Actually it refers to the beginning of the Tea Party movement when a Thomas Paine imposter stood in front of a document that the real Thomas Paine called "a copy, though not quite so base as the original, of the form of the British Government" and ranted about assorted nonsense including nativism (even though Thomas Paine was an immigrant from England who narrowly escaped the guillotine because Robespierre designated him an illegal alien) and ended the absurd video by telling viewers to mail a teabag to their congressional representatives. A related movement called "Teabag Congress" was started around the same time--the double entendre being obviously understood by those who developed it.
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