Meet the Tea Party’s Corporate Puppet Masters

Wow, an unsupported personal anecdote posted online about your own experience that has no relevance to what I said? I can’t believe no one takes you seriously!

“Somebody please post some data that disproves the story. Otherwise stifle yerself. ”

Was the post I replied to cocksucker. I’m 35.

Yea, I’ve wondered if certain posters are pros myself. But at the end of the day it’s almost impossible to identify those who are paid PR people from the suckers who have simply bought into the lie hook, line, and sinker and go on “missionary” expeditions in cyberspace.

Why would I need private health insurance, when I’ve got government health care that comes with service to the country? Similarly, why would you need private health insurance corporate middlemen telling you what care THEY think you should have in contravention of your doctor’s advice, when you could have universal public health care paid for by your regular taxes?

And I have no idea what your last sentence was supposed to mean. Some paranoid fantasy in your head? Dunno.

The “only” answer means we don’t have a choice. So if we have no choice, then what’s the point in voting? In actuality, when we vote, we are begging for our freedoms. Both parties deny us certain freedoms in exchange for others. It’s a big game, and it’s an illusion of choice. As long as we continue to buy the idea, that our vote/candidate is going to make a difference, then we feel like we still have power. It does not matter who gets elected, we need to face the truth, we don’t matter in any political system. The agenda will be carried out no matter who we vote for. When we vote, we are saying “here mr. politician, please take care of all our problems, while we sit on our ass and watch TV.” Don’t buy the BS ,one by one we are dropping out of the system and starting changing things on our own. We are volunteering and making “change” on our own. Voting in the system = outsourcing our power. http://imperfect-citizen.blogspot.com/

Read the healthcare bill yourself then. And then think about how each and every regulation will be twisted into what our corporate government finds to be the most profitable. This bill was written by INSURANCE LAWYERS. Research it. They even put a gold transaction tax in the HEALTHCARE bill. Wonder what else? read it. There’s also something in there about electronic monitoring of class A and B electronic implants… Could be interpreted many ways… READ.

It would also explain why he mostly relies on ad hominem.

I’m glad you’re not voting. ‘Cause your reasoning here is a pretty bad shambles.

So Jesus ain’t on the ballot, the whole enterprise is worthless? Don’t believe in gradual progress through comprimise? Sounds like the deluded ramblings of a Somali warlord.

Let’s face facts: It takes freakin’ GENERATIONS to get meaningful change, and it takes votes to make it last. Society is an irreducably cooperative venture. There is no ‘going it alone’. You either debate and vote like a grown, civilized human being or rise in a violent coup against your fellows. Or sulk alone at home in a fetal position waiting for the Messiah.

It took us over 80 years from the Treaty of Paris to the abolition of slavery. Ten years from that point to get the vote for African Americans. Fifty years from that point until women could vote. And it took almost another 20 years after that to enact the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act to eliminate on a nation-wide scale the most abusive manipulation of child labor by the industrialists.

None of that would have been possible if the American people back then had been the type of worthless whimps we see around us today, wringing their hands in helpless terror waiting for Santy Claus to come and make it all better.

Voting ain’t for whimps, so if you feel you’re not up for it, please stay home.

Ha ha. Just because yer old man beat the shit out of you as a kid and made you wear your sisters’ dresses doesn’t mean you have to bend everyone else’s ear with yer old sob stories. Yeah, we get where you’re coming from . . . you NEVER respond with any relevant information or a cogent argument. . . only with hints of a self-loathing homophobia born out of your own fear that you’re queer.

Newsflash: The rest of us don’t give a flying fuck about that crap. So as a parting gesture, ’cause I suspect that very few people will be inclined to waste their time on you henceforth: Get over yourself. You’re not that important.

ok so why aren’t the idiots that funded obama and the democrats being exposed? liberals should have their tongues removed because they speak with free speech but don’t take anyone elses free speech. we should just throw the whole government out and start a new one. i like discussing stuff like this online but your voice only goes so far. i wish more people would get out to town meetings or political gatherings to make their voices heard in a peaceful way. the only reason to use force by firepower would be defense or retaliation against our government.

wow i had no idea that is how it is! but if i vote for the 3rd party that is one less vote for the other 2 bs parties.

It’s funny you brought that up because they were trying to rush congress to sign that peice of shit into play before even reading through all of it! That right there should tell you something is up. I can’t believe america is sitting back letting these assholes control our fate. It’s just pure and utter bullshit! U know as well as I do that capitol hill is just laughing at the people of the united states.

Hell yeah dead on man.

Yeah they are, the ones that aren’t completely ignorant to real life anyways, I’m sure some of them have no idea, living in their filth mansions bought with OUR fuuuuuckiiiing money. But yeah the general capitol hill gang are having a good ol’ time right now, too bad they don’t understand that when revolution does come (IF the sheeple EVER wake up) they will be the first to hang… I can’t wait to hear them beg…. Ahh sweet justice ( I hope)… And yeah they dont read anything, there’s a few congressional polls you could look up on what percent says they they read bills before voting on them, I don;t remember the exact numbers… Bad though..

Actually here. Good enuff Liam.

Although Benjamin Franklin helped create the American rattlesnake symbol, his name isn’t generally attached to the rattlesnake flag. The yellow “don’t tread on me” standard is usually called a Gadsden flag, for Colonel Christopher Gadsden, or less commonly, a Hopkins flag, for Commodore Esek Hopkins.

These two individuals were mulling about Philadelphia at the same time, making important contributions to American history and the history of the rattlesnake flag.

Christopher Gadsden was an American patriot if ever there was one. He led Sons of Liberty in South Carolina starting in 1765, and was later made a colonel in the Continental Army. In 1775 he was in Philadelphia representing his home state in the Continental Congress. He was also one of three members of the Marine Committee who decided to outfit and man the Alfred and its sister ships.

Esek Hopkins portrait with Dont Tread on Me flag in background
Commodore Hopkins, portrait by C. Corbutt, 1776. Click here for a larger image. The Don’t Tread on Me flag in this image appears to be a First Navy Jack. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gadsden and Congress chose a Rhode Island man, Esek Hopkins, as the commander-in-chief of the Navy. The flag that Hopkins used as his personal standard on the Alfred is the one we would now recognize. It’s likely that John Paul Jones, as the first lieutenant on the Alfred, ran it up the gaff.

It’s generally accepted that Hopkins’ flag was presented to him by Christopher Gadsden, who felt it was especially important for the commodore to have a distinctive personal standard. Gadsden also presented a copy of this flag to his state legislature in Charleston. This is recorded in the South Carolina congressional journals:

“Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, “Don’t Tread on Me!”

being part of the Tea Party, I have never heard of any money coming from any corporations. It is coming from the people. So I say to you is prove it with facts, if you can. And if you can not see what the progressives are trying to do to this country, than I really feel sorry for you.

so people have to counter your unsubstantiated anecdotal claims with hard facts,
hardly seems fair. if you are on the bottom rung of the organization you wouldn’t know about any money
anymore than someone putting up posters for a in an election know about the candidate’s funding.