Went to a Party and Pissed off the Republicans

[bleedingheart]

I will give no quarter and expect none in return.

In the end..they all ran from me. My triumph was telling this dipshit republican, who stated that Democrats never did anything right, that he should give back his social security...cuz it makes him a hypocrite. I then recited a litany of great things that Democrats have done including the GI BILL etc.. and he then said..."oh when was that..." and I said proudly and strongly ..."The Democrats created all these programs 60+ years ago and they are so great that they are still used today"...and he got so pissed as I kept asking him how it felt to be a hypocrite taking social security since it was "welfare" in many republican's viewpoints.... I thought he might need some nitro tabs after his encounter with little ole me....

This is my summation:

Republicans don't read
They don't learn
Republicans are incapable of reading more than one paper or watching one news program
They are in basically toddlers in adult bodies who keep spewing stupid one liners because they have no freaking clue what they are talking about.

The one fellow, who thought he could argue with me, later told my husband that he thought I was uninformed but that it was apparent that I wasn't and my husband told him that he had better brush up on his facts if he wanted to talk to me.

[MADem]

1. Well, bravo to you, then!! Well done! NT

[bleedingheart]

2. the hostess who invited me did so because she is a Democrat

and a few of her friends are Repukes and they come to her home for these parties and then just screw with her...I had a blast.

In fact, by the the end of the night the one republican was telling me how much he liked me...

[MADem]

4. Heh, heh! That's the way--entice them with your charms, then beat the

living crap out of them!!

They LIKE that!

[bleedingheart]

26. the one guy was really pissed at me.... so...a bit later

I shouted out his name at the party and when he turned around, I blew a kiss at him....that unsettled him more.

[chat_noir]

50. me at my charming best

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[MADem]

51. That's a grand collection--I especially like the Viet Cong one! NT

[SharonAnn]

7. Yes, I'm tired of listening to their angry sh*t. I've started talking bac

and I'm usually MUCH more informed than they are.

It upset some of my family members when, at a funeral, I told the Right-wingers to "drop the subject", we're at a funeral and it's not appropriate. And I wouldn't stop until they shut up.

My aunt said I should've just let it go. I told her I'm tired of letting it go. I'm done with that. I'm 61 years old and I'm not waiting any longer to speak up. They're wrong, they're inappropriate, they're bullies, and I'm "mad as hell" and "not going to take it any more".

Also, I told them they'd be hearing this from more people so they'd better get used to it.

Maybe I was wrong, but I can tell you that two years later I still think I did the right thing.

I'm the oldest of a large group of cousins and sometimes they follow me becasue of that. I'm smarter, more educated, more successful, and still married to the same man. So, I must have something more than Jello for brains.

[soup]

20. Sometimes you just have to stand up to the b.s.

I didn't want to ruin my grandson's 3rd birthday party on January 29th, 2005, so I kept my mouth shut. It still bothers me, but it seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

That day there was a rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

We've got family and friends, balloons and bubbles, bbq, cake and ice cream, kids running around, beautiful day here. Laughter and celebration. and in the midst of all this, totally out of the blue, no apparent reason, an obnoxiously loud male voice (my daughter-in-law's stepfather) proclaimed to no one and everyone-

"Now they've done it. Did you hear? Attacked our embassy. That's the property of the U.S.A. they're messing with. We have every right to just nuke 'em now. Take 'em all out like we should have from the get-go."

I swear the world stopped turning and froze for a flash of time. Everything came to a standstill. Every other adult at the party turned and looked at me. Nobody said a word - silence. I have no idea what would have come out of my mouth if I hadn't seen the pleading look on my daughter-in-law's face. But I did see it, and chose to say nothing. Took a couple of minutes, but everyone started breathing again, everything went back to 'normal', nothing more was said on the subject and the party went on.

Later, my daughter-in-law apologized for him and thanked me for not saying anything. I still think about it, though (obviously).

Did I do the right thing by saying nothing? I don't know. But I sure know what you mean when you say inappropriate. Children's birthday parties and funerals. Whatever happened to discretion?

[bleedingheart]

24. I know exactly what you are talking about, Democrats are typically

the ones who are the respectful ones and those loud mouth republicans will grandstand and they take every opportunity to mark any territory they are in by spewing that filth from their mouth. They do it to proclaim their ridiculous rhetoric and they test us....and we typically have more class.

Well I knew that it wouldn't upset my hosts and I let them have it.

Of the two I argued, only one had any glimmer of a clue. The other fellow was a bully pure and simple and he didn't have the fortitude to go toe to toe with a Democrat.

[soup]

31. They deserved very bit of it

and I'm so glad you didn't back off. Sounds like you enjoyed it, too.

I'd have loved to lay into that fool at my grandson's birthday party. Everyone expected it, they know how I am. Saw the look on my daughter-in-law's face and it just didn't seem worth it. Wrong time, wrong place.

With apologies to Dr. John - you, on the other hand, "were in the right place, and it must have been the right time". :)
(darn it, now I've got to go dig out the song and play it to get it out of my head...)

[Cerridwen]

32. From my perspective,

you did the most powerful thing you could have; you let him speak for himself.

Sometimes the best response to boorish behavior is to let the "words" drop into a void of silence (silence can be deafening) and allow the speaker's words to display the speaker's idiocy. Nothing you could have said would have shown him for the bigoted, self-righteous goon that he is better than his own words spoken in a most inappropriate manner in an inappropriate gathering.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt." He open his mouth and removed all doubt.

In that place, in that time, in that context, your silence spoke volumes.

Well done!

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[femrap]

49. See how you still think about this?

It's best to counter crap like that. Fear is what stops so many....and that must stop.

You can always grab these assholes, pull them aside and give them a big fat piect of Truth.

You'll get him the next time....unfortunately these pugs keep opening their mouths and spewing lies and fear.

[Jokinomx]

41. Just today I was talking to a liberal buddy of mine....

We both stated the same feelings as you have. I tired of being polite. My wife and I attended our hometown Danish Festival a couple of weeks ago and were browsing amongst the weekend vendors. Well, the repugs of course had this huge tent with all the fixins to promote their canidates. I didn't stop or acknowledge the volenteers, We were just walking by and one of the repugs vols yelled to me and asked if I would like some literature. I looked at her and stated very firmly that "I would never ever vote for a republican again for the rest of my life!" ... my wife poked my in the ribs and said I didn't have to be rude. I said yes I did! I said these people are the ones responsible for the mess we are in.

I am as mad as HELL and I am not going to take it anymore!!

Long Live the Democratic Party! at least until they are more corrupt than the repugs.

[bleedingheart]

46. are you in Michigan?

my inlaws are in Grand Rapids, they are liberal, but boy...some of the folks they hang around with are the rudest republicans I have ever met.
My favorite is this one holier than thou lady who when asked if her only child (a son) would be enlisting to support "her president"...she nearly blew a gasket and was basically stating that "her son was special above those average enlistees"...

[femrap]

47. Keep talking! Maybe I should say

keep educating them! You'd feel horrid if you said nothing....it would eat at you.

[Generic Brad]

54. You were not wrong

Being right is not a popularity contest!

[Maat]

3. Good job! (n/t)

[dorktv]

5. Hi five! I am watching a debate regarding New Orleans between some

humans and a neo-con.

So far they are kicking his ass....Never mind the cultural value of the city, or the port, it is American soil and we owe it to our fellow Americans.

[yorkiemommie1]

6. good job!!!

:thumbsup:

[Triana]

8. If you're a woman you're automatically assumed to be uninformed...

...about politics and technology. If anyone talks to you about it *at all*, they do it condescendingly as if they are telling a "little woman" something she doesn't already know (usually she knows more about it than the blubbering idiot who made the erroneous assumption and is babbling at her about it).

Good for you for talking the political chest-beater under the table. Women are not idiots. I wish people would quit ass-uming they are.

[bleedingheart]

23. the problem is that this one fellow as so uninformed and so one sided

that he ridiculed me for being informed....imagine that..they bitch about education in this country but when they meet a well educated person they ridicule you for being educated and make fun of you. These people are the equivalent of the school bullies.

I won't take it, I am tired of taking it.

[Triana]

36. "These people are the equivalent of the school bullies."

Yea they are. Those types have a propensity to be Republican, unremarkably. They drag their knuckles and beat their chests and demand to be the Alpha. But, they're know-nothings. "Might makes right" (and Might makes fact, too, if you can get your corprat-owned newz media to screech it often enough that the populace believes it). With them, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't - doesn't matter. They (claim to) want better education, but are simultaneously bitterly anti-intellectual. Go figure.

Morons. Hypocrites, too.

[Jamastiene]

9. Good job.

Bravo. You should get a promotion soon for doing your part. We are not doing our part unless we piss off Republicans as often as possible and back their asses down into a corner when they spew bullshit at us. :thumbsup:

[Bobbieo]

10. BTW Bleedingheart Lady

Sen. Ernie MacFarland (D-AZ) was the father of the GI Bill. He was a grand old man whom I dearly loved.

[me b zola]

16. That is a great way to describe Sen. MacFarland

He must have been a grand old man to do such a wonderful thing for our vets.



edited to remove a question that may be too personal :hi:

[LuckyLib]

11. I always bring up the GI Bill, mortgage deductions for homeowners,

and the development of the middle class through unionization. There's almost no one who hasn't fed at one of those fountains or another . . . we've all benefitted from a government that has worked "for" us.

[bleedingheart]

25. they forget it and they claim that "was back then"..

[Cha]

45. Yes! We have a great

history! A wonderful legacy to build on. bush and his ilk are trying to destroy that but we will persevere.

[GOPBasher]

12. That is frickin classic!

Way to go! :thumbsup:

Give 'em hell, "bleedingheart"!!!!!!!!!!! :applause:

[Kurovski]

13. Now THAT'S a party!!

:party::-)

[Swamp Rat]

14. Geaux bleedingheart!

:bounce: :applause:

[Rainscents]

15. I gave you K & R for great job!

[Kurovski]

17. Ah...what the hell, so did I!

[Bluebear]

18. And one more!

[dweller]

57. and one more

:kick: and R!

i love reading threads like this,
dp

[JI7]

19. sounds familiar

i remember this right winger who would go on complaining about Democrats and welfare and government. i found out he got a check from the government regularly and called him on it. he got really angry and tried to make excuses for why it was ok and not welfare.

they are so fucking stupid and get really pissy when you confront them with facts.

[tenshi816]

22. I have an uncle

on total disability for a supposed bad back who has been collecting checks from the government for over 30 years. During that entire time he's also worked construction and been paid cash for it (but has proudly admitted he doesn't declare it to the IRS).

He, too, has always made excuses about why it's OK for him to do what's he's done, but nevertheless criticizes other people for being lazy.

As you might expect, this uncle is a die-hard Republican.

[DemReadingDU]

21. and another ignorant Repub...

This Repub actually said Clinton was President on Sep 11, and he was talking the year 2001!

It really makes me wonder if they believe the lies they try to tell us, or if they just like to argue. They look so dumb either way.

[B Calm]

27. Mike Malloy read this letter to the editor on his old WLS show!

This letter to the editor is getting old but it still is hammering home quite a punch!!


WHAT HAS GOP DONE FOR

WORKERS?

CLINT C. GOLD
10/24/1999
Tulsa World


Not too long ago, my wife and I attended a TV football
party in south Tulsa. With a lopsided score, the
conversation turned to a livelier subject -- politics. The
crowd was, of course, top-heavy with Republicans. With each
point expressed their faces became more flushed, eyes
bulging a little more and veins popping in their foreheads
as they railed against the liberal programs.

Finally a lone, liberal voice asked: "Will you people
name me one bill your party ever passed to help the working
man of this country?" The question created much din and
clamor, and someone sputtered, "Well, what have the
Democrats done?"

The liberal responded with a few programs and was
interrupted by howling and disdain. He noted that he had
not promised they would like the programs and he asked to
complete his statement -- a difficult task to ask of
Republicans.

He spoke of Social Security; Medicare-Medicaid; Peace
Corps; unemployment insurance; welfare (for the poor and
corporate); civil rights; student grant and loan programs;
safety laws (OSHA); environmental laws; prevailing wage
laws; right to collective bargaining (which brought about
paid medical insurance, paid vacations, pensions, etc.);
workers' compensation; Marshall Plan; flood-disaster
insurance; School Lunch Program; women's rights.

He spoke of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which
established a minimum wage, instituted child labor laws,
and set up time-and-a-half pay for over a 40-hour week.

He mentioned FHA-HUD with its public housing, urban
renewal and 44 million residential homes (before WWII
almost 70 percent of our nation were renters; by the 1970s
this had been reversed). And farm-conservation
subsidies -- USDA programs, Farmers Home Administration (the
bankers didn't want to make rural loans), small
flood-control lakes (more than 3,000 in Oklahoma alone),
rural water districts, rural electricity (REA).

The GI Bill was passed, which the Republicans at the
time bitterly opposed. They were salivating over millions
of returning veterans to hire as cheap labor. More than 8 million have used college benefits, creating millions of
entrepreneurs; most of us had never dreamed of college. For
the unemployed GI, there was $20 a week for 52 weeks to
help get started (a lot of money in those days). The
Veterans Administration provided more than 2 million home
loans.

For the bankers at the football party, it was pointed
out that the liberals saved their industry with the
creation of FDIC and FSLIC, insuring their deposits, and
saved Wall Street with the establishment of the Securities
Exchange Commission.

The oil men came on bended knees to FDR at a time when
East Texas oil was 4 cents a barrel and begged him to save
their industry. He did; prorationing overturned the rule of
capture and the days of flush production were over.
Prorating has served this great industry (and nation)
well.

And the list went on and on, but of course this group
didn't let him get halfway through. He noted they were
weary, inattentive, so again he challenged them to offer up
any Republican legislation examples.

"I'm sure your party has authored one or two comparable
bills from time to time, but I can't think of any, and
apparently you can't either. What it boils down to is this:
the liberals dragged you into the 20th century scratching
and screaming with your heels in the mud, fighting anything
that's progressive, everything that's made this country
great. You Republicans have never understood that the
spending power of blue-collar workers, obtained through
Democrats and unions, is what really made this country
great. You really believe "The Good Life" was obtained from
your own endeavors. You cloak your greed in religion and
patriotism, railing against any form of tax, never
comprehending that these programs have benefitted all of us
and our country."

Well, I almost didn't make it out of the house. My wife
and I didn't even get to see the end of the football game.

If Reps. Steve Largent or J.C. Watts had been there,
perhaps politics would never have come up, only the game
plan ... pity.

Clint C. Gold is former mayor of Moore and a retired
savings and loan executive.

[mwb970]

28. Republicans have a different approach to decision-making.

Republicans turn the normal way of reaching a decision on its head: they make their judgment first, then marry themselves to it in an unshakable death grip, then examine the available data, eliminating anything that goes against their pre-judgment and inflating any "fact", however suspect in substance or source, that seems to support them.

It's Limbaugh Logic: start with the conclusion, and work backwards.

[rucky]

29. Hey, my daughter's a toddler!

and she knows more than a freep, because she knows how to share.

[PittLib]

30. bleedingheart is a triple threat ...

young, beautiful and intelligent. I've seen you in action (my mother being the republican) and wish I could have witnessed this. You rock.

[bleedingheart]

39. thanks for the compliments

I have had so many people tell me to be quiet and not be so "rabid"...but I just can't stand by and let these twits spout their nonsense anymore.

The one fellow is convinced that the US is still a manufacturing stronghold...clearly he doesn't read the papers or even watch the news.

One woman who was going to vote for Lynn Swann for governor was standing by as I was arguing with the republican. When I said ...

1. The republicans have controlled the State Senate for 90 years
2. The republicans have controlled the State House for 12 years
3. The men who pushed Swann to run are the very republicans who pushed the pay raise....

This lady nearly fell over. She looked at the republican and said..."is she right?" he admitted that I had my facts right and she said..."well that seals it, I am voting for Rendell, I had no idea that Swann was part of that group".

[bvar22]

33. You could also mention that the DEMOCRATS WON WW2....

..in LESS time than the Republicans have been "looking for" Osama!

[mnhtnbb]

34. Facts don't bother Republicans.

[specimenfred1984]

35. It's Impossible to Not Piss Off Repukes

Just start telling the truth and they go ballistic or, in my case, they leave the room with their head sagging. I've been doing it since before the fake war, confronting them on WMD, then torture, then outing a CIA agent and the best one of all is rigged elections.

You are absolutely correct, repukes do not learn.

[a la izquierda]

37. I'll add my story here, since it fits...

My husband's family is extraordinarily brainwashed by our government. What is very frightening is that my brother-in-law is a sheriff, who says things like... "I can't figure out which country I hate more, Iran or Mexico", when watching the two teams play each other during the world cup. My mother-in-law has told me to "quit bashing President Bush, because he's our President and we should respect him". I giggled and invoked my first amendment right and gave her an earful. At Thanksgiving last year, at the dinner table, my sister-in-law's neice asked what a Muslim was (she's 13 and should know this, for one thing). Her mother (also a cop) said, "You know, a terrorist, like Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden". I almost fell off my chair--but I did not even know what to say. My sister-in-law thanked me for not making a scene, but I felt so guilty.
My family is also conservative. The day after the 2004 robbery, my mom called and said "Sorry your guy lost. I just don't understand why you and your sister vote for Democrats, when all they want to do is help black people and screw you white kids". So I said, "I don't know how you vote for REpublicans when you work for the school district...and you're GAY!" That shut her up. But needless to say, that Thanksgiving, I was ordered by several family members to keep my mouth shut-my sister "ruined it all" by fighting with my cousin about Bush. I had to come to her defense, to which my grandmother replied, "well, Michele, weren't you aware that Bush has thwarted terrorist attacks and that our country defeated communism, so you're argument is false". I almost died. It was the first time I ever said "fuck" in front of my grandparents, and boy were they unhappy.

I live in Oklahoma, as I've stated many times before. I was thrown out of a bar for confronting a woman who said, loudly, that Democrats are immoral heathens who don't believe in god. I've been told, by a student, that I should be a Republican, because Republicans have done so much for Native Americans, like let them not pay taxes and have their own land. I almost peed myself laughing.

[mcscajun]

38. That's what *I* call a Party!

And a smashing success!

Kudos to you!
:applause:

[kskiska]

40. I, my son, and my daughter regularly beat up on an in-law

He's a Dittohead and very religious, but can't debate beyond Rush's talking points. He loses every time. Also, unbeknownst to him, we're aware of some skeletons in his closet. He likes to sound off on family values, but we know he fathered an illegitimate child when he was younger, but never took responsibility for him.

[MountainLaurel]

58. That's always the fun part, isn't it

A friend of mine had a great time at a family Easter dinner reminding his self-righteous fundie uncle about his own sordid past, which involves a drug bust in which only a lot of greased palms stood between him and jail.

[Bunny]

42. Good for you!

:thumbsup: I can just see you doing that - must have been pretty funny!

[AspenRose]

43. Well-played, well-played!

Me: "Honest question, sweetheart. Not wanting to pick a fight. Why do republicans think it's so important to put this country into debt over wars, military spending and conflicts?"

My republican husband: "Maybe because the Constitution talks about 'providing for the common defense.'" (Classic 'fight them over there so we don't fight them over here' nonsense)

Me: "The Constitution also talks about 'promoting the general welfare....'"

*crickets, followed by deer-in-headlights look*

:D

[beltanefauve]

44. Kudos, Bleedingheart!

You have an open invitation to any of my parties anytime!:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

48. Good for you!

A good smackdown is always in order!

[NC_Nurse]

52. Woohoo!

Sounds like you decked 'em! :D

[Mr_Spock]

53. Your summation is PERFECT!!

The bottom line "toddlers in adult bodies who keep spewing stupid one liners because they have no freaking clue what they are talking about." is so spot on all I can do is :applause:

[Skittles]

55. it sickens me to talk to republicans

they talk in their dittomasters' soundbites and have no CLUE how f***ing ignorant they are

[fudge stripe cookays]

56. Good for you!

I confronted another driver the other day, which reprehensor does his best to stop me from doing. But he wasn't in the car, so :D.

Some c**t in a HUGE pickup with 2 Bush stickers and one of the pro-life ones-- the quote from Alice Paul (normally one of my heroes, but she disapproved of abortion) that says something like like "What a shame that someone has to die so that a woman can live the way she wants."

She didn't even see the fucking irony in that combination of stickers! It was just after the damned stem cell bill (I've had MS for a year), and I'm virulently pro-choice.

We pulled up at the light, me in the left turn lane, and her in the right one.

Yapping on her cell phone of course, she looked over at me, and I shot her a BIG, FAT OBVIOUS finger. She looked taken aback, then smiled, and gave me a peace sign. (wtf? Not EVEN, lady. Don't co-opt MY liberal symbol, you warmongering piece of shit)

I shook my head no and flipped the finger even harder, then pointed directly at her.

I felt much better. I know, we're supposed to be above all that, but I've gotten to the point where I don't give a shit what they think, and I'm not even bothering to convert them anymore. If these people are so fucking stupid that they don't understand why we're pissed, they're more far gone than we thought.

[Duke Newcombe]

59. well done...

Another disturbing trait noticed in Republican circles: binary "two legs bad, four legs good" thinking. I'm glad you handed them their asses, verbally.

duke

[and-justice-for-all]

60. Rock-On!!!! Kick'em in the nuts!!!