"if liberty means anything,
it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear"
--George Orwell
So STFU Yourself, Captain.
Posted on 08/14/2016 6:44:48 AM PDT by fluorescence
maches = marches
The TEA Party movement failed because fakers like Rubio and Ayotte were not true conservatives. In this incarnation, instead of trusting politicians, we are trusting ourselves. We picked our candidate in the most organic way. It’s Trump!
Ted Cruz is a better-known example of a politician who used the Tea Party sentiment to advance his own career and agenda. The anti-politics-as-usual, anti-insider, populist, American first spirit lives now in Trump-Pence 2016.
When you’re running an insurgency, a hierarchical command structure assures defeat. Modern warfare is asymmetrical, decentralized and unconventional. Trump has run a model insurgent campaign.
It may be too little, too late, but many Americans have glimpsed the actual scope of the Washington Plantation. Politicians at all levels have conspired to construct an elaborate Potemkin Theater with the single goal of captivating both Progressives and Conservatives to ensure they all remain on the reservation.
Trump has blown up the parties’ false binary class structure and assembled a base that shattered boundaries once safely assumed unbridgeable by the other sides. While his methodology confounds the opposition, he has built a network that defies definition under conventional politics. The energy he has tapped can sustain a long engagement; let’s hope it lasts long enough to destroy all those who have sold out our nation for personal gain.
What I saw was a bunch of opportunists who began calling themselves ‘leaders’ of a grass roots movement without any organization. All of a sudden you had all these competing “tea party” organizations and leaders who set themselves up to make some money.
I think smart folks understood what was happening and since they couldn’t find a single organization which could begin to regularize itself with local chapters, state chapters, and national conventions to select leaders, the smart folks became disillusioned.
Trump could have inherited these folks and put them into an organization, but he apparently isn’t a believer in formal organizations. This was an opportunity missed—for the country and for Trump.
<< But he [Trump] is the second coming of the Tea Party. >>
I’ve had the same thoughts. Trump is the most TEA-party-like candidate of all who ran in the primary.
As to the IRS, if you have an office that controls PAC formation, wouldn’t you approve only opposition PACs you knew would corruptly use the money for PAC insiders, and disapprove PACs that were truly ideological? Isn’t this part of what Louis Lerner did?
"if liberty means anything,
it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear"
--George Orwell
Captain Uniparty...could his true identity be...MITT ROMNEY???
Well said.
Someone once said - A republic IF YOU CAN KEEP it.
Lazy and stupid is the way to Socialism. It is unfortunate that the current crop of posters on this site, for the most part can be classified as LOW INFORMATION. The hope is that they will become educated and VOTE OFTEN in the PRIMARIES.
The next interesting primary is Arizona - Any bets on who wins??
I’m another of the teeming millions.
I’ve been warning about this scam using the Tea Party and it’s supporters for years. First, Freedom works jumped in, then BIG, CORRUPT lobbyists like open Border Sal Russo started Tea Party Express and Jenny Beth Martin and her scam of Tea Party patriots. There have been others also....they spend the contribution $$ on themselves!
more info here: http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Tea+party+express
The Tea party wasn’t destroyed. It just escalated with Trump.
The Tea party was infiltrated with political money grubbing autonomous PACS capitalizing on general public discontent.
The Tea Party movement was not an anti-establishment movement. It was a fiscal-conservative movement. It wasn’t a matter of the Tea Party winning so now they are hated because they are establishment. It was a matter of candidates being elected as fiscal-conservative then either just vanishing into the system, or even worse becoming active collaborators with the agendas they were elected to stop.
An electoral victory means nothing to their supporters if the candidates do not uphold their promises.
It was completely anti-establishment. That’s why they branded the enemy the “GOPe”. And yes the candidates elected disappeared into the system, because the system exists to crush small rebellions. As much noise as the Tea Party made they only got a couple dozen people elected, WAY out numbered.
Electoral victory means nothing period. It’s a big system, it’s been put there by 2 parties whose primary goal is their own power, they crush any opposition. The committee structure alone guarantees anti-establishment rebellions like the Tea Party can never win. Congressmen who don’t play along don’t get good committee memberships, without good committee memberships they have no power to wield, and of course the minute they play along the people who voted them in consider them collaborators.
“Consider the corrupt source of this nonsense.”
Well, sorry, but Politico got this one right. So called ‘conservatives’ have been scamming all of us for years and giving NOTHING to the candidates we want! Tea Party Express, which sadly FR still ‘associates’ with on their front page is one of the worst, led by open border LOBBYIST Sal Russo!
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Is the Tea Party Express Just a Fundraising Scam?
Tom Dougherty / August 11, 2014
$9.5 million raised, at a cost of $8 million, with less than $400,000 going to candidates.
What would you consider a charity that raised almost $10 million, but actually used less than 5% of that total on its mission and programs? By every reasonable definition, you’d have to consider it woefully ineffective, at best, a fraud, at worst.
Consider then that the Tea Party Express has raised just over $9.5 million between January 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, but has spent barely $380,000 directly, or indirectly, to benefit the candidates they support. Also, as they spent more than they received, their cash-on-hand decreased by almost $350,000; from $848,000 on January 1, 2013 to $498,000 on June 30, 2014.
The direct costs for raising that $9.5 million were more than $8 million, or 85% of total receipts, with more than $3.6 million paid out to Tea Party Express founder, Sal Russo’s consulting firm Russo, Marsh and Associates
“People are in this country a long time and they are not legal. We have to get them legal in some way in a process that gets people legal that are here…We should do it because it’s the right thing. We need to reform immigration because we need a system that works,” Russo said.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3451032/posts?page=271#271
Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan. Mitch McConnell
Tea Party ideals have existed for over at least 235 years.
There has never been a time in the history of the USA when the proper role and scope of the Federal government has not been contested, debated, etc.
In fact, the proper role and scope of government has been a topic of intense debate (and even wars) for centuries.
Tea party ideals were recently on display in the Brexit vote, which after all was a disagreement over big centralized government or smaller less centralized government.
So, no, the tea party ideals are not dead and never will be. There will always be people who believe in limited central government and subsidiarity ___ and there will always be people who want the biggest, most centralized government they can get. This battle will always be engaged.
And now these autofellatory pajama-boy propagandist trolls openly speak of killing their political opponents and think that they deserve even further congratulations for using violent language to rub their opponents' noses in it?
Oh, and by the way. The Tea Party was killed by multiple uncharged, unprotected Federal Felonies by the IRS, including targeting political enemies and destroying email evidence despite a judge's order to preserve the evidence.
President Trump ought to use executive orders to relocate all those involved to a new Federal Paper-Processing facility in Point Barrow, Alaska.
well said.
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