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The other day, I went into a favourite local boutique just to say hi. A woman was standing at the counter, berating the very young clerk behind the counter. Why? Because, in the window display, was a roll of toilet paper with the orange madman's image on it. The woman was furious. Tha't disrespectful, he's our president. I just came from a meeting learning all about how wonderful he is. He is the president of all of us. Get that thing out of the window. He deserves respect."
Well, we all know what a quiet, gentle, non-confrontational soul I am. . . .
I said, "did you say that every time someone disrespected President Obama? If not, you have no moral ground to stand on" She sputtered, and I repeated the question. She finally said, "I never said anything against him". I replied, "but did you stop, or criticize, those who did?" She did not answer, so I said, "you are answering my question by your silence. So, you are a blatant hypocrite, and, again, you have no moral standing. Now leave the clerk alone"
This very tall, very angry woman, stormed past me to leave. I HATE when people try to bully staff. And, incidentally, the owner of this shop is a very strong progressive.
I LOVE it when I am provided with human scratching posts!!
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)mopinko
(70,067 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)sheshe2
(83,708 posts)Magnificent!
niyad
(113,205 posts)sheshe2
(83,708 posts)magicarpet
(14,143 posts)irisblue
(32,950 posts)niyad is the one that wrote it... it truly was magnificent! I doubt she would mind.
niyad
(113,205 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)kooth
(218 posts)Outstanding! I wish I could have seen that! Way to go!
kairos12
(12,849 posts)HAB911
(8,871 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)erronis
(15,216 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)in EVERY way. Too dumb to realise just how DUMB he really is.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Nice job!!
niyad
(113,205 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)I wonder what Mensa chapter that was.
niyad
(113,205 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)Pointing out her hypocrisy.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)A dose of reality may eventually wake them the hell up. Maybe not, but maybe...
niyad
(113,205 posts)MineralMan
(146,281 posts)Store staff can't argue with customers, but other customers can. Good on you!
niyad
(113,205 posts)happily weigh in.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That place is going to be boycotted by all the tRumpers who never went there in the first place.
niyad
(113,205 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Pay your bill and leave. Works every time.
niyad
(113,205 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds" describes not only their operating principle but, interestingly enough, their Operating Principal.
Great job bringing the hypocrisy out.
As a minor aside, I personally prefer the appellation "Trump-pet" to "trumpian"....
niyad
(113,205 posts)thing I call them.
Nitram
(22,776 posts)concreteblue
(626 posts)eom
LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)monmouth4
(9,691 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)Vinca
(50,248 posts)I doubt I could do it without throwing in some "expletives deleted." LOL.
niyad
(113,205 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Kudos for you!!
niyad
(113,205 posts)spanone
(135,802 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)hey you, t-rumpian, until you have read and can comprehend Machiavelli's, "The Prince" and Milton's "Paradise Lost", you will always think that t-rump is your new god.
niyad
(113,205 posts)Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)maryellen99
(3,788 posts)Sorry for my language. I'm sick of the blind devotion for this idiot.
niyad
(113,205 posts)brewens
(13,557 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)I'm remembering this one...and using it. .....my state has got a lot of thick skulled trumpdylytes. Meet one every day in my travels.
niyad
(113,205 posts)another one for handy use--when you encounter someone wearing a maga hat or t-shirt, saying, "I just love it when idiots self-identify"
niyad
(113,205 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,971 posts)niyad
(113,205 posts)DDySiegs
(253 posts)Niyad - My only concern is that your comparison of this woman to a scratching post, may have been an insult to all cat toys!
Again, great work!
niyad
(113,205 posts)rurallib
(62,401 posts)was it totally spontaneous?
I have had some run-ins over the years and have been totally amazed at what has come out of my mouth without thinking.
However it happened, well done!
niyad
(113,205 posts)Cha
(297,028 posts)some trump, huh?
niyad
(113,205 posts)Ligyron
(7,622 posts)Confrontation CAN be fun.
niyad
(113,205 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Love it when a trumpanzee gets their hypocrisy thrown in their face. ❤️
niyad
(113,205 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I can't even stand it when people don't say please and thank you to the person waiting on them.
niyad
(113,205 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I must be lucky, I don't see it very often.
calimary
(81,179 posts)I hate it, too, when somebody treats the employees like shit. They already get paid shit. They shouldn't have to take abuse as well.
And I'm reminded of that ol' cliche - "elections have consequences." And that goes double for the deplorables. I'm having a VERY difficult time "understanding" them, as I'm often told I must do. Nobody held a gun to their heads and ordered them to vote for him. The truth was all out there. His lousy track record (on so many fronts) was out there on the record. The choice was glaringly obvious. And they went the wrong way. Willingly. Even eagerly, including those we tried to warn - that it would utterly screw THEM IN PARTICULAR! They believed the lies and the bullshit. So that's what they get now. And they will reap the whirlwind (and the killer tornado, and the Category 5 hurricane, and the 8.1 earthquake, and the Ebola epidemic - for which they'll very likely lose their health care).
Hope they're happy...
niyad
(113,205 posts)Puzzler
(2,505 posts)... the Trumpians need to be challenged like this.
You can bet this Trumpian does this kind of thing often, especially to people who can't (easily) talk back: a store clerk, for example.
A bigot, a bully: a Trumpian
-Puzzler
JudyM
(29,225 posts)Warpy
(111,222 posts)and I use my stage voice that projects to both coasts and say "I've worked retail, too. With any luck s/he won't be back." The retreating back stiffens and then slumps at two realizations: 1, s/he has been a perfect shitstorm of dumbfuckery; and 2, everybody has noticed.
Paka
(2,760 posts)Good Work!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)PNW-Dem
(244 posts)x
niyad
(113,205 posts)DFW
(54,325 posts)These phony "patriots" desperately need to be shown, at every opportunity, that they are not what's right with the country, but what's wrong with the country. Their hate and their anger are invariably directed toward the wrong target, and their dwellings must be devoid of mirrors.
niyad
(113,205 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I would only hope that I could be as eloquent in the same situation.
RESIST!!!!!
DarleenMB
(408 posts)I'm wondering about the "meeting" she just came from where she learned all about how wonderful he is. Koch bros again?