Posted on 11/12/2022 10:20:29 AM PST by Starman417
When the midterm election results were announced, I was disappointed, demoralized, and angry. I really anticipated a deadly red tsunami, 100 feet tall and moving at the speed of a Cat-5 hurricane, to overwhelm and destroy the Democrat party. I slept soundly on election eve with visions of the Democratic Party joining the Whig Party and disappearing forever. Yeah, that didn't happen
The morning after the election I arose from my slumber expecting to see stunned Democratic voters washed up by the tide with the other flotsam and jetsam. Suddenly, my wonderful dream turned into a nightmare. It was mortifying to learn that the election was a bust and Republicans probably wouldn't even win the Senate. It was disappointing on various levels.
Hari-kari with a butter knife crossed my mind, but my lovely wife said, "Put that in the "Life Ain't Fair File" and move on. Pouting, I went to our clubhouse (plus 55 community) to read a book and mope around without being judged. I encountered four old guys who were playing bridge and assumed that they were intelligent conservatives. That was my first mistake. Player 1 asked me how I was feeling, and I said, "dejected because of the election. We might get control of the House, but the Senate looks iffy. It may come down to Georgia because Warnock and Walker are locked in a run-off election."
Player 1 said, "I hate Walker. He hit his wife and doesn't deserve to be a Senator." I replied, "Both of those candidates are really, really, horrible, but we desperately need to win the Senate. Hey, how about Fetterman in Pennsylvania? He had a major stroke, can hardly speak, and has a bulge on his neck the size of a grapefruit. 650,000 votes were "collected" before he even bothered to debate. Somehow, he "won" and is now "the honorable" senator from Pennsylvania."
Player 1 responded, "I hate Walker. All he can do is play football." I changed the subject and said, "The tax dollars we are sending to Ukraine is excessive. We are focused on a border 5,000 miles away and ignore our open southern border." That's when the fight started-not an actual fight because our combined age was like a thousand years. Player 4 weighed in and said, "We need to stand up to Russia and defeat Putin." I said, "You mean like Vietnam, where we sacrificed 57,000 young men and women for nothing? How about Afghanistan, where we stayed for 20 years and wasted 2 trillion dollars? Do you feel sorry for Biden's botched withdrawal and the 13 young men who horribly died because of his incompetence?" Player 2 responded, "After 9-11, we chased Osama bin Laden into Afghanistan." I replied, "Yeah, but Afghanistan is the "graveyard of empires." We should have known better. We stayed 20 frigging years and forced our courageous troops to serve three and four tours in that medieval hell-hole. 2,456 soldiers were killed, 20,752 were wounded and many returned home with debilitating PTSD- ALL FOR NOTHING!
Player 4 chimed in, "We need to defeat Russia. Do you like Putin?" I replied, "Nope. I once respected him as a leader, but he made a terrible and costly mistake invading Ukraine." Player 4 replied, "So, you like Putin!" I replied, "Russia, Russia, Russia, is not the problem. The real problem is China!"
Player 3, who may be the smartest man in the room, said nothing. Player 1 said, "I hate Walker." Player 2 said, "We need to stand up to Russia and show our Pacific Rim allies that we will protect them." I replied, "Saber rattling is stupid. America cannot afford another war (31 trillion $ in debt) and lacks the resources and the conviction to continue policing the world. As the leader of the free world, America should broker a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine. We should have accomplished that task before the war broke out. Player 4 sarcastically said, "I'm, gonna get you an "I LOVE PUTIN" tee-shirt."
In retrospect, this was all my fault. I wasn't paying attention and suddenly found myself down the rabbit hole being relentlessly attacked. I responded with anger, which thwarted my ability to intelligently debate the issues. It is sad, but our country is so polarized that it is impossible for liberals and conservatives to rationally discuss the horrific problems that we are facing.
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Bingo!
BTW, I don’t give a $hit about crime in Blue Cities. They voted the Bastards into office, so let them reap the rewards they voted for.
It's technically not redundant. Not all stupid people are liberals, but all liberal people are stupid.
“Perhaps we should fight more. And hang together more.”
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When we don’t, the “Player 3’s” are left to think that they are utterly alone.
Which is PRECISELY the intent of instructing us not to discuss things with others.
Standing up for the Truth may be unfashionable, but it is Never Wrong.
(In spite of the online input from 10s of thousands of visiting “students”
annually debriefed by the CCP PLA... and that of their fellow travelers.)
~Easy
One huge sign is when brain dead or physically dead DemonRats win.
MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: 'Makes you wonder about his future' =====================================================================
Katie Tur is a mediot flunkie for the left wing elites.
This is her/their way of ramming their reality into our world and laughing at how they have us over a barrel.
First, they elect Buydin, then their idiot Sinator in Pennsylvania, and we can do nothing. MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: 'Makes you wonder about his future'
Could Senator President Fetterman be any worse for America, than Joe BuyDen?
Never Argue With Liberals or Stupid People“
A lesson learned long ago. It really is pointless!
By the time I was 50, I had my Master’s degree into this.
By the time I was 60, I had my PhD into this life style.
“Never Argue nor associate with Liberals or Stupid People“ has enabled me to make it into my mid 80’s!
Same here though l am a bit younger but these fools are everywhere.
Especially the latter. Someone not knowing you might not be able to tell the difference.
The problem is, that concedes the field to the liberals. Perhaps we should fight more. And hang together more.
We should ask questions more. For example, "How much are you prepared to spend on the Ukraine?" "Do you think it's a problem that all votes aren't counted on election day?" "Didn't Warnock's wife say he ran over her in a car?"
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