Like this:

Ok, I’m fine with the idea of a tea-party, if someone wants lower taxes, that’s fine, I can let them have their views, but it seems all the “tea-partiers” that I know are incredibly militant about their agenda.  They, among my other conservative friends, always complain that the “left-coast liberal (sometimes they’re liberal socialists)” are so aggravating because they’ll never let you talk, and that’s the only way they can ever win an argument, and say that they should be civilized in their debate (they also throw this in there, it’s my favorite.  A quote from Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic party: “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.”).  Interesting that the tea-party seems to be the most loud, in-your-face, provocative organization in the modern American political arena.  They just seem to re-spew random facts that Glenn Beck tells them (which he has admitted several times that he doesn’t check his facts), using logic from the same source (which is also incredibly flawed).  Granted, I only know a handful of tea-partiers, but from everything I see/read/watch about tea-partiers, they’re not any different from the general membership.

Well I try not to talk about politics too much, because I know I have a tendency to rant and rave often times, but this was too much to pass up.  Someone posted this on Facebook.  It’s an article about how the author thinks that a military coup in the near future, is a very real, and even probable, possibility.  He thinks that if Congress doesn’t change real soon, they’re going to end up with the military taking over.  He also thinks that the military would leave the democracy intact, keeping President Obama, “tied to his two tele-prompters,” to make symbolic speeches, while the real power lay in the hands of the new military regime.  He doesn’t think it’s the worst thing in the world either (it’s not, cats that shoot lasers out of their mouths are the worst thing in the world, but for our purposes, a military coup is pretty bad), and thinks it would work.  All I have to say is WTF?!?!  How does anyone that wants to preserve our democracy (ok fine, constitutional-federal-demcratic-republic) intact, think that a military coup is a good idea?  Also pretty great, was the string of comments that followed this article, saying things like “Congress is out of control, it’s time for the 1776 solution,”  ”I’m up for more than speculating if Congress doesn’t change soon,” or my personal favorite, “I’m ready!”

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