Examples of "Republican Values" you've encountered?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I've posted about this guy before. He's a manager at my work. Anyway, he has been in trouble before for posting "For a good time call XXX-XXXX" with XXX-XXXX being replaced by the top manager's phone number. Why? Because he was angry that she wouldn't let him make the schedules anymore.

Anywho so what has our republican friend been up to? Well, our workplace is full of lazy people. One guy came in drunk---no retirbution. One guy slapped another girl on the butt--no retribution. One guy was lazy--FIRED. Did I happen to mention he was gay?

Republican Manager doesn't like gay people. He believes they are an abomination against god's wish for humanity.

But apparently, soliciting an underage girl for oral sex is right in line with god's wish for humanity because that's what he did.

[Squatch]

1. My neighbor is a die-hard Republican, ex-USMC.

I talk with him often and hang out in his bar room watching football. Really nice guy.

But, for the most part, politics don't come up.

Only thing I can't stand about him is that he insists on drinking Budweiser in my presence.

[Burma Jones]

2. Republican in our neighborhood, anti-choice, "pro-family"

and having an affair with a work at home Dad in the Neighborhood, and no, it's not me.

[applegrove]

3. They smash the history of independant - elite free cando to pieces.

In fact they laugh at democracy. If his leader's are full of crap and running a country is just a fun game of I'm a big man cause I win - why wouldn't the underlings follow suit.

No matter where you are on the scale of values - Repukes are your party.

Pious and family centred? Vote for the party of the Xtians

Nefarious and predatory? Repeat what the propaganda is (write a book) to fool the little people into voting against their own best interest and make big money.

[Racenut20]

4. And the EEOC's phone number is ?????

[jojo54]

5. Used to have Rep neighbors that let their 12 yr old son go see

Striptease when it was in the theatre. Yeah, that's moral values for ya.....

That's o.k. though. Both of them voted Rep, both of us voted Dem so our votes cancelled theirs out.

[DaveJ]

8. That's why they say it takes a family not a village, right?

What happens when a kid's family is the equivalent to a pack of wolves?

[mulsh]

6. 4 percent tip for "good service"

my father in law, who is an old school conservative republican, not a wing nut, feels that 4 percent is a good tip. it's what his grandfather, a republican congresman from Idaho, told him.

when we go out I always leave the tip.

[maveric]

48. At least he leaves 4%. At the repug convention I saw posts here telling

of the conventioneers in NYC not tipping at all.

[Boxerfan]

7. My brother(ex) is a prime example

I was facing a major surgery,had exhausted my savings & was unemployed. I also had a very limited insurance coverage-enough to get me in line for surgery-but it was obvious the expenses would be great.

Relucttantly I asked family that could help for help with the expenses. At this point we were in danger of losing our mobile home & being a family of 4 on the streets!.

My brother is a financial advisor & has his own company. He is also a right wing,born again. His reply to me when I needed help was.....

We'll be praying for you.

That'll sure pay the bills!

I managed to get by selling personal items & odd jobs for friends(sympathy work but I'll take it). After I recovered I got not one but 2 jobs (how uniquely american) to help start covering the past due bills. I have also had a last talk with my brother. Imho anyone who supports bush supports child molesters & war criminals.

[FreedomAngel82]

24. We'll be praying for you??

Whatever happened to giving to the poor? :eyes: Oh. I guess all that Jesus taught is just old 90's crap eh? :eyes:

[DaveJ]

9. Remember managers are in vulnerable positions

They are more sensitive to the attitude of the staff and customers than anyone. If he is such a bad person it should not be difficult to get him fired or at least cause him a rough time.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. He's leaving for law school in about 2 weeks...

Supreme Court Justice 2030...woo... :eyes:

[alfredo]

10. Our right wing republican governor has workers fired for

allowing their shirt tails to come out. or if they have visible tattoos. It doesn't matter if they got the tattoos before they got the job. Here it is in the upper 90's and people working outside clearing brush cannot let their shirt tails come out, or if they have a tattoo on their arm, they have to wear long sleeves. Of course now our governor will not fire staff members under indictment for official misconduct.

[DBoon]

11. Partner at CPA firm

Fired a bunch of people suddenly - including the only African American in the group and a six-month pregnant woman.

Some of the remaining employees werre upset he did this, so he held a meeting to explain his actions.

he actually quoted "greed is good" from Gordon Gecko - without irony, as a serious statement of what business is all about. Told us that these people weren't contributing to the bottom line and that was all that mattered.

[sakabatou]

44. Wow... I didn't think Republicans could go that low...

Oh wait... they have.

[DaveJ]

12. 4th of July picnic

A nice and obedient stray dog wanders into our group and my Republican relatives kicked it and tried to scare it to get it to leave. I yelled at them an said I'd walk it away from the party.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Aww!

How horrible!! The poor dog. :(

[driver8]

34. There would have been some relatives with black eyes if that

was my family.

I cannot stand to see anyone mistreat an animal in any way...

[eissa]

13. A repuke is challenging

the democratic congressman in our area. I know the repuke and his wife-- not well, but enough. He's divorced. His current wife had an affair with a relative of mine while she was still married (and so was he!) Her husband left her and she banged up a couple of more before settling with this guy. Did I mention her 15-year old daughter also got knocked up? And this guy says that our congressman is "out of touch" with our values. Go figure.

[Bunny]

15. Just curious - did the 15 year old that got knocked up have the

baby? Or did she have a *GASP* abortion?

[eissa]

17. Yeah, she had it

But I think I know the woman well enough that she would have preferred that her daughter have the abortion, but she would never admit that publicly.

[niceypoo]

14. My next door neighbor.

She goes to one of those televangelist churches. Where do I start? Her children aren't allowed to have friends. Her children aren't allowed to leave the yard til they are 18 (too many demons flying around). Her oldest daughter has been banished from the family; she brought home a "Harry Potter" memo pad one day. We heard a huge uproar next door. I talked to one of the younger daughters over the fence and she told me what it was all about. The oldest daughter told me "My mom is crazy". I talked to the mother a couple days later and she told me "Harry Potter is witchcraft because it has unicorns". When I mentioned that "unicorns don't exist" she started screaming and ran into her house.

Her husband sits out in his tool shed 2 or 3 times a week drinking. SOmetimes I go out there and talk to him and he tells me stuff like "Can you imagine what your sex life would be like if, "God was watching"?

Her 'church' has her convinced that all material possessions are "blessings" from God. Consequently she buys a lot of cheap junk. One day 6 unicycles appeared in their yard; blessings from God (They have 7 kids, one a toddler). Another day a trampoline......their property is littered with the remains of previous "blessings"......old beat up cadilacs.....a rotting mobile home....various home appliances that were bought but never installed.

She is also a vicious gossip. Apparently any thought that comes to her mind was put there by God. One neighbor was accused of "growing pot in his basement" because he put curtains on his basement windows. After bleating her theory to the whole neighborhood and smearing him, she called the police. What did they find? A furnace, pool table and a big screen TV. I talked to the officers that raided his house and he told me she said claimed, "He had removed the concrete from the basement floor and planted the plants directly in the floor dirt". Of course the whole story was 100% fabrication, yet she believed it to be true.

Their property has flag poles all over with shredded, weather worn flags flapping from them. There are Bush signs in their yard.
I could go on and on and on and on but I think you get the message.

The sickening thing is that she has banished her oldest daughter from the family for the "Harry Potter" memo pad. Her republican hubby cowers in her presence. Republican family values in action.

[SmileyBoy]

21. Wow.... Just wow.

Wow.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. That is so nuts!

Wow that woman really is crazy. Banning their daughter because of "Harry Potter"? My aunt (one of my dad's sisters) kids love "Harry Potter" and they also listen to Eminem and they're Christians. Some people are just really really really uptight about crap. I remember my aunt said when my cousin was younger he used to like a band (Metallica or something like that) and this song and then she heard Johnny Cash or someone singing the same song and she heard that it was really okay lyric wise and just different music and arrangement and she lightned up.
Their kids used to sneak out and go to clubs to listen to bands they liked when they lived in Detriot. I don't know any Christians at my church (nor my grandparents church) who are fundies like that! My grandfather, before he died recently, was an elder at his church for twenty-seven years and he was never that way with his kids (my mom and aunt). Sure they had curfews and things like that but they weren't banned because of a note pad or anything. :crazy: That woman is nuts. I would hate to live like that.

[KarenInMA]

29. That was "Nine Inch Nails". Johnny Cash

covered the song "Hurt" right before he died.

[niceypoo]

49. The 'church' they attend encourages them to cut off ties with non members

Even if they are family members. She actually wanted to make her daughter go thru an exorcism on the network(The "Trinity broadcast network") that her minister broadcasts on (His name is Kasey Treat).....ON TV. Humiliate her in front of the friggin country. She refused. Her picture has been removed from their family website and it says "She has climbed aboard that long dark train" where her name and picture were. Really warped shit. The mother once told me that "Armageddon will be fought over international taxes". Yes, they think the GOP tax policy is destiny from God. When God created the universe he had the REPUKES in mind, they actually believe this. The republican party has become a religious cult.

[midnight armadillo]

58. There's a family website???

C'mon, you gotta post the link!

[Alcibiades]

36. The Ninth Commandment

States ""You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

It seems that this lady, and Republicans in general, are pretty weak on this one, but do pretty good with some of the other Biblical injunctions that are not in there literally, but which seem to be there from a certain radical fundamentalist point of view, i.e. "Do unto the least of these, before they do unto you," "Let him who is without conscience cast the first stone," and "Judge not--oh, wait, my bad: Judge early, judge often."

[maveric]

39. The cops actually got a warrant on this whacko's claims?

So anyone can call the cops with suspicions and they raid someone's house?
Welcome Police State!

[niceypoo]

50. Yes, the cops believed her........

She was pretty damn adamant about preaching it to anybody in the neighborhood who would listen also. She had her husband doing it too. Nuts.

[sakabatou]

46. In the words of my friend Yuki

Holy schnikies!

[deutsey]

16. Former VP of Finance where I work

Very politically conservative, white, family guy with two kids (both pre-teens) and a wife, gloated over Bush's "victory" in the last election that it validated everything Bush stands for, blah blah blah.

A few months later, he quits his job, dumps his wife and kids, now sports earrings (mid-life crisis much?) and is planning to marry a woman younger than himself.

[eissa]

18. Oh, another one!

A repuke co-worker belongs to one of those fundie mega-churches. Starts almost any conversation with "well I'm a Christian" implying that the rest of us, Christian or not, are a bunch of heathens. Did I mention that she has been married 4 times? She's also the biggest gossip in our very large institution, a pathological liar and one of the most bigoted and judgmental people you'll ever meet.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Oh brother!

Seems to me she should attend my church. A couple of times we've talked about gossiping and things like that and how it's a big no-no and you should confront the person yourself and not blab things etc. :eyes: Some people need to really read their Bibles more and not just listen to some "preachers".

[holboz]

33. Those that feel the need to remind us that they're Christians...

Probably would be grateful for reminders of their "un-Christian" behavior. After all, if it's that important to them then I think we should support them to keep them from backsliding.

:evilgrin:

IMO, that is! (I can't help it - if people are going to put on a "holier than thou" attitude then they're fair game when it comes to pointing out their true shortcomings.)

[maveric]

41. When someone tells me "well I'm a Christian", I say, "So! Big deal!"

Its like they feel they deserve special consideration and their words are golden.
I like to nip that right in the bud.

[Carolab]

52. Why not ask them to prove it.

Really--ask them how they know they are Christian. Is it because they go to church on Sunday? Or is it how they actually live their lives?

[zbdent]

20. My brother

A few tidbits from the 2003-2005 era:

Actually, a few years back, he borrowed a grand from his "liberal kid brother" - before he showed his colors. Finally paid me back this spring.

He was commenting on the book by Lance Armstrong, talking about how amazing his story was. I held my tongue and didn't ask him how he could find LA so great when he left his wife and infant twins to go f*ck a rock star . . .

In the past few years, he has been jumping from job to job . . . and he even signed up to be in the union. He was upset that, since he just joined, he was the first to go when the layoffs hit . . . (big surprise - he was in unions in the 80s - he even hid when an incident occurred out at the mines, and the cops were looking for witnesses).

Another point about the Repukeness of brother - his dental and eye and health care were all covered by our father's union membership as we were growing up . . .

I realized this year that my older brother's wife was actually 2 years younger than me or Mrs. ZBDent . . .

I'm sure I could remember a bunch of other things . . .

(I did have a comeback, a little late, for the next time he told me "Kerry is scary" - my comeback: "Well, it's a good thing you didn't sign up for the armed services - the cleaning bill from you wetting yourself every time a jeep backfired would be enormous . . .")

[livinginphotographs]

22. Co-worker Bushbot.

Told me how his sixteen year old daughter is built "like a brick shithouse."

Probably not as bad as some people, but still pretty creepy.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. That's just gross!!!

[Alcibiades]

37. Pimping

Sounds like he's probably assumed too much debt, and was trying to pimp her out to you. Don't do it--he'll probably try to blackmail you later!

No matter what the circumstances, it's never OK for a grown man to comment on how hot a child is, especially his own daughter. Even if it's true, you are never, ever allowed to say it: it's a thought crime. I mean, there must be a billion hot chicks out there, and all you can think about is your own daughter? That's just wrong.

[livinginphotographs]

38. What's weird is we weren't even talking about that.

He was saying something about her getting into trouble. I guess he was saying that she runs around with a lot of guys, which is just as inappropriate to be telling your co-workers as what he actually said.

I wouldn't call it a "thought crime" though. I'd just call it disgusting.

[CitrusLib]

23. Where the hell is upper management?

One word: liability.

This clown is leaving himself, the company and any other manager who knows about his behavior wide open for litigation. Someone needs to blow a whistle.

If I'd had the balls to do it right after I came out of college (oh, those many years ago), I'd own a Fortune 500 company right now.

[holboz]

30. This is my favorite example - a classic I've retold over and over

About 5 years ago I used to work with an 18 year old kid. He came in one Monday morning and said (I'll paraphrase):

Man, the funniest thing happened at church yesterday. I was hanging out front after the sermon tossing a football around with my friends and loads of other people were outside talking. Then this guy came out of the chuch, he's a real fag and nobody likes him, so I hurled the football at him and hit him in the head. It pegged him so hard he fell to the ground and everybody laughed. He was all dizzy and stuff afterwards..."

I stood there absolutely horrified - I replied, "Please tell me which church you go to so I cam remember to stay far away from it."

That poor guy who got clocked with the football!!!

[movie_girl99]

31. i've got one for you

we had a warehouse position open and were told to to hire from a temp service. My boss called his pastor and asked if he knew of any guys looking for jobs, if so to tell them to go and apply with this temp service and then give him the names. He did this so he would make sure he was hiring a "good christian". I couldnt effing beleive it.

[movie_girl99]

32. oh yeah just thought of another one

when i was on PTA there was a gal who drove an SUV with those fish all over it and wore a cross around her neck. A couple of us went out one night and got a bit tipsy and she told us that she was screwing her best friends husband on her pool table..while her kids were home sleeping!!!!! So much for morals and values??

[MountainLaurel]

35. Former state representative

Who when running for election and using his family as campaign and PR props (literally, there was one commercial with his little girl who said "Please vote for my daddy"), tried to pick up a college student in a bar and asked her, after buying her a beer or two, to come home with him. (The student in question was my roommate, and I was present for all of this, including us lying about needing to pick up a friend who worked at a bar so that we could leave without him kicking up a fuss.)

After being elected, most of the bills he put forth related to punishing gays: prohibiting companies from offering benefits to same-sex partners, trying to get the university's gay, lesbian, and bisexual student organization kicked out of its office in the student services suite. His reason (paraphrased): "You damn feminists have been complaining about the university not having a day care center, well, we can put it there." Except that by county regulations, a day care in a room that size could legally hold 1.5 infants and one teacher. Why his is a Republican value: hypocrisy. Turns out that he had a number of alternative lifestyle experiences himself while in high school. (A friend's roommate was the other party in these experiences.)

Then a couple years after he lost an election, there was a big ruckus involving law enforcement and his drunk ass trying to break into his by-that-time-ex-wife's trailer. There were several DUIs as well.

[booksenkatz]

40. I know of a young Repub mom who deserted

her little girl the week that the little girl turned four. Mommy decided she just didn't like being a mommy after all. Too stressful, intruded on her freedom, etc. Whenever I was around her, Mommy was always on about how we commie liberals are ruining the country, etc.

Happy ending, though: the little girl, who is now six and had her first REAL birthday party ever, was actually done a huge favor by this woman. Seems that the girl never bonded with her mom to begin with, and is now thriving at school. She and her dad are very happy together. Her psychologist has stated that it goes against all conventional wisdom, but the child is actually much happier and healthier with mom out of the picture. Removing the Repug from the home was like removing a cancerous tumor. The dad swears never to eff up like that ever again.

[sakabatou]

47. So... a world w/o repukes is a better place!

[Spike from MN]

42. Well, a co-worker of mine has a Repug friend that is

extremely anti-choice. According to her, "abortion is murder and people who have them should go to jail." Well, guess who had an abortion? Yep, the "pro-life" right-winger had one, probably because "it was different in her case" or "God told her to" or some such crap. But afterwards, she got right back to pushing her anti-choice agenda. One day she spammed my co-worker with a half dozen or so emails about the "abortion industry". The co-worker emailed her back and told her to stop putting her guilt trip on others and asked her if she planned on turning herself in for murder. Hah! That shut her up for awhile. Yeah, ya gotta love those Repug values.

[JaneQPublic]

43. Former co-worker, big-time Rush fan and Clinton hater...

...got fired after it was discovered he spent most of the day working on his porn website.

Oh, and he was also cheating on his wife and bragged about it at the office.

[maveric]

45. Co-worker is a 7th day adventist. You cant have a conversation with her...

without having "God" or Jesus" as every other word. First of all this woman is a nurse, RN. Several times she refused to administer pain meds (morphine, vicodin...) to patients dying of cancer, saying "God has his reasons and will take away the pain". I complained to the DON and she put a stop to that by only giving her patients who are not taking pain meds.
Now this woman goes on all day about how a good Xtian she is and reads the bible everyday, and I should be doing the same, blah, blah, blah...

Oh, she was fired for milking out her charting(paperwork), by staying 8 hours AFTER her shift, to complete the charting and grabbing OT pay. All the others RN's complete their charting during the scheduled shift or possibly and hour OT. She did this EVERYDAY! EVERY SHIFT SHE WORKED! Most of her OT time consisted of talking at people about her righteousness and reading her bible. She was STEALING time from the company. Another nurse warned her about the OT gouging and she said something like " Its OK with God. Its part of his plan for me".

She's also in the process of divorcing her 3rd husband.

WHACKO!

[DanCa]

51. I wont name the denomition

But I was forced to leave my familys church for not taking pictures of women entering abortion clinics. They wanted to scarlet letter these people by putting there faces on websites. I am not naming the demonition because I know there are many many good christians on this site who dont codone this.

I also have young onset parkinsons and when i debate the need for stem cell research I have been called everything from an embryo farmer to a toddler killer.

really nice people huh?

[wookie294]

53. Republican values cause child molestation

We must work together, as one nation, to defeat Republican pedophilia. Check out the long list of Republican pedophiles at this link....

http://www.armchairsubversive.com

Sen. Rick Santorum? You there??

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. My former boss.

The jerk only cares about money. I went on what was going to be a paid vacation a few months ago and was laid off the very next day. Of course, I didn't find out about it until I came back from vacation 10 days later -- through a message left on my answering machine.

I did get a chance to talk with him on the phone a couple of days later, but couldn't say what I really wanted to say because he hadn't written my recommendation letter yet.

Meanwhile, several truly incompetent employees weren't let go, even though I was. And to add insult to injury, my family and I were planning an overseas trip where the majority of my relatives live, including my 95-year old grandfather who I haven't seen in over ten years.

However, I have kept in touch with some of my ex-co-workers and found out that the company is losing money fast, so that definitely helps. I hope the guy burns in hell.

[DanCa]

55. welcome to du starbucks anarchist

[Starbucks Anarchist]

56. Thanks.

:hi:

[seabeyond]

57. the old testament does suggest it is ok to abuse female and

own slaves.

but no to homosexuality

sounds to me as if he is sittin right in the old testament. i was telling a friend yesterday, decades being christian, 60's - 90's we christians used the new testament. it has just been the last handful of years we left the new testament and now use the old testament. or could be the difference of first four years christian on the west coast and then moving to texas. i dont know. maybe they always found their christianity thru the old testament