Posted on 05/28/2021 7:16:04 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
How much trouble are we in when progressives broadcast how to beat them and we still won't do it?
There's an interesting article in The New Yorker and this paragraph stands tall above all the rest:
This insurgent approach has caused establishment figures from both parties to refer to Justice Democrats and its ilk as the Tea Party of the left. Max Berger, an early employee, said, “If that’s supposed to mean that we’re equivalent to white-supremacist dipshits who want to blow up the government or move toward authoritarianism, then I would consider that both an insult and a really dumb misreading of what we’re trying to do. But if it means that we come out of nowhere and, within a few years, we have one of the two major parties implementing our agenda—and if our agenda is to promote multiracial democracy and give people union jobs and help avert a climate crisis—then, yeah, I’m down to be the Tea Party of the left.”
I have vacation time at work, I'd call out sick to attend, I'd take unpaid days. That's what I did a decade ago.(unpaid) But sadly, I feel 100% confident in predicting there will not be any protest to attend on April 15th, 2022. I wish I could be proven wrong on this, I would welcome it to see everybody out there next April.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzspfkujHQ&list=PLarUzI_YedbtCVW3_px8qP1dW1biYxSlb&index=2
check out my historical pieces on youtube... the 9/12 project and the january 6th footage
the tea party is still successful and will right the wrongs of the left.
so many of the left virtue signalers are grasping on to that reality that it is THEY who are saving the republic from totalitarianism or trumpism... is it me, or are they 180 degrees away from kevin bacon.
i can honestly say that if trump called for citizens protesting the congress by marching through the capitol, i would not support trump any more...
how do we get them to realize they have been useful idiots.
I really hope so. We had more people willing to stand up than we had 5 years ago(before the violence even began) much less now.
It’s very alarming. People want to be free but nobody (or at least not enough) want to stand up for it.
Thank you for that video. It brought back some good times. I wish it was a coming prediction. Above all, so many people don’t understand until they go that protesting is not just useful but it’s really fun.
On your video, one of the last speakers can be over heard (it sounds like, about 7:30) “government serves those who show up.”
via Glenn Beck.
Here is a list of 21 other ways you might be a “Useful Idiot” — the BLM/Antifa edition:
If you donate to a political organization without knowing how or where they actually use the money, you might be a useful idiot.
If you find yourself having to defend or explain political slogans you don’t actually believe in, like “Defund The Police” doesn’t actually mean defunding the police, you might be a useful idiot.
If you join a protest march or rally in order to feel like you’re “doing something”, you might be a useful idiot.
If you continue to rationalize and justify violence against innocent business owners, police or bronze statues, you might be a useful idiot.
If you support a political organization because of what they say they are against but are ignorant of what they claim they are for, you might be a useful idiot.
If your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram feed contains a black square in the past 60 days, you might be a useful idiot.
If you support COVID-19 government orders to wear a mask as legal - unless someone feels the need to scream in the face of a police officer, you might be a useful idiot.
If your support for police or justice reform includes a checklist of ideas like government-mandated vegetarianism, carbon-taxes on manufacturers and higher taxes on the wealthy, you might be a useful idiot.
If you claim to support generic ideas such as “Black Lives Matter” but then donate to organizations like Planned Parenthood, you might be a useful idiot.
If you are against The 2nd Amendment but also support defunding the police, you might be a useful idiot.
If you claim to defer to science when the data supports your political ideals but then ignore it when it inconveniently does not, you might be a useful idiot.
If you find yourself parroting vague aphorisms like “No Justice, No Peace” while claiming to be against violent protestors, you might be a useful idiot.
If you claim 1st Amendment protections for speech and public assembly for protestors but then support government lockdowns for public health reasons, you might be a useful idiot.
If you believe you can simultaneously support the Black Lives Matter or Antifa organizations and the US Constitution, you might be a useful idiot.
If you are using an iPhone to Tweet a selfie wearing a #BLM T-shirt but believe Capitalism is part of the problem, you might be a useful idiot.
If you feel guilty because of your skin color or something your dead ancestors did, you might be a useful idiot.
If you support government-funded abortions for Black/Brown communities but are opposed to government-funded abstinence education, you might be a useful idiot.
If you carry a sign supporting BLM, Antifa or Defund the Police and don’t see Carl Marx when you look in the mirror, you might be a useful idiot.
If you define generic words such as ‘looting’ or ‘vandalism’ as inherently racist, you might be a useful idiot.
If you believe teenagers robbing beer from a CVS is some form of reparations for slavery, you might be a useful idiot.
If you believe anything a white person has achieved or owns is proof that systemic racism exists, you might be a useful idiot.
Not even the Koch Brothers use “success” and “Tea Party” in the same sentence, and it was their money.
The Left Wing TEA Party?
Not Taxed Enough YET!! NTEY???
It’ll bomb like the Weather Underground.
Think of 2 decades attempting Left Wing Talk Radio that isn’t federally subsidized.
What is the meaning of your reply?
The tea party was highly successful.
It attacted people from both the left and the right, and we united against a common cause.
This scared the hell out of the uniparty.
It was so successful, that both the democommies and republiCAN’Ts had to get together and destroy it.
Then along came President Trump.
Same thing, same reaction from democommies and republiCAN’Ts.
There is a lesson here.
We know what has to be done.
Do we have the cajones to do it?
That is the only question.
one the 9/12 project or the jan 6th?
it very well could be... the tea party is very productive
yes, i forget who was speaking... but yes government goes to those who show up...
Winred.com springs to mind.
“Success” and “Tea Party” are a natural fit to be in the same sentence. What we did when we went out onto the national mall was a major success.
I was there. I went out to the mall myself with my own Gadsden flags. I saw the power of conservatives acting unpredictably in large numbers. We blew the establishment away.
So successful that Obama abused IRS power to destroy it.
Yes, that is correct, but that abuse should’ve led to a new wave of people standing up and newer, more vibrant and much larger crowds.
But it didn’t. Sadly.
I’m not assigning any motive to why people kept sitting. I only know the reality. Crowd size kept getting smaller.
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