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imanamerican63

(13,719 posts)
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:01 PM Aug 2021

Ha! Just had another great laugh after a conversation with a GOPer!

I was getting a few groceries for my truck while passing through Rawlins Wyo, when a woman started a conversation with me, about the price of everything. She blamed it on the asshole in the White House! I replied “I didn’t not know Trump was in the White House & and the prices have been going up since he gave the corporate tax cut to his buddies”! She had a dumbfound look her face and moved away quickly! Now this the second time this week that I made a righteous GOPer mad at me! When will they learn?

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Ha! Just had another great laugh after a conversation with a GOPer! (Original Post) imanamerican63 Aug 2021 OP
Nicely done. brush Aug 2021 #1
keep up the the good work! Kittycatkat Aug 2021 #2
arguments with trumper's is like picking a fight with a fence post ! monkeyman1 Aug 2021 #3
It never occurs to them that someone might have a different opinion kskiska Aug 2021 #4
We were out demonstrating for the Voting Rights bill yesterday CanonRay Aug 2021 #5
yell "you're a communist!" barbtries Aug 2021 #8
Could yell "OK Fascist" KS Toronado Aug 2021 #11
They don't have enough humanity to be communists. soldierant Aug 2021 #12
I always say... druidity33 Aug 2021 #37
They wandered out of their bubble when they got close to you. denbot Aug 2021 #6
My sister has lived in Rawlins about 30 years. TexasTowelie Aug 2021 #29
i've given up. barbtries Aug 2021 #7
Like the anti-vaxxers oldsoftie Aug 2021 #13
yes. barbtries Aug 2021 #31
You're gonna have half of Wyoming mad at you before long. Hulk Aug 2021 #9
Half Of Wyoming ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #20
The good part is there are only 30 or so of them. Equomba Aug 2021 #38
They need to have those emergency alerts on everybody's phones w/ your picture so... BluesRunTheGame Aug 2021 #10
It is so much fun just turning it around on them. niyad Aug 2021 #14
Well played! SallyHemmings Aug 2021 #15
They will never learn. They are no longer participating in congruent reality. Ford_Prefect Aug 2021 #16
Well then, they're just gonna have to keep getting schooled. calimary Aug 2021 #23
Highly Recommended ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #17
Prices have more to do with the pandemic disrupting global supply chains IronLionZion Aug 2021 #18
lol Demovictory9 Aug 2021 #19
imagine... not knowing about tfg. But not too likely in this universe, lol BootinUp Aug 2021 #21
How presumptuous of her! ShazzieB Aug 2021 #22
I'm heading out to the grocery store to get dinner sarisataka Aug 2021 #24
👍 Joinfortmill Aug 2021 #25
"Maybe we should increase tariffs on China?... Grins Aug 2021 #26
Why do these people PatSeg Aug 2021 #27
I hope that you weren't at the Walmart. TexasTowelie Aug 2021 #28
No, it's to tight of a parking lot to get in and out of. imanamerican63 Aug 2021 #40
You are absolutely correct, this is Trump Inflation and it goes along with bucolic_frolic Aug 2021 #30
When will they learn? BobTheSubgenius Aug 2021 #32
I grew up there godsentme Aug 2021 #33
You're on a roll MustLoveBeagles Aug 2021 #34
They seem surprised to meet someone who voted for Biden JohnnyRingo Aug 2021 #35
Apparently someone was talking about the wrong asshole... Wounded Bear Aug 2021 #36
Bwah! Blue Owl Aug 2021 #39
Bravo! I love it Tiger8 Aug 2021 #41
MAGAT: "Halloween's a few weeks away" (looking at my mask) Seinan Sensei Aug 2021 #42

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
4. It never occurs to them that someone might have a different opinion
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:31 PM
Aug 2021

than themselves. Probably because they only stay within their small circles of friends who think the same.

CanonRay

(14,078 posts)
5. We were out demonstrating for the Voting Rights bill yesterday
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:32 PM
Aug 2021

with signs like save democracy and your vote your voice and a woman in a passing car yelled "you're all communists".What can you say? Morons.

druidity33

(6,444 posts)
37. I always say...
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 07:55 PM
Aug 2021

"Stupid says what?" and then cup my hand behind my ear and see if they will repeat themselves. They sometimes do. Then i say it again. "Stupid says what?". Sure does get them angry. But i figure you have to imagine you're in the 1st or 2nd grade to understand how to deal with these people. So i just pretend i'm like 7 and that seems to work.



denbot

(9,897 posts)
6. They wandered out of their bubble when they got close to you.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:38 PM
Aug 2021

LoL, I've spent countless frozen nights at the Rawlins T/A. I can imagine her gob smacked look when you didn't amen her homily.

TexasTowelie

(111,850 posts)
29. My sister has lived in Rawlins about 30 years.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 05:16 PM
Aug 2021

It seems like her family was always leaving town for various reasons while her son was younger. Now that her son is in Cheyenne, they go to seem him at least one weekend a month. From what my sister has told me and the occasional review of the Rawlins Times, I've reached the conclusion that there aren't many people there open to other political and social ideologies.

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
9. You're gonna have half of Wyoming mad at you before long.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:51 PM
Aug 2021

I drove through Wichita and cut the corner of Wyoming. Forget the name of the decent size town i stopped in for some groceries; but I was glad to get away from both towns. Honestly, a heavy concentration of cult idiots makes my skin crawl.

 

Equomba

(197 posts)
38. The good part is there are only 30 or so of them.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 08:38 PM
Aug 2021

On the flip side, they along with the other 30 control two senate seats and three votes in the electoral college... far too much power.

BluesRunTheGame

(1,607 posts)
10. They need to have those emergency alerts on everybody's phones w/ your picture so...
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:52 PM
Aug 2021

...the poor little snowflakes won’t melt when you pass through town.

Ford_Prefect

(7,865 posts)
16. They will never learn. They are no longer participating in congruent reality.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 04:30 PM
Aug 2021

They seem to deny the effects of Momentum and Gravity.

They lack the capacity to examine new information because their input channels are clogged with lies and distortions. They also lack the ability to distinguish truth from propaganda because they lack the skills to question and confirm the accuracy of the data. They are the worst sort of true believers who can only state what they have been programmed to see and say. They have confused anger with confidence.

calimary

(81,058 posts)
23. Well then, they're just gonna have to keep getting schooled.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 04:46 PM
Aug 2021

Well done, btw, imanamerican63!

Hoping to remember good comebacks like these, to put to use myself, when the need arises.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
18. Prices have more to do with the pandemic disrupting global supply chains
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 04:33 PM
Aug 2021

it takes time for farmers to grow food but it's all Biden's fault apparently for putting microchips in the vaccines

ShazzieB

(16,245 posts)
22. How presumptuous of her!
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 04:38 PM
Aug 2021

I heartily approve of this response. After this, maybe she won't be quite so quick to assume that every perfect stranger she encounters is going to be a Trumpster.

Grins

(7,181 posts)
26. "Maybe we should increase tariffs on China?...
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 04:56 PM
Aug 2021

…and then bribe farmers with $50-billion that we also have to borrow from China? Say, how’d that work out when Trump did that?”

PatSeg

(47,213 posts)
27. Why do these people
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 05:05 PM
Aug 2021

automatically assume that some stranger at the store shares their beliefs? This has happened to me more times than I can count over the years and it still blows my mind?

Nicely done, by the way.

TexasTowelie

(111,850 posts)
28. I hope that you weren't at the Walmart.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 05:07 PM
Aug 2021

My sister works at the Walmart in Rawlins. She isn't active in politics, but she most likely votes Republican because that is what her husband tells her to do. While I can see my sister trying to start a "friendly" conversation, I don't think that she would intentionally try to make it political.

bucolic_frolic

(43,008 posts)
30. You are absolutely correct, this is Trump Inflation and it goes along with
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 05:17 PM
Aug 2021

Trump Shrinkflation ... did I see coffee packages were 13 or 14 ounces when Trump came into office, now they are 11 ounces?

godsentme

(69 posts)
33. I grew up there
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 05:42 PM
Aug 2021

OMG. So strange to see a comment about my little home town. I still have family there. Most are R wingers to different degrees. My immediate family was mainly democratic leaning. I'm a proud bleeding heart liberal and was raised that way. Mostly got it from 8 years of catholic school... before everything got so political back in the 60's. Anyway, proud that you took a stand.

JohnnyRingo

(18,614 posts)
35. They seem surprised to meet someone who voted for Biden
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 05:57 PM
Aug 2021

I've noticed this among my peers, that they just assume everyone in the working class voted for Trump. Shocked to find someone from the majority of the country.

I think it's because they bought into the Big Lie and figure no one voted for Biden.

 

Tiger8

(432 posts)
41. Bravo! I love it
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 10:43 PM
Aug 2021

I get so sick of people assuming I'm a Cultist.

Well, actually only a few have overtly. But that's a few times too many!

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