Republicans and those who joined them made a very unfortunate choice in picking teabagging for their protests as it has another meaning they may find offensive. However, one can speculate (after you have looked it up on Urban Dictionary.
One could take this image far, which amuses me. The Republicans and Independents who are engaging in this protest, and figuratively trying to gain some sort of comfort through this process, can have little spirit of adventure or sense of humor, though offering a hearty laugh to looser minds.
The protesters are either incredibly naive or hopelessly frustrated and behaving like children having a temper tantrum. The term 'comfort food' usually refers to that taken by mouth but, in this instance, one wonders whether it is the object that implies receiver of comfort. I'm clearly the wrong gender to ever understand the answer to that question. Of course the real answer, as those of us who read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, learned is 42.
It occurs to me that protests are a subject that is very complex. They work if someone has the power to resist that which they are protesting. Protests were partly effective about the war in Viet Nam. Hunger strikes work only if it is important to keep the protester alive, as with Ghandi. As with the teabaggers, asking that they wanted things to remain the same and not change hardly moved the majority of the country who had voted for change equaling hope. The only thing proved to anyone by this protest was that a minority of the country are sore losers who cannot tolerate change, even when what they have is not working, or working to the detriment of the majority (which in this context includes the protesters).
Nevertheless, now that the media has decided it does not bring viewers as a matter of interest, we seem to no longer see if they are active. Without lots of profile for them, it seems they will just continue to be sore losers.
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