The Tea Party Just Got Crazier! Happy Tax Day Everybody!

Hey everybody!  Today is Tax Day, and that means 2 things!

1:  No more going through records and filling out paperwork for a long time.

2:  A bunch of protests are gonna happen.

That’s right!  The Tea Party Protesters, America’s favorite ragtag group of angry white people who can’t spell, will be out in full force.

I always liked the Tea Party movement because it was kind of like MTV’s “Jackass.”  Just a bunch of adults doing offensive things, getting on the news, and influencing the dumbfucks and insane among us.

While I’m sure there are rational and sane people with legitimate grievances in the movement, the Tea Party produces a plethora of signs that take me through a myriad of emotions.  I can go from confused to angry to embarrassed by looking at just one misspelled racist sign against health care being held by someone on Medicare.

Then the Tea Party threw me a curve ball.  Here’s where this gets tricky this year.  I saw these two pictures on the web today.

At first glance they’re nothing unusual.   They’re both possible calls to violently overthrow the government.  Big deal.  We’re used to it.  The Tea Party is full of pro-torture, anti-government, possible calls to violence.  We see this all the time.

But there’s more to this than meets the eye…

There’s a new website that’s been getting noticed by the media.  It’s called CrashTheTeaParty.  Check it out.  It’s real shitty-looking and it only takes one minute to read.  These people have made it their mission to misrepresent the Tea Party “to further distance them from mainstream America.”  Their plan is to show up at tea parties with racist and ridiculous signs to try to take the Tea Party down from within.  Apparently the party needs more distancing…

This means that in addition to the usual parade of bigots and spelling bee losers we remember from Tax Day last year, we will now have people pretending to be racist and unable to spell “socialism” in the mix as well.  This means those girls pictured above are quite possibly not actual Tea Partiers.  They’re just trying to confuse us.

But why?  Who’s behind this?  What will this actually accomplish?  Here’s where everyone’s conspiracy theories come into play.

The website seems to suggest liberal opposition to the Tea Party Movement.  Is that really the plan, liberal opposition?  Make the Tea Baggers feel they’ve been infiltrated and let them get paranoid and start to suspect one another of being liberal plants?  Then use similar but more extreme signs to warp their image so our bloodthirsty 24 hour news networks will have tons of easy programming?  If the goal is to discredit them, it seems kind of foolish to make a website announcing your diabolical plan to the world.

The GOP could be behind it, too.  That seems just as likely.  The Tea Party is really scaring them.  And why not?

Originally, the Republican party endorsed the Tea Party.  Even if it wasn’t 100% pro Republican, it was 100% anti Obama.  But now, it looks like the Tea Party could split the Republican vote in November.  They might be trying to marginalize the Tea Party with this website.

Or maybe the Tea Party set up the website themselves, to deflect the criticism they get for signs like this.

If they want to become more mainstream as a movement, they have to be able to distance themselves from all the violent, racist rhetoric America has come to associate with them.

So remember kids, this Tax Day, if you see a misspelled racist sign advocating violence, it’s just a tea partier.  Or an anti tea partier.  Or a democrat pretending to be a tea partier for political gain.  Or a republican pretending to be a tea partier for political gain.  Or a tea partier pretending to be an anti tea partier pretending to be a tea partier for political gain.

God.  That’s a lot of thinking about the Tea Party Movement.  My brain kind of hurts.  Wee Man, help.