I was snarky with a repuke today.

[spartan61]

Today I was in line to pick up a Rx for my husband today. The woman behind me and I struck up a discussion about the high cost of medicine in this country. I told her that my husband's Rx was $600 for 10 syringes and his co-pay is $200. I said I don't know how people with no insurance can afford it. Her answer to me was, "That's why we have to get Obama out of office. What is he thinking making people who can't afford a roof over their heads buy insurance." There were so many things I wanted to tell her but instead this is how I replied. "I don't know. Maybe he should ask Romney how he did it in Mass."
She stopped talking to me.

[seabeyond]

1. that is a hoot. i LUV. lol. nt

[crazylikafox]

2. Great answer! I'll have to remember that one.

[freshwest]

13. +1

[lsewpershad]

29. +1 more

[malaise]

3. Super answer

Rec

[bongbong]

4. Not really snark

Just speaking the truth.

But as Colbert said, reality has a Liberal bias.

[duhneece]

22. That's the kind of response I long to be able to deliver

Sharp, smart, truthful and not the least bit ugly. I hit the mark once in a while.
You planted a seed of thought in her head...and that's all we can do, I think.
You did great. I feel proud to know you!

[elleng]

5. Great answer! You did a GOOD thing!

[XanaDUer]

6. Maybe she'll start thinking more?

Truly, the RW noise machine has really gotten such a grip on so many folks in the US we'll have to work overtime to get some truth out there.

[Mariana]

28. Nah. She picked up her stuff, raced out to the car,

and quickly turned on whichever RW radio show was on at the time. That effectively inoculated her from having to think about what she heard.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. That's a great response! What amazes me is the stupidity of Republicans. Are they born that way?nt

[spartan61]

9. Of course they were born stupid!

But they also took stupid lessons to enhance their stupidity.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

17. LOL! They must've! They excel at it! nt

[MissMarple]

21. I don't think they are stupid, necessarily.

In some areas their critical thinking skills may have been blunted. And they, as people do, engage in a lot of circular thinking and ingroup validation. They instinctively believe something, and then find reasons to support that belief. We all do that, by the way. And we tend to marginalize or belittle those we really don't like. It doesn't take stupid to do that. It just means we are human.

[whathehell]

41. True, IMO...More like "uninformed" and they've largely been brainwashed by the RW Spin Machine. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. They are blinded by their hatred of all things Government........until they need....

[Sarah Ibarruri]

32. You said it. I know of a Republican couple - people who said the poor need to pull themselves up by

their bootstraps like they did, and that welfare "queens" were bleeding our country dry. (Of course, never mind that they started their business with the money their parents handed them for free).

Anyway, they had this home decorating business which was doing well decorating homes in Palm Beach, FL (a rather wealthy area). They drooled over the mega-rich and their homes and incessantly spoke about what wonderful people these were.

So one fine day, their college-age daughter became a drug addict (she was emotionally f'd up - I don't doubt by them). Over a number of years she was arrested, bailed out, ended up homeless and living with drug addicts, and they paid for her to attend countless, very expensive, chichi drug programs. These were church-goers who went to an evangelical mega-church in Ft. Lauderdale, and they were embarrassed by their daughter's doings.

The money they had stashed away began to dwindle on drug programs for their daughter, trying to get her clean so they could be upstanding citizens once again.

Then the husband developed a chronic illness. The wife had to handle the business by herself, keep an eye on her husband's situation, take care of the daughter's problems, and they had a second, younger daughter who was still in elementary school to keep an eye out for.

Soon, the wife developed an anxiety problem, the funds they had stashed had disappeared, they lost their business, they lost their palatial home, and the church members were providing an occasional casserole to them so they could eat.

They're now living in a trailer in Rhode Island or Mass (I can't recall which), and taking EVERY BIT OF GOVT. HELP THEY CAN.

I told my sis I should write them a little letter and ask them to please stop bleeding my govt. dry by taking funds, and to get out there and pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but she said that would be unduly mean. Actually, I feel mean toward these people. They're selfish a-holes, until their time comes and they experience in their own skin what a bad time is.

[spartan61]

36. What an excellent post!!!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

39. Thanks! nt

[whathehell]

42. I can understand your desire to write that letter..

but, they may be realizing it themselves by now.

Some people do learn from experience.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

43. You think? I now have this concept of right wingers that they have no real concept of good vs. evil

or wrong vs. right, or kindness vs. cruelty, and that they are like a frat club which they feel has the right to do any darn thing they want.

I imagine them feeling that THEY are entitled to receive help, where others who are needy and poor, are not.

[whathehell]

45. I think so, Sarah

although I believe your concept holds true for some RWingers (hard to know how many) but

I tend to view most as just brainwashed or "hard wired" authoritarians who don't

realize that they are NOT the "one percent" and never will be...Then again,

I tend to be optimistic about people.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

46. I keep forgetting that word - authoritarians. That's key when thinking of right wingers. nt

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. HA! Awesome! n/t

[just1voice]

10. I am very direct with repukes, directly tell them the truth

It always bothers them to hear the truth spoken so plainly. I don't do it to bother them, I do it to tell them the truth but it always disturbs them.

The other day a puke said they liked Condi Rice so I told him that I didn't like torturers and asked him how the Bush admin ever thought they would get away with war crimes after the U.S. had executed people after WWII for the exact same crimes. The usual "ahh I don't know" was the answer.

[freshwest]

14. Good retort there, and yes, they will run.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. That is a GREAT comeback!!

Good for you!!!!

[treestar]

12. This lady failed math

People who can't afford a roof will have Medicaid or subsidies. Some people are just so dumb.

[freshwest]

15. Rightwing propaganda destroys brain cells...

[Daniel537]

16. "If we had single-payer, we wouldn't even be having this conversation."

[wandy]

18. Republican logic. If you can't afford $200.00 then get rid of Obamacare as...

you surely can afford $600.00.
After all it's easier to afford $600.00 if you can't afford a roof over you're head!
And these people live in what reality?

[Dont call me Shirley]

19. Awesome! Calling the kettle hot!

[Faygo Kid]

20. Good job, and Go Green!

[jillan]

23. Perfect reply!!!

[Cleita]

24. Good answer. I didn't find it snarky but factual and if she had a brain

she would have seen the error of her thinking.

[Duer 157099]

25. She probably took it as an endorsement of Romney

I wouldn't be surprised

[barbtries]

26. man i wish i could think that fast.

i had an opportunity at the airport yesterday with the person being felt up next to me. i could see that just like me he was just enduring the search, which meant that just like me he had refused the strip search machine. i said, "anything to keep michael chertoff from getting any more of my money," and he said, "yeah. since we're a communist country now."

huh? communist country? i had no response. actually even now i have no response. the dude left me speechless. i bet you would have said something cool.

[avebury]

30. This is what I would have said.

In a communist country, there would be no private corporate ownership of businesses. In a fascist country, a small number of people own the majority of the country's wealth - kind of like the 1%.

[barbtries]

44. i'm going to have to memorize that.

honestly i just went what? because i thought the moan dujour was socialism.

[marshall gaines]

31. luv

i luv you. truth has a way of shutting down ignorance

[ananda]

33. Lol

You know... I sometimes think that Reeps require snark.. it's as though
they set us up for it.

[ingac70]

34. That was the perfect response...

beautiful!

[Phlem]

35. I was snarky with a repuke today.

That is all I can be anymore, and great job!


-p

[lolita]

37. Are you bragging about paying as much as $200 for 10 syringes?!

This is madness. Obamacare doesn't address the inflated costs of meds and related medical expenses. There is something rotten to the core.

[spartan61]

49. Bragging? Are you kidding?

My husband has something called Factor Five, he develops blood clots and has to take Coumiden to thin his blood. Because of impending surgery, he was put on another blood thinner that stays in in his body for only 24 hours. This is the Rx in the syringe that is so expensive. We are fortunate that we could afford the $200 for this life saving med. My concern is for the people who can't. How can you even say PRESIDENT Obama doesn't care about the costs of meds and medical expenses? Have you never heard of the Affordable Care Act? (aka "Obamacare.&quot Did you even check your insurance premiums from 2004-2008 where they skyrocketed and/or quarupled? Who didn't address this during those years? Hmmmm?

[lolita]

38. It must be pretty sad to see the world and Dems

and "Repukes." And what kind of governing have we had the last four years? You call that liberal?

How will we ever get it together with all this venom?

[spartan61]

50. And what kind of governing did we have from

2000 to 2008? Do you want to know where this venom came from? Who yelled "Liar" during the SOTU? PRESIDENT Obama tried for the first two years of his administration to compromise with the republican party. What did it get him? The Senate filibustered every bill that came to the floor, even when it was a bill that was first brought by the republicans. Hell, McConnell let it be known that their mission was to make sure Obama was a one term president. I agree, this venom has to stop, but don't put all the blame on the Democrats.

[AnnieK401]

40. Excellent Response

With time to reflect, I would also love to tell her that people who can't afford a roof over their head won't be forced to buy insurance. As I understand it, people who are low income will either have help or will be exempt. She must be watching too much Fox.

[spartan61]

48. That's what I wanted to say to her

but I didn't feel this was the place to have that discussion. Besides, I wanted to shut her down ASAP, so I went snarky.

[graywarrior]

47. If I didn't have my MA health coverage, I'd be dead now.

Series.