Massive: Tax Day Tea Party USA; Updated
I just have one word: Wow. More than 800 tea parties across the country. Here’s your first photo/vid round-up from the events across the country, large and small, every corner of this great nation (hit your refresh button often…I’ll keep updating…11:20pm…just added tons more crowd pix and vid…trying to keep ‘em all in one post to give you the full breadth and scope of the protests — not just the size, but the reach, a true sense of which is missing from the MSM coverage. More coming…):
Mandeville LA:
Raleigh NC sent via iphone by reader Wendy:
Cincinnati via Alex Jamieson h/t Justin Binik-Thomas:
Dallas:
Young Citadel Cadets spoke at the Charleston SC tea party – via Cadet Steven Munoz:
Grand Rapids MI via L.D. at RightMichigan:
Eau Claire WI via reader Dan:
Snowy in Bozeman MT from reader Cara V.:
Vid from Phoenix:
More from Phoenix from KFYI.
Vid from Carson City NV:
Kansas City MO at the WWI memorial:
Pleasanton CA from reader Kell:
White Plains NY via Tom Faranda:
Lafayette IN near Purdue University via CCAV:
Bend OR via Jim F.
NYC via Urban Infidel:
Sacramento via Vern:
Sioux Falls SD tea dumping reenactment:
Kentucky:
Greensburg PA:
Lansing MI via Doug Powers:
Toledo:
Denver:
Washington DC via Ed Frank…
Chicago via Founding Bloggers:
Nashville:
Oklahoma City:
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Aaaaannnnd there goes any shred of credibility you may have been clinging to.
Sorry – but after 8 years of not-as-peaceful protests, vandalism, and assassination chic by the left – all your stupid, childish, hysterical complaining of these overwhelmingly peaceful, grassroots protests is nothing but sheer hypocrisy.
If liberals didn’t see this as a threat, they wouldn’t respond.
By the way – don’t let this be a one-day movement. I found After the Tea Party and it seems to be a great site to help us continue to organize and fight.
Only if he PROMISED to never return to the USA.
The problem is that “they” think that the term teabagging is offensive to all of us. And they think that by using an “offensive” term, that it will turn everyone away from our objective.
Embrace the term. Dont shy away from it.
Fine. We’re teabagging the government. Ooooooohhhhh, I said a dirty thing, I am sooooooooo ashamed. Well guess what, its better than what my other phrase is.
Am I the only one who has no idea what “teabagging” is???
After my experience in Kansas, I have had more people than you can shake a stick at asking when is the next one and where.This is ground swelling by the minute. People are fired up and this is not going away. The Liberals have poked that sleeping porch dog once too often and now are screaming like little girls because they have found out the porch dog bites.
“teabagging” is sucking on things that “hang” on a man.
To quote a comedian who did a great Gilbert Gottfried imitation,
“I hate tea. Tea is like hot water with a bag in it, and the bag is urinating dirt.”
I actually went to the tea party in Santa Monica with a sign that drew rave reviews.
It read:
“I hate taxes, but I really hate tea. Death to Mint Medley! Death to Earl Grey! Death to Tetley!”
Oh yeah, and taxes are too high.
eric
aka the Tygrrrr Express
http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com
The more obama and pelosi deny us, the stronger we WILL become.
Get ready for the next round.
Maybe we should focus on this obamanation of an administration next time.
BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
Thanks MM,
we’ve come a long way from a pig roast at the capitol bldg.
Just WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Debrief: “Did we tell you you could jump in the water?” Slap!
Debrief: “If Obama wanted you to jump in the water he would have Tweeted you on his Blackberry!” Slap!
Debrief: “And stop slapping me while I’m interrogating you!”
Here’s a slideshow of Rockwall, TX set to a metal version of the Star Spangled Banner
I am so impressed with the energy and the turnout for the Tea Parties. Way to go America! And take that ACORN and illegal immigrants. Those of us who have funded ACORN and amnesty groups against our wills have every right to be heard by our elected officials. One word of advice for our clueless, overspending and out of touch elected officials—- get ready to be unemployed!
I just got the official estimate for the Portland, OR Tea Party @ 7000. Not bad for a communist city.
You’re funny.
I knew I shouldn’t have asked…
Thats scary. Used to live there a few years ago to….
Is 205 finished being rebuilt yet?
Rockwall, TX
A bastion of Red in a sea of Roosevelt blue
Fellow Right Wing Fanatics….I was at the Sugarland Texas Tea Party and was overwhelmed at the numbers and energy of the event. My sign:
IF I’M A RIGHT WING FANATIC…
THEN OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST.
OH WAIT…HE IS!!!
After the excitement died down though, I saw the expected media marginalization and downplaying of the event and came back down to earth.
We will never be able to take back this country WITHOUT taking down the media bias. There are just too many sheep in this country…
I propose the next(Yes I said next, as in we can’t stop now) protest needs to be directed at the MSM. Why not do the same thing, big rallies, and this time the subject is their treasonous behavior, take it to their offices. I am absolutely serious. Anyone know a date appropriate?
I wonder…
are there places where socialists may migrate to live the life they insist on trying to impose on Americans?
Why,…yes, I do believe they would have several choices.
If they were to succeed in their drive to force statism on the rest of us,
where would we go to live under the Constitution of the United States?
That seems to me to present a reason for me to fight them…
for myself,
for my children,
for all my childrens’ children…
and for all those around the world, born and yet to be born, who would like that privilege.
No, I have no idea as well. As Ann Coulter wondered in her weekly column, why does the left have such familiarity with that phrase?
Why does anybody respond to any troll on this site? We all know what a troll is, as opposed to somebody who actually has a bona fide viewpoint, and expresses it in a mature way. Trolls like LGM will disappear like so many farts in the wind, if you just ignore these poor attention starved little people.
I challenge anyone to look at the pictures I have posted and show me one single person that is demonstrating ANYTHING concerning race. Well over 10,000 people, and not one has anything to do with race. And I can show you plenty of pictures of plenty of Liberal rallies that have a great deal of pictures depicting racist statements, quotes, signage etc.
You can try do diminish the importance and significance of these events, but they are nothing but words. Actions speak louder and we are growing into a cacophony. We will not sit quietly by while this nation is destroyed from within. We will not go quietly into the night.
Nope. They’re currently working on it north of I-30. The part south of 30 is a lot better now.
I’m wondering if all the little towns will be counted someway. I didn’t think about it yesterday, but several very small towns in Oklahoma had turnouts too. Weren’t very big, but enthusiastic.
Instead of having the next round of TEA parties on July 4th, as has been suggested, I would suggest that we strike again while the iron is hot and celebrate in on May 1st, which would allow us to counter the May Day events supported by the Communists. I think the irony of anti-Communists coming out in force on May Day would be too much for the MSM to swallow.
This demonstrates the mentlity and maturity levels of the standard Liberal/Obama apologist.
On April 16th, 2009 at 4:27 pm, madshark said:
Yes, and hold the parties in front of their buildings: local t.v. stations, local newspaper buildings, as well as the national media – Rockefeller Center, CNN Atlanta, etc.
The MSM is the REASON we are in this socialist / collectivist mess – the politicians simply follow their lead and are too afraid to fight the Beast.
CRAM the Tea Parties right down the MSM’s THROAT. Force them to give it the proper coverage!
May 1st AND July 4th!
I made a slideshow of suggestions for signs for future Tea Parties.
I just caught this story about Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) calling the Tea Party activities “despicable” and shameful.”
I tried to comment but they locked it out to non-members. So here’s what I want her to know:
So 250,000 peaceably assembled people exercising their 1st Amendment right to protest a government that is in the process of shackling our future generations to TRILLIONS of dollars of debt is some sort of ‘stunt’? Sorry Ms. Schakowsky, you simply don’t ‘get it’!
This wasn’t exclusively about Obama or only about democrats or only bail-out money or only illegals or only taxes, it is about YOU and every other politician like you who has totally FORGOTTEN the founding principles of this country and gone your own way dragging us along behind you into oblivion.
We want what our founding fathers established for us – LIMITED GOVERNMENT! That and their vision of free enterprise is responsible for our greatness but now we see the federal government squandering the fruits of those founding principles with socialism and massive debt.
We are NOT going to sit by and let you do that to OUR country Ms. Schakowsky; YOU are the one who is despicable.
Sorry of this has been mentioned before, but I think we need to do this again on the Fourth of July.. We should not take the pressure of the faux media elites, or their liberal extremist sheeple followers.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky: you’re despicable
Here’s what one of the cowardly Anonymous respondents wrote. Leave it to a liberal to hide behind a fake name & make such TRULY despicable Nazi like comments:
Comment by Mark V — April 16, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
I am also disgusted by the Right Wing Radical movement. We should round them all up and put them onto trains and ship them to concentration camps. Who cares if we should “lose” a few million of them along the way.
Hey Mark V. Why don’t you come “round me up”, I have something special waiting for you..
I should be finding out soon if this Non-event was in fact the largest gathering in front of the Carson City (Nevada) capitol building in history!
Main stream media? I remember them … but the government owns my old outhouse now (Long but true story) so I no longer have any need for newspapers.
I do. We have a parrot.
Here’s some pictures taken by Byron Dazey of soundpolitics.com – he was one of the guys running around with a professional-grade camera. This is me in the picture, but I have no idea how he caught me with a laughing smile. I was sure he’d only gotten one that was posed.
Pictures from Redmond, WA
I Googled it. I only drink tea. Didn’t know how foul CNN and MSNBC really are.
gag me.
Wait.
don’t gag me….lol
Thanks but that’s a take-off of a joke I heard years ago about a Scottish Paratrooper POW…
Wish I could remember the guy’s name to give him credit.
See #306. Now that I know what it means, I can’t help but echo Ann’s question. They seem to be quite familiar with something obscure and base, but this is not surprising.
PRSK, glad you googled it…I didn’t have the stomach to try.
lol
I’m sure King George III felt the same way about those “Indians” in Boston Harbor.
I went to the one at City Hall in New York. This may sound strange, but in some ways, the whole thing was very depressing for me. For one, conservatives really don’t DO protests and I felt out of place at one (other than the first tea party a few months ago, I have not attended anything other than a political rally since I cannot remember when).
And it is not the taxes as much as the spending. And not the spending as much as the uneasy feeling that the relationship between the people and the state has changed, possibly forever.
It is that last thing I think I found most depressing. That somehow our relationship with the government is changed.
The truth that the left cant face.
Total number of US Billionares = 311
Total number of US millionares = 9 Million
Total Obama Budget = 3.5 Trillion
So do the math. If the US was to take $1 billion dollars from each billionare and $1 million dollars from each Millionare (leaving them mostly broke) the total comes to 311 billion and 9 Million.
Far short of the 3 Trillion plus Obama is spending.
So where does the rest of that money come from ?
I believe the phrase actually originated in Online Video gaming, or at least it spread that way. A player would “teabag” an opponent (stand over his character’s head, doing knee-bends) as a sign of pubescent superiority.
And while you’ll see pictures of frat boys doing the same to passed out “friends” at frat parties, I believe they’re mimicking the online gamer crowd.
So you see, this is yet another aspect of the spectacularly incredible immaturity of liberals. They’re basically using the phrase a 13 year old gamer uses.
Printing presses. See how easy it is?
Of course, our grandchildren will probably see it a bit differently…
And on a brighter note, these Tea Parties are just the beginning. The exposure they’ve gotten will draw more and more out. Pretty remarkable given that conservatives didn’t have to recruit loser, jobless college drop outs to have this turnout.
Look closely at a liberal rally. It’s a frightening sight.
Now I understand why he has a juvenile smirk and the need to use it in a sentence several times. Reminds me of a wise-guy who just learned a new dirty word.
Make sure to print off the new Obama T-Bag logo:
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/
Why do we respond? Because sometimes it just feels good to go off on these a-holes. A little venting doesn’t hurt anyone. For example…
Please put your head back into your rectum and leave. You contribute NOTHING to these threads or, for that matter, to anything else. You are a waste of oxygen.
I feel better already.
From corporations, presumably. If at all.
What’s next???
We have GOT to have the next outpouring of fiscal conservatives on a WEEKEND!!
What a fantastic day we had in Carson City, NV!! Everyone was polite, enthusiastic, many brought children and dogs (all very well-behaved).
Several of us talked about ‘what’s next?’ and how do we keep this going??
I don’t think we will ever know the true scope of all this. I live in a VERY small community in the Dallas area and there were people in almost all the small communities, on the sides of roads, on street corners and everywhere in-between showing their support. None of these “events” were even advertised or setup. They were just regular people showing up!
On April 16th, 2009 at 8:20 pm, fred5676 said:
Protest IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S PARKING LOTS on May 1st and July 4th.
Jam the sidewalks of your local action newsteam’s building. Flood the roads around your local newspaper. Pack the parking lots!
They think these parties were ineffective because they didn’t get enough tv coverage? Well let’s oblige them. Let’s force it on them. Let’s make ‘em cover it ’cause they CAN’T SEE ANYTHING ELSE.
LET’S CRAM IT DOWN THEIR THROATS.
Here’s a YouTube from our Tea Party in Las Vegas. One of two big ones. There were thousands of people attending both. Woo Hoo!
Check this out: http://www.politickernj.com/horatio2/28970/rottino-caruso-support-wayne-resident-behind-tea-party-tax-protest
Wayne, NJ wanted a tea party and the town lawyer who also represents former Mayor and current Republican Assemblyman Scott Rumana said NO!! The follow up story says the current Mayor agreed to allow it – I wonder how it went.
Just an FYI to all of my fellow Los Angeles area Tea Party members…
David Saltsburg aka “Zuma Dogg” is NOT your friend nor does he support our movement.
He posted the following comment today Mayor Sam’s blog…
“What a bunch of wackos at the Van Nuys tea party. Kinda a scary bunch. If you can imagine the Kevin James nut job crowd all in one place.”
Nice, huh?
Please keep this in mind next time you see him filming at one of your protests.
Suggestion for next move.
On the 4′th of July don’t go to DC or State Capitals, “they” won’t be there.
Go to “their” homes. Start at 1..2..AM,
Party all night and day.
I think our theme song should be Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It.
MtsEdge – I too was blissfully ignorant of the term. And quite honestly, I could have lived the rest of my life not knowing the term. Alas it was not to be.
And yes, it is VERY telling that the left knows it sooooo well. And very telling that the MSM call our Tea Parties despicable, but don’t seem to mind the use of that term.
Now if we could just take their life-long health care & full salary away, we’d be money-up on the deficit scale!
Its was also a major ‘joke’ to an episode of ‘Its Always Sunny in Philapelphia‘ last season. They were hunting ‘human’ (who was a homeless guy they went to high school with) as the ultimate game. If they caught him then he would get teabagged. But they were bored with it because they needed a new penalty, since they have been doing it to him since high school. If you want to retain any scruples, dont watch the series.
VERY low-brow humor. Even my youngest teenager refused to watch more than one episode.
We were not counted in any national numbers I’ve seen, but Huntsville, AL Police Dept. just estimated ours at 2,500, which seems fair to me. Unfortunately, it doesn’t count all the people left in traffic trying to park, and never got there! The organizers were expecting numbers in the hundreds I believe.
Joy, well said. I wish I had never heard of it.
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Great post and pictures, GO USA!
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
never restrict taxation
welcome excessive taxes
that are best when punitive
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
don’t protest tax increases
or support states’ rights
YOU RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST
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