History is written by the victors. Which got me thinking, if the Tea Party actually got their way what will Washington D.C. look like in the future? What monuments will be built to the petulant children of the Shutdown War of 2013? They’d likely build a fantasyland of guns, God, and a food court on the National Mall. For the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with Bloody Marys at the Cheesecake Factory.
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Santelli?
ReplyDeleteRick Santelli on CNBC. Loud and obnoxious talking head most noted for his rants on the floor at "the Merc", Chicago Board of Trade/Mercantile Exchange. He is credited with giving the first Bagger Rant that inspired the Koch Brothers to start up the ATM to fund the tea parties back in 2009. Even though the tea parties were actually holdovers from Cigarette Smokers Rights groups. The history is out there that proves that neither of those movements (Tea Party and Smokers Rights) were "organic", "grass-roots" orgs, but were primarily funded by the Kochs, along with Freedomworks PAC.
DeleteI find this alteration cartoon of what tea bagger extremists might do to the national mall very clever. I suspect that if we inquired these extremists who are convinced a
ReplyDeleteand eat red meat that the foreigner Obama and his dark wife are gonna take their guns, religion and junk food away is because they want to take away from the rest of us "elitists" museums, planeteriums, public schools, colleges, libraries, theater, concerts, sport jackets, suits, cloth napkins, shit...maybe even vegetables!
My imagination of someone like Palin in the white house, void of gravitas, culture, lacking ettiquette, offspring that drop out of high school, younger one allowed to be truant, bizarre ridicule of education, promoting and celebrating obesity is a nightmere in my mind. I can picture Toad in a plaid shortsleeve shirt and Sarah in a sequin hoodie rambling about moose stew at the Kennedy Center Honors!
The rest of us would not show up for hiking or boating in formal wear. Nor would we slack and eat crap becoming obese if handed the opportunity of DWTS! I am sick of the extremist nut jobs who are guilty of seeking to transform everyone to their life style and beliefs.