# 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:** 8
**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 23, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/141 "2010-07-23T16:52:10Z")
Teabagger literature is not representative of actual rank and file teabaggers, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/142 "2010-07-23T16:57:34Z")
Um … because literature is produced by the literate, is that it? 😉 ---
**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 23, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/143 "2010-07-23T17:04:00Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > How about the signs that say, “we came unarmed…this time?” > > How about the Newsmax article calling for a military coup against Obama? > > ETA, I do think that most of them are all talk when it comes to the threats of violence and bloviating about revoluton, but we’ve already seen them engaging in low level violence and vandalism when emboldened in mobs, and sooner or later one or a few them is probably going to pull a Tim McVeigh or take a shot at somebody. They have some real psychotics in their ranks. To Be Fair ™, they did claim they wanted a ‘bloodless coup’. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/144 "2010-07-23T17:06:09Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > How about the signs that say, “we came unarmed…this time?” > > How about the Newsmax article calling for a military coup against Obama? > > ETA, I do think that most of them are all talk when it comes to the threats of violence and bloviating about revoluton, but we’ve already seen them engaging in low level violence and vandalism when emboldened in mobs, and sooner or later one or a few them is probably going to pull a Tim McVeigh or take a shot at somebody. They have some real psychotics in their ranks. Well, it takes one to know one. Is paranoia considered a psychosis or just a neurosis? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/145 "2010-07-23T17:26:48Z")
Obama is actually a slightly right leaning corporatist. He has backed the banks and corporations since he came into office. He did not kick out the health care companies from the system they are gleefully looting and making miserable. He has not cut back wars of cut defense spending. He did not roll back the ability of the government to spy on us . No, i really don’t see why the tea gaggers hate Obama. Unless a Pavlovian response to right wing propaganda is a reason. He has more in common with the right than he does with the left. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/146 "2010-07-23T18:20:27Z")
Yeah, it’s the _corporations_, man ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/147 "2010-07-23T18:47:45Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Here’s your sign. :rolleyes: So, that’s your concession that you don’t actually \*have \*any evidence in your favor, then? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/148 "2010-07-23T19:28:17Z")
FTR, I remember the Clinton years too, and while the RW hatred and scandal-mongering and conspiracy-theories against him were quite truly astonishing in their stupidity and ferocity, they bore no comparison to what we’ve seen since Obama was elected. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/149 "2010-07-23T19:45:05Z")
Looks like one sign isn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/150 "2010-07-23T19:50:17Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Looks like one sign isn’t enough. So, yup, you ain’t got shit. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/151 "2010-07-23T19:53:56Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > :rolleyes: You are either delusional or lying. Or he knows more about what he said than you. Next. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/152 "2010-07-23T20:01:55Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > So, yup, you ain’t got shit. I have no interest in spoonfeeding you the facts of a period of American history you were not conscious for. You can go learn on your own, since you obviously have at least basic Internet skills. And here’s another sign for you, btw, dear child, since the first obviously isn’t quite enough. Now: What the hell is this shit, from so many of you, about denying that the crap Obama has been seeing (which btw has not nearly approached a steady din of demands for his impeachment) is in any part simple partisanship? No question there’s a significant element of racism involved, sure, but why deny that there could be anything else at the heart of it? The comparisons are just too recent and too obvious for those who were conscious at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/153 "2010-07-23T20:12:42Z")
Are you blind as well as retarded? You have \*a bunch of people \*telling you that Obama’s getting hit much worse than Clinton ever was, and \*you \*can’t provide any evidence in favor of your position. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/154 "2010-07-23T20:26:20Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > That’s just all you understand because that’s all you are capable of understanding. Maybe October will shake some of cobwebs out of your dumb ass. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal. Yeah, you got nothing. The teabaggers are just pissed they lost the election and want Democrats to govern as if they were Republicans… far right Republicans. What’s there to understand about the Teabaggers? ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/155 "2010-07-23T20:29:44Z")
> [@Condescending\_Robot](#): > > In the way that yelling “fuck you” on the highway is a small step from rape. This confusion between idle words and criminal actions is infantile. While the OP is not Glenn Beck, we correctly condemn this sort of speech when it comes from the right and we should condemn it when it comes from the left. Sure Glenn beck has a wider and tupider audience than this message board but on principle we are more devoted to fighting ignorance with words, not with biological weapons. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/156 "2010-07-23T20:31:28Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Are you blind as well as retarded? You have \*a bunch of people \*telling you that Obama’s getting hit much worse than Clinton ever was, and \*you \*can’t provide any evidence in favor of your position. Sure can, just can’t be arsed, not for someone on \*your \*level. Now go do some homework, as already recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/157 "2010-07-23T20:33:01Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > While the OP is not Glenn Beck, we correctly condemn this sort of speech when it comes from the right and we should condemn it when it comes from the left. I view this message board as the equivalent of a bunch of people chatting at a party. There’s a \*huge \*difference from someone at a party saying, “Man, I wish all those retards who think X would drop dead” and a public figure saying the same thing in the national media. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/158 "2010-07-23T20:35:47Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Tea Baggers are going to start killing people directly soon if they don’t get their way. Their anti-health, anti-progressive, pro-religion, and pro-gun stance have already killed millions indirectly. Wishing Tea Baggers death is self-defense. I’m not at all hateful like they are. I only hate them because they pose a threat to me Pre-emptive genocide. Cool. Why not wait until they actually start killing people. Anti-health are reform is incredibly selfish and short sighted but it is not killing people any mroe than you not sending money to Sally Struthers is killing orphans in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/159 "2010-07-23T20:37:10Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Sure can, just can’t be arsed, not for someone on \*your \*level. And what is \*my \*level, pray tell? Please, \*do \*keep up these amusing games. (Honestly, does “I have evidence, I just don’t have to tell you!” \*ever \*work?) > [@](#): > > Now go do some homework, as already recommended. I don’t have to–I lived through those years, quite soberly, thank you. And I have plenty of other people in this thread agreeing with me that you’re wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529/160 "2010-07-23T20:41:18Z")
Your level is on display here for everyone to see. It unfortunately consist of a deadly combination of staggering factual ignorance and childish stubbornness. Now it’s your turn to answer a question, one already asked and ignored: Why is it so important to you to insist that the teabaggers are only or even primarily racist, not partisan? You (and a few others) are being awfully silly about that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-no-teabaggers/547529.md?page=9)