“A new infographic posted on the Dangerous Minds blog shows some striking differences between the Occupy movement and the Tea Party. The movement is younger, more politically independent, less wealthy and, unfortunately for all of the folks crying laziness, MORE EMPLOYED.’
Of that $2.1 million dollars, more than $860,000 was given to super-committee members in the 2010 election cycle alone. As the chart below shows, that money went primarily to the six Republicans on the committee, who again, have all repeatedly voted against eliminating handouts to big oil companies.
(via Super Committee Members are Major Recipients of Oil Company Contributions)
“If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you’re a dumbass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you’re a Republican.”
Wake up from the slumber (by swishler)
Where do the increases in the national US debt com from? via i.imgur.com
Beck has a history as long as your arm of trafficking in violent rhetoric and whipping up fears of left wing violence, but Beck has been an especially powerful inspiration for right wing violence. In late October it was reported that the man sentenced for repeatedly threatening to kill Democratic Sen. Patty Murray cited Glenn Beck as his inspiration. Earlier in October, “Progressive Hunter” Byron Williams described from jail how Beck and his chalkboard inspired him to plot assassinations.~ Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck Collude to Rewrite Their History of Violent Rhetoric
The March of Tyranny, by Ben Garrison
via i.imgur.com
“We’re taking back our country, hell, that’s a fact! And if it doesn’t sound good to you… let us help you pack.”
“Takin’ Back Our Country” Joyce Shaffer ©2010 (via JoyceUSA1)
Guns don’t kill people. Taxes and politicians do!
via CoerciveUtopian
Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats’ health care reform plan. Here are a few of the Teabaggers’ responses to Weisel…~ ontd_political: Teabaggers think Jews should “stop whining” about the “Hollowcaust”