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Oh, plucky little conservatives. They do try so hard.
Today, I had the opportunity to attend a protest in Seattle against the stimulus bill. It was an orderly affair with a few speeches, a recording of Ronald Reagan waxing on big government and a kumbaya moment singing the National Anthem. (Mind you, I like singing the National Anthem and the crowd was in pretty good tune. But it’s still kumbaya.)
Protests are something usually reserved for the other guy in the ideological war. After all, as it has been often noted, conservatives have jobs. However, the stimulus bill’s timing, the availabiity of some conservatives on the Presidents’ Day holiday and my need to be downtown at a client’s office provided a rare syzygy resulting in the photos below.
Which is followed by pictures of a bunch of people (reportedly about 150, más o menos) standing around holding up signs that lack what marketers refer to as a "call to action" of the sort that you might find from your average homeless guy ("Why lie, I need a beer!").
My favorite picture with actual swear-to-gawd caption which needs no comment:
Whipping up the conservative crowd into a frenzy!
Is that an oxymoron?
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Great Gobs of Goo! Clicked to look at all the pics (Don’t bother.) & M. Malkin & Instaninny are ALL OVER THIS. The revolution is here!!
(There’s probably a bigger crowd every Saturday night at the one State Liquor Store in Seattle that stays open until midnight.)
Oh my f-ing dog. What a funny spread, and I’m not talking about the “organizer.” My favorite is when the intrepid “reporter” spots a melanin-enhanced man with his hand on his chest, and gets confused:
We all know only true Americans (i.e. Repubs) actually care about the National Anthem…and flag lapel pins…and Lee Greenwood. Anyone else is an importer, especially with that skin color. Who does he think he’s foolin?!?
And the best part is the “organizer’s” name: Liberty Belle. Swear to doG. You can’t make this stuff up.
Wingnuts are gonna put The Onion out of business.
She’s either Amish, or a ninny.
I call ninny.
They had to bus them (conservatives/idiots) in from Spokane.
Now I know why the line at the Westlake Starbucks was so long.
I vote ninny- the Amish have alwas struck me as too busy to spend time grandstanding (if you can call 150 mama’s basement escapees grand).
Now there’s a protest! “To the barricades, citizens! It’s a holiday and I need to go downtown anyway.” On the other hand, it’s always nice to see the word “syzygy.”
You can imagine the difficulty they had finding a wing-nut daddy-figure powerful enough to convince the authoritarian minds to do something besides watch telebision on a day off.
Hard to believe you didn’t post this loving picture.
http://michellemalkin.cachefly…..02/ppc.jpg
Well, of course it was a small crowd protesting the federal stimulus. After all, the only people I know who had the day off work are employed by the government.
I wonder how many of these people actually lost their jobs because of that prior douchebag administration.
Speaking of loving pictures of MalKKKin: here’s a doozy I found via mediamatters earlier today. Busy week for Michelle; truly, there’s no rest for the wicked.
Oh, and a rally featuring “a recording of Ronald Reagan waxing on big government”?!? Totally. Rocks.
Buncha retarded fucking fucks, doncha think?
(Mind you, I like singing the National Anthem and the crowd was in pretty good tune. But it’s still kumbaya.)
Yeah, cause ya know there’s nothing more unamurcan than that DFH kumbaya BS. Like we can get along with those evil libruls or somthin.
I’ve seen bigger crowds around mimes in downtown Philly. And everyone, both left and right, hates mimes.
I’m just surprised that Sarah Palin wasn’t there too.
Instaninny! Gotta remember that one.
You own the Internet for today. Or at least the next hour.
Looks like the same demographic as O’Lielly and InSanityHannity; old men and Sarah wannabees. Quite the powerful force for change they’ve got there.
She’s either Amish, or a ninny.
I call QuiverFull. A lotta women in that movement don’t think God wants ‘em to get their hair cut.
See, e.g., Michelle Duggar.
Coming soon to theatres: “The Battle in Seattle II: Standing Athwart History and Yelling “Hey, look at me, I’m athwart!” I don’t think they’ll get Charlize Theron for this one, though.
“Ronald Reagan waxing on big government”–what, with Turtle Wax? Beeswax? I wish these bozos (and countless other bozos) would learn what the hell “wax” means. Grumph.
Re: the calico-wearing chick, definitely not Quiverfull–she’s wearing a sexy little cami under that washerwoman drag, can’t you see? Clearly a Modern Woman who’s embraced her sexual nature.
WOW! That’s a LOT like the 1500 people we got down to the Arizona State Capital on a Sunday (with three days notice) to protest education cuts.
I think the man on the right is less whipping up a frenzy than he is realizing his diaper is starting to leak.
Voices of the Elderly…Rarrrrr.
Keli Carender (the lady on the left) looks suspiciously like Ashley Todd in Sarah Palin drag.
No sheet. What is it w/ these people (fundamentalists of all monotheistic Middle Eastern religions) & female hair? The Muslims cover women’s hair, the craziest Jewish people make “their” women wear wigs so no one can see their real hair (think about that for 30 secs.) & the Xian ninnies say: “Don’t cut it.” Wear it up, FLDS style, or something.
So the message here is: We liked getting screwed over these past 8 years. Stop trying to fix things!!!!
Somehow, I can’t see this message resonating with the reality-based community.
Damn it! I have long(ish) hair and I am not fundy, extreme islamofascist or excessively Jewish, just too lazy to style my hair every morning. Does this mean that I have to cut my hair in order to avoid being put in the nutbag category?