Tea Bag Parties

[Goodchild]

If you've heard about the upcoming republican "tea bag" parties at all, you've probably had much the same thought as I have. And that thought is "Could these fucks be any more clueless?"

So someone made a video about it. Laugh and enjoy :)

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[Matty]

lol.

FWIW in the mouth seems rather dangerous from a nutectomy perspective, the version i saw at a mates stag party was where he passed out and the best man place his nuts over the bridge of his nose, one on each eye and had a close up picture taken. Looked like he was wearing a pair of wrinkly flesh shades. :)

[lpetrich]

I had to search for what Goodchild meant, and I found that some tax protesters are proposing mailing tea bags to the President and to Congresspeople, hoping to evoke the Boston Tea Party. For non-Americans, that was an big tax protest a few years before the US Revolutionary War, which consisted of dumping a lot of shipments of tea into Boston harbor.

In fact, there's a libertarian splinter party which calls itself the Boston Tea Party.

[Anne]

lol.

FWIW in the mouth seems rather dangerous from a nutectomy perspective, the version i saw at a mates stag party was where he passed out and the best man place his nuts over the bridge of his nose, one on each eye and had a close up picture taken. Looked like he was wearing a pair of wrinkly flesh shades. :)

I never want to party with your friends.

I'll take you on a one to one basis, but nothing big, and no passing out.

on my end, at least...

[Matty]

that was an extreme stag do mind. The one where i was first introduced to beer pong.
Oh my.

[Yahoo!!]

Jon Stewart has the best clip for his commentary on the tea bag party.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnBiJfWlhs

if the link doesn't work, then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnBiJfWlhs

[Goodchild]

Jon is awesome :)

I still can't get over how anyone with a lick of sense would have even begun to think of calling them 'teabag' parties :D

[Worldtraveller]

*laughs* *breathes* *laughs some more* Holy shit, that's funny.

[tjakey]

It is hard to decide if the right wingers are the world's biggest hypocrits, bat-shit crazy, or just plain fucking lame.

[hecaterin]

Remember when Fox news talked about the Obamas' fondness for fisting?

[JamesBannon]

I was the same as Lpetrich & didn't understand the reference at first. John Daly (spelling?) was a hoot though.

[Anne]

Remember when Fox news talked about the Obamas' fondness for fisting?

I laughed so hard I hurt...

Makes me wonder what world they are living in...

or is it us in the weird one?

[Christina]

Sometimes I wonder if they just pretend not to know what this stuff means in order to distance themselves from all of the sex scandals. They can't really be that naive.

This thread keeps reminding me of my most embarrassing online moment. I need to quit reading it.

[Joykins]

I see that the unintentionally hilarious nuttiness of the right wing will keep me entertained for the next 4 years.

[cmoon]

Do you think maybe they are doing this to draw attention to themselves?

I mean, I'm sure it won't be long before we hear about them having a rainbow party.

[Goodchild]

An update from the same fellow regarding NOM's newest campaign, 2M4M!

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[Oolon Colluphid]

beer pong.
Oh my.
:dunno: :confused:

I know what you're like. And I'm at work. So I ain't Googling it.

[Matty]

ah beer pong is fine Its Pong as in ping pong not smelly.
Its a drinking game involving hand eye coordination, aiming skill, shit-talking/taunting and drinking ability. First time i played it i was 31 and it was 100% "So how come no one told me about this genius game when i was 17-19? Why not? Its possibly the funnest thing ever, boy i'm pissed"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_pong

[Oolon Colluphid]

Ah, now that's more like it!

That's the Xmas party games sorted for this year then!

[Matty]

scary scary fun game.

We have a semi-permanent set up in the back yard these days. We had a floodlit tournament the last couple parties we had :) .

The winner stays on bit is most important, stay on for more than 2-3 games and you are wasted.

[JamesBannon]

I loved the 2M4M bit. Again, I didn't get the reference (shows what an old fuddy-duddy I am). :D

[Goodchild]

For a really good breakdown of the tea bag protests, plus a ton of tongue-in-cheek humor, here's a piece by David Shuster with Lawrence O'Donnell.

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001157/

[TheBear]

Jon is awesome :)

I still can't get over how anyone with a lick of sense would have even begun to think of calling them 'teabag' parties :D
The events are called TEA Parties. (Taxed Enough Already) It's not far-fetched that someone in opposition would add the word 'bag', as a sneering canard.

[JamesBannon]

Interesting though that the right wing media are blaming the new administration instead of the old one.

[Matty]

yeah well the GOP wouldnt knowingly use a term loaded with repressed homosexuality would they?

When they go for the cock they REALLY go for it, none of this insinuation shit.

[TheBear]

Was the original one called the 'Boston Tea Party', or the 'Boston Teabag Party'? Has the GOP been around that long?

[Bartender]

I got tea bagged in Boston when I lived there...

[dug_down_deep]

This is the most pathetic flailing by the right wing I've seen in a long time. We hate being taxed and stuff like that...yeah! (And fuck Obama, goddammit. But it's not about that. It's about taxes and stuff like that. Um...)

[Lisa0315]

It was the Boston Tea Party and it had to do with taxation on importing and exporting in and from the colonies. King George passed a law which forbade the colonies from purchasing anything from foreign countries, and all exports had to go through a British port first. On top of that, American merchants had to pay tax on anything they bought to sell. It was those merchants who boarded the British ship and dumped the tea. The tea was worth something like 2 million dollars in today's money. In retribution, England put Boston under military rule until the money for the tea could be paid back. Bostonians had no intention of repaying it. Rather than teaching the rest of the colonies a lesson, the rest of the colonies were incited to further rebellion.

(Now, I am going to go check to see if my memory is correct) :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Tea_Party_protests

Lisa

[BioBeing]

Boston Tea Party = Taxation without representation

Tea Bag Parties = poor losers pissed their candidate does not represent them

[Thalia Thinks]

Were tea bags even around way back when. I doubt it.

My hubby is a manager and had issues with one of his employees on tax day. She wore a t-shirt that was offensive towards Obama. She took it off but proudly displayed it in her cubical. He has told her in the past that she couldn't display anything that promoted hate. So, he told her to please take it down, she said "No". He said, "I'm telling you to take it down!" She said it was her tea bag protest but took it down.

There was a protest about 2 blocks from the building, if it was that damn important to her she should have taken the day off and participated. Stupid bitch.

[TheBear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xWGvdRQ9Q&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatterico.com%2F2009%2F04%2F18%2 Fcnn-the-latest-corporate-thug-to-use-copyright-as-a-weapon-to-eliminate-embarrassing-clips-fro&feature=player_embedded

[Goodchild]

From the creator of the previous two videos I posted, here's another one that slightly mentions the teabagging :) Oh, and Texas seceding.

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[Lisa0315]

Too fucking funny, GC. My Southern American in me is offended, but still that shit was hilarious.

Lisa

[Lisa0315]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xWGvdRQ9Q&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatterico.com%2F2009%2F04%2F18%2 Fcnn-the-latest-corporate-thug-to-use-copyright-as-a-weapon-to-eliminate-embarrassing-clips-fro&feature=player_embedded

That was pretty powerful and it appears that it is again Conservative media against Liberal media and no one is listening to the people.

Wow!

Lisa

[alien billie]

It was the Boston Tea Party and it had to do with taxation on importing and exporting in and from the colonies. King George passed a law which forbade the colonies from purchasing anything from foreign countries, and all exports had to go through a British port first. On top of that, American merchants had to pay tax on anything they bought to sell. It was those merchants who boarded the British ship and dumped the tea. The tea was worth something like 2 million dollars in today's money. In retribution, England put Boston under military rule until the money for the tea could be paid back. Bostonians had no intention of repaying it. Rather than teaching the rest of the colonies a lesson, the rest of the colonies were incited to further rebellion.

(Now, I am going to go check to see if my memory is correct) :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Tea_Party_protests

Lisa

I think that there’s something of an English parallel to this story. Many years ago, the city of Sheffield was the heart of steel making in England. This was in part because of the many coal mines nearby, and as is the Yorkshire tradition, each coal mine would sponsor its own Brass Band. Each year there would be a competition held at Ilkley Moor Fair to choose the best Brass Band.

One year, a band came up from far off Nottingham, hoping to win the top prize .They had a good chance too, in that a young girl who was their lead trombonist was far and away the best performer that the Brass Band circuit had seen in many a long moon. However, as the band were passing through Sheffield she was set upon by some Broomhall ruffians, and in the scuffle her instrument was battered beyond repair. The lass had no money of her own to buy a replacement, but fortunately a group of local steelworkers saw what had happened and took pity on her. They went down to the steelworks and fashioned a replacement instrument in their spare time. Despite the unusual materials, the girl found that she could actually play better than ever.

The band travelled on, and finally pitched their tents just outside Ilkley Moor. However, unbeknownst to them, no band from outside Yorkshire had ever won the competition. This wasn’t anything to do with ability, but rather because the competition was riddled with corruption, which originated from the sinister socialist unions that held such a tight grip on the country’s coal production. And, true to form, the night before the competition all of the band’s instruments were stolen and thrown into the local canal.

Fortunately, some brave lads from the local Conservative Club had heard about the band from Nottingham, and had realized that here at last was a chance to break the communists’ evil grip on the trophy. They kept watch overnight, and so were able to follow the miscreants to the canal. There they bravely dived into the weed-bound canal, and so were able to return the instruments to the band at first light. The young girl’s instrument had suffered more than most, being part-crafted of iron rather than brass, but undaunted the band made their way to the competition. There they played their hearts out, to the rapturous applause of the audience. The evil communist judges knew that the jig was up, so they gracelessly threw the trophy at the girl and slunk off.

The young girl, who’s name was Margaret, soon fell in love with Dennis (the leader of the Conservative Club lads), and they ran off to The Big City to get married, first vowing to return and defeat the evil Union Bosses as soon as they could – and of course many years later the gallant Thatchers did just that.

This story has proved to be such an inspiration to brave conservatives ever since, that it has become something of an underground legend to them. So much so that wherever you go now in the world you can be sure that any right wingers you meet are proud to Play The Rusty Trombone.

[Lanakila]

Goodchild I laughed my ass off. Then I started coughing.

[Goodchild]

Goodchild I laughed my ass off. Then I started coughing.

Glad to provide some laughs, sorry for the coughs though :)

[dug_down_deep]

If I knew for sure that PLAY THE RUSTY TROMBONE was a euphemism, I would have been more confident about laughing at alien billie's post. :D

[Redshirt]

http://www.credoaction.com/comics/TMW2009-04-08original.jpg

[alien billie]

If I knew for sure that PLAY THE RUSTY TROMBONE was a euphemism, I would have been more confident about laughing at alien billie's post. :D

Well, I'd never heard of teabagging before so I guess it's been a learning experience all round :D