That title isn’t Family Friendly, right? Oh well. While we wait for what looks like a practice run for the Rapture from here, take a look at some Teabagging News:
- Alan Keyes makes the Chicago Teabagging Team!
- Michael Steele does not make the Chicago Teabagging Team!
- Teabagging Math (and signage) Fail! (139% tax burden? WTF?)
Most people don’t know what tea bagging is. Thank goodness. The other night I had to explain it to my parents. Geez, even my pre-teen knew what it was.
I thought Alan Keyes was going to be at the D.C. “tea party.” Does that make anyone else think of children playing dress up? Or rich people with their pinkies in the air?
I’m really interested in the Fox News angle of the tea parties. Is Fox News trying to become like the liberal netroots – the place for organizing activism? If so, won’t that be a fail because grassroots activism really needs to start from the bottom up, not the top down. Maybe it’s different for conservatives since they tend to be more authoritarian than liberals.
Also, why are conservatives copying the most ineffective types of protests from the left (IMO), street theater? The most effective form of activism involves getting involved with candidates, giving money and running for office, doesn’t it?
“The most effective form of activism involves getting involved with candidates, giving money and running for office, doesn’t it?”
Word, but this is the off season.
I wonder if we should solicit couples to show up in Wilmington to “misunderstand” what they are expected to do when told that it is time to start teabagging.
A couple of things people teabagging America fail to realize:
The original Boston Tea Party was used to protest taxation without representation, which isn’t an issue for anyone in this country outside of the District of Columbia, so what is the symbolism?
In the original Boston Tea Party, the colonists dressed up as Native Americans (poorly) to hide their identity, making this not an act of bravery but one of cowardice, if you really think about it.
Finally, I’d once again like to wonder out loud just how good for the environment throwing stuff you really don’t have to into bodies of water is.
So I guess 95% of the protesters will return the funds from their tax cuts to the Treasury, right?
JimD wrote Finally, I’d once again like to wonder out loud just how good for the environment throwing stuff you really don’t have to into bodies of water is.
LOL. I think only 12 people are going to show up at The Riverfront and when they open their tea bags, all the tea will blow back into their face. Kind of ironic given that they’ll teabag themselves.
This is just so embarrassing.
If they show up at the Riverfront throwing stuff in the water, they may get whacked upside their heads with a paddle from one of the crewing boats out for practice. Those people don’t play.
I’d still like to know if they’re going to dress up like Native Americans, to keep the spirit of the original Tea Party.
Maybe instead of signing up couples to go get arrested for lewd conduct, we should get local actors to go out and pretend to be British and cry as they ruin perfectly good tea. I’d say get real British people to do it, but I’m not sure what a real British person would do if they saw tea being wasted in this way.
Jim,
They’d probably help them along if it’s some of the crappy American stuff. I’m sure they’re not throwing good tea away.
The Bostonians tossed the tea because the tax was on tea.
Will today’s teabaggers toss their paychecks in the river to protest the income tax?
I do not understand the point of these tea parties. It would make sense if the participants were wearing Armani…
I guess they are going to burn their Medicare cards and Social Security checks, and throw their state paychecks into the river. Developers will sign a pledge not to take any stimulus money.
… right?
Yeah, anon, it’s a big problem with these tea parties. What are they protesting, exactly? They just got a tax cut. They’re protesting raising the top rate by 4% and it hasn’t even started yet? They’re protesting the stimulus package that’s already passed? What’s the point?
Have at it!
A warning would have been appreciated with that link, VC! Loved the comment section. 😉
I’m excited to go to the Leg mall in Dover. expect to see a reporter from the DSN and maybe ten wingnuts.
The over/under line is 10. Anybody want the over?
I thought the idea of this teabagging thing (wingnut version) was that you were to dump your orange pekoe into the nearest body of water. Is there a fountain or something at Leg Mall where these people are dumping their tea into?
The sacrifice those morons will make for wealthy people they never met is priceless!
sorry for the lack of warning, P. 😉
And now they’re warning the tea party participants to NOT SIGN ANYTHING!
Apology accepted, VC!
Cassandra,
No. There is the weedy muddy St Jones River a few blocks away. BTW thanks for that link.
Too funny!
I totally stole that graphic!
So, these tea parties are pretty much worthless now. It’s just a bunch of people upset that they lost the election getting together to whine. They’re not even getting a list together? Do they know how dumb they sound?
that jpeg is gross.
it looks like a set.
I think it’s hilarious, VC.
That math’s not a fail. Look again. The top 1 percent is part of the top 50 percent. So the figures still total 100 percent, not 139 percent.
No really, it’s brilliant.
Still, it’s a little creepy.
the thought of wet tea bags on the face, that is….. 😀
OK, ai — the sign does work as you see it. I would quibble with the numbers though — I think that the 1% number is right, but the others don’t seem right by what I remember the CBO numbers to be.
The sign is still a signage fail — there is no way you drive by that, see if for a few seconds and have enough time to suss out what that guy is trying to communicate. Besides, who advocates to pay more taxes so that the 1% don’t have to?
VC – You would prefer dry tea bags?
On my face? Yes, a. idiot.
Why isn’t King Bag, Rush Limpb*lls attending?
The teabaggin’ is really about Rush. Just ask him.