One of my friends turns out to be a "Teahadist"

[sellitman]

I went to his Facebook page and saw pictures of him attending a Teahadist meeting. The sucker is now gone from my Facebook and my addy book.

I try to keep my Facebook Politics free to some extent and unfortunately have a number of friends who are Republicans, but I won't tolerate a Teahadist. Will you?

[SPedigrees]

1. What the heck is a "teahadist?" nt

[ClassWarrior]

3. That's what I'm wondering.

:shrug:

NGU.

[patrice]

11. Jihadist/Teahadist

[kestrel91316]

4. Teaklanner, teabag jihadist, RW freak, christofascist. They are all the same.

[bhikkhu]

5. Someone who has declared or joined a Teahad, of course

actually that's a fantastic term for those guys - I'm planning on repeating and using it frequently!

[ClassWarrior]

7. Unfortunately, it's one of those memes that works when spoken but doesn't when written...

...(or vice versa, for that matter).

And why abandon "teabagger," anyway? It drives 'em crazy -- especially because they coined it themselves.

:rofl:

NGU.

[JuniperLea]

24. Tehadist! Love it!

:rofl:

Well done!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. I know. "lets other dip balls into their mouth-ers" was just too long of a name. And maybe

a little too literal.

[customerserviceguy]

6. I would have thought it was someone

who would have hurled racial or homophobic epithets against Congressmen, or perhaps cut a gas line, but to the OP, it is anyone who would even attend a Tea Party meeting.

I remember the division in this country during the 1960's and 1970's, this decade's gonna be a doozy...

[Karenina]

8. Brilliant word coinage!

:rofl:

[Warren Stupidity]

16. The christianist equivalent of a jihadist.

[Joe Bacon]

19. I prefer to use "FOXHOLE"

I think Foxhole is more appropriate!

[DevonRex]

2. I'd have to defriend all my sisters if I did that. As it is, I just don't

log onto FB much anymore. And it's not just my family. It's all the folks I went to HS with. They're too "cool" to be teabaggers but they're still all RW nuts.

[HelenWheels]

10. I just post as though they share my views

if my sister, right wing christian fundy, decides she doesn't like it she can unfriend me but until then maybe something will sink in.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. How do you tell your Republican friends from 'tea' Republicans?

What are the elements that set them apart from one another? To me, they are all just Republicans, what do I care if they are Tea Cup or Log Cabin or what faction of Republican they might be?
Odd to me that you see them as such different groups, considering McCain is addressing them, and they all vote for Republicans.

[Helga Scow Stern]

15. Even now, not all Republicans are whack jobs.

I know one who voted for Obama, thinks he is doing an excellent job, and says he and other Republicans he knows are deeply embarrassed about the "Teahadists."

[sellitman]

17. There is a fine line there.

I find Teahadists to be even more ignorant and ill informed than their Rethug cousins.

[patrice]

12. I would if they accord me the same respect that they expect from me AND if they'd risk the same

honesty that I demand of myself.

[zulchzulu]

13. Now's a good time to monitor your friend

It could be a lead to have some people to be advised on his next adventures.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. I sometimes fill in as an instructor at our dojo

and on one of those occasions one of the students started informing us of all the commufascisocialism we were being subjected to. I quickly interrupted him and read him the riot act, that act being: "please keep your politics out of the dojo, they have no place in here". The idiot (and he is an idiot for other reasons) was stunned, but he shut the fuck up. We are in a situation where a large segment of the population is living in an alternate political reality. It just hasn't occurred to them that everyone else is not seeing the world through their quite odd ideological blinders.

[samsingh]

18. no i won't

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. It's sad...

I had just reconnected with some old friends from high school, and one of them posts that he was off to a Teabag meeting, and a couple of people made posts to the effect that they clearly approve.

I don't know what to do.

[boppers]

21. I keep my contacts, and I listen to their views, and they listen to mine.

The solution to ignorance is not disconnection from the ignorant, but education.

[WeDidIt]

22. Teahdists get 72 automatic weapons from Saint Peter

if they die as martyrs.

[Cha]

23. "Teahadist" is most descriptive..freakin' extreme ignorance. nt

[Indepatriot]

25. I keep all my Wingnut friends, as long as they don't threaten or advocate violence

By letting them air their ugliness in public, they're exposed as the bigoted, largely anti-american, hypocrites they are. This repulses the few true Conservative friends I have, who generally want nothing to do with the Baggers. Oh, and if you're in the mood, de-bunking the absurd "arguments" they push is good fun!.....