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In reply to the discussion: A Friends Confrontation at a Family Gathering About Supporting Romney. It Gets UGLY! [View all]Warpy
(111,169 posts)19. Not a typical Rmoney supporter but certainly a typical teabagger
Their memories are very convenient.
Since the bully went on full personal attack, I'd go ahead and post the footage. Either she'll poke the crazy hard enough that the bully will boycott those family things or she'll be disinvited to them.
It sounds like a real win-win situation to me.
Your friend can visit the people she likes when there isn't the pressure of a crowd or the bully can do the same.'
I have a real problem with bullies who lie right to my face and then go into tirades. I will hit back, any way I can. It's the only thing a bully will ever understand, a real or rhetorical bloody nose.
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A Friends Confrontation at a Family Gathering About Supporting Romney. It Gets UGLY! [View all]
romantico
May 2012
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If your friend's family won't back her after the video offers indisputable proof of the correctness
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#10
Sadly agree. The friend gets 'called out' for talking politics and it would be obvious
jp11
May 2012
#24
You will never reason with these people. They would say you doctor the film. They all
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#12
An email, stating that video will be shown, if EVER again, the fools call her a liar.
WingDinger
May 2012
#16
Upload it to youtube and go to the next family gathering wearing an Obama t-shirt.
lumberjack_jeff
May 2012
#23
I prefer your approach .... I think most of these posts show that Democrats have no spine ....
Trajan
May 2012
#26
i hate to say this -- but to me -- your friend isn't very important to her family.
xchrom
May 2012
#50
POST THE VID AT ONCE, but first, send it *just* to them, and let them see for themselves...
LaydeeBug
May 2012
#52
Send the stuff, they are the ones who made you feel uncomfortable at the family event...
WCGreen
May 2012
#59
Is there some chance it is the tea partier who won't go to family reunions again?
treestar
May 2012
#60