility. But the people at these rallies are really pissing me off with their ignorance.

[gogetmeseashells]

Who the fuck is this guy and why does he look like a douchebag

[moopism]

@gogetmeseashells If you have to ask that, then you've been under a rock for too long.

Try google, dumbass.

[Odellhoward69]

I feel so bad for christopher.

I stopped smoking because of him.

I saw that picture of him in vanity fair, he looks gaunt.

I hope he's alright.

[moopism]

@Odellhoward69 He's fighting cancer right now.

[SurelyYewJest]

I wish many more people would hit the TP for their crazed inanity. As it is we have a corporate media that props these losers up because it's something they can sensationalize to keep carrying the crap meme about the US being center-right. The TP isn't center-right *at all*. The TP deserves the scorn it gets. They have the most strident positions on just about any topic, and are generally hostile to everyone not like them. All you have to do is read their rally signs.

[misko667]

The Tea Party movement is to American politics what Taco Bell is to Mexican food....

It's a cheap populist substitute that leaves you full of shit.

[mclark1972]

@misko667

Awesome comment!

[xtrmsprts]

@misko667 eloquent analogy ...but i'd just be arrant and say Tea party is the new ku klux klan.

[F33bs]

@misko667 Fucking brilliant analysis, amigo. And well put!

[hop208]

@misko667 HAHA!!! Great comment! XD

[Relbl]

@misko667 Brilliantly said!

[FcK2420]

@misko667 haha so tru.

[Jeffersonwazright]

@misko667 Social conservatives are nothing new. I might have taken these people seriously if they did not dress up and did not have the god fanatics with them.....because fiscally we are in a lot of trouble.

[acrovader]

@misko667 Talk about a cheap, populist, substitute that's full of shit- look no further than Barrack Hussein Obama.

[acrovader]

@misko667 Seeing that the Democrats had their asses handed to them in 2010, the Tea Party is the REAL DEAL.

[misko667]

@acrovader I can't control the sad reality that Americans are too easily led by by corporate interests...If Palin, DeMint, Inhofe and the rest of the quasi-evangelical right-wing appeals to you...vote for it. I'll do everything I can to stand in opposition and continue to ridicule and degrade these contemptuous hayseeds and rednecks.

[acrovader]

@misko667 You are a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. Let's see- little boy Obama has inflated the national debt many times over. More people are unemployed under Obama. More people are on food stamps under Obama. More people are losing their homes under Obama. Corruption is widespread in the Obama administration. Race relations are in the tank under Obama. Vote for contemptuous reprobates like Barney Frank, Anthony Weiner, Nancy Pelosi, etc. all you want, dipshit.

[acrovader]

@misko667 "I can to stand in opposition and continue to ridicule and degrade these contemptuous hayseeds and rednecks." Sounds to me that you are on the losing side of the argument. How's the empty platitudes of "hope" and "change" working out for you? LOL... You don't seem to upset about the crony capitalism and corruption of the Obama administration...

[misko667]

@acrovader You are a generic caricature of your simple-minded politics...Your generic default argument assumes that I support Obama...I don't. He's proven to be typical centrist Democrat. I can tell your one of those numb-skulls who think Obama is some far left radical...Which immediately informs me what a clueless twit you are. After 8 years of Bush and Cheney  please don't mumble to me about crony capitalism.

[acrovader]

@misko667 You truly do have shit for brains! And the Tea Party has NOTHING to do with "quasi-evangelicals". The Tea Party stands for LESS taxes, LESS government regulations, SMALLER government, and LESS reckless spending. The Tea Party is about growing the economy, creating jobs, and FISCAL SANITY. Man-child Obama has bankrupted this country into OBLIVION. Obama and the Democrats are as CORRUPT (if not more) than Bush/Cheney allegedly was. Obama LIED, jobs DIED.

[BelfastAtheist]

@acrovader

''LESS taxes''

Given your Economic standing - that's a foolish position to take. North America already pays less Taxes than a lot of other rich Countries, like my own Native Britain.

''LESS government regulations''

It's ''LESS Governement regulations'' that cause the Financial Crisis, by letting CEOs do as they please. Reregulation is also what is destroying your Economy.

''SMALLER government''

Fair enough.

''and LESS reckless spending''

Spending is necasarry for growth..

[lumpheadthump]

@BelfastAtheist All true, sadly. There's a reason that for the last 30 to 40 years American conservatives have without fail pushed for spending cuts in education. They need a mass of undereducated/uneductaed voters who are easily fooled into believing that their interests are in line with the wealthiest 1% who would like nothing more than to turn the US into an oligarchy.

[MillionthUsername]

@lumpheadthump "They need a mass of undereducated/uneductaed voters"

That's why the public "education" system exists - to indoctrinate children into state worship. They are institutionalized as drones to obey and serve authority. Mass indoctrination of children is something that all oppressive societies do. It's designed to strip children of their sense of individuality in order to produce "citizens" that are homogeneous and respond predictably to propaganda.

[Nostalgiaforinfi]

@BelfastAtheist you lost me at spending being a necessity for growth. the key word is RECKLESS not less buddy.

if the government spent just as much money as it did last year on wars in iraq and Afghanistan and diverted them to Education, food and housing, that would be an example of less RECKLESS spending.

[BelfastAtheist]

@Nostalgiaforinfi

Your assertion that it's the Democrats who are deeper in corruption than the Republicans needs challenging though; the Democrats are deep in the pockets of Big Business, that's true - but the Republicans are substantially more indebted to Big Business. If you think this isn't true, maybe you should question why EVERY Republican in the House claims to be a Global Warming denier.. honestly, how do you people not make the connection? They get paid to deny Global warming.

[BelfastAtheist]

@Nostalgiaforinfi

That's just one example of how corrupt the Republican Party is. Let's not forget that it ceased being a Conservative Party some decades ago as well.. I'm guessing you're a self-described Conservative.

You're right (Sort of) on Iraq and Afghanistan; but that's only a part of the problem. Your Country has Military Bases in over 60 Countries including virtually every other Country in the Middle-East, e.g Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman..

[BelfastAtheist]

@acrovader

''growing the economy''

Not possible when you slash spending in the way the TP would do.

''creating jobs''

The Tea Party have not outlined *how* they would create Jobs - these people don't even pretend to understand modern Economics.

''FISCAL SANITY''

They don't have a Fiscan plan.. at least, none that I'm aware of?

''Man-child Obama has bankrupted this country''

There's a LOT more to it than that.. Economics is a very complicated little Science.

[thekoollemon]

@BelfastAtheist the government doesn't create jobs, fiscal sanity means not going 15 trillion into debt. 15 trillion dollars of debt certainly destroys jobs

[BelfastAtheist]

@acrovader

Some of the issues you mentioned are at least somewhat contentious, but I assure you good sir - your faith in the Tea Party is entirely misplaced. Often in times of Financial woes, extremists get into power.. it's what happened with Revolutionary Communism and Nazism, for example.

The U.S will heal, however the real solutions, at least to my understanding of Economics are: a *proper* Nationalized Healthcare + stop spending 50% of your Capital on ''Defence''.

[BelfastAtheist]

@acrovader

Neither of these Solutions does the Tea Party support...

[BelfastAtheist]

@acrovader

Deregulation is destroying your Economy*

Sorry, typo. The 'Deregulation' you refer to to... you know this lets CEOs choose the Board Members who determine the CEOs wages, right? That's how you get 'Banker Bonusus' - is that REALLY what you support or have you just not thought this through? Do you support CEOs taking 30% of Corporate Profit, that should go back into Economy? Do you support the destruction of the EPA? This (and much, much more..) is what happens when you deregulate.

[Beavis1144]

@misko667 Your writing is exactly what is wrong with our country today. Even someone like you with view points that don't fit neatly in the left or right acts like an asshole when someone sees it differently. BTW- he did it first is what 5 year olds say.

[Loejyrrab]

@misko667 Agree with you 100%!

[BelfastAtheist]

@acrovader

>Crony Capitalism

>Support the Tea Party!

Hah, I'm roaring with laughter at that one. For a start, the Teabaggers were sponsored by Faux News from the very beginning and aggressively supported by them; so they can hardly be called 'Grassroots' or realistically be against Crony Capitalism when they have Corporate Media sponsorship..

Do you even know what 'Crony Capitalism' is? Maybe you should look up why Michelle Bachmann 'Doesn't believe in Global Warming' & Get back to me?

[pignut]

Extreme and vicious verbal attacks. Not the work of people firmly grounded

in their beliefs. Do you think they doubt themselves? I do.

[pignut]

I did not attack you. I asked you a question. You must have your own little definition of what a bigot is. I suggest you buy a dictionary. Yes, that was a mild insult..

I understand perfectly what hitchy is trying to say. Why comment on it?

It was nothing more than a low blow from a lowly fellow. We will see

in November how much credibility the Tea Party has. I can hardly wait.

[blueleadpot]

@pignut are you a rapist?

[moopism]

@pignut Ah November... the threat they all use to try and make us believe they know what the fuck they're doing.

Stick a cork in it.

[pignut]

I guess I need to stop supporting the Tea Party because

a gay British guy does not like the Tea Party.

You really showed us.

[chunkyjake6644]

@pignut

He's American, Einstein.

[blueleadpot]

@pignut how unexpected that one of your type would mention Hitchens's (limited) bisexuality in the pejorative, and would also not address the point he was making.

[pignut]

@blueleadpot One of my type? Are you a bigot?

[blueleadpot]

@pignut again you dodge the point, and attack the person making it. That's just like YOUR TYPE. And, no, bigotry doesn't apply to political opinions (collective, or not), and I don't hate tea party fanatics, I just think you're all hilariously ignorant and impotent.

[randomartist01]

@pignut Wow, are you actually responding to an allegation of bigotry with a contrary claim of bigotry? How fucking stupid ARE you? The truth is that anybody who would ally himself with the Tea Party doesn't have the slightest conception of politics. Not American politics and certainly international politics. If you can characterize a sitting president of the USA as a "socialist," you literally cannot have a comprehensive understanding of the word. Likewise, if you rail against social spending...

[randomartist01]

@randomartist01 ... at all costs, you cannot have an understanding of the role of government in a civilized society. The Tea Party are a frightening political construct with no mission statement beyond being anti-government. They claim to be anti-BIG government, but the truth is far nastier than just that. Listen to their rhetoric and it's clear that they're a fringe right wing movement that has more in common with the theocrats in the Middle East than any legitimate American poltical party.

[pignut]

@randomartist01 Are you angry? You must be. The truth is painful sometimes.

I did not respond to an allegation of bigotry. Nobody called me a bigot. I called

no person a bigot. Where is the allegation?

Please stop trying to be more clever than you are. Read the comments before

you comment. Your mouth apparently needs toilet paper.

[randomartist01]

@pignut What you've written amounts to nonsense. We're all free to read your homophobic slur, and we all saw you invoke the phrase "you people" in a pejorative sense. Please stop trying to be smarter than you are. I'm afraid mere obfuscation doesn't work when you're debating intelligent people who know how to read.

[km6xz]

@pignut I've run into a friend teapartiers and was shocked to see people i getting so motivated yet not know the first thing of what they were yelling about. I saw more dirt baggers, pot bellies and missing front teeth, worn old seed hats and misspelled signs than a convention of grade school drop-outs. It is a movement being manipulated by media corporations and lobbying firms but the people with the signs are too dumb to realize they are being had. Sad to see what has happened to the US

[pignut]

@km6xz I can go to any ,yes any gathering of liberals and find the same

type of ignorance. Hell I can walk into Obamas office and find ignorance.

You do not have to be a genius to figure out that spending trillions

of dollars that you do not have is a very very bad thing to do.

Your Characterization of Tea Party members is BS. I am sure I can

find some close relatives of YOURS with pot bellies and missing teeth.

Does that make you stupid?

[km6xz]

@pignut You have already demonstrated that labels and their definitions are not your forte, and displayed a complete misunderstanding of economics and political science, so it is entirely appropriate you are a member of that subgroup of low information citizens. Educated, thinking, aware people are so so gullible or misinformed, or given to wild-eyed conspiracy theories so it is easy to see why all the rank and file of the tea-baggers are so dumb and clueless.

[pignut]

@km6xz OK, define bigot for me.

[moopism]

@pignut Try a dictionary.

[SpellboundSolution]

@km6xz Yeah, media corporations are REALLY supportive of the Tea Party movement, going so far as to cause a child in a progressive school to receive a commendation when saying teabagger when he would have been expelled a few years ago.

[ManofManyPasswords]

@km6xz Yea, taeparty movement isn't threatening. I mean, to battle illegal immigrants and shit like that, you need a threatening group of people to battle fire with fire. This won't work, they will get walked all over!

[BelfastAtheist]

@km6xz

When you say ''Being manipulated by media corporations and lobbying firms'' - who are you referring to? Faux News seems like a good assumption, but as for lobbying firms.. I really haven't a clue. It's also been speculated that the Tea Party is manipulated by Health Insurance companies, I believe.

[eastjones]

@BelfastAtheist He is undoubtedly talking about the Koch brothers. The Center for American Progress Action Fund writer ony Carrk: "They use their vast wealth to bankroll "right-wing political action groups, think tanks, and individual politicians" to advance extremist notions of limited government, deregulation, privatization of state enterprises, assets and resources, low corporate and personal taxes, minimal social services, anti-unionism, and overall business friendly anti-populist policies"

[eastjones]

@BelfastAtheist He is undoubtedly talking about the Koch brothers. The Center for American Progress Action Fund writer Tony Cark: "They use their vast wealth to bankroll "right-wing political action groups, think tanks, and individual politicians" to advance extremist notions of limited government, deregulation, privatization of state enterprises, assets and resources, low corporate and personal taxes, minimal social services, anti-unionism, and overall business friendly anti-populist policies"

[pml4010]

@pignut

all of your comments alone show what kind of people the tea party really attracts.

[pignut]

@pml4010 Yea right. The attacks against Tea Party members as seen here in these comments are as vile as it gets. The people that responded to my comments seem to have the same mind set as your average KKK member. Point out physical defects in their fellow human being, question their intelligence, devalue an entire group of people without any real knowledge of

the situation. They are bigots on the same level as the grand wizard of the KKK.

Your lies will not endure.

[pml4010]

@pignut

have fun

[pignut]

@pml4010 That is what this is all about. fun fun fun.

[SockbatReplica]

@pignut It's interesting that you bring up the KKK because David Duke claims that "thousands" of Tea Party activists want him to run in 2012.

[theystoleitfromus]

@pignut "The attacks against Tea Party members as seen here in these comments are as vile as it gets."

Someone can dish it out but not take it, by the sounds.

[moopism]

@pignut Does anything come out of your mouth (or soul) that doesn't resemble a turd?