{"id":159,"date":"2006-06-14T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=159"},"modified":"2006-06-14T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T19:46:00","slug":"political-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Political Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son recently claimed I have a double standard, because I laugh at Democrat jokes, but not at Republican jokes. I explained to him that I will laugh at the funny ones, but they are rare, because of an inherent difference between Republican and Democratic humor. Perhaps an example can best explain it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Republican humor<\/span>:<br \/>A teacher was explaining the two party system to her students, and little Tommy raised his hand to say he plans to be a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is that?&#8221; asked the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;My father was a Republican, and my grandfather was a Republican, and my great grandfather was a Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wanting the child to think for himself, she prodded: &#8220;What if your father, and your grandfather, and your great grandfather had all been thieves?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quickly Tommy responded,  &#8220;Then I&#8217;d be a Democrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Democrat humor<\/span>:<br \/>Republicans are so dumb that&#8230; I hate Republicans, they are evil, Chimpy McHitlerburger, so THERE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son recently claimed I have a double standard, because I laugh at Democrat jokes, but not at Republican jokes. I explained to him that I will laugh at the funny ones, but they are rare, because of an inherent difference between Republican and Democratic humor. Perhaps an example can best explain it. Republican humor:A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}