Let's All Go Teabagging!!!

John Oliver, the Daily Show correspondent said it best, "Everyone needs to chill the fuck out!"

Today is April 15th, tax day, everyones favorite right after the National Hangover Days (January 1st, July 5th, and the day after your birthday). Interestingly, this year features a 21st century variation on the 18th century Boston Tea Party with conservative activists around the country demonstrating their disapproval with the Obama tax code changes, namely a tax increase for the 5% of top US citizens (yet those people aren't teabagging). TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already by the way. The demonstrators are picketing and dumping teabags in the parks they are in all around the country (it's illegal to dump in the water, what do you think this is? 1773?) and speaking out against the new taxes from the Obama administration. Originally started by a Ron Paul-inspired "paleoconservative" libertarian campaign who rented a blimp with his face on it to throw tea out the windows, it was effectively hijacked by Fox News anchors who are pretending they came up with the idea, angering the paleos and making an expression of free speech laughable with their ignorant corruption

What's so unbelievable about this whole thing is just 1 day after the Homeland Security report warned of, "right wing extremists" the people getting on the news while speaking out against Obama are rather extreme, one even calling for, "book burnings" and "if you have children in high school or college, pull them out!" First of all, don't put crazy people on TV unless they can vocalize their thoughts into an active criticism of US policy. If you have a bunch of nutty people spewing xenophobic and Conspiracy theorists freaking out over how, "they" are all against "us," you're movement is going to half be written off as actual far right secessionists/revolutionists or covered extensively supported by an entire TV network representing an entire section of a mainstream political party.

Rachel Maddow pointed out that while these protests occur every year by civil disobedients and extreme political groups, this is the first year that one of the main parties (Republican obviously) have played a major role in the events. Even Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, basically refered to secession as an option on the table should, "things continue on this path." It is going to take a few weeks to see how far the right wants to go with these demonstrations. By protesting new taxes despite 95% of Americans being eligible for a cut and demanding the repeal of the "death tax" or income tax, these people will hope for starting a rebound in the popularity of conservative politics by the 2010 elections.

What pisses me off is that literally no one on TV was protesting the wars, the two wars that cost 1 BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY just to run and that at a minimum will not end until 2011. The reason the deficit Obama is running is $3 trillion over the next few years is because unlike his predecessor, he isn't hiding the price of war from us. War is the biggest detterent of all! We are in a horrific debt not just because of poor Wall Street management, but because Iraq and Afghanistan are so fucking expensive. If you don't like taxes, fine, I don't either. But if you still support the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the extent both Obama and Bush do, one of which we won and the second of which is an expanding quagmire, then you're bringing down the future generations just as much as any tax/bailout. Suck on that teabag.