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In reply to the discussion: An Overheard Conversation at the MSP Airport ... [View all]mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)123. Right on, brother.
I was going to put this up as a new post, but I'll send it to you as a reply in this thread....
....It's late for me, I'm wore out and there's been a lot going on lately so it's really enough for me to just get
a validation from one person tonight.....
I happen to have this one really good, honest friend who happens to be an elderly white Republican
male. There's so much we have in common but just so happens he's the dude filling my inbox with
forwarded viral e-mails. (Long story.)
This is what I got tonight, in an e-mail with "civics lesson" in the subject line:
A black kid asks his dad, "Dad, what's democracy?"
(Wait...the kid doesn't know his Dad...let's start over....)
A black kid asks his mom, "Mama, what's a democracy?"
"Well, son, that's when whites work every day so we can get all our welfare benefits!"
"But mama, don't the white people get pissed off about that?"
"Sure they do, but that's called racism!"
(Wait...the kid doesn't know his Dad...let's start over....)
A black kid asks his mom, "Mama, what's a democracy?"
"Well, son, that's when whites work every day so we can get all our welfare benefits!"
"But mama, don't the white people get pissed off about that?"
"Sure they do, but that's called racism!"
So I said to him:
If you find that sort of jape to be so amusing, the number of teeth in your mouth and your IQ are very likely in a neck-and-neck race for numerical ascendancy. But I'm putting my money on those biting, incisive "choppers."
By the way, I.......
......Bought my MEGABUS tickets for Bastille Day weekend.
It's highly probable that at least one or two of my traveling companions -- of whatever
race or ethnicity -- will look like one of the above photos, but who cares?
Why is it even necessary to make sport of the misfortune of others, except as a
poor, stop-gap reassurance that one's own station in life is still "higher" than
some other poor unfortunate's?
The sixteen dollar and fifty cent fare -- both ways, 700 miles and including the full
fifty cent cost of the "reservation fee" -- is one more 'proof' that sometimes, when
society makes economic choices that benefit all, everyone benefits.
Take "single-payer" health care for instance. All for one, and one for all. The
only losers in this country, if that's ever instituted, will be the insurance company
CEO's and mandarins who have been paying themselves irrationally high bonuses
and salaries for denying coverage (including dental insurance) to those who need
it most.
But of course, those are the same people funding these self-defeating, mean-
spirited and ugly emails you keep forwarding to me.
Like a pigeon in a Skinner Box, trained to respond to an electronic tingle that
explodes with neural rewards within that very minimal cranial space.
.....PS,
Hey, on top of that.....
To be honest, 1StrongBlackMan, I'm really a "brotha-in-law."
Except for the possibility that some serious genetic testing might turn up an
'unexpected' result from a profile of my mitochondrial data -- it's possible
there's some Ottomans in there -- from the Cenk Uygur tribe, the dudes
that ran over my ancestral turf and mixed up the DNA heritage:
,,,,,,my best claim to the "user_name" MoJoWork'N is that for most holidays
and special days in the last couple of decades, I've been enjoying more sweet
potato pie and greens than burek or cevapce. But that's another long story.
Except for the possibility that some serious genetic testing might turn up an
'unexpected' result from a profile of my mitochondrial data -- it's possible
there's some Ottomans in there -- from the Cenk Uygur tribe, the dudes
that ran over my ancestral turf and mixed up the DNA heritage:
,,,,,,my best claim to the "user_name" MoJoWork'N is that for most holidays
and special days in the last couple of decades, I've been enjoying more sweet
potato pie and greens than burek or cevapce. But that's another long story.
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hence the popularity of the zombie metaphor -- the most politically accurate genre of film
villager
Jun 2012
#4
This is the result of 30 years of Dems bringing a knife to the meme gunfight.
phantom power
Jun 2012
#21
Lydia, you need to make this a separate post. NAILS the diagnosis in four one-line points.
calimary
Jun 2012
#53
Yep. It's an all-out propaganda war, and the Dems won't even acknowledge it yet. After 30 years!
Nay
Jun 2012
#32
Difficult to tell, but in their minds there is a picture of what they want to create...
jtuck004
Jun 2012
#10
She got him when she asked whether his income came from investment (capital)
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#43
I really don't think they know. Just repeating what they hear from the usual suspects, while
SammyWinstonJack
Jun 2012
#12
Dismantling the propaganda machine-yes! The media is using our public airwaves
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#18
It is common knowledge that victims of a flim flam game seldom report it to the cops.
zeemike
Jun 2012
#24
I'll never understand how the dim bulbs rationalize their actual lives and their rhetoric.
Vinca
Jun 2012
#15
They bought into the Reagan narrative that it was affirmative action that was taking jobs away...
rfranklin
Jun 2012
#86
Yes, frightening. And I wish I could move. Between those badmouthing the opposition the GOP and
freshwest
Jun 2012
#38
This sounds EXACTLY like a conversation that could happen at my workplace. Any of the few
Nay
Jun 2012
#25
There's really no way to defeat them except to let the right win so they will all die of poverty.
Kablooie
Jun 2012
#51
Do you write for a living? If not, you should. Excellent story. I feel as if I were right there..
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2012
#49
They complain about being squashed but fanatically boost the people that squash them.
Kablooie
Jun 2012
#50
Gee and now you want to know why some republicans want to take away young liberals
southernyankeebelle
Jun 2012
#52
Maybe.. (just MAYBE) the daughter will let the conversation roll around in her
annabanana
Jun 2012
#54
A bunch of DUers were utterly dumbfounded over the idea that Walker could
bullwinkle428
Jun 2012
#65
yet another piece of evidence that the people of Wisconsin are idiots.
WestWisconsinDem
Jun 2012
#66
I have a hard time believing that a teacher certified K-12 in both Math and Science can't find a job
proud2BlibKansan
Jun 2012
#100
All the happy rw talk will end when mittens declares the end of social security in the debates.
lindysalsagal
Jun 2012
#105