Tea Party joke
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and a tea party patriot walk into a bar.
The bartender says, “I’m surprised to see you guys together!”
The tea party patriot says, “Why are you surprised? All of my beliefs are based on the principles of the Founding Fathers!”
Jefferson says, “Indeed, I wrote, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ while schtupping my slaves.”
Washington says, “I too was a slaveholder. And as ‘father of our country,’ I led the military against my own citizens in the Whiskey Rebellion because they refused to pay taxes.”
And Franklin says, “Yeah, I pretended to be a Puritan, yet rarely attended church and fathered an illegitimate son.”
The bartender says, “So what you have in common is that you’re all hypocrites?”
“No,” says Franklin. “What we have in common is that we’re all living in the 18th century.”