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Flashmann

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Fri Sep 28, 2012, 12:35 PM Sep 2012

Please help me see what I am missing..... [View all]

My next door neighbor is a teabagger..We have brief little chats across the fence at times,while out doing yard work....When his conversation turns toward teabaggery,I find a way to escape....Gotta get a drink,I need to finish mowing...Something..Anything...

So this morning,our wives get to chatting over the fence..His tells mine how her hubby,as a teen,climbed a power pole,got severly shocked,fell and hit his head..As it goes,he was hospitalized,in a coma for a few weeks,and has never been "normal",since..As a result,he now in his mid 40s,is unable to function at a level allowing him to hold a job,and still needs ongoing medical care...He suffers acute headaches and has some sort of tunnel vision that blures out after short distanaces...

So this guy.....This genious of a teabagger,according to what his wife told mine,draws gov.disability and gov.healthcare.They have 2 highschool age kids at home,and receive food stamps and gov healthcare for the kids.Good chance they avail themselves of other social programs that weren't mentioned.....

Now to the genious aspect....This guy..This ASSHAT,adamantly insists that Obama is ruining the country,and that the only reasonable choice is to vote repub,top to bottom.....So he will vote for the folks who VOW to cut the very progrqms he and his family rely on....

Now,on my part,this all seems sheer lunacy and idiocy....So..What am I missing??...Anyone?

I'm really struggling to wrap my mind around his reasoning.....I know full well many people vote against their own interests,but this is cutting your own throat and maiming your family,in the bargain.....I don't get it.....

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He got severely shocked and hit his head...doesn't that say it all? Moonwalk Sep 2012 #1
What makes us different than them Drale Sep 2012 #2
You're missing his head injury. Now what's wrong with his wife..... sinkingfeeling Sep 2012 #3
You just can't fix stupid ThePeoplesRepublicUS Sep 2012 #4
I'd ask him point-blank: Proud Public Servant Sep 2012 #5
In the past Flashmann Sep 2012 #10
Seriously dude you need to read this post and show it to his wife tularetom Sep 2012 #6
I saw that earlier Flashmann Sep 2012 #13
its simple, he deserves the help Fresh_Start Sep 2012 #7
Did you ask him about his reasoning? Brickbat Sep 2012 #8
There really is no talking to this guy Flashmann Sep 2012 #11
Ask him what size refrigerator carton he'd like to live in next January. TheCowsCameHome Sep 2012 #9
I'm dealing with that with my mother. All she watches is FOX and all she listens to in the car- Rush HopeHoops Sep 2012 #12
I feel your pain Xyzse Sep 2012 #20
My mom's all about the money, Welfare cheats, Obama's a Muslim, and other such shit. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #24
What I do RoccoR5955 Sep 2012 #14
Yeah Flashmann Sep 2012 #16
It's called brainwashing RoccoR5955 Sep 2012 #31
Brain injuries and holding on to conservative values... socialindependocrat Sep 2012 #15
Might be something to that Flashmann Sep 2012 #17
You know that you can't talk to him. socialindependocrat Sep 2012 #19
And there you have your most logical answer to your question. jwirr Sep 2012 #21
You're only going to give yourself a headache lunatica Sep 2012 #18
Right wing scream radio and fox news do a really good job of lying to the great unwashed. ahg Sep 2012 #22
never underestimate the power of stupid people do vote against their best interests. nt Javaman Sep 2012 #23
Did you inform him of Mitt's intentions? He might be shocked! WinkyDink Sep 2012 #25
No..I can't Flashmann Sep 2012 #29
I have friends like that. He is on disability upaloopa Sep 2012 #26
He thinks Mitt will only take away welfare and food stamps louis-t Sep 2012 #27
Conservatives and Liberals Have Different Brains, Studies Show RKP5637 Sep 2012 #28
Brain damage explains lots of RWers; so does mental illness. LeftinOH Sep 2012 #30
Brain damage explains lots Flashmann Sep 2012 #32
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