Posted on 06/28/2016 4:20:34 PM PDT by SteveH
i was at the cashier at a local hardware store today. the cashier was female and late 50s to mid 60s. i was buying some tools and some junk food including twinkies.
to make a joke, i said i was dan white and i need the twinkies to provide my excuse.
after a few moments the cashier recognized "dan white" and presumably the connection to twinkies and laughed. she said dan white, he is really scary.
i would have left it at that but she went on to say "just like trump."
i took the bait. i said why. she said "trump is scary because he is too paranoid."
i said "hillary is even more scary. would you vote for her even after benghazi?" i chose benghazi because cashiers are typically unaware of security restrictions, violations, consequences, and penalties.
the cashier paused a moment. i was not sure she recognized the signicance of benghazi so i added "4 guys died in benghazi. 4 guys died because of hillary."
the cashier still did not have much to say in response though she was still pleasant. i got the feeling that "because trump was too paranoid" is as far as she has ever had to go to defend her point of view with her social peer group. mentally i decoded "paranoid" into "racist." so i guessed that she meant that trump was racist or too racist or something like that.
i said you know calais? where the refugees are camped on the french coast trying to get to england? she said yes. i said, those people want to get to england, but it is a mainstream media lie that they are refugees from syria. they are mostly from places like afghanistan and somalia. somalia guys are for neighbors-- not good right? she said yes, not good. do you want to have your neighborhood overrun by such people? no she did not, she said.
i waited a short moment for her to disown her previous comments but she did not say anything more.
i had already caused a delay in the line so i gave up at this point in time.
so, to the cashier, and apparently her peer group, apparently being responsible for killing US soldiers for no reason or for bad reasons is ok, but being like trump (no murders that we know of so far) in the sense that he is allegedly racist is not ok.
it is ok if we are overrun by somalis as a result of our naiive faith in the benevolence of human nature, but it is not ok if we talk about limiting immigration of such somali migrants.
there is some fundamental logic problem, or at least i would think. trump my be able to get around this. but imho he has to try harder.
i had been hoping for better results but did not get anything. anyone want to suggest a better line?
is hillary really responsible for the deaths of the 4 benghazi heros as i had presumed? is there a better example to pick on for an elevator speech?
Logic will not get a person out of a position that logic did not get them into.
Arguing with idiots gets you nothing but frustrated, friend...
Logical thinking is WAY beyond some sheeple.
WOOF!
Woof yerself!
Great minds think alike, Dawg Brother... :^)
“Dialoguing” with a LIEberal is much akin to trying to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and annoys the pig!
Facts won’t sway anyone unfortunately. And the constant chant of racism from the media is finally sticking to Trump. I’m getting worried that too many people think he’s some evil racist and Hillary is the lesser of two evils.
I’d like to use that,with your permission of course.
It’s not mine; help yourself. ;-)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
She couldn’t have been completely clueless if she got the twinkie defense reference.
I guess she watches too much network propaganda trying to pass itself off as news and got misled.
Thank you. Elegant Yeats comes to FR, with elegant imagery.
I have found that people are so ignorant of political events these days it would take years of education to begin to turn them around. They’re completely academically lazy so they just cherry pick talking points from their friends so they think they can sound politically astute.
Trying to give little elevator speeches to people like this is a complete waste of breath. It’s really a ‘casting pearls before the swine’ type thing.
That's profound (seriously). Did you originate that?
That is what we are dealing with people who just don't have a clue what is going on.
Nice try, Steve. Your attempt to salvage one of the unwashed was noble. It may yet possibly bear fruit.
FMCDH(BITS)
Chinese proverb (loosely):
Do not try to teach a pig to sing.
It will not accomplish anything useful,
and it will annoy the pig.
Regards,
HLB
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