Tea Party movement

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*A Fox News fan wrote in saying he would hang tea bags from his rear-view mirror and antennae (to "support the cause") because he couldn't make it to the actual protests and Gretchen Carlson piped in saying, "You could hang it from your mirror too like fuzzy dice."<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/supporting-the-tea-partie_n_187167.html Huffington post vidcap of Fox News]</ref>
 
*A Fox News fan wrote in saying he would hang tea bags from his rear-view mirror and antennae (to "support the cause") because he couldn't make it to the actual protests and Gretchen Carlson piped in saying, "You could hang it from your mirror too like fuzzy dice."<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/supporting-the-tea-partie_n_187167.html Huffington post vidcap of Fox News]</ref>
 
*"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging"<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64Ed5iLu4M Anderson Cooper adds one more stupid joke].</ref>
 
*"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging"<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64Ed5iLu4M Anderson Cooper adds one more stupid joke].</ref>
*Apparently, the [[irony meter]] (particularly from the conservatives) is broken since the term have a very risqué meaning, see [[teabagging]] for more details. <ref>[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging]</ref>.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 02:54, 30 June 2009

A lot of angry people who didn't notice the national debt going up since the early 1980s.
More people, exercising their right to appear ignorant of history in public.
Were you looking for Teabagging? As if RW's Human Sexuality manual category needed any more expansion!

A teabagging party is a form of tax protest, inspired by a complete misinterpretation of the Boston Tea Party, and managed, reported on, and supported by Fox News and their various loony anchors. It was a unique, and probably short-lived, phenomenon spawned a week or so before and ending on April 15th, 2009, the day income tax forms were due in the United States. Millions Hundreds of people gathered at various locations around the country to throw teabags into some handy body of water to protest taxes Obama big government tea taxes, presumably with representation.[1] As if any confirmation were needed, the fact that the protest has been labeled "teabagging" shows that it was created by a bunch of old white people who had no idea of its more popular meaning.

The "movement" has adopted the lame slogan "Taxed Enough Already" as a backronym for "tea".[2] The only fear sane Americans have is that it won't become a "call to arms".[3]

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Organization

The origins of these teabaggings depends on who you ask. Right wingers insist that this movement is a totally organic, grassroots effort that sprung up overnight. Liberals Everyone else realizes this is a media stunt astroturfed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Fox News[4]. These demonstrations took place everywhere from Kentucky to California, but were thwarted in Washington, D.C. because they didn’t have a permit to dump a million tea bags into the sea[5] (way to organize, guys!).

Stupidity

No matter what the lefties say, race had NOTHING at all to do with the teabagger movement.

The problems with these teabagging protests are many, but boil down to rich right-wingers taking advantage of uninformed working stiffs. Generally, these protests suffer at least one of these flaws:

  1. The Obama administration had issued no new taxes at all, before the date of the protest. Any complaint about the tax policy at the time should be directed at the Bush administration, whose taxes were still in effect. Even after the Obama administration changed the tax laws for the following year, 95% of people will get a tax cut, not an increase. No reports exist saying whether the protests consisted entirely of the 5% who would pay (slightly) more taxes.
  2. The original Tea Party was to protest taxation without representation. The US currently has taxation with representation, unless Obama plans to suspend free elections (he doesn’t). Thus, using tea is an inappropriate, idiotic idea that accomplishes nothing except pointing out which people are not clever enough to research what they are protesting about. Oh, and giving some fish a brief caffeine and tannin high. And creating a temporary windfall in sales of tea bags.
  3. Also, and more amusingly, the original Tea party was a protest over the tea tariff being cut - but only for the British East India Company, giving them a virtual monopoly due to lower pricing over the wealthy merchants who were being undercut - the "protesters".
  4. Promoted as a "giant" protest, with "over 500" local events, it is utterly dwarfed by the "protest heard 'round the world" against the start of the Iraq War, which earned George W. Bush the ignominious title of having the largest number of people ever in history to protest against him.

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  • Protestors were "full throated" and wanted to give Obama "tongue lashings". Oh yeah, that's dirty baby.[6]
  • A Fox News fan wrote in saying he would hang tea bags from his rear-view mirror and antennae (to "support the cause") because he couldn't make it to the actual protests and Gretchen Carlson piped in saying, "You could hang it from your mirror too like fuzzy dice."[7]
  • "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging"[8]

Footnotes

  1. To be fair, these idiots don't feel they are "represented", since most of the people they voted for in November 2008 lost. Most of the world celebrated the United States' imminent entry into the 20th century (one step at a time, OK?).
  2. teapartyday.com, a TEA protest website
  3. Seriously. These people get their "news" from Fox. They are already unhinged.
  4. http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=chicagoteaparty.com&prog_id=godaddy
  5. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30227452/
  6. Biased as all hell from MSNBC, but the introductory commentary says it all
  7. Huffington post vidcap of Fox News
  8. Anderson Cooper adds one more stupid joke.
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