Twitter #Teaparty War Erupts Over Tax Day

One, two, three, four, I declare Twitter war! Specifically, the Great Teabag Twitter Hashtag Battle of 2009. On your Twitter, today, various progressives are currently hard at work pestering the people lurking on the #teaparty hashtag by sending along messages about the things they are proud to pay taxes for. Hyper-earnest examples include:

I pay taxes because we need educated citizens and public schools can do this best. #teaparty

I pay taxes so future generations can have social security and medicare #teaparty

I pay taxes because when my son & his unit were wounded in Iraq, didn't want them to have to beg Glenn Beck for bandages

I pay taxes because I enjoy the security of a police and fire force and I enjoy the luxury of paved roads #teaparty

All of those Twitterers will be added to Spencer Bachus' Secret List of Socialists, obviously.

Anyway, the true teabag believers aren't taking it lying down, and are responding in kind, with tweets like this one:

Years from now when you are reflecting on us "Nuts" you'll say "Who will stand with us against this" but we will be gone .#teaparty

They will "be gone" because by then, their mighty stack of teabags will reach all the way to Jesus.

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Comments

[ssfahrer]

01:26 AM on 04/16/2009

Since many folks feel they don't have representation, they don't want ANY TAXATION. And besides, this is what Jesus Christ meant when he said, "Render onto Ceasar what is Ceasar's [ZERO} and onto God what is God's [ALL]" since (Psalm 24:1): "The earth is the LORD'S..."-- not Ceasar's (i.e, 'big government').

[Hillrick]

08:24 AM on 04/16/2009

Some people never mind when it's other people. W@rs are ok if other people do the di eing, heck you can even laugh at it. Their taxes go down while poor people pay more, well shoot, they'd probably just spend it on beer and cigs. Same crowd who never shows empathy until it affects their family ie, Pa lin's special needs cause which only manifested itself as autism in the campaign, (not saying autistic children don't need care. more families concerned with treatment are likely to be middle to upper class. In the 90's my friend who runs a group home for special need individuals said "My job's good, they won't cut us from the budget. 3 years later they lost state funding."

[lmnop13]

04:45 PM on 04/15/2009

No joke. Some girl named Hallie just posted on #teaparty, Currently having a ball at the Tea Party in Sac!!!!

[yankeeinoxford]

03:52 PM on 04/15/2009

Brilliant! Do these silly twits not think about schools, roads, medicare, social security, police and fire protection? Do they not think about these things? What, we are meant to pay for all of these things while they sit back and take advantage (oh yes, that's what they do best). So much for their fake patriotism. When push comes to shove they don't care about any of these things and they don't care about our troops (the election is over so I guess they aren't incessantly talking about how much they love the troops anymore). Maybe their new catch phrase should be honest; how about "I'm greedy and I hate America and I want to take advantage of every liberal who is paying for me to have the lifestyle I have!" A recent study has shown that blue states have a higher tax burden. In short, our taxes make their country bumpkin lifestyle possible. They should be thanking us.....not complaining!

[Deadgnome]

03:57 PM on 04/15/2009

No, they don't think of that. I asked one the other day if he would enjoy drinking putrid water. Apparently that is fine with them.

[Progress08]

03:49 PM on 04/15/2009

Hahaha! The response was "Years from now". These dingbats actually think that this will be remembered as anything other than a Bob Robertsesque stunt perpetrated by the rich on the stupid. You're all sheep being led around like sheep all baahing and doing the same thing. That's OK becuase as soon as your shepherd is done he's going to fleece you all. You should all be in favor of raising taxes for better education because a public education has blatantly failed all of you.

[luvangelHussein330]

03:32 PM on 04/15/2009

"Right wingers either get the America they want, or nobody gets any America? Is that their alleged patriotic/Christian agenda?"
As posted by another user...no truer words spoken

[Skorpyos]

03:20 PM on 04/15/2009

These Neocons don't even know what fascism and socialism mean. This whole Tea Party fiasco is just a reason for them to miss work.

[Deadgnome]

04:00 PM on 04/15/2009

Yeah the folks in Iowa were wearing Red shirts. Really RED?

[tailgateshirts]

04:44 PM on 04/15/2009

*isms scare them

[Phxflyer]

03:16 PM on 04/15/2009

From the AP:

"The tea parties have been promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas. The group's federal tax returns show it has both educational and charitable arms, which together received more than $6 million in donations in 2007, the most recent year for which returns are available.

The group is not required by law to disclose its donors. FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon did not immediately return calls seeking comment about the group's financial backers.

Armey, who the tax returns show was paid $400,000 by FreedomWorks in 2007, also is registered as a lobbyist for the firm DLA Piper, and has listed corporate clients there including Verizon, Raytheon, liquor maker Diageo, CarMax and drug company Sanofi Pasteur."

So much for the "grasroots movement" lie.

[Deadgnome]

03:58 PM on 04/15/2009

They do not know how to define grassroots, the call it a TRUE grassroots movement, well sorry guys, you're about 100 and some odd years late, I'd go back to the abolitionists.

[KillBillV2]

02:41 PM on 04/15/2009

THIS IS KIND OF EXCITING! I LOVE LAUGHING AT THESE R ETARDS!!!!


*giddy laugh*

[huffingt]

02:37 PM on 04/15/2009

do we know what is in the tea bag. hope it is not d=rugs>

[huffingt]

02:36 PM on 04/15/2009

tthe tea baggers are making it easier for HLS , Secret Service & FBI to root out the
home grown right wing extremism. .

[DASChicago]

02:54 PM on 04/15/2009

Root out...they are EXPOSED and ignorantly arrogant about it.


PR, Funding and Participants Perp's are as follows;

Fox Fixed News=Extremist organized platform

Armey=Fund raising feeder-fund Host

Teabaggers=Nasty folks

Unedited video's don't lie. These folks are all kool-aide drinking, domestic terr00rist.

[plooger]

03:47 PM on 04/15/2009

Not to mention the IRS. I love the guy who declared, on video, that he won't be paying taxes any more. (knock, knock)

[PRODEMO]

02:24 PM on 04/15/2009

They're like sheep..so easily led,looking for that 15 minutes of media fame. From what i'm watching on the news today,they're all protesting something different..it's all a big farce,as we all know this country cannot function without taxes!

[MarieFara]

02:22 PM on 04/15/2009

When are WE going to protest in mass for Bush trials? The right wingnuts can make a protest and WE report it, CNN, MSNBC and FOX report it but all we do is "blog" about how Bush committed crimes? When are WE going to take to the streets and demand something be done about the previous administration stepping over our civil liberties?

[freedomisabsolute]

02:30 PM on 04/15/2009

Shall we surround his gated community?

[PiscesPrincess]

02:52 PM on 04/15/2009

Shall we surround his gated community?

[luvangelHussein330]

03:16 PM on 04/15/2009

Only white people can do that since the residents ares still a bit touchy with people of color...unless your the help...Given that thier "No people of color" rule was just lifted

[elfvis]

02:21 PM on 04/15/2009

"They will "be gone" because by then, their mighty stack of teabags will reach all the way to Jesus."

LOL. Classic.

[obamagal]

03:02 PM on 04/15/2009

Ditto!

[MarieFara]

02:20 PM on 04/15/2009

I pay my taxes so we could go to war with a country like Iraq that had nothing to do with 9/11.
Where was the protest THEN?

[tailgateshirts]

02:16 PM on 04/15/2009

check out @realglennbeck -- good stuff