I can't take it anymore. My rant.

[leftyladyfrommo]

I just got into a big fight with a friend of about 30 years. I try not to talk politics with her or anyone else really. Not any more. Things have just gotten to crazy, too mean.

Her current criticism of Obama. He was wearing white pants. She says he's not doing anything but ride his bike and play golf.

I made the mistake of saying he looked exhausted. I think he does look exhausted. His hair is going gray and his face has such deep lines in it.

I feel like running away from home to someplace deep in the desert.

This has all gotten so hateful and awful. I'm afraid to even open my mouth.

[arcane1]

1. White pants?

What the heck is that about?

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. She says no one wears white pants.

Her big criticism of Michelle is that she doesn't have good fashion sense.

What she really doesn't like is that they are black. That's the bottom line.

I think that's the bottom line for a whole lot of people here in Missouri. I just can't talk to those people any more.

There was a thread on here about the KKK. The KKK was a big deal when I was growing up. Them and the John Birch Society. Those groups were considered to be very far outside the mainstream at that time.

Now it seems like half the State of Missouri could be charter members. Now that way of thinking has become mainstream.

This is just so scary to me. When did stupidity take over?

[arcane1]

3. Wow, that's really grasping at straws for an excuse to hate.

You have my sympathies!

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. She worked in the fashion industry as a seamstress

many, many years ago.

Are men wearing white pants now? I'm so out of the fashion loop. I live in jeans and blue workshirts.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Not very fashion aware, as the old skool rule was 'no white after Labor Day' and that is Sep 2

so it's still the summer whites season. I'd say your friend has issues with color but not the color of clothing.

[former9thward]

31. "Old school"

No one under 70 wears white pants. I haven't seen those in 20 years.

[winter is coming]

7. WTF?

[sakabatou]

9. I've worn something similar to white pants

I was out in the area around Masada. Besides, there are suits that have white jackets and pants.

[Skittles]

21. and you are friends with this clueless, insipid gal

exactly why? I would kick her racist ass to the curb.

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. You don't kick friends of 30 years to the curb.

She is practically housebound now - just gets out to the store and library mostly. And her thinking gets pretty weird some days. Normally I just go ahuh, ahuh, ahuh and just blow it all off.

But I am so sick of the Obama bashing that the idiocy of the white pants just set me off.

She just thought she was "discussing" in an intelligent manner. It really shocked her when I just blew up.

I'm over it now. But I am still sick of the Obama bashing. I am so sick of the rudeness and hatefullness. And everybody calling each other stupid or worse, stupid mother fuckers.

That's no way to treat other people even if they don't agree with you at all.

[Skittles]

35. well maybe she needs a mental health evaluation

I don't put up with garbage like that no matter HOW long I have known someone - I told my aunt DO NOT SEND ME RACIST TRASH regarding Obama - I do NOT tolerate it, AT ALL.

[mnhtnbb]

25. She's showing her ignorance. Actually, Obama is fashion forward to be wearing white pants

See here: http://www.fashionbeans.com/2013/mens-fashion-basics-white-trouser-shorts/

And here: https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+men+wearing+white+pants&client=firefox-a&hs=Slc&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5kkbUo7hIff84APvm4DQAw&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=664

And as for Michelle's taste? OMG--the American fashion industry LOVES her. She wouldn't be on the cover of Vogue
if she weren't stylish: http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Michelle_Obama

Follow her style here: http://mrs-o.com/

And tell your friend if she doesn't know what she's talking about--and apparently she doesn't--she should keep her mouth
shut so she doesn't show her ignorance.

[snooper2]

30. That's why I left Missery as soon as I could...1997 to be exact :)

Grew up between DeSoto and Festus,

We did used to party hard from South County to Potosi, but the State itself is a shithole. Downtown St. Louis is a dump. What, like half the population left since 1950? High ass state income taxes, but every fucking road is shot. Well, except for the new 270, of course you can only go 60 on that thing before you get pulled over.

[onethatcares]

15. somebody missed the memo

No white pants after Labor Day.

It's a fashionista thing.

But WTF, it's not Labor Day yet either.

[arcane1]

18. Ah, I had no idea.

Well, technically it's after last year's Labor Day

[SidDithers]

5. I don't know if DU is the place to find solace...

from idiotic Obama bashing.



Sid

[SayNotoPlutocracies]

6. I hate to say it...

I hate to say it, but Foxaganda has successfully brainwashed the vast majority of Americans. It doesn't matter what Obama does the conservative nut right is going o find fault with it. If Obama personally found a cure for cancer, the conservative nut right would say he was in bed, with the pharmaceutical companies, and he was going to criminally profit from this relationship!!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I know. It has gotten so bad.

Now all the conservatives around here are all excited about rumors that he will be impeached.

I keep saying, "impeached for what?" He hasn't done anything to get impeached for.

Oh, the other one is about his new black dog. He's a racist because he got an all black dog.

[surrealAmerican]

23. Welcome to DU.

It really isn't the vast majority of Americans - more like about 20% of Americans. They're just a peculiarly vocal segment of the population.

[SayNotoPlutocracies]

33. Maybe it's just where I am

I live in NC and you would be hard pressed to find a liberal or a progressive. Everybody that I talk to, and I mean everybody, is brainwashed by Faux News. It seems like the vast majority of Americans from where I'm standing.

[freshwest]

34. Well said.

[99th_Monkey]

8. "running away from home to someplace deep in the desert"

I hear you there.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. I wonder if there are any convents out in the desert.

Someplace I could go and sit and listen to Gregorian Chant for the rest of my life. I can't cook but I could water the plants and dust and stuff.

I can't take any more politics. I don't know how anyone can survive this stuff. I don't know how Obama stands it. And he just goes on in his calm, thoughtful way.

[99th_Monkey]

12. The Mt. Angel abbey in Oregon has become more like a big bed & breakfast

Last edited Sun Aug 25, 2013, 06:47 PM - Edit history (1)

$77.00 lodging w/ three meals (for one night). I think this abbey used to (in the 60s)
have guests for free, but not anymore apparently.

http://www.mountangelabbey.org/retreat-house/index.html

but then that's not in the desert either. good luck in your quest

[Ptah]

13. Our Lady of Solitude Monastery

Our Lady of Solitude Monastery
9020 N 381st Ave, Tonopah, AZ 85354 ‎

We are a cloistered community of contemplative nuns whose main apostolate
is Eucharistic Adoration in a spirit of reparative thanksgiving

http://desertnuns.com/about-us

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. I wonder if they take dogs?

I swear I would run off and join a convent if I didn't have my dogs to think of.

You know what bothers more than the politics and the wars and all the awful stuff is the decimation of the planet. It won't be long and all the wild things may just be gone. They simply can't survive in their natural habitats any more.

I don't think I care very much about people any more. We are like a plague of locusts on the land. But I do really care about the animals and the land.

[babydollhead]

14. this quote helps me.

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
― Wendell Berry

[onethatcares]

16. it helped.

n/t

[snappyturtle]

27. Oh that is lovely...peaceful....thanks for sharing. nt

[cui bono]

20. Maybe the problem is that you thought you were talking politics

but your friend was talking fashion.

[Douglas Carpenter]

24. last night I was in bar taking with a communter pilot - nice enough guy - but when the subject

of President Obama came - up - he just plain hates him - when trying establish why - He honestly didn't know. He just hates him. As a progressive- I have many complaints about this administrations that I could in a detailed explanation tell someone who wanted to listen. I can understand why many people from the left perspective are dissatisfied or disappointed - But most of the hate coming from the right is simply visceral and irrational. They want to hate him for no reason. They simply don't know why they hate him anymore than they know why they hated Clinton. I could give them reasons to complain- but they would be the wrong reasons.

[darkangel218]

26. Im the opposite.

I used to argue with my friends over politics.

Not anymore. I regret losing friends over politicians. I will still care for what's right, but not for career politicians.

I have learned a lot in this past year.

[get the red out]

28. The hate in this country is miserable

I despise the media, which pits us one against the other. There are not political disagreements in this country, there are ENEMIES. Our discourse has been destroyed by the media and it's antagonistic reporting. Especially the right wing media, but the results of what Fox News and AM Radio have done for years have effected all news media, it's owned by so few companies anyway. Now we just overload on hating each other all the time.

It's miserable.

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. I try not to let politics get in the way of friendship.

Politics and religion are two hot button topics that I just won't say much about.

My opinion is not worth losing my friends.

[lpbk2713]

32. They parrot whatever they hear from Limbaugh or on Faux.

You must admit though, it's a change of pace from all Benghazi all the time.