Honestly, corrupting the libertarian movement into just another bunch of Christofascists was a work of genius (and ultimately led to me giving up of the GOP all together.)
Ironically I’m sure MAGA nation would call Grover Norquist a RINO today.
Thanks Obamna!
Eight years of having a black president literally broke some people’s brains. Any reservation for publicly outing themselves as racist bigots was wrecked by the rise of the Tea Party, and someone with no shame like Trump was the perfect storm to galvanize their “movement”.
Look, we get it. You had enough pretending like you were at least slightly tolerant of others and were not secretly stewing endlessly about the loss of your good ole days, when you could openly enjoy the privilege of whiteness and being a christian fascist.
The world moved on, you stayed put, and when you looked around one day, it scared the hell out of you because everything your hateful preacher warned you about had happened.
You were wrong then. You’re twice as wrong now. You’ll be drug kicking and screaming into the new millennium with the rest of your crowd and it will have to be your kids or grandkids that apologize for you.
…which descends from the Confederates and Know-nothings (also, the Nazis. Lots of Nazi influence).
The modern GOP is just an entire party of Westboro Baptist Church
Thanks Obama
Both entirely racially motivated.
No one could ever nail down what the tea party was or what they wanted. No one in the movement could articulate that either. Truly just a “reactionary” movement mostly just invented by FoxNews and whatever group organizing it. I have been fascinated at the lack of protesters during Biden’s administration. During Obamas administration they were out in many cities and occasionally in DC. But the last 3.5 years, nothing besides Jan 6.
You can draw a straight line from this bullshit right back to Gingrich and Armey back when Clinton was president
It started as a REACTION to Obama being elected. A bunch of racists put new outfits on their racism and that became The Tea Party. Then, MAGA came along and switched the outfits back to “we’re just straight up racist.”
Let’s not forget that the GOP allowed all of this through them.
Just a reminder that Donald Trumps entry into politics was talking about birtherism for 6 years even after it was both disproven and explained how explicitly racist that line was.
The Tea Party was started much earlier than that. They were originally an astroturf org run by Phillip Morris to fight indoor smoking bans.
I think her great grandparents were the south looking to retain “states rights” to own slaves.
Before Obama got elected tho
Look like that hipster teen checker at my grocery store.
Well, It started out under Ron Paul and for a hot wet moment represented a libertarian/small government party. They might as well have gutted Representative Paul on the floor of the Congress for doing as much.
Fox and the monied interests in the GOP immediately conjured Glenn Beck and gave him a billion-dollar microphone to stamp out anything that looked like the OG Tea Party movement cover it in clownish bullshit and then they found there was voter traction in that there clown-cart.
All of a sudden AM radio became that much more degenerate, with personalities becoming disposable calling for revolution and all sorts of garbage, with the understanding they could be “fired” from one station, and hired at another days later.
The lock-step to grab the “fringe” of the GOP was then picked up by Donald Trump back in the few years between them , and it took off. But it was definitely there, back in say 2009 or so, but it was mere weeks /months before it was hijacked by the corporate “clown cart”, and brought under some level of control.
Donald Trump proved that while you could get the crazy in a corral , you cannot keep it there, so to this day, they play with fire, and they will not be able to stop it any more than they could on January 6th.
Now nobody should be fooled – elements of socially conservative America and elements of the GOP have been playing with naked racism and fascist ambitions [for a very long time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Citizen).
But they DO love the warmth.
Started under Clinton with Dick Armey. He finally raised enough money and they got organized under Obama.
This is why the Never Trump GOP can go fuck themselves. They were all to happy to prop up Tea Party assholes like Frankenstein’s monster.
Yes
No, it started with Reagan, then Gingrich. When they saw a black president that just supercharged them
Honestly it started under Gingrich and Limbaugh in the 90s. Trump is the logical conclusion to what they started.
What’s really hilarious is they called themselves the Tea Baggers for a good 6 months or so until they finally figured out that it didn’t mean what they thought it meant. Then they got mad at everyone because people kept calling them Tea Baggers lol… (even Obama gave them grief about it).
The “grass roots” movement that happened to be almost completely financed by Koch brothers.
Yep. I saw it happening East Texas,a whole bunch went full tea party. It was MAGA version 1.
I remember them walking around with nooses on sock monkeys. Fuck those rotten ass dirty bastards.
I can confirm.
I was a fox news brainwashed asshole and hated Obama in 2007. I turned libertarian at about that time. By 2008 I was living in Houston and attended a tea party event at the convention center.
The whole thing felt absurd. Nothing of substance was done at the rally however they were very equipped with tents of products to sell to attendees.
It was a lot of embarrassing people with embarrassing views politically circle jerking each other. It felt like a way to co-opt a group of people with “valid” grievances against a huge expansion on govt.
I’ve since changed my opinions on Obamacare and Obama, for the record.
Honestly, it started when Strom Thurmond and the other southern democrats left the democrat party in response to the party’s support of desegregation. The Dixiecrats won a few states in the deep south in 1948, then they all joined the republicans after their third party bid failed. It’s been 70 years of the same white nationalist, Christian nationalist, anti-intellectualist bullshit. The only difference is that now they have agents inside the Supreme Court, so that pesky Constitution doesn’t get in their way any more
Gold water.. Reagan… it been around it never had to start
Don’t forget Citizens United in that timeline. America has a deranged billionaire oligarch problem.
Is their last name Birch? Because that is a Bircher Family Photo right there.
I would say in response to Obama, not under him…
It started with the Confederacy. It’s just been simmering for over a century.
True ‘dat.
Can confirm. Former tea party here. Soooooo much 2nd hand embarrassment for me these days.
It’s not wrong. My elderly aunt was a tea party fan and now she’s full on maga. I have to pass her FB post quick cause it’s so sad.
It started before that. Gingrich in 1995, the Starr investigations, etc. It goes back at least as far as Nixon. Reagan amped it up by doing a deal with Iran to hold on to the hostages until after the election. It’s been getting progressively worse with each decade. With 24hr profit based news then social media, the truth never stood a chance.
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Honestly, corrupting the libertarian movement into just another bunch of Christofascists was a work of genius (and ultimately led to me giving up of the GOP all together.)
Ironically I’m sure MAGA nation would call Grover Norquist a RINO today.
Thanks Obamna!
Eight years of having a black president literally broke some people’s brains. Any reservation for publicly outing themselves as racist bigots was wrecked by the rise of the Tea Party, and someone with no shame like Trump was the perfect storm to galvanize their “movement”.
Look, we get it. You had enough pretending like you were at least slightly tolerant of others and were not secretly stewing endlessly about the loss of your good ole days, when you could openly enjoy the privilege of whiteness and being a christian fascist.
The world moved on, you stayed put, and when you looked around one day, it scared the hell out of you because everything your hateful preacher warned you about had happened.
You were wrong then. You’re twice as wrong now. You’ll be drug kicking and screaming into the new millennium with the rest of your crowd and it will have to be your kids or grandkids that apologize for you.
[The classic…](https://i.imgur.com/PwP7l4K.jpg)
…which came from the John Birch Society
…which descends from the Confederates and Know-nothings (also, the Nazis. Lots of Nazi influence).
The modern GOP is just an entire party of Westboro Baptist Church
Thanks Obama
Both entirely racially motivated.
No one could ever nail down what the tea party was or what they wanted. No one in the movement could articulate that either. Truly just a “reactionary” movement mostly just invented by FoxNews and whatever group organizing it. I have been fascinated at the lack of protesters during Biden’s administration. During Obamas administration they were out in many cities and occasionally in DC. But the last 3.5 years, nothing besides Jan 6.
You can draw a straight line from this bullshit right back to Gingrich and Armey back when Clinton was president
It really started under [The Reform Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_the_United_States_of_America) in 1995. Trump ran for President under the Reform Party in 2000 and that platform has undermined the GOP into what it is now.
It started as a REACTION to Obama being elected. A bunch of racists put new outfits on their racism and that became The Tea Party. Then, MAGA came along and switched the outfits back to “we’re just straight up racist.”
Let’s not forget that the GOP allowed all of this through them.
Just a reminder that Donald Trumps entry into politics was talking about birtherism for 6 years even after it was both disproven and explained how explicitly racist that line was.
The Tea Party was started much earlier than that. They were originally an astroturf org run by Phillip Morris to fight indoor smoking bans.
I think her great grandparents were the south looking to retain “states rights” to own slaves.
Before Obama got elected tho
Look like that hipster teen checker at my grocery store.
Well, It started out under Ron Paul and for a hot wet moment represented a libertarian/small government party. They might as well have gutted Representative Paul on the floor of the Congress for doing as much.
Fox and the monied interests in the GOP immediately conjured Glenn Beck and gave him a billion-dollar microphone to stamp out anything that looked like the OG Tea Party movement cover it in clownish bullshit and then they found there was voter traction in that there clown-cart.
All of a sudden AM radio became that much more degenerate, with personalities becoming disposable calling for revolution and all sorts of garbage, with the understanding they could be “fired” from one station, and hired at another days later.
The lock-step to grab the “fringe” of the GOP was then picked up by Donald Trump back in the few years between them , and it took off. But it was definitely there, back in say 2009 or so, but it was mere weeks /months before it was hijacked by the corporate “clown cart”, and brought under some level of control.
Donald Trump proved that while you could get the crazy in a corral , you cannot keep it there, so to this day, they play with fire, and they will not be able to stop it any more than they could on January 6th.
Now nobody should be fooled – elements of socially conservative America and elements of the GOP have been playing with naked racism and fascist ambitions [for a very long time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Citizen).
But they DO love the warmth.
Started under Clinton with Dick Armey. He finally raised enough money and they got organized under Obama.
This is why the Never Trump GOP can go fuck themselves. They were all to happy to prop up Tea Party assholes like Frankenstein’s monster.
Yes
No, it started with Reagan, then Gingrich. When they saw a black president that just supercharged them
Honestly it started under Gingrich and Limbaugh in the 90s. Trump is the logical conclusion to what they started.
What’s really hilarious is they called themselves the Tea Baggers for a good 6 months or so until they finally figured out that it didn’t mean what they thought it meant. Then they got mad at everyone because people kept calling them Tea Baggers lol… (even Obama gave them grief about it).
[https://theweek.com/articles/494697/evolution-word-tea-bagger](https://theweek.com/articles/494697/evolution-word-tea-bagger)
The “grass roots” movement that happened to be almost completely financed by Koch brothers.
Yep. I saw it happening East Texas,a whole bunch went full tea party. It was MAGA version 1.
I remember them walking around with nooses on sock monkeys. Fuck those rotten ass dirty bastards.
I can confirm.
I was a fox news brainwashed asshole and hated Obama in 2007. I turned libertarian at about that time. By 2008 I was living in Houston and attended a tea party event at the convention center.
The whole thing felt absurd. Nothing of substance was done at the rally however they were very equipped with tents of products to sell to attendees.
It was a lot of embarrassing people with embarrassing views politically circle jerking each other. It felt like a way to co-opt a group of people with “valid” grievances against a huge expansion on govt.
I’ve since changed my opinions on Obamacare and Obama, for the record.
Honestly, it started when Strom Thurmond and the other southern democrats left the democrat party in response to the party’s support of desegregation. The Dixiecrats won a few states in the deep south in 1948, then they all joined the republicans after their third party bid failed. It’s been 70 years of the same white nationalist, Christian nationalist, anti-intellectualist bullshit. The only difference is that now they have agents inside the Supreme Court, so that pesky Constitution doesn’t get in their way any more
Gold water.. Reagan… it been around it never had to start
Don’t forget Citizens United in that timeline. America has a deranged billionaire oligarch problem.
Is their last name Birch? Because that is a Bircher Family Photo right there.
I would say in response to Obama, not under him…
It started with the Confederacy. It’s just been simmering for over a century.
True ‘dat.
Can confirm. Former tea party here. Soooooo much 2nd hand embarrassment for me these days.
It’s not wrong. My elderly aunt was a tea party fan and now she’s full on maga. I have to pass her FB post quick cause it’s so sad.
It started before that. Gingrich in 1995, the Starr investigations, etc. It goes back at least as far as Nixon. Reagan amped it up by doing a deal with Iran to hold on to the hostages until after the election. It’s been getting progressively worse with each decade. With 24hr profit based news then social media, the truth never stood a chance.