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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsmy republican neighbor...
...is unhappy with Joe...
...he blames Joe for the price of gas and bitches Joe should have cut off Russian oil...and he's serious...
...see what happens?
...so children, study hard and get a good job and when you grow old you won''t have to live in my neighborhood...
...
NewHendoLib
(59,940 posts)pwb
(11,204 posts)Big mistake.
JohnSJ
(91,942 posts)iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)Emile
(21,887 posts)You can't fix stupid!
ClimateHawk
(198 posts)There's no point in trying to argue with them. My all time favorite quote is "A lie will go around the world while the truth is pulling its boots on".
FakeNoose
(32,334 posts)She watches Faux Noise exclusively, and she gets all her news from there AND Facebook!
Am I close?
The common denominator in most people like that. They reflexively regurgitate the Faux talking points without thought, even to the point where they look like absolute idiots. Totally brainwashed.
TeamProg
(5,787 posts)denominator and it's so very dangerous. Also makes actual progress harder for those of us who do think our way through.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)I mean, so many of these people hear a buzz word and literally don't know what the hell they're talking about, but they go along and be outraged about whatever they're told to be outraged about, and feel absolutely no shame if they are proven wrong. It gets so tiring keeping up with their talking points.
I was on another neutral site which wasn't even supposed to be political except we were talking about Ukraine and all of a sudden someone started spouting off about Hunter Biden's hard drive. Could not tell if it was a Russian troll or an idiot RW. They remember every talking point for the past 6 years and they are still outraged about them. Throw in antiabortion nutjobs screaming about killing babies and you know some people are never going to be back to "normal."
Emile
(21,887 posts)didn't argue with her to find out. 99% of the time she has no clue what the hell she is talking about. She watches FOX and Newsmax and she is in a constant state of anger over those damn democrats ruining our country. She thinks Joe Biden tore down Trump's Southern Border Wall and floods of illegal terrorists are entering our country. 94 years old and dumb as a rock.
ChazII
(6,198 posts)the pipeline so that gas prices will go down.
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)Useless failures as human beings...
TeamProg
(5,787 posts)Neither of these groups cultivate curiosity or a cause for the greater good.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)What would happen to the price of gas if Joe cuts off Russian oil.
Or better yet, just avoid conversing with him at all. Save your sanity.
It's Assholes like him, that are the reason Russian oil won't be cut off. Otherwise Assholes like him would complain and blame Joe that the cost of gas is too high. Dipshits.
hadEnuf
(2,149 posts)And there you have it.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Fortunately, I don't meet many of them in real space, but when someone makes these comments in conversation with me, I just say "That's not true."
Nevilledog
(50,660 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But she's been gone 40 years now, and I don't think she foresaw the rise of such nitwittery in the public sphere.
Nevilledog
(50,660 posts)It was always a goal of mine to see if I could make her hyperventilate.
Apparently I was a guttersnipe and should have worked in a shipyard.
albacore
(2,387 posts).... I found out that my mother had been looking for new vocabulary to describe creatures like Reagan.
"They're just....... the SHITS!" Lots more. Let your imagination run wild. She was a fast learner, but then I learned from the best.
I may one of the few people you know who corrupted his mother's language.
sprinkleeninow
(20,133 posts)"Boe moi." (My God.)
It's really not nice of me to have tee-hee'd then or even now recalling this. 😇
'Damn' wouldn't bother her as much as 'oh sh*t' did. Oopsie.
sprinkleeninow
(20,133 posts)"My father works in a shipyard."
😆
calimary
(80,693 posts)LOVE this, gratuitous! Mind if I borrow it?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(23,812 posts)beliefs.
benpollard
(197 posts)He stopped his van at my house a few years ago when I was in the yard playing with my dog. We were talking about something and he claimed that "Obamacare" increased the debt by 10 trillion dollars. When I corrected him with facts about the debt and deficits under Obama, he started screaming that I was completely brainwashed, stomped on the gas, and drove off like a madman.
Naturally, he's an ardent and dedicated viewer of Fox propaganda. He believes that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and all mainstream news outlets are all fake news and only Fox has the real facts, and only Fox viewers are informed.
I refuse to have anything to do with him any more. He tries to talk to me sometimes, but now that I know what he is, I refuse to socialize with him. The only way to deal with people who do things that harm society is to ostracize them.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Chryst Almighty, these people are imbeciles. Is nobody teaching the law of supply and demand anymore?
CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)I truly don't know where this will end, but this doesn't bode well for our country.
AllaN01Bear
(17,355 posts)sparying us .
Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)I saw where they were going. It was time for distance between us.
Mr. Evil
(2,746 posts)I usually shop at Kroger. With the Kroger card you can find good deals and the fuel points really help.
In the weeks preceding the Super Bowl there were empty shelves of varying food items on a random basis. Some days there was no bacon and very few eggs. Others, there was no saltine crackers at all. Then there were days with threadbare frozen items like pot pies (especially my favorite, Marie Calendar's beef pot pie) and even pizza. But, on the weekend of the Super Bowl, everything was fully stocked. Everything was there in all it's can't-wait-to-eat splendor. After the SB, back to sporadic shortages. Hmmm...
Sometimes I think corporations are exploiting this (made up?) supply chain fiasco as a means to hurt President Biden. If the economy seems bad and people can't get their favorite munchies they'll vote for a russiapublican. Price gouging under the guise of inflation all because they don't want to pay taxes. The next russiapublican president (hopefully never) will propose, and probably get, another massive tax-cut for corporations and the ultra-rich.
Maybe I'm wrong and just hyper thinking about this but, I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
Conjuay
(1,292 posts)at Lowes and started spewing right wing BS at me. (I'm the age that fits their demographic- White, male and approaching 70)
I'm so proud of my response -
"Why don't you fart, and clear your head?"
I kept walking.
panader0
(25,816 posts)lastlib
(22,978 posts)That the reason we had tax-supported education in this country was so that we wouldn't be governed by idiots like him.