On a beautiful Southern California Sunday afternoon in San Diego, the Tea Party Express II (also known as the Keep Unemployable Howard Kaloogian Out of Gangs Tour) kicked off yesterday and, out a population of 1.3 million, an impressive one thousand (1000! … 1-0-0-0 … 400 less than the size of my high school graduating class) patriots showed up and, as always, the message was muddled:

(Image Peggy Peattle SDUT)
More pictures here.
They seem to be dealing with issues other than taxes although for the life of me I can’t put my finger on it.



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I notice the ol’ “Obama is shoving something down my throat” metaphor in the background of that picture. Man, that never gets old.
Who let that black guy in?
I think the most disturbing point is that these morons really have been brainwashed to think that the President is some sort of Islamodefeatocratsocialist murderer (and worse) by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck. Sure, they had a head start in the ignorance department, but they are being used, once again. I would feel sorry for them if they didn’t make me so damn angry.
Ask any one of them. They aren’t “the R word”.
They have black friends.
They have even let them use their bathrooms.
C
Kaloogian has the Trans-Caucasian strong-man look down to a “T” (or actually, down to a black turtleneck, tan sportcoat, and sunglasses,,,)
That is the least sexy cancan line I’ve ever seen.
I know it’s way, way, WAY too early to even consider this but I can’t help but think that the 2012 Republican debate(s) are going to demand a HUGE amount of popcorn. Which leads me to my next question — what’s everyone’s favorite brand? If I’m going to invest in this race by buying stock in a popcorn company I’d appreciate a bit of an inside track on what DFHs like.
isn’t the cancan French?
To borrow a wingnut construction, some people are saying that Fox plans to meld the 2012 Repub debates with that Jeff Foxworthy show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Tried to get an early bet down on the kids, but Vegas had them at 2 to 5. Way to short for my taste.
You can tell from the pictures that those people are the salt of the earth; the common clay of the new West. You know…
The last photo is of a woman holding a sign that reads “Billionaires for healthcare” did the organizers hava a clue that they were being mocked?
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/31/billionaires-for-wealthcare-mocks-healthcare-protesters-in-california/
Marion, the 2010 election is going to require something way more potent than popcorn. I’m betting on tequila and shotglasses with snappy slogans like: “Who gives a ratzass about Kansas?”
You forgot some of the “where.”
No ‘Oath Keepers‘?
I had a $2 box in the office pool that the pro-military coup crowd would be the new ‘it’ meme for the teabagger oriented.
These people are starting to bore me.
This DFH likes Newman’s Own Pop’s Corn.
I’m getting to the point where I don’t mind if people turn out to these things because the more wingnuts that are out in public, where we can see them (and, more to the point, see what’s in their hands), the less are sitting at home, looking at that corner of the yard where they buried the ammo that they bought with the last of their severance check with a longing and speculative look.
Sure, keep making fun of these Patriots.
(and we’re not talkin’ the East Coast, elite, New England kind, either)
You won’t be laughing when Obama finally invades Poland. Or the Czech Republic.
He’ll wake up one morning feeling all Hitler-y or Stalin-y and order in the tanks.
Both Hitler and Stalin started with opt-out provisions in their healthcare reform packages, too. Then came the concentration camps and the Gulags.
Slippery slope!!1!!one!! Wolverines!!111!!
Tuna Harbor Park is a little triangle of real estate just off Tuna Drive, (No lie!) and not too far from the Caesar Chavez and Spanish Landing parks along the bay–which, incidentally, look bigger on Google; further proving that brownish people are taking over all the “good stuff” in this country.
Vericose vein alert on the can-can girls photo.
Ick.
I wonder if the pledge of allegience came before or after the pro-secession speakers.
This DFH is into the bulk popcorn from the local health food/natural foods (NOT Whole Paycheck) store, you know, the dig it out of the bin and put it in a plastic bag kind. Pretty hard to invest in that, thus proving my DFH cred I guess…
Hitler-y!
As long as we’re betting folk around here, my money’s on March 21 [h/t Mel B.]
Fascinating that the UT showed no full crowd photos–proving just how pitiful the turnout really was. Also, they exaggerated the turnout, by oh, double.
The UT’s ownership’s changed, but it’s the same old shtick.
David Copley has left the building…..fast!
PS that statue next to the midway is awful!
I’m sitting here trying to envision Burl Stiff covering a Tea Bagging event in his tux jacket and bow tie, with a look of utter devastation on his face. Then again the UT usually only covers the social events that feature a full bar. Tea bags just aren’t enough of a draw for your hard-core media types.
…And most of the public art in this burg is awful.