Tips For Teabaggers

[NanceGreggs]

No doubt you have now been convinced, the vast dozens of you, by FOX-News and various and sundry other purveyors of the non-truth, that yesterday’s non-event was an event that rocked the world.

Ergo (oh, for Christ’s sake, Google the word, why don’t you?) you will be planning non-events for the future.

Please consider the following Tips for Teabaggers:

· Change your name. Considering the connotation of teabagging, you might want to – no, uh, nevermind. Stick with teabaggers – it’s just too :rofl:


· Try to find out what is it you are allegedly protesting before you participate. Chances are (being as there are so few of you) you will wind up in front of a TV camera at some point, being asked why you are there. Responses like “duh”, “I dunno”, and “beats me” do little to advance your cause – whatever that cause may be.

· Pulling off the grassroots movement thing means NOT making references to FOX-News or corporate sponsors of your non-event. It’s kind of like telling a chick you just met in a bar that you’re single and sexually insatiable – despite the fact that you’re wearing a wedding ring, and your BlackBerry keeps flashing a message about picking up some extra-strength Viagra on your way home.

· Placards and signs will be captured by TV and still cameras. Spelling and grammar come into play here – no, seriesly. Don’t be afraid to ask a neighbor for help in bringing properly-spelled words together into a coherent sentence. If you have a Liberal neighbor, he/she is probably your best bet when looking for someone with expertise in this area. (They may not agree with your political views, but they will defend to the death your right to mis-spell them.)

· A little fact-checking goes a long way. It’s always wise to make sure you’re not protesting what you think a new administration is about to do, when it turns out to be the same thing the previous administration (the one you supported so vehemently) actually did do for … eight … fuckin’ … years. “This Obama guy is about to plunge the nation into unfathomable debt – oh, noes!!!

· The clothes make the man/woman. Wearing a hatful of teabags will (a) demonstrate your idiocy for all the world to see, and (b) ensure that you never get laid again – at least not by anyone who isn’t just itchin’ to fuck an idiot.

· Stay mindful of those Good Christian Family Values ™ you’re always braggin’ about, especially while you’re out in public. Your seven-year-old with the “Don’t touch my piggy-bank” sign is adorable – why isn’t she in school? Oh, that’s right, schools are evil, what with being funded by tax dollars and all – just like those tax-dollar-funded firefighters who are on their way to your house, trying to save it as it burns to the ground while you’re out rantin’, wearing a hatful of teabags.

· Find a fact (yes, an actual fact] and commit it to memory (yes, at this point, a single fact will do) – that’s one more fact than you had in your empty head yesterday, and it might come in handy in future.

· If you find yourself in possession of a single fact, you might not want to participate in “teabagging” in future – and I’d suggest the first fact you look into is the definition of the word “teabagging”.

· But that’s just me … :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ah, my dear Nance!

You skewer with the best!

In fact, you ARE the best!

ROTFLMFAO!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Oh, and K&R

:patriot:

[Suich]

2. The Urban Dictionary definition

is changing daily!

Thanks for another great post!!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

K & R!

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Oy.

This whole thing is soooo bad. Here I hafta go visit my 90 year old mother this summer, and she does love her tea. I'll never again look at a tea cozy without thinking 'jockstrap,' and there's no way in hell I'm going to try to explain those giggles to her!

[NanceGreggs]

4. ...

... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Oh, God, thanks SO much for that ... :rofl:

[DFW]

5. I thought that went out with "Let's Make A Deal."

I must have been out of the country for too long, or something. Back when that
show was on, people made fools of themselves in the hope of winning something.

Here, they just make fools of themselves.

[bleever]

6. And it's improbable, I know,

but my favorite tea is Tetley's Tips.

:shrug:

[PBS Poll-435]

7. You have outdone yourself agaijn

HighProps.


K/R

[Oldtimeralso]

8. Great Post!

Just a few thoughts

Do these protesters know what the Urban Dictionary is? or does someone have to spell that out to them.

Are these "baggers" so independently wealthy that they can afford to take the day off work? or is just that maybe they don't have jobs or if they do they have just shown their boss that he can do without them.

Do they accept or expect social security? Some of the ones I saw looked old enough to collect.

Do they make 250K or more? or are they just sheep.

Does the 7 years old attend school? or is she being home schooled to keep her away from those evil liberals in the education system. She might as well live in a bubble all of her life.

Maybe a few of us DU'ers could teach them how to have a protest. For a fee (a large one if I have to work with freepers) this recently retired old hippie can give them a few tips.

[Wetzelbill]

9. I almost bought some tea today

Irish Breakfast Tea, it's good. I just don't know if I can look at a teabag in the same way again.

[chknltl]

10. Recommending this even before reading.

That title is just too precious! That said, I can now get on with reading another fine Nance Greggs OP, one I suspect I would have recomended anyway.

[The Wizard]

11. Next on the wing nut agenda

Saddle Bag parties and stopping Dirty Sanchez at the border. Someone must have infiltrated their leadership. No one is this stupid. But if they are, hide the children.
Maybe they should be checked for webbed feet and hands.
With a major TV network promoting this nonsense for the past month the turnout was as pathetic as the participants.

[LongTomH]

17. You may not be far off there...............

The Fox News / Far Right bunch that planned this little escapade has GOT to have a lot of contempt for the sloping forehead, knuckle-dragging, moutbreathers they're manipulating. Can't you just imagine the laughter:

"And the best part is, they'll never catch on to what 'tea-bagging' means!!!!!!" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[wizstars]

32. That's not a major TV network--that's Fox

they're (dare I say it?) just bush-leaguers

[Historic NY]

12. Crack.......out of the park.

:hi:

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Brilliant! K&R

[riona]

14. but, but...

We can't aford to have are Constution runed by a Scholiast theif. We won't except it for are daugters' future. No exetions. Thank you fox news for keeping us infromed.

[nxylas]

18. ROFL

That stands for Rolling On the Floor Laughing, it's not a teabagger trying to spell roof or floor or something.

[O-Town Blue]

15. My personal favorite out of this bunch...

Are the Sanfords, Jindals, and Perrys out there who cry 10th Amendment because they would be required to temporarily change the eligibility of their state's unemployment benefits as a stipulation of accepting the stimulus money. According to them it would wind up costing them money. You know, even though they can change the eligibility requirements in a couple of years back to what they were prior to accepting the money.

Why haven't I heard these same people piss and moan in the past about federal highway funds that are given to and accepted by them on the stipulation that they keep their minimum drinking age at 21 and not lower it? Seriously. How much revenue do you think is being lost by small businesses such as restaurants, liquor and convenience stores, music venues, and bars that 18, 19, and 20 year-olds would begin patronizing by being able to buy alcohol legally? (Personal feelings on the subject aside as there are just as many studies saying lowering the legal drinking age would have a positive effect or no effect as there are saying it would have a negative effect) But, my point is - Not a peep from anyone. No invocation of the 10th Amendment. No calls for secession. Nothing.

Isn't it, essentially, the same damned thing?

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Nance, in the future please post a warning.

I just sprayed a mouthful Wheat Chex all over my brand new keyboard.

This is getting entirely too expensive...............

:rofl:

[Bette Noir]

22. You were warned. Didn't it say Nance wrote it?

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. Slow learner, I guess............

[Milspec]

19. Outstanding post

:toast:

[hangman86]

20. I wish I could have put your whole journal entry on a giant picket sign

and surrounded the *ahem* teabaggers (still gives me a giggle) with it.

[prostock69]

21. Definition of teabagger:

A misinformed, right-wing corporate media consumer who often fails to understand that BOTH major parties represent a corrupt plutocracy that steals from the middle class by taxing labor and profiting from corporate tax subsidies.

A teabagger also often fails to acknowledge that George W. Bush and his neo-conservative minions perpetrated one of the boldest and most egregious executive power grabs in the history of the United States. Furthermore, teabaggers mistakenly continue to blame a newly elected President Obama for all that ails the United States of America, based on a grossly flawed perception of reality (including latent racial prejudice) and despite the fact the U.S. economy collapsed on the previous administration's watch.

Teabaggers are also known to base their misguided, right-wing-media-inspired beliefs about President Obama on stupid conspiracy theories about totalitarian takeovers, FEMA camps, etc., despite the fact these very same theories have been circulating around on the Internet for years, and were originally linked to neo-conservative cabalists at a time when Barack Obama had not even entered national politics. Teabaggers also are known to be particularly paranoid, xenophobic and intolerant, especially with regard to immigrants and anyone who isn't white.

Additionally, teabaggers generally echo stupid myths about entitlement spending (it actually only comprises about 1% of federal budget spending), have no idea that most poor people in America are not lazy, actually do work and don't want to be on welfare, and have no idea what socialism actually means or that socialist reform in this country is actually what allowed a middle class to flourish and ultimately make the U.S. one of the most prosperous nations in human history.

Furthermore, teabaggers incorrectly equate socialism with Stalinism, think a system that rewards greed (capitalism) is the divine preference (despite Gospel evidence to the contrary), and are shameless champions of a misguided belief in American exceptionalism. Teabaggers also fail to recognize the inherently unpatriotic nature of their failed every-man-for-himself ideology that ultimately vilifies anyone who supports public policy aimed at reaching out to fellow Americans in need. They celebrate an exploitative corporatocracy (holy creator of jobs, blah blah blah) while denigrating the little guy for being "weak."

Interestingly, teabaggers uphold an immoral, morbidly obese, twice divorced, draft-dodging, college dropout, drug addict as their de facto leader, and are even known to advocate burning books. Of course, teabaggers fail to recognize the blatant hypocrisy within the GOP and tend to oversimplify all political debate and social issues.

Finally, incredibly, teabaggers fail to recognize the hysterical double entendre associated with their proudly adopted teabag moniker.

Every village has its idiots, of course, but its sad when citizens of any nation allow themselves to be whipped into a frenzy en masse by a state-run propaganda machine masquerading as a legitimate, fair, balanced and independent news organization. Teabaggers are right to believe the future of the U.S.A. is in jeopardy, but sadly they have not yet correctly identified the real enemy. Perhaps when teabaggers finally grow up and mature into thinking adults, they will see the right-leaning power establishment for the oppressive and cunning beast that it is.

Teabagger: "Everyone knows Obama is a communist muslim who wants to repair the George Bush train wreck by giving taxpayer money back to the people. Let's go throw some Lipton tea bags in a fountain."

[mwb970]

27. Entitlement spending is only 1% of the budget?

I heard it was over 50% and growing. We're talking about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, right? 1% of the budget? Are you sure?

It's unfortunate that you cite this wildly incorrect number in the middle of a diatribe about "stupid myths".

:shrug:

[chat_noir]

24. FReeper VANITY: folks tying tea bags to rear view mirrors?

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 9:28:27 AM by gogulls

I searched the site before posting this: are folks tying tea bags to rear-view mirrors? Just tied two on my SUV (separated by my tree air-freshener, that is)




GREAT

gonna do it NOW!

3 posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 9:30:52 AM by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231440/posts

[nxylas]

25. Sadly, the jokes about low attendance may be wishful thinking

Our local paper reported 3000 attending the Columbia, SC rally. Granted, we're the capital city of one of the most backward, redneck states in the nation, but a DUer in liberal Madison reported a similar figure at their local protest. If you multiply that by the 600 or so rallies that were organized, Fox Noise may have reached their target of a million protestors. Does anyone have a reliable figure for how many protested nationwide? I've been trying to find one without success.

[Chan790]

28. Yes, well...

I can tell you first hand that NYC was an abject failure for them. I went to gawk...the news media outnumbered the protesters and that almost certainly will be the stock footage the world and the unaffiliated middle will see, not 3000 people in SC.

[nxylas]

29. Good

I was expecting the corporate media to show footage of the best-attended event they could find and spin it as a huge populist uprising against evil socialist taxes.

[nxylas]

26. Delete

Double post.

[XanaDUer]

30. Another tip: look up "socialism" and "fascism" in a dictionary

and learn they are not the same political ideology.

[nxylas]

31. But...but...it was called the National SOCIALIST Party!

That proves it. Just like East Germany must have been democratic because it was called the German DEMOCRATIC Republic.

[Zambero]

51. My all-time favorite Republican groups

Saddam Hussein's death-dealing Republican Guard, and not to forget the Irish Republican Army. After all, since they went to the trouble of calling themselves Republicans, they MUST be Republicans!

[polmaven]

40. But you have to kno

how to speel them to look them up, doncha?

[Peacetrain]

33. Awesome op!

"If you find yourself in possession of a single fact" :rofl: I hope you are a professional writer, because if you are not, then we are missing out on a great talent and way with words

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[PeaceNikki]

35. Oooh, tell us all about your teabagging adventure!!

Where was it? Who organized it? Were there crumpets? Did Joe the (non)Plumber speak??

[Name removed]

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[PeaceNikki]

37. Seriously - tell us all about it.

I am not offended by "working people".

Tell me, where the fuck have you been for the past 8 years?

Hurry - tell us while you can. I suspect your chance will be gone soon!

[Name removed]

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[PeaceNikki]

39. You're no fun!

x(

[RalphieD]

41. If they had guns

they would have shot them in the air and maybe the falling
bullets would have done everyone a favor.

[RalphieD]

42. I only hope

the government was smart enough to take notice of these wackos
that attended these Teabagging parties.  They need to be
watched carefully.  They are all potential domestic
terrorists.  Now all they can do is whine and cry about Janet
Napolitano doing her job.

[Name removed]

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[RalphieD]

44. Maybe you're not

If you aren't a terrorist then you have nothing to worry
about.

[obiwan]

45. Tea Bagging Fun

This is the blog that hosted the teabagging event held in Long Beach, CA:


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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Long Beach Tea Party AAR

Yesterday's Tea Party, held in Bixby Park, Long Beach, California at noon, was very enjoyable and peaceful. The numbers were nothing remarkable at first glance, but it was only advertized for a week. The pitfall happened because I have never done anything like this before. As I tried to do everything legally, I was told not to advertize until the 'i's were dotted and the 't's were crossed. It wasn't until a week ago I gave up and just had a free speech gathering.

There were two ACORN people that did show up, a couple, but they stayed in there area and we in ours. They had some radical bumper stickers on the back of the car. Most of them were against President Bush which is quite odd when you realize the only reason they were protesting this so-called protest is because they disagreed with what we were saying. They actually stated they thought that we should pay more taxes. I disagree. However they were peaceful. That was appreciated by all.

Some people said there were 70 to 80 people there, others like the Long Beach Report stated there were 45. My sign-in sheet counted 34. Sometimes we miss a few and that could be the case here. However many showed up, everyone was polite, they cleaned up after themselves, there was no shouting except for me maybe when I spoke passionately about why I decided to have the Tea Party.

The diversity of people was amazing. There were two former Military/Intelligence men, an economist who used to work in the US Treasury Department, a former INS agent, and so many more. There was a man there who had started the Long Beach Taxpayers (group?), and he spoke about organizing toward a set goal. His goal, of course, was lowering taxes and prevent more from coming into being. A good cause indeed.

Another person was interested in trying to get all of the people who are elected and have been in office for more than two terms out of office. Well, I can't say that anyone disagreed with him. There was a lot of clapping. Another discussion was the rip off and the lies surrounding 1A-F. These are propositions to higher taxes.

They want us to vote yes on 1A so that they will not spend more money, yet they want us to give them more money to do this. It was suggested that if they did not have the money in the first place, maybe they shouldn't ought to spend it! That is one way to save money.

The reason I decided to have a Tea Party, first and foremost, is because I do not recognize my government. It started with the housing bubble and President Bush. He apparently believed that destroying the free market was the best way to save it. Not so.

Then when President Obama came into office, he was faced with a mess. He had an opportunity to actually show us that he meant what he said on the campaign trail by allowing us 5 days to review any and all legislation before he signed it. The stimulus package which no one read was handed to the Congress and voted on that same day. I have never seen 1300 pages of legislation move so quickly. It went from Congress to the Senate and then President Obama in less than 5 days before he signed it without any of us being able to read it. It has failed to help anyone except his friends.

Don't get me wrong. I understand that whomever is in power helps their friends. I do not fault him for that. I just wish he had some friends that were hiring real people! His friends seem to live on Wall Street and in the banking community. Also, he was quite friendly with the housing committees and brokers, if that is what they're called. Which brings me back to my point.

I have been waiting all my adult life to own my own home, but I could not afford one. I was counting on the housing bubble to burst. I was not counting on President Bush stating that no one should have to go through default. WHAT? I have always been under the impression that in a country where we are responsible for our own actions and contracts mean what they say, then that's all there is to it. I was going to buy one of those foreclosed houses. What bad debts?

Then we had President Obama spending money so fast that the Fed had to print another $1,000,000,000. My, that looks like a lot of money to me, and I'm one of the ones who has to pay it back. I do not think this is fair. Especially since I will never see any of the benefits from it.

Many of the other people who also came to the Tea Party were worried about the direction this country is going. How much money is Congress and President Obama going to spend? How much higher is Governor Arnold and our State Legislatures going to raise our taxes on anything that moves? We simply cannot afford to live in these times. So why should we pay for others to stay in a business we will not be able to participate in, and why should we pay for you to stay in your house when we cannot afford one for ourselves?

This is not partisan. This is not against government. We want the Declaration of Independence our Constitution and the Bill of Rights with all its Amendments strickly adhered to as they swore on oath they would do. We do not want lawyers interpreting what was meant, we don't want you to read in/out things are not or are written in it. Simply put, follow the same laws you create for us, and keep you word. Remember, you swore that oath on a Bible! Otherwise, we cannot not trust (less than we do not), and I sincerely do not want chaos.

Maybe some of the people who showed up at these rallies will think about running for office? I know I am fed-up enough to think about it.

There are going to be many more Tea Parties on July 4th, and I intend to have annother one. This time the information shall be posted far ahead of schedule. The nice people I met are normal, working class people who care deeply about our country, both economically and national security wise. They have never been to a protest, and I do not even like that word. It was more like an outdoor townhall meeting where we shared ideas. Yes, it may have been small, but it was a success. Even a police office came over to show his support and when he left, he was wearing a tea bag underneath his badge. Yes, it was a good day indeed. I hope to see you in July.

Hat tip: Pictures provided by Steve M.

May you walk with the LORD always, and when you cannot take another step, may He carry you the rest of the way until you can walk along side Him again.

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So my wife and I work for ACORN? That's news to us. ACORN will be delighted. These people are seriously deluded. They need to move to Texas (after it secedes.) I reminded them that they all came to the meeting on PUBLIC STREETS PAID FOR BY TAXES. They didn't like that.

Link: http://rosemarysthoughts.blogspot.com/ . Have fun!

[rationalcalgarian]

46. Thank you, Nancy!

"They may not agree with your political views, but they will defend to the death your right to mis-spell them."

Pure gold.

[ladym55]

47. Tip for teabagger parents!!!

As evil and LIEbrul as you believe the public school system to be ... please send little Henry and Ethel. You see in schools, your little dears might ACTUALLY learn how to spell. You, dear parents, demonstrated this is SO not your strength on your wonderful hand-crayoned posters.

And they would receive lessons in American history. They would know little things like what the Boston Tea Party was and that it had little to do with corporate media.

Chances are they'd also learn to READ ... so they could use a DICTIONARY and look up words like socialism and communism. And they might even learn when their use is a appropriate. (Hint: describing the Obama administration is NOT one of them. Just sayin')

Oh, and they'd learn math facts. They'd be able to compare their income to $250,000/year and know that their annual income is missing at LEAST one zero there.

With this helpful information, we hope you will look slightly less like giant TOOLS next time you stand with all the other white folk and protest whatever Glenn and Sean said you should. :hi:

[Blue_Roses]

48. lol

:rofl:

[Stellabella]

49. Lol! Teagaggers (sic) need help with just about everything.

[TomVilmer]

50. Give them the break, they would never give you!

I have been to all too many ill-organized rallies, where brave friends desperately tried to make it look real for all the prying eyes. I knew we meant well, I knew we had the Good Fight and the Strong Arguments - but at that moment we were just a small fuzzy group of unfocused resistance.

I am not USAnian, and just peeking in from across the Ocean. But right now, your group has won that Big Fight. Your people are in power. For my taste that is not the perfect time to bully the unlucky losers. I am still in that fight in my country, and we often look ridiculous doing it.

It is fine to tease them a little - and it is fun to see Big Media try to make a Grassroots Movement with such great incompetence. But I find it more interesting, that they feel so powerless and desperate, they have to imitate their own worst enemies!

[Seldona]

52. I would remind them to bring a good decongestant.

You know, to keep those nasal passages clear. All important at a tea-bagging event, no?