my republican neighbor...

[myohmy2]

...is unhappy with Joe...

...he blames Joe for the price of gas and bitches Joe should have cut off Russian oil...and he's serious...

...see what happens?

...so children, study hard and get a good job and when you grow old you won''t have to live in my neighborhood...

...

[NewHendoLib]

1. I'm unhappy with ALL repubs. Sick, no nothing cult.

[pwb]

2. People sometimes take me for a puke.

Big mistake.

[JohnSJ]

3. That is the problem. Not only do they lack critical thinking skills, but they are brain washed

[iluvtennis]

32. Exactly! nt

[Emile]

4. My wife's aunt blames Joe for shutting down the pipeline.

You can't fix stupid!

[ClimateHawk]

6. My mom does too.

There's no point in trying to argue with them. My all time favorite quote is "A lie will go around the world while the truth is pulling its boots on".

[FakeNoose]

9. Don't tell me ... let me guess ...

She watches Faux Noise exclusively, and she gets all her news from there AND Facebook!
Am I close?

[hadEnuf]

15. Yup.

The common denominator in most people like that. They reflexively regurgitate the Faux talking points without thought, even to the point where they look like absolute idiots. Totally brainwashed.

[TeamProg]

28. That's the easiest route - no thinking required. They grab at and eat up the lowest common

denominator and it's so very dangerous. Also makes actual progress harder for those of us who do think our way through.

[halfulglas]

34. Was she specific about which pipeline?

I mean, so many of these people hear a buzz word and literally don't know what the hell they're talking about, but they go along and be outraged about whatever they're told to be outraged about, and feel absolutely no shame if they are proven wrong. It gets so tiring keeping up with their talking points.

I was on another neutral site which wasn't even supposed to be political except we were talking about Ukraine and all of a sudden someone started spouting off about Hunter Biden's hard drive. Could not tell if it was a Russian troll or an idiot RW. They remember every talking point for the past 6 years and they are still outraged about them. Throw in antiabortion nutjobs screaming about killing babies and you know some people are never going to be back to "normal."

[Emile]

35. She never said. I presumed it was the Canadian pipeline, but I

didn't argue with her to find out. 99% of the time she has no clue what the hell she is talking about. She watches FOX and Newsmax and she is in a constant state of anger over those damn democrats ruining our country. She thinks Joe Biden tore down Trump's Southern Border Wall and floods of illegal terrorists are entering our country. 94 years old and dumb as a rock.

[ChazII]

36. My neighborhood wants Joe to open

the pipeline so that gas prices will go down.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. They're all over, rich neighborhood or poor. More to do with bad genetics, upbringing & sociopathy.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Yup narcissism and sociopathy

Useless failures as human beings...

[TeamProg]

31. Well, you can narrow it down a bit further.. The Rich with greed and self-righteousness and the

Uneducated Poor who still work for and complain about 'the man' while voting against their own best interest.

Neither of these groups cultivate curiosity or a cause for the greater good.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. Ask Your STUPID FUCKING Neighbor.....

What would happen to the price of gas if Joe cuts off Russian oil.

Or better yet, just avoid conversing with him at all. Save your sanity.

It's Assholes like him, that are the reason Russian oil won't be cut off. Otherwise Assholes like him would complain and blame Joe that the cost of gas is too high. Dipshits.

[hadEnuf]

16. They have absolutely no idea what they are talking about, but Fox tells them they do.

And there you have it.

[gratuitous]

8. My response for folks like this

Fortunately, I don't meet many of them in real space, but when someone makes these comments in conversation with me, I just say "That's not true."

[Nevilledog]

11. Close to mine: "You're a fucking idiot."

[gratuitous]

12. My mamma raised me not to say that to a person's face

But she's been gone 40 years now, and I don't think she foresaw the rise of such nitwittery in the public sphere.

[Nevilledog]

14. I used to cuss around my mom just to hear her gasp.

It was always a goal of mine to see if I could make her hyperventilate.

Apparently I was a guttersnipe and should have worked in a shipyard.

[albacore]

18. When I came home from the Marine Corps...

.... I found out that my mother had been looking for new vocabulary to describe creatures like Reagan.
"They're just....... the SHITS!" Lots more. Let your imagination run wild. She was a fast learner, but then I learned from the best.
I may one of the few people you know who corrupted his mother's language.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. My mom would make the sign of the cross on herself and say

"Bože moi." (My God.)

It's really not nice of me to have tee-hee'd then or even now recalling this. 😇

'Damn' wouldn't bother her as much as 'oh sh*t' did. Oopsie.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Us kiddos used to hold our tongues with our fingers and say:

"My father works in a shipyard."
😆

[calimary]

19. I like that - "nitwittery."

LOVE this, gratuitous! Mind if I borrow it?

[gratuitous]

20. File off the serial number and claim it for your own

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. republican seems to be shorthand for uninformed opinionist that needs no facts to assert their

beliefs.

[benpollard]

17. I have a similar neighbor.

He stopped his van at my house a few years ago when I was in the yard playing with my dog. We were talking about something and he claimed that "Obamacare" increased the debt by 10 trillion dollars. When I corrected him with facts about the debt and deficits under Obama, he started screaming that I was completely brainwashed, stomped on the gas, and drove off like a madman.

Naturally, he's an ardent and dedicated viewer of Fox propaganda. He believes that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and all mainstream news outlets are all fake news and only Fox has the real facts, and only Fox viewers are informed.

I refuse to have anything to do with him any more. He tries to talk to me sometimes, but now that I know what he is, I refuse to socialize with him. The only way to deal with people who do things that harm society is to ostracize them.

[GoCubsGo]

21. The gas prices are high, so cutting off Russian oil helps that how???

Chryst Almighty, these people are imbeciles. Is nobody teaching the law of supply and demand anymore?

[CaptainTruth]

23. They can't be reasoned with because they deny reality & can't think logically.

I truly don't know where this will end, but this doesn't bode well for our country.

[AllaN01Bear]

29. remember , these were the same ones who belived in them " chemtrails " and the gouberment was

sparying us .

[Missn-Hitch]

25. That's exactly what I did back in 2005 during the reign of Bush II.

I saw where they were going. It was time for distance between us.

[Mr. Evil]

26. I noticed something strange on the weekend of the Super Bowl.

I usually shop at Kroger. With the Kroger card you can find good deals and the fuel points really help.

In the weeks preceding the Super Bowl there were empty shelves of varying food items on a random basis. Some days there was no bacon and very few eggs. Others, there was no saltine crackers at all. Then there were days with threadbare frozen items like pot pies (especially my favorite, Marie Calendar's beef pot pie) and even pizza. But, on the weekend of the Super Bowl, everything was fully stocked. Everything was there in all it's can't-wait-to-eat splendor. After the SB, back to sporadic shortages. Hmmm...

Sometimes I think corporations are exploiting this (made up?) supply chain fiasco as a means to hurt President Biden. If the economy seems bad and people can't get their favorite munchies they'll vote for a russiapublican. Price gouging under the guise of inflation all because they don't want to pay taxes. The next russiapublican president (hopefully never) will propose, and probably get, another massive tax-cut for corporations and the ultra-rich.

Maybe I'm wrong and just hyper thinking about this but, I certainly wouldn't put it past them.

[Conjuay]

27. I hada total stranger come up to me

at Lowes and started spewing right wing BS at me. (I'm the age that fits their demographic- White, male and approaching 70)

I'm so proud of my response -

"Why don't you fart, and clear your head?"
I kept walking.

[panader0]

33. Welcome to DU. You'll fit right in.

[lastlib]

30. I once told a guy b*tching about paying for public schools....

That the reason we had tax-supported education in this country was so that we wouldn't be governed by idiots like him.