Teabagging in a Chicago Train Station Washroom on Tax Day

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By Mark Karlin

When a man steps up to a urinal, he doesn't expect bodily harm.

But such were the number of male teabaggers with styrofoam posters standing astride each other in a washroom at a downtown Chicago commuter station that I was poked and prodded as I relieved myself.

Amidst the jostling, a man yelled out "Any teabaggers in here or what?"

For a moment, I thought it was Michael (Steve Carell) from "The Office," but it wasn't.  This wasn't a droll comedy; it was a sad for-real one.

On April 15th, I noticed my first Chicago teabaggers while boarding my train and seeing a casually dressed woman writing with a magic marker: "No Taxation without Representation." My first thought was how stupid can a FOX nutter be?  After all, everybody in America does have representation; this person just apparently disagrees with her elected officials, but her viewpoint lost in the election. That's the way a democracy works.  My second thought was that the other teabaggers I saw on the train with posters looked very middle class, exactly the kind of people who would benefit from President Obama's tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.  So was this particular woman opposing a tax cut for herself? 

When I noticed the strange and illogical slogans on other posters in the washroom, as they knocked into me, my third thought was that these are pod people programmed by Roger Ailes.

It's easy to be disdainful toward teabaggers -- and it's perhaps justifiable to feel a might uncomfortable with a male group of them in a public washroom given the sexual connotation of their activity that day -- but it is a baffling phenomenon.  Given that most of the teabaggers at the modestly sized Chicago protest appeared middle or lower middle class, why were they protesting a President who was giving them a tax break?

In short, if I walked up to you and said here's $800.00, would your response be to push my cash-filled hand aside and yell, "Stop trying to steal my money you socialist! If you keep trying to give me money, I'm going to get my gun, shoot you, and take over the government"?

A BuzzFlash reader did a great video of the Chicago teabaggers, which reveals their FOX fed diet of nonsensical propaganda (whose sole purpose is to use the white middle class to prop up the oligarchy.) And another video from a Florida rally reveals how baffled teabloggers were when a guy got up and recited the litanies of economic woes visited upon the American people, only to end his comments by blaming the Bush Administration and the Republicans. The crowd must have lost radio transmission from FOX, because they didn't know how to deal with such blasphemous truth.

I'm not sure that there's a moral to this story, except for this one: don't go into a public men's urinal with teabaggers, because if you do you'll end up with black and blue marks from being poked with their posters while relieving yourself. 

Either that or former Republican Senator Larry Craig might give you a teabagging demonstration in a washroom stall.

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