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It was a lovely day in DC as the Billionaires for Wealthcare gathered to survey our investments. After a few of our beautiful heiresses took proper tea at the Ladies Tea Party held by Americans for Prosperity, our gilded heroes headed off to greet the marchers with signs, chants and songs.
We set up our post on an elevated curb along Pennsylvania Avenue, proudly surveying the throngs we’d funded. The crowds mainly greeted us with cheers for the status quo. A few seemed confused; they were clearly in awe to be face-to-face with those who profit from their most manipulated fears.
As they passed we waved them on and serenaded them with our songs.
From our perch, your trusty billionaires we thanked our hardworking teabaggers, rallying the crowd with rousing chants like “Money is freedom!”, “Freedom Works – FOR US!, “You Protest – We Profit!” and the big crowd favorite, “Bring Back Bush!!!”
From there we decamped and headed into the crowds toward the Capitol to mingle with those working so hard to ensure our right to raise rates and deny claims.
The crowd embraced us with their exuberant chants and signs. Ayn Rand was a favorite theme, of which we naturally approved, but some were a bit unique. Regardless, we’re proud of the teabaggers, and so thrilled that they came out like good soldiers. After all, nothing says freedom like denying claims. And besides, OUR death panels turn a profit.
To close we popped some champagne, toasted our teabaggers and took our leave of the march.
Back in the limo, we enjoyed the last of our caviar and, as a final touch, sent a huge flower arrangement to the luxury suite of our most loyal foot soldier, Glenn Beck, and headed home.
Until the next rally, we remain yours in obscene wealth and the status quo – Billionaires For Wealthcare.
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Thank you thank you…bringing a big grin to my day. Hope you received my e mail. Kathleen
Thanks for all you folks do.
Did you have any interesting responses?
A ton of interesting responses. It was fascinating.
They definitely joined our chants, and applauded uproariously for our songs. They tended to get very confused when we joined their chants, like “Get a job!” or “U.S.A!”
A good amount of people thought we were dressed up as Congressmen, too, which was interesting.
In 2004 a bunch of us here in Athens went up town for Halloween (huge gathering every year) as Billionaires for Bush (had met these folks at one of the anti invasion rallies). Fascinating who would get the sarcasm right away. The international students and African American students would get it right away. Many of the white meat head kids would scream yes yes totally supporting our class efforts. Damn fascinating
Just love these guys and gals. Thanks. Too bad their point often “parts the hair of the tea baggers.”
THANK YOU
The Millionaire’s for Wealthcare (Health Care for the Wealthy) featured on WashJournal footage.
You were gorgeous.
Thanks for letting us know, Ruth! Do you have a link or anything like that?
excellant stuff
I wonder how long before they realize the ruse
thank you billionaires–this is hilarious, inspired stuff. Thank you for being out there.
Remember, you–and anyone else–can join us and do it too! Just go to http://www.billionairesforweal…..llionaire. Contact the group if you have questions. A Billionaire contingent at a small local event like a Town Hall is likely to get far more attention than at a rally of 50,000.
Will the billionaires be there for these poor smucks when they lose thier health care?? Too Funny…..
“Until the next rally, we remain yours in obscene wealth and the status quo – Billionaires For Wealthcare.
Thank you nut jobs, keep your head up your A-$$.
Some folks were friendly and amused, with what appeared to be a mix of understanding.
Other responses were less tasteful. One woman did a kind of genital dance in front of me. Another woman told me I should not even be in this country and probably could not speak English.
I just kept blowing kisses and thanking them for protecting my profits.
Cognitive dissonance is often un-pretty.
Thanks for being there and bringing the real message to the teabaggers: they are slowly being boiled in billionaires’ tea.
So clever!
The tools of tyrants
Absolutely priceless… Thank You!
Book Salon up at the Mothership with Robert Frank’s The Economic Naturalist’s Field Guide hosted by Mark Thoma
Ladies against women would be proud!
ABC News is reporting 4,000,000 people – make that billionaires – showed up for this protest!
You read it here first!
It’s true! It’s on the internets!
Bless these people for what they do—trying to raise the (un)consciousness of the moran class.
Here is a good article that theorizes what Republicans are trying to do by tying health care reform to illegal immigration.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2888
We love you guys for poking fun at their tinfoil cause!
Oh that’s so brilliant. We need more stuff like this xD
My wingnutty brother was at the event and on the phone with me when you pulled up. I told him to tell you I loved you guys. I think he may be the only person in D.C. yesterday who got the joke.
May Kin!
It was delicious, simply delicious seeing you yesterday, Dahling. We’ll just HAVE to get you up to the Cape again so very soon.
Can you believe how easy it is to mobilise so many thousands of our faithful plebes? All it cost us was a bus, 30 seconds of our marketer’s time for a good slogan, and what appeared to be Brooks & Dunne playing the country music. Throw in a cheap float for good measure and we had ourselves a full-scale hootenanny. Let’s be honest, I spent more than that winterising my sportscourt! It was really the least we could do to go out and thank them all.
Though I do fret, Dahling, that this healthscare jig may be up sooner than we’d care to think. Though, if healthcare reform does manage to pass, perhaps we can get them to voluntarily donate their organs to us. Their fealty knows no bounds.
Chase N. Greenbacks, Esq.
OMG, brillliant!!! Bring back Bush, bwaahahahahaha!
Thank you so very much for this. I saw coverage of the teabag protest in DC on AOL and was so very ticked they got media coverage. Damn it! Where was the media when everyone was protesting the friggin’ wars??
Then I toddle over to the Lake to lick my wounds and voila! Billionaires for Wealthcare. wunnerful, wunnerful!
I’ve been a ”Billionaires” fan ever since 2000. You guys do GREAT work.
Since the tea party astroturfers are planning to do the same thing with cap & trade legislation, you guys need to show up more often in the months to come!
Absolutely genius.
video is up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1I9xsV-g9Y
If God had wanted you to have health care he would have made you rich