Man misses Dr. appointment, blames Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, I shit you not!

[Eliot Rosewater]

This morning I had an issue with a medical bill and wanted to talk to the billing department of the hospital in question and I wanted to do it in person, not on the phone, so I drove over there this morning.

An older gentleman (or was he a gentleman) walks up to me with a clipboard and saying something, at first I assume he is asking for signatures on a petition so I want to hear about it so I walk over to him, but what he is holding is his medical appointment paperwork and complaining that he is late for his appointment and that he is lost.

I get on my phone, get the address, start to explain to him what to do and he pulls out his phone and says "This damn Obama phone doesnt work worth a shit, you push on the buttons and nothing happens"

sigh

I proceed to give him more information and as he walks away he says "Yeah, so Hillary Clinton has been working on my healthcare for 30 years, yeah right!" and he says it in a disgusting way as to blame Hillary the way he was blaming Barack for his phone not working.

This is what we have to live with, these are our neighbors.

[tonyt53]

1. There is no hope for stupid.

[SCantiGOP]

30. Ask him

If his Lyndon Johnson Medicare still works, and how about his Franklin Roosevelt Social Security.

[geardaddy]

35. Your reply has so much win. n/t

[mreilly]

2. It's in their nature....

.... they could be walking down the street thinking how much they hate Hillary Clinton as they're eating an ice cream cone. Then if the ice cream fell off on the sidewalk they'd stare in shock for a moment then immediately start bellowing and screeching that the awful, evil, horrible Hillary Clinton intentionally made them drop their ice cream.

They're like little children, braying and howling it's always someone else's fault. If that guy was too stupid to learn how to work a phone that's his problem.

[samnsara]

3. let him miss his apt. it obviously wasnt one to check his heart.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. ...

[John Fante]

17. Or brain.

[dalton99a]

4. Unlike President Trump who is taking great care of him

[DetlefK]

5. That's what senility does to you. I have heard of a worse example:

An old man once complained to my father about the Jews. How WWII was the Jews' fault because they had engineered Hitler's rise to power...

[Eliot Rosewater]

21. I remember watching Rachel in the weeks prior to the election, talking about the outright

Nazi's supporting rump and that rump wouldnt deny their support.

The way she said it was as if this was crazy but surely wouldn't be tolerated by us and if only the election would get over with etc.

It was tolerated, is.

NO MATTER what happens in November or 2o2o, we have to deal with knowing that many of our citizens are on board with the 3rd Reich fascism whether they know what that is or not.

[jodymarie aimee]

6. My old boss says

don't worry, they will die off...not soon enough for us, tho...they still vote and so do their spawn. In TM you get a mantra...you may find yourself repeating it even when not meditating....this is how these folks are...they have only so many phrases and keep mantra- ing them to death. And you know somebody else heard him that day, and if they were dopes it just multiplies..."yeah, I heard this guy today".....

[brush]

19. This is why the repugs keep cutting education...and why they put Devos in charge of the cutting.

Keeping people stupid keeps them voting for repugs.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Oh boy.

Yes they are out there. Heard this more than once. Love the hate those free Obama Phones. You can not fix Stupid my friend.

[enough]

8. Every detail in this story suggests actual dementia, which is something you wouldnt

wish on anyone, even a Trumpite.

[KT2000]

22. maybe not

There are people who spend their lives watching fox news and are so filled with hate for Hillary and Obama that they automatically turn everything into their fault. I've seen it many times, especially among the retired men. That is why this is so dangerous. There are more people than we realize who are losing their minds in obedience to the RW messages of hate.

Our mail lady knocked on the door to deliver a parcel and the man answered with his gun drawn on her and the red dot on her chest. Jut one example of the grassroots damage being done.

[zipplewrath]

10. Politically correct carburetor

A wing nut one time was complaining about his car. He said the problem with the car was all the government regulations. He complained that he had to have a "politically correct" carburetor. I asked what the heck a politically correct carburetor was. He waved his hand and said, "Ya know, one of them things Nader makes us have".

He had no idea what he was saying. He just knew that "politically correct" meant "bad" and Ralph Nader was someone who did "bad"
things. I decided not to tell him that his car was fuel injected.

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. Early part of my life I was involved in cars, racing, mechanics, etc., and

the genius I worked with for a while in a transmission shop and on his race car would get a kick out of figuring out in record time how to disable anything the so called government put in a car like a catalytic converter and sensor, dont remember what he did but he was a genius at it.

He stopped around the time computer chips became a big deal in cars and I would assume given he had no background in that he would have been less successful with disabling those.

Amazing guy, his brother was a famous orthopedic surgeon at Stanford and they were both basically geniuses.

[zipplewrath]

14. software makes it hard these days

The software often "senses" what's going on in the engine these days and unless you can fool the sensor, it's hard to make engines do what they don't want you to do. People do sell chips that have different software (firmware probably actually). In states with emissions control laws, those chips can be illegal.

He could probably have tried to replace the sensors with things that fooled the computer. That woulda been a neat trick though.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. I'm guessing that guy, the transmission shop genius, totally fucked up all

those cars.

I'm reminded of someone I knew who back in the early days of home computers would disable or uninstall anything he didn't think he needed. After a while his computer didn't work right and he couldn't understand why.

[IronLionZion]

32. Most likely the exhaust gas re-circulation valve to reduce emissions

which has nothing to do with Nader. He was for mandatory seat belts.

[demigoddess]

40. I would say he was a listener of right wing radio and brainwashed. Years ago, they were

convincing people that nothing would break etc, if only free enterprise would be allowed to run amok, with no regulations. Things like regulations by the EPA and safety rules just did not set well with them, not realizing that things were made differently in the old days 'when everything wasn't regulated"

[bearsfootball516]

11. Fun story here.

I once dated a girl who was moderate, but her father was far-right. He bought a new truck and it came equipped with OnStar for the first year. He asked me if I knew how to disable it, because he didn't want Obama listening to his conversations.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Wow, I wonder how many of them are out there?

[zipplewrath]

18. True American

Just tell him not to worry, the NSA doesn't let Obama listen in on "True Americans".
Let him wrap his head around THAT quandary.

[tclambert]

23. Picture Obama hunched over the Resolute desk in the oval office, earphone pressed against one ear,

and scribbling notes on a legal pad. "Ahhhh, now I believe . . . he's singing along with, ahhh, Toby Keith."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. It boosts their ego to think they are important enough to need to be listened to. . . . nt

[ProudLib72]

15. Find a brick and some dog shit. Dip the brick in the dog shit and hand it to the man

Tell him to try out the "tRump phone".

[Delmette2.0]

20. About 4 years ago I was in a local drugstore printing copies of pictures.

A man walks over and stands close by, I thought he wanted to use the scanner/printer. I was surprised when he started in complaining about Obama, but I just acted concerned. Then he said that Obama was taking away all our civil rights!. I replied "really? Which ones?" He looked at me for a few seconds and walked away.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. A big RepubliCon con is to never take personal responsibility & demand everyone else do so. . . nt

[spanone]

27. racist, misogynist, idiot.

[cilla4progress]

28. I had a similarly disturbing experience with a neighbor

This morning.

Driving out my little rural valley into the highway into town. I saw the small truck in front of me had a large branch stuck in the undercarriage. When I finally was able to drive up next to the elderly driver and signal, he flipped me off and proceeded to harass me going down the highway!

Of course I don’t know his political persuasion, but our county is overwhelmingly Republican...

[Orsino]

29. A mindset that everything should be done for him, you'd think...

...would have him supporting universal healthcare, or at least the reforms of the ACA. The GOP, though, offer simpler answers to the big questions, and some would rather suffer than think and work.

[LSFL]

31. I feel you

One day I was getting gas and there was a tent thing in the parking where they were signing people up for phones. Then, because I am a big crazy looking guy and an even bigger asshole, I catch the eye of the guy on the next pump.(confederate flag do rag on his dome) I say to him "I guess they have to call them trump phones now "

That went over like a sleigh load of shit and he screamed fuck you at me. I just laughed and said dude....we are all fucked.

[Amimnoch]

33. Can't be fixed...

[melman]

34. That definitely happened

[George II]

36. Before I get attacked, I'm 70, but lots of older people are just cranky all the time...

...and unhappy.

You should hear my neighbor talk about politicians, local up to the national level. EVERYBODY is bad to him, and he knows I'm involved with local/state politics and have run for office in our town several times.

I don't know what causes that, like I said I'm 70 and have never been happier in my life.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

39. Lol

[progressoid]

42. ditto lol

[JI7]

44. but shouldn't it at least be someone who is actually in office ? the fact he went after 2 democrats

who are both out of office seems like it's something other than just old cranky people .

[NurseJackie]

46. Fear of death? Painful health issues? Lifelong regrets? Lack of money? Lonliness?

I don't know what causes that, like I said I'm 70 and have never been happier in my life.

Aside from obvious and ordinary annoyances... I'm happy also.

[barbtries]

37. you should have reminded them

there's a new administration. nm, there's no point in even talking to someone whose head is that far up his ass.

[Sophia4]

38. Maybe you need to move.

[ehrnst]

41. Why? You haven't.

And your dissatisfaction that a Democratic California Senator elected from Northern California can't possibly represent Southern Californians has been expressed here on DU numerous times.

Perhaps your displeasure with diminish if you moved to a small homegenous state where 96% of the residents look and think much more uniformly like you, and you can elect Senators that look and think like you do.

[JI7]

45. +

[KitSileya]

43. Ugh, I know the feeling.

Yesterday, I met an elderly acquaintance by chance at a new coffee shop in the neighborhood. I sat at his table to be polite, and now I wish I hadn't. He was listening to to a news podcast, and I asked him about it. It was a political news report - right wing, Vietnamese and pro-Trump. The man in question is a Vietnamese refugee, and he can be very difficult to understand due to the language barrier between us, but as he was trying to convey that Trump would be good for Vietnam, that Clinton and Obama had been soft on China, and that Trump was a good man, I could just feel my contempt for him rising. This is a man who is very active in church, yet he has no problems calling Trump a good man? And Obama not? I lost a lot of respect for him, I must say.

[Eliot Rosewater]

47. Stupid I guess explains most of this