I gave the opening speech at the first Denver Tea Party in 2009.
https://jennyhatch.show/2010/03/23/time-to-go-galt-with-your-health-care/
My youngest son Benjamin, age six, held the American Flag while I gave my speech, then we took off from the Capitol to get him to afternoon kindergarten.
Photo stream from Kendall
Reporter Wendy Norris chased me down after my remarks for a quick interview before Benjamin and I left for home because we were FREEZING cold. Here is her take on my speech:
“One hundred enthusiastic Atlas Shrugged fans braved chilly temperatures on the east steps of the Colorado capitol Friday as part of a nationwide “tea party” protest to rail against the federal stimulus package and the government, in general.
Beyond the typical conservative-Libertarian rhetoric was some practical advice on how to “shrug these parasites off our backs” like opening a black market in your own garage.
Jenny Hatch of Louisville kicked off the event with a reading from the fictional anti-government manifesto Atlas Shrugged by libertarian darling Ayn Rand.
Hatch implored the crowd of mainly middle-aged white folk to shrug off medical care, run a subsistence farm with a garden, cows and chickens, and create a black market barter-and-trade system with like-minded neighbors. Presumably all in an effort to block government interference in one’s life from the ills of federally-monitored health care, food inspection, trade regulation and monetary systems.
Flanked by hand-made Obama-is-a-socialist signs in the crowd, the Louisville mom of five thanked the smattering of Republicans, conservatives, Libertarians, one self-disclosed Democrat and “creme de la creme Constitutionalists” for helping to drive out the “Marxist moonbats in Washington, DC.”
I said it then and I’ll say it again today in this post on health care. The most important thing you can as a citizen of America is to “Go Galt” with your health care. Take personal responsibility for your own health and if you have children, take more responsibility for the health of your family. The number one thing that happens in American Hospitals is Childbirth. Sixty One percent of all hospitalizations are in one way or another related to birth, and so I would challenge the Mothers of America to learn the skills of natural mothering and start planning now to give birth quietly at home.
The second principle I outlined in that speech in order to live “under the radar” of the Marxists, was to grow as much of your own food as possible. By growing your own vegetables, fruits, nuts, and perhaps even your own grains, potatoes, and beans, individual citizens could easily live on a subsistence farm completely self reliant from commercial food sources. This is a dream that Paul and I have. And I look forward to someday owning some property where we could grow our own food and live completely off the grid.
The third way I challenged citizens to “Go Galt” was to prepare now to barter and trade with neighbors. Bartering takes citizens out of the tax loop and allows for “free” trade without the sticky fingers of government tax collectors to step in and and steal the fruits of your labors. Running a Barter Based black market out of your basement or garage could be the way to circumvent taxes and the inherent “pooling” of resources that will be used to prop up the various socialistic parasitic government plans that are now being prepared to soak the American Producers at the expense of the American Parasites.
An example of this type of living would be a mother who has the skills of teaching music, cutting hair, or tutoring in math trading her skill or service in exchange for a bushel of apples, a couple pounds of home made soap, or some home baked bread. Instead of a cash transaction being conducted, a barter or trade could easily replace the money, and nobody in government would ever be able to steal anything from the trade. If a huge number of American Citizens started to live this way overnight… it would lead to the inevitable collapse of the American Socialistic State that much more quickly.
I would challenge anyone who would like to understand these principles more fully to take the time to read Atlas Shrugged and study the philosophy of Objectivism.
Americans are intelligent and innovative people and if you are someone who feels as strongly as I do that your tax dollars not be used to pay for Abortions, learning this new way of living and thinking will enable all of us to participate in the American Economy without propping up those systems that are revolting to our morality.
Teapartiers have vowed to keep fighting this system of health care, on the streets and in the courts, but I believe the best way to “fight” is just to shrug and Go GALT! And then let it melt into the vast, behemoth of nothingness that it is…
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After a few years of disappointment, open betrayal, frustration and anguish, we again dug deep and began reassembling, only this time with a different voice and a leader, Donald Trump. The MAGA movement originates from those core Tea Party grassroots activists who stood in the cold and said, “enough!”
I shot and edited this video 15 years ago from interviews I did with the attendees of the first Colorado Tea Party.
I also sang the National Anthem and led the crowd in saying the Pledge of Allegiance!
Jenny Marie Hatch
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The ten-year-old MAGA community 2015-2025 is rooted in the Tea Party grassroots movement that preceded it many years before 2009-2015.
The lessons of Republican betrayal and UniParty corruptive influences that manipulated the Tea Party in order to protect the status quo from the disruption we represented are visible and emotional scars. Through the years, We The Peoplefought the bastards, won some, lost some, gained some ground and lost some again.
Each battle against the corrupt machinery hidden behind the Potemkin village called DC revealed so much. From the ground in Virginia where we won for McDonnell, then to New Jersey and onward to Massachusetts in the cold December of ’09, we knew then it was going to be hard, yet we knew nothing about how hard it would actually be. We just knew it had to be done.
Following our massive and unprecedented victory in the 2010 midterm shellacking, we stood in disbelief watching Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican apparatus respond to our movement by viewing us through the prism of threat. We represented a new era and DC saw the pragmatic conservative movement as a threat to their traditional power structure. Leadership attacked the very movement that gave them power.
After a few years of disappointment, open betrayal, frustration and anguish, we again dug deep and began reassembling, only this time with a different voice and a leader, Donald Trump. The MAGA movement originates from those core Tea Party grassroots activists who stood in the cold and said, “enough!”
We are more hardened, calloused and purposefully cynical as we ever were; yet we are also filled with an even larger faith in a loving God. Our experience with the victories that were insurmountable by most opinions has helped us to become happy and balanced warriors in our mission, and we hold an even more focused and purposeful stare.
So, yeah, it is completely understandable why core MAGA would look today at the newly joined billionaire technocrats who are seemingly seeking self-interested influence, as essentially beneficiaries of the scars we carry. We look suspiciously at them, as we should.
There is no level of trust to be recaptured or delivered given the history we have surmounted. There is no benefit of doubt warranted, given the callous nature of the constant betrayal that sits close in our memory. Yet, we must not let cynicism and dark imaginings impede our purpose.
Tomorrow, President Donald J Trump will take office again. Enjoy it, embrace it optimistically, and pray for President Trump’s safety and wisdom.
At the same time, do not disparage anyone who has stood with us, fought with us, suffered alongside us in each gain/loss scenario, and reflects an outward disposition of distrust and trepidation.
Watching Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, David Sacks, Bill Gates, the Silicon Valley tech bros and likely vaccinated billionaire moguls who funded our enemies walk into the MAGA tent of Liberty like they own the place, is not exactly a comfortable dynamic.
While we sit on the tailgate eating pizza from the box, we well understand these detached elites would just as purposefully be walking into the tent of the progressive Marxists if we had lost.
Core MAGA is not of the same kinfolk and bloodline as the Technocrats, and just because they purchased JD Vance, doesn’t mean their blue jeans are Made in America.
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