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TEB

(12,840 posts)
Mon May 8, 2017, 07:52 PM May 2017

My neighbor is a trump supporter

He will usually start a conversation about trump , serious supporter on shit bag president. He was walking to his back porch not one word to me , I said hey man did you check out the fake news testimony today by sally Yates and clapper if you missed it . Come on over I recorded the hearing for the wife she wants to watch there testimony I made chicken.

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My neighbor is a trump supporter (Original Post) TEB May 2017 OP
Ha HA HA The_Casual_Observer May 2017 #1
Ask him how he wants his crow cooked. LOL Lib May 2017 #2
twist that shiv TEB good on ya mate irisblue May 2017 #3
Tempting as it is to gloat gratuitous May 2017 #4
I agree with you friend TEB May 2017 #7
He could very well be too thick gratuitous May 2017 #10
Were his ears emitting smoke? VOX May 2017 #5
Time to build that wall on your property line. Throck May 2017 #6
so is my neighbor - 2 tRump signs KT2000 May 2017 #8
Oh that is funny TEB May 2017 #9
That's an actual thing (in 1980s racist science) Nevernose May 2017 #11
OMG - that figures KT2000 May 2017 #12

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Tempting as it is to gloat
Mon May 8, 2017, 08:01 PM
May 2017

Remember that this chowderhead is still your neighbor, and you may be living next to each other for some time. Lead him up to the edge, and let him draw the right conclusion. Maybe start with, "Wow, what do you suppose they were thinking? Hiring a National Security Adviser without digging into his activities after getting fired by the Obama administration!" Let him try to make the case for hiring Flynn (if he can), but invite him to be critical of the Trump administration and its slipshod ways.

TEB

(12,840 posts)
7. I agree with you friend
Mon May 8, 2017, 08:35 PM
May 2017

But you cannot talk reasoning or logic I have tried. When al franken asked mr clapper have you ever appeared on RT , I mentioned this to him awhile ago perhaps around March I said how many retired American officers have you seen on RT., I said it smells and just does not add up.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
10. He could very well be too thick
Mon May 8, 2017, 09:05 PM
May 2017

I don't doubt it for an instant. He's probably ultra-sensitive to being threatened, or anything that appears to be a threat. You asked "How many retired American officers have you seen on RT?" I'd bet a nickel he heard that as a challenge. "I wonder how often RT hosts retired American officers on their programs? I don't suppose it's a lot." A relatively more neutral statement might get his brain engaged before the more primitive stimulus-response reaction of a perceived threat.

But I dunno.

KT2000

(20,572 posts)
8. so is my neighbor - 2 tRump signs
Mon May 8, 2017, 08:44 PM
May 2017

Yesterday he told me he had his DNA done in the 80's and learned he is from a white tribe on the eastern side of Africa. I was about to ask if it was an albino tribe when he got a phone call and left.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
11. That's an actual thing (in 1980s racist science)
Mon May 8, 2017, 09:12 PM
May 2017

From what I remember:

East Africans, like the Ma'asai, are technically Caucasian, bone structure (and everything else)-wise, although "they" have more melanin than whites. The "important" thing is that "they" aren't "negroes."

Damn, that's a lot of ironic quotes.

I'm not, nor have ever been, a racist. Even mildly sympathetic. I swear. I "learned" all of this while attending militia meetings in the early 90s.

Actually, now that I think about it, that sounds terrible, too. I swear: we only went to those meetings because my friend's parents ran things. We liked to get high and giggle in back. Art Bell was there, too, sometimes. That sounds slightly less terrible.

KT2000

(20,572 posts)
12. OMG - that figures
Mon May 8, 2017, 10:21 PM
May 2017

about it coming from racist science. I already knew he was a racist. One time he told me when he lived in LA, the black people sent bus loads of kids into the white neighborhoods for Halloween. I asked him where they got busses to do something like that. He about went nuts.

Funny about the meetings. I attended a militia meeting in our town too. My friend and I wanted to know what they were up to. We also wanted to know who was there as well. I had cut out Star of David paper we could pin on, but my friend wouldn't do it. The guest speaker was arrested by the FBI a few days later for weapons violations and other things. To be honest, they weren't quite as bad as Rump and his gang now!

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