Car Trips With Wingnuts (subtitled, What I Learned Today)

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Ann Romney is the shining example of a housewife because she was able to manage so many nannies and groundskeepers. She was a super mom and a veritable project manager, all at the same time.

2. Michele Obama is a horrifying racist shrew who hates all white people by default and is determined to off them, what with her communistic dietary restrictions that are going to starve children.

3. Marijuana may START as a plant, but they TURN it into a chemical. (You mean by growing it and then drying it like basil?) No, and it is much better for society to take pharmaceutical drugs that are developed for things (er, aren't those chemicals to begin with?) Yes, but they are LEGAL and created naturally, like basil.

Shit on a stick.

I have never felt the need to jump from a moving vehicle before, but I get it now.

[Cleita]

1. How did you get stuck with that crew?

I think I would have had a hysterical outbreak before it was over.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. 6 hours, but

I just got back from having a beer with the sane ones in my family where we ranted for another 3 - so it almost evens out.

Good times.

(Edit - just saw you asked 'how' not 'how long'. How = family funeral)

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Sounds like they have been consuming

Some wholesome natural, home-brewed meth.

[William769]

4. It could have been worse.

Overnight trip, same hotel room.

Seriously though glad you home safe.

[Aerows]

15. OH Mine tried to pull that crap on me once

And stuff me in a room with my aunt. I fixed that situation very quickly and got her a room and myself a different room. After being in a car with all of them there was no way in hell I was going to get roped into a room too!

[Kath1]

5. I can relate. Easter sunday....

Obama is a Muslim/Communist/radical bent on destroying the U.S. Michelle is a radical who who hates whites. The Democratic Party wants everyone in the country dependent on the government so they can buy more votes. Women in general are anti-American because they supported Obama in 2008. I am a terrible parent because my 24 year-old dautghter is an Obama campaign volunteer.

I am not at all happy with my smoking habit but it at least gave me some excuses to go outside and calm myself so I wouldn't go off on them and tell them how narrow-minded they really are.

This was after we agreed ahead of time that there would be no politics.

Glad you didn't jump from a moving vehicle!

Shit on a stick. - Yes, Ruby!

Limiting time with wingnuts is good for your health.

[StarlightGold]

23. Wow...

ANYONE who accused me of being a bad parent because my child works for a certain politician would not be a part of my life at all. I understand, believe me...sorry you had to put up with that. Life's too short....

[Kath1]

24. Thanks

My daughter and I are very close. We just consider the sources, sigh and move on. A few hours of it a couple times a year won't kill us. We usually end up laughing about these conversations. If I really took these people seriously it would be a different story.

[treestar]

27. The conspiracy ones crack me up

Exactly, the Democrats want more people dependent on government to get votes. What a difficult way to get votes.

The bigger plan is the one for a one world government which is a dictatorship of communists - the basis for that is global warming and environmentalism. What a cumbersome way of trying to take over the world - starting scientific based myths and trying to get everyone to believe them! The right wing certainly is not swallowing that one whole!!

[KT2000]

6. Got another one for you -

"There is no such thing as global warming. Heat only comes from the sun."

Where do you start with these people?!!?!?

[Kath1]

7. We didn't even get into global warming

but they would have said the same thing!

I try not to start with them. They are into their Fox News. Brainwashed and it drives me nuts!

[treestar]

28. Of course there is no such thing, and we socialists know it

We are just using that in order to justify a one world government! Get with the program!

[aggiesal]

8. I will not allow ...

any stupid statement go without a response.

The other day a spoiled right wing 24 year old kid, sent
and email about a person who got arrested, and then
used an EBT card (food stamps) to post bail. He mentioned
that there should be tighter restrictions on the use of EBT
cards.

So I responded "I see; you want tighter restriction on EBT
cards, but you want the banking industry unregulated.
Which do you think cost us more?"

No response.

[Zax2me]

9. He told you he wanted the banking industry unregulated?

Who brings that kind of thing up in conversation!
I stay away from these red flag people.

[aggiesal]

19. Yes he did! . . .

This happened some time back.

He's a 24 year old spoiled kid, has a high powered
attorney for a father, and attended private schools
his whole life. So he doesn't believe in public schools.

He thinks that the banking industry collapse was due
to too much banking regulation, and that when Obama
was elected, his father started to hide his income to
keep from being taxed at a higher rate.

I was pulling out what little hair I have left.

[Ikonoklast]

34. Uh, er, um....(cough, cough)....

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/article/0,,id=180171,00.html

That kid's father is a criminal.

[treestar]

26. I was trying to snopes the EBT card thing

Couldn't find anything. Google appears taken over by the right wing - the whole first page just had right wing sites touting the story.

For another debate I googled, "black support of Obama" and got nothing but articles on "Obama losing black support."

[countryjake]

10. What, no mention of the two billion our prez gave...

to his two best friends to build solar panels and generators? That's the fight I had with a seriously-brainwashed family member this week. On a three-way phone call with one very old lady and another in her eighties. Me and the very old lady won that one.

Oh, and I, too, heard mention of not appreciating being told what to eat...this coming from a diabetic...heh heh.

But it isn't actually cause if you do it often enough, they'll eventually absorb some of what you try to tell them and either start believing you or start lying to you outright cause they're afraid of the sense you make. Out of the side of her mouth, my ornery kin will tell me that she really does like having Obama as our leader (I know that she did actually vote for him) and she thinks Michelle is "so nice looking". But then the digs begin...without fail.

[SydBAThule]

11. Why would anyone of sound mind even think about getting in a car with wingnuts to begin with?

You did create the very situition you are complaining about.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Sometimes family obligations rule the day...

She said she had to go to a family funeral. We do share the same country with these cretins, after all.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002565078#post2

edit: link

[HangOnKids]

32. She Created A Car Full Of Assholes?

Sometimes people have to ride with rude folks. I understand that Ruby is powerful but she created this? Epic fail.

[Ruby the Liberal]

35. Very little parking at the cemetary

which was also hours away, so we rode together.

Thanks for your concern.

[GeorgeGist]

12. Oh phucking my.

[cascadiance]

13. At least you didn't have your dog with you who they would have tied to the roof...

... of the car with no hesitation...

(still suffering after putting down my old friend, an 18 year old cat, yesterday after a week of traveling without her).

[Fumesucker]

31. Sorry for your loss..

[Aerows]

14. Oh God

I sympathize. I have wingnuts in my family, too. Getting trapped in a car with them is enough to drive a person to drink. Hell, the last time I got trapped with them I DID drink just to keep from going ballistic. I have a very hard time these days listening to bullshit and not responding. Okay, I've never been good at listening to bullshit and not responding, and the ability has not improved with age.

[Cleita]

20. I've done the drink thing to get through the event too.

The annual Christmas Party thrown by my husband's firm before he retired. It was kind of mandatory to attend. There were never a finer bunch of wing nuts and misinformed people on the face of this earth and they were all professionals. The only problem is they knew only what their profession was about and nothing else. I was usually well lit by the time we arrived and I kept up the glow until we could politely leave. My poor hubby had to deal with those morons every day. My heart went out to him.

[Kath1]

25. Yes!

Drinking does help at those work functions where you are severely outnumbered. I've been there and done that too!

[Cleita]

30. All hail to the god of drink, Bacchus!

[Kath1]

17. Oh, and I heard this little nugget on a personal level..,

"Your daughter smokes because you are such a liberal." (She was out on the porch smoking at the time.)

Huh? Really? Are you kidding me? WTF?

My daughter is 24 freaking years old!

They never seem miss an opportunity to crticize, no matter how ridiculous.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. there ...there...there....

( pats on back)..

I understand, believe me.

On a cheery note, you could have ended up just like the rest of the family!

[ellisonz]

21. Broccoli = Communism

It's true!

[Odin2005]

22. Am I lucky that I have not ever met somebody this stupid?

Even my thrift store's wingnut owner isn't that stupid.

[theaocp]

29. I recommend playing Ministry's

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Show Up live album really loudly. You get to enjoy great live industrial rock (if it's your thing) and THEY get to jump out of the moving vehicle. Win-win.

[one_voice]

33. I thank the goddess every day...

that I don't have any family members like that. I have one cousin that can be a little annoying at times, but he's really not too bad and he'll shut up after a few minutes.

My husband tries to play the hard ass republican--cause he was a repub when I married him a moderate one--he doesn't do a very good job though.

Glad you're home safe. Sorry for the circumstances.