When the GOP’s website invites you to “Tea Bag Obama” by sending an ecard and the issues of the people at the rally range from Obama’s birth certificate to abortion, the event has been thoroughly co-opted. And those involved have lost the right to not be called “teabaggers”.

-Pope Impious XXIII

I’d say ‘teabaggers’ is le mot just

In old player-vs-player shootouts, there weren’t a lot of ways to taunt the opposing player and make him feel inferior to you. Today there are taunt animations and voice chat that can be heard by the other team, but in the old days you had a very limited selection of ways to humiliate your opponents. The only things you could do, generally, was shoot, jump, and duck.

So the players evolved a humiliating ritual. After you shot someone and they were lying on the floor, face up and mouth open, you walked over their corpse and ‘ducked’. This made you squat on their face. It became known as ‘teabagging’, partially because players would squat many times in a row, as if dipping their balls repeatedly in their vanquished enemy’s mouth.

I first heard of ‘teabagging’ in Counterstrike, circa 2000, but I’m sure it was invented before that. How it went from being a gamer humiliation to a real world perversion is beyond me.

2) The whole ‘tea party’ thing was orquestrated by lobbbyists for the corporate elite, and most of the protesters actually got a tax break from Obama.

3) However, Obama’s no rebel. His borrow and spend policies are not significantly different from those of all presidents since Saint Ronnie.

(Eight years later, still boarded up.)

And my main problem with the teabag protest is that it’s about fifty years too late. Moreover, any coherent message it may have had is tainted by Fox News’ involvement — any coherent message it may have had is, by and large, replaced by the message “Republicans are whining that they’re not in charge anymore.”

Nice to see someone else make the connection. Does this mean I’m not crazy and/or perverted?

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That article uses a straw man- the fictional notion that government spending is supposed to fix the larger problems of bad debt- and attacks that. In reality, no matter what, we have less actual assets in our economy than we previously thought. The only way to fix that is to fix our books, and work our way out. The reason you look to government spending in these times is because when a recession starts, consumers and corporations can both stop circulating money, which creates more fear, and you get a feedback loop. It gets irrational, and you suddenly have an economic collapse- not because of bad debt, but because people have stopped doing ANY business. A stagnant economy begins to collapse.
It’s a lot easier to work your way out of an economic crisis when people still have jobs to go to, even if those jobs involve earning a radically reduced dollar. And yes- the only real long term solution is to create surplus value.

Why not “teabag” FOX News itself by sending them THOUSANDS of emails of this post? The idea of this clip being widely circulated makes me laugh my ass off. The idea of idiot fratboy Sean Hannity having to look at an inbox full of it makes me laugh even harder.

http://www.hannity.com/contactus.asp

Not to mention, the Pope of Trash finally gets teabagging credit where teabagging credit is due!

Can someone please post the email addresses of FOX News peeps here? At least one of you reading this has them. Do the right thing and post them!

Circa 1988, my best friend was the captain of the football team in high school. No, I never played, and yes, we were an odd pair. Be that as it may, everyone on the team knew that it was the funniest thing in the world to teabag the guy you had just tackled.

Normally I’d agree and say this is juvenile and beside the point but it is totally legitimized by John Waters participation. Normal people giggling about teabagging: Juvenile, unnecessary. John Waters giving us a formal definition of teabagging: pure journalistic gold.

No they aren’t. They’re a tantrum thrown by a bunch of cry babies because their team lost the election. The same idiots attending Tea Parties had no problem with out of control spending over the last 8 years when it was being done to drop bombs on poor brown people half a world away. It pisses them off that now the government is spending money to fix problems the GOP created and that this spending might help poor brown people at home.

so uh, what?

also the international sign for teabagging looks a lot like ‘its got big fangs’ – but higher on the mouth.

woot!

and my captcha is ‘among haight’ BONUS & on so many levels.

Ah yes, thanks Xenorita!

Well, have ya seen some of the stuff on FOX? Unrelated to this whole Tea Party nonsense. Pot & kettle.

The truth is, the wingnuts behind it, and FOX, deserve the ridicule. Really they deserve the stocks, and I don’t mean financial instruments, but we’ll have to be satisfied with the ridicule and mockery.

So, show your patriotism, throw a rotten orange at a republican.

Before smoking in bars was banned here I couldn’t go to them; I never saw live bands play in clubs before 2004 as I couldn’t go to any of the venues they played in due to the smoke.

There should be no ‘right to smoke’ that trumps others right to work, or walk around a city, or see a film or a play or a band or generally leave their house and interact with society.