{"id":14776,"date":"2015-02-22T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14776"},"modified":"2015-02-22T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:11:37","slug":"a-pledge-to-commit-teabuggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/a-pledge-to-commit-teabuggery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pledge to Commit TEAbuggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Can you tell me how many times I\u2019ve said, \u201cThou shalt not commit TEAbuggery!\u201d?&#160; I can\u2019t either, but it\u2019s way more than a pants load.&#160; However, I came across a list of the things from which Baggers must abstain if they actually practice what they preach.&#160; They should take the pledge.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"teabag-obscene\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"teabag-obscene\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/teabag-obscene.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"354\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Daily Kos readers are awesome and send awesome emails:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I, <span><em>_<\/em><\/span>_______________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I will foreswear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls.&#160; Also.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life.&#160; I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; unicode-bidi: embed; 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