Fistful of Teabag

SO I TAKE IT YOU’VE HEARD of the TeaBag Revolutionaries on the Right? Yeah. It’s a rowdy breed who clearly think that it was the TEA that made the Boston Tea Party revolutionary. No, it wasn’t destroying taxable items that would in essence deprive the government of income and stymie the “Taxation without Representation” that they felt was an inexcusable offense, it was all about paying into the system for a product (thus giving the accursed government more tax money), using the product so as not to COST themselves anything of course, and then hanging the sorry, wrinkled carcass of the spent item over the rear view mirror, thus displaying the fiery ability to flout the Imperialist and tyrannical forces about them.

Honestly, I feel sort of sad about this, and these people’s anger—the ones taking to the streets in small clusters. They are scared, and soaking up lots of bad radio and TV messaging. They have had their targets whispered to them and they are reacting as they feel they should. And in the fashion that has been mapped out for many years, the rich are pushing all the right buttons and yanking all the right strings so that the conversation leads to the poor fighting the poor, all while ignoring the strata above them, who are looting the joint and sucking up the fruits of everyone’s labors like vampires.

The vampires on TV are another matter. And the fact that they are being raucously laughed at^† for their teabagging ways helps slightly to ameliorate the anger I feel at their provoking people to fight their battles for them—people who are benefitting from Obama’s tax moves. ^† NotSafeForWork explanation of the verb 'teabag':»

Who else is down with the recent Teabaggin’ frenzy? ALIPAC, staunch xenophobes and reflexive opponents of The Sanctuary and all her efforts, has announced their solidarity with the Teabaggers and stated that they will show up at their TeaParties.

Glitchfully, the people at Taxdayteaparty.com seem to both reject and denounce this affiliation, claiming that “ALIPAC’s message against undocumented immigrants is not welcome and will not a part of the Tax Day Tea Party message.”

Ouch. Well, then! Hurts when your teabagging partner wants none of your product, I guess.

So what will be a part of the Teabagger Message?

Listed below are comments from the Taxdayteaparty.com site, left by those who are gathering soon in Portland, Eugene and other cities to register their revolt from Obama’s government (an event hosted by the Republican party, but not belonging to them, as some comments make clear—no, it’s Everyone’s Revolt™.)

I love the way those who fear we all will one day speak a language so different than our own as Chinese, one that would require many focused hours of study, can’t even spell words like “involved” correctly. (Or “Chinese”). I know, it’s an easy slam. But please. And I wonder if these people know for how long just how many of their favorite items are made by the Chinese? I know, I’ve looked at the tags and serial number plates. Most of my best gear is made in China. I mean, have some gratitude!

I’m not even going to comment.

And you see, this is what I mean. If this person lived in the tax bracket that has anything to fear from Obama’s tax plan, they’d be flown in to their Tea Party, regardless of distance. Like all real rabble rousers. But these people have been terrorized by the ruthless media and the agitators for the elite and before you know it they think they have to spend their last bus fare on fighting the Redistribution of Wealth by the Communist Obama.

Robert, don’t you DARE. Wow. That is just SO like sneaking onto a ship and dumping cargo. Cargo that you steep well and sip distractedly before sealing well and mailing to your representatives.

Maybe we can get someone to show up at your party with a camera. Hmmm.

Hunh. Weird. Anyway, I’m not here to pick on Tea Partiers all day. As tempting as it is. Whether or not they want to blame it on “Counter culture radicals, I do believe warnings such as this one are worth listening to:

I agree. The extremist thinkers on the Right are imploding. Bomb Shelter Beck cries hot nuclear tears of Armageddon, Hannity has jettisoned Colmes for the like of guest lunatics like Michelle Bachman, and right wing gun nuts are making a run on weaponry for no reason other than that the party that invented pre-emptive war is out of power. The trick is to avoid the sulphur burns, and still get close enough to capture the demise of the Right on video.

I mean…that’s what you were thinking, right?