2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI’ve always thought..Tea Party was the dumbest fucking name for a political party ever.
And when they started wearing those stupid hats with tea bags hanging from them, I knew that it would only be a matter of time. Only freaking idiots would walk around in colonial uniforms with hanging bags from their hats...The fact that they attracted so many people is and always will be a reminder that nothing should be taken for granted.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)n/t
Permanut
(5,637 posts)Sure, it's an idiotic name, but they could have called it:
The Dumber Than Dirt Party
The God and Guns Party
The We Hate Old People Party
The Bullets and Bibles Party
So, see, it coulda been dumber. Okay, maybe not.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)than their ideas.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Then discovered what that means, then became the "Tea party".
NBachers
(17,136 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)Hmmm - it is the perfect name for them.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Or the Idiocrats. Who knew that movie was so prescient?
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)LOL! I remind my brother who is a Teabagger about that. And I still use the term Teabaggers. He said it's like calling someone a homophobic name or the N word which he uses. I told him, you guys named yourselves, live with it. They try and deny Teabagger ever existed.
Richard Cleary
(15 posts)To call the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party". Go Figure.
lexw
(804 posts)Trickle down.
Tea baggers.
...when are they going to learn?
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)I watched Rachel's show on it and she could not keep a straight face. "Tea Bag the Liberal Democrats before we teabag you" and "Teabag Obama" are the funniest signs ever.
mac56
(17,574 posts)they now try to back pedal away from originally dubbing themselves "Tea Baggers."
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name
On his MSNBC show Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reminded the teabaggers, who just now seem to have figured out what the name means, where the term teabagger came from. Hint: it wasnt Maddow or Olbermann but the teabaggers themselves who coined the term.
Here is the video:
More:
http://www.politicususa.com/olbermann-teabagger.html
Skittles
(153,193 posts)it fits
Mkap
(223 posts)from a organization that was created by the Koch bros. I use to laugh in the early 2000s when they had "activist" come out in support of big polluters...."YESSSSS MORE smog!!! we want our smog!"
intaglio
(8,170 posts)as opposed to the "Mad Hatter's"
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)that the acronym supposedly stood for "Taxed Enough Already."
The irony stems from the fact that the vast majority of those "protesters" had just received a tax reduction from Pres Obama as one of his first actions in office.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)90% of them are on S.S and Medicare totally reliant.. They should Thank God that they were forced to pay into it. Idiots.
JHB
(37,162 posts)...then switched once they were clued in about that other meaning.
Of course, the actual Boston Tea Party was an act of property destruction against a corporation that was so well-connected it was considered an act against the crown, and prompted a military crackdown. Not to mention that while it was taking place it wasn't clear at all that the wouldn't be a violent confrontation that night.
Nothing the Teabaggers faced (or protested) came within canon shot of that situation.
Richard Cleary
(15 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
robertkdem1965_h89
(25 posts)They were never anything more than a batshit faction of that party. Sadly, it seems they've taken over the entire Republican party, as evidenced by the loons in charge.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)Don't make fun. They've given us so much. They've helped us win back some seats in Congress. They give us the sideshow that the Republican primaries were. They're helping the GOP with their image. I'm grateful to the teabagging idiots.
BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)Ian Iam
(386 posts)Ian David
(69,059 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)those early tea partyers being small import/export merchants and small shop owners and such bitching about having to pick up more of the tab for the CROWN by paying a higher tax on the other non-crony teas.
I mean, they threw the tax-break tea in the freaking harbor, one wonders why the Tea Party doesn't ask themselves a question like, "Why do you suppose those early colonist shop-keepers and their friends threw TEA in the bay???"
I know, I know, curiosity just isn't their strong-suit.
Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)On election day, they march in lockstep and vote for every candidate with an R after their name, as they always have. And they have damaged their own party by nominating absolute loons in the primary. Long may they live. I may send them money.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)it was mostly their detractors which used that name for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
budkin
(6,714 posts)ugh