I've been silent for a month mainly because I find it hard to come up with words to describe the utter nonsense that the Republican Tea Bagging community keeps spreading around. I keep thinking maybe it's a bad side-effect of Viagra that has all these Republicans in love with the Former Half-Term Governor of Alasaka (FHTG) Sarah Palin. I keep hearing the Tea Baggers say they want their country back. They say they want to be free like they were 50 or 60 years ago. I keep wondering what the hell they want. Maybe this is their idea of freedom.
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Originally Posted on the JollyRanter.com
Freedom 1950s style:
• Free to eat lunch without blacks at the lunch counter
• Free to ride in the front of the bus without blacks
• Free to go to public school without black students
• Free to live in a neighborhood without blacks
• Free to keep blacks from voting
• Free to harass your secretary (the only job for women in the workplace in 1950!)
• Free to beat your wife
• Free to sell your cigarettes without any warnings
• Free to pollute the air
• Free to pollute the water
• Free to keep gays in the closet unless you wanted them out to beat the crap out of them or throw them in jail
• Free to discriminate against other religions, sexes, races
• Free to produce cars that are unsafe
• Free to have unsafe workplaces without fear of employee lawsuits
• Free to pay Income tax rates of 70% or higher
There’s plenty more- feel free to add them in the comments! But of course, the 1950s weren’t all bad. I just wanted to show that there was plenty wrong with the "good ol’ days".
I just can’t figure out what’s up with these people. They weren’t upset when the Supreme Court handed an election to the guy who received fewer votes than the other guy. They weren’t upset when Bush turned a budget surplus into a deficit. They weren’t upset when Bush started an unnecessary war in Iraq. Not a peep when Bush was illegally wire tapping all Americans. Not a peep when Cheney outed a CIA agent for partisan political reasons. Utter silence when Bush cratered the entire world’s financial system.
A black guy gets elected, and they go nuts. In the face of the worst economic times since the Great Depression, he runs a huge deficit. He admits we’ll need to turn it around shortly, but not this year. He keeps states and cities afloat until they can fix their budgets. He wants to update our health insurance system to more humanely treat our fellow citizens. He wants to extend unemployment insurance benefits to those who can’t find jobs in these dire economic times.
And Barack Obama is a threat to our way of life? WTF! Sorry Teabagging idiots. WE TOOK OUR COUNTRY BACK IN 2008! The people you support caused our current mess. Your greed and hate are evident to all who can see. You may want to go back in time, but you can’t drag us with you! You can’t have creationism taught as science, because it isn’t. You can’t force me to practice your religion, I’m fine with mine. You may not like Gays, but they are equally protected under our Constitution. They are our friends, neighbors and heroes in the military.
In short, stop your whining. You lost an election. Get over it! You may have a win or two left in you, but history and freedom are on our side. We are becoming a "more perfect union" each and every year. Your time is up. The torch has been passed, and we will not go back into the darkness.