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Is the Tea Party Movement Like a Pyramid Scheme?
Mother Jones ^ | Oct. 19, 2010 | Stephanie Mencimer

Posted on 10/19/2010 5:49:39 PM PDT by woofie

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To: Lazamataz

Hey, I got in on the ground floor!


21 posted on 10/19/2010 6:02:35 PM PDT by meyer (Tax the productive to carry the freeloaders - What is it with democrats and slavery?)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

The underpants gnomes said I didn’t have to pay sales tax on a donation.


22 posted on 10/19/2010 6:03:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: meyer
Hey, I got in on the ground floor!

Seems like my elevator got stuck between the 9th and 10th floors. :(

23 posted on 10/19/2010 6:04:21 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: meyer
"Hey, I got in on the ground floor!"

Are you a double diamond yet?

24 posted on 10/19/2010 6:08:31 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: woofie

Having sat through a Koskot pitch decades ago I can recognize a Ponzi Scheme, and the Tea Party ain’t it. Don’t think Amway is either.


25 posted on 10/19/2010 6:08:35 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: woofie

Ah, the left is dragging one of their favourite whipping posts: The Drreaded Amway.

They must really be desperate.


26 posted on 10/19/2010 6:12:27 PM PDT by FourPeas (Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
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To: cripplecreek

;-)


27 posted on 10/19/2010 6:14:18 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: woofie

Just desperately seeking the “leaders” who must be “cleaning up” ...they’d sic the IRS on ‘em if they could find ‘em.

Can’t audit the whole of Flyover Country tho!!!


28 posted on 10/19/2010 6:14:35 PM PDT by mo
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To: woofie

Mother Jones should stick to baking veggie-burgers in aluminum foil solar ovens and recommending eco-fascist friendly cockroach traps.


29 posted on 10/19/2010 6:15:17 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: woofie

The left doesn’t seem to be able to understand the bottom up nature of the Tea Party. There isn’t a ‘leader’ who ‘calls the shots’. There are folks who set up local gatherings, and there are some groups that set up national gatherings like the 9/12 Marches, etc. But Tea Partiers are just folks who have come to understand that they are not alone; there are more folks like them out there, and enjoy getting together with folks who feel the same way they do about government. And they are becoming active in politics, when they’d never done anything like that before.


30 posted on 10/19/2010 6:20:24 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Lazamataz
Seems like my elevator got stuck between the 9th and 10th floors. :(

All I can say is that it's lonely at the top. :-)

31 posted on 10/19/2010 6:25:10 PM PDT by meyer (Tax the productive to carry the freeloaders - What is it with democrats and slavery?)
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To: guitarplayer1953
Are you a double diamond yet?

Double Diamond Squared!

32 posted on 10/19/2010 6:26:06 PM PDT by meyer (Tax the productive to carry the freeloaders - What is it with democrats and slavery?)
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To: ez

But, you see, the author is examining this through an acid haze.....Chromosomes died in the pursuit of his obtuse reasoning.


33 posted on 10/19/2010 6:47:54 PM PDT by Shady (The Ruling Class will be overruled 11/2/10...)
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To: woofie
... once a top operator in a company accused of conning consumers.

In left-think, accused=guilty (as applied to non-leftists)`

34 posted on 10/19/2010 6:48:35 PM PDT by Spirochete (Just say NO to RINOs)
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To: Lazamataz
I hate you.

I hate my shoes....

35 posted on 10/19/2010 6:59:09 PM PDT by freebilly (No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I think I AM too old to withstand a zot and I wasnt sure if it was legal to post from Mother Jones or not. Thankfully no zot yet


36 posted on 10/19/2010 6:59:25 PM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

Gee, I just don’t know which left-wing narrative to believe. Pelosi and part of the MSM push the narrative that the Tea Party Movement is a Republican Party astroturf operation. The Obamatons and the rest of the MSM push the narrative that the Tea Party Movement is a nefarious vast right-wing conspiracy headed by the Koch brothers. Mother Jones now pushes a new narrative about a pyramid scheme scam.

The left’s narratives are utterly inconsistent with each other. They also conflict with the facts.


37 posted on 10/19/2010 7:06:04 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: woofie

Who is Meckler? I’m pretty sure he hasn’t been at any of the Tea Party events I’ve participated in.


38 posted on 10/19/2010 7:20:35 PM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: I_Like_Spam
Does Mother Jones even know how chain letters operate?

Maybe not, but they are a "Gold" Amway distributer and would like to speak to you about a business opportunity.
39 posted on 10/19/2010 8:04:52 PM PDT by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: SuzyQue; CounterCounterCulture; ElkGroveDan
Who is Meckler? I’m pretty sure he hasn’t been at any of the Tea Party events I’ve participated in.

He was definitely involved in Sacramento Tea Parties -- April and August 2009, at a minimum.

He was an organizer of the April Tea Party, televised live by Neil Cavuto -- here is Mark on stage:

More pics on this thread:

CA: Sacramento Tea Party Pics (Cavuto live, McClintock speaking)

40 posted on 10/19/2010 8:21:20 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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