The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive

[birddog]

The light of truth of the Tea Party principles has the left scurrying like the cockroaches they are!

 

[Papageorgio]

I thought liberals were bitching because these PACs gave money to the TeaParty candidates. Now, they are bitching that the PACs aren't giving money to TeaParty candidates.

So you are outraged if they send money to the candidates and you are outraged that they don't send moneys to the candidates.

I just think liberals hate anyone that doesn't agree with them.

 

[pvsi]

Or how they fleece the rubes

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive - Salon.com

Same exact advice goes to people who support democrats and republicans - people who can bring real change do not need money. I will make a short speech about this later

 

[Stephanie]

The democrats are being arrested from coast to coast. Corruption, misuse of funds, stealing funds, gun running, of course they have to attack the tea party. You don't expect the media to mention what's going on do you?

no kidding, but don't label them a, cargo cult or worry about them fleecing the whole Amercian people and COUNTRY

The left/liberals/socialist/commies who belong to that party are the brainwashed naive, low information that they need some site like Salon to lead them by the nose...

 

[g5000]

Or how they fleece the rubes

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive - Salon.com

It's very simple. There is only so much air time and column space available. The rubes on the receiving end of your manipulations have the intellectual bandwidth of bumper stickers. They can only absorb so much propaganda. At some point, you reach saturation. The increase in campaign finance spending just means the cost of that air time and column space is going to rise. But even that will reach a breaking point, and then the cash overflows into the pockets of the puppeteers. Fund raising becomes a means unto itself.

This is not exclusive to any particular brand of politics. Salon is a liberal rag and so it commits the lie of omission by making it sound like this only happens on the Right.

 

[Erand7899]

I didn't read any of it since the OP was too lazy or dense to post anything but a link. But if the Tea Party still has the libs all riled up it's good news to me.

that's how they try and trick you into going to that hate site
I won't touch something like that...I won't ever support Salon anyway

Or how they fleece the rubes

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive - Salon.com

Salon is a propaganda, brainwashing, hate site, it is for the lazy of mind and the liberal lemmings. Of course you wouldn't know that being a lazy liberal.

I know I insult real liberals but there are not to many anymore, most have morphed into bullies. You might want to read up on JFK, he was the last real liberal President.

tl;dr Tea Party PACs are collecting millions of dollars in donations, saying they'll use it to support candidates who share their values, but in reality they use the PAC as a kind of money laundering agent to funnel the donations into private companies the PAC's operators own. In effect, Tea Partiers are giving free money to private companies and don't know it.

It's deplorable no matter where you are on the political spectrum.

Yes, it is deplorable, it is not confined to Tea Party pacs, and it is not the norm for Tea Party pacs across the nation. Dishonest people exist in all elements of society, and use charity, politics, animal rights, environmentalism, etc. to scam money from well meaning and compassionate people.

What is also deplorable, is an attempt to use the bad actions of a few to tar everyone in a movement. Although both sides do it to some degree, the left wing seems to have this strategy burned into their brains. Demonization and character assassination seem to be their standard for anyone or any group that opposes their idiocy.

 

[flacaltenn]

Moderation Note:

Moved to Tea Party forum because
the OP is discussion of the movement financing
and organization.

flacaltenn

 

[Avatar4321]

Or how they fleece the rubes

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive - Salon.com

Don't like getting your money fleeced eh?

 

[francoHFW]

As always , TPers hate the truth. This OP doesn't surprise anyone who knows the TP is just the simpleton brainwashed RW of the GOP, runs on telling the dupes they're independant thinkers, but their only thought is saving on their tax dollars lol...Sorry about facts...

 

[jc456]

The tea party was one of the most effective cattle herding and brainwashing campaigns in modern history. It's a good thing most of even very low intelligence have discovered they were a con and have moved on, expect for the dumbest of the dumb with mental retardation mental capabilities that still follow them.

TRANSLATION: I can't refute anything the TEA party people said, but I hate it anyway. So I'll attack the messenger instead, call them names, call their audience names and insult them, and hope that somebody somewhere believes me.

The Tea Party is for the most laziest of humankind.

I didn't think that liberals liked the tea party. hmm...guess I was wrong.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It is quite interesting that an article published by Psychology Today labeled the Tea Party as a "Cargo Cult"! It was written by a top psychologist in the addiction field.
Here's the link:
The Tea Party as a Cargo Cult
The Tea Party as a Cargo Cult | Psychology Today

Cargo cults want free stuff to drop from the sky.

That's a better description of Democrats.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Or how they fleece the rubes

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive - Salon.com

It's very simple. There is only so much air time and column space available. The rubes on the receiving end of your manipulations have the intellectual bandwidth of bumper stickers. They can only absorb so much propaganda. At some point, you reach saturation. The increase in campaign finance spending just means the cost of that air time and column space is going to rise. But even that will reach a breaking point, and then the cash overflows into the pockets of the puppeteers. Fund raising becomes a means unto itself.

This is not exclusive to any particular brand of politics. Salon is a liberal rag and so it commits the lie of omission by making it sound like this only happens on the Right.

This misses the point.

The OP correctly acknowledges the hypocrisy that is the TPM, where the ‘movement’ was to eschew the business-as-usual politics of democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives; where the TPM was portrayed as an all-inclusive, grassroots ‘movement’ whose intent was to fundamentally change the American political landscape.

We now know, and have known for quite some time, that nothing could be further from the truth – the ‘tea party’ is indeed no different from either the democratic or republican parties, where in fact the TPM is actually part of the latter.

Consequently the TPM engages in the same financial schemes as both major parties, as there is no 'tea party,' and there never was a 'tea party.'

 

[Machaut]

Or how they fleece the rubes

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive - Salon.com

It's very simple. There is only so much air time and column space available. The rubes on the receiving end of your manipulations have the intellectual bandwidth of bumper stickers. They can only absorb so much propaganda. At some point, you reach saturation. The increase in campaign finance spending just means the cost of that air time and column space is going to rise. But even that will reach a breaking point, and then the cash overflows into the pockets of the puppeteers. Fund raising becomes a means unto itself.

This is not exclusive to any particular brand of politics. Salon is a liberal rag and so it commits the lie of omission by making it sound like this only happens on the Right.

This misses the point.

The OP correctly acknowledges the hypocrisy that is the TPM, where the ‘movement’ was to eschew the business-as-usual politics of democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives; where the TPM was portrayed as an all-inclusive, grassroots ‘movement’ whose intent was to fundamentally change the American political landscape.

We now know, and have known for quite some time, that nothing could be further from the truth – the ‘tea party’ is indeed no different from either the democratic or republican parties, where in fact the TPM is actually part of the latter.

Consequently the TPM engages in the same financial schemes as both major parties, as there is no 'tea party,' and there never was a 'tea party.'

I must disagree.

Most people only focus on national-level politics, and that is what the issue deals with here--national-level PACs. Combing through the Board of Elections database for every state and county to identify all Tea Party PACs, and then reviewing all of their finance reports on top of that would be completely ridiculous. Instead, people allow the media to target a couple of groups at the national level and character assassinate the whole movement based on them. The biggest strength of the Tea Party is that it is a grassroots movement; they are successful on a grassroots level, and so long as they stay grassroots, they can be trusted. These grassroots groups get people elected and are effective in their local area. Any group cropping up on the national stage and still claiming to be grassroots should be automatically distrusted; it comes as no surprise that they haven't done much in the way of substantive action.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

TRANSLATION: I can't refute anything the TEA party people said, but I hate it anyway. So I'll attack the messenger instead, call them names, call their audience names and insult them, and hope that somebody somewhere believes me.

The Tea Party is for the most laziest of humankind.

WOW, the ugly left has reared it's ugly hate for others in this thread
pathetic people in my book, but that was Salons objective in posting that piece...

What has the Tea Party accomplished other than to water down the Republicans and greatly reduce our power?

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

TRANSLATION: I can't refute anything the TEA party people said, but I hate it anyway. So I'll attack the messenger instead, call them names, call their audience names and insult them, and hope that somebody somewhere believes me.

The Tea Party is for the most laziest of humankind.

I didn't think that liberals liked the tea party. hmm...guess I was wrong.

Of course liberals love the Tea Party, because it poses no threat to them and gives them fits of laughter to bolster their spirit.

 

[Iceweasel]

What has the Tea Party accomplished other than to water down the Republicans and greatly reduce our power?

They helped take the house so I don't know what you're babbling about. They also helped put some brakes on the out of control spending in DC. We need to move the liberal Republicans out and more Tea Party types in.

 

[PredFan]

Salon.com?

FAIL

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The Tea Party is for the most laziest of humankind.

I didn't think that liberals liked the tea party. hmm...guess I was wrong.

Of course liberals love the Tea Party, because it poses no threat to them and gives them fits of laughter to bolster their spirit.

Yes, liberals have been laughing since 2010, when the Tea Party helped take back the House.