{"id":698,"date":"2011-10-15T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=698"},"modified":"2011-10-15T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T01:26:20","slug":"tea-party-prototypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party prototypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Prototypes, or TPPs, through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Neolithic TPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basket? No way. I&#8217;ve got hands. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<li>Horse? Are you crazy? If we were meant to get around on four legs we&#8217;d have been born that way. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bronze age TPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stone tools are way better. I can make them myself. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iron age TPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze tools were good enough for my grandfather and they&#8217;re plenty good for me. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<li>If that long-haired preacher and his pack of losers think I&#8217;m going to change my religion, they&#8217;ve got another think coming. They can keep the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Renaissance TPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sun goes around the earth. God said so. Galileo, you&#8217;re in deep sewage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Industrial Revolution TPP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can make those things better by hand. Get that factory out of my town. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<li>I am not riding on that infernal machine. I&#8217;ve got my own two feet. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Revolutionary TPP:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>That Patrick Henry is nothing but a wild-eyed community organizer. God Save the King!<\/li>\n<li>Our Colonial government is just fine the way it is. God Save the King!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Civil War TPP:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>States rights!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Mid 19th century TPP:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Darwin is crazy. The Bible tells me ALL I need to know, and that settles it.<\/li>\n<li>No, women do not need to vote, and anyone who says they do is a harridan. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Gilded Age TPP:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The public be damned!<\/li>\n<li>Birth control is against the law and that&#8217;s that. Keep the change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>2oth century TPP:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m voting for Hoover!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m voting for Landon!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m voting for Willkie!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m voting for Dewey!<\/li>\n<li>There are communists in the State Department and fluoride in the water!<\/li>\n<li>Love it or leave it!<\/li>\n<li>Nixon&#8217;s the One!<\/li>\n<li>Whitewater! Travelgate! Impeach!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;.yeah, there&#8217;s an age old pattern. Keep the change.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party Prototypes, or TPPs, through the ages. Neolithic TPP: Basket? No way. I&#8217;ve got hands. Keep the change. Horse? Are you crazy? If we were meant to get around on four legs we&#8217;d have been born that way. Keep &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,26,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}