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(4,321 posts)and I said how awful it was, so my brother-in-law says that when the police entered the room Paul Pelosi was holding the hammer, as if to imply that it was Pelosi who was attacking the intruder with the hammer. I quickly countered his BS hate radio talking points with a rejoinder and we changed the subject. He has enjoyed taking swipes at my progressive views for almost 30 years, but I blow it off.
Prior to this topic, he said he was thinking about getting a job at the library, but then he'd have to work with "woke" people. I asked him what he meant by 'woke' people. He said, "You know, queers, transvestites; things like that."
This is a 68-year-old rocket scientist (srsly) with health issues, who lives alone in an old trailer, on just Social Security and has no savings. He is a perennial bachelor who has never had a girlfriend or any friends.
In retrospect, I wish I'd told him that I read in Scientific American about a study showing that homophobes are likely to be self-loathing, closeted homosexuals themselves --https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/. I would LOL at the look on his face, but frankly, I hope I never see this loser asshole again.