The New York Times Wednesday evening published a story that surprised no one. The headline is, “Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated.”
You don’t say! Let’s cut the shit and get right to the guts of it. Take it away, poll results!
The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.
They hold more conservative views on a range of issues than Republicans generally. They are also more likely to describe themselves as “very conservative” and President Obama as “very liberal.”
And while most Republicans say they are “dissatisfied” with Washington, Tea Party supporters are more likely to classify themselves as “angry.”
Why are teabaggers angry? Because a Negro Muslim Kenyan Interloper Liar in the motherfucking White House is trying to take the money they stole rightfully through hedge funds and derivatives, you Che-loving prick!
Look, we don’t want to suggest that all teabaggers are racist, self-serving jerks. But taking a play from the Fox News school of journalism, check out this guy’s sign:
And yes, this asshole is a face of the teabagger movement. But back to the New York Times story!
The overwhelming majority of supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves. More than half say the policies of the administration favor the poor, and 25 percent think that the administration favors blacks over whites — compared with 11 percent of the general public.
They are more likely than the general public, and Republicans, to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people.
Asked what they are angry about, Tea Party supporters offered three main concerns: the recent health care overhaul, government spending and a feeling that their opinions are not represented in Washington.
To sum up, the teabaggers hate the stimulus bill that cut their taxes. Sure, the stimulus package only cut taxes for 95% of working families, but guess what? There’s no way that the 18% of Americans who describe themselves as teabaggers are all earning more than $200,000 a year solo or $250,000 per couple. Not. One. Fucking. Chance.
As for thinking that the administration favors blacks over whites: Quit your bitching. You’re afraid you’ve been knocked off the throne after holding it for the past FOREVER, whitey? Drink a glass of milk. Eat a sandwich. Shut the fuck up.
Finally, you think the government doesn’t represent your views? Guess how many senators are over 50 years old? 90! From that group, guess how many of them are white? 86! From that group, guess how many are men? 72! Last time we checked, white men didn’t make up 72% of the United States. They did make 72% of the money, but that’s another story for another time.
So now that we’ve established that teabaggers are really just white guys pissed off because they don’t want a field hand tellin’ ‘em how to live, and they don’t know what’s in the stimulus, and they don’t know dick, let’s let them talk about the world as they see it.
“The only way they will stop the spending is to have a revolt on their hands,” Elwin Thrasher, a 66-year-old semiretired lawyer in Florida, said in an interview after the poll. “I’m sick and tired of them wasting money and doing what our founders never intended to be done with the federal government.”
A founder such as Alexander Hamilton, who favored a strong national government? The guy on the $10 bill? Or John Adams, the second president? Hey, Elwin — nice name, btw — did you speak up when George W. Bush took this country to Iraq with no way to pay for it? Did you complain to your senator or representative about bank practices before or after Lehman Brothers crashed? As for revolting: I dare you.
[Teabaggers] are far more pessimistic than Americans in general about the economy. More than 90 percent of Tea Party supporters think the country is headed in the wrong direction, compared with about 60 percent of the general public. About 6 in 10 say “America’s best years are behind us” when it comes to the availability of good jobs for American workers.
Of course they think this country is headed in the wrong direction. Only a faggot-commie country would provide health care to its citizens.
Nearly 9 in 10 disapprove of the job Mr. Obama is doing over all, and about the same percentage fault his handling of major issues: health care, the economy and the federal budget deficit. Ninety-two percent believe Mr. Obama is moving the country toward socialism, an opinion shared by more than half of the general public.
Related: our standard griping about where was the griping under Bush, etc. And clearly these fools and more than half the general public have ZERO idea what constitutes socialism. You do know that the health care bill is one of the biggest CAPITALIST moves ever in history, right? Thirty-two million Americans are not going to buy insurance from the government because the government didn’t provide a public option. Buying a good or service from a private company is the OPPOSITE of socialism.
“I just feel he’s getting away from what America is,” said Kathy Mayhugh, 67, a retired medical transcriber in Jacksonville. “He’s a socialist. And to tell you the truth, I think he’s a Muslim and trying to head us in that direction, I don’t care what he says. He’s been in office over a year and can’t find a church to go to. That doesn’t say much for him.”
Controlled reaction to a stupid person acting stupidly: Kathy, you’re an idiot and a bigot. Pray tell — because praying must be important to a churchgoer such as yourself — what difference does it make if Obama is a Muslim? How exactly is he trying to push us in that direction?
But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”
And why not cut Medicare or Social Security? Because these teabaggers are old and they want health care and a pension. The socialist goons. Are you really surprised that they’re hypocrites?
Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.
Others could not explain the contradiction.
“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.”
Ugh. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Speaking of waste: Teabaggers, you’re a waste. Each of you. You could really do the country a favor and cut waste by sucking a tailpipe or eating one of those assault rifles you wave around at your stupid rallies. Aside: Rocklin, Calif. is a horrible suburb of horrible Sacramento, a town that prides itself on being uneducated.
Teabaggers are educated. Could have fooled us.
my guess is that they were home-schooled … by supremacist evangelicals …
This is hilarious and sad because it’s true. Thanks for pointing out the inconsistencies of the teabaggers. At least one, Jodine White, was able to realize she can’t have it both ways.