Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 29, 2010

Crazy!

Maybe these ARE the Yippies. Most of the teabaggers are old enough.

My sister-in-law, who was a raging liberal for most of her life, is now a tea bagger.

Heh, yeah, Joe. It’s the same as the people screeching about “keeping government hands off of Medicare.” Really?

ArtyG, I suspect the word “raging” has something to do with it. My sister-in-law is a tea bagger, but she’s been a raging conservative forever.

BTW, heard some interviews with tea baggers this morning, and they are nuts. One of them was raging against something in the bill, and when the reporter pointed that that wasn’t in the bill, the woman said, “I don’t believe that. Nobody knows what’s in it anyway.”

So, if she doesn’t know what’s in the bill, what’s she raging against?

Has anyone read “Game Change” by Heilemann and Halperin (Behind the scenes at the 2008 election)? Why is no-credibility Sarah able to draw the crowds at the Tea Party rallys? This is not a rheatorical question…I don’t know the answer. Scripted sound bytes do not make a credible spokesperson or leader - IMHO.

@BTB: I think I agree; I hope GT keeps this scenario going for at least a few days. :-)

Florchi, I’m just guessing, but I think Sarah Palin draws the crowds because:

(1) She’s good looking – not threatening, family-ruining Hollywood hot, but soccer/hockey mom hot, the kind of thing her crowds can relate to and admire.

(2) She’s good with a quip, and doesn’t threaten their assumptions or trouble their minds with complexities and long sentences.

(3) They don’t want a “credible spokesperson or leader” – that would be too elitist and, again, threatening. They only want to listen to someone who’s “one of us”. Most politicians project themselves as aw-shucks regular folks for just that reason, but in her case, it isn’t phony…that’s all she is.

Bottom line, she’s easy on the eyes, and the brain. How could she not draw delighted crowds of people who don’t want anything more?

Stupid people are not regular folks. Not even with a daily laxative.

Teabaggers are the Anti-Yippies

Here’s the thing - the Democratic is the part of the Ku Klux Klan, and has been since the Klan was founded; but the GOP has never attempted to brand the Democrats as the party of racism; because it ain’t. Some of its jerky fringe are.

But, a few wankers declare themselves Republican, and Democrats decry us as a party of nuts.

PS - one Klansman crossed the party line and ran as a Republican (David Duke), and the GOP did something the DNC never did to the Klan; refused him funding and told him to get lost.

Walter Cronkite was calling the 68 Yippies “dirty anarchists” until he got roughed up by Daley’s cops. Then the tune changed on national TV.

What the teabaggers need is a anchor person to be assaulted. I can think of a few I wouldn’t mind seeing.

Its a natural byproduct of using hate to rally your political base.

You get these people all riled up and then they need a release for all that anger.

Used to be called rabble rousing. Nowadays, it’s campaigning.

The impression I have from about a half dozen friends and acquaintances who have attended three or four Tea Parties in as many states is that the crowds are well-behaved. This “rage” I keep hearing about from the media (and comics) seems to be a fabrication. I’m thinking about going to an April 15 Tea Party to see for myself.

scatty423, never saw the palin adulation thing explained so well— this very very dangerous person could gain control over the most powerful army and navy the world has ever known……..

god help us , then

“Why is no-credibility Sarah able to draw the crowds at the Tea Party rallys?”

McCain standing next to Palin is the visual equivalent of all the Hollywood movies where the guy’s wife dies and he gets to go on a quest with the younger babysitter. Variation recently, see Crazy Horse, where the older guy gets to schtup a younger woman….

Palin started off with her glasses on and her hair up. People are understandably waiting for her to “take it off….take it all off…..”

Guy who withstood VN tiger cage & torture next to self-styled wolf-killing, disabled-lovin’ “rogue” babe with gift of gab….what’s not to love?

Palin good looking?!?!?!?!?!?!

I weep for the fading of American eyes. Must be what’s in the water that is damaging vision.

I would go to a tea party but I lack four things to be welcome there: 1) I’m not blindingly stupid, 2) I am not illiterate, 3) I am not utterly ignorant, 4) I don’t hate America as it was designed and implemented.

And baggies are so eaten up with rage they cannot hold a simple conversation.

Probably are the same people. I noticed back in the ’80s that the generation that had said not to trust anyone over 30 had promptly set out to prove their warning when it meant them.

…tea baggers(giggle) are the product of the media hype….they actually show why freedom of the press is so important…one side only is propaganda..one side only spewing hate propaganda creates tea bagger type brown shirt groups..decent people given media led approval to do bad things and act in bad ways..don’t tread on me used by tea baggers is a disgrace to America..they don’t know their history only Fox sound bites…someone in my town actually flys his America Flag upside down!This is a disgrace!I feel like punching him…they call themselves Americans but they are anything but…they calll themselves Christians but act more like Romans or WWII era Germans..shame shame shame..

I think there is a little confusion over “Yippies” and “Yuppies”. These are Yippies types and the big banks, CEOs and the like ARE Yuppies.

PCS,,,,,,, How about the shout downs at town hall meetings. Calm? engaging?

Peggy Noonan said it best about Sarah Palin in a WSJ Op-Ed piece during the election: “Sarah Palin doesn’t think when she speaks. She just… says things.”

@Justice22: However, it’s a large percentage of the Yippies who went on to become a large percentage of the Yuppies.

Just a matter of getting their turn to be the Establishment they had once whined about and outdoing them.

Whatza matter GaryTrudeau/ You and the other screaming Liberals feel threatened by Real Americans who understand the Constitution of the United states?

Did anyone ever explain to any of them what “teabagging” used to mean? I suspect so, since they are now merely the tea party…

Yep, Insanity of the right looks like insanity of the left. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” New CSI: Teabagger episode? Naw, they used the theme on NY, didn’t they?…

Stalin and Hitler proved this long ago and since they don’t pay any attention to history except as they spin it, yes, teaers are doomed to repeat it. e.g., Hoover’s economic policies were the same as Bush’s Thanks to the Rover and we got the same result except there’s no heavy industry to bail us out and the country was already 1/4 making stuff for the defense industry. “DOOMED to repeat it” is really right.

Funny how, after the gunny thing is done, we have about 40 less posts here. Yeah, shills how up.

Dig up a copy of Future Shock – there’s too much coming at these people too fast, too much change, too much disruption. The brain goes into a kind of survival-mode where all that infomation overload is dumped in favor of simple direct uncomplicated un-nuanced explanations. These people are being led by clowns and charlatans, and some of them are saying evil stupid things, but they are mostly not evil stupid people. They are drowning in an ocean of Future and Change and, oh yeah, this terrible Reagan/Bush Economy. Stupid-simple ideas are their life preserver and willful ignorance is them holding their breath when the waves push them under.

Glenn Beck needs to be mocked (and Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter need a meaningful discussion with the business end of a Louisville Slugger) but the Teabaggers are mostly their victims. Anyone who can figure out how to rescue them back to sanity and the American Conversation will be a hero.

Someone who is politically correct is someone you don’t agree with. The Democrats have recently shown that they aren’t a bit intimidated by tea baggers. GOPers squealed when the Democrats decided to stick to their guns on health care. They said it was being rammed down their throats and jammed and it was too big. (as if legislation that large was never passed under Bush or any other of the GOP) Let’s just hope things don’t get too violent, as in murders during the 60’s surrounding civil rights legislation. You can’t allow yourself to be bullied, but people who are crossing the line have to be dealt with. As for political correctness, conservatives often show themselves to be just as strident in their views.

SuperGriz - i think Gallagher said it best:

“Think of how stupid the average American is. Then remember half of them are stupider than that.”

Dmajor – you’ve given us the key. :)

I would add that the Left is as prone to sound bites and bumper sticker philosophy as the Right – it’s a human limitation, not a partisan one. It’s appealing to have the mess and chaos of life reduced to a few simple principles and slogans, and as you say, sometimes one’s sanity depends on it.

It applies not only to John Q. Citizen, but to members of Congress too. It’s why our system is designed to keep the slogans of one side of the other from hijacking the republic.

NashvilleMac,

I don’t think the “average” American is stupid. Quite the opposite.

There are, however, plenty of “above- average” Americans who are way below par.

btw I like Gallagher, too.

Do the t-baggers realize that they are spending more to get to the rallies and conventions than what they would pay in higher taxes? Come on! $550 to go watch the bimbo read from her hand?

Bimbo: any female with which you do not agree.

Dmajor, if you don’t like Beck, O’Reilly and Coulter don’t watch Fox. I can’t stand the yelling Chris Matthews or Keith Oberman who are complete jerks. I don’t watch MSNBC at all. As many more people do not watch MSNBC according to the ratings.

Where was the concern over the deficity when W was prez? If you don’t like Doonesbury, don’t read it. No one is making you read it. The left wing does not have a monopoly on political correctness, anymore than the GOP has a monopoly on carrying around the American flag. Our congressman from KC who was spat on last weekend and called the N word can tell you a few things about where the rage and anger is. Several other members of congress can also inform you about where it is. Republicans: you aren’t the only ones who vote or who have political opinions and if you don’t like that then you might be happier in a Communist or Fascist state where everyone has to have the same opinion. You lost the election, get over it. The Democrats heard that for 8 years under W. Now it is your turn. Deal with it.

The tea bag folks seem to be more in the line with the Confederacy. The Civil War seems to be more their cup of tea. The Civil War is over folks.

Hypocritical GOP folks want to give lots of tax $ to the corporations but that isn’t socialist, of course.

What ever superficial advantage there is to Palin’s appearance, it is more than offset by her horrible syntax. Every time I hear her speak, I want to rip my eyes out and stomp them on the floor. It’s worse than chalk on the board.

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Wow…

All this from those who ‘preach’ tolerance and inclusivity (but apparently do not want to practice it).

Heard the same comment cdward – unbelievable!!