Clingons issue a challenge to the Federation


Lt. Uhura

Pro-tip: When using a long running and insanely popular entertainment franchise as the basis for your cruelly overextended metaphor, it is important to know the good guys from the bad guys.

Exhibit A: Yesterday’s press release from Mark Williams’ TPE, courtesy of Stephen1947. It was written by one of Williams’ duly deputized TeaBaggers. This means the typos don’t leap out and mug you and it doesn’t read like an M.C. Escher drawing converted to text. However, this does mean there is nothing to distract you from the high-pitched whine:

The Tea Party Express with over 400,000 members is by far larger than the Tea Party Federation’s entire membership.  Most rank-and-file tea party activists think we’re talking about Star Trek when we try to explain who the “Federation” is. Given the absurdity of the actions by the “Federation,” this is quite fitting, since their conduct is alien to our membership.

Groups trying to say who can or can’t be ‘expelled’ from the tea party movement is arrogant and preposterous.  Perhaps this explains why so many tea party groups have left the “Federation” during the past few months.  Whatever the reason, most tea party activists are focused on taking back their country and the upcoming 2010 elections and not silly power games being played by individuals such as those in the “Federation.”

To add to the absurdity of the “Federation” they have also informed us that our members can’t participate in something called their “basecamp”  communication network, which makes us think that the individuals involved in the “Federation” spend a bit too much time watching science fiction movies and cartoons.  We here at the Tea Party Express prefer a focus that is more grounded in the Constitution and electing tea party conservatives to offices of import in these 2010 elections.

The “Federation” has enabled and empowered the NAACP’s racist attacks on the tea party movement, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Circular firing squads of groups within the tea party movement attacking one another accomplish nothing, and on this issue the Tea Party Federation is wrong, and has both enabled and empowered the NAACP’s racist attacks on the tea party movement.  Which is something they’ll realize when they beam themselves back from basecamp.

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Just to add to the fail on display here by TPE, Basecamp is a brand name for a particular online collaboration software.  We use it at work; it is by no means unique to the Federation.  I’m actually slightly impressed that the Federation is that organized.  But then I thought there was no Tea Party organization; what gives?

Circular firing squads of groups within the tea party movement attacking one another accomplish nothing…

well, they amuse the hell out of me. that counts for something.

What teadoust said.  I’m happy to see that you all are getting as much glee out of this as I did when I first opened it.  Personally I can’t believe that TeaBaggers are Star Trek fans - they would fall on the Star Wars side of the great dichotomy, since it’s more hierarchical. 

I hasten to add that that I prefer the Star Wars universe myself, since it has better explosions.

Is there no big-tent political organization that can make room for Babylon 5?

Is there no big-tent political organization that can make room for Babylon 5?

Then we’d end up with the ‘Baggers all claiming they were the Narn when they are obviously the Centauri…

Besides, isn’t the United Federation of Planets a bit too… ah, socialist for their liking?  I seem to recall a certain species with a number of Rules of Acquisition I think they’d find themselves more at home with.

Ah yes, the Farengi does seem more appropriate.

I think this could all be easily put to bed if the National Tea Party Federation were to change its name to the “National Tea Party Confederacy.”

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