Pictures from our Billionaires for Wealthcare Rally today - and our invasion of the teabaggers

We had a Billionaires for Wealthcare Rally today in Kansas City. It was fabulously fun. We got all dressed up.






We even had a limo.





















During our get together we found out the local teabaggers were at the NBC affiliate protesting against Keith Olbermann. It just so happened that the NBC station is only 2 blocks from where we had gathered the billionaires. So we decided to join the teabaggers.

We walked over there as a group and were joined by a couple who was going to the rally. They saw our signs and said they didn't have a sign so we offered them one of ours. :)

As we got to the teabagger rally, we were greeted by lots of smiles and cheers. Then slowly, one by one, they figured out who we were. :rofl:

We refused to stand on the sidewalk paid for with socialist tax dollars so we gathered behind the teabaggers on the grass. We had a bullhorn and we thanked them for making us wealthy and for George Bush and for Halliburton and for all that money we had made in the 21st century. You can see a couple of our signs in this picture:



For awhile, the teabaggers just stood there and looked at us. They had some woman on the other side of the street chanting things that didn't make any sense and we responded as well as we could. When she said anything about health care, we thanked them for their premium dollars that made us wealthy. If she mentioned taxes, we reminded them that we didn't have to pay taxes because they do. This really made one girl angry. She told us she was poor and couldn't afford to pay higher taxes for government health care. We assured her we opposed all govt health care including Medicare and we appreciated a tax system that allowed us to pay no taxes because she paid enough to cover our share.

This man kept running out in the middle of the street. We told him that we hoped he didn't get hit because we didn't want to spend any money taking care of him.



A few of the teabaggers finally grabbed a bullhorn and began chanting back at us. Their chant was: "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" then they would laugh and repeat "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH". (Yes it felt like 3rd grade on the playground) This did remind us of school so we told them their chant was proof of the failure of socialist public education.



A grand time was had by all. What a perfect day!

Oh but one problem. The teabaggers had advertised their rally was about that evil librul Keith Olberman but they had no signs condemning Keith. Hmm.

They did have one sign I should have gotten a picture of. It said "NO END OF LIFE COUNCELLING" I asked the man holding it if he was talking about using cell phones. He gave me a funny look and I said "Your sign says coun CELL ing". He looked at his sign and then said "Oh so it's about the spelling and NOT the message, eh?" I assured him he was correct. :)

See, it is possible to share a message with teabaggers.

SOMEWHERE...

Something like that here, I'd have to be happy with my five year old over coat.

It just LOOKS expensive... that should be good enough

We had way too much fur.

someone tells these teabaggers what to say, they have no clue. :rofl:

They really did chant BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Then they would laugh hysterically and chant the same thing again.

It was pretty bizarre.

I understand and appreciate the value of satire and humor to make a political point. But whether or not you were joking around or being serious, Planet Earth doesn't really care. The Hummer limo is about as bad of a gas guzzler as you can get.

This Lincoln Town Car pulled up and a chauffeur got out and opened the back door. A well dressed woman in a fur coat got out and joined our rally. :)

It was awesome staging.

Awesome is right.

I think that was their point!

Didn't seem very gracious to say 'Oh take that one back, it's a damn Hummer'. :eyes:

Let no good deed go un-nitpicked. No matter what you do, there's always some jackass whose first impulse is to tell you how you could have done it better.

And this site is crawling with them.

:thumbsup:

It's justifiable for carpool purposes!

Thank all of you and those are terrific signs!

Thanks for posting. It made my day.

Love it!

I'm sure the OP could have outsmarted the Bullie Baggers with 3/4s of her brain tied behind her back.

:)

:thumbsup:

is dependent on maintaining the status quo.

go through to a few of them.

For those of us who could not be there, the photos were great.
Hooray for you!!!

would be so proud.

:fistbump:

That's where today's Republicans got their attitude from and why they think they are right...

Republicans think that Thurston and Lovey were real people, that was the good ole' days, and they wanted to be just like them.

Their attitudes match Thurston and Lovey, and they have morphed it with their own mean cut-throat personalities and degenerate traits.

They honestly believe there is a chance that they too can be as rich as the Howells. Just work hard and keep those bootstraps up and all that. LOL

Much enjoyed.

And dress them just like the picture that would perfect sense they are really icons in the popular culture...that would be perfect.

Oh, I just love that one.

I need to check and see if there's a branch in this town. I could put my mother's mink coats to good use.

On edit: dang, there isn't. Not yet. I'll have to keep checking back.

We chanted that at the teabaggers also.

I believed we convinced them that corporate personhood is the way to go! LOL

I had an old stole from my mother in law. The site of it made me feel queasy. I sent it in and felt great about it!

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I didn't have whatever it takes to put it on today. First time I have had a reason to wear it in all the years I have had it.

I am definitely sending it to Coats for Cubs!

:hi:

:hi:

All you need is a few pretentious over the top costumes, a bull horn and some good signs. Everybody likes to dress up; Especially for such a good cause. These folks are really making a difference and making freeptards look as ignorant as they are. The tactic is genius.

It seems as though the Teabaggers are clueless but the issues.

They really could use some "COUNCELLING" if you know what I mean ;)

:rofl:

:hide:

Help "is" buy congress?

/facepalm

Oops.

Great idea, and it looks like you had tons of fun! :thumbsup:

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

Sounds like what I did at my local teabaggers meeting in our country. I acted like I was one of them then when I got the bullhorn I gradually started to slam everyone of their heroes in a roundabout way and it creschendoed to an all out smack down on the fat boy, Oreilly and all their repuke heroes until someone took the bullhorn from me and told me to leave. I still wouldnt but finally a deputy advised me I was trespassing so I took it out to the sidewalk and harassed everyone of them as they left with my librul friends.

I bow to your awesomeness!

you invite Muffy, Buffy and myself! You must give us the "hook up" as the rabble like to say!

It was so much fun I hope we do it again.

Colbert can't even touch that level of satire...well done!

Is there any news coverage?

Your pics are great!

I will post it if and when they put their stories online.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

They mess with teabaggers heads too.

Great outfits. I kept thinking how well you were following the billionaires rules until I saw a few homemade signs. (Yes I have loved reading their site. Like the rule page. 'Formal is Normal')

Great use of time and energy. It must be so much fun. But sing!

“Battle Hymn of the Insurance Companies”

Rejoice and let us glory in the profits we attain
By rationing the remedies for suffering and pain.
And no one's gonna mess with all our monetary gain.
Let's save the status quo!

Chorus:
If our healthcare corporation
Never faces regulation,
We'll be brimming with elation!
Let's save the status quo!

We bought a bunch of senators and congresspeople too.
They serve our corporate interests and we tell them what to do.
This gravy train will stop the day a healthcare bill gets through.
Let's save the status quo!

Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)

Our PR team is crackerjack. We’re framing the debate!
We’re spreading lots of lies and we’re unleashing lots of hate.
We’ll drive a stake into the bill the day it leaves the gate.
Let's save the status quo!

Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)

A decent public option is an option we won’t bear.
And Medicare for Everyone would kill our market share.
We’ll never win the game if all the rules are just and fair.
Let's save the status quo!

Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)

In every other wealthy nation healthcare is a right.
But not here in America, no not without a fight!
We’re fighting for the right to monstrous profits day and night.
Let's save the status quo!

Chorus: If our healthcare corporation (etc.)

http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/category/song/

You guys are just great ~ someone should have video-taped the whole thing and put it on Utube! Lol!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

the pics or the report. Tears of laughter are streaming down my cheeks.
Your OP is freaking perfect and fall down funny. :rofl: Bravo! I love you Billionaires for Wealthcare. :yourock:

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

:rofl:

:rofl:

about 40 years ago. I remember that park but can't think of the name.......... what is it?

The fountain is the Nichols Fountain. It's on the eastern edge of the Plaza.

along with the Plaza and the City of Mission, KS.

Damn, I should get out my pearls (inherited) and Italian shoes and cashmere coat (inherited) and go protest! That sounds like great fun baffling 'em.

:D

great job and point well made!

There's a website that gives you everything you need. Well, except the limo :)

http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/

I have some friends who do Billionaires for Wealthcare and I plan on joining them at the next possible opportunity.

:party: :party: :party: :toast: :toast: :toast: :party: :party: :party:

Thanks very much!

Maybe they won't feel the same way about healthcare reform once they get the bill for their quadruple bypasses.

telling everyone that Jim Jones was a good friend of Harvey Milk.

Now what THAT has to do with NBC or Keith Olberman or health care or even Obama - is way beyond me. LOL

Why is it not surprising that they advertise an anti-Olbermann rally - yet it had nothing to do with Keith?!

I think you should let Keith know. I'm sure he'd be a bit offended that "his" rally didn't even mention him!

my favorite sign: nobody's forcing you to get sick, you know! :rofl:

Check out the guy in the joker outfit. It isn't very clear but he is holding a sign with a picture of a blue eyed Obama. :rofl:

And wtf is 4TH ESTATE IS NOW 5TH COLUMN??

That's what RePUKES are made of.

This is so amazing!!! Using humor and pointing out irony--to demonstrate just how
absurd the right's views are on healthcare and taxes.

This really is beautiful!!!

I hope this catches on in other locations. It really is a hoot. Plus, every retort
you made to these people was SPOT ON!!! You use humor to point out the truth, and it
is just fabulous.

There's no arguing with your points either! You dumbfounded them.

Wow, this really is incredibly creative and highly effective.

A+++++++++++++++++

Protestors gathered outside the offices of NBC Action News on Saturday to voice their opinions about the station's news coverage.


KANSAS CITY, Mo. – More than 50 protesters gathered outside the offices of NBC Action News Saturday afternoon saying the station favors President Obama in its coverage.

The group protested what they call biased, liberal news coverage over a broad range of issues, including health care, Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill and reporting on the number of people attending recent Tea Party events.

Protesters gathered at the station at 4 p.m. and were still at the station as of 6 p.m.

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Group-Protests-NBC-Action-News-Over-Coverage/JgwLuhQxskirZONDSDFg7g.cspx

About that attendance at their teabag events - I heard this guy talking to the reporter and he was claiming there were 20,000 at a recent rally. I have attended quite a few of their rallies and I moved over closer to the guy to hear which rally he was talking about. He told the reporter the date and the place and I had been there! There were 100 of them at that rally. I posted pics of it here. We even had cops there who counted the group! Now, how much of a stretch is it to make 100 turn into 20,000!! I about bust a gut laughing.

Check out the comments after the story. http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Group-Protests-NBC-Action-News-Over-Coverage/JgwLuhQxskirZONDSDFg7g.cspx?p=Comments

It is especially ironic that they would ignore you when you consider the Teabaggers were protesting "liberal media bias".

We saw him and asked him to film our signs. He said "We already covered your rally" and he walked away!

I will keep checking the station's website, but they have no story about our rally posted.

Some librul media. LOL

They do mention us. They had film from our first rally. Still nothing online though.

I take back what I said about the librul media. LOL

wonderful

It is so easy. You can download signs and there is also music. :)

they really don't "get" it at all.

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Loved your report! :kick: :yourock: :applause:

Sounds like a new Frankie and Annette movie.

the billionaires for wealthcare made me laugh instead. Tried to talk some friends into doing this but our town is too small!!

is absolutely fabulous!

I want to do something like that, but there's no one around me that would even bother.

Love your pictures.

One of the best ideas ever.

:D :thumbsup:

I especially liked your description (and photos) of your meeting with the "tea baggers"

Apparently these dooderheads have absolutely no grasp of concepts like satire and irony.

It figures. I'll wager most of them listen to Rush and watch O'Reilly, and have never had an original thought in their entire lives.

Gee big surprise, eh?

:rofl:

Hekate

:toast:

Bravo! :toast:

It really was a hoot, wasn't it?

Yes of course share these pictures anywhere you want.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

We lo-o-o-ove the Billionaires around here!

:yourock:

the One about ending medicare had me rolling...I bet that shut a few of them up fast :P...well at least maybe it made one or two think for a change :P

Your responses to the teabaggers were so cool.. You did a really great thing.

Thanks so much for sharing the pics. You all look so handsome and beautiful...

Too many millionaires. Even most of those who mean well are clueless, and lack the passion and understanding of real people in real-life situations.

Of course, for real change, the only solution is publicly funded elections.

Next time you can come and tell the guy who owns the limousine service thanks but we'd rather not use your fucking SUV eyesore. :crazy:

I'm sorry proud2BlibKansan, I know these are the thing now.

But they HURT MY EYES!! :eyes:

:sarcasm:

:shrug:


and an apology

I'll post it as soon as it is on the net.

I'll post the rest tonight.

I :toast: all of you!

Several to whoever thought this up!

Thanks!!!

We're special because we have it and YOU DON'T. :P

Absolutely brilliant stuff. Interesting to note that the teabaggers appear to have taken Chuck Norris' words to heart--only one of them appears to be displaying the standard fifty-star U.S. flag they all allegedly revere. The rest are doing some weird alternative flag thing. It's interesting to watch the American right-wing devolve into total incoherence--they don't seem to know WHAT they want.

I'm just amazed how something could be simultaneously so hilarious and terrifying.

What's really funny is how long it takes the teabaggers to figure it all out . . . if they ever do. Good job!

I saw your Limo yesterday.I was thinking to myself (when I saw it)about how sick of a society we are to actually make a stretch hummer. I'm glad it was being used for a good cause. :woohoo:

It was so much fun.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It tough to have a battle of wit's when your opponent has no ammunition.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Keith and Rachel will be proud to add you to their numbers. Well done. :grouphug:

That is all.

:applause:

You guys absolutely ROCK.

Joining the PeeBaggers was brilliant, although the array of disgusting and misguided DON'T TREAD ON ME flags, combined with the yellow shirts and ignorance might have been too stomach-churning for me.

There must not be much to do in Independence on a Saturday...from the looks of this crowd they need a few more Taco Bells and another dozen McDonald's to keep their residents from cluttering up Kansas City.

I'm sure some of those teabaggers are from Lee's Summit and Olathe. :rofl:

With perhaps a few scattered in from Blue Springs...that pretty much takes care of their big scary mob of 50 idiots.

I have yet to see even a flicker of teabagging activity here. Strangely enough, everyone may be a Repuke but people take perverse pride that Obama's grandmother was born in this county, just up the highway a couple of miles in Peru (which, sadly, is now completely blighted). Our historical society has been researching the family and they publish updates in our local paper. This seems to keep their teabagging instincts in check. Maybe I can pay off the historical society to include a chapter on the family's history in Olathe...

You can still rec.

weird. Kept getting that error message even though it showed my Rec got counted.

All's well now.

:applause:

i just love your rich people antics. utterly inspiring.

loved it so much i posted this link on my facebook page. :D

The Billionaires thank you.

Great work!

Thanks for the story and the pics!

xoxoxox

Clever, honest, hard hitting, and something that the average Fox news viewer can't easily dismiss as a bunch of wild-eyed hippies.

Thank you for taking the time to put it together for us. And thank you for taking the time and effort to do this protest--creatively!

Cher

I live in Wichita and my daughter lives in KC. I might drive up for your events some time. We've done this in Wichita too.

Best regards,

Brad

dfawichita@yahoo.com

I am on the Wichita DFA email list. I was at DemoFest.

I will definitely let you know if we do this again. It was such a fabulous fun time.

You got the message across and had fun doing it! I recognize the beautiful Country Club Plaza - a lovely area. Thank you for your great work.

You all look so great!

:rofl:

Is that limo a Hummer? Too cool to take a stab at gas guzzlers too.

The only way to fight these people is with satire.

They simply just don't have the mental capacity to listen to reason.

They don't have the capacity to understand irony, either.

Random thought that may sound better to me than someone else... Feel free to improve.


" I'm a Billionaire and I'm ok!
I sleep all night and you work all day."

"He's a Billionaire, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and we work all day."

I deny your claim. I make my profit.
I look at fox TV.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin'
Because congressmen aren't free!


He denies our claims. He makes his profit.
He looks at fox TV.
On Wednesdays he goes shoppin'
Because congressmen aren't free!
"He's a Billionaire, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and we work all day."

I deny your claim. I pretend I care.
I don't care if people die...
The only thing I'm scared of
is Single Payer Care!

He denies our claims. He says he cares.
He doesn't care if people die...
The only thing he's scared of
is Single Payer Care!
"He's a Billionaire, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and we pay all day."

... Lumberjacks are, for the most part, okay.

:rofl:

:dem:

That's emotional Ju Jitsu at work.:)

Thanks for the thread, proud2BlibKansan.:thumbsup:

and I salute you. :patriot:


The pictures and the narrative are priceless. I am just cracking up.

Unless they are totally devoid of any brain cells.

Of all the protest tactics I've seen I think Billionaires for Wealthcare is TOP NOTCH!!

Wouldn't it be great if you all were really billionaires!

:rofl:

:kick:

Screw any sick people, just go for the gold.

You all know this is SARCASM, right, except if you are a Republican, right?

:thumbsup:

:hi:

:dem:

-Laelth

:rofl:

I guess I didn't get a picture of that sign.

:rofl: These billionaires are priceless.