Was I too harsh to my trashy rightwing cousin?

[Shakespeare]

She sends this stuff out weekly to all the family, and I've previously asked politely that she not send me wingnut emails. Well, I got one yesterday with a subject line of "A must see!!!" with this link:

http://usawakeup.org/America_Wake_Up.htm

So this is how I responded:

What a ridiculous load of fear-mongering propaganda. Fortunately, the grownups are now in charge of both houses of Congress, so perhaps we'll get a little sanity back into government.

p.s. Representative Keith Ellison was sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Q'uran. How very un-American (not).

p.s.s. Don't send me this garbage.

No response yet, but they'll probably pull their usual passive aggressive bullshit and call my mom to complain.

[Left Is Write]

1. The Founding Fathers would roll over in their grave?

They only have one grave for all of them? Gee.

That was sickening, and I don't think you were harsh enough. That propagandist crap might just as well have said, "Keith Ellison is a terrorist who will recruit more terrorists!"

They're worried about how HE will separate church and state, while in the same breath complaining about the "removal" of God from schools and government institutions?

Someone needs to tell them to make up their fucking minds.

[QMPMom]

2. I haven't read it yet, but my first reaction is that you can never be

to harsh on a trashy, right-wing cousin.....

Now I'll go read about it.

Edited to add:

Okay, I've read it now. No, you weren't too harsh.

[BikeWriter]

4. You beat me to posting it. Good going!

[BikeWriter]

3. You could NEVER be too harsh to a trashy rightwing cousin!

[mzteris]

5. too harsh?

hell no.

I'm not sure anything would have been too harsh.

What an incredible load of Sh*t. I couldn't even finish watching it, it made my stomach turn so much.

What absolute @sshole wrote that piece of filth?

American soldiers don't want to die for a "Muslim Congressman"? He's going to take oil money? His being elected recruits terrorists? :wtf:

[Shakespeare]

6. I KNOW. I honestly can't believe they buy into that shit.

But, coming from an ignorant, trashy, fundie (yes, you can be both, apparently) wingnut, waddya gonna do.

[XemaSab]

7. I actually found the Reagan quote inspiring...

we need to fight these Nazis here at home before we can have any hope of promoting democracy abroad!

ps we need someone to rip that video off with a photo of the Murrah building instead of the WTC.

[stuntcat]

8. what scares ME is..

all the knuckle draggers who believe this, and the more they see of it the more ready they are to go to fight their Holy War.
The video brings up the fat debt- which we didn't have when their George got charge.
And over & over how strong our military is- The military rocks and some of my family's served, But what are they saying with this- I don't think I want to know :|

[donco]

9. I had a similar problem with my wing nut cousin,

went to youtube, this is the results I got for bush+dumb, picked this one out it has worked so far, the only wing nut propaganda I get now is by accident. It’s a virtual buffet, graze and pick the one that you think will work in your case.;)


Results 1-20 of 1593
Search
Video results for 'bush+dumb'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ur7BE4shrg

[EstimatedProphet]

10. I would respond:

WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

LOSER!!!!!

You lost! Get over it loser!!!!

But that's me...

[Shakespeare]

11. LOL

Well, that's kind of what I did, but without all the caps and exclamation points. ;-)

[EstimatedProphet]

12. Good! Give her a taste of her medicine!

[Arugula Latte]

14. She might understand it better if you spelled it "LOOSER!`11!!!1"

I'm SERIES!11!1!!11!

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Your cazy! I wont cast asparagus at some moran spocksmen!

[philosophie_en_rose]

13. "We disagree on this issue. Please don't send political emails to me again."

I like what you wrote better, but I sometimes think my freeper relations like to send things just to provoke me. No matter what they send, I send the same reply. It makes them extra pissy, and I don't have to think about their stupid emails.

[Scarlett17]

16. Did it come with the "Send this to 27 people within 11 minutes

or the next bombing will be your fault" threat?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. I have rich boring conservative relatives into that stuff.

And they say they're Methodists!! Guess they don't know about the flak at S.M.U.!!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. they sent me crap about the praying at football games case

The case from Santa Fe, Texas. And I sent them the ENTIRE OPINION which I found online, and at the top of it I put the quote from Matthew about praying in the closet in secret.

That stopped it.

[LostInAnomie]

18. I would have thrown my own feces at them.

You gotta speak to them in a language they understand.

[crim son]

19. Next time you get one of those bullshit emails,

forward them to all your thousands of DU friends so we can politely respond! :evilgrin:

[The Traveler]

21. Nope. You did good

You did right.

Hi, Shakes. Good to meet ya! Proud of your stand.

:hi:

[Robeson]

22. If she's a glassy-eyed rightwinger, she won't understand a word you said....

...it's like talking to a Moonie.

[Brewman_Jax]

23. Too harsh...?

IMO, one can't be harsh enough. RW BS talking points should never be given a free pass.

[Deep13]

24. Did you edit out the "harsh" part?

:shrug: I don't see it here.

[Redbear]

25. You rock, Shakespeare.

We have to keep calling people on this kind of stuff or everyone will just accept it as true.