You know you're a teabagger when...

[ck4829]

You used to write comments on websites and letters to the editor calling for treason charges to be brought up against opponents of the President, now you write comments on websites and letters to the editor calling for the supporters of this President to be charged with treason.

Obama's "long form", carbon dated, original, watermarked, sealed, dated, archived, whatever birth certificate is of greater importance to you than the energy task force documents or all those missing emails.

Gay people scare you.

Muslims scare you.

Women who are not pregnant and handcuffed to their bed scare you.

You nod in agreement when Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck/Sean Hannity/etc. say liberals have no ideas of their own.

You think that if we cut taxes even more, then maybe this time it will lead to prosperity.

You think that deregulation will mean that the corporations will police themselves... this time.

You think that Obama is a secret Muslim, a racist Christian, and a Communist Nazi.

[gateley]

1. You know you're a teabagger when you're dumb as a rock. And can't spell. nt

[Initech]

2. As evidenced by their protest signs.

[hootinholler]

28. Except how would you know?

Seriesly :P

-Hoot

[gateley]

38. Good point! nt

[Lint Head]

3. Your too stupid to know you exist.

[ThomCat]

23. Um...

You mean "You're too stupid to know you exist."

If you are going to call people stupid (and they are) you really should double check your post before you Post Message. :P

[Webster Green]

4. There are other hints as well..

A mouthful of testicles is another indication.

[Arkana]

5. ...you didn't raise a stink for the entire Bush presidency

while our civil rights were being systematically shredded and the deficit blown up to massive proportions, but now that Obama is in office THE DEFICIT IS BAD and MY FREEDUMBS ARE BEIN TAKED AWAY.

[KonaKane]

7. That's their newest lie. "I was against Bush too".

Horseshit.

[ThomCat]

24. They were magically invisible during the bush years.

But God took away their magical cloaks of invisibility when a black man became president, as punishment for their failure, allowing it to happen. They can't get their magic back until they successfully drive the evil back man out of office! :P

[alp227]

6. Need I mention health care?

Here's my try at an item to this list about health care reform:

You repeat the same old tired conservative buzzwords about "government takeover" and "waste" without reading any Congressional Budget Office reports or knowing the facts about similar health care systems in Canada/Europe.

[The Gunslinger]

8. You are working class and engaged in class warfare against the working class

for the advancement of Corporations and fascism.

[madamesilverspurs]

9. You know you're a teabagger when

you believe that soylent green is real and that Obama wants to make cookies out of you, and you carry signs wherever you go to warn people about it; then you post comments like this to your local newspaper:

".........What the hell is going on in this state? Nationwise, I know it's the great OBAMA......He wants all seniors to be living in tents by 2020.........."

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[Mira]

17. Are. You. Losing. It? Oh nonono

My sputtering tells me I'm the one losing it over your comments.
On a roll with that response, Madame.

[madamesilverspurs]

19. And she is "for real" ---

we've met up with her and her day-glo green sign at rallies and town halls. She also believes that Glenn Beck is the most brilliant man in human history, while Obama is 'faking' his intelligence. Frighteningly gullible!

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[Mira]

22. I'd pay my queendom for

a short course on how to fake intelligence.
I think that would be money well spent!

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. You accept many benefits from government, but you hate everything about it.

Like so many people in my family.

[raccoon]

30. Amen! nt

[Blue_Tires]

44. +1

[RagAss]

11. You haven't slept well since January 2009.

[Chipper Chat]

12. You know you're a teabagger when

you find yourself in a hotel lobby where MSNBC is on the TV and you scream violently at the desk clerk to PLEASE CHANGE THE CHANNEL TO FOX NEWS.

[sakabatou]

13. You know you're a tea-bagger

when you think a large crowd at a convention is 10 people.

[OxQQme]

14. You don't understand the difference

between 'pubic option' and PUBIC option.

[NanceGreggs]

15. WOW!!!

Just WOW!!!

:kick: :applause: :kick:

[kentuck]

16. Although a firm believer in freedom of speech...

I will restrain from writing my thoughts. :-)

[Mira]

18. Well said and observed. K&R

[ROFF]

20. You know you're a teabagger when...

you worry that if your parents get a divorce, will they still be brother and sister?

[Tutankhamun]

21. When a choked up Glenn Beck tearfully calls himself a modern day Tom Paine, you agree completely.

Then you write on your hand, "Find out who Tom Pane is."

[krispos42]

25. You hate the educated elites, and want to give them a giant tax break. n/t

[krispos42]

26. ...you had no idea of the slang defination of the term...

...and nobody else in your peer group did, either. The corollary of this is that nobody in the teabagger movement has played anything more sophisticated than the Atari 2600.

[Champion Jack]

27. Kicked for later

[GoCubsGo]

29. ...you think Sarah Palin is much smarter than Barack Obama.

And, you still, to this day, believe she is far more qualified to be President.

[raouldukelives]

31. You love Jesus Christ

You just hate everything he stood for.

[TCJ70]

32. You say "TELEPROMPTER!" to any argument...ever. n/t

[belpejic]

33. White American terrorists are good.

Anyone who isn't white and an evangelical Christian is bad.

Oh, and you think Tim Tebow starts at quarterback in the NFL next year.

[Blue_Tires]

34. You CLAIM to be an absolute purist on the Constitution, BUT

haven't read it at all, since you openly support so much shit that later amendments to the constitution had to correct, like taking away women's right to vote, poll intelligence tests for minorities, vote caging, an establishment of state religion, and creative punishments for minority crimimals (i.e., sterilization, summary execution) that would violate the 8th...



You claim to be for "individual freedom" but HATE the mention of consumer/employee/patient rights...

You claim to hate "government tyranny" but LOVED the Patriot Act at first, since you knew in the back of your mind it would NEVER be used against 'real' Americans -- You also get orgasmic at the thought of Mexican houses being raided, racial profiling of muslims at the airport and blacks on the highway, and illegal searches of so-called subversive leftist organizations...

You claim to be a fighter for freedom, but think the ACLU are a bunch of pot-smoking anti-American hippies...

You claim to be a social libertarian with equal rights for everyone, except liberals, drug users, gays, feminists, immigrants (legal), and people of a different religion...

You support term limits ONLY when the Dems are in control...

You absolutely HATE "BIG GUMMITT", but love your highways, tax giveaways for big businesses, you see your sports team in a public-funded stadium, you work in a tax-subsidized industry, or work in a business that relies exclusively on government contracts, and the list goes on... Extra credit if you're a teabagger who is ALSO a state employee, military, or an in-state student at a state university (I've seen all three)...

GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD

Finding $10 million wasted in welfare or education is a cause for nooses, torches and pitchforks, but $500 billion wasted by the Pentagon is the cost of doing business...

You claim to HATE government waste and handouts to the undeserving, but through creative accounting, bill paddding and other perks fleece the state and feds for EVERY LAST PENNY YOU CAN SQUEEZE OUT OF THEM...

With your keen sense of justice, you continue to make apology after apology for greedy embezzling CEOs/Senators/Governors even after they are indicted, AS LONG AS they are playing for 'your' side...

600 people at a conference = "Massive, unstoppable grassroots movement"...500,000 March on Washington against the Iraq invasion (multiple times) = "No one cares; go back to France you terrorist lovers!"

You actually CALL YOURSELF a teabagger without knowing the context of the original Boston Tea Party at all...

You make up RW fascist quotes and attribute them to founding fathers as justification for your insanity...

Your love Ron Paul, but never tried to comprehend the incredible contradictions that would happen if his proposals were ever implemented...

You're all for personal freedom but are anti-choice...

In 2004, since we were a nation at war, you suggested that anyone (no matter how famous) speaking out against Bush or the invasion was a traitor giving "aid and comfort to the enemy" and should be summarily locked up and/or silenced...In 2009, you're doing open carry in the crowd outside of presidential appearances, wearing ugly message shirts and giving loaded comments to the press about "Watering the tree of liberty" and "Thus always to tyrants"

I could go on all day, but you get the picture...

[muffin1]

35. Bill Maher cited a poll on his show the other night.

Only 2% of teabaggers thought taxes had gone down or stayed the same under Obama. In reality, 95% of working people saw their taxes go down.

So, only 2% of a group calling themselves tea partiers, named after a famous tax revolt - The Boston Tea Party - are right about taxes. :wtf:

[northofdenali]

36. if...... you think Sarah Palin is a "real" Alaskan and

would make a great pResident........

[Blue_Tires]

37. You claim to love competitive free markets, but

don't raise an eyebrow to the fact that corporate industries practice communism much better than the old USSR did, through protectionism, collusion, lobbying, insider trading, sweetheart backroom dealing, etc...Nevermind the fact that so many CEOs and board members simultaneously sit on boards of supposedly competing corporations...


You have the most skeptical, harshly critical eye at the scientific research behind global climate change, people being BORN gay and evolution, but never for one minute entertained a serious discussion about the bible or the case for the Iraq invasion...

You said nothing (or worked against them) when blue-collar unions at the local factory or construction firm were fighting for their survival against wage suppression and benefits erosion, but HOLY FUCKING DAMN you were ready to go to war when the 1,000 jobs at that factory all went to undocumented Latinos and south Asians (happily working at a fraction of the old union wage), who moved en masse to your community with their families and their strange-sounding language..."Aren't there any regular AMERICANS who can do this job??" (of course, this also goes against your unregulated free markets spiel, but you're rollin')...

You have no concept of history, so you fail to realize the icons you constantly quote and hold dear would blow your collective brains out if they were still alive out of sheer rage at their misrepresentation -- Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Paine, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Patton, Goldwater, Rand, John Wayne, Heinlein, etc...

You couldn't spell the word "deficit" during the Bush years, but now you're a fiscal expert...

You could live five lifetimes and never amass the wealth that the top one-tenth of one percent have, but you defend to your death THEIR right to not pay taxes on any of it...

You think Wal-Mart is an excellent company, and is the philosophical model for all manner of businesses and government to emulate.

You cheered the USSC decision to give corporations (foreign and domestic) unlimited lobbying power, while still cursing the corruption in Washington; never knowing how the two are linked...

Hundreds of billions for a bloated military and banks to cover bad losses = good...Hundreds of billions for healthcare = SOCIALISM!! (As an aside, I don't care how much bullshit you pile on top of your revisionism, your Wall Street loving, capitalism-at-all-costs teabag crowd jizzed their pants at the thought of so much federal cash being transferred over to private banks with no regulation, transparency or oversight...It was ONLY when the main party sent down the official talking points that you magically turned against it -- Because of course, Obama CANNOT be allowed to have any political victories, EVER)

You claim government services are incompetent, wasteful, bloated and inefficient, but when a particular service is subcontracted out to an incompetent, wasteful, bloated and inefficient company that overbills the taxpayer, you say nothing...

Open trade relations with China = good...Open trade relations with Cuba = EVIL

You think every welfare recipient is a dark-skinned druggie with 6 kids, and have never heard the term 'corporate welfare'


and right here in Va.:

$700+ billion cut from education, and $900+ billion cut from state employee benefits = Good... Any mention of a marginal tax increase for major corporations in the state = Anti-capitalist Soviet gulag that will drive businesses away...

[HughBeaumont]

39. +1,000,000, especially that first one.

TeaBirthers are the most economically uneducated and idiotic among us. Goes to show if they could be led around by a chain to see just how badly Republican administrations screwed them . . . well, what am I saying, they STILL wouldn't change. Not in them.

[samplegirl]

40. You are a teabagger when

you reply to a post like this in your local newspaper

"...out of touch angry white voters..." Great. Leave it to a mindless liberal to turn it into a racist issue. Maybe us "angry white voters" are sick and tired of working for a living to carry burden of the the apathetic generations of illegals and welfare trough drinkers, white, black, mixed, purple or whatever color, on our backs. You liberal loud mouths just can't stand the idea of taking control AWAY from the government and returning it to the citizen.

[HughBeaumont]

41. You toss adjectives like "independent" and "non-partisan" out QUITE often.

Anyone else find it funny that when you see those two things describing a site, a group, a treatise, etc; with a little digging you'll find there's almost NEVER even the slightest slant towards anything to the left of Joe Lieberman to be found? You'll usually see links dotted with flags, Gadsen and Old Glory alike; sending you to lots of Free Market and Reagan screeds . . .

It's kind of difficile for me to believe one is "independent" when 90-some percent of them focus all of their blab and vitriol against the Democratic party ONLY. As if NOW, they have a forum after being silent all of these years! GMAFB.

[libodem]

42. When a nekid

man squats over a woman on her back, with her mouth open, and dips his balls into her oral orifice, like a teabag into a tea cup. Oh, yeah, when you are a KKK racist without the white hood and sheets.

[Bozita]

43. You learned that the current recession began on 1/21/09