You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'll admit, putting barricades around the national monuments pisses me off
Like, it doesn't cost any money to let people wander around a public space
It's just a transparent, childish attempt to make an already stupid stunt even more theatrical and dramatic
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
^^ You know, there was a hint of very conscious irony in V's choice of mask in the original comic that a lot of people seem to miss. That, and he wasn't exactly a role model. He was a vindictive, angry, broken person who knew what he was and understood that he could never enter the paradise that he sought to create.
On measure after measure, tea party members expressed fear that the country was changing in fundamental ways. They were much likelier to view Obama as a literal threat to the nation. They were more conspiratorial in their interpretation of politics. They viewed politics as less like a negotiation among stakeholders and more like a struggle for survival.
Basically, the tea-partiers exhibit this level of desperation because they actually perceive Obamacare (or heck, anything from the Obama presidency or the Democrats) as the end of the world as they know it.
That's why they're going all-out on everything. Because, from their perspective, it IS the final battle.
Yep. They're kooks. I just don't get why the rest of the Republicans in the House should be bending to their will. It's really quite an absurd situation. Then again, after what that party did to the economy under Bush, whatever backlash this incurs... they have it coming.
A bit of the problem is that the 80 Tea Party Animals are all from heavily gerrymandered districts (i.e. there's no chance of a Democratic victory in those districts), so they're basically invincible unless they start coming off as blue.
Funny thing actually. There was a John Green video a while back that complained about how the increase in his kind of gerrymandering was going to make cooperation between parties more difficult, as without the threat of being deposed by their district, representatives (on both sides of the party line) are free to screw over the people they're representing to further the goals of their party. The man is not always perfect, but he was frigging on point with that.
Really, it's only half of that 85 who signed Cruz' letter to Boehner who are even behind this. The problem is that due to gerrymandering and the threat their segment of the party poses to the re-election of the rest, the remainder of the party is either paralysed with fear or powerless to intercede.
This situation, particularly how it grew out of the Republican establishment's use of the fringe as a weapon in 2011, reminds me of that one line in Kennedy's inaugural address: "...and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
Yep. They're kooks. I just don't get why the rest of the Republicans in the House should be bending to their will. It's really quite an absurd situation. Then again, after what that party did to the economy under Bush, whatever backlash this incurs... they have it coming.
There will be no backlash.
The people who elected these Tea Party idiots knew exactly what they were doing and are disinclined to blame anyone but the president (who is a Democrat and perhaps more importantly to this demographic, black) for any setbacks. Normal political rules do not apply here.
I think most Republicans in general are also inclined to blame Obama, albeit for different reasons.
In Tea Party World, Obama is responsible because he refuses to negotiate with the ever-so-reasonable Republicans on de-funding his highly popular signature legislation reconsidering his disastrous socialist policies.
^^ If you mean that they made sure that they wouldn't have to implement it on the state level if they didn't want to anyway, then yes. What they are really attacking is the right for other states to opt into the program in the first place. It's pretty astoundingly dumb and hypocritical.
like, not the fight against the introduction of socialist policies, the fight against the very existence of socialism, and its perceived drive to engulf the entire world
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*cheers for team socialism*
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
and that's not true, i remember people on tvt talking about it
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Basically, the tea-partiers exhibit this level of desperation because they actually perceive Obamacare (or heck, anything from the Obama presidency or the Democrats) as the end of the world as they know it.
That's why they're going all-out on everything. Because, from their perspective, it IS the final battle.
maybe it's just how it was reported over here but as far as i'm aware it already resulted in a backlash
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
The people who elected these Tea Party idiots knew exactly what they were doing and are disinclined to blame anyone but the president (who is a Democrat and perhaps more importantly to this demographic, black) for any setbacks. Normal political rules do not apply here.
I think most Republicans in general are also inclined to blame Obama, albeit for different reasons.
YOU ARE NOT FOOLING ANYONE, MOTHERFUCKERS.
well that's it then
i imagine they are fooling quite a lot of people
wasn't the bill already stunted and mutilated to the point of near impotence?
this is the fight against socialism isn't it
like, not the fight against the introduction of socialist policies, the fight against the very existence of socialism, and its perceived drive to engulf the entire world