Can't Speak Teabaggery

[kairos12]

Negotiating with the emissaries of the Tea Bag Nation is impossible because of a automatic translation issue.

For example:

we say: reasonable gun laws, teabaggers hear steal my manhood

we say: health care for all, teabaggers hear steal my freedom not to be insured

we say: President Obama takes less vacation time than Shrub, teabaggers hear lazy black man

we say: the Iraq War was a gigantic fraud, teabaggers hear you hate my yellow ribboned escalade

we say: marriage equality, teabaggers hear "those people" ain't got no rights

I believe it is a problem only that imminent linguist Dr. Suess could solve--import some Sneetches.

[mercuryblues]

1. actual conversation with a teabagger

Person #1 Why would a doctor need to know anything about what guns a person has?

Person #2 yeah. I have been going to the Dr's since I was born and never once was I asked about owning a gun.
My best guess would be if someone was having mental health issues. And oh, Obama said that Dr's should use their judgement on whether or not to ask, so that = right wingnut freakout, need more laws mandating what a DR can and can not do.

Next week Obama is going to say he is glad spring is here and the teapublicans will race to make spring illegal.

Teabagger: Teapublicans aren't trying to ban anything (except rights-guaranteed by the Constitution- infringement)-had a big cold soda or juicy hamburger in New York lately??? I'll bet not. Who started that trend? HMM?

Person #2: that would be Bloomberg who ran for Mayor of NYC in as a republican in 2001. Changed to Indy in 2009. So your point IS?


***Crickets from teabagger.

[JoePhilly]

2. Health care for all = concentration camps

and marriage equality = being forced to have icky gay sex

and socialist, communist and fascist all = angry black man

other than those alternative definitions, I think you have it about right ...

[Brigid]

3. Just one small quibble:

Most teabaggers probably can't afford an Escalade. But they are probably dumb enough to think that maybe if they just slave away hard enough and long enough for their corporate masters, they will one day.

[kairos12]

6. Probably right on this

[BlueDemKev]

4. A Memory

I remember back in college a bunch of us attended a "homophobia" seminar which featured a gay speaker. While it was a very good meeting and everyone was, for the most part, respectful of each other, there was one closed-minded asshole who wasn't afraid to say exactly what he felt.

When the speaker mentioned he was "saddened" by the fact that he would never be able to have a family and was upset why the government didn't allow homosexual couples to adopt children, the guy said "Well maybe they're afraid you'll screw up the kid's life! I mean, what's he supposed to say to his friends at school, 'I don't have a mom, I was adopted by two faggots?' " In the argument that ensued between him and the speaker, he demanded to know "why God created two sexes", at which point I tuned him out because he of all people was hardly any "man of God."

[kairos12]

7. Unfortunately it seems the type of person you desribe...

has metastasized in our society.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Teabaggery is linked to low IQ