How very disappointing...

I was pulling on my black patent-leather chaps and heading down to Atlanta's Tea Party -- a Dick Arm(e)y will be there! -- but Pandagon let me know that this teabagging party wasn't what I thought it was.

[The Tea Party movement is] a group of fucknuts joining other groups of marginally related fucknuts to protest something or other, in a hugely fucknutty way.  The point of the Tea Party movement, besides the largest thrusting of testicles to America’s collective face since the Soviets launched Sputnik, is to protest...well, basically the entire functioning of the government with no alternative plan or goal whatsoever.

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Tea Partiers are hoping that if they mimic the energy of anti-war protests and the savvy of Obama’s new media operation, that at some point an actual movement will spawn. Getting together a bunch of pissed off middle-aged white people with no clue about how the tax system works in public areas will generate a coherent agenda designed to combat the stimulus; if it gets enough media coverage, they will DOMINATE THE AGENDA.

Well, damn. I haven't been this disappointed since I found out that the Rusty Trombone Truck Stop and Diner was really just a truck stop and diner.

(I feel better knowing that I wasn't the only one fooled, apparently. Those chaps? Currently out-of-stock.)