What's it mean to you when your best friend says "You were right"?

[Sugar Smack]

My best friend of 15 years or so thinks of me as Chicken Little. I spent a month simply not talking with her: my problem. I was sort of spiralling downward with depression and was too embarrassed to ask her for help. She's a wonder. And tonight I got up the guts to call her again. She said, "You were right about the economy. You were right, and sometimes I've thought of you as a little hysterical when it comes to politics."

I wonder if I can somehow improve my communication with people who are so disinterested in "politics" that they yawn when confronted with what's (to me) an obvious OBVIOUS problem. What're your stories? :D

Me, I feel a little better but still uneasy. I have my best friend back, but that's not going to solve anything on a large scale. I can be happy with that, meantime.

[angrycarpenter]

1. I told my co-worker to get out of the stock market a year ago

A couple of weeks ago he said he wished he had listened. Sometimes I am a political alarmist but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[Sugar Smack]

3. OMG! That's what I told my dad!

He says he's going to talk with his stockbroker. I hope, whatever our friend says, dad listens. It sucks sometimes to be the first to hear certain news, tell everyone, and receive hoots of derisive laughter.

[Quakerfriend]

2. It happens to all of us who get our news from worthy sources...

:toast:

Just reading DU,DailyKos and etc. keeps us way ahead of the curve...and jiggles a few friendships along the way.

[Sugar Smack]

4. Oh, GOD, don't I know it!!

I lost a few friends along the way. So, don't I know it. Oh, hun, may this not happen to you again. :hug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Oh but jeebus hun, I'll bet most of DU can relate

There are still people I know that refuse to say anything approaching that. Smart people. Neither the You Were Right nor the You Weren't Really Hysterical After All :hug:

I let others start talking politics most times, and chime in once I see where it's heading. Friends know to back away slowly my blood gets up :rofl:

I love getting dirty looks at my watering hole, I let out an "EEK! monkey on my TEEVEE!" when * appears.

Has fun widdit ;)

Hooooray for you and your friend :loveya: :D

[Sugar Smack]

6. Oh, wow.

Thank you SO much. Tonight I heard those words. The gal's from Chile and had her own problems with Pinochet. She told me her dad was "a loudmouth", like me. She's always said I reminded her of her Dad.

Right now, of this late hour, she and I have an understanding we've never had before. In hard, sour times, it can come as a complete shock and a good one. I never thought I'd hear her utter the words. "You Weren't Really Hysterical After All" pretty much covers it. I leave y'all right now with a HUGE sigh of relief.

:hug: :loveya:

[DavidDvorkin]

7. It means it's time to do the victory dance!

And crow and preen and strut around!

Unless you want to keep your friend, of course.

[Sugar Smack]

8. My therapist urged me to have a little humility

so I won't be tapdancing on her forehead. In the end-zone dance. With steel-tipped cowboy boots. To the tune of Obla-Di-Obla-Dah. I suppose it's cause we're all in this shit together. Also, thanks. :hug:

[Swamp Rat]

9. I've lost some friends, some to Katrina, and others due to politics...

apparently I am "too political." x(

Oh well, I prefer the truth. Anyway, I've made a LOT more friends here at DU. ;)

:hug:

[Sugar Smack]

13. To Katrina? That's a freaking outrage.

I'm kind of apoplectic about that right now, and I'd post a more articulate post if I had it in me. I lost mine a bit sooner than that, metaphorically speaking. :hug: Swamp Rat, I for one think you're the fucking most-on-toast. If I had the kind of inspiration you seem to retrieve these days, I think I may have it made. I just need to get it back.

[gratuitous]

10. It means tonight I drink for free

And I get to gloat all night long while I rub their puggy little nose in it.

[Sugar Smack]

14. Heh, what an image.

It reminds me of our pup Sasha when we got her not 20 years ago. Just once and she got a finely-tuned message. My friends, not so much.

[tabasco]

11. I have a RW relative who called me in October crowing about the "booming economy."

This same person told me her family "lost it all" (investments) during Clinton's term because of the dot com boom.

I told her that if she "lost it all" (investments held during the 90's) during a net 7500-point gain in the stock market, she needs to change her fund manager.

I haven't heard from her since and probably won't anytime soon. OK with me.

[Sugar Smack]

15. *Slooooow seeeeeeethe*

CROWING kind of shakes my nerves up, so I'M LUCKY I HAVE SO MUCH FUCKING CLASS. :grr: :nuke:

[Bongo Prophet]

17. Heh, if you are "losing it all" during the dotcom BOOM, somethin's wrong

Its usually the bust that gets people, and there was time to get out in the slow decline until about summer 2001, IIRC.

My right wing brother bragged about how much he increased their 401k investments after 9-11, whle at the same time complaining of not having enough money to buy carpet and other things for his house. He "accidentally" used my 77 yr old mom's credit card to do this. You know the saying, use "OPM" - other people's money - whenever possible.

In 92, pugs said the market would crash if Bill got elected. Show them the history and charts? Don't wanna see 'em. They're "BIAS"

He also thought everything Clinton did was terrible, except for more money for cops (he was one) and federal aid for the pond at his ranch. What a coincidence.


Sometimes political affiliations have more to do with deep psychological makeup than rational thought.

[AlCzervik]

12. thats excellent for many reasons.

first and foremost please don't ever be embarrassed to ask for help! And you have your friend back and you've got someone close to confide in and everybody should have that.

I have a 2 bet friends, Claire and Trisha, Claire just has no interest at all in politics, like none to which i always say "Gaahhh!" but my other best friend Trisha, she's ll up in it right there with me even though we live 3,000 miles apart, i can always call her and i swear it's like being here, she always knows.

anyway, if you ever need help or someone to talk to please reach out, i'm here for you and many others are as well, ok?

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

16. *Sigh*. Where was there a better person? Are you &

bridgit & SallyMander my long-lost quadruplets seperated at birth?:loveya: First of all, you get straight to the heart of the matter. In writing, speech, anything, that's the point of all communication.

Thank you, also, because I may sometime near & dear call upon you for that.
Tesha sounds like my "Jamie". She's young enough to be my daughter & certainly has the bark and bite correct. If you have a friend you've been with for so many years, it KILLS you to not be taken even a little bit seriously, like my current gf. It is all & PLENTY for their own good, too, not even yours.

Don't get me started, but I'm going to PM you my phone # and I think you certainly can do the likes, as well. I'm kind of actually getting professional help at this stage. I welcome friends.

You are the best of the best.
:hug: