# Imagine no teabaggers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 21, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529 "2010-07-21T23:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/41 "2010-07-22T03:41:44Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Man, you must be really, really afraid of what’s coming in November. Well, suck it up, pal, 'cause CHANGE is coming. Change? What change? Either the Republicans will seize the House and Senate, in which case we will get epic gridlocks and endless, pointless, baseless investigations, in which case we basically get status quo… or they won’t, but gain some seats, in which case we get status quo. Looks like same ol’, same ol’ to me. But enjoy your 2010 midterm. The new Know-Nothings never like to talk about what happens after, say, in 2012. I wonder why? Maybe they’re afraid of the end of the Long Count! Which, given the Tea Party’s intellectual bankruptcy, would not surprise me in the least. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/42 "2010-07-22T03:46:29Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Wishing death on groups, particularly when the only point of wishing them dead is to avoid hearing their viewpoints, is dumb. > > **Calling an entire movement racist when there is little evidence that the movement, as opposed to a few notable members, even cares about race, is dumb.** > > These are not the only dumb comments, but they are salient. > > Since this thread started in the pits and has moved right along, I am going to give it a more appropriate home. > > [/Modding] Good move to put this in the Pit, where it belongs. Horrible, horrible statement bolded above. Little evidence that the movement cares about race? When two of their major mouthpieces, whom Teabaggers (Don’t like that term being used? I cried two tears in a bucket.) Glennandrush, more or less live on race-baiting? Bone in the nose picture? Spitting on black congressmen? (Oh, no video evidence, therefore the Teabaggers are telling the truth? Bite me, bitch.) Please. Tell that story walking. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/43 "2010-07-22T03:56:52Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Seriously? I didn’t know left wingers would even touch guns… > > -XT Oh, some of us might . . . Not that you should be sleeping with the lights on or anything, no, no, not at all, that’s just silly . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/44 "2010-07-22T04:00:22Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Oh, come on… > > Now, look, I’m about as left-leaning as is possible without turning into an extremist, but let’s be honest here: There were PLENTY of signs with pictures of Bush with bullet holes in his head, Bush with nooses around his neck, and all that type of thing in the recent past. Hell, there was even a movie about him getting assassinated! > > The Tea Partiers and right-wing fringe groups are stupid pieces of shit…but so are the left-wing fringe. Let’s be honest and admit that, huh? No. The left-wing fringe are **intelligent** pieces of shit. That’s just the difference. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/45 "2010-07-22T04:03:46Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > It’s pretty stupid to try to compare a political group (especially a racist one) to a racial minority. The mind set is whats important. The OP wants a segment of the populace to die and go away because he doesn’t like them, and then goes on how nice it would be if they were gone. This mind set is no different than that of a klansman or nazi. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/46 "2010-07-22T04:06:17Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > No, I saw them calling him a Nazi No, that’s teabaggers again. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/47 "2010-07-22T04:09:04Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Oh, come on… > > Now, look, I’m about as left-leaning as is possible without turning into an extremist, but let’s be honest here: There were PLENTY of signs with pictures of Bush with bullet holes in his head, Bush with nooses around his neck, and all that type of thing in the recent past. Hell, there was even a movie about him getting assassinated! I’ll take your word for it, but I nevers aw any signs like that. The movie did not _advocate_ the assasination of Bush or portray it as justified. It just used it as a premise. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/48 "2010-07-22T05:17:32Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I’ll take your word for it, but I nevers aw any signs like that [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/20/media-didnt-care-about-protest-signs-threatening-bush](http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/20/media-didnt-care-about-protest-signs-threatening-bush) Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/49 "2010-07-22T05:58:09Z")
Newsbusters isn’t much of a cite. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/50 "2010-07-22T06:00:54Z")
There really is no way for things NOT to get better if all the tea baggers would die off. Fuck them and their hateful shit ---
**Author:** ![Camus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@Camus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Camus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/51 "2010-07-22T07:36:24Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Why either? Why not imagine them simply as having a different point of view and seeing if reasoned debate is possible…and compromise? Why does everyone have to think the same or be the same or have the same view point or perspective? Why would that be a good thing? > > -XT How do you have reasoned debate with people who are either misinformed or not informed at all? Debate relies on pre-existing facts and persuasion, neither of which are useful at all if the other side refuses to acknowledge facts that aren’t featured or highlighted on Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/52 "2010-07-22T08:19:56Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > There really is no way for things NOT to get better if all the tea baggers would die off. Fuck them and their hateful shit In other words, you want 50 million Americans to die, because they are ‘hateful’. Got it. Thanks for the heads-up, Mother Theresa. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/53 "2010-07-22T08:23:44Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Newsbusters isn’t much of a cite. They source their assertions, something you have been avoiding as of late. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/54 "2010-07-22T10:29:18Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Newsbusters isn’t much of a cite. Photographic evidence isn’t good enough for you, huh? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/55 "2010-07-22T10:42:02Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > 50 million Now **there’s** something I’d like a cite for. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/56 "2010-07-22T10:46:55Z")
I feel the term teabagging is being used n a derogatory fashion. It is a wonderful sexual practice that all can enjoy giving and or receiving. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/57 "2010-07-22T12:24:15Z")
I’m partial to calling it the [tea farty](http://teafarty.com/) (warning; immature bathroom humor soundbite). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Facts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@The\_Facts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Facts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/58 "2010-07-22T12:28:25Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Uh . . . do you actually have some kind of rational reason to make this statement? I mean, is it actually based on anything factual? You don’t watch TV do you? I notice that nobody trying to say that these scum dying off _wouldn’t_ be a good thing. Off to the lab to develop a virus … lol (maybe) ---
**Author:** ![Cort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Cort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cort)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/59 "2010-07-22T12:34:30Z")
> [@Diogenes The cynic](#): > > I’ll take your word for it, but I never saw any signs [wishing death on Bush] I saw plenty. The 2003-2004 anti-Iraq war protests were _filled_ with people brandishing placards wishing death and disfigurement on President Bush. You couldn’t throw a stick in any direction without it hitting someone calling him a Nazi and a terrorist. I’ve never been to a tea-party protest but, based on the footage I’ve seen, it’s clear that the number anti-war protestors wishing death on Bush _dwarfs_ the number of tea-partiers wishing death on Obama. That said, there’s no doubt that _some_ tea-partiers _are_ making those sorts of statements. The relevant distinction here, the difference that makes the difference, is that all the hatred and scorn heaped on Bush was _deserved_. Bush is a lying baby killer cunt war criminal responsible for hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths and if there was any justice in the world then he, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Blair would have been tried in the Hague, strung up from the nearest tree, and their families billed for the cost of the rope. What has Obama done to deserve the level of hatred he receives from the tea-partiers? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/60 "2010-07-22T12:44:04Z")
> [@The\_Facts](#): > > I notice that nobody trying to say that these scum dying off _wouldn’t_ be a good thing. I am hereby saying this. I am also saying that you are a douche. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529.md?page=4)