Teabonics: You Can't Fix Stupid, And Sadly, You Can't Keep It From Voting, Either

 
And Sadly, You Can't Keep It From Voting, Either

Monday, April 19, 2010

By Manifesto Joe

I hadn't heard about "teabonics" until the other day. There are Web sites dedicated to this new dialect of American right-wing culture.

Let's go linking:

No Amensty!

Even the copy desk at the Daily News saw this error!

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a socilist. (Or is it socialest?)

One of the big regrets of my life is that I didn't dedicate myself to larnin' a furrin lanaguage. I knows just enough Spanish to get myself into major trouble in Piedras Negras.

This hyar is clearly a fite for feedom. If I ever becomes a rich banker, I wants to charge them deadbeats a fee!

And now for something completely different...

I've been awfully busy lately. I have a night-shift job with a news organization, and it's demanding. But I try to keep up with things. The other day on one of the talking-heads TV shows on one of the cable news networks, they had a biker-looking dude who was there as a representative and spokesman of the Tea Party people.

He started his point by talking about middle-class Americans. He described these "typical" Americans as, say, a household bringing in $100,000 a year.

Hold the phone there, biker dude. Chain mail must be more profitable than I ever thought.

According to the U.S Census Bureau, the median household income in America is $52,000 a year. This man was describing a typical U.S. household as one making nearly twice that. Shit, if I were bringing that much dinero into my household, I would have absolutely no complaints and would pay my taxes gladly, hoping to get commensurate services.

This was a very revealing moment. What this is all about is ME ME ME. The profile of the typical Tea Party asshole is a white male, upper middle-class Republican, with just enough "education" to be dangerous. ("A little bit of education is a dangerous thing.") I suspect that this "education" generally consists of a lot of business administration courses. I had a couple of those during my 6-year acquaintance with the liberal arts, and if there's a place to be indoctrinated into right-wing, "free-market" misconceptions, that's where to find it.

Another revealing thing is that these people have no fundamental opposition to Social Security or Medicare. Either they or their parents have benefited from these "socilist" programs. But once more, this is obviously about ME ME ME.

These people have been vocal enough, and have shown up at enough rallies, to get themselves taken seriously by the MSM. Go back to the top and check out these links. These are the fortunate anthropoids of America. They have done just well enough, through dumbass luck, usually, to be dupes for the real elite. They are stupid enough to be the foot soldiers for people who have money stashed away in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.

Such imbeciles have been overcome before. I seriously pray that it can happen again.

Manifesto Joe Is An Underground Writer Living In Texas.

Let The Sun Shine In......