we've seen this movie before. it's teaparty 2.0.

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at least some of these mouth beathers showing up at public meetings are paid actors.
yeah, i know, the ct nuts talk about that shit all the time. projection. they do it, they assume we do.

there was a twitter thread posted a while back w pics of some of these nuts.
some do it every day, have no visible means of support, AND had imbd profiles.

we didnt know what hit us then, but there's no excuse now.
make these fuckers show their id's when they go to any kind of meeting, and feel free to block their asses if they arent affected by the decisions.
willing to bet those a lot of those cretins at the tenn school board meeting did.not.have.kids.in.those.schools.

sure, there are fellow travelers to be found, but they arent leaders and they arent organizers and they ARENT THE MONEY.
follow the money.

[BasicallyComplicated]

1. This!!!

Is on of the most important threads I have ever seen!

[mopinko]

2. i'm waiting for twitter to wake up.

[bullwinkle428]

3. I was yelling this the other day. EXACTLY like the tea-baggers screaming

at the Congressional town halls in 2009.

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5. yup. went to one here in the chi burbs.

my rep, jan schakowsky, had one, and they got wind that it could get ugly.
they lined up as many friendlies as they could, including me.

afterward, they said they did not recognize any of the shouters.
they had sign in sheets, and many were not from the district.

[wnylib]

10. A tried and true RW tactic.

They hire people for all kinds of settings, from Tea Party at town hall meetings to thugs disrupting the vote count in Florida in 2000 to extras at TFG's rallies. Violent disrupters at BLM rallies, too.

They yell about fake news while they provide fake people to create their own fake news.

[Harker]

15. It's disgusting what they can get for twenty bucks and a T-shirt.

I'd like to see critical thinking raised to the level of arithmetic in schools.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Imagine the cash flows surrounding pre Jan 6 planning and execution

It's been said, nothing happens in the world without money. No incentive, no motivation, no payoff.

[lagomorph777]

29. NOt good enough to imagine it. We need Garland to trace it and prosecute.

Based on his performance so far with the Jan 6th foot soldiers, I'm not optimistic.

[Traildogbob]

6. While watching

The Tennessee public school board meetings aftermath in the parking lot with those assholes threatening the life of a doctor, I was thinking didn’t the GQP make it legal to run over protesters blocking traffic? If ever there was a need to plow through some shit, that was it. But, as they obviously were, and the protester said, all those cops there were on the side of the Terrorists.

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7. hence my blood pressure this a.m.

[stillcool]

8. brought to you by the Koch network

stunning what an octopus they've become, tentacles everywhere. Need some buses? need some people? need some shirts, signs, guest speakers, lawyers, hotel rooms? They've got a Pac for that.

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9. that's who i suspect.

i mean, they got away w it w the teaparty.
to this day i dont think it is widely known just how astroturfed that whole thing was.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Try Jeff Nesbitt's book - Poison Tea.

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13. we here know it.

but you dont see ANY acknowledgment in the media.
they treat gaetz and jordan like they got there on their own, bouyed by a wave of like minded good ole boys. american as apple pie hot dogs.

and i have yet to see any mention of the teaparty. which, could be happening. i dont watch much teevee, except via youtube and du.

but rly. it should be everywhere.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Totally agree.

[stillcool]

24. I was so eager to learn back then...

wanting to know all the different corporations involved. It's got to be so much more refined from the days of Karl Rove.

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28. fersher

and it's only gonna get worse unless the good guys turn it on them.

[crickets]

37. Yep. The stench of Koch money is instantly recognizable. nt

[madinmaryland]

38. AKA, Dick Armey's armies of dicks! nt

[eShirl]

11. same old wingnut thugs

[malaise]

14. K & R

for truth

[RVN VET71]

17. Thanks for this!

But where the hell are the “good GOP voters" complaints about this astro-turfed thuggery? Or are they all, every damned one of them, passively complicit? In which case, of course, there are no “good people” among GOP voters because they are all of them, every stinking one of them, no better than the thugs-for-hire breaking up Town Hall Meetings and, for chrissakes, School Board meetings.

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19. it's not a coincidence that these things are popping up like mushrooms after a monsoon.

follow the money.
there is such a thing as the zeitgeist, but this isnt it.

[East-A-Squared]

18. More astroturfing.

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20. how do they get away w that in the 21st century, that's what i want to know.

this shit is as old as humankind. why cant we see through it?

[Farmer-Rick]

21. It's funny that none in the corporate media have identified the protesters in Franklin

That bald heavy set guy, I've seen him before. He looked like their leader. He just looks sooo familiar.

In case someone snarky claims do a Google search. I did. And no ones idenity was commented on by the corporate media.

But I would swear I've seen that bald guy and even that dark haired guy acting all angry sounded and looked like a guy off an LA California set then someone who lives in a small southern town.

No accents on any of them, except the cop.

This was staged but the corporate media is pretending otherwise. You would think they would have interviewed at least the bald guy and the dark haired good looking guy....bad casting, he should have at least had bad teeth ( joke....no not all people in TN have bad teeth like me.... )

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22. i noticed the lack of accents, too.

the vid i saw was pretty poor quality. hoping more comes out.
you on fb? was thinking about trolling around for local fb groups that might be talking.

[Duppers]

23. Makes a lot of sense. Face recognition technology...

should be used here. Another thing, these asshole screamers were men. Where were the "moms"?

And why haven't the real parents come forward with statements.

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27. yeah, sort of a giveaway.

i need to take a closer look at that vid.
and yeah, hoping for local voices.

[flying_wahini]

25. I think of Roger Stone and his influence in these events.

Right up his alley.

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26. oh, i smell roger everywhere.

imho, he is the mastermind of 1/6. that's why he and manafort had to be pardoned. not cuz the slobfather cared about them. he had a job for them.

[H2O Man]

31. I agree

that Roger was among the "organizers," and had significant influence on the day's events. But in terms of tacticians per the violence, I think it was Steve Bannon, who has a deeper background on how to turn a crowd into a weapon of violence. Roger = political history, Bannon = military history.

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33. the thugs are roger's pets.

seen w the proud boys on the day, iirc.

[H2O Man]

34. Absolutely.

Roger does strategy, Bannon does tactics.

[StClone]

30. It's their MO: Use chameleons backed by anti-democratic Big money

They have the same targets using different costumes to destroy our Government and put themselves as enslavers of the 99%.

[H2O Man]

32. Recommended.

I agree 100%.

[Grins]

35. There. Is. No. Fucking. Tea. Party.

As Driftglass reminded and reminded us:

"There. Is. No. Fucking. Tea. Party. There is just the same, old, rage-drunk, bigoted GOP "base" now wearing funny hats...a Koch-funded, Fox-endorsed, Reich-wingnut GOP re-branding sham.

And if you "follow the money," it will lead to to the usual suspects, starting with the Koch brothers.

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36. so how are they getting away w it AGAIN?

how?