Couldn't think of a single comeback for my right-wing-nut father-in-law

[Laura PourMeADrink]

This is what he actually said:

"Obama will end up being the most incompetant president in US history. George Bush was a genius. And, every trouble
that exists today was Clinton's fault."

All I could say was "That's absolutely crazy". I usually can take his stuff, but last night I just got enraged and had
to walk away.

[wyldwolf]

1. you gave an appropriate response. The only thing you could have done better...

.. is to ask if the doctor needs to increase his meds.

[Cha]

2. Poor thing..Sometimes it's

better to just walk away..you can't argue with crazy.

[ClassWarrior]

3. Enraged? I would have had a laughing fit.

NGU.

[YOY]

4. Can he prove any of it? Numbers. Does he has numbers?

Because the numbers I have are pretty much proving him wrong. Hell, I'm no huge Clinton fan but the financial numbers were in his favor.

And on the negative and nasty side...how many years do you think the old codger has in him?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Genius? How?

That would be about it for any snappy comeback from me...

Good luck with him..

He didn't just drink the koolaid...he helped mix the stuff!

:eyes:

[ellie]

6. Maybe ask

him to name one thing that Bush did that was great. I would like to know what the wackos think constitutes genius.

[pipi_k]

17. A couple of years ago when I asked a RW nut the same thing

you know what he said to me?

Seriously...

He said that one of Bush's major accomplishments was extending Daylight Saving Time.




Truly...I am in AWE of such genius....!!!!


:rofl:

[Aloha Spirit]

7. Bless his heart.

Our troops are fighting overseas for our freedom to believe whatever we want.
Isn't that what yr supposed to say when people don't like the President?

[DontTreadOnMe]

8. The best comeback for any comparison

When comparing Bush to Obama... I always resort to:

"Well at least Obama can speak in complete sentences."

Then I follow it up with:

"When Bush was asked, 'How come you can't find Osama Bin Laden'?"

Bush answered: "Because he is hiding".

Then proclaim we need someone who is smart as President, like someone who graduated from Havard.
It usually will silence even the most hardened Repug.

[leftynyc]

27. Bush got his MBA from Harvard

When it comes to legacies, admissions into the Ivies is a joke. If daddy went, all you need is a pulse. But I understand your larger point.

[eleny]

9. Well, there is a certain genius that can keep so many people delusional despite the facts

[Kalyke]

24. I don't think Bush did that, though.

The honor of keeping people delusional is the province of the right-wing media.

[baldguy]

10. I take it he believes in unicorns & leprechauns too?

What do you say to someone totally detached from reality who believes they live in an insane fantasy world?

[Vincardog]

11. Next time LAUGH IN HIS FACE. Have a side splitting roll on the ground giggle fest and after you get

your breath back. Look at him and say "No you were serious?"
Then return to step, 1 LAUGH IN HIS FACE. Anyone that stupid can not be reasoned with.

[Greyskye]

12. Sounds like my BiL

Who just joined a Facebook "Impeach Barack Obama" group - probably just to piss me off LOL. The funny thing is, that most of his friends who commented on that thought he was nuts! :rofl:

[peace13]

13. A friendly warning, the crazy are getting crazier!

Since the election my mother and sister have gone further right, something that I thought was not possible. I am sorry to say that I can't take the insanity any longer. After listening to my mother spew this kind of thing with a topping of 'You Liberals' I realized that I had to give up. My comment was,'Mom, I am dead to you'. No more. I need to be free from the selfish, unreasonableness of the Rush folks. Good luck with your family. peace, kim

[Laura PourMeADrink]

55. I agree. It's almost unbearable to be around them just because

there are just so hideously ignorant. Only listen to Rush. Don't ever
get any independent verification.

My mother-in-law is on a crazy kick after reading a book about how the "muslims
are taking over Europe. They are filthy. And, they are camping out in tents."

She also is so scared we will be attacked - it has immobilized her. I just
asked her why the republicans voted against inspecting cargo ships for
explosives. Waiting for a response.

[zulchzulu]

14. Next time, say "I'm sorry. I don't know how to speak Psycho!" n/t

[polmaven]

15. Is the reason

you couldn't think of a comback because you were too busy rolling on the floor laughing? :rofl:

[Chulanowa]

16. He was trying to get a rise out of you

I have a step-grandfather who does the same thing. "Ann Coulter is a genius!" he declares, "We should kill all them god damned Muslims and save everyone else the trouble!"

I don't think he honestly believes this... but the people on the right are, basically, attention whores who thrive off antagonistic relationships. he's bored, so he wants to pick a fight with someone in the ratehr liberal-leaning household. Inevitably someone takes a nibble and then we're all taken down the broad and winding path of Reagan's greatness, then eed to obliterate every nation in the world, the evil of evolution, and the whole Clenis Cult spiel. All in one argument.

[pipi_k]

20. Attention whores...

I've found the best way to deal with them is to either look at them in silence and then change the subject completely, or say "You're right", and then change the subject.

Some people might say this amounts to actually aiding and abetting the stupidity, but I don't think so. There are a few types of people in this world you just do NOT bother arguing with...

drunks...people with dementia...and attention whores

don't even bother because you will get absolutely nowhere.

[Chulanowa]

34. I have a pretty good record dealing with that second group...

But learning how was part of job training, so...

Otherwise, right on.

[On the Road]

18. I've Had Similar Conversations with Relatives

and I was so dumbfounded I couldn't give a decent reply either.

IMO, to feel like you've come out better in an exchange like that, a lot of it is adopting an attitude of nonchalance and asking your interlocutor to support or substantiate (not prove) his or her opinion. As Elvis Costello sang: "I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused."

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. I'm having trouble picturing a setting where an absurd conversation

like that could take place.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

56. that's because you are lucky enough to live in CA and I am

stuck in Texas. Here there the popultation is made up of wingnuts, a large apolitical group who have no clue or desire to be informed, plus a sprinkling of progressives you have to drive
all day to find.

[Ian David]

21. All you can do is fall-down laughing. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

22. He's just trying to get a rise out of you.

Just tell him, "That's ok Dad, most of the nation and the entire world knows better."

Some people are proud of their willful ignorance, and there is nothing you can do or say to change them.

Flat-earthers exist to this very day.

[bunkerbuster1]

40. fer sure. "Pissing off libruals" is very important to conservatives.

really doesn't matter to what end.

[Jennicut]

23. This is like almost direct quotes from my Dad.

I told him that no president can do worse then starting two quagmires, letting a city practically disappear into the ocean, taking a surplus to a huge crippling debt, and taking a fairly robust economy and letting it tank. And if everything is Clinton's fault then when the next president comes in that means that everything will be Bush's fault since we are blaming presidents 8 years back. You got to be sarcastic. There is more you can say but that is a start.

[4lbs]

25. Dubya was a genius and everything was Clinton's fault?

Umm, ask him these two things:

1.) What was the DOW stock market number at the beginning and the end of their respective 8 years?

2.) What was the unemployment rate at the beginning and end of their respective 8 years?


Who's the dunce and who's the genius again?

[specimenfred1984]

26. Start suggesting that early dementia will get worse and a "home" is in his future

See if the lying ahole starts acting a little more sane.

[emilyg]

28. Isn't he entitled to his opinion?

[WinkyDink]

42. Yeah, no crap, it's America and all that. What's your point? People can't differ out loud?

[Zynx]

46. As soon as he states it, he's entitled to a debate.

[Barack_America]

47. Yep, just not his own facts. nt

[Tikki]

29. "Nobody believes that".....

Next time he spouts off...tell him...

Tikki

[AndyA]

30. You could have looked at him in shock and said,

"What planet are you on? Have you been sniffing glue? No one really believes that crap, you need to stop listening to people like Rush and do some research on your own. Stop being a sheep and believing everything you're told, because when you say things like that people who know better just think you're ignorant."

That worked for a friend's father a few years ago. Long time Republican, started hating Bush when he found out what was really going on, and he voted for Obama!

[ronnykmarshall]

32. I would have pulled out a thermometer and said ...

are you feeling alright? Should I call 911? You might be having a stroke.

[ronnykmarshall]

31. That's nice of you to visit your father-in-law ...

at the state hospital.

[Javaman]

33. usually a good hardy laugh in their face gets the point across. nt

[louis-t]

35. You can't argue with them, they are stuck in their delusions.

Laugh in their face. Look at the person next to them and ask "Isn't dementia a sad thing?" "How's that trickle down working for you?" works well on one of my friends who now lives in someone else's basement after losing most of his business in the bush years. I think quick, sharp, brutal responses are the only thing that will work. Trying to reason with them is useless. You can't fight crazy, you can't reason with unreasonable.

[johan helge]

36. My advice: Learn a lot about some issues,

e.g. Iraq, Bush's insider trading with Harken stocks, or US health care, and tell him some simple facts. Important facts are like big stones, they can't simply be brushed away.

[pansypoo53219]

37. clearly a sign that fux gnews and jabba the rush

and AM hate raydeeoh needs to be destroyed for sedition.

[bunkerbuster1]

38. I'd out-wingnut him.

"No, not true that every trouble that exists today was Clinton's fault. It was Carter's fault too! They lent all that money to the po' folks through the CRM!"

Wingnuts actually believe this. You string 'em along a bit, and then... yoink!

[JohnnyBoots]

39. Did you ask him how to explain it was all Clinton's fault?

[bunkerbuster1]

41. dude. The Cole! and the CRM! Come on!

Clinton was "handed OBL's head on a silver platter" donchaknow.

And the Community Reinvestment Act expansion CAUSED THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN. um, eight years later. Really!

[YOY]

51. and there was NOTHING the poor ole George could have done to prevent this!

Nothing! 6 years of complete governmental control and 8 years in charge of the Executive branch but his hands were tied in preventing this horrible disaster that no one could have foreseen!!! :sarcasm:

[JVS]

43. The answer to his claim is "Go fuck yourself, you shit-eating moron"

[Barack_America]

44. I'd have to get real snotty...and call him...

...and say things like "hey, it's sunny here, is it raining over there?", and "hey, the sun just set here, is it rising over there?"

And when he inevitably asks "WTF?!?!", say, "oh well, it seems that your living in Bizarro world, where up is down, Clinton was bad and Bush was good. So I figured the opposite of everything happening in the real world must be happening where you're at".

[Zynx]

45. The housing bubble didn't even start to form until Bush took office.

Have him refute that.

[shaniqua6392]

48. A man called into Ed Shultz's show the other day

and said that the economic crisis was Obama's fault. He was in office for three weeks and crumbled our entire economy?? The guy was dead serious too. You just can't change stupid.

[izzybeans]

49. The only rebuttal to that is laughter...gut-busting laughter.

[caraher]

50. good move

you can't argue with batshit insane

[dkofos]

52. I laugh at stupid people.

[JoePhilly]

53. If Bush was a genius ... why was he unable to correct Clinton's failures?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

54. I love that - going to definitely use that one - thanks!

[hughee99]

57. You can bang your head against a wall

or explain why he his so very, very wrong. Either will get you just as far with someone who actually believes this.

[grantcart]

58. "Oh dad your doctor called he said that you could double your meds".

[mscuedawg]

59. We mustve married into the same family...my FIL called Bush a genius also...

...when asked who he thought was the best President in his lifetime...(he's in his 60s) and he chose the "second Bush"...