Today's episode of "Crazy Shit My Friends Post On Facebook"

[Atman]

This guy was one of my best friends from grade school through high school. We used to hang out at his house after school for "bong-a-thons," where six or eight of us would all contribute some weed to his hookah. He was the son of a prominent local preacher. Now he he lists his job as being at (Family Name) Group Properties, so maybe he's just very bitter at the downturn in the real estate market and lashing out. We grew up together in Florida, I moved to New England while he stayed in Florida, further explaining his delusional right-wing attitudes. Anyway, here is his first post today...

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"VOTER FRAUD is the name of ACORN's game. They're just getting their feet wet in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Their real goal is to steal the 2012 elections by flooding polling booths with illegitimate voters."

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Where do they come up with this stuff???

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. they get a real Rush out of talk radio induced paranoia

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Maybe it's from spending too much time in "poolling booths?"

Depending on what those booths are filled, with it could be killing off their brain cells? :shrug:

[Atman]

3. LOL!He maybe an idiot, but that was my bad.

Fixed....I'm bed-ridden after foot surgery, transcriping manually from my iPhone to an iPad via a wireless keyboard, all balanced on my lap, I'm surprised I didn't make more mistakes!

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[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. Actually, I wasn't even calling them an idiot

So, I definitely was not calling you one. Double clicking a letter is a common enough typo.

I was just trying to make a joke out of a sad situation. Honestly, I don't know why some people believe every little bite of hate and stupidity they're spoon fed.

Hope your foot heals fast! :)

[savalez]

4. AM radio's a hell-of-a-drug. n/t

[ingac70]

6. ACORN? They are still beating that dead horse? n/t

[mreilly]

7. From propaganda

Seriously, when I see this stuff being posted, I can always tell it's someone who's just brainwashed by Fox News and/or right-wing hate radio. Period. I don't for a second believe the person in question has any valid basis for such a conclusion since they're just parroting someone else's so-called "ideas."

I firmly believe the Republicans - who DID steal elections - just cooked up the anti-Acorn BS to throw the spotlight off their own dishonest doings. That way if anyone points out what they did in 2000 and 2004 they can just screech that it's Acorn that really did the election fraud. No different than a kid who steals money from his Dad's wallet, is observed doing it by little brother Pete, then runs to Mom crying he saw Pete steal the money. That way when Pete tries to tell the truth he'll just look even guiltier. That's about the level the Republicans operate at: grade school mentalities.

[gratuitous]

8. The correct response

Really? How many convictions for voter fraud have come down in Florida? Besides Ann Coulter, that is.

[RevStPatrick]

9. That sounds just like my grade-school, baseball team...

...then high-school bongathon and now Facebook buddy.
Who has become a brain-dead right-wing Fox-loving Christian conservative.

He loves to talk about "Slick Willy" (all these years later) and that Muslim commie Obama, but then when you say anything even slightly negative about his heroes Sean Hannity or George Walker Bush, it's all "the left can only insult and show its true hatred because they have no ideas." He was all over the "Ground Zero Mosque" and he LOVES him some Herman Cain. (he's actually been VERY quiet the last couple of weeks.)

It's frustrating, but I keep at it because I'm fascinated at the notion that 2 people can come from the same place at the same time with the same influences, and yet turn out so different 30 some-odd years later! I suppose I'm trying to find the key to what makes that happen...

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. It's funny. I don't ever get that stuff on my FB even though....

I know quite a few are repugs. I also post tons of anti repug stuff and I don't pull my punches. LOL, maybe they are just scared.
I really wish they would.

[jwirr]

11. Someone sends it to them. My granddaughter put up that crazy poll

about drug testing welfare people. I voted no and posted on her FB site why I do not believe it should be done. I suspect she knows why I was so angry. Welfare is what helped me keep my severely disabled daughter in my home for 45 years. And there is not a taxpayer who should not be thankful I did. It cost about $.33 an hour when I took care of her. Her foster home alone now costs about $3000 a month.

She was thinking of it as a way to identify users (like her brother's wife) and get them help. There are other ways.

These are rethug talking points and they are the ones sending them - our family and friends are often taken in by what sounds good without thinking.

[coalition_unwilling]

12. CORRECT RESPONSE: "If ACORN is so all-powerful, why do

1% of the country's people control 40% of its wealth?"

Follow-up question: "Why does 1% of the population control 40% of its wealth?"

2nd follow-up question: "Is it moral or just that 1% of the population control 40% of its wealth?"

He'll probably de-friend you by that 2nd follow-up, but still worth a try, I'd say.