Origins of the Tea Party

[New Cassel]

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?

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?

Bullshit,

You can't discredit the truth and freedom.

The Tea Party was inspired in opposition to crony capitalism, more specifically the Federal government bailout of the banking and finance industry -- plundering Main Street to save campaign contributors on Wall Street.

Indeed, the revolving door of corruption between Washington and Wall Street remains to this day and it was one of the primary causal mechanisms for the financial crisis of 2008 The bad actors on Wall Street knew they would get bailed out because they are Washington are one in the same.

In sum, it is amusing when someone tries to tell me why me and my friends side with the Tea Party --- I mean how the hell do you know?

1/10

This inane retort is devoid of substantive facts, logic and empirical evidence. Seems to simply be a quid pro quo scheme to bore the OP to death in exchange for the information brought to light.

In sum, terrible post.

[Wikkiwallana]

*sigh* These NSG post are so predicatable.

Someone says "Liberal something, yeah!" and 10 others go "Yeah I agree but let me refine your view" then 2 others say "Conservative something, YEAH!" and then 20 other people go "Dude screw you, you're just an ignorant something!". At this point it just loops for 11 pages until it tires out and everyone finds a new post to scream about.

Nationstates General is a virtual NASCAR race...with words...ugh...

Maybe they are siding with me because I brought independently examinable evidence, and the people disagreeing with me shouting themselves blue in the face brought nothing but emotions and unbacked assertions?

I'd certainly like to think that's the case.

Edit: typo

[Yorkopolis]

Not surprised really. After all, the Tea Party is a corporate movement that claims to support freedom while it actually wants to destroy all taxes for corporations and the CEO's salaries, leaving corporate CEO's with massive amounts of money in their bags and the rest of us all to die and leaving the state's budget even less and making the debt grow. Some of them even wanted to "abolish" taxes. Funny guys, they are.

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.

[Dilange]

Get this much straight at least......... the government OWNS NOTHING.

Anything the government GIVES to anyone first has to be TAKEN from someone else.

Yea because fuck roads, sanitation, healthcare, education, defense, environment. I only care about my money.

In essence, you (the government/entitlements) are taking away my rights and freedoms and GIVING them to whoever the fuck you feel like giving them to (to include illegal aliens/immigrants currently living in America tax free because they get paid under the table WHILE THEY ARE TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM REAL TAXPAYING AMERICANS).

Source this bullshit right now.

The TEA Party is saying "FUCK THAT!!!" and this is why I support the TEA Party!!!! Screw the Left!!! Screw the Liberals!!! It's time we lived in a FREE America!!!

Did you watch the video I gave you? Apparently not. Your group is saying fuck taxes which pays for a lot of what the government runs. Do you know how much the government runs to help us? A lot. So if you do not want to shell out anymore money to a government....I'd suggest moving to Somalia.

[Liriena]

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!!!

Wow...it's like being back in Youtube.

[Hurdegaryp]

WOW!I am really not interested!

Wow! Then maybe you should go the fuck somewhere else and not bother entering threads you don't intend to discuss! Go fucking spam TET or some shit like that.

Oh, please. It's not like TET doesn't have it's fair share of filth already.

But I'm wondering if Big Tobacco and those two brothers have also something to do with the populist movements in Western Europe.

[Yorkopolis]

Did you watch the video I gave you? Apparently not. Your group is saying fuck taxes which pays for a lot of what the government runs. Do you know how much the government runs to help us? A lot. So if you do not want to shell out anymore money to a government....I'd suggest moving to Somalia.

I think all those people with the 5-year old mentality will like it in Somalia, I still don't understand why they haven't moved there yet though, it's equal to 19th-Century America and Victorian Britain really.

[Wikkiwallana]

Wow! Then maybe you should go the fuck somewhere else and not bother entering threads you don't intend to discuss! Go fucking spam TET or some shit like that.

Oh, please. It's not like TET doesn't have it's fair share of filth already.

But I'm wondering if Big Tobacco and those two brothers have also something to do with the populist movements in Western Europe.

According to the article, they do.

The implications of the UCSF Quarterback report are widespread. The main concern expressed by the authors lies in what they see happening overseas as the Tea Party movement expands internationally, training activists in 30 countries including Israel, Georgia, Japan and Serbia.

[Indira]

Ah, the Tea Party is backed by commercial interests. Who's have thought?

[Franklin Delano Bluth]

Did you watch the video I gave you? Apparently not. Your group is saying fuck taxes which pays for a lot of what the government runs. Do you know how much the government runs to help us? A lot. So if you do not want to shell out anymore money to a government....I'd suggest moving to Somalia.

I think all those people with the 5-year old mentality will like it in Somalia, I still don't understand why they haven't moved there yet though, it's equal to 19th-Century America and Victorian Britain really.

But it's full of BROWN PEOPLE AND MOSLEMS!

[Nidaria]

It started when England kept a tax on tea, which angered the Colonies of America. The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, boarded merchant ships and threw cases of tea into the Boston Harbor. That is the origin of the Tea Party.

[Rio Cana]

I could not resist.

After much extensive search I have found the video which shows the beginnings of the Tea Party. They seemed harmless at the beginning. Who knows what happened over time.

Short Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1MB3xcIpqo

[Mavorpen]

It started when England kept a tax on tea, which angered the Colonies of America. The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, boarded merchant ships and threw cases of tea into the Boston Harbor. That is the origin of the Tea Party.

And then Rainbow Dash flew out of James Madison's ass and shat out rainbows as she created a double rainbow accross the sky, inspiring the creation of the Constitution.

[Hurdegaryp]

I think all those people with the 5-year old mentality will like it in Somalia, I still don't understand why they haven't moved there yet though, it's equal to 19th-Century America and Victorian Britain really.

But it's full of BROWN PEOPLE AND MOSLEMS!

The Victorian era was also the colonial era, so I do not see the problem.

[Gauthier]

The Tea Party is playing like a Resident Evil story: An engineered corporate weapon that's suddenly gone out of control, mutating into something beyond human comprehension.

[Condunum]

I wouldn't.
"An entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits based on established rights or by legislation. A "right" is itself an entitlement associated with a moral or social principle, such that an "entitlement" is a provision made in accordance with legal framework of a society."

Get this much straight at least......... the government OWNS NOTHING. Anything the government GIVES to anyone first has to be TAKEN from someone else. In essence, you (the government/entitlements) are taking away my rights and freedoms and GIVING them to whoever the fuck you feel like giving them to (to include illegal aliens/immigrants currently living in America tax free because they get paid under the table WHILE THEY ARE TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM REAL TAXPAYING AMERICANS). The TEA Party is saying "FUCK THAT!!!" and this is why I support the TEA Party!!!! Screw the Left!!! Screw the Liberals!!! It's time we lived in a FREE America!!!

Awwww, you're cute!

[Dyakovo]

It started when England kept a tax on tea, which angered the Colonies of America. The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, boarded merchant ships and threw cases of tea into the Boston Harbor. That is the origin of the Tea Party.

No. That's where the name came from... They undoubtedly figured there'd be plenty of people who're too ignorant to realize the Boston Tea Party wasn't a protest against be taxed, it was a protest against taxation without representation.

[Spiritwolf]

Get this much straight at least......... the government OWNS NOTHING. Anything the government GIVES to anyone first has to be TAKEN from someone else. In essence, you (the government/entitlements) are taking away my rights and freedoms and GIVING them to whoever the fuck you feel like giving them to (to include illegal aliens/immigrants currently living in America tax free because they get paid under the table WHILE THEY ARE TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM REAL TAXPAYING AMERICANS). The TEA Party is saying "FUCK THAT!!!" and this is why I support the TEA Party!!!! Screw the Left!!! Screw the Liberals!!! It's time we lived in a FREE America!!!

Awwww, you're cute!

This is not going to be cute when we go down the same road as the syrians. Wealthy people.... job creators if you will.... are already leaving the states and becoming expats because they are being screwed hard by rising tax rates. People who cannot or will not leave will revolt eventually rather than continue to be raped by the government. I guarantee things will be very, very not cute if that happens.

[Dyakovo]

Awwww, you're cute!

This is not going to be cute when we go down the same road as the syrians. Wealthy people.... job creators if you will.... are already leaving the states and becoming expats because they are being screwed hard by rising tax rates. People who cannot or will not leave will revolt eventually rather than continue to be raped by the government. I guarantee things will be very, very not cute if that happens.

Don't lie.

[Spiritwolf]

The Tea Party is playing like a Resident Evil story: An engineered corporate weapon that's suddenly gone out of control, mutating into something beyond human comprehension.

Actually, thats our current government.

[Napkiraly]

The Tea Party is playing like a Resident Evil story: An engineered corporate weapon that's suddenly gone out of control, mutating into something beyond human comprehension.

Hit the nail right on the head. Perfect aim!

[Seperates]

Awwww, you're cute!

This is not going to be cute when we go down the same road as the syrians. Wealthy people.... job creators if you will.... are already leaving the states and becoming expats because they are being screwed hard by rising tax rates. People who cannot or will not leave will revolt eventually rather than continue to be raped by the government. I guarantee things will be very, very not cute if that happens.

Why would they leave the states? Europe generally has higher tax rates, and everywhere else the standard of living is not even close to as absurdly high as it is in America.

[Dilange]

The Tea Party is playing like a Resident Evil story: An engineered corporate weapon that's suddenly gone out of control, mutating into something beyond human comprehension.

Actually, thats our current government.

Lol ok. Got any proof?

[Dyakovo]

Actually, thats our current government.

Lol ok. Got any proof?

They let a nigger in the White House.
*nods*

[Gauthier]

Lol ok. Got any proof?

They let a nigger in the White House.
*nods*

And worse, he's not part of the kitchen or cleaning staff!