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To: SilentZ who wrote (801264)8/14/2014 12:59:36 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574965
 
>> I vividly remember incredulously listening to Tea Party members calling themselves "teabaggers" in the earliest days of their "movement" and getting a chuckle about their lack of self awareness while waiting for the world to laugh at them. It took at least several days of being laughed at before they realized their error...

They didn't make up the name for themselves. That is a factual inaccuracy on your part.



To: SilentZ who wrote (801264)8/14/2014 9:59:18 AM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574965
 
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I vividly remember incredulously listening to Tea Party members calling themselves "teabaggers" in the earliest days of their "movement"

then post them you fukking liar, spoiled little liberal brat that you are, brainwashed little bytch



To: SilentZ who wrote (801264)8/14/2014 10:26:32 AM
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Tea bagger is a term made up by and for sexual deviants.
I stand by my above statement. The term existed long before the modern tea party. The Tea Party is mostly common church going people so they did not know of the pre existing meaning. Those who did know should not have made fun of that, many were flawed because they did know.



To: SilentZ who wrote (801264)8/14/2014 10:52:35 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574965
 
I vividly remember incredulously listening to Tea Party members calling themselves "teabaggers" in the earliest days of their "movement" and getting a chuckle about their lack of self awareness while waiting for the world to laugh at them. It took at least several days of being laughed at before they realized their error...

I remember that too. The initial error was not universal, and even for those who were making the error, the misunderstanding was cleared up by people like you relatively quickly. I had never heard about the sexual connection until you and others reported your own experience with the sexual practice. In any event, it was cleared up years ago.

People who continue to mislabel Tea Party members as "Tea Baggers" intend some sort of annoyance to Tea Partiers and right wingers who empathize with Tea Partiers, and some comic effect for doltish left wing beevas and butthead types. The humor was wrung out of this within those first several days of the revelation. Since then seeing the term posted by Shepard and others on this thread is just an eye roller. tsk



To: SilentZ who wrote (801264)8/14/2014 11:07:23 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574965
 
Editing history is what they do best.

The end justifies the means.

Any resemblance to the novel 1984 and the Ministry of Truth is purely accidental, I am sure. After all, Orwell used the Soviet Union as his model...