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Thursday 18th of April 2024

Bad news Get reputable news organizations like The New York Times or The Washington Post to host our virus citation Game plan of secretly-funded alt-right media orgnizations like Breitbart News and Goverrnment Accountability Institute © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Better to get your news directly from the President [Trump]. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth. Lamar Smith, Tea Party Republican © 2017 Kwiple.com
Public discourse Images of small men usually arise and persist widely only because big men find good use for them. C. Wright Mills, White Collar © 2019 Kwiple.com
Racism The first thing the Tea Party hates is being called racist. The second thing they hate is black people. Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I came here to make sure our Republic doesn't die by unanimous consent in an empty chamber, and I request a recorded vote! Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), explaining why he demanded Representatives return to Waashington, DC, in the midst an outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus to participate in a roll-call vote on the coronaviruss relief bill instead of a simple voice vote © 2020 Kwiple.com
Separation of powers Given America's separation of powers, the Tea Party needs to be only a majority of the majority of one half of one branch of government to have a pretty good shot at ensuring nothing significant can move in Washington, D.C. The only threshold that matters is to be a majority of the minority party in the Senate (where forty votes can block almost all legislation), and to remain the largest and most powerful faction in the House. Even if Republicans lost control of the House, the Tea Party could still get by on the minority veto in the Senate. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tea Partiers “A lot of us have done okay, but we don't want to lose what we've got, see it given away.” When I ask him what he saw as being “given away,” it was not public waters given to dumpers, or clean air given to smoke stacks. It was not health or years of life. It was not lost public sector jobs. What he felt was being given away was tax money to non-working, non-deserving people — and not just tax money, but honor too. … “These days, American men are an endangered species too.” A Tea Partier quoted by Arlie Russell Hochschild, in Strangers in Their Own Land © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tea Partiers Virtually every Tea Party advocate I interviewed for this book has personally benefited from a major government service or has close family who have. … Most said, “Since it's there, why not use it?” But many were ashamed and asked me to dissociate their identity from such an act, which I've done. But shame didn't stop those who disapproved of public services from using them.  Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tea Partiers say Fuck the government and assholes who believe in it © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tea Partiers say How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bill? Raise their hand. President Obama, are you listening? Rick Santelli, CNBC commentator ranting on Feb. 19, 2009, from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade against a program to refinance mortgages and help people avoid foreclosure © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tea Partiers say You are not entitled to what I have earned Bumper sticker popular with Tea Partiers © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Tea Partiers to 1%ers How do I love thee? Let me count the way$ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43” © 2015 Kwiple.com