A Freeper Encounter...Their Stupidity Knows No Bounds.

mattclearing

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Tue Sep-20-05 01:11 AM
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A Freeper Encounter...Their Stupidity Knows No Bounds.

Edited on Tue Sep-20-05 01:14 AM by tasteblind

So, I went to the bar tonight to go watch the Skins game with some friends. Of course, first there was the Saints-Giants game, and since no one had much of a stake in that game, the conversation turned to politics.

This guy, who was the spitting image of G. Gordon Liddy, started talking about how the goal of the Iraq war was to eliminate Islamic extremism. We talked about WMD, and he said that was the secondary concern.

We noted that it would've been nice if the people behind it would have mentioned that to us, and he said it was always part of the plan.

We talked about how it was a scam to loot the treasury, and he talked about equating Osama bin Laden to Pat Robertson. Every time we countered him, he moved the goalposts elsewhere.

When we said that fighting Islamic extremism in Iraq was a dumb idea because Iraq was a secular republic, he got angry, and started raising his voice at us, saying that we had to fight them over there in order to keep them from coming over here.

It went on and on and on. There was no sense that could be talked into this man. His wife told him that he was yelling at us, and he felt bad that he had to lower his voice to match the rest of ours.

We talked Katrina. It was the same thing again. We talked about how hard it must have been to get a single truckload of bottled water to the Superdome for five days, and he could only blame local officials.

He decided to liken the imagined struggle against Islamic terrorism to the battle of Normandy, saying that if we left Iraq, it would be the equivalent of not storming the beach against Hitler.

On and on and on and on...

Finally, after what seemed like hours (It was an hour and a half), the Skins-Cowboys game came on. We all joined in bashing our pathetic, beloved Skins' pisspoor efforts to stop or even match the Cowboys' advances on the goal line. He finally left, after bidding us all a pretty friendly farewell.

His friend left first, saying, "It's all well and good, just so long as we all support the troops." I went along with his comment, even though I personally think the troops who volunteer for this military are blindly sacrificing themselves for an unjust cause.

Imagine our shock, when an hour and a half after they left, the Skins picked up two totally unbelievable touchdowns and sucker punched Bill Parcells and Jerry Jones in their jaw on Monday night national tv.

The whole experience left me with two impressions.

1. Some of these people cannot be reasoned with. They have bought it all, hook, line, and sinker, and should not even be debated. It is a wasted effort on the hopelessly insane.

2. At the end of the day, all anyone wants to do is see the Skins kick the shit out of the Cowboys. Eat shit, Cowboy fans.