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The Next Tea Party is Going to Be Much, Much Angrier
The first generation of Tea Party protests were, unlike media depictions, filled with happy warriors pushing the country towards more fiscal responsibility. It involved crowds of flag-waving Americans who cleaned up every bit of garbage they may have created in the process of protesting across the country. The next round of protests by conservatives will look nothing like the last; they will be angry, deeply angry, and you won’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why.
Over the course of the last day, a few things have happened. First, student loan “forgiveness” plans, which are really bailouts for college-educated Americans, have been floated by progressives, including Biden himself.
Schumer saying Biden can cancel first $50,000 in student debt via executive order. And will do so in first 100 days. This will change so many lives. https://t.co/nkWZykLJVE
— Tom Winter (@WinterForMT) November 7, 2020
Biden was less bullish, however:
Asked about his plan for student loan debt, Biden promises:
• Immediate $10,000 forgiveness on federal loans
• Public colleges tuition-free for students whose family income is less than $125,000
• Lessen Public Service Loan Forgiveness requirement pic.twitter.com/7e94mJrpxh— The Recount (@therecount) November 16, 2020
There’s already a great deal of resentment from Americans who worked hard and have saved and paid for their own educations and those of their children without government bailouts, and that anger alone would fester. But factor in the fact that while the government is giving bailouts to one sector – those who took out loans on an education that they can now profit off of the rest of their lives – another sector, small businesses, are being bankrupted by government fiat across the country.
Take what’s happened in Philadelphia today:
NEW PHILADELPHIA RESTRICTIONS:
—No indoor private social gatherings.
—No indoor dining at restaurants.
—Outdoor dining limited to 4 people of same household.
—Gyms, libraries, museums closed.
—Schools to remain open.
—Retail limited to 5 ppl/ 1,000 sq. ft.— Brian Taff (@briantaff6abc) November 16, 2020
I have one question: How will the businesses and private organizations (like museums) be made whole? They are still expected to pay rent and make payroll, and yet, they have been stripped of the means to do so. This is theft, plain and simple, and it is being carried out by the government. One could argue, rather easily in my opinion, that some or even all of these measures are necessary for public health. Fine. If that’s the belief of the government, the government needs to compensate affected businesses. What is happening now, lockdown-induced bankruptcies, is eminent domain without compensation.
Imagine the anger across America for a moment. The only folks who emerge from this winter with intact finances will be white-collar workers able to work from home, predominantly college-educated ones. And the government will be giving them a bailout on an education they’ve already received and have profited off of. Meanwhile, the same government has shut down millions of small businesses and offered zero in the way of compensation for the “sacrifice” they were forced to make in the name of public health. If that’s not a recipe for incandescent rage, I’m not sure what is.
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Why? What did intensity in 2020 do for us? The game is rigged. The Left slipped up in 2016 and let Trump slip though but make no mistake. Trump did not win, they screwed up. That will not happen again. Just like it did not happen this year.
I want to include probably 71.5 million of the 72 million Trump voters, including my sainted mother. The Q-Anon, the hardcore Trumpists and the Trump family should take a hike.
Democrats are such fine, tolerant people, aren’t they?
Lots more satire at The People’s Cube: look around, make a donation, buy an all-red, easy-to-solve, socialist Rubik’s cube.
But we held the Senate so far, and Biden had no coattails with the House.
“QAnon”? Of those 72 million Trump voters, maybe a dozen know what it is. It’s a non-issue that the media elevated to a matter of serious concern to distract from the Democrats’ antifa/BLM shock troops burning down our cities.
Antifa/BLM? Come on, man, you know they’re “just an idea”. Joe Biden, that man of sterling character, told us so. /sarcasm
There are two Republicans in the House from Colorado and Georgia who are Q-Anon friendly. They need to be taken out in the 2022 primary, and if they make Q-Anon speeches, lose their committee assignments, like Steve King.
Man, I wish I owned the white flag franchise in your neck of the woods.
What, exactly, is your beef with QAnon? Do they hurt anyone? Are they stuffing ballot boxes? Are they rioting? If you don’t like their ideas, at least their ideas are harmless. And like a fine president once said, QAnon is against child sex trafficking. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Like it or not, Gary, our nation is polarized. You can be on the side of communists/progressives, or you can be on the side that isn’t worried if a small group that thinks child sex trafficking is wrong. The choice is pretty obvious to me.
Do you really believe that Tom Hanks is part of a group of pedophile cannibals? Part of our CofC is that we don’t embrace kooky conspiracy theories.
I’ll bet you don’t even know what QAnon is. But The Displatch has been shrieking hysterically about some Republican who is “Q-Adjacent” (whatever that means) and so naturally you receive the narrative without really knowing anything about it. (Note, those same Displatichans don’t seem to give a rodent’s hindquarters if Trump supporters are attacked by Antifa/BLM, because those Displatchians kind of want us to die, don’t they?)
Says the guy who spread kooky conspiracies about Russian Collusion for four years.
Gary, you’re a lawyer, so I know you did at least tolerably well on the LSAT test. You should put that ability to use here. When I write that a small group of people support QAnon, it is not the same as saying I support QAnon. When I say that being against child sex trafficking is not the same as ballot box stuffing or rioting, I’m not saying that I think Tom Hanks is a pedophile cannibal. If I say that I don’t know if Tom Hanks is a pedophile cannibal it doesn’t mean that I think he is. You know the difference. You apparently want to pretend that we think you don’t know that.
No you do not. This is a lie. You want to throw us all out of the party, and have said so, over and over.
I will never be in a party with people like you, Gary. If your ilk take over the GOP again, I will never support it. And I won’t be alone.
For the record, the lyric is “But when you talk about destruction“, not violence.
This doesn’t really affect your main point of course, but please do try to be accurate when quoting The Beatles.
Don’t forget his contention that the Russians put child porn and incriminating emails into Hunter Biden’s computer. And, of course, the Charlottesville hoax.
But remember, he’s only a family law attorney.
It may very well be that conservatives/Republicans won’t have to do much of anything. The left has created BLM/Antifa etc, who have already begun turning their ire against the left. And that will only get worse when the left wants to cancel student loan debt and other things that help middle- and upper-class whites more than their minority base.
What does it matter if someone believes that? And why do you care ?
why not focus on the people who are responsible for real violence, like in DC this past weekend? (Those are the people you voted for – FYI)
Remember, Gary is only a family law attorney. He seems to think he can vote for Biden but everyone will understand that he DOESN’T support BLM etc.
Hi Bryan, I just answered six comments in a row by you attacking me in a different thread. We need to both branches of the party to come together. Please see this excellent article from NR: “There are two Republican Parties, they need to Unite.” https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/there-are-two-republican-parties-they-need-to-unite/
Bryan, I hope that you will be part of the restored Party of Reagan. Reagan found a way to bring together Social Conservatives, Fiscal Conservatives and National Defense Conservatives. There is a place for you in this party.
You are right. Thank you so much.
We don’t need or want the Q-Anon folks in the party. They make us look like kooks.
I didn’t vote for them; I voted to remove Trump who was an existential danger to the Republic and the Republican Party, most recently shown by his refusal to accept reality and his refusal to work with the incoming Biden Administration. We are nearly a quarter million dead Americans while Trump is soaking in his resentments on the golf course.
Such a snob
so you didn’t vote for antifa – no one here voted for Q.
Do I understand that you hold DJT responsible for all those that have sadly died from CoVID? To whom do we hold responsible for those whom have sadly passed in Europe? In the UK? In Scotland? In Ireland? In China ? In Canada ? In Australia ?
I do believe that when Trump is gone, you will miss him more than me. For whom will you blame then?
So did I at one point. Then I actually paid attention to what Trump did once in office. Gary and other NTs seem unable to grant the man the credit do him.
I will not be part of any party that is run by you and your ilk.
A vote for biden-harris was a vote for blm, antifa and looting. Why would anyone listen to someone who did that?
You’re already out . . .
And for other equally reprehensible things. Maybe all this talk about Trump’s “character” is a smokescreen to conceal the true motivations: that Trump and Trump supporters are a threat to the corrupt ruling class.
There will be no second Tea Party.
The media and twitter activists will dox and shame everyone. They’ll use one instance of racism (and judging from the last Tea Party, it will be a left wing activist acting like a racist tea partier) and it will go from there.
The Antifa types will find your address, your place of employment, and it will not stop.
The Wayne County Republicans folded. Our leaders will fold. Then our foot soldiers will become discouraged.
People on the right will choose the path of least resistance, and for them it’s being left alone.