karma is a bitch for repug neighbor

[guitar man]

I love it when karma bites the ass of those who so richly deserve it. My neighbor lady and her husband across my back fence are die-hard kornservative fundie repugs. Nice enough people I guess, always pleasant to talk to, but stuck in the right-wing frame of mind to the core.

Several months ago, her husband lost his job which he had for almost 20 years. According to her, he got screwed real bad by his employer, didn't get his severance pay etc. Tuesday morning, I was out back cleaning out the fence row when she walks up and starts in about how SHE has now lost her job and is getting screwed out of the money she's owed from them etc. etc. She steps off in it and says: *What is wrong with this state, there are virtually no labor laws or protections for honest working people here*

Well, I couldn't help myself and busted out laughing hysterically. When I was able to compose myself, she had a very puzzled look on her face and couldn't figure out what I found so funny about their situation. I pointed at the *Bush and Coburn signs in her yard and told her I found it highly amusing that the "chickens had come home to roost".

I then explained that years and years of conservative politics here in Oklahoma were the direct cause of her plight. I said " you keep on voting for them, surely they can't keep screwing you forever" <sarcasm>

Sweet :evilgrin:

[friesianrider]

1. And they wonder...

It's all fun and games until it's THEIR job gets shipped off somewhere else.

Karma will catch up with our good friend in the WH in two weeks as well... ;)

[Philostopher]

2. Bizarre, the cognitive dissonance these people must deal with

isn't it? I don't see how they can keep encouraging the shit Goopers dump on their heads, I really don't -- our mouth-breathing Michigan transplant neighbors both had good jobs when they bought their house, both lost the jobs they had, and now they both seem to be home all the time -- I don't think either of them is working, or if so, they're working part-time and for less money than they were making.

They have a son who's young and healthy (knocked up his girlfriend then didn't marry her, but I think that was her choice, not his), and every vehicle they drive has a 'W' sticker, and they have a Bush* yard sign. How many times do people like this have to be hit in the head before they figure out who's hitting them?

Don't they ever get tired of Republicans pissing on their heads and telling them it's raining?

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Sometimes the best lesson is experience

because Lord knows you can talk your head off trying to lead the horse to water but...

I hate for misfortune to fall upon people. Really, I do. And yet I'm convinced your neighbors would be placing the blame squarely on the now unemployed individual spouting how it's their personal responsibility or some other kind of shit. Have they signed up for UE? I'll bet they feel 'entitled' to receive it.

Sorry...there's something about conservatives that irks the crap out of me.

[calimary]

4. What was her reaction? Did anything you said hit home at all?

I LOVED that - "what is wrong with this state, there are virtually no labor laws or protections for honest working people here." Well, no DUH! THAT is what you get when you vote for those nice, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, sweet-talking, government-dismantling, program-cutting republi-CONS. Whose supporters generally seem to think that's just dandy - until it hits, AND hurts, them personally.

I'm sorry to hear of her misfortune, but your observations were spot-on.

[guitar man]

10. I don't know

if anything hit home hard enough. The problem I have here is I can make a point with people here and think it has stuck until Oxyrush or someone comes along and applies some of their famous pretzel logic to get their minds back into the right wing groupthink. It seems pretty futile most days to even try and talk sense to anyone around here.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Jeebers, they just don't get it.

Every single employee benefit any of us has -- weekends, 40-hour weeks, workplace safety, lunch breaks, insurance, pensions, wage and hour laws, the right to unionize -- are the result of the efforts of liberals and Democrats supporting the labor movement. The Repubs fought all these things tooth and nail, but they whine more loudly than anybody when they don't get something they think they're entitled to. Karma's a bitch...

[WMliberal]

6. i admire the size or your balls

cheers to you!

[NEDem]

11. Yeah, Cheers!

Now take some Kerry campaign material over there, its worth a try.

:toast:

[Longhorn]

7. My brother-in-law lost his job before the HP-Compaq merger.

Spent all of his 401(k) and now owes thousands of dollars to the IRS. They filed for bankruptcy, the bank is taking their house, and they had to return the truck. My sister just got a job at Freescale -- who yesterday announced 1,000 layoffs by the end of the year.

And last I heard, you couldn't find bigger AWOL supporters anywhere!

[Eye and Monkey]

8. those people are your "Behind Neighbors" -

down here, EVERYONE has a story about their "behind neighbors" -

[bobbieinok]

9. OK voted after 9-11 on right to work law......major campaign to vote for

this.....promise of many new jobs, etc.

Rep gov at the time, Keating, said a vote for the right to work law would send a message to the terrorists of 9-11 that Americans stand proud and will not be defeated. Chr Coalition had a flyer about how unchristian a vote against the right to work law would be.

The law passed, jobs moved out, etc. 'But OK sure showed them a-rabs"

[guitar man]

13. Keating is an assbag

I fought their damn right-to starve law tooth and nail when it was coming up for vote. But there is just no use trying to talk common sense to these conservatives here, even the ones who call themselves "Democrats." I have just about given up, they are going to have to learn for themselves how harmful their political choices have been and decide to do something about it themselves. I am just about to move out of this state and head somewhere I can find some intellectually evolved individuals to have for friends and neighbors.

[Lex]

12. That story reminds me of a bumpersticker I saw recently:

"Fuck Yourself
Vote Republican"

[NEDem]

14. LOL!!!! n/t

[Virginian]

15. Uh, that would be a liberal concept

*What is wrong with this state, there are virtually no labor laws or protections for honest working people here*

Lady, you know that bad word Bush uses sometimes, "Liberal?" Well, that is just one of those things it stands for.

[guitar man]

16. amen <nt>

[Nay]

17. Well, we gave 'em books and books, and all they did was eat the covers

I really don't know what you can do about such bone-deep stupidity.

[liberal N proud]

18. Can you say Clueless?

I know of some repukes in the same boat. Without a job for 3 years but shrub is still their boy.
Then it is woe to me when the get screwed by the system they so strongly support.

[yankeedem]

19. "Decent working people"

The pugs sell "welfare reform" to bigots and classists who don't want minorities to get assistance.

They honestly think that there should be a special line for "honest, decent working people" don't they? Like when they go to the unemployment office, a worker there should say "Don't worry, the cheese line is for the others, you are a "honest, decent working person" so here are your handouts.

When the white fundies figure out that the war is on them too, maybe we can get this country back.

[belle]

20. Yes, exactly.