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posted 14-04-2010 12:00
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It's becoming clear to me now that "teabagging" in America is a very different activity to here in Blighty. Very different indeed.
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posted 14-04-2010 12:36
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Toby Gymshorts wrote:
It's becoming clear to me now that "teabagging" in America is a very different activity to here in Blighty. Very different indeed.
Oh, yes!...
evilC wrote:
Just seen this one. Apologies if it's been posted before.
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Q: And children?
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posted 14-04-2010 12:41
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Toby Gymshorts wrote:
It's becoming clear to me now that "teabagging" in America is a very different activity to here in Blighty. Very different indeed.
It's a very different activity in real America. Cosmo elites like me know perfectly well what Euro-style teabagging is.
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posted 14-04-2010 12:44
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So does it have anything to do with those metrovincial-style manbags?
edit - I know it's probably been said earlier on this thread and Google is my friend and so on, but why "-bag" anyway? The rest of the allusion to treachery I understand.
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Last Edit: 14-04-2010 12:50 By sw2boro.
Reason: and there's more...
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posted 14-04-2010 13:18
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Here's a link to a link linked on the original link about bogus teabaggers which gives an interesting take on the Tea Party mindset.
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posted 14-04-2010 14:16
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The term of art for this sort of thing, coined by Richard Nixon's campaign strategists, is "rat fucking."
I agree that the best course of action would be to talk this up and then not actually try to infiltrate. Let the circular firing squad commence!
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posted 15-04-2010 09:28
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Digby has a rundown of the latest survey data of Tea Party types[/url]. No real surprises in there, but some interesting statistics nonetheless, as the survey covered a lot of ground. The most telling thing, really, is how much the teabaggers are motivated by hatred of spending taxes on poor people (which is of course not unrelated to their feelings about race).
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posted 15-04-2010 17:58
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Photo from Ana Marie Cox today:
And yes, that is an actual tinfoil hat.
Those can't be actual Tea Party people...they have to be there making fun of them...right?
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Last Edit: 15-04-2010 17:59 By Incandenza.
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posted 15-04-2010 18:04
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I think that it is supposed to be the Stanley Cup (the guy is wearing a Washington Capitals jersey).
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posted 15-04-2010 18:06
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I like the way the guy on the right is complaining that he got money from the government.
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posted 15-04-2010 18:13
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ursus arctos wrote:
I think that it is supposed to be the Stanley Cup (the guy is wearing a Washington Capitals jersey).
And his sign involves some kind of 'GOALS' wordplay.
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posted 15-04-2010 20:57
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No misspelled sign, but chilling all the same.
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Last Edit: 15-04-2010 20:58 By Renart.
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posted 15-04-2010 21:04
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Less "Get a brain" and more "Get brainnnnsssss!"
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Last Edit: 15-04-2010 21:05 By Ginger Yellow.
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posted 15-04-2010 21:12
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GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
Some good stuff from Wonkette:
Wonkette: You know how long these people have waited for a chance to say GO BACK TO AFRICA to black people in America? And now it’s just an “anger at government statement,” ha ha, nothing more to it than that!
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posted 15-04-2010 21:31
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Nothing untoward about the tarred and feathered imagery, either.
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posted 15-04-2010 21:38
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My goodness, the signs, masks, buttons, and bumper stickers just get weirder and weirder as they build their anti-Obama mythology layer by layer.
Rick Perlstein has a good piece on the teabaggers in the New York Times.
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posted 16-04-2010 11:00
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So the article I linked above described our Crash the Tea Party guy as "an Oregon technology consultant" but apparently he's (also?) a public school teacher. Oh man. That drastically changes the complexion of the enterprise, a bit. Not surprisingly, he's coming under considerable fire. I don't guess I'd want my kid's schoolteacher turning up on youtube dressed like a Nazi either.
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posted 16-04-2010 11:03
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Ah, sorry, yes: he teaches media technology to middle schoolers. That doesn't exactly say "consultant" to me, so they were clearly being careless in the first article.
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