So your claim is that they never assigned the name to themselves, and your evidence is this single article that was written on the subject?
So I guess your point is that reasonable people, seeing how fucking stupid the tepartyites were, should have stopped calling them what they themselves called themselves so that they wouldn’t look foolish. How patronizing, Maybe we should start sending the teapartyites to rallies on short buses and holding “special elections” that they can vote in.
Teapartiers reject PC speech as a Liberal affectation.
We’d have to call em “retard elections.”
“They”? How many were there that used that term? In fact, my understanding is that one guy had a sign that said “Teabag the Democrats” or something like that. Can you flesh out exactly how “they” chose to call themselves teabaggers?
Or rectal moritude, as the case may be.
You sticking with that story?
Shhhhhhhhhh … let them keep thinking they’re just a bunch of fringe whackos.
ret-con ???
Dayenu ???
Help a girl out here, what the devil do these words(?)mean?
I get the gist of the first, but really, where do they come from?
Is it slang? Another language? A derivative of leet speak or whatever it’s called? I’m baffled.
Retcon is ‘retroactive continuity’; changing established fact to fit present claims.
I don’t know the other.
N.B.: African-Americans often call each other “niggers,” but that is a very different thing, and no license for non-AAs to presume upon.
Errmm, What . . . they’re just a bunch of fringe whackos. A very large bunch, but no less fringe and no less whacko. Even mainstream Republicans roll their eyes at those assholes, though they don’t dare do so too obviously.
Maybe “they” should’ve got together and had a vote on their name before engaging in demonstrations? That’d have been the orderly way to do it. Too bad reality doesn’t work that way. “They” threw themselves out there with an easily mocked moniker, and are getting teabagged for it, as “they” well should be. If “they” want to complain that the world is not all tea and cookies for them, “they” should bring tea and cookies to the party themselves, not minds like unwashed crotches.
Look, I have no problem with people call them “teabaggers”. Just don’t justify it by saying “they” called themselves that. It was a Beavis and Butthead moment for the folks on the left, and is funny in a Junior High kind of way. Call them anything you want, but be grown up enough to admit that you’re trying to smear them with a derrogatory name.
I asked a question. What’s your evidence that “they” called themselves “teabaggers”?
Going to the “nigger” analogy, if one guy in the NAACP says “we niggers have to stick together”, do I get to call everyone in that group a nigger?
Personally, I’m sick of being accused of using the term Teabaggers to refer to the whackoes as if they themselves didn’t lay the moniker on themselves. I propose we organize. We must hang together or we shall surely all hang separately, or something like that. What do you think? All we need is name to bind us.
We could maybe have a theme, like the Music Man, we could all carry old instruments, we can call ourselves The Rusty Trombones.
Or maybe, we get down to the streets! Nothing clean and squeaky. Guerrilla tactics. Like in the Barrio. We can call ourselves The Dirty Sanchezes.
Or, shit, why didn’t I think of it before. Dems. Donkeys. Fighting back. Who wants to join The Donkey Punches with me?
It’s like that old joke.
A guy’s been drinking in a bar. He says to a newcomer, ‘Do you see that bridge? I designed that bridge, and I built it. But do they call me “Brian the Bridgebuilder”? No. And the new plaza. I designed every building in it. But do they call me “Brian the Architect”? No. But one time, you have sex with a sheep…’
Some Teabaggers called the group (‘movement’, whatever) ‘Teabaggers’. It’s unfortunate for them that they didn’t know the term when they used it, but sometimes choices have unfortunate consequences. In this case, like poor Brian in the joke, they stuck themselves with a name they would like to reconsider.
And when it gets organized, a party becomes more like a spectacle than a shindog, it’s more of a show. So instead of the Donkey Party, it will be the Donkey Show.
You mean the Horse’s Ass party? They called themselves that first.
How’s that workin’ out for ya?
I think it would add to the tenor of debate in GD if all our right leaning posters started using that instead of Democrat. Or, maybe just use DemocRAT. Don’t you?