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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 11:45 AM Mar 2013

Ruh-roh, Raggy. This Teabagger stepped in it.

Wonder where this will take that "movement." I think these people's excesses will be their undoing sooner than later.



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/19/texas-tea-party-leader-promotes-fascist-party-as-pro-constitution-pro-america/

A tea party leader in Texas is defending his promotion of the American Fascist Party as something he thought was “pro-Constitution, pro-America.”

James Ives, who was listed as the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party in 2011, confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Monday that he had made a promotional video for the American Fascist Party and advocated tea party principles on a Fascist Party message board.

In the video, a man who looks like Ives sits in front of a Fascist Party logo wearing a uniform with yellow shoulder patches. Another photo shows a uniformed man sitting in front of a fascist cross. The blog that inspired Norwegian mass shooter Anders Behring Breivik describes fascist solar crosses as “symbolic representations buried deep in the regions of the brain where the primal responses to stimuli are rage, awe, and fear.” ... more

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Ruh-roh, Raggy. This Teabagger stepped in it. (Original Post) Skidmore Mar 2013 OP
This is exactly what they should all be doing. The GOP is just paying them lip service. onehandle Mar 2013 #1
Tea thugs in full repose kairos12 Mar 2013 #2

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. This is exactly what they should all be doing. The GOP is just paying them lip service.
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 11:49 AM
Mar 2013

Teahaddists, you should abandon the liberal GOP and go full on third party.



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