Repugs in my office sound off about Katrina. Listen and learn!

[Ron Mexico]

Select comments heard in my office this morning re the New Orleans disaster (verbatim or damn close):

"Let's just hope that most of the dead are illegals." (Full disclosure: I'm against illegal immigration, too, but this is simply disgusting)

"At least some of those fucks will have to quit drinking, smoking and drugs now."

"It's their goddamned fault for living below sea level." Note: when I asked the person who said this to name a place in the States not vulnerable to one sort of disaster or another - an earthquake or tornado, for instance, the shithead changed the subject and didn't look at me once for the rest of the discussion

"I love how we're being pressed so hard for help this time - gee, it wouldn't have anything to do with a mostly black population, would it? I'll bet you that we wouldn't hear shit from Bush or anyone else if Burlington got flattened."

"Bush actually has the gall to ask us to send cash when he spends like a drunken Dem? I'm not sending a fucking cent. He's going to send my tax money anyway, so it's not like I have a choice about 'contributing.' I'm already being forced to 'care' more than I actually do." Note: this is actually from one of those assholes who believes the government should enforce family values

"There's nothing wrong with price-gouging, it's supply and demand. I don't feel obligated to sell anything for less than the max I could get for it, and neither should anyone else. If you can't afford food, it's not my fucking problem, the person who gets it is whoever offers me the most."

"Where in the Constitution does it say that the feds should be involved in a state responsibility like disaster relief?" You can't make this stuff up, folks!

"Beyond how this affects the Saints and my fantasy team, I couldn't work up two shits to give about this if you fed me a half-smoke smothered in chili." Note: he refers to a fantasy football team - he has Aaron Brooks and Joe Horn - and a "half smoke" is a spicy hot dog sold in DC street kiosks.

"Did you see that picture of prisoners being led over a bridge? Why the fuck are we saving them? We can't use them for labor in rebuilding the city because the PC fucks will play the race card, but at least we could have saved the cost of feeding them for God knows how long."

"Betcha five bucks Bush uses this as an excuse to bring inhalf of fucking Mexico and make us pay for their health care and education."

I put up with this every goddamned day, folks.

:puke:

[flying_wahini]

1. my condolenses

you probably have ulcers and high blood pressure.
Just keep shaking your head and saying god help us all.
helps me a lot.

[flying_wahini]

2. my condolences

you probably have ulcers and high blood pressure.
Just keep shaking your head and saying god help us all.
helps me a lot.

[zanne]

3. I would be in prison by now.

Kudos to you for your patience and high frustration level. I would've slapped someone silly by now.

[Union Thug]

35. I'm with you.. Someone would have been decked..

[sepia_steel]

4. Welcome to my world

at least there's only ONE repug, and he left for a long vacation today!!!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I have a suggestion:

Louisville Slugger makes a lead-filled bat called the "Fungo".

You might want to buy one and use it generously.

[Clovis Sangrail]

6. damn

if I were you I'd be looking for another job

[snippy]

7. Sounds like you work at the RNC. n/t

[Oreo]

8. Do you work at GOP headquarters

what a bunch of heartless shitheads

[villager]

9. do you work in a concentration camp?

n/t

[bluestateguy]

10. How should we as Democrats "connect" with these voters?

I know how.

With a punch in the face.

[truebrit71]

25. That or the ever-reliable knee to the crotch...

..oh nevermind, they don't have any balls.....

[jedicord]

11. "Now all the criminals are in Houston"

Of the refugees at the Astrodome.

"This is God's way of selective design - they're parasites on his planet and he wants them off."

"They need to just throw a bomb at the looters."

"It's their fault for not evacuating."

I have no words for what I'm hearing. Where 9-11 brought out the best in people (for a while), this is bringing out the worst.

[Orion The Hunter]

12. I will say it again: My condolences

These co-workers of yours sound like the dregs of humanity.

[samsingh]

13. sorry you have to work with these assholes

[whatever4]

14. Sad. They just don't realize, they'd be treated no better, were they there

and that by allowing this, they're only further facilitating that eventuality, that they won't be treated any better. IF we come upon "hard" times.

Like we don't already know hard times are coming.

It's a shame; they're too damn stupid to realize their lives and welfare don't matter a bit more to this admin. Not one bit.

[Toots]

15. I'm already being forced to 'care' more than I actually do."

"We Don't Care" "We Don't Care" "We Don't Care" "We Don't Care" "We Don't Care"

[hamsterjill]

16. Repugs in MY Office Mouthing Off, Too

Had some of the same stuff going on in my mostly Republican office, too.

One woman (who goes on religious retreats several times a year) said "well we could be opening our homes, but you know that most of those refugees are the real low life".

Ain't that the best Christian mentality you've ever heard?? (sarcasm, of course here).

I reminded her that one of the biggest evangelical machines in the nation is located in our city and I was wondering why IT had not offered to open its doors to the refugees.

She was quiet after that...

[kikiek]

17. What causes demented thinking? I believe they take the easy way out.

Easier to hate and find blame and oversimplfy than to really look for solutions to problems. NOLA is the perfect example of narrow minded thinking. Do they think it would be any better if we had an attack on the US in their home city? This is proof that this administration believes this country is here to serve their purpose only. We are serfs and disposable. Easily replaced. They don't want to spend the time or money to save anyone. Cuts into their profits.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. SICK FUCKS!

People are freakin dying!!!! :mad: I just hate those people!!!!!!

[g_friendofsoleft]

19. Worst disregard for victims yet: Condi just spotted shoe shopping in NYC.

I just heard that Condi was spotted in my town earlier today (NYC) shopping for outrageously expensive shoes at Salvatore Ferragamo. Apparently a woman in the store approached her and said something to the effect of, "How dare you shop for shoes when so many thousands of people are dying!" Condi, that pillar of integrity that she is, had the woman physically removed from the store so she could continue her self-indulgent shopping spree undisturbed.

This is a story that needs to be told far and wide -- and then, the entire United States of America is due Condi's humble apology and resignation on live television. (She might not really FEEL humbled, but she can fake it -- we know she's capable of that much.)

[chaska]

21. I hope you've started a thread on this.

[Kerrytravelers]

20. Start looking for a new job in a liberal-type company/profession NOW!

It keeps me sane!

[chaska]

22. Wow, that's a special bunch alright. What kind of work r we talking here?

And where?

[Ron Mexico]

33. DC city government, contract lawyers. (n/t)

[truebrit71]

23. Time to get another job....

I would have been fired long ago if i had to listen to that sort of backward-ass retardlican 'logic' on a daily basis...

Fucking racist assholes....

[Bridget Burke]

24. Do your co-workers realize how lucky they are?

A lesser person would have laced the Cremora with rat poison long ago.

[Lars39]

26. .

:spray: That one snuck up on me.

[bribri16]

27. I wish there was a way to track these people down and put them on list

like the "no fly" list. Maybe a "no help ever" list.

[okieinpain]

28. what about this one, is he one of those conservative christians

"There's nothing wrong with price-gouging, it's supply and demand. I don't feel obligated to sell anything for less than the max I could get for it, and neither should anyone else. If you can't afford food, it's not my fucking problem, the person who gets it is whoever offers me the most."

[Arugula Latte]

29. I wish I believed in Divine Karma

May these fuckheads one day be up to their necks in water with no help on the way.

[Check12]

30. Tell them that the french poor had a unique solution

for people like them. It was called the guilotine.

[SoCalifer]

31. These human wastes

These human wastes

need to look at themselves in the mirror. Here allow me to help them out.




:puke: :puke:





Ron Mexico, I am really sorry brother you have to put up with this type of trash. I hope better for you, I really do..

[elperromagico]

32. I hope nothing like this ever happens to them.

Their whining would deafen the planet.

[Ron Mexico]

34. It's like a car accident.

You almost HAVE to look, even though it disgusts you.

I actually listen to Limbaugh and Hannity two or three times a week just to hear what the prevaling view on the "Right" is. Sure, it's tough to hear, but it's even tougher to shut off. I freely admit I'm not a major political junkie, so it's nice to know what the other side's arguments are before I have to respond to them. I hear some of this bullshit and can't turn away no matter how hard I try, because it's fascinating to listen to people justify things such as price gouging. Simply amazing.

The sad thing is that they believe what they're saying with every fiber of their beings and their votes count just as much as ours do. :(

[Raksha]

37. Look on the bright side: their numbers are decreasing rapidly.

Sure, there are always going to be hardcore bigots who don't give a damn about anyone but themselves, but if even a major media whore like Wolf Blitzer is starting to get pissed off, there's still hope for this country. The three Gulf states hit hardest probably won't vote Republican for at least another century (if ever).

[Teaser]

36. Hit them.

I've started hitting freepers when they talk to me, and believe me, I haven't felt this good in a long time.

[1932]

38. I'd like to reverse evacuate those assholes to I-10 overpass in downtown

N.O.

[tsuki]

39. You know better than to let them skip their meds. I mean, you

work on a psychiatric ward, right, uh I hope, oh please tell me you do.