The Million Taxpayer March
Hey, how about an analysis of the Tax Day Tea Party movement that doesn’t involve sexual jokes, Beavis & Butthead-style guffawing, or D-list allegations of RAAAAACISM? Here’s my syndicated column on what Republicans in elected office — and fiscal conservatives unhappy with double-talking GOP politicians — need to take away from this week. Make it count!
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The Million Taxpayer March
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Let’s use liberal math to calculate attendance at this week’s nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protests. When left-wing activists make crowd estimates, the algorithm is: Six figures = one million. An incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged the Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000. We can now, therefore, officially call it the Million Taxpayer March.
Or the Million Rightwing Extremists March if you work for the Department of Homeland Security.
To George Soros-funded grievance professionals, 250,000 is an insignificant number. But unlike recent anti-war and pro-illegal immigration rallies padded with union workers, college students, and homeless people, the Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations featured small business owners, working taxpayers, and families. This wasn’t a weekend or holiday, mind you. A quarter million people took time off in the middle of the work week to raise their voices against reckless taxing and bipartisan spending.
Multi-millionaire jet-setter Nancy Pelosi scoffed that the Tax Day Tea Party movement was nothing more than “Astroturf” politics to protect the “wealthiest people” in America. Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky called the peaceable assemblies “despicable.” Other bitter, clingy Tea Party-bashers grumbled that activists only showed up where Fox News cameras were. But tens of thousands more came out in rain, snow, and cold – in Bozeman, Montana; Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Carson City, Nevada; White Plains, New York; Bend, Oregon; Lansing, Michigan; Hilo, Hawaii; Nashville, TN; and everywhere in between — with no media personalities or celebrities in sight.
If only the condescending cable TV anchors at CNN and MSNBC had paused from wallowing in gutter puns about tea bags, they might have reported an even more significant phenomenon: Tea Party protesters were as vocal in their criticism of Republicans as they were of Democrats. In Salt Lake City, Utah, a crowd of 2,000 repeatedly booed GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, who both supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, and protested GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman’s decision to accept $1.6 billion in porky stimulus funds.
In Sacramento, Tea Party organizer Mark Meckler singled out California GOP chair Ron Nehring for waffling on proposed $16 billion tax hikes. The crowd of 5,000 greeted Nehring – who unsuccessfully tried to hitch his wagon to the Tea Party movement – with a roar of boos and catcalls. Speaker after speaker lambasted Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for abandoning fiscal conservative principles. The loudest chant of the day: “Throw them out.”
In Madison, Wisconsin, GOP Rep. Paul Ryan – hyped as a conservative “rockstar” – was well-received. But I heard from staunch fiscal conservative constituents who refused to be silent about Ryan’s complicity. He gave one of the most hysterical speeches in the rush to pass TARP last fall; voted for the auto bailout; and voted with the Barney Frank/Nancy Pelosi AIG bonus-bashing stampede. Milwaukee blogger Nick Schweitzer wrote: “He ought to be apologizing for his previous votes, not pretending he was being responsible the entire time, but I don’t see one bit of regret for what he did previously. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to let him get away with it.”
Other Tea Party participants pointed out that Newt Gingrich, who jumped aboard the bandwagon, flip-flopped on TARP in the space of a week last September and made common cause with Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi in ads calling for immediate action on “climate change.”
Before the grass-roots Tea Party movement took them by surprise, Beltway GOP strategists argued fervently that the party’s traditional focus on taxes and spending had become outdated. The re-branders pitched their own expansive ideas to replace the anti-tax-and-spend agenda and inspire new voters. These included Gingrich’s “green conservatism,” David Frum’s proposal to raise carbon taxes, and open-borders Republicans’ plans for alternative forms of amnesty. Newsflash: Eco-zealotry and in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens didn’t bring out thousands of first-time activists on the streets. Stay-at-home moms weren’t up all night making signs that read “Tax me more, please!”
What resonated on Tax Day were non-partisan calls to roll back pork, hold the line on taxing and spending, end the endless government bailouts, and stop the congressional steamrollers who have pushed through mountains of legislation without deliberation. This is a teachable moment for GOP public relations peddlers in Washington. While they search for the Holy Grail of Re-branding in tony salons and country club conferences, the agenda for 2010 is smacking them in the face. It’s the three T’s, stupid: Too Many Taxes, Trillions in Debt, and Transparency.
The GOP path to reclaiming power lies with candidates who can make a credible case that they will support and defend fiscal responsibility. That means acting on fiscal conservative principles now, not paying lip service later. The reckonable forces of the Tea Party movement didn’t let opportunists escape accountability on Tax Day. The GOP shouldn’t assume they’ll get a pass on Election Day, either.
As one of the most popular Tea Party signs read: “You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out.”
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Standing with you, Juan needs to go!
I posted on the 85239 website inquiring if anyone else from Maricopa was going to be at the Tea Party in Phoenix…it really turned into quite a discussion..I posted this this AM:
sheesh, asking a simple question resulted in this?? LOL!
It was an amazing experience and I am so glad I went. There were people there from all across political lines from Democrats to John Birch Society and beyond… I was amazed at the wide varity of stands. We were there for a common purpose, not to protest against Barack Obama, but to protest big government, no new taxes, no more corporate bailouts, borrowing and wasteless spending. The press’ slant was way off, we were not a bunch of Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity followers…I was there to stand up for what I myself believe. It was awesome, you should have gone to one near you to check it out! If you wern’t there, then YOU DON”T KNOW!!
I seperated myself from the Republican Party before this election, thanks to the sleeping and big spending politiicians during the last half of the Bush Administration. Yes, I voted for him twice…Mr Bush started the ball rolling, this administration had to pick it up and just kept on running. I personally think they should have left it alone, we would have survived!
I begrudgingly voted for McCain, a man who has been my senator (if you want to call him that) who I have known for over 15 years as opposed to Mr Obama who just recently came on the scene after the last election, the Jr Senator with less then 200 days in congress who I didn’t know.
I am convinced the same thing would have happened with John McCain in office and I still would have been at the rally.
have a nice day!
That’s putting Anderson Cooper to shame (again!), Michelle! He ought to be embarrassed for his nasty play of words.
The Tea Party is a real grass-roots endeavor. The Left is agitated because the TPs prove them wrong on many issues. The msm ignore the great diversity of the protesters. We have a conglomeration of all cultural/ideological backgrounds. The unifying factor is our desire for less intrusive, efficient, and responsible government. We want accountability from all politicians who, in the first place, swore to SERVE, NOT to RULE us.
Of interest: In the Central Valley TP was a group who identified themselves as “Blacks Against Obama” with their signs. They were polite and very good conversationalists! So don’t believe the liberals. There is a black presence in most TPs.
I believe the same, too, Cathy B! We would have come out of this sorry mess faster without the bailouts. Further adding insult to injury is the constant drumbeat by the administration that we need the government’s help by increasing our indebtedness ten times!
No, thanks. Please keep out of the way.
But…but…but Tuesday,”I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.Government can’t solve the problem,government is the problem.
On Hannity last night Geraldo crowed about the much larger number of Mexican illegals who marched in the streets….
Hello El Dufus! …thanks for pointing out that is the problem and they need to be sent home!!!!
I understand Norwich Ct tea party handed out pink slips to mail to Chris Dodd LOL very clever. I will suggest we do same to benedict arlen here in PA,
send to your nits too!!
Had you been in the march out from Egypt, you would’ve been among the chief grumblers railing against Moses for leading them into the desert to die. You wouldn’t have lasted for more than a few weeks before God got tired of your cynical, bitter rants, and put your sorry ass into the ground. You’d better turn before it really happens, Korah, you troubler of Israel.
Very good post, Michelle.
As others have said, it would help if the right candidate would run. The thought of taking matters into my own hands crosses my mind every once in a while, but I’m not often one who commands attention. Living in a blue-as-blue-can-be territory also plays a big part in scrapping the notion.
I hope Tea Party protesters who brought signs stuck them in their lawns when they got home. Those who didn’t make it to the protests may want to think about doing the same. Just an idea for keeping people aware of the topic during the interim between Tea Parties.
#64, #75 – Tea party in Fremont, CA on the 4th.
Kind of off topic, but related to the tea parties, I would like to know from someone that was able to make it to a tea party what the grounds looked like after the event. Did the people that are protesting and pushing for personal and governmental responsibilty clean up after themselves as I would suspect? Or did they throw all of their trash and signs on the ground when they were done leaving it for someone else to clean up, like a big rally in Chicago we all remember?
I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes–I just got the ‘astroturf’ jab.
I think if I were Bela Pelosi, I’d be a little more careful flinging around words regarding anything fake & plastic.
Interesting. The point is….? No frogs at the Tea Party? I seem to recall you saying that some Lefty something or other had 100 times more people. If we say 250,000 showed on the 15th, that’s 25,000,000 at your soiree. I don’t remember that rally, unless you’re talking about Obama visiting Germany to see the wounded troops.
What the heck is lgm blathering about?
lgm, don’t swallow the mouthwash man.
We all talk about what we know.
God I love a good laugh towards the end of the work week!
Bela Pelosi, CLASSIC!
Great article Michelle and SO RIGHT ON.. It still amazes me that the lefty nimrods(like Pelosi), are still saying that the Repbs. are trying to protect the wealthy, when it seems like most of the wealth in the US is the DEMOCRATS… That is another lie that they tell over and over until everyone believes it’s the truth..
Great job Michelle! Perhaps a march on Washington isn’t a bad idea.
BTW, Im am disgusted beyong words with the mainstream media, : (warning: graphic vulgar rant ahead)>>> these people are the worst pigs and whores, who have sold their souls to be traitors against the principles of the US Constitution (by not being a free and fair press). Every last one of these living piles of crap should feel ashamed, but I know they never will, because vile scum, hypocrites and liars have no shame.>>>> whew, sorry…but I feel (a little) better now.
Cathy B, AZN, Jeff, Pueblo …
The tea party was an awesome experience that will hopefully bring out 2 or 3 times as many on July 4th all across the nation …
Besides me there were 3 of my daughters with 4 of the grandchildren, 2 of my son-in-laws with 9 of their family members (parents and other relatives), and 2 neighbor couples that all showed up in downtown Phoenix despite the traffic and parking issues that time of day …
It is our intent to at least double our family representation next time around … 1 son-in-law couldn’t take off from work, and my son (Marine) and other daughter (Navy) are both away from Arizona on active duty …
If everyone that went this week can at least double the number of people in their group the next time around we will continue to grow the movement and even the MSM and alphabet networks will have no choice but to acknowledge us …
This has been a week that has sickened me as I fully understand what the MSM is all about. What free press? I attended the Denver Tea Party and was so excited to see 5,000 people there exercising their right of assembly and free speech. And, then to see all of that reported spitefully in the press…it makes me physically sick to see what has become of liberals in the media spewing all kinds of vile rhetoric. We must persist! Let every American fed up with the so-called “government” rise up on the 4th of July and really give ‘em something to talk about. God bless all who supported the Tea Parties!!
Where at – City Hall? Not that I will be there, but everyone is having a tea party where I used to live. (right between the BART station and the police department, lol)
15 permanent address changes in 8 years, I’m a pro at packing and unpacking…
desertlover! and my AZ and MM friends!
I’m committed to this!
woohooooooooo!
I’m in Europe right now (until Sunday) and this so called GOPigs sponsored “Tea Party” was not at all deemed newsworthy in Europe. Almost none of European TV Channels made a mention of it, except British Sky News (oops Faux News sister channel). I went to many Swiss, French, German, Italian, Belgian websites: same thing, for most newspapers it was not newsworthy. French Conservative pro Sarkozy Le Figaro briefly covered the story but at the end it praised Obama’s handling of the economy and added that Obama has a whooping 62% job approval rating vs less than 25% for Bush a year ago. The German’s Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich’s best selling newspaper) harshly mocked the Fox News-driven manifestation which failed to ignite popular uprising. President Obama is the most popular American in Europe right now: one reason is because he’s NOT a bible-thumping idiot…
Kinky Friedman commented on the populist awakening a couple of months ago on Imus in the Morning.
Kinky Friedman is running in the Democrat Primaries for Governor of Texas.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/04/kinky-freidman-saddles-up.html
He thinks he can pull it out this time with both Independents and Democrats.
You can do some damage by writing to the sponsors of the various “news” shows….and that’s what they are, “shows” – complain, complain, and complain some more. We need to vent and say how you cannot allow your children to watch because of references that are insulting to a large group of consumers. If a conservative had mouthed the reference to tea-bagging and snickered, they’d be called out for it.
Laree, I love to watch Kinky. At his best he makes you think at least. I even love that danged cigar. G-d save us from Kay Bailey, and sadly, Perry is only a conservative when he’s running for election. I’m thinking he thinks he can be BushLight and still get reelected..what Texas needs is another Sam Houston.
Something foolish.
I dont believe anyone of the 250K+ Americans that showed up to protest out of control spending give a damn what Europe thinks.
Rabid:
July 4th in front of Pets Stark’s district office, even if I’m the only one that shows up! The website will be up early next week(working on it – http://www.fremontteaparty.com) and e-mail is fremontteaparty@yahoo.com.
Hey, Clueless, the Tea Parties had NOTHING to do with the GOP. You libtarded truth haters continue to try to pin any act against your agenda onto the GOP. Get this through your thick skull: the GOP is no friend of the Conservative movement.
Your words reveal your servile codependent need of European approval. Well conservatives only seek God’s approval in what we think, say, or do. Why don’t you libscum all move to Europe, since you lust for it so. Europe hates us because we are the best. Our culture is superior to all others. We are the envy of the world. You and your ilk only seek to bring us down because you are God haters. We grew to greatness because of our submission to God and conscientious adherence to His principles. You refuse to bend your knee to God, and so you can never achieve what we have accomplished. So your pride causes you to seek our destruction. That is always the way of evil (and immature brats like you).
As far as “Bible-thumping”, any mature Christian will tell you that kind of behavior is wrong because it is not done in love. Unlike Islam, the Judeo/Christian God is strong enough to defend himself. Allah is a cowardly weakling that sends others to kill innocent children and then hides behind others in fear. No, God doesn’t need men to do his “thumping”, but he’s going to thump you and your kind into the Lake someday, unless you turn from your current path. When that Day comes, there will be no appeals, slick lawyer tricks, Acts of Congress, or ACORN protests to get you off the hook. You will burn. Turn to God before it is too late.
Hey Eidelweiss, stay where you are, you are obviously in better company where you are than when you are in the US
I wonder if those clueless liberal swine ever got out of their offices in New York, L.A and Washington and talked with a conservative (instead of just spew nonsense about them) they may actually be able to report something akin to the truth. Then again, they’re so closed-minded (one of their favorite charges against conservatives) it probably wouldn’t do any good.
Swine.
Hey, these “reporters” are only spouting what they have been taught.
Get in to journalism and change the world! Make a difference!
Better watch what your kids are being taughts…….
taught!
I was a “tea bagger” at the Fresno tea party…the definition here is that I would help clean up after the 7 to 10,000 people left. I was not needed…as the crowd left no trash, we could get not one bag full. Anyway….
I am blessedly still unaware of what the perverts definition of “tea bagger” is and in an admittedly uneducated point of view…..I am sure that I don’t want the main stream news version taught in our schools. As something all kids two daddies or two mommies normally engage.
JImmie… I never heard of it either – until Anderson Cooper smerked about it. Be happy you don’t know.
Although I have yet to find the clip, I saw a reporter from NHK interviewing a few folks. And amazingly, she was very polite and not going out of her way to antagonize anyone.
Google translation from Le Figaro.
The upper quote was from edelweiss…the lower one is the Le Figaro article I saw.
eidelweiss said:
That would be true…if he were an American. My family witnessed 700 small-town Americans concerned with the way their earnings were being spent by congress. What did you do Wednesday?
You did get the “he’s not a Bible-thumping” part right.
Any person that thinks children are a punishment certainly is not a bible anything.
Obama “T-Bag” promotional poster:
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/t-bag/
The recent rash of hostile, vile, venemous, vindictive, malicious comments and fabricated stories/reports propagated by what many refer to as the Main Stream Press – CNN, MSNBC, and others, as well as some of the apparent intentional act of pretending not to notice the voices of the “TEA” Party demonstrators has gone a long way to make evident to me the utter and complete amateurish, unskilled, unworthy brigages of so-called “Journalists” out there engaging in this deceit, distortion, and dishonesty.
With that said, it is unfortunate that the masses are still feeding at the trough of such poisonous pabulum, thus being further misled, like a death cult, a la Jim Jones, drinking the deadly drink, morphing into zombies, the living dead, led over the cliff to their destruction.
How to wake those in the sleep of “reason,” which is not reason, but misinformation, indoctrination, and false beliefs.
With psychotic voices of the left, like deranged blabbermouth Janeane Garafalo, as well as the likes of Nancy Pelosi, CNN and MSNBC’s faux “reporters, etc. engaging in diarhhea of the mouth, we have a good example of the kind of the diseased mind at work, infecting the populace, and leading our nation down the road of ruin.
Let us perservere and not let their taunts, their dishonest, crude, malicious stereotypes, and their rabid, foaming at the mouth hatred keep us from our goal of returning our nation, our culture to one of greatness, smaller, less intrusive government, independence, Freedom, Liberty, and Prosperity.
The people dismissing the Tea Parties or bashing them in the media didn’t even try to do their job and investigate them,nor have a reporter there to find out about them , the question that needs to be asked of these people is , what is your source? were you even there to report on it? what investigative journalism did you do?
Good piece over at Powerlineblog. The term tea bagging has been thrown around and the little, giggly, liberal commentators need to be called on it.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023353.php
You went to Europe just to sit alone and watch television? Poor kid!
The Million MAD Taxpayer March
Where’s the bumper sticker, t-shirt and beer koozie?
Very true, but I believe we also need to address the incompetent advisers running rampant in both parties. They are out of step, out of touch, and only in “the game” for fame and fortune. They are the vile underbelly that directs funding to candidates, manipulates the message, and steers the party. They are the ones drunk with power, so in God’s name, why do we allow them to drive?
They are the elite…not only are they out of touch with the common man, they act as though they are the ones making tough choices. These power brokers need to be broken, NOT enabled.
To supply new blood to the movement using unsterilized instruments, will only contaminate what was once good, and make it part of a diseased system. We don’t need to start over. Just replace the diseased parts with fresh functioning organs, untainted by money, influence, and power. The return of the citizen politician is required.
Edelweiss,
It isn’t newsworthy in Europe because it isn’t a far left movement. Also, Europeans don’t pay taxes in the USA. However, a Good chunk of our tax money ends up in Europe in the form of defense. The Euros average less than 2% of their budgets on the military because the Good Ole US of A will bail them out.
You OBVIOUSLY don’t spend much time in Europe because religion is FAR more of an issue here than it is in the USA. Ask a German, Dutchman, Belgian or Frenchman why Turkey shouldn’t be allowed to join the EU. they will either refuse to answer or quietly say that a Muslim country has no business joining. Neighborhoods are defined by which church sits on the street and in Northern Ireland, they just assassinated a couple of Police Officers because they are Protestant (You will argue that they were shot as an occupying force no doubt but the FACT is that the Brits are protestant and that is the underlying cause of NI violence).
“Bible Thumping Idiots” may not hold views you agree with but they don’t behead people on television just because they pray to the wrong God. When one “Bible Thumping Idiot” commits an act of violence, the rest of us “Bible Thumping Idiots” tend to track that person down and bring them to justice. This is the direct opposite of what non “Bible Thumping Idiots” do.
I have tried not to feed you trolls of late but you are a fool and you make foolish statements on a subject you know nothing of.
Heh…give it time. In another few years, if they last that long, it won’t be a problem. Most of Europe will be majority Islam…or “is lamb,” if history is a teacher.
Why is it we never hear Islamist Fundamentalists, called Koran Thumping Idiots? Oh yeah, because they would be outraged (who knew) start killing targeted Christians and Jews, quote selected Islamic scripture, all in an effort to prove they are not KTI’s!
Let them eat cake. In other words, ignore them. The more we give consideration to their bilge, the more they love it. Conservatives click on their sites to read it, tune in to their programs to watch it, etc…
The only answer is to boycott the advertisers that promote their ilk. We are the ones paying for their lies and their lifestyles.
Boycott their advertisers and write the advertisers and tell them why.
It’s really pretty simple. If they have a million viewers, so what? If they can’t sell anything, they won’t be able to stay on the air. It’s not about viewers, it never has been.
No company looks at viewership as the end-all. They look at results. Simply refuse to buy anything that is advertised by this ilk and you’ll see them change their tune…and quick.
These talking heads care more about themselves than “the cause.” The only reason they’re spewing their messages is because it’s PC and they can make money doing it.
Wake up….and BOYCOTT! Protest through your wallet.
edelweiss: Do yourself and us a favor and stay in Europe. You seem happier there and I know many of us would be happier if you stayed. Hopefully He Who Is Not A Bible Thumper will retire there, or Cuba, or Venezuela or Kenya, or Turkey, or Indonesia or anywhere but here.
Finding it hard to believe that even Fox News Sunday is missing the bigger picture of the Tea Parties. Its not JUST taxes morons. Its a government that has flipped 180 degrees from being a government of the people and for the people to the people being of the government and for the government. People are pissed off because it is now the government telling us what to do, how much folks can make, etc. It is socialism. We’re pissed off because that is not OUR America. Freedom does not come from government. My country is not great because of government.
Why is it the media seems hell bent on not getting even this fundamental issue correctly reported?
We are not going to stand idly by and let Obama and the left turn America into France!
Speaking of these tea-parties NOT being GOP events, from the comments I heard all around me at the Augusta, Maine tea-party, Sen. Snowe could be in big trouble in 2010. Too bad she wasn’t there – it would have been really interesting to see her squirm and try to explain her lack of common sense.
edelweiss: Come back to us in a few years and tell us how well the shunning of “bible-thumping idiots” works out for Europe. And, by the way, the Bible is a proper noun…capitalization, please.
Because Europe has eschewed it’s Jude-Christian heritage and roots, it’s birthrate is in steady decline. Simultaneously, it bends over backwards to make sure the Muslim immigrants don’t ever feel offended and even institute their own brand of law and justice…all while said Muslims have far more children than native Europeans. Sheer demographics will bring the liberal secularist style of life to a very abrupt halt…nothing like bringing fecundity to a culture fight.
You may like Obama now because he’s not a “bible thumping idiot”, but you won’t like him when he turns his back on millions of Europeans subjugated under Islamic shari’a law. Because then you’ll see what a real theocracy is like.
For all his faults, George W. Bush never would have let that happen. But for some reason that fact won’t be appreciated until it’s too late.
“he’s NOT a bible-thumping idiot…”
Gotta wonder when his idiocy becomes undeniable just what will be attributed as the source given that he is indeed not a Bible thumper? Won’t be able to blame the Bible for the mess he is creating.
What will be blamed? George Bush?
My vision is, let us take the Republicans to task for all the spending they did. Democrats always spend and tax, it’s their nature they won’t quit, they can’t quit it’s the nature of the beast. They need their interest groups. But Republicans we can change, discipline if you will. Elect only those who campaign on reform. Less SPENDING! is the ticket—-Strength through Solvency. Throw those fiscally irresponsibles now in office OUT! I’m 76 and not too awful smart but dammit I,m getting involved to save my country. The Gauntlet is thrown down. The LINE is drawn in the sand. Where do I enlist? Where do I start? I don’t know yet but dammit I’ll find out.
Looks like you still need to get over the fact that your Eurotrash bretheren are still pissed that the USA went from upstart colonists to the lone world superpower in barely more time than it took to build the Alhambra. That means, for dimwits like MountainFlower, that we did things differently and wound up ahead of the peoples that stayed in Europe doing things the old way, and now they are living in total envy.
What they think in general means nothing. We’ll keep doing things our way, nerf ball.
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Hate Groups? The Left is practically one BIG hate group.
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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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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
don’t believe in me
put faith in communism
despite it killing billions
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All real freedom starts with freedom of speech. Without freedom of speech there can be no real freedom.
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That Sir, is refreshing.
“Strength through Solvency” I rather like the sound of that. This observer would say you are quite smart indeed.