• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Come on, man.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Peak wingnut was a lie.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The willow is too close to the house.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Mobile Menu

  • Winnable VA House Races
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • War in Ukraine
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • 2021-22 Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Murder Tonight at the Trailer Park

Murder Tonight at the Trailer Park

by $8 blue check mistermix|  November 3, 20117:18 am| 27 Comments

This post is in: Teabagger Stupidity

FacebookTweetEmail

ABL posted about the Waffle House terror cell, a group of senior citizen militia members who were trying to cook ricin, buy explosives and get silencers in a plot to kill a “bucket list” of federal and state government officials. The court documents said they could shoot IRS and ATF agents “all day long”. But apparently some government employees are more equal than others:

[O]ne of them, Mr. Thomas […] his wife says he’s a 30-year Navy veteran. Another man had worked for the USDA — USDA agency, and has even boasted of showing off some of his certificates he obtained from the USDA or from training certifications to the other suspects. And one of the men was a contractor for the CDC in Atlanta.

We all know Medicare isn’t a government program. Apparently the tax money that funds the CDC and the USDA, as well as Navy pensions, aren’t collected by the IRS, either.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Creeping Soshalism Watch, or Another Blow to the “Let Them Die” Approach to Health Care
Next Post: Love Child, Always Second Best »

Reader Interactions

27Comments

  1. 1.

    soonergrunt

    November 3, 2011 at 7:31 am

    You probably wouldn’t be surprised at the number of wingers I work with who think that the only two federal agencies worth a damn are DoD and DVA.

  2. 2.

    cleek

    November 3, 2011 at 7:32 am

    one of my least fav songs from one my all-time fav bands.

  3. 3.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    November 3, 2011 at 7:36 am

    Just what do you expect, when the TeaTards have given full-throated outrage for “keep the government out of my Medicare!”

    Half the population has an IQ less than 100. The GOP calls them “the base”.

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2011 at 7:38 am

    @cleek: Fie on you. I like it. I’ll admit it isn’t Timmins best work, but it ain’t bad.

  5. 5.

    soonergrunt

    November 3, 2011 at 7:38 am

    Also, I don’t have video yet, but apparently the Occupy Tulsa protest was hit by Tulsa PD SWAT last night. The story that I hear is that everybody there was standing or kneeling with their hands above their heads and were sprayed with pepper spray and then attacked with batons.
    I have no numbers on arrested, injuries, or otherwise at this time.
    Occupy Tulsa, being in a somewhat more liberal (or, in Oklahoma, a less conservative) city, has always had a lot more participants than Occupy OKC, which varies between 20 and 50 people on site on the weekdays and up to 100 on the weekends.

  6. 6.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 3, 2011 at 7:42 am

    @soonergrunt: Any ostensible reason given for the police behavior? Clearing the park so the tennis courts could be rolled, perhaps? Someone dropped a pro-biotic yoghurt container lid? Creeping fascism?

    Edited slightly.

  7. 7.

    Lurking Canadian

    November 3, 2011 at 7:44 am

    It’s only Wasteful Government Spending if Those People get it.

  8. 8.

    Observer

    November 3, 2011 at 7:51 am

    I think the quote is incomplete in explaining what you’re getting at. Had to read the whole article to understand what the point was. Suggest to include the prior 2 paragraphs of the story as well.

  9. 9.

    soonergrunt

    November 3, 2011 at 7:57 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: a curfew that wasn’t enforced until last night, apparently.
    Video 1–cop tipping head of protester up and shooting pepper spray into protester’s eyes at range of six inches. Protester has already been subdued and flex-cuffed.

    Video 2–several dozen police cordon and move against the Occupy Tulsa

    I haven’t viewed video 2 in its entirety, so I do not know if what has been alleged (batons, SWAT) was caught on camera but at the 6 min mark, it’s only patrol officers in street blues.

  10. 10.

    WereBear

    November 3, 2011 at 7:59 am

    The court documents said they could shoot IRS and ATF agents “all day long”.

    So what it really boils down to is “keep yer government hands off my money, alcohol, tobacco and firearms.”

  11. 11.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 3, 2011 at 8:02 am

    @soonergrunt: re: video 1 – holy shit that is disgusting. WTF is wrong with these people?

  12. 12.

    TheMightyTrowel

    November 3, 2011 at 8:19 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: seconded.

  13. 13.

    mikefromArlington

    November 3, 2011 at 8:22 am

    Time to start profiling senior citizens at the air ports.

  14. 14.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    November 3, 2011 at 8:28 am

    This story about the Teabagger Terrorists (R) shows the difference between the right and left. If four people who fit the Occupy Wall Street hippie profile were planning a similar attack every right wing outlet would be bleating on about how the four terrorist hippies represented every hippy involved with OWS. Could you imagine what FOX News would do with this story if the four people had dark skin?

  15. 15.

    Jay in Oregon

    November 3, 2011 at 8:30 am

    @mikefromArlington:

    Now, let’s not be hasty; I think profiling senior citizens with extreme right-wing views will suffice.

  16. 16.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    November 3, 2011 at 8:53 am

    ‘Going Postal’ is now obsolete. The new term is ‘Going Former Public Employee’.

  17. 17.

    Wag

    November 3, 2011 at 9:17 am

    I have to commend the protester in the OT video for his Ghandi-esqe calm in the face of police brutality.

    Non-violent protest was the key to both Ghandi and MLK’s success. I hope OWS can be as successful.

  18. 18.

    lol

    November 3, 2011 at 9:23 am

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    “This just goes to show how you can’t trust those left-wing union thugs in the federal government.”

  19. 19.

    Tuffy

    November 3, 2011 at 9:34 am

    To explain this, I’ll refer to Craig T. Nelson, who was on foodstamps and welfare, but nobody helped him.

    Fearful, resentful white people have an amazing blind spot with respect to their own dependency. They believe they are rugged bootstrappers from the moment the doctor (who received government loans at a state medical school)delivered them (in a hospital receiving 10 figures of federal money per year). And after they die, as the pallbearers carry the coffin, if they could talk they’d still insist nobody carried them.

  20. 20.

    JKE

    November 3, 2011 at 10:06 am

    I am surprised that these men were employed by the government or by government contractors. It was just as astounding to see the number of government employees attending the “tea baggers” astroturf protests.

    How can you possibly work for something that you despise so much and supply high quality service if you don’t support the mission?

    I guess criticism of those sorts of dependencies are only valid when used against those on the other side.

  21. 21.

    Tom Johnson

    November 3, 2011 at 10:47 am

    One of the most adamant Tea Party voices here in Louisville is a newspaper blogger who lives on a government pension. I’ve argued with him about it, and he sees no essential conflict.

  22. 22.

    RSA

    November 3, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    @Tom Johnson:

    One of the most adamant Tea Party voices here in Louisville is a newspaper blogger who lives on a government pension.

    I’ve run into people like this, too. Some of them will say that they’re only taking out of the system what they put into it (without ever having run the numbers, of course); others will say that they’re just accommodating themselves to the system that’s in place, the way that a Republican Senator might vote against a funding bill and yet still fight for his share after it gets passed.

    But then there are the people who actively hate those receiving specific government benefits, even when they’re in that same group. For those folks, justifying their beliefs must be like walking through a mine field.

  23. 23.

    Julia Grey

    November 3, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    If you’re receiving a government pension, you freaking worked for the ENEMY for a considerable length of time.

    Justify THAT.

  24. 24.

    ThresherK

    November 3, 2011 at 1:16 pm

    “Murder at the Trailer Park” sounds like the least-extravagant dinner theater mystery ever.

    I invite those clever than I am to invent Clue-level weapons and suspects.

  25. 25.

    pseudonymous in nc

    November 3, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    Someone on TPM compared them to Squidbillies. I can’t think of a better template.

    Fearful, resentful white people have an amazing blind spot with respect to their own dependency.

    As the eminent political commentator Charles Barkley astutely pointed out some years ago, the intersection of class and race is a great way to fuck over the poor — it persuades old white guys in rural Appalachia, which is mostly really fucking poor, that the government which makes them slightly less fucking poor is somehow their enemy.

  26. 26.

    ThresherK

    November 3, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    @pseudonymous in nc: “Only two sources I trust: Glenn Beck and singin’ woodland creatures.”

  27. 27.

    cckids

    November 4, 2011 at 12:22 am

    @ThresherK:

    I invite those clever than I am to invent Clue-level weapons and suspects.

    Bobby Ray at the Porta-John with the broken Jim Beam bottle.

    Brenda Sue behind the abandoned car with a chunk of concrete.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

VA Purple House Delegates

Donate

Political Action

Postcard Writing Information

Recent Comments

  • Another Scott on An Angel Match for Virginia! (Oct 1, 2023 @ 2:41pm)
  • trollhattan on Sunday Open Thread (and Ajabu update) (Oct 1, 2023 @ 2:39pm)
  • Geminid on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Vacate the (Empty) Chair!… (Oct 1, 2023 @ 2:39pm)
  • Another Scott on An Angel Match for Virginia! (Oct 1, 2023 @ 2:30pm)
  • Memory Pallas on An Angel Match for Virginia! (Oct 1, 2023 @ 2:27pm)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
We All Need A Little Kindness
What Has Biden Done for You Lately?

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
TaMara
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Join the Fight!

Join the Fight Signup Form
All Join the Fight Posts

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Cole & Friends Learn Español

Introductory Post
Cole & Friends Learn Español

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!