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Mon Nov-01-10 11:19 PM
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The tea party movement started not with rallies, but with its members mailing teabags to the White House in protest. (This was when we were still under Bush's tax plan, of course.) It was then they called themselves "teabaggers" because they were "teabagging"--something like TPing but with Lipton instead of Charmin--the White House.
When the protests started, they liked to use slogans like "teabag the fools in DC" and "teabag the liberal Democrats before they teabag you."
You can tell your daughter that and be proud she knows why they called themselves teabaggers.
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| -Damn. My daughter asked us tonight why they are called "teabaggers" |
madinmaryland |
Nov-01-10 10:14 PM |
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giggle |
mrs_p |
Nov-01-10 10:15 PM |
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Tell her it's because you can fit their brain in a teabag ! |
RagAss |
Nov-01-10 10:15 PM |
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Heh! Good one! |
madinmaryland |
Nov-01-10 10:16 PM |
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because some of them hung teabags from their hats |
KILL THE WISE ONE |
Nov-01-10 10:16 PM |
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and they also did that "send a teabag to Washington" thing as a protest. |
kath |
Nov-01-10 11:38 PM |
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How about |
AC_Mem |
Nov-01-10 10:16 PM |
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They did not know what it meant either, serious |
nadinbrzezinski |
Nov-01-10 10:16 PM |
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Well, my wife started to explain the whole tax thing about the "tea partyers" |
madinmaryland |
Nov-01-10 10:19 PM |
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I suggest a turn to the arts to answer her query: |
LooseWilly |
Nov-01-10 10:19 PM |
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At 13 she likely knows quite a bit..... |
alittlelark |
Nov-01-10 10:20 PM |
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Nah, she don't want to do that. I just did. Maybe with "safe search" on. |
givemebackmycountry |
Nov-01-10 10:35 PM |
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Exactly. How do you explain that to a 13 year old. |
madinmaryland |
Nov-01-10 11:31 PM |
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She probably has, and just wanted to see how we would respond. |
madinmaryland |
Nov-01-10 10:35 PM |
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I can relate.... I've got young teens myself. |
alittlelark |
Nov-01-10 10:38 PM |
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Ooh bad idea. |
dkf |
Nov-01-10 10:42 PM |
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explain to her |
Skittles |
Nov-01-10 10:21 PM |
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Good answer. |
Ishoutandscream2 |
Nov-01-10 10:23 PM |
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thanks! |
Skittles |
Nov-01-10 10:27 PM |
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Because when you put them in boiling water, they turn it brown? |
the redcoat |
Nov-01-10 10:22 PM |
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Well, the Teabaggers have delusions that their fight is like the Boston Tea Party. |
political_Dem |
Nov-01-10 10:27 PM |
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but, the Boston Tea Party was about a corporation not paying taxes. |
B Calm |
Nov-02-10 03:14 AM |
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She is 13? If so, you should just tell her the truth. |
ZombieHorde |
Nov-01-10 10:41 PM |
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If her friends play HALO |
Alcibiades |
Nov-01-10 10:59 PM |
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Because they hot glue tea bags all over their clothing? |
K8-EEE |
Nov-01-10 11:05 PM |
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I know exactly why. |
jmowreader |
Nov-01-10 11:19 PM |
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Correct. The proper answer is "Because they are that fucking stupid, baby!" |
TheKentuckian |
Nov-02-10 01:17 AM |
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She doesn't know what the Boston Tea Party was? Seriously, that's why the name. |
KittyWampus |
Nov-01-10 11:23 PM |
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If she's thirteen, she probably already knows |
Tsiyu |
Nov-01-10 11:37 PM |
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That's why the nickname is dumb... |
Zax2me |
Nov-02-10 12:47 AM |
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They gave themselves that name, it's their own fucking fault it stuck. |
Warren DeMontague |
Nov-02-10 01:19 AM |
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+1,000,000 |
pokerfan |
Nov-02-10 02:49 AM |
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Man, Poppy looks like shit there. |
Warren DeMontague |
Nov-02-10 03:24 AM |
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Because the suck balls! |
FreeState |
Nov-02-10 01:33 AM |
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They take it from the Bostan Tea Party |
Raine |
Nov-02-10 02:10 AM |
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At 13, she knows what teabagging is. She just wants to know how they are connected. |
jobycom |
Nov-02-10 02:43 AM |
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Your daughter is on the internet, yes? |
tavalon |
Nov-02-10 02:51 AM |
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They stole and co-opted tea party like the Gadsten Flag |
era veteran |
Nov-02-10 05:46 AM |
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Unbelievable how they can change history to fit their agenda |
B Calm |
Nov-02-10 04:00 PM |
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