In retrospect, it wasn't funny at all, today.

[Stinky The Clown]

Do you recall the person yelling "kill him" at the McCain rally?

Multiply that by thousands.

That's what was going on today.

[Bluebear]

1. See:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5466465&mesg_id=5466465

[Muttocracy]

2. was just about to post your post... that really says it all. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Exactly

[hlthe2b]

6. Charming... truly

:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

Today was hilarious.

At DU and abroad.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Yah .... as funny as a Klan rally

Ha

ha

ha

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Oooo! Oh no! The same freepers we've always had to deal with!

Oh, I'm so scared.

[jmg257]

24. Ever notice how much damage just one 'freeper' can do? You should keep score, or just ask

the cops in Pittsburgh, & the people in Binghamton & Oklahoma City - the nut cases are winning.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. The nut cases are winning?!

Horseshit.

[jmg257]

Pittsburgh? Binghamton? McVeigh? Who suffered most?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. You call that winning?

[jmg257]

28. For them? Body count was - is - just about everything.

"them" being nut cases with an axe to grind or something to prove, I mean.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. Binghamton wasn't even political, you goof.

It was a mentally disturbed nut that thought police were sneaking into his room and touching him in his sleep.

[jmg257]

31. Probable, an angry loner who loved guns, hated America and talked about assassinating the President.

But was not politically motivated.

I will withdraw him as an example then.

[LakeSamish706]

3. I agree with you and I hope our Government is watching this very closely....

These people are dangerous, and bordering on Treason IMO.

[IDemo]

7. The one that made my jaw drop:

One moran held a sign saying "American taxpayers are Obama's Jews in the ovens".

And I consider myself normally immune to RW moranics.

[rockymountaindem]

20. Me too

That guy deserves a kick in the teabag.

[Muttocracy]

21. OMG!!

[Matariki]

8. Yeah, I *strongly* suspect this doesn't *really* have all that much to do with taxes n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. I never thought any of it was funny ..........

It's all fueled by anger and hatred. And what scares me most is that these assholes are going to encourage a Travis Bickle, who's going to get a gun - if he doesn't already have one, or a bunch of guns - and he's going to head out to put his name in the history books.

All that anger, all that hate, they do not lead to anything constructive. The encouraging of these things is incendiary, fanning the flames, and then throwing kerosene on them, and that scares me. These people are just a few seconds away from violence, given the right push..................

[LakeSamish706]

16. Yep, and I think that it borders on Treason by some of the MSM; ie: Faux noise....

Limbaugh and others.... I sure hope that our Government is on top of this and won't hesitate to deal harshly with those that cross the line.

[NeedleCast]

10. I don't agree with that

That's like saying all the people at anti-war rallies are saying kill the troops.

Today seemed to be a strange collection of fringe elements. Seemed to draw the same kind of crowds that the G(x) protests draw on the left...a hodge-podge of people protesting all kinds of stuff. To say that all those people want to kill Obama is a little ridiculous. I have a lot of real, true hate for George Bush but I wouldn't have ever tried to kill him or encouraged others to do so.

[lonestarnot]

11. You could be correct.

[katanalori]

13. Beck, Hannity, Rick Perry, FOX Noise........

I am fantasizing that this Administration is giving them just enough rope to hang themselves, and they will all "disappear" - and they will disappear constitutionally, legally .....unlike the methods Cheney used to "disappear" people.

[Wetzelbill]

14. It's dark humor

Some people laugh at this stuff because it alleviates the concern. The teabaggers have been rightly mocked, but underneath all that laughter we know how goofy some of these people are. Laughter keeps us sane, thinking constantly about how scary these groups are sure won't.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. Those are my feelings on the matter. But sometimes it's even beyond laughing.

Bluebear's link for example. Or during the campaign when that little girl called Obama a monkey.

[Wetzelbill]

22. oh yeah

That stuff is pretty messed up.

[Median Democrat]

15. Here Is Nas's Music Video Sly Fox Re Fox News- Seems Particularly Appropriate Today

You have to give credit. Fox News did a great job of getting a bunch of people to show up an demonstrate against their economic interests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yydpWtjqa8&feature=related

[spanone]

17. there was a lot of scary today...

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. And that's why I didn't go

I am surprised there was no violence at any of these parties.

[jmg257]

23. It really isn't. Too many pissed off people being fed too much propaganda,

summer heat is coming, jobs are still being lost, and the economy hasn't recovered.

[chollybocker]

26. Why are there NO COPS visible in any of the pics posted today?

(More of a rhetorical question.)

[NeedleCast]

29. Weren't very many people at most of them

Although I saw some in a few of the pictures and people who went to check them out in person often said there was a police presence.