The Pathetic Desperation Behind Teabagger Violence

Blue Girl reads the teabagger profiles in WaPo and responds with no sympathy whatsoever.

Life, apparently, didn't go the way that Randy Millam thought it would when he was growing up. Now he is 52 and he veritably defines the oeuvre of the disaffected loser...lost his job years ago and hasn't worked since, freeloads off his wife who has carried his fat ass and kept it insured, and whose honor-student daughter who is about to graduate from high school just enlisted in the Army. Unsaid about that last part is that her dad failed her and she has no other way to pay for college.

And by God, he just knows that it is all Obama's fault, because Fox News told him so.

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My husband and I are both smart enough to know that if you can take a megaphone and a stupid sign and yell and scream on a public street for two or three hours, our freedoms are just fine...unlike during the Bush era, when protest was strictly verbotten.

But he bought into the Reagan bullshit three decades ago when he was a young man, and can't even begin to comprehend that thirty years of republican neglect and maintaining that "government doesn't work" then once elected proving it - is actually why he is now a pathetic loser - and why the infrastructure is crumbling. He and far too many others bet on the wrong horse. Now they are facing the consequences of those bad decisions and they don't like it one little bit.

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And one last thing...I am Sick. To. Fucking. Death. of assholes like this fatassed, freeloading, probably a racist, loser thinking that they are the "real America" because...Why? Because they are white? Male? Fifty? Why are these fringe lunatics the "real America" when 53% of us voted for Obama and sent wide Democratic majorities to the House and Senate to give him a Congress he could work with and get some things set right, knowing damned good and well that it takes longer to clean up a mess than to make it?

The second one profiled is an even bigger loser:

Grow the fuck up. The dude is on the dole. He's a fucking hypocrite who lives off a Social Security check and a wife who hasn't kicked his fat, lazy ass to the curb. Yet.

But what I really love about this pig is why Mr. Personal Responsibility is on disability in the first place...

Ready?

He has congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension.

Those are what we in the medical field call lifestyle diseases.

In other words...everything he suffers from, he invited by being a moron in his personal lifestyle choices.

The bottom line is, the republicans have lost the last two elections, and the way they have handled it, they may not win any outside the south for a long, long time.

But resorting to terrorism is not how we do things in the land that invented the No Fear t-shirt.

Early in American colonial history, there was a moment when black slaves and white indentured servants came close to making common cause against the wealthy masters who mistreated both of them.

The wealthy masters, however, spotted the danger and implemented a brilliant strategy to turn the two groups from allies into enemies: racism. They phased out white servitude in favor of more black slavery and encouraged the poorest of whites to view themselves as superior to the hopeless black slaves.

It's a strategy that's saved the plutocrats over and over and over again: prevent the proletariat from massacring the wealthy by giving the poor an even more pathetic group to loathe and look down on.

Ninety percent of the genuine problems plaguing the teabaggers are the direct result of republican policies and malfeasance. Making them blame their natural allies - Democrats who are trying to help them - is nothing more than pure self-defense.