How to spot a Republican/GOP'er/Teabagger

[boston bean]

Drill Baby, Drill

Gitmo can’t be closed.

Expand wars.

Corporations need welfare and individual people must take personal responsibility.

Issue signing statements limiting a legal medical procedure and/or medicine.

Bust teachers unions.

Privatize public education – send your child to the nearest for profit hedge fund academy.

Say you support gay people, but discrimination of them is A-okay.

People who okay’d torture were just doing their job.

People who tortured were following orders.

Wiretap until our little hearts content, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.

Accept your leaders word as gospel even when he/she shits in your face.

Support your leader no matter what.

Offer no critical analysis, even when you know the shit stinks, deflect and say you trust.


This is my view of a Republican/GOP'er/Teabagger.

Can you think of any other ways to spot them??

[NJmaverick]

1. They attack President Obama with an irrational hatred and black people in general

they call gay Congressmen the F word

they make death threats and attempt to kill Democrats

[boston bean]

3. Yep, they do that too.

[NJmaverick]

5. Racism drives them and their hatred for the first Black President

as well as black members of Congress

[boston bean]

9. I do firmly believe that as well.

I went to a Town Hall over the summer and saw it first hand for myself.

The videos of tea parties I have seen remind me of civil rights footage of the 60's.

It is ugly.

[Toots]

4. They did the same to Clinton.

Do everything within their power to make Democrats appear as if they can not govern..

[goclark]

38. Thanks for reminding us that Clinton, Kennedy,Carter, Kerry,Gore

were not Black and still they were abused by Bagger types.

I'm African American and of course I understand that Racism is a part of it but there is another part that drivess them ~ POWER.

They must now reaalize that the day has come that a Black man can be elected President ~ that means their POWER to control this country is really slipping away.

[Capitalocracy]

33. And if you say anything about it, you're a racist. nt

[butterfly77]

47. And a lot of people count on that..

to pretend that it isn't racism when it is.

Yes,we know all of it is not but a lot of it is and a lot of the media is afraid to call it out when it really is they wait until it goes so far and when they are afraid it will affect them in someway...

[onehandle]

2. Hardware --->

[boston bean]

6. Yes, they most definitely incite violence. nt

[Enthusiast]

24. I'd like to tell that guy,

"Hey inbred, yeah, you with the gun on your hip, fuck you."

[notesdev]

7. Uh

More than half of that list applies spot-on to this administration and its starry-eyed supporters.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. I was WONDERING

how long it would take someone else to spot that.

Oh--and could you be a little more explicit about which parts don't apply?

[notesdev]

18. Hmmm

Well, the drilling thing - he hasn't asked for actual drilling, just exploration (yes we're back to parsing words Clinton-style)

And I don't know of any signing statements of significance.

But that's it, full stop.

What this thread really shows is how little critical thinking and appropriate cynicism is present here. People need to wake up from their naive stupor and come to understand that if they are Joe Sixpack, they have NO FRIENDS OF CONSEQUENCE IN EITHER PARTY.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. I thought the signing statement was in reference to abortion funding.

And I assume the OP was done ironically.

[KG]

17. heh, that what i thought this thread was about, 'til i got to the last line!

:rofl:

[Capitalocracy]

34. How to identify an establishment Democrat:

"Yes, Massah"

[boston bean]

41. I don't agree with that at all. As a matter of fact, your comment

sucks!

[LonePirate]

8. Just follow the smell, the delusions and the lies

[Coexist]

10. From what I've seen at the healthcare townhalls,

look for long, ill-fitting khaki shorts, over-the-calf white socks with sneakers, golf shirts and baseball or bucket hats. That seems to be their uniform.

[peekaloo]

12. powers scooters and the scent of medicated talcum powder, too.

:-)

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Scraggly beards are quite common too

and many of them appear to be smuggling sea turtles under their shirts.

[Sebastian Doyle]

27. When did wearing white socks become a freeper/teabagger thing?

That's a little too much generalization. Especially for some of us, who don't exactly have many alternatives. When you have size 15 feet, finding shoes is difficult. Finding decent socks is goddamn next to impossible. :evilfrown:

[Jamastiene]

29. Any decent dirty fucking hippy knows to tie dye white socks.

:sarcasm:

:P

:hide:

[Gold Metal Flake]

14. "Liberal media bias"

[Enthusiast]

25. Now that's a good one! nt

[RagAss]

15. Believe God is a man with a beard in the sky.

[Enthusiast]

26. There, fixed that for ya.

"Believe God is a white man with a beard in the sky."

[zbdent]

16. Can't understand why anybody would be offended by a "Confederate flag" sticker

on the back of their pick-em-up truck ... carefully placed so it isn't obstructed by the gun rack, right next to the Calvin pissing on an "O" sticker ...

[oneshooter]

19. I have a Confederate Flag decal on my truck.

It is the "Bonny Blue" flag. The official flag of the CSA. NOT the "Stars and Bars" which was a battle flag.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[Thor_MN]

21. Why would you need to?

With all the fear inherent in GOP dogma, I believe they spot themselves on a regular basis.

[ingac70]

22. They never say people who tortured were following orders.

To them, torture didn't happen.

[Capitalocracy]

35. "Enhanced interrogation keeps our country safe."

And therefore not doing it is tantamount to murdering U.S. citizens. Deliberately. Hussein Obama is a Muslim Terrorist Sleeper Manchurian Monkey.

[zbdent]

44. I remember when all the Republicans were screaming about how "Kerry was spreading lies"

about the military ... all those "horror stories" he relayed about the atrocities that the military people allegedly did ... they said "How dare he accuse our people of doing any such thing to our enemies???"

and now, the tide has turned ... all these who expressed outrage about Kerry "exposing" those acts are now cheering those acts, and worse ...

[Enthusiast]

23. They call me a dirty hippie.

[Jamastiene]

30. DFH

You aren't worth your salt until you've been called a dirty fucking hippy, you dirty fucking hippy. There, I fixed it for ya. :P

[Jackpine Radical]

31. I love how that one Youtube vid raised DFH to iconic status.

[Enthusiast]

32. Thanks.

[Greyhound]

28. Oh my, they didn't like this one did they?

:kick: & R

[Edweird]

36. I like what you did there.

[waiting for hope]

37. K&R

Man, you are good. ;)

[Little Star]

39. Great Post!

If ya catch on..........................

BINGO!

[Odin2005]

40. Most of those sound more like the DLC Obama fanboys than the Teabaggers.

[Little Star]

42. Yeah, I went over the OP point by point

and had a hard time telling the difference between the two. Funny how that works, huh?

[Greyhound]

43. Kick for fun. n/t

[Little Star]

45. Makes you scratch your head! Pretty tongue in cheek.

[Swamp Rat]

46. one too many fingers/toes, and little tails

durp!