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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)But who would take our racists?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)to Uranus.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)Their collective heads are already up there...
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Not Jackpine's personally, of course. I would expect that was obvious, but around here, you need disclaimers for everything!
(Hi, Pine! )
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Though it was very thoughtful of Blanche, indeed.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I try to spread the gospel of good manners wherever I go.
"Civility" is my middle name.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)One-way trips only, though, okay?
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)FSogol
(45,476 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Send the racist bastards to Antarctica - their cold hearts will feel right at home there!
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Love it
KyleMcShades
(40 posts)Anti-immigration is about racism.
In my experience being in conservative circles in my younger days, they don't try to hide it when they talk amongst themselves.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Sometimes I'm literally overlooked by bigger people, most of whom around here are loudmouth rednecks. Maybe I'll be standing behind them or even just around the corner of a store aisle, whatever. But I can tell from the startled look on their face that they didn't know I was there before they barfed up their usual mental vomit. On a rare visit to a 'big' town where most don't know me, they clearly don't expect any backtalk from a tiny little old lady; my generation is assumed to be mostly in their camp.
Once in a box store some creep popped off about how the President should be and probably would be shot, how he'd like to do it himself even. His eyes popped when I got in his face and used my DI voice to demand, "YOU AND WHAT ARMY, FOOL?" Then I held forward a big disc earring I was wearing as if it might be a hidden microphone and just dared him to "...go ahead and say that again, you *^_*! so I can be sure it's on the record!" He shut up and left the store in a rage. I went and hid in the ladies bathroom for half an hour in case he had plans to return. I also kept a close watch out for him the rest of that shopping trip.
But if God wanted me dead, somebody would've popped me a long time ago.
Something else funny to me anyway: at Sunday School we got a new couple who used to be lay pastors elsewhere. They thought they were going to be met with unanimous approval when they started making political statements. Because of where we were, I didn't want to see a nasty scene develop, but they got their ears pinned back even so. My standard show stopper which works on virtually anyone at church:
"Did we come here to worship our Maker or to hold a Tea Party rally? Can't have both."
klook
(12,154 posts)Love the Mission Impossible secret recorder earring gambit!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)You can guess how far I'd get with that on either Coast.
KyleMcShades
(40 posts)some of the more extremist right wingers don't even try to hide it at all, especially with the radical tea party movement in recent years.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)You ROCK!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)(My senior DI at Parris Island, SC, back in 1980).
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Well, I'll think of something.
Probably not her, though. Chamberlain would be an unusual name for Fenians. Not that some of us didn't (ahem) adopt Welsh identities in order to safely immigrate in my grandfather's day.
But my dad was Army, and all my brothers after him. I'm just second-gen native born here. And at home, we were all taught to practically genuflect at the very mention of Michael Collins. He was as close to a secular god as the Irish ever had.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)stage left
(2,961 posts)TNNurse
(6,926 posts)Give those who picket at abortion clinics a border child to raise.
The problem with that is that would probably make them "servants".
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)William769
(55,145 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,349 posts)Thanks for the thread, sheshe.
calimary
(81,220 posts)GREAT place to deposit a bunch of racist teabaggers and other assorted republi-CON slime. Anarchy run amok over there! No rules! No laws! No regulations! No gummnt (or whatever they call it)! And all the guns they can eat over there, too! And all those masses of poor - to be exploited all over again! Hey, they can party like it's 1799!
That sure works for me.
You always say it so well calimary, that's why I love ya~
calimary
(81,220 posts)You provide some of the finest!
Huggggggggggggz~
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)mcar
(42,302 posts)Thanks she
+1000
Cha
(297,154 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Agree. I like this.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)Now, that's the true America we love!
Hekate
(90,645 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)onehandle
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