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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHa! Just had another great laugh after a conversation with a GOPer!
I was getting a few groceries for my truck while passing through Rawlins Wyo, when a woman started a conversation with me, about the price of everything. She blamed it on the asshole in the White House! I replied I didnt not know Trump was in the White House & and the prices have been going up since he gave the corporate tax cut to his buddies! She had a dumbfound look her face and moved away quickly! Now this the second time this week that I made a righteous GOPer mad at me! When will they learn?
brush
(53,815 posts)Kittycatkat
(1,356 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)than themselves. Probably because they only stay within their small circles of friends who think the same.
CanonRay
(14,111 posts)with signs like save democracy and your vote your voice and a woman in a passing car yelled "you're all communists".What can you say? Morons.
barbtries
(28,809 posts)makes as much sense.
KS Toronado
(17,291 posts)But that might be too big a word for them to understand.
soldierant
(6,903 posts)druidity33
(6,446 posts)"Stupid says what?" and then cup my hand behind my ear and see if they will repeat themselves. They sometimes do. Then i say it again. "Stupid says what?". Sure does get them angry. But i figure you have to imagine you're in the 1st or 2nd grade to understand how to deal with these people. So i just pretend i'm like 7 and that seems to work.
denbot
(9,901 posts)LoL, I've spent countless frozen nights at the Rawlins T/A. I can imagine her gob smacked look when you didn't amen her homily.
TexasTowelie
(112,337 posts)It seems like her family was always leaving town for various reasons while her son was younger. Now that her son is in Cheyenne, they go to seem him at least one weekend a month. From what my sister has told me and the occasional review of the Rawlins Times, I've reached the conclusion that there aren't many people there open to other political and social ideologies.
barbtries
(28,809 posts)don't think they will learn. they actively avoid learning.
oldsoftie
(12,583 posts)barbtries
(28,809 posts)i equate them in my mind.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)I drove through Wichita and cut the corner of Wyoming. Forget the name of the decent size town i stopped in for some groceries; but I was glad to get away from both towns. Honestly, a heavy concentration of cult idiots makes my skin crawl.
ProfessorGAC
(65,134 posts)Isn't that like 30 people?
Equomba
(197 posts)On the flip side, they along with the other 30 control two senate seats and three votes in the electoral college... far too much power.
BluesRunTheGame
(1,618 posts)...the poor little snowflakes wont melt when you pass through town.
niyad
(113,505 posts)SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)They seem to deny the effects of Momentum and Gravity.
They lack the capacity to examine new information because their input channels are clogged with lies and distortions. They also lack the ability to distinguish truth from propaganda because they lack the skills to question and confirm the accuracy of the data. They are the worst sort of true believers who can only state what they have been programmed to see and say. They have confused anger with confidence.
calimary
(81,414 posts)Well done, btw, imanamerican63!
Hoping to remember good comebacks like these, to put to use myself, when the need arises.
ProfessorGAC
(65,134 posts)Nicely played!
IronLionZion
(45,494 posts)it takes time for farmers to grow food but it's all Biden's fault apparently for putting microchips in the vaccines
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)BootinUp
(47,174 posts)ShazzieB
(16,475 posts)I heartily approve of this response. After this, maybe she won't be quite so quick to assume that every perfect stranger she encounters is going to be a Trumpster.
sarisataka
(18,733 posts)Wish me luck
Joinfortmill
(14,446 posts)Grins
(7,224 posts)and then bribe farmers with $50-billion that we also have to borrow from China? Say, howd that work out when Trump did that?
PatSeg
(47,558 posts)automatically assume that some stranger at the store shares their beliefs? This has happened to me more times than I can count over the years and it still blows my mind?
Nicely done, by the way.
TexasTowelie
(112,337 posts)My sister works at the Walmart in Rawlins. She isn't active in politics, but she most likely votes Republican because that is what her husband tells her to do. While I can see my sister trying to start a "friendly" conversation, I don't think that she would intentionally try to make it political.
imanamerican63
(13,808 posts)King Sooper.
bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)Trump Shrinkflation ... did I see coffee packages were 13 or 14 ounces when Trump came into office, now they are 11 ounces?
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)After you've been through every last one of them, and most of them twice.
godsentme
(70 posts)OMG. So strange to see a comment about my little home town. I still have family there. Most are R wingers to different degrees. My immediate family was mainly democratic leaning. I'm a proud bleeding heart liberal and was raised that way. Mostly got it from 8 years of catholic school... before everything got so political back in the 60's. Anyway, proud that you took a stand.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,628 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)I've noticed this among my peers, that they just assume everyone in the working class voted for Trump. Shocked to find someone from the majority of the country.
I think it's because they bought into the Big Lie and figure no one voted for Biden.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)Blue Owl
(50,476 posts)Tiger8
(432 posts)I get so sick of people assuming I'm a Cultist.
Well, actually only a few have overtly. But that's a few times too many!
Seinan Sensei
(365 posts)Me: "So's 'Day of the Dead' "