Jesus enjoyed teabagging???!!??

[SmileyRose]

[lapfog_1]

1. So, I'm assuming he wants to give up his Medicare. right?

After all, the Lord will provide (his health care).

[Barack_America]

3. And his VA benefits. + a little background on this guy

Actually, the photographer who took this guy's photo for TPM was on DU last night and told me this guy is a button vendor.

That particular button he's displaying will set you back $5.

He's an entrepreneur!

:rofl:

[Lost-in-FL]

4. And his VA pension and benefits. nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. His other button says...

Teabaggers got balls

[TK421]

5. Looks like he'll be meeting him real soon n/t

[KittyWampus]

7. Shouldn't laugh, but I did.

[enid602]

12. Bush

If you look at him closely, he kind of looks like George HW Bush in a Barbara Bush wig.

[polichick]

6. Poor confused soul. nt

[pipi_k]

8. I know I'll probably take some heat for this, but...

I don't really think it's sporting to laugh at the elderly, even if they are doing stupid things.

:(

[SmileyRose]

10. No heat from me. but I'm not commenting because he's old

I'm laughing because he's a clown using the baby Jesus as a prop. His age doesn't earn him any special consideration whatsoever.

[pipi_k]

11. But he's an OLD "clown" using the baby Jesus as a prop...

Sometimes the elderly just don't know that what they're doing is silly or inappropriate...

OK, whatever....

I just think that after a person gets to be a certain age, s/he should be immune from derision, that's all.

:shrug:

[Critters2]

13. The most brilliant man I know, the anthropologist Rene Girard, is 86.

He just published yet another book (_Achever Clausewitz_, look it up).

There's no correlation between age and intelligence. There are smart old people, and stupid old people.

There's more dementia among the old, of course, but age does not equal stupidity.

[pipi_k]

15. I'm not equating age with stupidity

I'm saying that the elderly, most of them, do start to think differently.

They came from a different time. They have had different experiences.


People in this thread mocking this elderly man have NO idea what sort of mind he has. He might, or might not, be suffering from some cognitive disorder. But nobody knows.

They just sit and make fun of him like he's a useless piece of wrinkled and used up trash. Because of the party he espouses. And because of the words on the lanyard around his neck.


I don't give a shit what party an old person belongs to. Having lived that long...and probably having served in WWII...this man doesn't deserve to be mocked or laughed at.

[SmileyRose]

14. I do understand your point of view but I disagree all older people are fragile

white hair and wrinkles does not make a person senile, silly, rude, stupid etc. Where do people get this idea that granny has no clue what she's doing? I'll grant you some older people have a few problems and need to rely on their loved ones more often than they once did. But MOST people 60-100 yr old know what's what and can hold their own in a political debate as well as anyone else. If grandpa is silly it's because he's made a choice not to educate himself not because he's OLD.

[pipi_k]

17. I would never claim that old people are fragile..

not after having known my late MIL, who lived to be almost 94.

She survived lots of things that would have broken a lesser person.


But I do believe that there comes a time when compassionate people must stop and give a little well deserved respect to anyone who has managed to survive life's troubles as long as the elderly have.

Like I said above, nobody knows what sort of cognitive problem that elderly man may or may not have. You say "if grandpa is silly it's because he made the choice not to educate himself, not because he's old"...and I'm wondering...how do we know that's true? I mean, that statement is put out here like it's fact, and it may be true or it may not be, but unless anyone here knows this man personally and knows he's refused to educate himself, then it's all speculation, isn't it?

And I'm starting to believe, as I get older myself, that the elderly, by virtue of the fact that they've been through so much, have the RIGHT to be as silly or outrageous as they want to be, without being called on it or mocked by a bunch of young snots like ourselves.

[SmileyRose]

19. Dick Cheney is a wrinkley grey haired man with a bad ticker / Rumsfeld is even older

I'm sorry, no one gets a free pass because of age. Period.

If you want to feel sorry for the poor old doddering fools who use Jesus as a weapon that's fine. But personally, as a grey haired wrinkley person myself, who is also a chrisian - I'm not going to give them a pass.

[alfredo]

18. Age doesn't always mean wisdom. I'm no spring chicken myself, so if I

want to bust his chops for his ignorance, it's my right.



There's no fool like an old fool.

[ashling]

9. Didn't you know? It's in Ron Brown's next book

The DaVinci Teabag

:rofl:

[johnaries]

16. Well, let's see. He never married, he surrounded himself

with 12 other guys who never married and they all ate and slept together.....

Yeah, so he probably ejoyed teabagging.

[Contrary1]

20. Oh, hell yeah. I'm sure it's written in one of those old books somewhere.

Jesus must have also enjoyed watching folks lose their homes because of deceitful money grubbing lenders.
Jesus must have also enjoyed watching people lie and twist words to scare others into submission.
Jesus must have also enjoyed watching families go hungry because there was no work.
Jesus must have also enjoyed watching people suffer because of a lack of medical care.

And Jesus must have gotten the biggest kick of all watching people die, because their insurance companies refused to pay for life-saving treatment.

That is why they consider themselves God's chosen people, because they believe they are just like Him.

You betcha.

[BuyingThyme]

21. Bagging for the Lord.