Millions expected to march on White House today

[jclalor 12]

Evidently they were just a tad bit shy of the millions of tea Baggers projected to attend today's festivities, you know it's bad when FOX doesn't even show up.





http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/operation-american-spring-hitting-dc-to-oust-obama/

[quade 4]

The Washington Times is . . . a delusional organization. When it reports on other delusional organizations, it is hilarious.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[jakee 1,610]

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The group expects between 10 million and 30 million similarly thinking Americans to meet them in the capital on Friday...

I don't think they understand how numbers work.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[rushmc 23]

jclalor

Evidently they were just a tad bit shy of the millions of tea Baggers projected to attend today's festivities, you know it's bad when FOX doesn't even show up.





http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/operation-american-spring-hitting-dc-to-oust-obama/

I see you added the tea bagger part

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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jakee

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The group expects between 10 million and 30 million similarly thinking Americans to meet them in the capital on Friday...

I don't think they understand how numbers work.

Sounds like the Million Mom March from a few years ago.

--
Rob

[jclalor 12]

rushmc

***Evidently they were just a tad bit shy of the millions of tea Baggers projected to attend today's festivities, you know it's bad when FOX doesn't even show up.





http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/operation-american-spring-hitting-dc-to-oust-obama/

I see you added the tea bagger part

That's some mighty fine detecting work you done there.

[billvon 3,132]

"The group expects between 10 million and 30 million similarly thinking Americans to meet them in the capital on Friday for a rally that’s being billed as a sort of “Arab Spring” for Americans."

Reminds me of the Cliven Bundy "rancher militia" fundraiser that they started, to support all the patriots opposing the US in Nevada. They asked for $100,000 and got $170.

[rushmc 23]

jclalor

******Evidently they were just a tad bit shy of the millions of tea Baggers projected to attend today's festivities, you know it's bad when FOX doesn't even show up.





http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/operation-american-spring-hitting-dc-to-oust-obama/

I see you added the tea bagger part

That's some mighty fine detecting work you done there.

That kind of bs is easy to spot

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,132]

>I see you added the tea bagger part

He also added the word "festivities!" Dirty rat. Next thing you know he will have an independent opinion that doesn't use the same words that the story does.

[rushmc 23]

billvon

>I see you added the tea bagger part

He also added the word "festivities!" Dirty rat. Next thing you know he will have an independent opinion that doesn't use the same words that the story does.

I know I know
gotta go after Fox News and the tea party

makes you feel good I bet

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Amazon 7]

rushmc

***>I see you added the tea bagger part

He also added the word "festivities!" Dirty rat. Next thing you know he will have an independent opinion that doesn't use the same words that the story does.

I know I know
gotta go after Fox News and the tea party

makes you feel good I bet

Ok.. we will let you use Fox News exact words in all your posts. It just makes sense to regurgitate the EXACT talking point.. like the GOP politicians do and like the blondes at Fox do

[billvon 3,132]

>I know I know
>gotta go after Fox News and the tea party

I see you added the Fox News part

[rushmc 23]

Amazon

******>I see you added the tea bagger part

He also added the word "festivities!" Dirty rat. Next thing you know he will have an independent opinion that doesn't use the same words that the story does.

I know I know
gotta go after Fox News and the tea party

makes you feel good I bet

Ok.. we will let you use Fox News exact words in all your posts. It just makes sense to regurgitate the EXACT talking point.. like the GOP politicians do and like the blondes at Fox do

Sorry
You will not "let" do any one thing as you do not have that control

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

billvon

>I know I know
>gotta go after Fox News and the tea party

I see you added the Fox News part

I did

As you are known to have a problem with the tea party and fox news

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[muff528 3]

billvon

"The group expects between 10 million and 30 million similarly thinking Americans to meet them in the capital on Friday ...." ....

probably couldn't get the day off.

[billvon 3,132]

>probably couldn't get the day off.

Or it was raining. Or their mom told them to clean up their rooms. Or they had to clean their guns. Or all of the above.

From the organizer: "But this is a very poor turnout. It ain’t no millions. And it ain’t looking like there’s going to be millions. Hundreds is more like it.”

Well, at least .001% of the protesters showed up. That's something.

[quade 4]

billvon

From the organizer: "But this is a very poor turnout. It ain’t no millions. And it ain’t looking like there’s going to be millions. Hundreds is more like it.”

Well, at least .001% of the protesters showed up. That's something.

I wonder what it's like to wake up in the morning thinking you maybe have 10% of the population of the US going to show up to your event and takeover of the government and then find out you were off by that sort of magnitude?

I wonder if his brain is even able to process it due to the cognitive dissonance of suddenly being shown in breathtaking clarity what an incredible overstated outlier he really is.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[muff528 3]

billvon

>probably couldn't get the day off.

Or it was raining. Or their mom told them to clean up their rooms. Or they had to clean their guns. Or all of the above.

OK, I just got home and was able to read the linked article. I have to agree with you & quade about these folks. IMO, their misguided notion that they represent conservatism as a whole is much the same as the commies' and progressives' beliefs that they represent liberalism and the majority of Dems.

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From the organizer: "But this is a very poor turnout. It ain’t no millions. And it ain’t looking like there’s going to be millions. Hundreds is more like it.”

Well, at least .001% of the protesters showed up. That's something.

Then maybe this isn't .001% ...maybe a few hundred really is most of them. Maybe they are, as quade says, "overstated outliers". If so, the "left" is getting way too worked up over them. Or maybe community organizing really is a top-level skill and this group's organizer has only advanced far enough to earn his "rabble-rousing" merit badge.

[BIGUN 1,503]

" ...and like the blondes at Fox do"

Alright, let's leave the blondes at Fox outta this... Every once in awhile they give us a little flash. Little coffee and snatch viewing before I start my day.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[jakee 1,610]

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If so, the "left" is getting way too worked up over them.

Who is, and how so?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[muff528 3]

jakee

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If so, the "left" is getting way too worked up over them.

Who is,

Just about any lefty I have ever heard comment on the subject.

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and how so?

By misrepresenting, mis-characterizing, mis-labeling, disparaging, misunderstanding, accusing, lambasting, disrespecting, denigrating, criminalizing, marginalizing, lampooning, personally attacking, generalizing, maligning, silencing, threatening, and generally caterwauling against anything and anyone who has anything to do with the so-called "tea party" "movement" ...or conservatism in general for that matter.

(OK, I guess I was "generalizing" there.)

[jakee 1,610]

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By misrepresenting, mis-characterizing, mis-labeling, disparaging, misunderstanding, accusing, lambasting, disrespecting, denigrating, criminalizing, marginalizing, lampooning, personally attacking, generalizing, maligning, silencing, threatening, and generally caterwauling against anything and anyone who has anything to do with the so-called "tea party" "movement" ...or conservatism in general for that matter.

I think you've confused yourself.

I asked why you thought that "the left" was overreacting to a few hundred protestors - you've responded by talking about the tea party and conservatism in general. Do you think there are only a few hundred conservatives in the US?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Amazon 7]

muff528

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If so, the "left" is getting way too worked up over them.

Who is,

Just about any lefty I have ever heard comment on the subject.

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and how so?

By misrepresenting, mis-characterizing, mis-labeling, disparaging, misunderstanding, accusing, lambasting, disrespecting, denigrating, criminalizing, marginalizing, lampooning, personally attacking, generalizing, maligning, silencing, threatening, and generally caterwauling against anything and anyone who has anything to do with the so-called "tea party" "movement" ...or conservatism in general for that matter.

(OK, I guess I was "generalizing" there.)

The same thing can be said about the so called conservatives who label anyone not goose stepping to their fun little Christian identity wet dream... including other republicans who they lovingly refer to as RINO's as libruuls.

Better pull that cedar log outta that RIGHT eye.

[Amazon 7]

Maybe they all stayed home because Obama was supposed to come for their guns that day.

[muff528 3]

jakee

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By misrepresenting, mis-characterizing, mis-labeling, disparaging, misunderstanding, accusing, lambasting, disrespecting, denigrating, criminalizing, marginalizing, lampooning, personally attacking, generalizing, maligning, silencing, threatening, and generally caterwauling against anything and anyone who has anything to do with the so-called "tea party" "movement" ...or conservatism in general for that matter.

I think you've confused yourself.

I asked why you thought that "the left" was overreacting to a few hundred protestors - you've responded by talking about the tea party and conservatism in general. Do you think there are only a few hundred conservatives in the US?

No ...but it does look like I've confused you. I do not think the left was overreacting to a few hundred protestors. What I'm saying is that the OP is saying that the appearance of a few hundred protestors proves that conservatives in the US are small in number. If so, then why all the caterwauling? The OP, in a backhanded sort of way, mocks the "tea-baggers" as over-estimated in number and relevance since the organizer of the march expected large numbers of folks to participate and only a few hundred actually showed up. My points were: (1) That even though many conservatives (if not most, at least to some degree) might agree with much of their "agenda", ... marches, sit-ins, protests, hashtag campaigns and ribbon-wearing are not tactics often used by conservatives. I realize that although these types of marches have been tried in the past, it's mostly a lefty thing. (2) many of these "outliers" might only in part share conservative interests. But we will take their votes just as the leftys will take the votes of greenies, commies, fascists, racists and "racialists" and other lefty outliers who only partly represent mainstream liberalism (as long as they are legal voters, of course). (3) So, given all the caterwauling, which is it? ... a few hundred or millions? Leftys will point to the "few hundred" and tag all conservatives as one and the same. Doesn't matter whether or not they actually believe it. It's a tactic that works with their voting base. The point is that some on the left will project the actions or words of even a single conservative onto conservatism in general. Just take a stroll through SC.