Can someone post a quick explanation of this "teabagging" stuff?

[InvisibleTouch]

I don't watch the news, so I don't know if it's been explained there, and from the threads here, I'm still trying to figure it out from context. Best I have gathered is, on April 15th a bunch of rightwing crazies are getting together all over the country to toss tea bags into rivers as a protest because they don't want to pay taxes. ???! Am I close? Can someone post a quick explanation?

Do they think they're re-enacting the Boston Tea Party? That seems to make no sense, unless they're protesting sales taxes on tea.

(And honestly, I get a different mental image from the term "teabagging.")

[Bicoastal]

1. This video will explain everything in a nutshell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkviIYKjPyw&feature=related

[drm604]

6. That's as good as any other explanation I've seen.

Better than some.

[Aqaba]

8. This one is a bit better...

Charlotte Has A Teabag Situation...

[Control-Z]

23. Ok. I laughed hysterically

I hadn't seen that before. So disgustingly sick. So funny.

"Just breath through your nose."

[annabanana]

There IS no quick explanation. There aren't two of them giving

the same reason for the "protest". Some seem to think their taxes have been raised (not true). Some seem to thing that Obama has created a brand new deficit. (also not true).


There IS no explanation, quick or otherwise. That's why I find the whole thing breathtakingly hilarious!

[Uzybone]

2. here ya go.

[Skittles]

3. repukes are REALLY sore losers

so they're protesting the winner of the presidential election, under the guise of some kind of TAX OUTRAGE bullshit

[tridim]

4. The most basic explanation is that they are racist assholes..

and they can't stand that we finally have a black President.

All the other reasons are just cover for their racism.

[Democrats_win]

5. Read: "How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Teabagging."

At the heart of every Republican is a teabag.


Oh wait. That's a gasbag. Nevermind.

[tekisui]

7. Faux revolution, sponsored by big businesses, corporate media.

It plays on the xenophobia of the undereducated. They are going to protest because their media propaganda is telling them to. They don't know why, but it's because the richest want to pay less taxes.

[sam sarrha]

9. if you go to a 'Tea Party'... dont tap your foot

[Kip Humphrey]

12. ...or take a wide stance.

[SoCalDem]

10. Formerly middle-to-lower class loonies up in arms about rich people paying more taxes

so they (the loonies) can continue to pay more...(because someday they might win the lotto & be rich too)

[InvisibleTouch]

11. Okay, I'm still lost...

...thanks for the replies, but what exactly are the nutbags (teabags?) planning to do? Throw a bunch of tea into rivers?

[librechik]

20. in a word, yes

and cover themselves with the reflected glory of the founding fathers.

Except that the FF were protesting because rich corporate tyrants weren't paying their fair share. and these aholes are protesting because Obama might make rich corporate tyrants pay as much tax as they paid during the Reagan admin

They've been brainwashed & Foxnews can make them dance like little puppets/

[SmileyRose]

13. Bloo said it best - they are protesting a black man in the white house

taxes don't have anything to do with it.

[bemildred]

14. I just do not understand how stuffing a teabag up your ass would make you feel better. nt

[Warpy]

15. Best explanation I've seen

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

The right wingers, of course, think they're hearkening back to the days of Colonial America when there really was taxation without representation and, being morons, are using tea bags to symbolize the chests of tea that went into Boston Harbor. Never mind they're just throwing temper tantrums because they're overgrown children who haven't been told "NO" in a long time and because their team's representatives got whipped.

Read the Wiki article and enjoy all the unintended humor on the right wing signage. I'm sure it'll be a neverending source of amusement that will dwarf the contribution of the "Get a brain morans" guy.

[Turbineguy]

16. I think it goes like this:

First you have to believe that there are millions of men and women who want to put their testicles in your mouth.

[BluePatriot21]

17. teabagging...

Teabagging is the art of dipping ones teasack in and out of the receiving persons mouth simulating the act of dunking ones tea bag in and out of the cup. Tomorrow many mouths will be open and awaiting their turn.

[Adsos Letter]

18. "...women who want to put their testicles in your mouth."

*sigh*...I am now beyond hopelessly confused... :crazy:

[Oilwellian]

19. Here's a different visual

I don't think this guy has a clue about teabagging. Perhaps that's part of the problem.

[Kitty Herder]

22. Maybe it's an invitation? nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. Hard to tell. Is he tapping his foot?

Personally, I think this is all a big conspiracy by Lipton to boost their sales.

[downeyr]

21. Well you see...

the girl (normally) lays down on her back and the man assumes the position over her, bends his knees and...

[Enrique]

24. GOP astroturf gimmick

the poor saps going to those things don't realize they're extras in a GOP produced made-for-TV movie.

[NNN0LHI]

25. Remember the Minutemen? Same assholes

There is is.

Don

[renie408]

26. "Teabagging" is a ...ummmm....tongue(?) in cheek way of referring to the

nuts who think that having their kids educated and their garbage picked up should be done for free.