Down with this sort of thing!

[sabotabby]

Via apocalypsos: This post has some real gems, though mostly what you'd expect from a Teabagger function (though, amusingly, Boston has so few homegrown Teabaggers that they had to roll them in on the Tea Party Express). The commentary is pretty good too.

My favourite, though, were the photographs showing a confrontation between what appear to be steampunk-esque LARPers and the Teabaggers.




Okay, they don't have goggles, but those are still fabulous outfits. Look at her purse. Her purse is a bloody goldfish. Dear beautiful woman in the red dress: If your country goes to hell please emigrate here so I can be your friend and we can go shopping together.

In case you're wondering, the website goes somewhere adorable.


Look at this GQMF.


I also have this problem.


Hahaha, you think?

Cutest. Counter-protest. Ever.

Comments

[homewardangel.livejournal.com]

finest counter protest i've seen in ages. go boston!

[absinthetic.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, yeah, a bunch of my friends went to that. I love the lady with the "Tea Party Imposter!" sign (the other side said "Liberal Moonbats"), because she's completely missing the irony that it was a REAL tea party, and SHE was the tea party imposter.

Also, RedMassGroup was so pissed at the counter "protestors" that they actually checked on the picnickers' permit (which was valid) and then told people to contact inspectional services on them because they were serving homemade sandwiches. Really guys? Nothing better to do with your time than try to cancel the picnic that was happening on the OTHER END OF THE 50-ACRE PARK?

[sabotabby]

Struck a nerve there, did they?

I am genuinely happy that we don't have Teabagger sorts here (I mean, what would be the point?) but the counter-protests must be super-fun.

[absinthetic.livejournal.com]

I was really hoping someone would dress up as Captain America.

http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/02/08/marvel-comics-captain-america-says-tea-parties-are-dangerous-and-racist/

[sabotabby]

I read about that! I'm only vaguely aware of what Marvel does but I thought Captain America was dead due to Iron Man being a fascist or some such. I guess this is a different Captain America.

[absinthetic.livejournal.com]

It actually IS a different Cap. :) The Cap in the comic in question is actually his old sidekick Bucky, who took up the uniform when Cap was assassinated at the end of the "Civil War" storyline. They're trying to stop a crazy 1950's-obsessed Captain America (from an alternate timeline or some weird crap) from wrecking more havoc.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

Imposter? Wow. Well, there's a tea party in my hood because today is Tax Day (the day your taxes are due). The irony is that the tea party is being held at the county fair grounds, ya know, the kind that our taxes paid for...

[loolica.livejournal.com]

The counter-counter-protester (anti-counter-protester?) is pretty hilarious.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

I SO want to be part of this. XD

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Reading the words "Tea party IMPOSTER!" in isolation, I wasn't sure which side was therein represented. The spelling mistake was my first clue; the sign-carrier's lamentable outfit was the second.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

As much as I love to laugh at teabaggers (because they are morons), I sometimes fear that this kind of smugness could be the left's downfall.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

Which is why those two groups should've opened fire on each other. Everyone wins!

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

I would approve of this. All the better if they did in costumes and with flintlock muskets just for the lolz.

I'll cosplay a victorious Haymarket Martyr from an alternate timeline.


Fuck, I'm such a huge geek. ;)

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweet. I _love_ intelligent counter-protesters opposing the brainless herd. Like that time I came to the gay parade with a shtreimel, a shirt that said "I don't understand homosexuality. Do you?" and "Antisemite" stickers for the many who followed the example of the impostor lady up there (they were typically a bit more aggressive).

[moonwrangler.livejournal.com]

I liked that lawn better when people were throwing weed legalization rallies there. And those people with the giant Chick tracks ARE the Chick track people. I know because they have been there for ever, and when I would go into Boston as a teenager and later in my freshman year at UMass, they would always shove those things at me.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

So awesome. I love the "Our Tea Party Has Cookies" sign.

I heard a teabagger interviewed on NPR saying she was glad to be in Boston "site of the original tea party", but she couldn't stand how liberal Boston actually was.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. Now there's a counter-protest movement I can get behind.

[ironed_orchid]

love

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

This isn't Boston! Where are the giant floating 3D letters???

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

COOOOOOOOL!

I too love goldfish purse.
And real tea parties.
With fair trade tea.

[sfslim.livejournal.com]

Love this so much that I posted about it over on Laughing Squid:

http://laughingsquid.com/the-real-boston-tea-party-a-polite-response-to-teabaggers/

Thanks Sabotabby!