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Tea Bggers vs. Gays

LarianLeQuella

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I really haven't been keeping up with the news these past couple of months, so I am curious about some numbers.

I know that recently the "Tea baggers" marched on Washington. The claimed outrageous numbers (proven to be hillarious fakes). What was the actual number of the Tea baggers according to the Park Service?

And then I am interested in how many people were reported to be at the Equality march that happened this weekend. Again, just curious about the support for each movement from a totally unscientific point of view.

Off Topic (sorta): Does anyone else find the juxtaposition of tea Baggers and gays a little humerous given their political leanings? :p
 
LarianLeQuella said:
Off Topic (sorta): Does anyone else find the juxtaposition of tea Baggers and gays a little humerous given their political leanings? :p
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Actually it turned out to be quite humerous when I tried to explain the tea baggers to a classroom of 16-year olds.
 
"Now pick up your fake boxes of tea to hurl into the bay, and walk gaily towards the water, class!"
 
All Fox said was "thousands of gay activists".

It is really funny since they spent all day on location for pretty much every major tea party, but for these protests they just give a mention.
 
LarianLeQuella said:
What was the actual number of the Tea baggers according to the Park Service?
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The National Park Service stopping doing crowd estimates years ago on the grounds that it was barred from doing so by Congress as a result of a lawsuit or threat of a lawsuit regarding the counts at the 1995 Million Man March.

Yes, it is silly.
 
I had a couple of lesbians living next door. They bought me a rolex for my birthday last month. I think they misunderstood me when I said, "I wanna watch".

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a teabagger. My best guess based on my google seaqrches is someone protesting against taxation. Is this even close?
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
All Fox said was "thousands of gay activists".

It is really funny since they spent all day on location for pretty much every major tea party, but for these protests they just give a mention.
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You think Fox News wants to catch gay cooties? Ewwww!

Seriously - of course they didn't cover it like they covered the Tea Baggers - they sponsored the Tea Baggers! I've started repeating the meme whenver I have to post about Fox.... They no longer have the right to call themselves a news organization. They are a political party masquerading as a TV network.
 
The Tea Party folks are a bunch of people who protest taxation and big government spending.

But where were they during Bush's presidency? Wasn't he one of if not THE biggest spender in history? Republican? I think not.
 
A.A.Alfie said:
I had a couple of lesbians living next door. They bought me a rolex for my birthday last month. I think they misunderstood me when I said, "I wanna watch".

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a teabagger. My best guess based on my google seaqrches is someone protesting against taxation. Is this even close?
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Well, the teabag wasn't known in the 18th century, but the Tea Bagger movement is supposed to be a current day tax protest by people who have heard the siren call of justice (read: Glenn Beck ranting on Fox News) and are so angry at Big Government Taxes (read: Democrats) that they're ready to rise up to free the country of "Taxation Without Representation".

The event it refers to was called The Boston Tea Party, which was a bunch of ne-er do well loutish anti-British revolutionary layabout rabble in Boston (my kinds of people, well, except for the Boston part), led by Samuel Adams (yeah, the one the beer's named for), who did a very bad job of making themselves up like Indians and a very good job of dumping a shipload of tea into the harbor, as a ... I'm sure you've guessed already... protest against taxes imposed by the Crown and Parliament on the American Colonists.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Well, the teabag wasn't known in the 18th century, but the Tea Bagger movement is supposed to be a current day tax protest by people who have heard the siren call of justice (read: Glenn Beck ranting on Fox News) and are so angry at Big Government Taxes (read: Democrats) that they're ready to rise up to free the country of "Taxation Without Representation".

The event it refers to was called The Boston Tea Party, which was a bunch of ne-er do well loutish anti-British revolutionary layabout rabble in Boston (my kinds of people, well, except for the Boston part), led by Samuel Adams (yeah, the one the beer's named for), who did a very bad job of making themselves up like Indians and a very good job of dumping a shipload of tea into the harbor, as a ... I'm sure you've guessed already... protest against taxes imposed by the Crown and Parliament on the American Colonists.
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Thanks, I was on the right track.
And they were gay, yeah?
 
A.A.Alfie said:
Thanks, I was on the right track.
And they were gay, yeah?
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No. The OP is referring to two separate events. A big anti-tax protest and a big gay protest. The tea baggers are rather decidedly not gay, IMHO. They are many of the same people who are likely to show up at anti-gay-rights rallies, pro-god, anti-abortion, etc... The deeply entrenched right wing of the Republican Party.
 
He he, gotcha
Sorry - my tongue was well and truly planted deep into the crevasses of my cheek on that last one. But thanks for the info on the tea party.

I hope we're good, no offence intended.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
All Fox said was "thousands of gay activists".

It is really funny since they spent all day on location for pretty much every major tea party, but for these protests they just give a mention.
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What did CNN or CNBC say? Why are you watching Fox if you think they are so terrible?
 
Foolmewunz said:
You think Fox News wants to catch gay cooties? Ewwww!

Seriously - of course they didn't cover it like they covered the Tea Baggers - they sponsored the Tea Baggers! I've started repeating the meme whenver I have to post about Fox.... They no longer have the right to call themselves a news organization. They are a political party masquerading as a TV network.
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Hey why should news organisations satisfy themselves with just reporting the news instead of making it?
 
Foolmewunz said:
Well, the teabag wasn't known in the 18th century, but the Tea Bagger movement is supposed to be a current day tax protest by people who have heard the siren call of justice (read: Glenn Beck ranting on Fox News) and are so angry at Big Government Taxes (read: Democrats) that they're ready to rise up to free the country of "Taxation Without Representation".

The event it refers to was called The Boston Tea Party, which was a bunch of ne-er do well loutish anti-British revolutionary layabout rabble in Boston (my kinds of people, well, except for the Boston part), led by Samuel Adams (yeah, the one the beer's named for), who did a very bad job of making themselves up like Indians and a very good job of dumping a shipload of tea into the harbor, as a ... I'm sure you've guessed already... protest against taxes imposed by the Crown and Parliament on the American Colonists.
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It was also that this was cheap discount tea and so even with the tax was cheaper than the smuggled in tea. So people were going to buy it, and thus pay the tax. They didn't want others to pay taxes that they didn't want to pay so they had to destroy the tea.
 
A.A.Alfie said:
He he, gotcha
Sorry - my tongue was well and truly planted deep into the crevasses of my cheek on that last one. But thanks for the info on the tea party.

I hope we're good, no offence intended.
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No offence taken. Cost me a whole 80 seconds of my life, and had you actually been confused by the crossover in the discussion I wouldn't have forgiven myself.
 
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