# Do you know any Teabaggers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156 "2011-06-11T22:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156/21 "2011-06-12T18:00:58Z")
My mother, my younger brother, all aunts and uncles except one (we comfort each other fairly often) \*and \*my grandmother are all teapartiers. (I’m sorry, I just can’t call my dearest Memaw a teabagger. My brain won’t do that.) This is one of the reasons I try my hardest not to be around my family any more. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156/22 "2011-06-12T18:02:37Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > He also believes that oil is not a fossil fuel but instead it is created in the center of the earth and bubbles up to the crust which is where it is found. He believes that more exploration for oil will always find more oil and that there is never a need to consider non-fossil fuels as an energy source because of this. DUDE!!! My mom believes that!! I swear, I thought she made that shit up! Maybe someone said it on FOX. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156/23 "2011-06-12T18:08:14Z")
It’s actually not a new thing, it’s a theory that goes back almost 100 years. That oil is just a strange seepage from the center of the Earth. The primary reason _aside from its lack of scientific_ basis that it fell out of popular support is oil companies found that it did not help them find any new reserves at all. That’s always the counterargument I have for such claims, if they were legitimate oil companies would be using them as the basis for oil exploration. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156/24 "2011-06-12T19:04:11Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > That’s always the counterargument I have for such claims, if they were legitimate oil companies would be using them as the basis for oil exploration. And here’s where my mom’s fundyness comes in to join the teaparty; her rebuttal is that “we’re not walking right with God now, so He’s hiding the seepages from the world until we repent.” I don’t know if it makes me happier or sadder to know that first part is actually a \*real \*(ahem) theory, and not my mom’s addled brains. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156/25 "2011-06-12T19:15:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I was skimming a thread in GD and came across this post: > There’s a guy I’ve known since we were four years old. He just had a birthday, and I left a greeting on his Facebook page. Now, you may be wondering why I didn’t email him. Because I blocked his email address. See, he was flooding me with anti-Obama shit, racist ‘jokes’, jingoistic glurge, etc. After numerous requests to be removed from his spam list, which he ignored, I had no alternative. > > So he calls me to thank me for the birthday greetings, and I remind him that I could unblock his address if he’d only remove me from his spam list. This turned into a political argument. He’s convinced that Obama is a Secret Muslim, who was Not Born In The United States, and so on and so forth. :rolleyes: (I wonder how his Teabagger friends would react if I related the story of the time he had a crack whore over to the apartment and they clogged the bathtub drain shaving her pussy? Or the scary way he moved in slow motion, looking for crack that might have fallen on the carpet?) > > So yeah, I actually know a Teabagger. Do you? [Moderator Note]Either start over without the derogatory term “Teabagger”, or take it to The BBQ Pit. Closing thread.[/Moderator Note] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-teabaggers/585156.md?page=1)