My husband was accosted and berated by a Trump supporter at a middle school football game.

[lapucelle]

"How can your wear that button with that shirt?"

My husband was wearing a Hillary button and an FDNY hoodie.

My husband explained to her that he is an FDNY World Trade Center survivor who Hillay worked hard to help. My husband has medical monitoring, low cost life-prolonging medication, and ongoing treatment at one of the best hospitals in NY due to Hillary's efforts to cover first responders who were not eligible for the programs already in place due to the unusual nature if their illnesses.

Her response? "You obviously did not see the Benghazi movie."

My husband laughed and said, "if you liked that movie, you really should watch 'Triumph of the Will'. It's right up your alley."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will

[nolabear]

1. Jesus. Is there a secret beam some people are receiving?

Are they hearing something the rest of us don't hear? Something that drowns out all logical thought?

[shenmue]

6. Yes

[Fast Walker 52]

39. Foxnews and Breitbart, etc

[fleabiscuit]

21. It's easier to fill empty heads with crap rather than thought. eom

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Easily lead...easily fooled. They obviously like being lied to.

[lastlib]

34. It's called "Rush Limbaugh".....

aka right-wing radio, aka hate radio. To intelligent people, it's white noise, background static. To the less-intelligent, the right wingers, it's gospel music, reinforcing what they already "know"........

[Motley13]

53. Rush has been fired due to reluctance of sponsorship

[Grins]

45. Uhhhh....yes.

I think I stole this from Charles Pierce:

&quot Republicans now have) a candidate whose entire appeal is assuring a substantial portion of the American electorate that the voices in their fillings are the smartest people in the room."

From birthers, to death panels, to Jade Helm, to Agenda 21, to Chem-trails, to sequestration, to dire prognostications of God's wrath for one damned thing or another, and to the always popular - BENGHAZI!!!! This is the Reich-wing's one true constant: an endless whiiiiiiiining indignation over imaginary slights. As someone else put it, "It is the Bitcoin of American Conservatism."

[vlyons]

46. Yes, the secret beam of hatred

They have chosen to nurture hatred in their minds. They don't know that hatred is a bad habit. They are not mindful that their thoughts and emotions have no independent, solid existence. Can't put thoughts and emotions on a scale and weigh them. They are unaware of how to control their minds. Unaware that they have the power and could think DIFFERENT thoughts. So they are stuck with being filled with negative emotions and blinded by hateful thoughts. They are not happy people. They cannot grasp reality.

[JDC]

58. What's the frequency Dan?

insane people out there living among us all.

[oberliner]

2. What is the Benghazi movie?

Are they talking about the Michael Bay one or some documentary?

[lapucelle]

5. I think it's the Bay movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Hours:_The_Secret_Soldiers_of_Benghazi

[oberliner]

10. Do they know that movies are fictional?

Even if they are based on actual events?

[thucythucy]

3. Let me guess:

she had no idea what "Triumph of the Will" was about.

[Zorro]

31. She probably heard it as "Trump of the Will"

and wants to see it now.

[Music Man]

4. I'm impressed at how quick your husband is.

Had his policy points down AND got in a sharp zinger.

I'm curious: Was the Trump supporter one of the middle schoolers?

[lapucelle]

16. My husband was also a union delegate

when Hillary was making her first senate run in 2000. The UFA (FDNY union) pretty much always endorsed the Democratic candidate. For some reason, they didn't like Hillary and decided not to endorse anyone.

My husband fought hard for a Hillary endorsement, and when it was clear that it wasn't forthcoming, he said, "You guys don't like her just because you know she's smarter than you." Not a single delegate refuted his claim.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

51. I love your husband!

❤️

[madaboutharry]

7. I think many of these Trump supporters, if they were living in Germany

in the 1930's, would have been nazis. I really believe that

[oberliner]

11. There are nazis living in American in the 2010s

Twitter is teeming with them - who claim their nazism with pride.

[TexasTowelie]

14. I have two in my family.

I live with one (my brother) and one of my sisters is scared that the Muslims are going to take over America. I'm at the point that I don't want to talk with either of them until after the election.

[oberliner]

15. Wow

That must be very upsetting for you.

[TexasTowelie]

23. More like depressing.

Unfortunately I'm dependent upon my brother so I have very little chance of getting away from him. He was stationed in West Germany in the Army when the Berlin Wall fell, then he was sent to fight in Iraq. He watches way too many shows about the Nazis and WWII and adds in InfoWars. Since I lived in Austin where Alex Jones tapes his InfoWars show I've known that Jones was a wacko nut job for years before he ever made it big on the national dialogue.

My sister is looking after my cat since my mental health issues manifested a couple years ago. Although I'm the one that certified with mental health problems it seems like I'm more balanced than those two siblings.

[oberliner]

24. Infowars

I am happy to say I have never actually met in person anyone who listens to Alex Jones and Infowars.

Sorry you have to deal with all of that.

[madaboutharry]

20. I know.

It is frightening.

[lapucelle]

12. I read a great book on the Weimar period this summer

and was dumbfounded at how the Nazis used its plurality and Goebbel's strategy to create legislative gridlock until Hitler was finally named chancellor.

[ProudDMVer202301703]

33. What book?

Reading Richard Evans Third Reich Trilogy now. Most of the first book takes place during the Weimar era but I would definitely like to read some more about it.

[joshdawg]

42. Read Evans' Trilogy last year. The Second volume is really worthwhile reading especially

nowadays here in the U.S. Lots of food for thought.

[lapucelle]

48. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

https://www.amazon.com/Weimar-Germany-Eric-D-Weitz/dp/069101695X

[Zynx]

13. Well, they're basically Nazis right now. Not a big leap.

[rusty quoin]

25. They would have been very happy then.

[baldguy]

8. Another deplorable who crawled out of her basket.

[Blue Idaho]

9. Oooh - Snap!

Well played sir, well played! It's a pity his wit was probably lost on that dozey so and so.

[adigal]

17. My husband was a firefighter for the FDNY on 9/11

He got disabled and has great care, too. What did your husband do?

[lapucelle]

19. First responder (firefighter) at Ladder 8.

He also worked during the search and rescue, the search and recovery, and he voluntered for detail at the dump, sifting through debris looking for remains and mementos of those who died.

I hope your husband is OK.

[adigal]

22. He was working that day, also, up in Harlem.

And stood on that pile for a year.

He has some king issues but we moved way upstate ny and he's better up here.

Blessings.

[lapucelle]

49. And blessings to you as well.

[procon]

18. Lots of Republicans in my family can't tell the difference between facts, nonfiction or fiction.

Sure, they also believe that Benghazi movie is true because its a documentary based on actual events. Everyone knows they can't put that stuff on the TV if it wasn't real... there are laws or something. Opinions are also accepted as real news. Political commentators are trusted unbiased journalists, at least the ones they watch on Faux news. Blog posters and forum rants say it exactly they way they would... if they only knew the right words to express themselves.

[rusty quoin]

26. I blame Rush for the brainwashing of America.

[kairos12]

41. I've always called it Rushwashing.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. Yes. You really nailed it.

I'm frequently amazed at people who cannot distinguish between fact and fiction. So many people think the book/movie The DaVinci Code was straight history. Nope. Not in the least. And that's only the most obvious example.

[Ilsa]

30. You nailed it. They don't

Believe in facts, just what they "feel" in spite of facts, without a clue as to the manipulation of information. And they are too lazy to do the work in figuring it out.

[volstork]

27. I'll bet she has NO idea

what "Triumph of the Will" is...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. "You obviously did not see the Benghazi movie."

More people saw "Nailin' Palin".

[DemonGoddess]

35. Good for him! n/t

[pansypoo53219]

36. ask her how many people died at embassies during GEORGEE?

[Ardoewaan]

37. Sign of desperation (nt)

[MoonRiver]

38. Clinton Derangement Syndrome is what every one of Rump's base suffers from.

I think a great business opportunity would be opening up rehab treatment centers for these poor fools.

[vercetti2021]

40. The Benghazi card

They will pull it out of their asses whenever they have no argument.

[Danmel]

43. Your husband is not only a hero, but a very sharp cookie

That is the perfect biting response that I always think of an hour later!!!

[BSdetect]

44. Its not easy to deprogram these types.

Facts are somehow repelled off their shield of hatred.

[ThoughtCriminal]

47. I used that line once

Back during the Bush years in response to a Iraq war supporter (remember those?) who said that to defeat terrorism we need "Unity and a will to win!"

I replied "Triumph or the Will" then, is there a book or movie? Went right over his head, but others got it.

[treestar]

50. On that movie

In Mein Kampf,[3] Hitler talks of the success of British propaganda in World War I, believing people's ignorance meant simple repetition and an appeal to feelings over reason would suffice.[4] Hitler chose Riefenstahl as he wanted the film as "artistically satisfying"[5] as possible to appeal to a non-political audience, but he also believed that propaganda must admit no element of doubt.[3] As such, Triumph of the Will may be seen as a continuation of the unambiguous World War I-style propaganda, though heightened by the film's artistic or poetic nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will

That first sentence sounds just like the Repuke Party.

[smirkymonkey]

52. K&R

[ladym55]

54. Excellent response!

I'm always amazed at the level of dumb out there.

With all good wishes to your husband and to you ... and to adigal and her husband.

[gregcrawford]

55. People like that woman...

... are just too dirt stupid to realize that, by their words and actions, they defile every principle on which this country was founded.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

56. Your husband is an excellent surrogate.

We need more people emulating him in order to de-brainwash our gullible deplorables.

[wysi]

57. Best response ever!

[W T F]

59. My reply to Trump supporters, when they say Hillary should be in jail.........

The reason she isn't in jail, is because after being investigated by a republican house and a republican headed FBI numerous times, They couldn't get any evidence to indict her. But if you want to put your political opponents in jail, go move to North Korea, because that's the kind of government you want for America, and I'll be more than happy to buy you your plane ticket there.

[Cakes488]

60. I say that too and I add in how if the Republicans could of gotten anything on her they would of but

it was just as Colin Powell said a stupid witch hunt