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Thu Jan-29-09 04:23 PM
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Right wing co-worked said to me today... |
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.... that Obama is going to confiscate Social Security funds and that I and someone else my age (55) would never see SS. How on earth do you respond to something like that?!
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:24 PM
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the Repukes have already stole it all
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:25 PM
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5. That was that first rebate W sent you plus |
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all that money that went to his buddies on Wall Street.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:40 PM
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41. and our excusion in the middle east |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:24 PM
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2. Then wouldnt Obama be a republican? |
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I thought he was supposed to be a socialist.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:25 PM
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:25 PM
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4. tell him or her to get their meds adjusted |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:26 PM
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6. Tell the guy that it won't happen till Obama takes away everyones guns |
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Thats first on the agenda
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:34 PM
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Bonus points if you can work "and nationalizing all churches" into the conversation.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:54 PM
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you can mention that he'll let you have your SS once you've had your obligatory abortion. No exceptions for being male.
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Thu Jan-29-09 06:39 PM
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57. and gay abortions...confuse them with that too. |
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Thu Jan-29-09 05:17 PM
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50. No, no, no. First they're going to force everyone to get abortions. |
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Men too. THEN they'll take the guns, indoctrinate the childrens to "Teh Gay Agenda" and confiscate SS for a Muslim conversion of the U.S..
Resistance is futile.
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Thu Jan-29-09 05:26 PM
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Or at least that he needs to take away the Bibles before taking the guns and forcing mandatory abortions and Teh Gay.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:26 PM
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7. Just shake your head, roll your eyes, and look at him pityingly. What else can you do? |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:27 PM
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10. I said the fear of no SS has been an issue since I studied it in college in 1973. |
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She feigned interest, so I left the room.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:26 PM
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8. Ask this person for the winning lottery numbers. n/t |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:26 PM
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9. Roll your eyes and walk away. |
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Trying to enlighten "stupid" is a lost cause.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:32 PM
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23. We don't talk politics, and this is why. |
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She loves Fox news, and is a total Republican as far as the hate, gloom and doom, and negativity. Our Dem office manager did say to her one day that we are all in the same boat, no matter what political party we belong to, that Bush created what we are living in. She didn't get it. She is suffering financially, and she doesn't get it, or rather refuses to see it. She is one of the 22% that still like GWB, yet she curses the economy.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:39 PM
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38. She didn't get it, nor will she ever. |
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Some people just don't have the intellectual or emotional capacity for reasoned, rational debate.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:45 PM
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45. She does, but politically, she is right, and the rest of us are wrong. |
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I don't argue with her. It's like trying to make Sarah Palin smart - futile.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:28 PM
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but stupid shit like that is to be expected from those drones. I would have said "Is that what Rush told you to say?"
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:33 PM
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:41 PM
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43. that's my usual line in dealing with that type |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:29 PM
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12. That is was Dems that created SS? |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:29 PM
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13. Well, there is a good chance you may never see your SS. |
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But that's more thanks to Bush's II raping the treasury than anything else.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:42 PM
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44. She's 59. She may never see hers, either! |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:29 PM
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14. To be honest wasn't it Nixon that blended the SS money into the |
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general fund to cover up the cost of Viet Nam? That was pretty much the beginning of the end for SS solvency. And wasn't it GW who went to someplace in Virginia and made a big point that SS money was "nothing but a bunch of IOUs"?
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:29 PM
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15. Tell him it's not true, because Obama is The Antichrist come to destroy the world. |
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And that's why you and everyone you know voted for him.
Praise Satan.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:29 PM
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16. Laugh and say "dude - are you really that stupid?" then walk away. n/t |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:29 PM
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Really, that kind of stupidity is almost contagious. Then again, forget what I said prior and simply ask where they got these "facts" and if they could show you some kind of documentation or proof of these "facts". That will certainly stump a 'pub.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:37 PM
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33. Like it did Sarah Palin?! rofl |
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I can't wait for the day when all the things she stands for, believes in and is afraid of do not materialize. I should write down everything she says and show it to her in 4 years, or less, to show her what an ass she is politically. Other than that, she is great - fun, smart, creative. I can hardly believe she is a Republican! But she is a Texan..... We just can't talk politics at work.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:30 PM
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18. I usually roll my eyes |
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and walk away muttering sotto voce, "it's just amazing what the gullible, extreme-right will fall for..." and never, ever give them the chance to respond. But I make sure they hear it.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:30 PM
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Ask them to bring in a reputable newpaper clipping or a website that explains exactly what they're claiming.
Otherwise, you can rightly claim that they're full of it.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:33 PM
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25. Except that they sometimes "can" prove it. How? |
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Why, by publishing on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal! They print these kinds of lies all the time. I had a RW co-worker who faithfully read the WSJ at her desk while she ate her lunch every day...
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Thu Jan-29-09 11:43 PM
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61. The WSJ is a tough one |
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The actual paper is known for fairly objective reporting.
The editorial board, however is just slightly to the left of WorldNetDaily.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:30 PM
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Just laugh and walk away. Trying to respond to the only validates them in their minds.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:31 PM
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21. Tell them they need to stop listening to rw radio. B* wanted to end SS. |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:40 PM
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39. I told her that last week. |
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I told her I hate Fox News, which she says right out loud that she loves and it's on in her car 24/7. I told her the news is what's making her so depressed and fearful.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:32 PM
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22. tell her, that is why you now sell insurance policies |
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would she like to discuss her insurance needs with you?
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:32 PM
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24. Did she vote last election? |
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If so just look at her and say, "Sarah Freaking Palin?" Laugh and walk away.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:33 PM
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26. They are correct. It's all gone. |
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Tell them not to bother signing up for it when they are elegible.:crazy:
And people wonder why I'd rather talk to my cats.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:34 PM
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28. Walk away laughing your ass off. |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:35 PM
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30. The Republicans wanted to put our money on the stock market, not Obama! |
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Tell her we elected a Democrat just in time.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:35 PM
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31. Tell them if they continue smoking crack they needn't worry about SS. n/t |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:37 PM
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He's going to use the money to ship all the right wing conservative nuts to Antartica.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:41 PM
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Thu Jan-29-09 05:10 PM
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49. Unless you're a penguin - they wouldn't want them there, either........ |
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Thu Jan-29-09 07:32 PM
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They can be food for the polar bears to keep them from becoming extinct....
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:37 PM
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tell him to read up more on social security.
There is no funds there to confiscate, all the SS funds are immediately spent as they come in general budget. (Bush & co trillion dollar war comes to mind).
Bill Clinton was the exception. He used some of the SS surplus to pay off national debt. (You can consider it savings, since the raised SS debt is canceled out by lowered national debt).
So, it was a democrat who was saving SS funds and the republican who spent all of the SS reciept over the last 8 years and piled up mountains of debt.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:37 PM
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35. Quickest way to shut them up: |
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"That's very interesting! Can you provide me with an article or web address that mentions this, so I can tell others?"
No article will be forthcoming, you don't make an instant enemy of your co-worker, and your co-worker will keep their stupid accusations to themselves, or at least confine them to like-minded others.
I've used this many, many times. Works great.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:37 PM
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I always laugh at shit like that.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:40 PM
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40. Followed by pepper spray |
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:39 PM
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37. by handing him/her a tin foil hat |
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Edited on Thu Jan-29-09 04:39 PM by Dukkha
what a loon!
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:50 PM
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46. Just tell her the truth, |
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Its not true, and listening to fox gives you brain damage.
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Thu Jan-29-09 04:51 PM
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47. Tell her you don't care because you're going to inherit millions |
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and that you voted for Obama because he promised to confiscate everybody's guns.
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Thu Jan-29-09 05:26 PM
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53. He must be listening to Boortz |
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Boortz has been ranting for YEARS about the Democrats' "secret plan" to tax/cut/spend/give to Muslims the Social Security trust fund.
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Thu Jan-29-09 05:32 PM
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54. Ask her how she avoided drooling and flinging feces at her job interview |
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Thu Jan-29-09 05:33 PM
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55. Bush was the one who tried to steal it. |
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Remember his SS piratization proposal?
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Thu Jan-29-09 06:35 PM
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56. Tell him or her that you're going to report him/her -- |
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and his/her funds will be the first to go. Say it in a flippant enough matter that even a half-wit would understand that you're joking, although it would be doubtful that your coworker will.
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Thu Jan-29-09 06:46 PM
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Write it down and insist that he or she sign it and date it. Then, on the first of every other month, pull out the piece of paper and read it back. They will soon get as tired of listening to their stupid shit as you already are.
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Thu Jan-29-09 07:34 PM
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60. ask him where he got his facts ..then google the truth. nt |
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Thu Jan-29-09 11:49 PM
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I find those folks aren't worth my time.
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Thu Jan-29-09 11:56 PM
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...yeah and that little green men have landed in his backyard. No actually, what you should tell him is that he has Barack Obama confused with John McCain.
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