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Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
5. You have to do what you have to do
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 08:02 AM
Jul 2020

When you have a job, and paycheck on the line.

Side note - in my younger years I was the person who would step in or say something if someone was being shitty to someone else in public. Not even think twice.

Now, older and with a family, after decades of right wing charles bronsonish hero worship by right wing propoganda and just how tweaked out they have their masses now ... You just never know who is strapped and will pull a gun and end your life.

America is flat out fucked until collectively we recognize the cancer that is conservatism and openly repudiate it.

Diaper change needed on aisle five.... magicarpet Jul 2020 #1
idiot.... samnsara Jul 2020 #2
And that's why I don't engage with "difficult" customers like that as a cashier. no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #3
I fully understand Sherman A1 Jul 2020 #4
Also, the Dotard is doing everything he can to normalize Being an raccoon Jul 2020 #21
I believe he was doing it lo-o-ong before that! nt pazzyanne Jul 2020 #22
This was going on long before The "Esteemed" Mr Trump Sherman A1 Jul 2020 #24
You have to do what you have to do Cosmocat Jul 2020 #5
Charles Bronsonish...wow that is it, isn't it ms liberty Jul 2020 #9
In between Bronson's "Death Wish" BumRushDaShow Jul 2020 #15
And now we're going back further, bc Dirty Harry was before Sudden Impact ms liberty Jul 2020 #17
Yup BumRushDaShow Jul 2020 #20
It used to be the mark of sophistication if you could hear the William Tell Overture spike jones Jul 2020 #29
LOL so true! BumRushDaShow Jul 2020 #30
when i was going, up it was john wayne and or ramboizim. AllaN01Bear Jul 2020 #18
And that's why we all need to be extra nice... paleotn Jul 2020 #26
Thanks so much paleotn. no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #27
--- started pumping yogurt into his bare hands. 3Hotdogs Jul 2020 #6
Maybe there's security camera video that will eventually surface. NurseJackie Jul 2020 #8
was hoping his hands burned . AllaN01Bear Jul 2020 #19
ewww sounds like a new urban slang for Dukkha Jul 2020 #28
Ya can't post about that activity. 3Hotdogs Jul 2020 #31
Did he feel threatened? Was he "standing his ground"? NurseJackie Jul 2020 #7
We take our retail frozen desserts very seriously grantcart Jul 2020 #11
Interesting. I did not know that. NurseJackie Jul 2020 #14
We do that in Austin, too, only we have our hippie friend's grandkids do it. marble falls Jul 2020 #23
Kick grantcart Jul 2020 #10
Oh how times have changed. flamin lib Jul 2020 #12
LOL. "Who was that maskless man?" sl8 Jul 2020 #16
Because ... entitlement (perceived entitlement). . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #13
Throw his ass in jail and take away his gun rights!! aeromanKC Jul 2020 #25
Have the police seized/confiscated his other guns yet? Mopar151 Jul 2020 #32
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