Origins of the Tea Party

[Insane Kidney Mentality]

I was under the impression it was started by prepubescent females.

There was never actually any tea, we all pretended to slip tea from cups and make petty conversation over Sir Fuffleton and his charisma.

Just like how the Tea Party pretends that they are influencing change in government and making conversation over how non-existant bad things are bad. <3

[Vashtanaraada]

fuking capitalist basterds. go corrupt somewhere else like the moon.

[Conscentia]

I dont care how the TEA Party got started........ i dont care who started it.......... I really dont even care why it was started........... All I care about is that the TEA Party is taking a stand AGAINST MORE FRIGGIN TAXES!!!!!! We the People can and should SHUT DOWN the current government where it stands and just start over because this government is OUT OF CONTROL when it comes to levying more and more and more friggin taxes on the poor and already OVERTAXED American population. Screw entitlements!!! Screw more taxes!!! It's time we lived in a FREE America!!!

Okay, let's start by giving a business, like say... the government, the freedom to arrest you.

[Divair]

Meanwhile, traitorous OWS'ers are being funded by regimes hostile to the US, like China and Russia.

[Citation needed]

Faux News

[Insane Kidney Mentality]

I dont care how the TEA Party got started........ i dont care who started it.......... I really dont even care why it was started........... All I care about is that the TEA Party is taking a stand AGAINST MORE FRIGGIN TAXES!!!!!! We the People can and should SHUT DOWN the current government where it stands and just start over because this government is OUT OF CONTROL when it comes to levying more and more and more friggin taxes on the poor and already OVERTAXED American population. Screw entitlements!!! Screw more taxes!!! It's time we lived in a FREE America!!!

Yeah! Screw grammar and capitalization! *Fist pump*

[The Black Forrest]

They planned back then to call themselves tea baggers? Wow.........

[Insane Kidney Mentality]

fuking capitalist basterds. go corrupt somewhere else like the moon.

Well, there is an American flag on the moon...

[Inyourfaceistan]

So, a study has recently concluded, determining once and for all how the unholy mess known as the Tea Party started. Astroturfed? I knew that. Koch Brothers? Not a surprise at all. Big Tobacco in the 1980's? What the fuck?

A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.

Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption.


The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke.

More at the link.

Long story short, it's being bankrolled by Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity because the tobacco industry hates getting taxed and having regulations put on their cancer sticks. What's interesting to me is that although they didn't get really popular until 2008, they've had a website as far back as 2002. I had honestly thought the major backers scooped up a fledgling movement because they were pissed about the possibility of a black democrat becoming president. That this has been around for so long, and was the focus of so much planning is downright scary. Even scarier is the apparent fact that they are going international to spread this anti-democracy infection of a "movement" to other countries.

So, what say you NSG? Surprised? Alarmed? Pleased? Indifferent? Hungry?

Haha...

They think they can control what they have created? How cute...

[Conscentia]

fuking capitalist basterds. go corrupt somewhere else like the moon.

Well, there is an American flag on the moon...

They aren't American flags any more. They're white, with the colour having faded away completely.

[Vashtanaraada]

fuking capitalist basterds. go corrupt somewhere else like the moon.

Well, there is an American flag on the moon...

even easier then.

[Chinese Regions]

FINALLY somebody gets it!

Well, no, in fairness, the Tea Party as an entity is more that corporate shills. It's corporate shills and people too unaware to recognize they're being manipulated by corporate shills.

Alright, let's say that's the case, the Tea Partiers are being manipulated by corporations. So? They're being manipulated by Americans, and Tea Party is a true American movement. Meanwhile, traitorous OWS'ers are being funded by regimes hostile to the US, like China and Russia.

While I think the OWS are just as stupid as the Tea Party, if not worse, care to back that ludicrous fact up?

[New Chalcedon]

Meanwhile, traitorous OWS'ers are being funded by regimes hostile to the US, like China and Russia.

[Citation needed]

You won't get one worth the electrons it tortures - remember, Hippostania (a Finn) is more American than every single person who voted for Obama.

[The Fourth Khaganate]

fuking capitalist basterds. go corrupt somewhere else like the moon.

Well, there is an American flag on the moon...

AMERICA OWNS THE MOON

THATS RIGHT MARTIANS, FUCK OFF, THIS IS OUR STAR SYSTEM, NO GREENSKINS ALLOWED

[Chinese Regions]

I was under the impression it was started by prepubescent females.

There was never actually any tea, we all pretended to slip tea from cups and make petty conversation over Sir Fuffleton and his charisma.

Just like how the Tea Party pretends that they are influencing change in government and making conversation over how non-existant bad things are bad. <3

Usually they drink orange juice from what I observed.

[Conscentia]

Well, there is an American flag on the moon...

AMERICA OWNS THE MOON

THATS RIGHT MARTIANS, FUCK OFF, THIS IS OUR STAR SYSTEM, NO GREENSKINS ALLOWED

The Outer Space Treaty states that outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Treaty establishes the exploration and use of outer space as the "province of all mankind." The Moon Agreement expands on these provisions by stating that neither the surface nor the subsurface of the Moon, nor any part thereof, or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person.

So the USA does not own the moon.

[Divair]

AMERICA OWNS THE MOON

THATS RIGHT MARTIANS, FUCK OFF, THIS IS OUR STAR SYSTEM, NO GREENSKINS ALLOWED

The Outer Space Treaty states that outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Treaty establishes the exploration and use of outer space as the "province of all mankind." The Moon Agreement expands on these provisions by stating that neither the surface nor the subsurface of the Moon, nor any part thereof, or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person.

So the USA does not own the moon.

Woosh.

[Conscentia]

The Outer Space Treaty states that outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Treaty establishes the exploration and use of outer space as the "province of all mankind." The Moon Agreement expands on these provisions by stating that neither the surface nor the subsurface of the Moon, nor any part thereof, or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person.

So the USA does not own the moon.

Woosh.

There are plenty of people who don't know that it's not possible to own the moon.

[Insane Kidney Mentality]

There was never actually any tea, we all pretended to slip tea from cups and make petty conversation over Sir Fuffleton and his charisma.

Just like how the Tea Party pretends that they are influencing change in government and making conversation over how non-existant bad things are bad. <3

Usually they drink orange juice from what I observed.

It still wasn't tea, though.

[Condunum]

Woosh.

There are plenty of people who don't know that it's not possible to own the moon.

And the all caps about martians didn't give it off?

[Dilange]

I dont care how the TEA Party got started........ i dont care who started it.......... I really dont even care why it was started...........

Yeah, who cares if the Tea Party was started by a bunch of corrupt billionaires who want to get rid of taxes to line their pockets full of money so they can live a life of ease, while the rest of us suffer.

All I care about is that the TEA Party is taking a stand AGAINST MORE FRIGGIN TAXES!!!!!!

More taxes? What are you talking about?

We the People can and should SHUT DOWN the current government where it stands and just start over because this government is OUT OF CONTROL when it comes to levying more and more and more friggin taxes on the poor and already OVERTAXED American population.

Hahahaha.....oh wait you are serious? Here please watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mcqR3Rt5E

It has facts and sources in it, to show that your full of shit.

Screw entitlements!!! Screw more taxes!!! It's time we lived in a FREE America!!!

Then watch our economy tank, and watch America turn into the Second Weimar Republic.

[New Chalcedon]

AMERICA OWNS THE MOON

THATS RIGHT MARTIANS, FUCK OFF, THIS IS OUR STAR SYSTEM, NO GREENSKINS ALLOWED

The Outer Space Treaty states that outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Treaty establishes the exploration and use of outer space as the "province of all mankind." The Moon Agreement expands on these provisions by stating that neither the surface nor the subsurface of the Moon, nor any part thereof, or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person.

So the USA does not own the moon.

Let's be blunt: in the face of determined opposition, whether by force of arms or by corporate power-seeking, that Treaty will be worthless. You may be aware that corporations are already lining up to exploit space-based resources, for instance. Somehow, I doubt that the UN will be able (or willing, given that the Big Five are all very pro-corporate) to stop them.

[The American Nuclear Fallout Zone]

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why I no longer identify with Anarcho-Capitalism.

[The Fourth Khaganate]

There are plenty of people who don't know that it's not possible to own the moon.

YOU KEEP SAYING THAT, BUT I DONT THINK THE WORLD WILL BE READY FOR COMMUNIST SPACE IMMIGRANTS

HOW WILL YOU DEFEND THE MOON THEN, EH, PINKO?

[Neo Art]

While I think the OWS are just as stupid as the Tea Party,

Oh please.

[Genivaria]

FINALLY somebody gets it!

Well, no, in fairness, the Tea Party as an entity is more that corporate shills. It's corporate shills and people too unaware to recognize they're being manipulated by corporate shills.

Alright, let's say that's the case, the Tea Partiers are being manipulated by corporations. So? They're being manipulated by Americans, and Tea Party is a true American movement. Meanwhile, traitorous OWS'ers are being funded by regimes hostile to the US, like China and Russia.

Citation fucking needed.