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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo my cousin in the UK wanted to know what teabaggers look like, so I sent her this picture
She was curious about the debt ceiling fiasco. I told her that these are the bigots that want to take down the entire world economy because there is an African American in the White House.
This is what your average teabagging piece of shit looks like:
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)and he'd fit in quite well in some sectors of british right wing society.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Most of the Confederates were the descendants of Scots Irish, and the Klan part of Ku Klux Klan was based on Scottish clans....
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)not the case.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)The most anti-semetic place in Europe is Paris, not Berlin
They never had a proper Civil Rights Movement, and as a result, there is much more antagonism between immigrants and Europeans than there is between immigrants and Americans
The head scarf ban is just one example
Yes, I don't like religion any more than the next atheist, but anytime a government tries to restrict or legislate what one wears on their head, they are practicing tyranny
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)she'll get the picture
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I've never known their supporters to have a reputation for loutishness or far right views...
Roland99
(53,342 posts)just inferring from conversations over here in the UK that that part is perhaps the redneck area.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Rambis
(7,774 posts)Tell her they all live here
progressoid
(49,992 posts)She oozes a smug stupidity that makes me cringe.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)You can bludgeon them with argument and fact yet they blissfully goose step forward in their ignorance. Bush made dumb a badge of honour!
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)jessie04
(1,528 posts).
Rambis
(7,774 posts)She is not exception to that rule-
dballance
(5,756 posts)Rather gaunt face, can't see if he still has all his teeth.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)malaise
(269,150 posts)so I can forward this
Rambis
(7,774 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)At 1:07 and 1:31
Dalai_1
(1,301 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)He's more the younger KKK element than the core tea party.
What's up with the flag poles?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)lol
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)to type tea bagging into a google picture search
Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)CanonRay
(14,111 posts)Stick a rebel hat on his head, and set him down at Fredericksburg in 1862. He'd fit right in.
flamingdem
(39,316 posts)or just a Bagger!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)No real vet would do that to the Marine Corps flag.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)here:
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Someone dressed that prop boy up for the job.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)Is Ashton a liberal? I have no idea.
Maybe he was out there helping.