It would be pretty funny to watch these idiots go up against a modern army with their modified semi-autos.

Three words : weaponized mobility scooter

They think US soldiers would stand around out in the open and get shot like in their survivalist fantasies, instead of blowing up their house with a standoff weapon from 4 miles away.

None of these people have actually read so much as a Paine broadside that hasn't been severely edited for subject matter.

WE MUST FIGHT THIS TYRANNOSAURUS GOVERNMENT

GATHER YOU ANIMES.

WE MUST FIGHT THIS TANTRICAL GOVERNMENT

SMOTHER THEIR ORGIES.

WE MUST FIGHT THIS TRICYCLE GOVERNMENT

GATHER YOUR TRAINING WHEELS AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO YOUR DAD ABOUT WEARING THAT HELMET

WE MUST FIGHT THIS TAPIOCAN GOVERNMENT

HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU HAVEN'T EATEN YOUR MEAT?

WE MUST FIGHT THIS TRIANGLE GOVERNMENT.

GATHER YOUR OCTAGONS.

I swore this oath too. He was in the military, it's part of swearing in. No need to put it in quotation marks like he's making something up.

However, the 16th Amendment does clearly allow income taxes (although it says nothing about them being levied unequally i.e. progressive)

He's nuts either way, but his words are true enough.

This may not apply to the tea party movement at large, but many of the ones I've had the privilege to chat with about their ideology think that the constitution is a perfect document and that changing it, i.e. the amendments, is sacrilege. This is the argument they all presented to explain how Americans weren't taxed until congress forced the 16th amendment on us.

When I point out that amendments were necessary to prohibit slavery, grant citizenship and voting rights to blacks, grant voting rights to women, set term limits for presidents, and grant residents of Washington D.C. electoral college representation, they wave all of those off.

They get really defensive and refuse to respond when I point out that the first ten amendments, including the sacred 2nd and 10th amendments, are amendments and not part of the immaculate constitution.

A summary for those who don't want to read my ramblings: the people this advertisement is targeting have a vibrant fantasy world and all things that do not mesh with their fantasy are evil/communist/liberal/etc.

it's called "Poe's Law" and it has nothing to do with this website

"No way, dude. I voted for the black guy."

It's only treason if you're not white.

If they're stupid enough to believe that, then they're stupid enough to be convinced by a bunch of white guys playing dress-up.