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Sublime Tea Baggery: ‘Don’t Steal from Medicare to Support Socialized Medicine’

Jon Ponder

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This demonstrates, again, that these people have no idea what socialism is. They believe it’s synonymous with authoritarianism — a belief that is a conceptual artifact from McCarthy era, when socialism was demonized by eliding it with Soviet-style communist despotism.

Trapped inside their Fox News/Limbaugh bubble, tea baggers are oblivious to the reality that democracy and socialism have existed successfully side by side in every industrialized country in the world, including the United States, for decades.

The paradox is, their stunted worldview and inability to do critical thinking are results of the fact that they are products of America’s socialized but broken educational system.

Bachmann Attack on Census Revisited: ‘I’m Not Saying’ Obama Will Use Data To Put People in Concentration Camps

Jon Ponder

The time to return Census forms has come, which makes this an ideal moment to revisit Michele Bachmann’s call to conservatives not to turn in their forms.

Partial Transcript:

Bachmann: Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942and 1947, the data that was collected by the census bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations, at the request of President Roosevelt, and that’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I’m not saying that’s what the Administration is planning to do. But I am saying that private, personal information that was given to the census bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up and put the Japanese in internment camps.

In his column in January, our Dr. Democrat — who agrees with Bachmann only in the sense that that it would be best for the country if only smart people filled out the census — offered five reasons conservatives are not returning their forms, translated into Teabonics for their convenience.

If you have conservative friends, feel free to email these five reasons not to fill out the census to them:

1. Obama and the entire Democrat Party support the Census, which is sufficient cause for suspicion among Tea Party activists on all other issues.

2. Many libertarians believe the Census should not be under government control, not just because it is bona fide socialism, but also because, unlike private industry, government is inept. Who knows what mistakes the government has made in censuses over the past two centuries? Libertarians believe the Census should be outsourced to a private company with experience collecting data, like Equifax, Experian or other credit reporting companies, which hardly ever make mistakes.

3. According to World Net Daily, the popular conservative news site, Obama seized control of the Census from the Commerce Department within weeks after he assumed the presidency. The fact that the 2010 Census will be taken under the direction of the Obama White House worries Rep. Bachmann, who has raised concerns that Americans’ personal data could end up in the hands of ACORN. What ACORN might do with it is anyone’s guess.

4. Bachmann also pointed out that the government has used Census information in the past to round up Americans and force them into concentration camps. She cited the example of the internment of thousands of patriotic Americans of Japanese descent by FDR’s Democrat socialist government during World War II.

5. The Obama administration has already put patriots on notice that it will fine anyone who refuses to submit to the Census. However, boycott supporters say that if the government can’t round up 20 million illegal aliens, how could it possibly find millions of real Americans who boycott the Census because they choose to exercise their rights to be free of government intrusion?

BONUS VIDEO: Here is Bachmann trying to out-crazy Glenn Beck last year on whether conservatives should fill out the forms:

Watch George W. Bush Wipe Something Icky off His Hand onto Bill Clinton’s Shirt

Jon Ponder

Still not ready for prime time…

In the video, we have two former presidents in Haiti working what is essentially a rope line, shaking hands with local residents. Behind the presidents but out of view are Secret Service personnel and staffers, at least some of whom are equipped — as they are for every similar situation — with wipes, disinfectant soap and hand lotion.

In the video, we see George W. Bush, the blue-blood from the “let them eat cake” wing of the Republican aristocracy, shaking hands down the line until he apparently feels something gross on his hand. So he pauses, and instead of asking a staffer for a tissue, he reaches over and wipes his hand on the first available clean cloth he can find, which happens to be the shirt of Pres. Clinton.

Is this an expression of his disdain for Pres. Clinton because he’s a Democrat or a commoner, or both? Or is just a revealing look at how truly feral and uncultured Bush is?

And why send him to Haiti in the first place? As we saw during his criminally negligent response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Bush has no empathy for under-privileged people, especially those of African descent.