Teabagger sighting

[sabotabby]

Today I saw a guy in a Teabagger t-shirt (this slogan on the back, with the Don't Tread On Me snakes and some babble about the New World Order on the front).

Shopping at The Big Carrot.

Wonder what he was buying. Macrobiotic baby food? Gluten-free, organic sweet potato loaf? Maybe he was a tourist.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Whatever he was buying, surely it was going straight to his basement survival bunker.

[sabotabby]

It won't last! There are no preservatives.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

I bet one of his wives has mastered the art of canning.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

wut

[sabotabby]

How is there even a Teabagger in T.O.? I almost wanted to ask him but I was afraid I'd lose a fistfight.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

maybe it's an ironic hipster thing, like the kkk

[sabotabby]

That's what I thought. But he was talking to a guy who also looked Teabag. Teabaggerish? Of the Tribe of the Teabag?

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Teabag is like a colloquial noun now?

[apperception.livejournal.com]

hahaha

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

The KKK is an ironic hipster thing? Oh man, that turns Mississippi Burning into a whole different movie. :D

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

it is if you're amanda palmer, apparently.

[ironed_orchid]

<3

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought! My guess is that he must have been one of those really obnoxious American tourists who thinks he's always right and wants to make sure you hear what he has to say.

Or, it's some Canadian with a wildly sarcastic sense of humor. I just can't imagine any Canadians even slightly associated with the Teabaggers. Yours is the Land of Prevailing Common Sense.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

There are actually a lot of religious nuts and survivalist nazis who are all OMG Purity of Essence and think chemicals in food are a gummint/devil plot.

[sabotabby]

They'll be in for a shock when they're starving to death on rotten veggies and I'm munching Twinkies in my concrete bunker.

[ironed_orchid]

Gotta make sure the commies don't put stuff in the water which will weaken our precious bodily fluids.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

A few years ago I noted that there's a sort of green/pagan neo-nazi movement -- I dunno if this guy is directly related, but yeah. It throws ya for a loop. But they're out there. Preserving the genetic purity of their glorious white genes with wholesome organic fruits and veggies...

Listening to Alex Jones I saw this when I heard about the "water purifier" adds and "all natural soaps" etc...

[sabotabby]

Well, there is definitely a green/fascist thing with ex-Tories joining the Green Party and environmentalists linking arms with anti-immigration types.

But the Carrot is just culturally the most bourgeois, pretentious, Jack-Layton-loving store out there.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

i still love (and by 'love' i mean 'hate') how often i see cars around here with confederate flags... here... in new england.

[sabotabby]

I once had a confrontation in a store selling ironic Confederate flag t-shirts.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

yeah, these folks aren't ironic.
they just hate all people of colour.

[sabotabby]

The girl at the store was Korean and didn't know what it meant. She thought it was like a Union Jack. Seemed to feel bad about it and was going to tell her supervisor.

It was one of those productive confrontations.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

No combination of behaviours surprises me.

That people think silly puns should be emblazoned upon T-Shirts. That still makes me groan.

[sabotabby]

...well. But some puns?

[mzflux.livejournal.com]

John Mackey?

[audrawilliams.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking! That the Whole Foods CEO is totally against health care reform.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

he's also totally against things like labour rights and anything that benefits the economically oppressed.
seriously, fuck that guy.

[ironed_orchid]

So maybe, unlike wishy washy liberal types who just tak about it, teabagger gun nuts actually do move to Canada when the president they want doen't get in?

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Maybe he was spying on Social Health Care? And doing a really bad job on the "covert" part.

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

*cringe* Sorry, Canada. Our bad.

[laughingimp.livejournal.com]

The Big Carrot: Searching for Nature's Finest.

The Creativity Movement: Mobilizing Nature's Finest.

Maybe he mistook one for the other?

[hopita.livejournal.com]

I saw that very same slogan on a bumper sticker on a car parked outside The Co-op last week. It left me with the very same questions you have. My best guesses:

1. Allergies?

2. Conspiracy Theories. Aren't they sometimes the same people who freak out about "unclean" food or whatever?

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

That Pim Fortuyn guy was also vegan...

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

He was probably a Crunchy Con.

[kaelynn.livejournal.com]

*intrigued* parts of that actually sound like me. Only Bush was an idiot. Anyway. I want a store like that. We just have Whole Foods. Which has California Blend veggies from China. (Well, did 'til it was revealed, but the others still are.)

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

So, my first thought was my comment above. I chewed on that for a while.

My second thought was: Does Palin even know where Canada is?

[cerulean-knight.livejournal.com]

You have Teabaggers up there? I mean, you are still technically part of the empire that sold us the tea!

Wait. . .wait, I forgot, I am thinking way more about this than anyone who would wear that shirt would.
Down here they stand at the waterfront next to the 30' high technicolor travesty of a statue of a WWII sailor kissing a nurse, and babble about Obamacare and taxes and (at least before) drill baby drill. Inevitably it's entirely old, white retirees who occasionally bring along their grandkids for the cute factor. If only the worst part of this place was the CSI: Sarasota snl gag.

As a sort of aside, I wonder if when the RNC comes to Tampa, Palin will have the balls to chant Drill Baby Drill when standing a few thousand yards from where oil will be lapping up on St Pete beach.