I don't know if this will make anyone feel better but I am.

[texanwitch]

I have relative who is a right wing republican ass.

Due to family issues I had to be around him.

He owns a business and he is really worried about what is going on.

It was funny to listen to him almost crying about it.

He might not get his money from the government for the work he does.

Yeah, he hates big government but loves the money and the tax deductions.

After listening to him, I said to bad you who vote republican.

Your bunch started this, they don't care about you.

All kinds of people will suffer because people like you voted republican.

Go pound sand.

I hope to never see him again.

So you see this is hitting republican small business people.

I only feel sorry for the 5 people who work for him.

[dgibby]

1. Karma:

It's not just what's for breakfast anymore.

[texanwitch]

3. Yep.

I would have said worse but we were at a wake for a family member.

He might loose everything.

He really gets most of his business from a the government.

But he really hates it.

Go figure.

[dgibby]

7. Sorry for your loss.

[texanwitch]

9. Thank you.

The family member was on hospice care so we knew it was coming.

He is at peace now.

[Warpy]

2. Every family has at least one of them

and they're so bamboozled by Pox News and Limbag that they have no clue what's really going on. Since they find facts painful, they will continue to avoid them.

They are marching themselves off to the lunatic fringe and they're welcome to it.

[texanwitch]

5. He just bought a new expensive house.

He just doesn't know how to make the payments if the government checks don't come next month.

[Warpy]

11. I wouldn't pass up any opportunity to tell him he's getting just what he voted for.

These people just can't make the connections sometimes. It's up to us to make them for them.

[sammytko]

12. Not a very good steward of his money

He has nothing set aside for business emergencies??

[texanwitch]

13. No.

He likes to live the lifestyle of a wealthy republican.

He isn't.

From what I heard he is really over his head.

I guess he never thought those nice government checks would stop coming in.

Now he has the new house in a gated community.

That's life.

[BlueToTheBone]

26. This affirms, if you want to live like a republican

vote for democrats.

[Brigid]

14. I know of a certain expensive house in a gated community . . .

That will soon be for sale.

[texanwitch]

15. Yep.

Sad, so sad.

I guess old cousin will have to find a apartment or something with the rest of us.

Old Uncle Sam cannot pay his bills right now.

[gopiscrap]

4. yeah my attitude: fuck him

I hate to say it, these anti government tea party ignorant asswipes need to figure out where there bread is buttered.

[texanwitch]

6. He is only one of many finally getting the message.

He was crying in the parking lot.

He is a cousin, we grew up together.

He was a asshole back then also.

[gopiscrap]

8. My heart gets torn because in one way I feel bad but in another way

through their votes and attitude they caused this!

[texanwitch]

10. I only feel bad for the 5 people who work for him.

He was always full of hate for President Obama and any democrat really.

Hate and greed is fueling this mess.

I don't know why he thought I would care.

We haven't spoken in years.

[gopiscrap]

20. I can fully understand your position

I have my own issues with politically crazy in laws!

[sarge43]

16. Finally dawning on him the Repug party isn't his friend

or is it still Obama's fault?

I hope things work out for his employees.

[texanwitch]

19. They are in a small town.

Not a lot of jobs.

This sucks for them.

So it goes.

My cousin's company dealt with Medicare.

Good luck with that.

[CrispyQ]

21. His company deals with Medicare & he votes republican?

[texanwitch]

22. I am not sure what part of it.

He was always a fool.

The only good thing I can stay about him is he payed his workers a decent wage.

Those five jobs will be hard to replace.

[CrispyQ]

23. You are a better person than me in that you could find something nice to say about him.

[texanwitch]

24. Well, five people did have a decent job.

I am not really this nice.

This is the only nice thing I will ever say about him.

[arely staircase]

17. I have a GOP coworker who is freaking out because

her husband is paid directly by the Pentagon for his work with a defense contractor. It sounds like today's vote will take care of him, though.

[texanwitch]

18. My cousin won't be covered by that.

Well, what can I say.

My cousin also just bought a shiny new car.

Maybe he can live in it.

My family member that died was a democrat, I just spoke up for him.

He would have said a lot more.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. No sympathy for his type

[SheilaT]

27. I find it completely impossible to sympathize with people like

your cousin.

He has no clue where his political loyalties ought to lie. He spends all of his money trying to live as if he's rich. While there are those who genuinely live so close to the edge it's impossible to save, I despise the ones like him who think saving money is only for fools. Or whyever it is that they don't save a penny.

You say he pays his employees decently. Does he also provide healthcare?

[texanwitch]

28. I don't know.

I bet he didn't.

He was a big man in a little town, you know the typel

I hope never to see him again.

I will never understand people who hate the government but live off it.

[Thinkingabout]

31. Like Ron and Rand Paul,

[gopiscrap]

29. Yeah it'samazing how people change their tuen when it directly affects them

too bad they can't care for others in the same way!

[geek tragedy]

30. I hope every Republican voter suffers significantly

because of what their party is doing to the country. They deserve it.

[texanwitch]

32. Yep.

Most republicans are just working people, or people who own a business who need working people's money.

All I can say to those sorry assholes are cry me a river.

To bad the rest of us have to suffer to.

[bravenak]

33. I positively love that you told him true.

My cousin said he thinks he's a republican a couple of weeks ago. I told him to give back his new kidney and pancreas he just got through Medicare and Medicaid. Then I cussed him out for half an hour. He finally admitted he doesn't vote. I said good! Now get out and leave my medical mj right where you found it. No more medicine for him.

[texanwitch]

34. I do wonder how many people know where medicare and medicaid comes from.

I guess hanging out on DU with really smart people spoils one for the real world of stupid people out there.

I wonder how many people really know about the shutdown to begin with.

Now that is scary.



Glad you told him off, does make one feel better.

I would have said more but I was at a wake.

Believe me I would have told him a lot more somewhere's else.

I guess the stupid people will be learning real soon where medicare and medicaid comes from.

[bravenak]

35. This country has been dumbed down significantly in the last 30 years.

I blame Reagan.
I was shocked that he didn't know that socialism saved his life. I was so glad he lived and now I'm sad he is dumb. We have forced him into GED classes so he can learn a little bit of what he missed while he was gangbanging and hustling.
He would feel fully comfortable as a black man at a tea party rally. I blame myself for not educating him. I assumed he knew.
I bet he will become a democrat as soon as his ssdi check doesn't show up.

[Jamastiene]

36. They only hate it when others can anything from the government, not themselves.

I have family members who are still passing around the Kenyan cartoons and jokes. I am not close to those family members and have my mother's emails with "fwd" in the subject line set to get deleted when she tries to send them to my email address. Those are always some Kenyan this chimpanzee that racist bullshit. I don't know why she sends crap like that and chain emails. I have told her hundreds of times not to do that because it's bullshit and no one likes political crap or chain email crap in their inbox. She won't listen. I just set that crap to go to the trash. If she tries to talk about it on the phone, I will say, "Oh look, I just saw a bird out the window I haven't seen before. Let me go identify this species." She knows that means I'm gong to be talking about nature and nothing but nature obsessively for the next hour or so and nothing else can change the conversation. So, she lets me get off the phone. It is irritating to be surrounded by family that believes superstitions, lies, scams, and Republicans (all one in the same, really) more than facts.