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teabagger -a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as ‘Tea Party’ protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)
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teabagger: a simple-minded, willfully blind person; a hopelessly partisan conservative hack, often with racist motivations for their behavior; an idiot. See also: stupid right-wing fucktard; Dennis.
You’re just a little smart aleck kid, chicken mambo, with no bigger responsibilities than paying apartment rent you split with two roommates and buying beer.
Unlike 99.9% of all tea partiers who have legitimate and real issues besides thinking it’s cool to be a liberal when they’re just out of college.
Those guys didn’t bail on their country, Jaim. They didn’t just get pissed off and then decide to cut and run, only to mock people they’re jealous of because they’re stronger than they are.
What do you say to me, Dennis?
I’m a liberal and I think teabaggers are dumb as hell. This comes not just from watching them on the news but also from interacting with teabaggers and would-be teabaggers on a daily fucking basis.
I assure you I have plenty of responsibilities, including a mortgage, children, car payments, and college debt for my daughters. This is in addition to the stress I feel from knowing that if I lose or change my job, I won’t have health coverage because the almighty free market won’t care about a 55 year old dude with a couple of pre-existing conditions.
But yet, here I am, liberal as hell in the middle of Teabag Country. So how do I fit in with your mythical naive liberal stereotype, sir?
I’ve never said you were an immature brat of the same mold as chicken mambo, Zython or Jaim, Bruce. It’s been obvious in your writing.
As to how you fit in to the liberal stereotype, I have no idea how you fit in and I don’t want to start asking you personal questions to find out. I’d think you’d be just as pissed off at the current administration’s failing as the tea partiers and would share many of their sentiments. Not just for your own sake for the sake of your children especially.
And I would think that at some point, a reasonable man would realize he’s been duped by 30 years of Friedman/Greenspan/Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Bush bullshit.
For almost 50 years,from the 30s through the 70s, the working and middle classes enjoyed ever-greater prosperity and an increasing share of the American economic pie. One-earner families could live a middle-class lifestyle, save, pay for their healthcare, even take a vacation occasionally. Then came President Spokesmodel and the death of the unions, along with the mythology that the free market could solve every problem. Now, 30 years later, we see the results of faith-based voodoo economics: stagnant middle class, 2-earner families stressing out, the already-rich getting obscenely richer,our manufacturing base long gone, and the middle-class shrinking to nothing.
And what do the teabaggers demand? MORE OF THE SAME. Which makes them, in my opinion, stupid as hell
Bruce, knock off the dishonesty. What has Obama started doing about the “Friedman/Greenspan/Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Bush bullshit.’?
Larry Summers. Timothy Geitner. Goldman Sachs. How is Obama breaking that string of Wall Street/deregulation/BSD money men influence running his fiscal policy? Don’t be a dupe. If you’re going to do the analysis, look at both sides and what we’re doing to correct it. You at least included Clinton, but you left off Robert Rubin and you didn’t connect it to Obama’s being in bed with the same string.
You need to wake up and quit blaming your problems on the tea partiers and people you disagree with. In that sense you fit the ‘mythical naive liberal stereotype’ to a T.
Not blaming my problems on anyone, Dennis, nor am I being dishonest.
Just because the teabaggers are idiots doesn’t mean Obama is perfect. In case you haven’t noticed, in a political argument, one side can be completely wrong without the other side being completely right.
Am I disappointed that Obama has surrounded himself with Goldman Sachs alumni? You bet. That doesn’t make the teabaggers arguments any more valid, rather it shows how pathetically uninformed and unread these rubes really are. Kinda like the Onion article from the other day about “Area Man Defending What He Mistakenly Thinks The Constitution Says” or something like that.
Noting that the playing field is tilted against the middle and working classes, of which I’m a member, is not equivalent to “blaming my problems on someone else,” Dennis. And I gotta tell you, it pisses me off when people say that. I’m not just concerned about me and mine, I’m concerned about my country and planet. Something conservatives just can’t relate to in their selfish, I-got-mine-so-fuck-you heads.
“I-got-mine-so-fuck-you heads.”
We try your way and every time it results in what we’re getting now. We’re going right back to Jimmy Carter II. It’s just sad for the country that it has to be shown that example in real-time for it to get through to them every generation or so.
“We try your way and every time it results in what we’re getting now.”
Like when we had eight years of peace and prosperity under Bill Clinton?
Jesus, it’s like you guys slept through the 90′s.
Dennis,
I’m curious about your “we try your way and every time…” statement.
What have we tried lately that resembles the failures you think happened under the Carter Admin?
Please cite and link, if possible.
I’ve never said…
The Big Book of Stuff Dennis Insists He Never Said (Despite Ample Evidence to the Contrary), embiggens.
You’re just a little smart aleck kid, chicken mambo, with no bigger responsibilities than paying apartment rent you split with two roommates and buying beer.
Defensive Childish Troll still bites when cornered.
Bill Clinton and Dems got thumped in 1994 and he triangulated and deregulated. It was the best thing that could have happened to him- moving to the center right. He couldn’t afford to be the next Jimmy Carter. Obama doesn’t see it that way, except for his being in bed with Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.
Clinton went right of center to get elected in the first place.
And is Obama a socialist-commu-fascist or is he “in bed” with Wall Street?
Dumber than usual.
I don’t think it’s either/or, but why don’t you answer that question, Jaim.
Explain why Goldman got paid out at 100 cents on the dollar as the counterparty to AIG’s derivatives obligations at taxpayer expense,too, while you’re at it, Jaim.
why don’t you answer that question
Self-absorbed Troll lacks self awareness and/or any sense of irony.
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Words have a liberal bias.
Sorry to have to run off right when things were getting interesting, but I live in the real world and all that. It’s a funny thing about my boss — he’s pretty cool, but he doesn’t allow me to comment on blogs all fucking day long, like some guys we know and love.
I, too, would be interested in what “we tried your way” lately. It seems to me that The Free Market Gospel has been swallowed whole by this country the last 30 years or more. And the results have been disastrous: manufacturing gone, wealth disparity obscene, what’s left of the middle class struggling and stressing to do on two incomes what used to be done on one, and an end to the idea that the next generation will be better off than the previous one. Sad.
And yet the goddam teabaggers march around asking the insurance companies to fuck ‘em some more. Worried more about an immigrant taking their job than a fatcat sending that job to Laos or Bangladesh. Afraid that Obama will take their guns but unconcerned that huge multinational corporations, with NO loyalty to America, are making decisions every day that will negatively affect their lives — decisions they will have no voice in. Crying about paying “death taxes” they’re not subject to….the list goes on and on. Idiots.
“It’s a funny thing about my boss — he’s pretty cool, but he doesn’t allow me to comment on blogs all fucking day long”
In Dennis-land, losing money all day on E-trade is a valuable profession.
You’re just a little smart aleck kid, chicken mambo, with no bigger responsibilities than paying apartment rent you split with two roommates and buying beer.
Unlike 99.9% of all tea partiers who have legitimate and real issues besides thinking it’s cool to be a liberal when they’re just out of college.
Uh huh. You don’t know anything. First off, I have far more responsibilities than you imagine. I have a professorship lined for January, with all the job entails. And contrary to what you and Sullivan think, it’s a “real job” on “Earth”. The only world where humans are known to exist.
Secondly, the notion that that a 27-year-old cannot have a valid opinion, simply because of youth, is patently ridiculous. I’ve consistently demonstrated a greater intellect and honesty dealing with issues on these boards than you, Dennis. While young, 27 is a far cry from the “wet behind the ears” insipid youth that you rail against. I’ve been able to vote for 8 years now, Dennis. I am Constitutionally able to serve as a U.S. Representative in Congress. And I’m also old enough, and been around people for long enough, to know when I am talking to an ignorant, foolish piece of shit.
Thirdly: You want to give me a citation or something for your 99.9% figure? Because that’s a load of bullshit and you know it. The tea partiers are, by and large, worthless morons who could be hit by an asteroid tomorrow and I would not shed a solitary tear. They are idiots, but worse, they are VOCAL and SMUG idiots. Their concerns are generally not based in reality, but instead are fabricated outrages that they’ve constructed with the help of fellow vocal, smug idiots like Hannity and Beck. Many are racist to boot. And I will give you a citation for these statements: http://www.oliverwillis.com
Read the posts at the link provided, and maybe, if you’re not a blind, ignorant, idiotic, ideologically-fixated tool of the Republican party, you will understand what I am talking about. But I’m not holding my breath.
Finally, I am not “just out of college”, you stupid twat. I graduated more than 5 years ago. Infantalizing a grown man in an effort to discredit his arguments is both fallacious and obnoxious. But I suspect you know that, and you’re simply acting as a common troll to try and get a rise out of me. Fine. But realize that this is Exhibit #193,024 of you demonstrating that you are not serious, and are not to be taken seriously. You’re just a simple, trollish clown.
I don’t trade, Jaim. But even if that were true, and I did occasionally lose money, that would mean other Americans were benefiting from my endeavors.
Unlike you.
You’re a net zero when it comes to helping America.
Upon further review, though, as AO said, perhaps that’s a lot better than the alternative.
Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Americans live and work abroad, not only in Korea but Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc. One of the great things about America is that we can travel freely, and even live, in foreign countries. Thousands of us, for example, have dual Israeli-American citizenship.
Why do you hate America and it’s freedom, Dennis? Why do you hate Israel?
Oops, that should be “its”, not “it’s”. And the Teabaggers are still stupid. Oh, I mean “Tea Partiers” so as not to offend.
The fact that Americans are desired to fill foreign positions, especially in teaching, is a testament to one of the strengths of our country. Not to mention the fact that people outside English speaking countries want to learn the language to improve their job skills in a predominantly English speaking global economy.
But this is cowardly little Dennis we’re talking about. The guy probably thinks Taco Bell is Mexican food.
I’ve said it before a hundred times, Bruce Henry. Because he thumbed his nose at ‘George Bush’s America’ when he left. He said on here that he couldn’t take what this country had become, and so he left. Now he makes sure that everyone believes him when he said he left for a better job and one that makes him happier and affords him the opportunity to travel and see other countries and cultures, which is all well and good, but it’s not what he originally said were his reasons. He said on here that he was disgusted with this country- George Bush’s America- so he left. And now, Bruce, he thumbs his nose at everyone he disagrees with from that foreign country that he fled to. The very people he fled from and for whom he thumbs his nose at are here, in America, working and donating their time and money to improve things in America. He ran and now he mocks.
You described your situation as having to work even harder now that at your age you can’t afford to lose your job and health benefits because of the difficulty you’d have finding another job. So you work harder because you’ve kids and a mortgage. That’s admirable and gives you a little more legitimacy, not a lot but a little more, than a guy who by his own admission just got disgusted with this country because he didn’t like it’s president and decided to leave and then mock over half of its citizens because he thinks they are ruining the country he decided wasn’t worthy of his respect enough to try to make it better.
Very noble words, Net-Zero Jaims.
Not what you said originally, though. You said you hated George Bush’s America. You ran. You said it again just a month or so again in your nervous breakdown.
Now you try to paint a much brighter picture than what was reality to garner sympathy.
Aw, now you just start lying. I left for a lot of reasons, primarily professional. But getting away from an America that had lost its stride wasn’t such a bad thing. I actually appreciate America now more than ever, despite the damage the GOP did to it. And when I come back it’ll be nice to know it will be a much better place now that Bush II’s reign is over.
But please, continue to spend your day obsessing over me and analyzing my life.
“Net-Zero Jaims”
What does that even mean?
“your nervous breakdown”
What? I took some time off from the internets because of work-load. I explained why I was sick and tired of your attacks on my chosen profession. Honestly, if anyone needs a break from the cyber-world it’s you. My girlfriend has never had to plead with me to get off the computer and take her out to dinner.
But I eagerly await you poring over my posting history to fail and make a point.
Bush II was a shitty president who drove America into the ground. I had an opportunity to go elsewhere and I took it.
You always start it, my Net-Zero friend. And you are the one lying about this. You may well likely have had professional reasons for leaving- I’ve never denied that and for anyone I’d have been the first one to wish anyone well who wanted to pursue a career abroad- but that was not what you said on here originally.
Words have meaning, Jaim. You made your declaration and now you don’t want to own up to it. And regardless of your reasons, you still incessantly mock people who are doing far more to help this country than you are.
Far, far more.
Jaim. Read my lips.
You. Said. You. Left. Because. You. Hated. Bush’s. America.
Upon being criticized and called out on that statement your story then changed to your current explanation.
You’re a liar.
And thusly, you will spend the next two hours going over my comments here, my blog, and my twitter feed to try and fail to prove me wrong.
Some exciting life you’ve got there, Dennis.
Link please.
Get to work cock-boy!
Dennis where have you been for the last 30 years? We’ve been trying it the Saint Ronnie way and it’s gotten us into a hole from which we may or may not be able to dig ourselves out. Which you tacitly acknowledged when you pointed out to Bruce that Obama’s economic team is more of the same.
Dennis, several years ago I left a job I’d had for 15 years to buy a Quizno’s franchise.(Didn’t work out, long irrelevant story.) When people asked me why I quit my job, I told them, “To go into business for myself.” But sometimes, when people asked, I would say, “Because my boss was an asshole.”
Both statements were true. I would sometimes say one reason, and sometimes another, depending on the context of the conversation. I wasn’t a “liar” when I said one thing or another. This, I believe, is the kind of thing Jaim keeps trying to explain to you.
It’s not that hard to understand.
See, this is why people get so angry with you, sir. You latch onto something like this and won’t let go. You remind me of News Reference — remember him?
Dennis doesn’t believe in backing up his claims with evidence, silly. He’ll just pretend to ignore the issue and tell himself that it will all go away. It’s what psychologists call “avoidance” and “denial.”
Bruce, you’ve said before on here I give as well as I get. You lose sight of just which one of us is always the one who starts it, as if that didn’t matter. And ask yourself if it would ever matter to Jaim that conservatives actually do good things, or are important contributors to the betterment of this nation. Or if it matters that the Catholic Church does good things and is the largest charitable organization in the world. Here’s a hint: it doesn’t.
If you believe in the principles you outline, encourage not only me to adere to them, but Jaim and a lot of other people here too. That is, if you feel so strongly about it. Otherwise you’re just as hypocritical as Jaim is.
I hereby ask everyone who posts here to adhere to my principles. Not just the ones who get on my nerves.
You should’ve just said I tend to get on your nerves and that’s why you single me out and skipped the rest of the proselytizing, Bruce.
My older brother had a baby girl about seven months back. She and you sound remarkably similar. Nothing but crying and whimpering.
She gets a pass though. She’ll probably grow out of it before she hits adulthood.
Childish, Self-absorbed Troll can dish it out but can’t bear to take it.
Some of these are jokes, ladies and gentlemen. Is this thing on?
And on this particular thread, Dennis, YOU “started it.”
Debatable.
Are you referring to Jaim’s post right out of the chute?
“They are proud to suck on ball-sacks be a bunch of racists who couldn’t be bothered when a white president engaged in deficit spending.”
I’m guessing you are in agreement with that statement? That’s exactly where Jaim’s running away from his problems has applicability. All he can say about the whole of this group is that they are the one’s doing the sucking, which is not true, and that they are all racists. Even if you take Jaim’s second explanation for why he left the country and not his original denouncement of America, those people are still doing infinitely more to help this country than he is. What he said doesn’t ‘get on your nerves’, so you have little problem with, I’m sure, but at least you said you have talked to some tea party protesters. Jaim has not. Jaim only knows what he reads on liberal blogs and he would point to a sign that he claimed was racist and declare everyone who attended a rally everywhere in the US was a racist. This is the America that Jaim said he was leaving and these are the Americans that Jaim derides on here every day in which he, like you say News Ref did, never lets go of. Those Americans are exercising their free rights and they are doing more for America than he is, and I’m reminding him of that inconvenient truth for him.
Whatever, Dennis. Jaim was at least posting about the subject of the post, and not addressing you. You jumped on to remind us all that Jaim lives in Korea and doesn’t pay US taxes while he lives there, which is true but so very very very IRRELEVANT.
Whether or not I agree with Jaim’s statement is also irrelevant, but I will say this: while I may not have put it like he does, I can attest that the tea partiers and would-be tea partiers I talk to here in my little blue-collar corner of the Southland are huge fucking idiots, borderline and cross-the-line racists, willfully ignorant, unread, uninformed, and fucking proud of it. Which is also relevant to the post.
Now I don’t intend to piss you off, Dennis. I think you’re alright. I think you say stuff on here just to be outrageous sometimes, but sometimes you act like the immature brat you accuse others of being. Think about it. Why don’t YOU try being the mature one occasionally?
I admit that liberals who act like assholes piss me off less than conservatives who act like assholes. Is that what you want me to say? I suspect you feel the same way, in reverse. I think that’s why I like Olbermann and you like Limbaugh.
Hey cock-boy, don’t you have a link to support your lie up above? What? No?
I AM SHOCKED AT YOU COCK-BOY! SHOCKED!
why don’t you answer that question
Schmidt? Laffer Curve?
Never mind.
Good luck with that.
And soon she’ll stop shitting her pants. And soon Dennse will start.