Mad as hell, and probably gonna take some more of it!

to be entirely honest i had something totally different planned for this blog today. but it has come to my attention that today is not just a Wednesday. today is TEA PARTY DAY!!!

thats right everybody, its time to get together and get pissed, REALLY PISSED! why? is it that we are still stuck in a war that we shouldn't have been in, in the first place, on top of which we have countless numbers off military bases around the world where we are not wanted? NO! ok, is it because we still support israel 100% despite the fact that they are attempting to destroy all of Gaza and wipe out the Palestinian people? NO! shit...ok, well how about the fact despite the efforts to shut down Guantanemo, prisoners are still being tortured there? NOPE! um...the fact that there is mercury used in High Fructose Corn Syrup which is in practically everything our culture eats, and the FDA doesn't seem to care? NO WAY!

ok i give up, what are we pissed about?

TAXES!!!

ok, sure, taxes suck. i'm with you! taxes should be abolished, because honestly the only way the State thrives is to feed off of taxes. DOWN WITH THE STATE! DOWN WITH TAXES!!! DOWN WITH....what?

oh, you don't want the state to go away? but without the state there is no taxes, so shouldn't that mean... wait, you just want lower taxes? well that won't really change much but i guess i'm on board. after all over 50% of all federal taxes go to the military death machine, so...

wait, its not the military budget that you have a problem with? no i don't really know what a "welfare queen" is, but yes, i suppose they do sound like terrorists.

Socialism? well i wouldn't go as far as the call this socialism, since the literal definition of socialism has nothing to do with this...

ok, you all get it. my joke is over. Today is Tea Party Day. It is a chance for people with way too much money in the first place to get out there and complain about the government taking their money. Because after all dissent is patriotic, unless its against the war...or the president...specifically the republican president.

The "party" has been promoted by such typically boring rightists as Michelle Malkin. Malkin as you may recall pushed for a boycott of Dunkin Donuts, after DD's spokesperson Rachel Ray wore what is known as a keffiyah in a Dunkin Donuts commercial. Sometimes keffiyahs are worn in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Other times, they are just a fucking scarf. Had Malkin done any research should would have found out that other than apparently being a flag for terrorism that should be the reason to boycott a donut stand, keffiyahs are also issued to US soldiers in the middle east, as they are commonly considered one of the best types of coverings for some of the bizarre types of weather over there.

so that gives you an idea of who is leading the Tea Party movement.

I'm all for tea parties. Me and Freddy my stuffed dog/imaginary best friend have awesome tea parties all the time. but they involve listening to Andrew W.K. and high-fiving Freddy. Freddy is awesome.

By all means, go out today and protest. get pissed. I'm pissed! i made zilch this year, and still owe the stupid-ass State money. it sucks. but so does war. so does destroying the earth, so does torture, so does hate, so does patriarchy, so does capitalism.

are you pissed about those things too?

Because it comes down to this: if the only "injustice" that brings you out the streets to protest; if the only thing that makes you wanna throw a brick through a window; if the only thing that makes want to stand up and say "i'm mad as hell, and i'm not gonna take it anymore!" is that taxes are too high... you're probably an American.