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Holy multifarious teabagging ironies!
I've been working up a list of all the ways in which the teabagger parties are incredibly ironic.
1. The vast majority of the attendees surely make less than $250,000.00 per year, so they are effectively protesting having their taxes cut - although they almost certainly don't realize that.
2. This despite the fact that their putative primary motivation is anti-tax.
3. These same people sat silent, dumb, and happy for eight years as George W. Bush and his cronies destroyed the economy and gutted the American working class - i.e., themselves.
4. They voted for and supported George W. Bush, but are now blaming HIS mess (which is, by extension, also THEIR fault) on the new Administration - the very people that are desperately trying to fix the situation.
5. The actual sponsors of the "protests" are the very same Republican leaders responsible for the massive deregulation - effectively putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse - that caused the current financial meltdown.
6. All of those sponsors make well over $250,000.00 per year, so the poor and middle-class people at these teabagger parties are actually protesting (without realizing it) to raise their own taxes and LOWER the taxes of the incredibly wealthy Republicans who are sponsoring the events.
7. All of the FOX News personalities who have promoted these rallies in person and on the air make more than $250,000.00, so they too have an obvious conflict of interest - or, at the least, contemptibly greedy motives.
8. Pretty much everyone involved with these protests either actively proclaimed or passively agreed that criticism of the President was equivalent to disloyalty or even treason - during the Bush years, that is. Now, however, they have suddenly rediscovered that dissent is patriotic. What a coincidence!
9. The protesters and Republican backers of the protests now piously proclaim the sacredness of the people's right to assemble and petition the Government for redress of grievances. This from the party that created barbed-wire-enclosed "Free Speech Zones" far out of the President's sight, during those miraculously-forgotten Bush years.
10. The irony of the supposed party of family values and superior morality unknowingly naming their protests after a notorious sexual act is, of course, quite obvious.
I'm sure that there are many more ironies, but this is what I've come up with so far. Please feel free to add anything I've missed!
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