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Despite Early MSM Hype, Coffee Party Remains Stuck in Insignificance
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| September 29, 2014
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 09/29/2014 5:33:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Today is National Coffee Day. Many outlets such as Dunkin' Donuts, Mickey Ds, and others are offering free coffee as a result. And since it is National Coffee Day your humble correspondent, a devout caffeine addict from way back, decided to Google search on all things coffee. What I discovered was something long forgotten by myself and everybody else...assuming they even remembered it in the first place. I am referring to the Coffee Party.
Although the Coffee Party is completely gone with the exception of some strange clingers as we shall see, it was kicked off with tremdous hype in early 2010 as the "progressive" alternative to the Tea Party. Here is an example of such extreme hype from Newsweek back then trying to make folks believe that the Coffee Party was sweeping the nation when it was already dead in the water, never to be revived:
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coffeeparty
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The only lasting legacy of the Coffee Party comes in the form of the LAMEST rap video ever made.
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:33:57 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Coffee Party Salute....
Didn’t Obama do that the other day getting off AF one????
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:36:57 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(No, My Initials are not A.B.)
To: PJ-Comix
Must be chicanery coffee.
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:38:57 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:39:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: dforest
Hmm, they must have picked up the decaff instead of the regular coffee....
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:40:00 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(No, My Initials are not A.B.)
To: PJ-Comix
When is National Beer Day? I want my Free Beer!
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:41:28 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Cruz / Gowdy 2016, if you want to save America.)
To: PJ-Comix
"You Can't Stop a Movement."Especially after a strong cup of coffee.
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:41:36 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
To: PJ-Comix
Does Newsweek still exist?
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:43:03 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Leader of the party...
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:46:17 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(No, My Initials are not A.B.)
To: dforest
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:47:20 PM PDT
by
fudimo
To: PJ-Comix
Progressives could screw up a one car funeral!
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:48:54 PM PDT
by
LucianOfSamasota
(Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
To: PJ-Comix
Wait, national coffee day??? Shouldn’t that be at least a month? Or possibly national coffee year, observed annually?
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:51:42 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: PJ-Comix
the Coffee Party's favorite
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:55:32 PM PDT
by
JPG
("So sue me". OK, we will.)
To: PJ-Comix
What did they even stand for except for being completely lame? They were a contrived fraud with no meaning or significance other than their own humiliation. Crazy lefties... Politics should be for adults, but there you are.
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:56:20 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
09/29/2014 5:58:21 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GraceG
tjhis banner made some months ago.....may be somewhat reminscant.....of Barrys Styrofoam Salute ...even though it existed prior ot his lil gaffe
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posted on
09/29/2014 6:02:43 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
To: Kickass Conservative
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posted on
09/29/2014 6:11:14 PM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: PJ-Comix; LUV W
I have to post this one LUVW posted on the Canteen today. See reply 60 if you are a regular there.
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posted on
09/29/2014 6:16:57 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
To: PJ-Comix
Well DUH!
I didn’t hear about it until 4:00 this afternoon!
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posted on
09/29/2014 6:21:58 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: PJ-Comix
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