Looniest "Tea Party" Signs
HuffPo labels them "offensive," but 'offensive' is one of those irritating words I accidentally left of my list. If you lived through the PC era on college campuses as I did, you got your fill of the word. Basically everything and everyone this side of the Utne Reader is "offensive." The more offended you were--and by the more innocuous things--the more you displayed your finely-tuned moral sensibility. I knew people who went through most of graduate school in a state of constant offendedness.
So let's dump the BS PC terminology and call a wingnut a wingnut: these people--and their signs--are lunatics.
See, eight straight years of trying to steal elections, lying, starting disastrous wars, turing the nation into a surveillance state, and otherwise shredding the Constitution--all fine. Three months of trying to clean up the mess--Hitleresque.
What a bunch of nuts.
HuffPo labels them "offensive," but 'offensive' is one of those irritating words I accidentally left of my list. If you lived through the PC era on college campuses as I did, you got your fill of the word. Basically everything and everyone this side of the Utne Reader is "offensive." The more offended you were--and by the more innocuous things--the more you displayed your finely-tuned moral sensibility. I knew people who went through most of graduate school in a state of constant offendedness.
So let's dump the BS PC terminology and call a wingnut a wingnut: these people--and their signs--are lunatics.
See, eight straight years of trying to steal elections, lying, starting disastrous wars, turing the nation into a surveillance state, and otherwise shredding the Constitution--all fine. Three months of trying to clean up the mess--Hitleresque.
What a bunch of nuts.
posted by Winston Smith at
2:35 PM
6 Comments:
I must admit that I did like the one posterboard that read: "I shaved my balls for this?"
That's gold baby.
How about this, which I find impossible to parody:
"Joanne Wilder has never protested anything in public before. She's never boxed with City Hall, let alone Washington.
"I've been a quiet little person my whole life," she said.
But today in downtown Syracuse, the 60-year-old great-grandmother will lead a Tax Day Tea Party protest against the spending policies of the Obama administration and Congress.
...
[The protests are] being carried out across the country by new grass-roots leaders like Wilder, who are upset that the government seems to be bailing out everyone but them.
...
After a lifetime of working, paying taxes and raising three children on her own, Wilder is struggling.
She said she retired on disability from M&T Bank three years ago after undergoing knee replacement and back surgeries. She lives on her Social Security and disability benefits. Last year, she petitioned the bankruptcy court for protection from creditors.
She said she did not have to pay federal income taxes last year because her income was too low.
"I don't want to see this country turn into a welfare, nanny state, where we stand in line for groceries, and we're in welfare lines, and in socialized medicine lines," Wilder said."
Ok, like a good tolerant liberal I've done my best to listen to the protesters. But Gavagai's joke caused me to forget about all that and LOL. Not bad, not bad.
You're right, LC. That is unparody-able.
Flat-out astonishing, actually.
You sure that woman wasn't some kind of performance artist???
Yeah, reserve 'offensive' for things that are, y'know, actually offensive. Blatant discrimination. Slurs.
Garden variety insensitivity? There's another word for that, and it's ... 'insensitivity'. Not lately a crime against humanity.
Failure to attain satori? If I could mix a religious metaphor, there's this story about motes and logs... Or the one about the first stone.
Damn proportionality is so hard to reach consensus on, when a substantial part of the world wants to execute jaywalkers, but the left ought not make that worse.
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