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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy wife just got a three-word email from her TRUMP loving uncle: "YOU OWN THIS."
Yes, he used all caps. We are beyond rage.
still_one
(96,302 posts)MineralMan
(147,371 posts)Unfriend him on Facebook as well. I have done that to relatives who are Trump supporters. It makes my life much more peaceful.
Warpy
(113,130 posts)and it really cut down on the aggravation. " If you need to contact me, pick up a phone or spend money on a stamp or telegram. Your email privileges have been suspended." Send to All.
I have a short fuse when it comes to an email inbox crammed with right wing screeds forwarded by people who didn't really read them.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)maryellen99
(3,798 posts)Does he now hate her?
hatrack
(60,699 posts).
Ezior
(505 posts).. where some Trumpists killed innocent people because they were black, or Muslims, or tried to protect Muslims, etc.
hamsterjill
(15,490 posts)Let him stew in his own hatred.
Divest yourself of this person and don't look back.
athena
(4,187 posts)I would cut my ties with this hateful person.
ecstatic
(34,316 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)But that describes the entire GOP.
beaglelover
(4,009 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(120,367 posts)Frazier Glenn Miller, Timothy McVeigh, Gordon Kahl, Eric Rudolph, Jerad and Amanda Miller, Wade Michael Page, James Von Brunn, Scott Roeder, Jim David Atkisson, and Jared Lee Laughner.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Leith
(7,852 posts)I would answer the email with that list and CC every relative in common.
I would finish it off with saying something like "If you agree with uncle, then please remove me from your e-mail list and your life. If you think that this was an over-the-top accusation, then please respond letting us all know."
But that's me. I wouldn't let uncle have the last word.
GaYellowDawg
(4,861 posts)I was going to go with "FUCK YOU" but yours is a vast improvement.
Cha
(304,875 posts)addled brainwashed head on that.
AmandaRuth
(3,113 posts)I am angered that this is never ever talked about in the MSM, for reals? you have a presidential candidate, who is now pres and he gets away with this?
robertpaulsen
(8,697 posts)If she supports legislation to restrict the sale of semi-automatics and other assault rifles, UNCLE OWNS THIS.
rurallib
(63,144 posts)1) No I do not, nor does any progressive. This was a man who was unbalanced who could still get guns despite my best efforts.
2) The far right has been driving hate and division in this country for decades. It is Fox'x calling card.
3) I would thank you never to contact me again. Relative or not,my life is too short to spend any time dealing with people who are irrational.
Vinca
(50,928 posts)Phoenix61
(17,546 posts)There is only one person who owns this, the shooter, and he's dead. Nobody "owns" somebody else's actions.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)NO YOU OWN THIS because you continue to vote for representatives that refuse to pass sensible gun control laws.
PS don't contact me again
ProfessorGAC
(69,643 posts)I think you know what two words i mean.
jpak
(41,780 posts)dalton99a
(84,067 posts)Not worth your time stressing over willfully ignorant assholes
procon
(15,805 posts)as they passed all those unrestricted gun laws. If he scoffs, send him Rand Paul's pro-gun manifesto:
Text - Why do we have a Second Amendment? It's not to shoot deer. It's to shoot at the government when it becomes tyrannical!
Link to tweet
That's the plan! If your uncle voted them into office, then it's his problem and he's using projection to dodge his own culpability.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)SalviaBlue
(3,024 posts)unblock
(54,115 posts)Different Drummer
(8,443 posts)lpbk2713
(43,201 posts)Because their deaths can be linked to their financial status.
Because they lost their job. Because they lost their health care.
Republicans own that. Forgive me if I'm not quite as outraged.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)gay people, Muslims and the Charleston church shooting and say, "You own this asshole!"
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And that they know your email addy.
0rganism
(24,594 posts)for the same reason he doesn't "own" the attempted assassination of Rep. Giffords
JHB
(37,399 posts)And the guy who shot people in a Unitarian church to kill liberals?
And the two Bundy ranch stand-offers who ambushed two cops to start their RW "revolution"?
And the police officers killed between 2009 and 2016 during domestic calls on someone convinced they were there to grab his guns (at least five)?
And that guy caught after a shoot-out with police while he was on his way -- loaded for bear -- to the offices of a foundation with ties to George Soros?
Ilsa
(62,210 posts)invoke Second Amendment Remedies (Sharron Angle; Rand Paul, etc); to execute HRC and BHO by firing squad; and Trump saying he'd pay the legal bills of rally attendees that would beat up other attendees that weren't trumpistas.
sinkingfeeling
(52,962 posts)against LGBT persons, all those against abortion doctors, and dozens of racially based killings of black.people.
JHan
(10,173 posts)pirateshipdude
(967 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)cilla4progress
(25,784 posts)I would not EVER reply or keep him in my life. That is sick.
Patterson
(1,579 posts)^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)FUCK YOU
Takket
(22,456 posts)that is grounds to cut off all contact with said uncle. that is a toxic person that is not worthy of your good time.
Paladin
(28,722 posts)mn9driver
(4,567 posts)it would be the last contact they ever had with us. Some shit is unforgivable. Like this.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)then doesn't it mean it wasn't planned?
stopbush
(24,622 posts)Suggested three-word response.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)damage?
I would never, ever, acknowledge him again.
enid602
(8,999 posts)Her uncle just wants to make sure his congressmen are in top top condition so they can take away his insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and SS.
roamer65
(37,076 posts)Do not respond back and filter him out on Facebook and any other social media. Completely excise him out of your lives, socially and legally. Even if he is on his death bed, cease all contact.
Turbineguy
(38,285 posts)I would not answer.
Find something nice to do.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)"Fuck You" is such a useful phrase for family members.
Fresh_Start
(11,340 posts)since the trump election.
And, he owns his more than equal share of this shooting because he supports the party that refused reasonable background checks, that refuses to deny weaponry to men accused of domestic violence...because he voted for the ONLY presidential candidate who advocated 2nd amendment solutions against his political opponent...and the only political party which regularly targets violence against the opposite party.
He owns the fact that our allies no longer trust us due to trump
He owns the fact that our allies think we are incompetent fools due to our election of trump
He owns the fact that we are losing tourism from across the globe due to trump
He owns the fact that the leader of the free world is now German instead of American
He will own the 24 Million people will lose access due to TrumpCare
He own this and all of the other problems...
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,683 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(19,354 posts)I do not think I would have any more to do with him.
Being a total assbole is on him.
TheBlackAdder
(28,864 posts).
"While you're there, you can hang out with Steven Segal--that other snowflake."
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Dorian Gray
(13,709 posts)She should respond: "What do you mean? I don't approve of lax rules for mentally ill people to purchase guns."
renate
(13,776 posts)The hypocrisy is a close second.
There is simply no reasoning with a person like this. He has blinders on and he loves them.
Also, what an asshole. Why would anybody say something like that to a member of his family?
Kaleva
(37,982 posts)It's a waste of time arguing or debateing with people who act and think like that.
kerry-is-my-prez
(9,048 posts)Including super lethal guns.
Cha
(304,875 posts)bdamomma
(66,151 posts)has it all wrong, tRump unleashed all this hate and division, your uncle is a uninformed victim.
Beacool
(30,306 posts)As years go by I have found that I have no patience for a-holes who stress me out. It makes life easier and more pleasant to stay away from people who affect my peace of mind.
Life's too short.........
lunatica
(53,410 posts)She should treat the statement like it's one of the most ridiculous things anyone would say because if she had her way the man would have never been allowed to have the long gun in the first place.