The Anti Tea Party Movement is Completely Out of Ideas
**Written by Doug Powers
First it was “We don’t like tea,” and Democrats’ poll numbers continued to drop, at which point “Get outta here, tea” was born. Dems were still sinking fast, so “Screw tea!” came to fruition.
That still didn’t go over, so now, on the verge of losing control of Congress, it’s time to pull out the big guns:
Buy one now before Reid & Pelosi snap ‘em all up.
If you’re a Tea Partier, take the same shirt and print “Profanity is a lazy and feeble mind attempting to express itself forcefully” underneath this well reasoned argument (or over it, better yet) and you’re good to go for the next rally.
There’s no t-shirt that can be sold between now and November that will change the fact that the Tea Party is viewed more favorably than Reid and Pelosi.
**Written by Doug Powers
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I am stunned they even had any ideas to begin with.
I underestimated them.
That obscenity is a cry of defeat and anguish.
I love it, but I’m still not ready to buy the shirt because, one, other people won’t see it as a celebration of Dem desperation, and, two, my Mother’s daughter doesn’t walk around in shirts that have the F-Bomb on them, even partially **’d out.
One would think that by wearing a T-Shirt thats says F— Tea – Taxed Enough Already – the person wearing it is nothing but a welfare slug who revels in being a sofa slob and has no compunction about living off the labors of people who actually work for a living. So I guess if a person is proud of being dependent then that T-Shirt is perfect for them.
Don’t kid yourself. Their most pernicious idea is to run candidates as “tea party candidates” to split the conservative vote and elect Democrats.
OMG. Did these little darlings have an online poll to come with this? I guess the vp saying the f bomb now makes it ok now? I will not be buying one of these nasty little shirts!
L
The “want it yesterday” crowd is out of ideas. Quelle suprize! Their answer to not getting what they want is to shoot the messenger not debate better. This is only the beginning of how frustrated they’ll be when the truth and facts render their utopian ideas irrelevant.
Off topic, but it looks like the Presidents thin skin is showing again:
So the Secret Service show up over the effegy of Obama, but there is no problem with an effigy of a former president or the secretary of state?
letget #5
A poll? No, some toadie moron laid awake nights trying to come up with something ‘hard hitting’ ‘kuel’ and ‘over the top catchy’. Again, a village is looking for it’s idiot.
Gee this statement wasn’t too well though out. Last time I checked Herbal teas were a big hit amongst the Burkenstock crowd.
*The couch sitting, donut eating, Oprah watching moochers, not having the common sense that God gave a grapefruit, probably think the t-shirt is a conspiracy from BIG COFFEE!
Truesoldier – that article was funny. My question is how did they come up with a secret service person on such short notice? I thought they were all resting up after their trips to Chicago and Spain…
On August 12th, 2010 at 2:21 pm, Truesoldier said:
So the Secret Service show up over the effegy of Obama, but there is no problem with an effigy of a former president or the secretary of state?
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I’m surprised they are allowing the Hillary mannequin (we know they could have Bush hanging in effigy for all this administration cares).
People were allowed to do/say anything to Bush and members of his administration short of literally threatening to kill them.
Thin skinned, indeed.
A shirt that says “F*CK ewe” would be more appropriate for a libtard to wear…
I love tea. We have a huge pot every morning. Irish or Scottish breakfast tea. The pot must be English, although we do have one French Limoges. Cups & saucers the same (made in England or France), with proper tea spoons. Served with full milk (we have a huge collection of milk pitchers from Wales, England, Ireland etc) and sweetened. We each drink 2-3 cups each before going to work.
‘F*ck tea’ is fighting words to me.
Actually, that’s what we coffee drinkers say when some hippie offers us chamomile instead of espresso.
spaceycakes said:
Boiling water in the pot first to warm it up before the new hot water and brew?
Spacey –
My, you take your tea seriously!
That sounds like quite the morning ritual. Mine is a cup o’coffee with fat-free creamer and artificial sweetener (I know, I’m a Phillistine).
I’m a Tea Partier in spirit, though.
Mine is “Hair of the Dog.”
Maybe a photo of Reid, Chavez, and Pelosi drinking coffee with the headline: 100% Arabica underneath.
Perhaps Obama is hoping to gin up angst towards Hillary now so that he will not have to worry about her in the 2012 election.
On August 12th, 2010 at 2:41 pm, chapoutier said:
Mine is “Hair of the Dog.”
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From “Wolf”:
Jack Nicholson (to other actor): “Don’t tell people you had a drop of tequila with your coffee this morning. You didn’t have coffee this morning.”
I have the occasional drink with my Dad in the evening when I’m staying over – he makes a good Rob Roy or vodka gimlet. We’ve also discovered a very nice sweet wine called Sweety Pie at Vance Winery here in Missouri.
Makes a great wrap-around bumper sticker too!
I am not averse to coffee. It has to be strong, coffee house coffee, or if we are at home, made in the machine. It must be served with either real half and half, or full cream. If we are away from home, we only drink coffee. No one makes tea properly out anywhere (unless one is in the Isles or South Africa). Believe me, I’ve tried to get tea in a ‘tea house’ (even in Baltimore, chap) but it all fails the test. The Ritz Carltons try to do a high tea, but it is waaaay overpriced for something I’d do better on my own.
Oh, please. A used-car salesman in a Jimmy Carter plaid suit with a wilted daisy, a nickel cigar, straw hat, and a cat-that-ate-the-canary grin is more trusted than Harry Pelosi and Nancy Reid. Or whatever their names are.
On August 12th, 2010 at 2:50 pm, spaceycakes said:
I am not averse to coffee.
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I worked for a man who was ga-ga on the subject of coffee – ordered flavored coffes online, had flavored creamer, the whole nine yards. It rubbed off on me for awhile but I couldn’t match his enthusiasm for long; now it’s generic coffee & creamer & sweetener (again, I’m a Phillistine).
Typical Dem M.O.: When in doubt, race for the gutter!
So Chap, what did you think of the T-shirt?
Oh come on, who could be more popular than Dobby The House Elve and Bela Pelosi?
No ‘flavored’ coffee. Whole bean Costa Rican, Rwandan, Tanzanian, Sumatran, etc. is great.
No non-dairy creamers, flavored or not.
No herbal hot drinks that others call ‘tea’. Tea is only camellia sinensis. And it must be fully fermented (black) tea.
They’ve already been in the gutter for a long, long time.
Actually, Dobby is quite popular…his evil twin in the Senate, not so much.
Spacey, I’ve got to hand it to you. I thought my former boss was obsessive about his coffee, but you’ve got him beat by a mile.
You go, Gourmet Girl!
You know that people have absolutely nothing intelligent to say when they have to resort to profanity. The progressives are truly transparent! A bunch of morally and intellectually bankrupt morons.
I think you’ve totally misconstrued the meaning of that shirt.
I believe it was descriptive. I.e. that’s the Tea-shirt you wear when you’re intimate with your partner.
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I agree with Doug 100% on all but this.
Anyone who’s been by the RWRepublic will attest to the effectiveness of the force achieved there by that very means.
This does not mean that I disagree with the premise that feeble minds use this tactic and make themselves out to be fools, but profanity in and of itself is not a determinant of the effectiveness of the argument.
If the argument is stable, the delivery will be too – profanity or not.
Go to my blog for proof.
On the rest … you go Doug!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The Tea dudes and dudettes need to stay focused however. Same caution to like minded conservative groups. The attacks by the left are going to increase in both intensity and frequency. If they can find a way to get conservatives attacking conservatives the left and the media will revel in it.
This is why I am concerned about any group and folks who act as if they are the keepers of the “real” conservative movement and ideas.
Happy, having been to my blog, you know better.
I may be the exception rather than the rule, but it IS possible (as I demonstrate frequently – and you have seen) to use profanity effectively in intelligent discourse.
George Carlin did it in every show!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Concur. Once the primary is over, we must support the most conservative candidate in the General.
My cups must be Welch’s. And “full milk” sounds like cow excretion for sissies who don’t own goats. Tea when in Japan but only in a can from a vending machine. You elitists make me sick.
I say sell them all the f*ck tea teashirts they want to buy. Also, give them some of that free government stimulus money to get tatoos. Everybody gets a f*ck tea tatoo free. . .right across their foreheads in red ink.
On second thought, Happy, I take that back.
I don’t HAVE to resort to profanity. I choose to largely because I can win the argument without it, and because it pisses off those who’ve lost the argument.
In a lot of ways, I beat the feeble-minded at their own game, which may very well be why my blog is so effective.
An interesting thought.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
glad I could, ahem, oblige, AlohaGuy.
Chap, you sure seem calm about this. Do I detect a smile?
This is a real site:
MuslimTea.com
So they could call the gay bar next to the Ground Zero Mosque:
Muslim Teabaggers
But don’t get all “wee-weed up”, Barry…
We know you and Rahm are lifetime members at “Man’s Country”…
I am concerned about any group and folks who assert that the “real” conservative movement is anything other than the implementation of the Constitution as intended by the Founding Fathers, with acknowledgment of the fact that some things may have been avoided purposely.
If you follow the Constitution, the budget WILL balance.
If you follow the Constitution, entitlements WILL cease to be a problem.
If you follow the Constitution, illegal aliens will leave.
Just do what is supposed to have been done in the first place, and conservatives will have everything they say they want.
No Child Left Behind is NOT a conservative program … are you getting my drift?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Given how the unhinged leftists had bumper stickers saying:
Buck Fush
Shouldn’t this t-shirt say:
Tuck Fea
I guess it just doesn’t work, does it?
I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said:
where the O was the Obama logo…
RWR…Exactly!! I think I mislead by my last statement. I meant to say that those who have nothing concrete to say resort to profanity as a substitute for intelligent discourse. I myself sometimes use profanity to make a point. But I also can argue intelligently and have some creative ideas. Those who resort to using profanity instead of honest debate is who I was talking about. Sorry I wasn’t very clear there!
Happy,
You truly MUST hang around the RWRepublic more …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
…It’s a reconquista slogan.
On August 12th, 2010 at 4:15 pm,
Why do you say that? Your blog has some profanity, but also intelligent, honest discourse. That was my point. Progressives use profanity when they don’t have a good argument. The use of profanity instead of a good argument is the same as saying, “Oh, yeah?”. Meaningless. And dumb.
I say that because your opinions and presence will be welcome.
No need to read anything else into it, my good friend.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
And yes, sometimes I get so fed up with arguing with trolls that I simply say STFU. But only after exhausting my patience and trying other tactics.
Thanks!!
Not a problem.
Consider it an invitation.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I would love to post on your blog, RWR! However, at this time, I barely have time to post here. Hopefully, that will change down the road. I also have been ill with my third pneumonia this year. We are trying to figure out why I keep getting it!! The doctors are baffled. Of course, happyscrapper baffles a lot of people…that is my purpose in life!
Thank you for your generous compliment and invitation. I do enjoy reading your blog!!
Spaceycakes: You would have loved my Mom — British through and through. She loved her tea, morning noon and afternoon. She absolutley would NOT tolerate what she called ‘twit’ the stuff that was the color of dirty water — her tea would curl your hair! Also, she used the first pot of water she boiled to pre-heat her tea cups and tea pot (putting the pot under a tea cozy while steeping her brew). She always used loose leaves, never a bag and always had an English brand, never that terrible American stuff. In spite of her strainer, you always had some sediment at the bottom of your cup when finished.
After her first sip she usually said, “Lovely!”
nail–my mother-in-law says ‘oh what a lovely cup of peace’. Well, she says it in Afrikaans.
but, as a child, I grew up with ‘tea-time’. YES. Even here in nowhere, mid-Missouri.
spacey:
My grandmother would set out a high tea to die for! Sandwiches with fresh to-mah-toe (as Mum pronounced it) from the garden, fresh whipped cream my brother and I would ladle on our bread, butter and strawberry jam (homemade) sandwiches! Wow, I’m getting hungry!
doug – by this ‘logic,’ the right is also out of ideas because many display bumper stickers that say ‘fire pelosi.’
not exactly a policy statement, is it?
btw, i’m half kidding because i don’t expect t-shirts or bumper stickers to be actual roadmaps for either political party.
do you?
Well tettes. My sticker says Tea Party: The party of NO WAY. Also notice the tea party does not NEED to recruit people.
That would be IPA, right? Good choice..
Got Reid?
I like the enemies of capitalism and the Constitution making themselves more obvious.
Come on now, people – liberals and Democrats are knuckle-dragging neanderthals; they are incapable of managing their low-brow, anti-intellectual mental diarrhea. Coming up with something witty, clever, and serious si simply beyond their mental capacity.
Besides, it isn’t nice to mock the mentally challenged…they are trying their best
The fact that a concept is wildly popular doesn’t make it ipso facto trite.
“Coffee Party” was a pretty good moniker for the looter/moocher bunch,
America is waking up and smelling them.
But, my favorite title for Tea Party opponents is based on their latchpoint on the bloated sow that our Government has become.
The conflict is Tea Party versus Teat Party
F*ck the
Teat Party
Maybe the Dems will come out and say that American English Profanity is in fact a foreign laguage for which we must hire interpreters to figure out what certain applicants for government benefits are trying to communicate….
Imagine: Push 1 for spanish
Push 2 for English
Push 3 for @#$%^& $$%%^^…!
The ever-classy left. Scumbag liberal…a redundant phrase.
John Wayne was great and did not have a feeble mind. He used profanity, though I don’t recall him using the f word. I seem to recall progressives using words similar to yours to disparage the Duke, which makes them hypocrites.
I hope you’re consistent and criticize both friend and foe for profanity.
Nope.
What an uppi*tea statement from the so-called party of compassion.
“This does not mean that I disagree with the premise that feeble minds use this tactic and make themselves out to be fools.”
So the deciding factor in regards to if the profanities use is feeble or not, a sign of a weak mind or not, is if you agree with the user of profanities politics?
Agree with their politics using profanity is an acceptable tactic. Don’t agree with their politics and profanity is weak and feeble?
So as a declaration of certainty, as the start of this thread is, profanity is only a sign of a weak feeble mind for them but not for us?
No wonder chap picked this one apart so quickly.
New York communists masquerading as college students and educated elites. There parents must be so proud to have sent them to ivy league schools and have them selling t-shirts that say F*ck Tea. I wonder if these reservoirs of American Intellect are still living at home with mommy and dad, or have they graduated in a Sienfeld way to living in an apartment paid for by mommy so they can live their life of nothingness.
Correction Their parents, brain hemmorhage.
Sure does make our job a whole lot easier, doesn’t it Ed?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
No. The deciding factor is the strength of their argument. I don’t think I was at all unclear about that.
See the very next thing I said:
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I didn’t see chap make a single comment about the quote you cited.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Barack Hussein Obama was for the Tea Party Movement before he against it.
Oh, but that’s not how he really intended it to read. The Founders weren’t fighting to “bring an Empire to its knees”.
That’s what Jihadists do.
Obama was speaking to the coalition of Marxist revolutionaries and Islamic Jihadists. Here’s how he intends it to be read by them…
Barack Hussein Obama pretended to be for the Tea Party Movement,
before he was against it.
Pick what apart? That both sides use profanity? So what?
I do not use profanity because profanity demeans my values. That’s the point. Use it and others think less of you and your cause.
The point I “picked apart” is that it is both asinine to assume a crude slogan represents the full breadth of a political belief and hypocritical to not assume the same of your side when you find the EXACT same behavior.