# Tea Baggers everywhere.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256 "2010-09-27T19:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/21 "2010-09-27T23:36:01Z")
Tell you what. Get the teabaggers and their enablers in the media to stop calling it the Democrat party, and then I’ll stop calling them teabaggers. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/22 "2010-09-27T23:41:44Z")
Bit confused about the OP though… why would the TEA party / bag / whatever folks be invading a forum about urban exploration? ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/23 "2010-09-28T00:10:20Z")
> [@pikey\_pete](#): > > Someone who believes that the US is a strictly Christian nation, that **mice have been bred with fully functioning human brains** , and that 9/11 was a government conspiracy beats them out hands down. I wish I had wombat hackers some days just to get these people restricted from spreading their ignorance. They make the baby Jesus cry. Sheesh…I can’t believe anyone would defend Christine O’Donnell. Now, now. You’re being unfair to Christine. Anyone could’ve mistaken [The Secret of NIMH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH) for a documentary. I mean, it looked so real and all. ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/24 "2010-09-28T03:04:20Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > I know, I know, but the innuendo is just so fun. > > It’s not. It’s childish. It’s like calling you a Democunt or a Dickocrat. It doesn’t make Democrats look stupid; just the speaker. Good point. I found myself a little annoyed when any of the immature types used the term with a kind of an implied silly laugh. Kind of like they’re saying “Hee hee hee, he made a reference to SEX” You’re right, it does make the speaker look dumb or sexually immature at the least. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/25 "2010-09-28T03:14:32Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Bit confused about the OP though… why would the TEA party / bag / whatever folks be invading a forum about urban exploration? Urban explorers are of all political walks of life. And levels of intelligence. I avoid politics on that board for that reason. But pikey Pete was in the chat room and one sneaked in when he wasn’t looking. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/26 "2010-09-28T04:48:14Z")
Wait, those guys who said they were teabaggers were talking about politics? The whole Christine O’Donnell masturbation thing and the mice with human brains was just starting to make sense. But now I’m confused. Do witches drink tea? ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/27 "2010-09-28T07:05:23Z")
> [@Plan\_B](#): > > > [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > > It’s not. It’s childish. It’s like calling you a Democunt or a Dickocrat. It doesn’t make Democrats look stupid; just the speaker. > > Good point. I found myself a little annoyed when any of the immature types used the term with a kind of an implied silly laugh. Kind of like they’re saying “Hee hee hee, he made a reference to SEX” You’re right, it does make the speaker look dumb or sexually immature at the least. wow, you guys are missing the point. whats funny isnt so much the sexual innuendo as it is the fact that the Tea Party whack jobs did it to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Smashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mr\_Smashy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Smashy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/28 "2010-09-28T13:34:21Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > I know, I know, but the innuendo is just so fun. > > It’s not. It’s childish. It’s like calling you a Democunt or a Dickocrat. It doesn’t make Democrats look stupid; just the speaker. Absolutely correct. For those who are interested in how it [started](http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=) > [@](#): > > The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it. > > … > The liberal media, to use a convenient tag, went after the protesters with glee. Take Anderson Cooper, the acclaimed anchorman for CNN. He was interviewing David Gergen, the political pundit. And Gergen was saying that, after two very bad elections, conservatives and Republicans were “searching for their voice.” Cooper responded, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.” He said this with a smirk. > > MSNBC had an outright field day. Rachel Maddow and a guest of hers, Ana Marie Cox, made teabag jokes to each other for minutes on end: having great, chortling fun at the conservatives’ expense. And here is the performance of another host, David Shuster: > > “For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15, will be Tax Day, but . . . it’s going to be Teabagging Day for the right wing, and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.” > > Shuster went on to say that Fox News personalities were “looking forward to an up-close-and-personal taste of teabagging.” Etc., etc., etc. All the while, MSNBC was picturing Republican figures, and the following words were on the screen: “TEABAG MOUTHPIECES.” > > Ma and Pa America may not have been in on the joke, but plenty of other people were. On HBO, the lefty comedian Bill Maher commented, “When the year started, ‘teabagging’ was a phrase that referred to dangling one’s testicles in someone else’s face.” And the tea-party protesters “managed to turn it into something gross and ridiculous.” Tuh-dum. > > After Cooper and the others smirked about “teabagging,” the word went utterly mainstream — although you could say that, if Cooper used it, it started mainstream: because how much more mainstream can you get than a CNN anchor? On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, E. J. Dionne, the liberal columnist, spoke of “a right-wing candidate supported by the teabaggers.” The host himself, Stephanopoulos, followed suit. On PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, senior correspondent Gwen Ifill used “teabaggers” as well. At the New York Times, Paul Krugman used it in a column. Elsewhere, Roger Ebert used it in a movie review. And so on. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/29 "2010-09-28T13:46:11Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > Someone who believes that the US is a strictly Christian nation, that **mice have been bred with fully functioning human brains** , and that 9/11 was a government conspiracy beats them out hands down. I wish I had wombat hackers some days just to get these people restricted from spreading their ignorance. They make the baby Jesus cry. Sheesh…I can’t believe anyone would defend Christine O’Donnell. > > Now, now. You’re being unfair to Christine. Anyone could’ve mistaken [The Secret of NIMH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH) for a documentary. I mean, it looked so real and all. If you can have humans with the brains of mice, the other way around becomes entirely plausible. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/30 "2010-09-28T13:53:33Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > Someone who believes that the US is a strictly Christian nation, that **mice have been bred with fully functioning human brains** , and that 9/11 was a government conspiracy beats them out hands down. I wish I had wombat hackers some days just to get these people restricted from spreading their ignorance. They make the baby Jesus cry. Sheesh…I can’t believe anyone would defend Christine O’Donnell. > > Now, now. You’re being unfair to Christine. Anyone could’ve mistaken [The Secret of NIMH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH) for a documentary. I mean, it looked so real and all. If you can have humans with the brains of mice, the other way around becomes entirely plausible. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/31 "2010-09-28T13:57:57Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Tell you what. Get the teabaggers and their enablers in the media to stop calling it the Democrat party, and then I’ll stop calling them teabaggers. Tell you what- how about you stop manufacturing offense over a missing suffix? > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > wow, you guys are missing the point. whats funny isnt so much the sexual innuendo as it is the fact that the Tea Party whack jobs did it to themselves. It’s like picking on a slip of the tongue. It’s like if someone’s in an argument and they’re about to cuss you out, and their voice cracks, and all that comes out is a mouse-like “fuck you!” But you just can’t let that slide. You know it’s got nothing to do with the issue at hand, but for some reason, you make disparaging remarks about it. Besides, half the people that started it fully intended to use the sexual reference. When some frat boy said “Teabag those fools in DC”, he meant it. But then his mom picked it up and didn’t realize what the hell she was saying. A week later, everyone was on the same page. So they stopped using it. And that’s the key right there- THEY STOPPED USING IT. But you just can’t let it go, can you? Every time someone says it, I imagine them hopping around on the playground going “Teabagger! Teabagger! Nyah nyah-nyah nyah-nyah nyah!” And then people get extra-stupid and say things like “I have pictures of people doing an obvious parody like ‘teabagging for Jesus’ and I’m going to pretend it’s a legitimate Teapartiers.” It’s stupid. You look stupid doing it. Let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/32 "2010-09-28T14:07:35Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > And then people get extra-stupid and say things like “I have pictures of people doing an obvious parody like ‘teabagging for Jesus’ and I’m going to pretend it’s a legitimate Teapartiers.” The problem is your assumption that the “legitimate Teapartiers” aren’t a bunch of idiots. Suggesting they enjoy (or at one point enjoyed) teabagging is nothing compared to how stupid and irrational they really are. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/33 "2010-09-28T14:15:13Z")
**Masturbation, No Way. Tea Baggin, OK!** > [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > It’s like picking on a slip of the tongue. It’s more like a poll of early adopter knowledge. None of them knew until the movement mushroomed in size, and kind liberal souls let them in on the gaffe. It speaks to how easily suckered these people are by conniving billionaires and presidents bent on conquest. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/34 "2010-09-28T14:23:27Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > [@asterion](#): > > > > Tell you what. Get the teabaggers and their enablers in the media to stop calling it the Democrat party, and then I’ll stop calling them teabaggers. > > Tell you what- how about you stop manufacturing offense over a missing suffix? Wow, talk about a disconnect. I can smell the mold-encrusted spittle of apoplexy on your screen from over here due to Tea Baggers being called something they labeled themselves with then later became embarassed by, including an added syllable. Yet, you think those who would re-write history and discard common courtesy by deliberately and continually mis-speaking the official name of a national political party by “dropping a syllable” is something to just get over. Why don’t the people who do that just let it go? > [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > It’s stupid. You look stupid doing it. Let it go. Yes, yes, you do, since the Democratic Party has been the name they’ve steadily and without embarassment called themselves for decades. Have some respect, will you. Even if you don’t do so yourself, don’t support those who do; then your argument here _might_ gain some traction. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/35 "2010-09-28T15:12:40Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > I know, I know, but the innuendo is just so fun. > > It’s not. It’s childish. It’s like calling you a Democunt or a Dickocrat. It doesn’t make Democrats look stupid; just the speaker. If we were in GD, I’d agree with you 100%. There is really no time when calling your political adversaries names in GD isn’t childish. But in this forum? That’s what this forum is for. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/36 "2010-09-28T15:13:22Z")
ok, Chessic, you totally missed the point of the OP which was expressing my exasperation at a single tea partier and his over-all ignorance of macro-economics, physics, engineering, medical science and valid social theory. As for the photos ive collected of these whack jobs with their ‘tea bagging for Jesus’ signs, i got them from legitimate media outlets (i.e. not fly by night blogs, op-ed pages or Fox News.) I have a lot of friends who are highly credible photojournalists who take exception to your accusations of yellow journalism. oh, wait, since it is becoming more and more evident that you are a tea partier, i guess all non-fox media is just trying to push a liberal agenda, and therefore not a valid source of information. I must thank you though for making this a very entertaining thread. you seem to be outnumbered by people who got the gist of the OP. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/37 "2010-09-28T15:17:31Z")
> [@Plan\_B](#): > > I found myself a little annoyed when any of the immature types used the term with a kind of an implied silly laugh. Kind of like they’re saying “Hee hee hee, he made a reference to SEX” You’re right, it does make the speaker look dumb or sexually immature at the least. If you’re not laughing about sex at least part of the time, you’re doing it wrong. ETA: IME those who spend the most time huffing and puffing about people using “immature sexual humor” usually don’t have a whole lot of sexual experience. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/38 "2010-09-28T15:27:22Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > But you just can’t let it go, can you? Every time someone says it, I imagine them hopping around on the playground going “Teabagger! Teabagger! Nyah nyah-nyah nyah-nyah nyah!” This is actually pretty accurate. They originally named themselves after a sex act and now we are never ever going to let it go. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/39 "2010-09-28T15:37:18Z")
I have a direct conduit to the depravity and corruption of today’s youth culture. He keeps me updated on the hep lingo of the copacetic cats. Which is groovy. So I heard “teabagging” as a verb long before it had any political reference. When playing Halo online, “teabagging” was a gesture of humiliation for a fallen foe. The victor would place him/herself over the victim, directly over the head. By pressing the “crouch” control and releasing, the victor could dip his crotch down over the face of the fallen, stand up and repeat. This gesture was held to imitate the action of dipping a tea bag in hot water. The context was “Shit! I’ve just been tea-bagged by a twelve year old girl from Petaluma!”. My feeble eloquence cannot express the woe and humiliation therein. I would like to say that I’m too good a father to chortle over a son’s humiliation. I’d really like to. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/40 "2010-09-28T15:44:39Z")
Referring to them as teabaggers perfectly conveys the contempt they deserve. The movement is based on a lie. If it was really about financial responsibility, and not simple partisanship, then they would have been all over Bush. Hmmm, teabaggers over bush. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256.md?page=3)