# You see, it's stuff like this that makes people think Teabaggers are a bunch of right-wing cranks. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558 "2010-02-18T23:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/81 "2010-02-20T04:39:39Z")
He didn’t jerk off enough when he was a kid, his nuts backed up and he got insemination of the brain pan. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/82 "2010-02-20T04:50:41Z")
Sounds like eighth grade, before I figured out that nocturnal emissions in my Mr Spock PJs were not the only way to relieve the pressure. Made me smarter once I didn’t have a bunch of tadpoles wriggling around my brain pan. Psssst! One needs to be at least 45 to have heard of a “brain pan,” and being a fan of Roots Country helps. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/83 "2010-02-20T04:57:25Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > (shrug) This country is in serous fucking trouble, trouble so bad that our survival as a nation is very much in question. Well, I won’t argue with that - what with Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and their sheeple threatening to turn this country into\* Idiocracy.\* Just let me know when _Ouch, My Balls!_ makes its premiere. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/84 "2010-02-20T05:07:40Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Well, I won’t argue with that - what with Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and their sheeple threatening to turn this country into\* Idiocracy.\* > Just let me know when _Ouch, My Balls!_ makes its premiere. [nitpick] It was _[Ow! My Balls!](http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q255/braedonis_photo/?action=view¤t=owmyballs.flv)_ [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/85 "2010-02-20T05:34:57Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > (shrug) This country is in serous fucking trouble, trouble so bad that our survival as a nation is very much in question. And you think a military coup will make things _better?_ > [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Pickle you, kumquat! Seriously, dude, this reply is so fucking retarded I have no idea how to respond to it. Aw, I’ll bet you say that to all the fellas. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/86 "2010-02-20T06:04:17Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > Not just them. Even elected officials. I give you [Matt Shea-R, Spokane, WA](http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-02-17/news/one-loon-for-tea/) Actually, the “precursor to Nazi Germany and Communist Russia” was not liberal goverment nor heavy-handed government; it was radical politics and street-fighting. The sort of thing, IOW, about which Shea and **LonesomePolecat** and a lot of Teabaggers seem to be having waking wet dreams. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/87 "2010-02-20T06:06:15Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Pickle you, kumquat! Seriously, dude, this reply is so fucking retarded I have no idea how to respond to it. _sigh_ I wish I could believe you this time, **Lonesome,** I really, really do. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/88 "2010-02-20T06:09:51Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > (shrug) This country is in serous fucking trouble, trouble so bad that our survival as a nation is very much in question. You want to pretend it’s not so, you go right ahead. You go on whistling past the graveyard. 😕 WTF? The only serious trouble we’re in right now is economic, and we’ve been through bad economic times before and survived as a nation. We’ve also survived radical politics. The only time politics in America got so out of hand as to threaten our survival as a nation was in 1860; and we survived that too. Jihadist terrorists are no threat to our survival as a nation. Mexican immigrants are no threat to our survival as a nation. Honestly, seriously, just what **are** you talking about here? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/89 "2010-02-20T06:22:07Z")
The Mexicans are coming. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/90 "2010-02-20T06:33:29Z")
The first thing Stalin did when he came to power was to raise the highest marginal income tax rate from 33% to 36%. You hear about all the evil he inflicted and all the tens of millions of people he killed, but somehow history glosses over the marginal rate increase, which was the real evil. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/91 "2010-02-20T07:56:06Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > So, I met with someone at work the other day who proudly announced to me- with her husband right next to her- “We are _serious_ teabaggers. We are just really, really into teabagging and everything it stands for” (cut to both nodding enthusiastically). > Funniest name for a stupid political movement EVER. I approve on that basis alone. Except that they say Tea _Party_, not Tea Bag. Only 8 year olds call them TeaBaggers. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/92 "2010-02-20T08:12:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Except that they say Tea Party, not Tea Bag. Only 8 year olds call them TeaBaggers. Sounds like **Diosa** ’s co-workers didn’t get the memo. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/93 "2010-02-20T15:24:59Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > The first thing Stalin did when he came to power was to raise the highest marginal income tax rate from 33% to 36%. You hear about all the evil he inflicted and all the tens of millions of people he killed, but somehow history glosses over the marginal rate increase, which was the real evil. I think this is the second time I’ve LOLed in real life at a post here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/94 "2010-02-20T15:48:16Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Except that they say Tea _Party_, not Tea Bag. Only 8 year olds call them TeaBaggers. Wrong. Someone came up with the name, it stuck, and a lot of us use it now. As one of the posts said, they call themselves Teabaggers now. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/95 "2010-02-20T16:25:23Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > (shrug) This country is in serous fucking trouble, trouble so bad that our survival as a nation is very much in question. You want to pretend it’s not so, you go right ahead. On this point, you and I are in firm agreement, albeit in reverse. It is in trouble because a vocal minority of pig-ignorant, angry, gullible, and mostly racist dipshits feel stirred to openly and without irony propose armed insurrection against the legitimately elected government and the nation’s President, and not (as I’m guessing you will insist) the other way around. Should you muster the \*cajones \*to pilot your protest plane, I suggest you wow your yet-unindicted co-conspirators, trailer-trash toadies, and the animatronic ghosts of the Founding Fathers that exist only in your ossified oat-bag of a brain by performing a three-point landing in the middle of the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/96 "2010-02-20T16:43:30Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > On this point, you and I are in firm agreement, albeit in reverse. It is in trouble because a vocal minority of pig-ignorant, angry, gullible, and mostly racist dipshits feel stirred to openly and without irony propose armed insurrection against the legitimately elected government and the nation’s President, and not (as I’m guessing you will insist) the other way around. Should you muster the \*cajones \*to pilot your protest plane, I suggest you wow your yet-unindicted co-conspirators, trailer-trash toadies, and the animatronic ghosts of the Founding Fathers that exist only in your ossified oat-bag of a brain by performing a three-point landing in the middle of the Atlantic. Armed insurrection? Revolt? I don’t think they have the manpower, the firepower, or the balls to try. They damn sure don’t have the brains to get anything going. So, I have to figure they are just talking shit and trying to look all bad ass. A real bad ass would stop talking and DO it. Let’s call it a double dog dare. Shit or get off the pot, all you wannabe tough guys. Or just shut up and go away. Oh and yeah, Teabaggers. hee hee. What a name for tough guys. ROFLMAO OMG WTF ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/97 "2010-02-20T18:09:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Except that they say Tea _Party_, not Tea Bag. Only 8 year olds call them TeaBaggers. You better pass the memo on to all the people who refer to themselves as tea baggers (ie: the people I met with). They were proud of being tea baggers, daggummit. They said it, not me. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/98 "2010-02-20T18:51:39Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > (shrug) This country is in serous fucking trouble, trouble so bad that our survival as a nation is very much in question. You want to pretend it’s not so, you go right ahead. You go on whistling past the graveyard. I made GD thread to debate this assertion, I hope you can contribute. > **[Is the US in serious trouble, trouble so bad that our survival as a nation is...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=553012)** > > The statement in the title was mentioned by a poster in a BBQ thread. Since there was no elaboration there by the person making the statement, and I’m not “calling out” him or her, I see no point to link to it. Does anybody feel the same way? I do... ---
**Author:** ![Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/99 "2010-02-20T19:07:49Z")
If there are any liberals in here that like to debate neo-con dimwits as I do please go to [www.700WLW.com](http://www.700WLW.com) message board it is made up of 99.9% neo-cons most of them dumber than ann coulter.I however am greatly outnumbered and could use some backup.And if you are a mean,hateful,racisit,overly sensitive,neo-con go there as well you will be welcomed with open arms. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558/100 "2010-02-20T19:20:06Z")
> [@Heavy](#): > > If there are any liberals in here that like to debate neo-con dimwits as I do please go to [www.700WLW.com](http://www.700WLW.com) message board it is made up of 99.9% neo-cons most of them dumber than ann coulter.I however am greatly outnumbered and could use some backup.And if you are a mean,hateful,racisit,overly sensitive,neo-con go there as well you will be welcomed with open arms. No thanks, I have to deal with that kind of dumb shit asshole every day at work (and bite my tongue). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-see-its-stuff-like-this-that-makes-people-think-teabaggers-are-a-bunch-of-right-wing-cranks/529558.md?page=6)