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TeaPartier https://www.dailykos.com/news/TeaPartier News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:06:27 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:06:27 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Shared Ideological Ground Between The Militia Movement and the Tea Party https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/13/1255273/-Shared-Ideological-Ground-Between-The-Militia-Movement-and-the-Tea-Party I'm sure some very smart person has written about this topic and I didn't see it.  What the heck, I'll plunge boldly ahead. Manuel Castells' three volume study The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture includes a section, in volume two, The Power of Identity, discussing the militia movement.  Castells discusses the ideology, values and roots of the militia movement.  The following quotes from The Power of Identity describe the Militia Movement: rss@dailykos.com (glendenb) Authoritarianism Authority Conservatism Identity ManuelCastells Militias Patriotism ResistanceIdentity SocialMovements Teabaggers TeaPartier ThePowerofIdentity Tribalism _1255273 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:26:47 +0000 Why Won't the Teapartiers Stand up for Occupy Wallstreet? https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/19/1038208/-Why-Won-t-the-Teapartiers-Stand-up-for-Occupy-Wallstreet As I watch the multitude of videos on the internet chronicling egregious acts of police brutality against Occupy WallStreet protesters around the county, I find myself wondering, “where is the tea party?” It seems that their worries about the “jack booted thugs” of the government are well founded when one witnesses the behavior of the police around the country. So where are the tea partiers defending our liberties? Aren’t they all about protecting the rights of Americans?  Logically, standing up to defend the OWS movement against police brutality would seem right up the tea party alley. rss@dailykos.com (Boojumtree23) Constitution Occupy Wall Street OccupyWallStreet Police Protesters righs Tea Party TeaPartier TeaParty _1038208 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:42:06 +0000 Tea Party Anti-Founders https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/8/3/1002705/-Tea-Party-Anti-Founders      Throughout the unnecessary and destructive debt-ceiling fiasco we’ve experienced over the past few months, expressions of bafflement about the Tea Party fanatics have recurred. Essentially, the expressions amount to a puzzled lament about whether Tea Partyists know what they’re doing.      Quite bluntly, the response is: Yes, they know what they’re doing; yes, they know the consequences; and yes, those consequences are what they’re after. Which still leaves open the “why.”      The reason for the ongoing intransigence of Tea Partyists and their Republican fellow travelers became clearer to me months ago when I realized that, for all their declarations about and paeans to constitutional originalism or strict construction or The Founders’ intent or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag" title="Gadsden flag" target="_blank">Gadsden flagism</a>, the answer to “why” lies not in parsing The Founders' sentiments, but in an opposing source: The Anti-Federalist Papers, available online (e.g., <a href="http://thisnation.com/library/antifederalist/index.html" title="The Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/constitutional/antifederalist/antifed.htm" title="The Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://thefederalistpapers.org/anti-federalist-papers" title="The Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://constitution.org/afp.htm" title="The Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>), in print (e.g., <a href="http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=32" title="Library of America - The Debate on the Constitution: Part One: September 1787 to February 1788: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=33" title="Library of America - The Debate on the Constitution: Part Two: January to August 1788: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110335.The_Essential_Federalist_and_Anti_Federalist_Papers" title="The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.betterworldbooks.com/the-anti-federalist-papers-and-the-constitutional-convention-debates-id-0451528840.aspx" title="The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates" target="_blank">here</a>), in e-book (e.g., <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_essential_Federalist_and_anti_Federa.html?id=FxcN75XdGjkC" title="eBook - The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>), and in audiobook (e.g., <a href="http://librivox.org/the-anti-federalist-papers-by-patrick-henry/" title="audiobook - The Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a> and  <a href="http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book/the-anti-federalist-papers-by-patrick-henry" title="audiobook - The Anti-Federalist Papers" target="_blank">here</a>). Filtering the modern Tea Party through The Anti-Federalist Papers rather than through The Founders yields, in my view, a better understanding of our current dilemmas and frustrations: the Tea Partyists are, essentially, carrying on the fight of those who, long ago, urged rejection of the Constitution itself. If your political DNA derives from the Anti-Founders and the Anti-Constitutionalists, why would intransigence and the diminution, possibly even the destruction, of the constitutional regime look like a problem to you? In the Tea Partyist world, intransigence, diminution, and destruction qualify as a feature, not a bug.     Postscript: In looking for online versions of The Anti-Federalist Papers, I was struck by the political tenor of the sources that popped up high in the search results: at best, an occasional neutral academic site, but mostly sites with a clear rightward tilt. None of the sites appeared to reflect a progressive or liberal or even modestly left-leaning viewpoint. So where are our one-stop repositories of historical documents competing with repositories hosted by right-wing authoritarian centers? We need repositories that (if hosted by popular sites like Daily Kos or a consortium of like-minded sites) will rise high in the search results and provide ready access to not only well-known documents, but to sources that reveal important threads of American history that too many people have forgotten or never learned and that right-wing autocrats and plutocrats would happily consign to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole" title="memory hole" target="_blank">memory hole</a>. A project — a Library for a Real America — for the next Netroots Nation to ponder, perhaps? rss@dailykos.com (TheseusInWisconsin) Anti-FederalistPapers Anti-Founder AntifederalistPapers Debt Ceiling DebtCeiling Founders GadsdenFlag Netroots Nation NetrootsNation Tea Party Teahadist TeaPartier TeaParty TeaPartyier TeaPartyist TeaPartyjihadist _1002705 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:01:13 +0000 Schadenfreude is fine, but remember the bigger picture https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/16/902415/-Schadenfreude-is-fine-but-remember-the-bigger-picture Let me begin by stating that I do not mean to be alarmist, I do not want to make people scared unnecessarily and I will not deny people the pleasures of Schadenfreude at the misery that the Republicans have inflicted upon themselves. rss@dailykos.com (NY brit expat) extremeright Fascism fight-back HardRight proto-fascism Republican Party RepublicanParty Schadenfreude TeaPartier teapartymovement _902415 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:34:39 +0000 T-Baggers beat up a Protestor at the Palin-McCain Rally in Mesa (AZ) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/27/851558/-T-Baggers-beat-up-a-Protestor-at-the-Palin-McCain-Rally-in-Mesa-AZ While campaigning with Senator John McCain today in Meza, Arizona, Sarah Palin <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/27/palin-heckled-at-mccain-r_n_515863.html">was interrupted</a> by a heckler, but he was quickly overwhelmed by the roar of the crowd and eventually escorted from the rally. rss@dailykos.com (LaurenMonica) Arizona John McCain JohnMcCain Mesa protestor Recommended Sarah Palin SarahPalin Tea Party TeaPartier TeaParty _851558 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:26:48 +0000 Teabaggers Spending Their "Grassroots" Money on The Hate Boat! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/5/834066/-Teabaggers-Spending-Their-Grassroots-Money-on-The-Hate-Boat I don't ever watch CNN.  But listening to Eugene Robinson stammering for a point on Morning Joe forced me over to the republican slanted network for a few minutes.  (Mind you, I think Eugene is a literary genius, but he just can't sew a sentence together on live TV without stumbling for a full 15 seconds first.)  While I was there, I heard a report about a new, so-called "Teapartier Convention" that occurred recently on the high seas.  And they loved their little Bag Voyage so much, its coordinator, Alan Keyes will be doing it again. rss@dailykos.com (Detroit Mark) AlanKeyes caribbeancruise carnival cruiselines carnivalcruiselines Teabaggers TeaPartier _834066 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:40:21 +0000 McDonald's Advertising to Tea Baggers?! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/5/790074/-McDonald-s-Advertising-to-Tea-Baggers I could not fucking believe my eyes when I saw this shit.  I am working right now and wanted to listen to Joe Jackson's "Right and Wrong", Youtube pulled the video a while ago so I found it over at Daily Motion.  But what's this banner above the video? rss@dailykos.com (ebbv) Advertising McDonald's McDonalds TeaPartier _790074 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:04:32 +0000