Me. Drunk. At my wife's family reunion. Debating people calling Obama a fascist and a socialist.

[shadowknows69]

And I didn't kill anyone. Aren't y'all proud of me? My shrink will be relieved and certainly my wife was.

Don't even get me started on the woman who loved Sarah Palin because she was "just like us and not some Harvard graduate or something."

[flvegan]

1. Thread title sounds like the buildup to a COPS segment.

[shadowknows69]

4. It could have turned out that way, but I was able to control myself lol.

[Teaser]

2. next time try a beatdown.

you're better off. they're better off.

[shadowknows69]

5. There were a lot more of them.

That and my mother in law was already angry that I was drinking. Piss off the MIL and it's all over boys.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. I think you can take her.

I think.

[shadowknows69]

23. My MIL is SuperWoman......and I don't have kryptonite.

Seriously the woman has beaten down cancer and other such things like a dozen times. I don't mess.

[anonymous171]

3. Oh yes, the "X (republican) is just like us" thing always gets me.

I am glad to hear that you made it out without killing anyone.

[Chemisse]

17. Just like us is great, except

We aren't qualified to be world leaders!

[shadowknows69]

20. Well most of us. I think I would make a groovy King :O)

[Chemisse]

25. LOL - I stand corrected, people just like us SHOULD be the president!

[surrealAmerican]

37. Well, you've just proven your diplomatic skills.

You may have a point about being king.

[tularetom]

6. You expect praise for this? You should have killed someone.

And I think you know who.

Yeah let's elect people because they are stupid.

[shadowknows69]

8. My pacifism gets the better of me sometimes.

There was a lake. I could have just dragged a couple of them in.

[HillbillyBob]

19. I can't stand those family gatherings,

Our family reunion is next weekend and this will be um about the 26th years I have not attended.

They are a bunch of Southern Talibabtis, and I'm gay. The last one I went to was very uncomfortable to me.

My partner says " the main problem with Baptists is that when they go down to the river..they don't hold them down long enough".

All of them voted for Bush the first and the second time. I had told the lot of them in 1998 that if he ran, he would 'win' and we would be at war in Iraq or Iran with in 2 years, and our economy would be a shambles by the time he left office....
Now they say how did you know? and you were right.
Should have listened to me, instead of insulting me and telling me in 2004 that he would protect us.

I am not prescient , I had read the some documents related to PNAC manifesto in 97.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. Ask them to define those terms...

bet they cant do it.

If socialism is so evil, them why do we have it here in the states?

[shadowknows69]

9. Actually I pretty much stopped them cold when I brought up medicare/medicaid

You could have heard a pin drop I swear. Then the talking points took hold after they collected themselves. Actually, the only senior at the table cheered me on with that comment.

[and-justice-for-all]

13. hehe...sock it to'em..nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Next time get sauced enough to puke on 'em,

then say you're just imitating George HW Bush.

[MichiganVote]

11. I thought Obama was a Bigamist and an illegal alien this week.

:eyes:

Can't even trust the propaganda anymore.

[shadowknows69]

14. It is hard to keep up. We're a bit behind the times up here

Hair metal is actually just getting popular.

[MichiganVote]

15. Should have told them they are like sooo...yesterday.

[Cha]

12. "Just like us"..."a

quitter who incites hate".

[Chemisse]

16. I think that is one of the levels of hell.

Congrats for surviving it.

[shadowknows69]

18. I was comforted by the fact that my wife would kill me if I got too.....passionate.

[RB TexLa]

22. I had that in a social setting this week the person mentioned something about the president and

socialism and then asked me what I thought about it. I just said, "I don't discuss things like that with you, go speak with someone else." Her jaw dropped and then she walked off.

[Cid_B]

55. I thought this sounded familiar...

then I realized... It's the "I don't drink with you guy"!

The person you dropped that on sounds absolutely viscious.

[Fla_Democrat]

24. you didn't kill someone

who you disagree with politically. Yea, you're my hero.

[shadowknows69]

26. I believe Oxford has a course where you can obtain a sense of humor

Check into it. Perhaps you qualify for a scholarship?

[Fla_Democrat]

29. Funny how posts about killing, here, are humor

yet elsewhere is a warning sign that everyone missed before some wack job killed.....

So, say, if someone crossed posted a 'I didn't kill someone' post from a sight you politically disagreed with... you would think it was a knee slapper? "I was at Walmart, and some jackass was talking bad about Sister Sarah.. and it took all I had in me, and by the grace of gawd, I didn't cave his head in with a can of crisco." :eyes:

Maybe you need more sessions.

[shadowknows69]

32. Less than 1000 posts in 7 years and you pick me to wage a crusade on?

Aren't there any real issues you can chime in about? JOKE. Either laugh at it or pass politely on by.

[shadowknows69]

36. And actually sweetums you're right. I do need more sessions.

Because one of the reasons I'm in therapy is because I have the potential to be a "Whack job" through nothing more than loss of my temper. So I'm trying to fix that. I had to stop driving taxi because I realized the next bigot, homophobe or war cheerleader I met I was probably going to slit their throat and let them bleed out in my cab. Obviously this would have created more paperwork than I usually like filling out so I opted for mental health treatments.

[Fla_Democrat]

41. Don't take it personal

it's just the accumulation of the recent build up of chatter advocating violence. I just see what could be coming down the pike, and it isn't pretty. And, you are right, 7 years (will take your word on the time, just know I have been here abouts for quite a while)is a long time, long enough to see how things have and are changing trends. I don't know, maybe that's the (un)official stance now, nod, nod, wink wink. It's all fun and games till someone does something stupid, then it's scrubbing old posts and pointing fingers at who didn't catch it.



Pssst, Do not post messages that advocate harm or death to anyone, threaten the livelihood of anyone, or otherwise harass anyone. I wish I had wrote that. :applause:

[shadowknows69]

44. Ok, valid point. I take some liberties with my rants

Mainly because most that have read me here are used to my acerbic tone. I joke like that because I too see the real potential for violence in the divisions of our country and I guess that's my way of "keeping up with the (psycho) Joneses".

[lxlxlxl]

27. welcome to my life...gj

x/x/x/x

[EFerrari]

28. You're a better man than I am!

lol

:toast:

[Skittles]

30. you want I should kick some reunion ass, shadow?

lemme at 'em

[ruggerson]

31. wtf is these people's problem with good colleges

[EFerrari]

40. Reagan made education unfashionable. They've been doing this

for years.

[ruggerson]

52. I think it actually started earlier - with Nixon

and his hatred of all things Kennedy.

Remember he used to disparage "Harvard boys."

[EFerrari]

53. I forgot all about that. That's right!

[seabeyond]

33. last employee christmas party i had people stopping me asking "you the liberal". being in midland,

tx.... i was it. even the one black man serving the drinks was a repug

[Stephanie]

57. Midland TX? Ancestral Home of Bush the Jr.?

The whole place must be haunted. I think George Jr. was permanently scarred while living in Midland by the death of his sister and his parents' refusal to acknowledge it. Young George was a haunted child, and a damaged adult.

[seabeyond]

58. drive into town and sign to claim home to georgie

i understand there was a lot of messed up things in his youth. .... we all have our cross to bare

[Subdivisions]

34. I was thinking of you the other day when I realized I hadn't

seen you around for awhile. Now here you are :). And, I am very proud of you for not killing anyone =^).

[shadowknows69]

35. Well I try not to leave the house armed anymore. So that helps.

[DRoseDARs]

38. "Just like us. Gooble gobble gooble gobble..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM



Note: Yeah yeah, I know. How classy to post a clip from a rather offensive (and it IS offensive) scene in the 1932 film "Freaks" but that IS an accurate description of Palin's worshipers gooble gobble gooble gobble.

[shadowknows69]

39. A "Freaks" reference. You so rock!

[DRoseDARs]

42. Honestly, I was looking from the South Park version; didn't even know about the movie until now.

Episode 514 "Butter's Very Own Episode"

[shadowknows69]

43. It's a disturbing classic.

[DRoseDARs]

49. I think I saw all I need to see of it. I think I'll pass on the rest.

Feel so bad for the, er, Little Person (I guess is the preferred term these days) at the end of the clip. Throwing liquid in someone's face like that is an insult in ANY culture. Really ratcheted it up in this scene.

[shadowknows69]

50. Um...without spoiling too much suffice it to say...There is a reckoning

[DFW]

45. Not some Harvard graduate or something

Not like George W. Bush, for example?


By the way, how many of those people who used the words "fascist" and "socialist" had the faintest ides what either word meant?

[shadowknows69]

46. Godwin's law was in full effect.

The one guy said first Obama would make us socialists then we'd become a fascist nation....just like the Nazis. I pretty much ignored that guy because he was clearly too far gone. I think I made some headway with a couple of them though believe it or not.

[patrice]

47. I'm seeing my brother the fascist idiot who never competed in the rat-race his entire life nextmonth

Please pray for me.

[shadowknows69]

48. On it. Good luck.

[patrice]

51. Did I mention he's a Racist too? I think it will be best if I just go elsewhere every time

I see him.

I just need to remember that kicking his ass will do no good and, though I'm quite capable and I'd love it, it will be unpleasant for Mom. I have given my favorite neice permission to remind me in front of the others that I told her to keep me away from him.

[bertman]

54. I have a fairly high regard for well-educated individuals in general, but what I have

found from somewhat limited experience socializing with Ivy League grads with LOTS of money and IMPORTANT jobs is that they are very clubby and look out for their own kind--meaning the other rich folks with big degrees.

Some of them are very generous and vote Democratic, but many of them have no empathy for the working class. So, it's easy for me to see why the rank and file often find the Harvard grad tag to be a negative. It would be interesting to know how many of the DLC, DNC and RNC are Ivy Leaguers.

Shadowknows69, I commend you for your restraint. I face the same situation any time we have a gathering of my family. They know I'm the bleeding heart liberal, so they lay it on thick. I can usually give as good as I get, but on the way home I'm constantly thinking "Damn, I wish I'd thought to say this . . . or that, when they made some stupid statement."

Maybe you should practice a few good lines to have ready for the next one. Let me know if you come up with some.

[tilsammans]

59. Add me to that list!

THE sole progressive at the family reunion. It wouldn’t bother me so much if it were not for those who feel the need to spout Limpball talking points left and right, assuming that everyone agrees.

Like “now senior citizens will have to go for mandatory euthanasia counseling every five years.” Blah blah blah. :puke:

Yet they were the first in line for Cash for Clunkers.

aarrgghhh

[orleans]

56. me. sitting here. reading your post. glad i wasn't there. n/t