What one belief/notion/idea by a specific wingnut triggers your "Not worth my time" mechanism?

[Liberal Veteran]

For me it is Gitmo. The argument usually goes something like this: Why should I care what happens to those people in Gitmo? If they are in Gitmo they must be terrorists! We don't even need a trial or evidence for them! It's obvious that they are guilty because we only send terrorists to Gitmo!


The moment that argument is given, I know I haven't the patience to try to bring them "to the light" of reason, as it were.


What's your trigger?

[PM7nj]

1. Once they start talking about "socialism" I just walk away.

They're so clueless it hurts.

[readmoreoften]

5. Yeah, that's how I feel about people who say socialism "just doesn't work."

Now there's an astute analysis! Not just clueless, but poorly read.

[brer cat]

2. rush limpballs. n/t

[Hello_Kitty]

3. "I don't care if women die from illegal abortions!"

I've heard more than a few variations of that one and that pretty much ends any discussion with that person. Ever.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. "Reagan proved that tax cuts bring in more revenue!!!"

Morons.

[margotb822]

13. Fuckin tax cuts

I can't stand hearing about that crap...and mostly from people who make less than $50k/yr. It makes no damn sense!

[readmoreoften]

6. Anyone who uses the phrase "hard-wired" generally is making shit up to support status quo.

Greed is hard-wired! Homophobia is hard-wired! And my favorite: rape is hard-wired!

It's a silly metaphor used by popular science.

[treestar]

20. I hate that one too - and it is so easy to come up with an example

of someone whose "hard wiring" is off.

[rolltideroll]

7. Pres. Obama's Burth Certificate being fake. nt

[ocd liberal]

8. Oh, SO MANY!!!

Education,such as my Dad sent ME to public school but resents paying tax $$ to govt to fund education. He hasn't been able to comminicate with me at all since we elected Obama.

[NickB79]

9. Denial of global warming. nt

[Odin2005]

10. "Laffer Curve"

"Government messing with the economy leads to totalitarianism"
"Tax is Theft"
"God-Given Right"
"Obama is a Marxist"
"Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme"
"There is no law saying I have to pay income taxes"
"Those idiot scientists were scared of Global Cooling 30 years ago"

:banghead:

[GinaMaria]

11. the 'birth certificate' nonsense. eom

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. "My country, right or wrong."

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. THEY VOLUNTEERED.. makes my blood boil

Especially since this is usually said by your average yellow bellied chickenhawk

[dysfunctional press]

15. jesus christ- by ANY of them. religoids are worthless wastes of space.

nt

[ThomWV]

23. Amen Brother!

Sorry, couldn't help myself. However I do agree - religious nutoids should be locked up for the protection of all the rest of us.

[JeffR]

16. Anything and everything that drips from their drooling maws

triggers my gag reflex. I know you want us to narrow it down, but I can't do that anymore. Everything about them is repulsive, disgusting, beneath contempt, hateful and foundationally wrong.

[whoneedstickets]

17. We need to limit all these Death Penalty appeals...

..to speed up the process and keep costs down. It totally ignores the possibility that the condemned could be innocent.

[riderinthestorm]

18. Stem cell research kills babies (from my mother no less. Sigh) nt

[Baikonour]

19. Any "global warming is a myth" rhetoric. n/t

[ThomWV]

21. Anyone, Republican or Democrat, who decries Opus Dei and I know they are a fucking idiot.

Not worth listening to.

http://www.opusdei.org/

Here is what they are afraid of:

"Opus Dei is a Catholic institution founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Its mission is to spread the message that work and the circumstances of everyday life are occasions for growing closer to God, for serving others, and for improving society."

[Are_grits_groceries]

22. Guns! They're gonna take ALL the guns.

I was talking to my brother and in the middle of the conversation, he starts screaming about this. I was wondering what massive gun bill had slipped my notice. Had I been in a coma? He was talking about leading the rebellion if they came.

I called him back later after I thought he would be coherent. I told him to stand down. Nobody was coming to take ALL THE GUNS. I told him he had been in much more trouble from the Bushites. I told him they were trying to ban assault weapons, but that wasn't even a sure thing. I suggested he rethink the rebellion. He wasn't Robert E. Lee, Francis Marion or Stonewall Jackson and was liable to get his ass handed to him. Then who would take care of his 11 cats.

Sheesh!

[coalition_unwilling]

24. "Saddam moved the WMDs from Iraq to

Syria before we invaded."

When I hear that, I know the speaker is a delusional thinker.

[WilliamPitt]

25. "He's a socialist." I've heard "He'll destroy the Constitution" twice.

I put those on the same shelf with "No plane hit the Pentagon."

Ooo...too soon?

;)

[Greyhound]

26. Moving lips. n/t

[cobalt1999]

27. Folks that want to be "Morality Police"

Alcohol, gay marriage, religion, anti-abortionists, etc.

My response is limited to "Don't like something, then don't do it, but don't try and convert me to your belief system"

[LanternWaste]

28. Immigration issues.

Immigration issues. 'nuff said.

[slackmaster]

29. Intelligent Design taught as science

That's my number one deal-breaker.

[rolltideroll]

30. Amen

We might as well teach spontaneous generation.