The Twin Cities “Tax Day Tea Party”

Ive just gotten back from the Tax Day Tea Party at the Capitol in St Paul - which is still going on - and, seriously, all I can say is wow. And, might I add, thats not wow in a good way, either. Id guess around three-thousand people showed up, and Id guess no more than five of them expected - or wanted - a nonpartisan event, as was facetiously promised. It was completely, utterly, totally, entirely, unabashedly far, far, right, and all hate, all the time. It was ugly, seriously - so ugly I couldnt stand to be around it anymore, photo opportunities or no photo opportunities, and left after about an hour. Anyone who things these things are nonpartisan and apolitical, youre, sorry, completely deluded. I dont know who the speakers were, but they got a lot of cheers from the crowd whenever they called Barack Hussein Obama - and always Barack Hussein Obama, never President Obama or anything like that - a liar, or a socialist, or a communist. They got a lot of cheers when they announced - I kid you not - that if the Department of Homeland Security thinks conservative taxpayers are terrorists, maybe they - that is, the conservatives - should start taking hundreds of people hostage to get what they want. They got a lot of cheers when they announced Texas is seceding from the United States, and that if they can do it, so can Minnesota. You know what got the biggest cheers, though? You know what got a basically standing ovation from everybody in the crowd? We dont need the United Nations! That pretty much says it all, really. Moderate? Nonpartisan? Like fucking hell