The Glorious Alliance of Teabaggers and Heroic Laborers…Or Not
It looks like Ms. Hamsher of FDL was right about the teabaggers: They are rising up to throw off the chains of the corporate oppressors! Here they are organizing a “National Day of Strike” and sounding for all the world like a modern-day version of the Leninist Ladies Auxiliary:
The National Day of Strike has received tremendous response in the first four days of our existence thanks to the hard work of all of you helping to spread the word. We already have nearly 3,000 people signed up on the facebook page and this Ning.com website with 2,000 more on twitter. We have received commitments of support from the national movement as well. January 20, 2010 will be the day the TEA Party movement moves into the next phase, TEA 2.0, of taking our country back and you are a vital part of that. I am honored to stand with you.
TEA 2.0, huh? Haven’t we heard that kind of thing before? Anyhoo, lest anyone get the idea that there’s something remotely pro-labor (i.e., commie) about the teabaggers’ strike, they invoke Mr. Dictionary to counter perceptions of creeping Bolshevism:
Webster’s Dictionary defines a strike as a: to aim and usually deliver a blow, stroke, or thrust (as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool) b : to arrive with detrimental effect c : to attempt to undermine or harm something as if by a blow:It is this definition that we are using not that of the labor unions where workers with no vested interest in the wellbeing of the company seek to harm someone else in order to get their demands met.
Glad they cleared that up. But partisan window dressing aside, this is clearly the dawning of a proletarian alliance that transcends political labels, right? Corporations are being targeted, and since the same corporate interests benefit no matter who is in power, the teabaggers will be going after the same sectors that piss us lefties off, e.g., Big PhRMA, Big Insurance, the Military-Industrial Complex, etc., right? Uh, nope:
On January 20, 2010 we will demonstrate our power and reach to those companies who employ individuals backing the leftist agenda in every major city, every congressional district and every small rural town in America to spread one unified message. That message is simple: Stop funding socialism. When they refuse to stop backing the major opponents of Liberty, liberal media outlets and socialist leaning elected officials, then we proceed to financially cripple them.
When you read the whole thing, it turns out the mighty teabag army is targeting companies that advertise on CNN and MSNBC and those whose officers donate money to politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The corporate raiders who are looting our national coffers? Not so much. Oops.
Posted by Betty Cracker on 12/28/09 at 07:55 AM • Permalink
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