Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Tea Party Patriots Investigated | Mother Jones

Mother Jones has released a pretty detailed investigation on the Tea Bagging Traitors.

Part One is called “They Use You and Abuse You”.

Part Two is “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

Part Three is “The Tax-Dodging Moneyman”.

While most Tea Baggers are racist Talibangelical bigoted asshats, the corporate fiends funding their hatred might even be worse. It isn’t pleasant but getting to know your enemies usually isn’t.

Want to know how good this coverage is? A rival Tea Bagging group agrees with the coverage.

Firefighter Refused to Respond to Tucson Shooting Rampage – NYTimes.com

I mean, I get this. You work with a bunch of people you don’t agree with. They give you crap, a lot of it. Someone gets shot and they start making cruel jokes. Political ones, maybe sexist ones. Racist too perhaps.

You get pissed and refuse to work with jerks like that anymore.

But!

You are the only one on that team that has the proper motivation to do the job well. The only Democrat on a fire force that actually wants to save those shot. Why the hell would you NOT go on that call?

Tucson brought some ugly things to light. Most having nothing to do with the event but on the hatred and bile against others we all harbor to some degree. But to not save those affected because the men you work alongside are Republican bigots? That’s not an excuse. Ever.

I really want the hateful crap the other fireman said to be published for the whole world to see. I do. I want to see what could make a man refuse to work with that ilk.

That, however, in no way excuses Ekstrum’s behavior. It might explain how he came to the decision but it will never justify it.

The Maddow Blog – Wisconsin gov made his own problem

It turns out that Wisconsin’s “budget shortfall” it the direct result of Governor Walker and his allies pushing through tax cuts that CREATED the problem he’s supposedly trying to “fix”. Some more detail here.

As for taking rights away from public workers, there is no explanation how that saves money in the immediate future. With no rights, teachers and sanitation workers won’t be able to bargain for a fair wage and benefits in the future, but that’s not what the Governor purports to be doing.

No, Scott Walker is beholden to the evil bastiches who paid for his campaign, among them the Koch Brothers from Texas, who are working hard to destroy unions in our nation.

Jimmy Hoffa aside, unions have done a lot in this nation. You have weekends, usually 8 hour shifts, no kids in coal mines, and so on because of unions. Carnegie might have build a lot of libraries but he didn’t give a rat’s ass about the common man. And it wasn’t his job to. No company is paid to worry about what workers need. That’s kind of the point of capitalism and to believe otherwise is to be an idiot.

And so while carpet-bagging Tea Baggers are going to Wisconsin to “support Walker” even though THEIR jobs aren’t on the line, it’s mostly a sham to screw Americans out of even more rights.

And this isn’t just a Wisconsin or tea bagger thing. It is part of a national plan of attack on working men and women. And that’s as simple as it gets to explaining the situation there and across this land.