Okay, now that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has framed the debate which surrounds his budget repair bill which seeks to require civil servants to give a little support to their own benefit packages and to reform the broken collective bargaining process, it’s time to take a good look at those who are in to their second week of protesting such moves.
I have always enjoyed comparing the environment in which the left right protest in. For the record, I have been a protestor myself. My most recent ones were with TEA Party movement members in Washington, D.C.
In those admittedly right wing demonstrations, the atmosphere was friendly and safe. Women could even their purses unattended on the Capitol lawn without fear of theft. And upon leaving, the Washington Mall was cleaner than when we got there.
The same can not be said of left leaning protests and protestors. Those kind of activists tend to be full of disrespect, manners and to a large degree, focus and intelligence.
Think I’m wrong? Let’s take a look at some of what makes up the crowds at the recent demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin. They range from all works of life but are mainly comprised of civil servants, teachers, and unions member shipped in from as far away as Nevada and New Jersey.
Let us first look at some in the crowd who just seem to not what they are doing there:
(Left)This one clears things up. Doesn’t it?
(Right) This one reads “If Tea baggers are as hot as their Fox News anchors, than I’m here for the Gangbang” ……Isn’t that a peacefully classy and on the point sign?
Then there are those hypocrites. You know, the ones who can’t stand any comparison of liberal policies to socialism and who carried posters that compared Bush to Hitler but are offended if the same is done to President Obama (which by the way, it should not be done)
Here’s one of my favorite. remember all that talk about toning down the level of political discourse? Well here is one bright protestors tribute to Gabrielle Giffords……
Then there are those priceless ones that make you wonder if you can conduct any kind of intelligent dialogue with some of these buffoons. Keep in mind, many of these people are striking teachers. After seeing some of these signs, I think the what they really achieved through these recent protests is to prove that we must end the practice of giving teachers tenure…….
(Left) In case you can’t see it clearly. I think this genius meant “negotiations” not “negotiatins“
This picture is blurry but the message is clear. This lady wants to “Save Are Teachers”. No she’s not an inbred hillbilly….I know it’s hard to tell. She’s an inner-city gal who was taught by a tenured teacher and is trying to say, “Save Our Teachers”
(Far Right) This one must have found the “our” that the other sign was looking for because she has it where the other one needs it. (Above Right) These people were too embarrassed to keep marching with their pretty sign. After all their work and design time someone broke their little union hearts and must have told them that they meant to write they are the future and that they “need” quality teachers, not “neen” them.
(Right) Now there is nothing wrong with this sign but it and the picture of it say a great deal. Many of the teachers in Wisconsin went on a little strike by calling out sick. Some of them showed up at the protests. Here are a group of doctors who are issuing them doctor’s notes for their absence. Problem is that such an abuse of such notes is against the law and according to National Medical association, could cost those doctors who issue those notes improperly, to encounter serious suspensions of their licenses to practice medicine.
All in all, it looks to me that while these folks are making a lot of noise, they are not making a lot of sense. That’s why I am prepared to listen to Governor Walker a lot more than them. Governor Walker was they guy elected to do what he is doing, not the sign makers and law breakers we see pictured here.
Oh look at me! I have a black friend! See?!?! That means I’m not racist!
Such a typical conservative.
(We can go back and forth like this literally forever, this is starting to sound like a back and forth between me and my best friend)
And the way you make it seem like it’s a matter of whether or not union members should contribute to their own benefits. I thought it was a matter of the state’s deficit… At least that’s what it is according to Walker.
The “fact” is that conservatives like you, who I assume are NOT racists, ignore the racism in the tea party. It’s there, and if you choose to ignore it that’s fine, but don’t act like just because I don’t think it’s worth trying to prove to you that it’s not there.
The other fact is that you and me are just people who care about our country a lot, more than the average person, but have different philosophies on how it is to be best served. I personally think that allowing our public workers to live comfortably and with some dignity is best, and conservatives seem to think that if they instead give billions of dollars to people who already have billions of dollars, it will somehow magically “trickle down” to the lower class. Which never happens.
Now, allow me to apologize for implying that ALL tea partiers are racists. Because that’s obviously not the case.
And since we’re on the topic of avoidance, why do conservatives always avoid questions about tax breaks for millionaires? Why are republicans always fighting for the powerful and against the weak? Is there really a reason other than the fact that republicans get lots of campaign contributions from millionaires?
You know, that …… I’m rubber your glue. Everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you-juvenile mentality really does not help make your point. Could it be that all I have stated about liberals is right on the mark? Could it be that in the face of the TEA Party’s suppport of many African-Americans, and the many African-Americans involved in the TEA movement you can’t find a way to legimiately play the last resort of the left…..the race card.
Or maybe you also can’t counter any legitimate reason why union members should not contribute to their own benefits? Why is that you avoid the facts? Could it be because they are not on your side?
Facts are a funny thing, they always allow the truth to surface and force those who lie about the facts to drown in a pool of their ignorancew and hypocrisy.
As do you.
Hahahahahahahaq…..Thank you. Thank you so much for proving me sooooo right about the liberal ideology and its propagandists. True to form, when the left has no facts to support their propaganda, they pull out the race card. Do you know wsho Herma Cain is? Look at his skin and color and then try to tell me how why caucuasians in the TEA movement, follow, embrace and praise him.
And as far as who I represent, I represent no one other than myself but the view I represent happens to be shared by more than a hundred million Americans who have come to see that big unions have taken this nation and its taxpayers hostage . I reprsent a view that unites many in agreement on the fact that union members shoulld have to contribute something to their own packages instead of forcing taxpayers to provide them with exorbitant lifetime benefits that break the budgets of municiplaities and cities throughout our nation.
I represent a view that is shared by others who understand that collective bargaining is a broken procedure that has gotten out of hand and needs fixing.
Now if you trul.y believe that those are racist views, your IQ is obviously no higher than the tempertaure in Wisconsin during midwinter snowstorm. But I do appreciate your continued dialogue. Everytime a liberall opens their mouth or sits in front of a computer keyboard, they prove me right and lie up to every steretovype there is.
Well, I can tell there’s no arguing with you. Because typical of the elitist conservatives and corporations (like the Koch bro’s) “you” represent, you take notice of what you want, and ignore what you want, until it shapes the view of the world that makes “you” correct.
Well, the Teabaggers were mad because there’s a black man in office and they don’t like it. The union protesters are mad because some elitist republican is giving their benefits to billionairs. There’s a little bit of a difference there. But once again, you ignore the facts so there’s no way you could ever see that.
James……..who is “us” Who are the people that are not represented by the majority of protesters who are storming the capitol and screaming? Who are the people that are not represented by those making death threats and holding those assinine sign? I am certainly among those you identify as “us”. I am not lying about Scott Walker’s initiatives or trying to caim that he posted troublemakers in the crowd or made those stupid signs belittiling him. Perhaps I woul be tolerant of the antics taking place here among “your” ilk, if they did not try to accuse the TEA Party of the same thing “you” are now accused of. Perhaps I would be less incined to call these out of stop union protesters and liberal Democrat Party activists in Wisconsin “astroturfers”, if your people did not try to paint the TEA movement as an “astroturf” movement.
The bopttom lione James is, that your protestations here are meaningless. In fact they are more than that. They are hypocritical, a chacteristic that is typical of the left leaning lunatics that “you” represent.
The only thing stupider than the signs those people were holding is your implication that the most extreme liberals represent the rest of us. Oh yeah, and Walker considering putting “trouble makers” in the crowd was pretty stupid too. How do you know the picture of Walker with the cross hairs on his face wasn’t put there by Walker himself? I mean, we know he wouldn’t oppose doing that on MORAL grounds.
And I could find some much nastier pictures of teabaggers with worse signs than this if I didn’t have a life.
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