Cognitive dissonance at work...
,,,they Live Amongst Us.
Beware.
I can never remember the author of this this quote (I think it was either Mark Twain or Will Rogers) but it goes, “If a Democrat had any common sense, he wouldn’t be a Democrat.”
Years ago worked in Greenwich. One day I took a suit to a dry cleaners. The clerk asked what I wanted him to do with it. Burn it? Snobbery all the way down.
Her procreating is causing more demand for coal, oil, gas and other earth-strangling resources.
She should feel ashamed of herself /end sarc/.
Having great wealth does not equal having wisdom or common-sense
You should have sold her a few million dollars of carbon credits.
They’re always nice, until they find out you’re a Republican.
Nobody actually believes that BS. Nice pivot on her part, or deflection, but it’s clear she knows it is nonsense.
Some of the more dense people will accept anything they are told, but the ones that do, the “true believers”, ironically will be the first against the wall when the time comes, historically speaking. They are dangerous. That’s how it always works.
Liberals don’t want to save the planet. Instead, they want to force you to save the planet.
They are very easy to understand. “I am very wealthy so I deserve to be running things.”
I’d ask why these global warming people hate trees and crops and stuff. Trees need CO2 and the warmer it is the more food can grow.
I know a _lot_ of those folks (also live in CT).
They love the “climate change” meme because it makes them feel superior to the deplorables who don’t “get it”.
It is a social status marker.
You can’t argue with a social status marker!
What the old lady didn’t tell you is that the oceanfront lot is vacant not because “the Town” is stopping anyone from building there ... but because she and her overbred misfit fellow citizens are using this “global warming” bullsh!t to pressure the Town into protecting their ocean views on the properties behind it.
The encounter probably made her day.
To end a conversion on a note of moral condemnation and then walk away — that’s the kind of thing liberals fantasize about.
That must have been ... interesting.
Sadly, she believed the lies being put out about the “scary and dangerous global warming”
When people get into that frame of mind, it is indeed best not to try to educate them, because it is futile and you just upset yourself.
You did the right thing by letting it go.
HOW DARE YOU!
We introduced ourselves and within a couple minutes, the wife must have believed we were just like them, because she nicely stated, “I can’t believe how many people here like your president, because everyone in the rest of the world can’t stand him.”
I calmly asked what it was that made that so, and that launched what became a two hour discussion.
She said that everything Trump said was a lie. I asked her for one example so I could speak to her about that. She was gobsmacked and could come up with none.
She said we are near the end for our planet, due to global warming and the seas rising, tremendously so. I asked her how many inched or feet of Ireland was lost to the rise in the oceans in the last 30-40 years. She again, was gobsmacked with no answer.
She brought up the IPCC report, and I said I know about it and the Al Gore was a co-winner with his movie, “Earth in the Balance.” I said that all things that were to have happened by 2020 haven’t happened and weren’t showing progress toward occurring. I said that it said multiple areas of New York were to be under water by 2015 and they are still proudly dry. In sum, I told her all the 2,000 “climate scientists” she said had the truth were disproven charlatans and could not be believed for any future lies they told, either. Her head again went into her hands, shaking.
She later changed the discussion to the plight of the Palestinians and how Israel took their land. I told her Palestine never existed as a country that Israel only kept land that they conquered after being attacked by those same persons. She was speechless.
She said the Trump dossier showed Trump to be a terrible man. I said the entire dossier was fabricated by a former MI agent and was discredited by the independent inquiry. I added the most salacious part was the most obviously fake account of the Golden Showers episode. They both said they hadn’t heard about it. So I told them and she was disgusted and the husband was uncomfortably laughing.
Throughout this time, her husband was smiling and amicable, while she often hid her head, shaking it, in her hands.
When the husband said that the best US president we’d had in recent years was Clinton, my wife jumped in and said without a doubt, he raped those Democrat women and did a lot of other bad things. He admitted that was terrible.
They later brought up that they hoped the US tariff direction would go away, because Ireland really relies on US and other local companies making things for the US in Ireland. They also said that they were happy with the corporate accounting tricks Ireland helped with that brought some US tax dollars to their country (albeit minimal). They said the US should be glad to have Ireland stay in the EU, because Ireland would be the only English speaking country in it and could help the US negotiate with EU policies. (Of course, that means nothing, but I nodded and said I appreciated that insight.)
We ended thanking each other for the time and hoping the best for each other’s travels. It was a nice way to wrap it up. There were no coarse words spoken from any side.