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Populist_Prole

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9. True; but more interesting yet is how they're omnipotent in their own minds

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 05:54 PM

Oct 2015

I spend several days with some very right-wing relatives and their equally fascist friends. Bitter curmudgeons all. They're all teabaggers ( they identify with the TP and have since it became a buzz )

The reality is that they are a small sliver, but a very very strident one. Talk to them and they strongly believe they represent the majority of the population. They also have much disdain for younger people. It was most apparent.

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The Tea Party is the pit bull chained in the backyard of the Republican Party... [View all] Human101948 Oct 2015 OP

They are more like a chihuahua WDIM Oct 2015 #1

Whatever...but they have turned on their owners and bit them in the ass... Human101948 Oct 2015 #4

Not a really good analogy because we should feel sympathy justiceischeap Oct 2015 #2

You're assuming that the Tea Party have the ability to reason like humans... Human101948 Oct 2015 #3

I've no sympathy for owners who chain their dogs either justiceischeap Oct 2015 #5

Just saw a poll that said Teabaggers have a 17% positive rating ... Bigmack Oct 2015 #6

That's Interesting ProfessorGAC Oct 2015 #8

True; but more interesting yet is how they're omnipotent in their own minds Populist_Prole Oct 2015 #9

They are all ReTHUGs malaise Oct 2015 #7