My right wing co-workers are losing their minds

[Mortos]

One is going to quit and go on welfare because after the tax increases to pay for this she will do better on welfare than on her current $40k a year job. Another thinks this is the socialist takeover Glen Beck has been warning us about. Another posted on facebook that socialist Obama and liberal asshole congressmen have put our country in the "shitter". It's kinda fun watching them freak out and make up shit about a bill they have zero knowledge of. They are all whispering in conspiratorial tones since they know I won't put up with their shit unchallenged. I feel kinda sorry for them because they are so scared of what they have been told by the right wing echo chamber but it also makes me angry that they are so willfully ignorant and pass on their ignorance to others.

[howard112211]

1. Keep your head low, just in case on of them

decides to "exercise their second ammendment rights".

[Iris]

2. lol! You're going to have fun for a while!

I wonder how long it will take for them to realize they aren't getting the mark of the beast and/or all the other stuff they are so afraid of?

[raccoon]

3. I wouldn't feel sorry for them; they CHOOSE to be ignorant dumbasses. nt

[SoFlaJet]

23. Yesterday some of my football friends were tweeting

about this. Usually I try to keep separate my politics and my sports but this one girl was saying that she WISHED her state was run by republicans. She's from Mass. I told her how ironic since Mitt Romney, a REPUBLICAN passed essentially the exact same bill in her state.

[DailyGrind51]

4. I have a few "sky is falling!" types to deal with also.

[barbiegeek]

5. Ask the female co-worker if she's gonna quit and go on welfare

Because their is a lot of people who could apply for a job.

[66 dmhlt]

34. Ask? Hell, I'd ENCOURAGE her to quit!

[msanthrope]

45. She has a better shot at disability for her mental issues. n/t

[eShirl]

6. Wait till she finds out you can't just "go on welfare."

[Mortos]

11. In her world

Welfare queens sit around drawing fat government checks and living the life of Riley eating bon bons.

[Mopar151]

25. "All you have to do"

Is figure out how to draw TANF checks in 4-5 different identities, and duck the indictments to follow. Does the life of Rielly include a little stretch in County?:hi: You are right about the alternate reality these nitwits beleive in - it's :crazy: :bounce: :eyes: QUAZY!

[pipi_k]

27. People like that need to hear from people (like myself) who have been on it

Back in the early 1970s after hubby #1 left.

I was getting cash payments of $234.00 per month for myself and two kids.

That's $117 every two weeks.

My apartment rent was $115 per month


No food stamps at that time...just the powdered eggs and milk and blocks of cheese and butter, peanut butter, mystery meat, etc.

The rest of the money was supposed to be used for utilities and personal items, cleaning items, clothing, etc.


Barely subsistence level. No bon bons at my house...

[Dappleganger]

28. Tell her that her favorite democrat,

President Clinton took care of the 'welfare queens.'

The moral of the story is be careful what you wish for!

[Berry Cool]

38. Yeah. Tell her she can't just "quit work and go on welfare"

because if you're on welfare, you now have two years to FIND a job or else...so the idea that she can "quit her job and go on welfare" won't exactly work.

Aside from the fact that it's not going to be the bonanza of ready income and delightful leisure that she assumes she is currently supporting with her tax dollars.

[CTyankee]

30. Sounds like a lot of folks in Congress, actually...nt

[left coaster]

31. Yep, they do.. They are called CORPORATIONS. nt

[calimary]

42. And driving Cadillacs.

[pipi_k]

22. Sort of related, but not really...

I have a son-in-law who hates his job.

He does have Crohns, and he did have a nasty bout in October of 2008... nothing much since, but that's not the reason he wants to quit and go on disability. He just hates his job.

So he's under the impression that he can just up and quit and go on disability.


Ummmmm....yeah.

:eyes:

[mwooldri]

50. That son-in-law would need to prove a few things...

like the disease he has (and I don't wish it on anyone) makes it literally impossible to hold down a job consistently. I've been on and off my job for the past year that my medical team broached the subject to me. I'm hearing none of it. I do have "issues with liking my job" right now but a quitter is not for me. If I get totally debilitated by what I have then I might consider it as a last resort (like when I get fired for being out of work too long). Otherwise... I'm going to fight to manage my condition and do what I want to do despite what I have. I got too much to do to - I'm not going on disability and I hate that word... I see why people want words like physically challenged or differently abled... I'll just call my issue a "brain chemistry disorder".

Mark.

[pipi_k]

51. that's what I told my daughter

He has to have been out of work for quite some time, and he probably would also need to show that his condition is unmanageable in spite of treatment. He's supposed to be on a special diet but he ignores it. He's also on some kind of medications, which he doesn't take on a consistent basis.


He's one of those types who thinks he knows more than everyone else, and often makes his own troubles by not listening to people who have more experience.

What can ya do...

[rustydog]

39. What??? I can't just quit my job and get food stamps, free rent

and drive a Cadillac?
Wait, won't I have to pee in a bottle first to prove I'm not a drug addict?
Won't I have to show proof of going to job interviews? Do I have to put my kids in PUBLIC schools?

[liberal N proud]

7. Their ignorance is what deserves the empathy

They know not that they are against themselves in this.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I always brought lots of fried chicken and greasy donuts to work to give to the Republicans there

It worked. Most of them are dead now.

Give it a try.

Don

[RedRoses323]

52. LOL!!!!

Good idea! I love it! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[high density]

9. I thought the right wingers hated welfare?

I also think she's going to find out that welfare doesn't come anywhere close to her $40k/yr job in terms of quality of life.

[Fuzz]

10. Facebook post from a friend of a rightwing cousin

American as we know it dead. Now with 15 million or so illegals covered by health care which way will they vote?? this was as much about a power grab as it was about healthcare.We no longer need to pretend we have a 2 party system the democrats now control every state! What a shame. The govt cant give you something without taking it from someone else. You cant spend your wayu into solvency

[hobbit709]

13. I don't even try to talk to the reality challenged.

Anyone who believes that is living in their own little universe.

[ClassWarrior]

15. Wow, undocumented workers can vote??! Who'da thunk?

:rofl:

NGU.

[Berry Cool]

40. Isn't the lack of logic stunning?

They really and truly believe that the Dems passed this bill to give undocumented workers "free" health care. I don't mean "affordable" health care...I mean, FREE. So that these undocumented workers (which, as we all know, are positively overrunning America and crowding out the "real" citizens) will be loyal Dem voters for life, and Dems will be a permanent majority forever.

And when you say to them, "But non-citizens can't vote. How are these people supposed to be able to vote Dem at all?" they have the magic answer: "Why, ACORN, of course. ACORN will register ANYBODY. That's why Obama won, you know--voter fraud."

*sigh*

[maryellen99]

16. I defriended someone on facebook

who posted "what will be the fallout from socialized health care? :(" and she is a nurse to boot. The people I know on facebook who work in the healthcare industry are against it.

[tammywammy]

19. I was thinking of making my status on facebook

"Already put in my application for the death panels" just to piss off my conservative friends, some of whom can be quite rabid about the "socialist" take over. :)

[HughBeaumont]

26. Yes, because tax-cutting and wealth-transferring our way to solvency worked out SO well, didn't it?

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

SUCH idiots. It's like 1980-2008 . . . . never happened. "Bush? Who IS this 'Bush' you speak of?"

[Mari333]

44. as much as I wished this bill were better, you are right

my brother and sister are ranting today and I asked them why they werent ranting about the last few idiots in office and their huge tax giveaways to corporations. they just said
nothing.

[treestar]

36. The power grab thing is pure projection

They had no problem using terra for that purpose.

[prolesunited]

43. The idiocy is staggering

Last time I checked, illegals can't vote and aren't eligible for this health care program.

[notadmblnd]

12. ask them what it's like to live every day in fear because their politician told them to?

then sneak up behind them and go BOO!

[galileoreloaded]

14. All my right winger aquaintances have "gone quiet".

I think that scares me more.

[ClassWarrior]

17. Are they hiding from the "death panels?"

:rofl:

NGU.

[pipi_k]

18. Some of my Face Book "friends", and a few relatives...

are posting stuff that sounds like it's the end of the world.

All blaming Obama, naturally...

:eyes:

[dkf]

20. It is sad the opposition is so clueless

How are we supposed to have a constructive discussion and debate with such an ignorant lot?

This country is not well served by the misinformation dished out by the right.

[47of74]

21. You kind of described my place of employment

There's a couple resident teabaggers / Freepers there who probably right now are snarling away about what happened yesterday. I'll be in at 3pm so I'll have an hour of that before they go home to listen to the right wing noise machine some more.

[Mopar151]

32. Their world is about bullying and fear.

They are drawn to an authoritarian bully like GWB, because they fear the "unknown" so much more. And their needy inclination to "punish" those who are different than them colors their whole outlook.

[Brewman_Jax]

24. All RW types seem to have the same outlook

though they were quite happy being screwed over by Bush* for 8 years--"but that's okay, because he looks/thinks/acts (stupid) like me. That damned socialist liberal kenyan Obama is taking MY money to give to (insert hated group here)." :grr:

:sarcasm:

I'd be willing to bet that none of those RW scumbags would give back a social security/unemployment/some government-sourced check back because "it's socialism". :eyes:

[old mark]

29. Mortos, might I ask how old these people are? Sadly, they sound younger...

I usually picture idiots like them around my age - in their 60's or therabouts-and I tend to think younger people are more aware than us old farts. It saddens me to find otherwise...


mark

[Mortos]

47. Sadly the people I am talking about are in their early to late twenties

I don't think many here are over 60. Most in the mid 30's to late 50's. But the majority are right wing republican and proudly ignorant. "Have you read the bill?" I am asked over and over. "Some of it," I reply, "have you?" I ain't reading that socialist shit! And so it goes...

[old mark]

49. M: The real shame is this bill could have been written by Nixon - it is about

what moderate republicans would have backed in the late '68's. There is nothing remotely leftist about it - it merely regulates the existing health insurance business practices. BUT the main thing it does is provide a foot in the door forlater changes in our health care "system" - one that may soon lead to single payer or PO.

To call this-or any Obama policies-socialist is just ignorant.

mark

[corpseratemedia]

33. a woman (German)married to one of my cousins (German) recently got cancer

she chose alternative treatments instead of radiation (covered)


now she is getting 4 weeks off to recover, going to Split (paid time-off covered for illness)



HOW STUPID does one have to be to WANT no time off, to go bankrupt from bills, pay huge insurance premiums, lose their house, lose their job and finally get dropped from their insurance company INSTEAD of getting this?

[Jim__]

35. You have a co-worker who takes Glenn Beck seriously?

What does she do? I can't believe she has a job that requires any judgement.

[Bert]

37. Soak it in

I had fun working in a remote location from my office on Obama's victory, it was down in Tennessee with one of my co-workers and myself with about five or six guys. All nice by the way, but utterly convinced that the end was coming. Plenty of signs around churches were warning about the end of christian America. I had a little fun joining in with them, talking about the future socialist indoctrination training camps. They all nodded their heads gravely and I resisted the temptation to giggle. It may not be possible at work but it can be very entertaining to try to lead them on even further, start saying socialism a lot, maybe even mention NAZI's and throw in some very loud Barrack HUSSEIN OSAMABAMA and they'll be going at it all day. Non stop entertainment.

[whatsthebuzz]

41. I can relate

I have one teabagger friend who hates everything about Obama. Her Facebook post this morning said that she was glad that Rep. Adam Putnam (that rich little asshat from FL-12) voted NO on the bill

She's 55 or so and watches ONLY Faux "News" and says that Rush Limpballs and Glenn Beck are her favorite radio/TV programs. Has been trying to convert me to a Tea Party freak for ages, as she says that's the only way to go. "Obama will kill this great country." And fucking GWB didn't???

She's also very much in favor of the wars (none of her family has ever served) and wants action taken against Iran by us. Sorry for my rant.

[fascisthunter]

46. I See She Has No Clue about Welfare

terribly misinformed.

[Ganja Ninja]

48. You have to wonder how long they can go on like this.

Constantly living on the edge of imaginary disaster, equating everything with Armageddon. The end of the world is always right around the corner. Sooner or later they have to get tired.