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I still have a hard time not referring to the Tea Party people as tea baggers. First, I still find it funny. Second, it really pisses them off, which makes it funnier. But really, it's just unwieldy. Tea Partiers just looks weird. Tea Partyers isn't correct. Steepers? Maybe as Olbermann alludes to below, racists? I used a picture from Alice in Wonderland below because the term just sounds so friggin' dainty. And I'm gay!
But who are the tea bag. . .er. . .partiers, really?
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Poll: Who Are the Tea Partiers?
(CBS)Americans who call themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement express strong levels of anger toward Washington generally, and great personal antipathy toward President Obama specifically, a new CBS News/ New York Times poll shows. They are more likely to call themselves Republicans than independents. . .
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Tea Baggers are gays who like dangling their balls sacks.
ReplyDeleteGays only embarass themselves by bringing attention to their weird fetishes. Like wearing an outlandish dress - They love the attention.
People are outraged that whole segments of society are unable to rationally discuss the issues of the day- and rather resort to 8 year old name calling (and think they are brilliant in doing so).
The Tea Party is a group of Americans who are serious about Liberty. Even the Liberty of those too stupid to understand.
ReplyDeleteThe tea party--as is amply proven in video interviews with its members--don't seem to understand what they're fighting for. And they really don't seem to understand that their entire enterprise is funded by HUGE corporatists behind the scenes. Like the Koch brothers. Not to mention the career polititicians, like Dick Armey.
ReplyDeleteTheir message is incoherant. "Taxed Enough Already?" Taxes haven't gone up for most people.
By the way "tea bag" was used in the dirty sense by the tea partiers FIRST. Not my fault that they had it turned around on them in a rare case of delicious irony.
You don't have to be gay to tea bag by the way. All you need is one person who is correctly equipped for the activity. In fact, the practice was first named by so-called "straight" frat boys, pranking their passed out bretheren. And you don't have to be gay to dress outrageously or even dress outrageously to be gay.
Your world seems binary. Gray areas are more fun.
Rather be a tea bagger than a tea bagged.
ReplyDeleteBoth parts of the activity can be fun, so I don't see the insult, particularly. The humor comes from the irony I expressed above, and the fact that it pisses them off so badly.
ReplyDeleteAs I said- Using the term just identifies gays.
ReplyDeleteDon't know anyone pissed off to hear it. Just thankful that they've identified another gay.
The revulsion you see is due to being gay- Not from the language itself.
I doubt any man would object to being the "bag-ee", straight or gay. I don't know what causes "revulsion." If the human body disgusts you, so be it, I guess.
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