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Attacked at the local dry cleaner for my politics
American Thinker.com ^ | May 24, 2022 | Lynne Lechter

Posted on 05/24/2022 3:27:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

It was early morning; I was standing in line to drop off laundry before heading to work.

A man leaving the store stopped, looked at me, stared and said, “you are an intelligent woman.” I braced myself for what would follow -- and, follow it did.

He started mildly enough, but quickly escalated into a January 6 diatribe, and his belief of an absolute intent on that day of Republicans to overthrow the American Government through revolution, which would culminate in the murder of Vice President Pence.

Somewhat stunned, and instead of ignoring him which would have been the smart call, I gasped and said you don’t really believe that. Yes, he did and worse.

He started yelling, telling me I was a Jew, a Nazi Jew, all the time his voice was rising higher and higher, with fingers pointing at me calling me a Jew Nazi. The man, incredibly, was Jewish.

I calmly asked him to stop pointing at me and to leave. He refused. When that didn’t work, I whipped out my iPhone and told him I was calling the police. Then, he left.

The elderly woman behind the counter was very upset and very apologetic. Finally, my protestations convinced her that she had nothing to do with the man’s insane hatred.

Responsibility lies with our media’s incessant lies, the Democrats’ demented defamation and slander of President Trump and bestial denouncement of the Republican Party, the utter canceling of influencers who disagree with their odious party line, and the Democrat leadership’s illegal encouragement of anarchistic behavior towards any dissenters -- may they be Supreme Court Justices doing their jobs, as Pelosi has exhorted her henchman to do, as with Republican Congressional members out for dinner, a comedian who doesn’t hew the party line,

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1 posted on 05/24/2022 3:27:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

There are a great many contributing factors, but a large percentage of our population is basically mentally ill at this point. Their thinking is all twisted up and you can’t talk to them. And shouldn’t talk to them.


2 posted on 05/24/2022 3:35:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: Kaslin

i dont believe this for one second...


3 posted on 05/24/2022 3:37:43 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: Kaslin

A liberal friend truly believes at least 30% of republicans are Qanon supporters who buy into the Clintons drink childrens blood.


4 posted on 05/24/2022 3:39:13 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: Kaslin

Sometimes it can help if you just shout “STOP TOUCHING ME THERE”


5 posted on 05/24/2022 3:39:24 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Kaslin

Link is bad.


6 posted on 05/24/2022 3:40:12 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s like a form of mass psychosis.


7 posted on 05/24/2022 3:48:22 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: ClearCase_guy

The problem is that they’re the ones who won’t let it go. The left…which appears to be most of the population now…simply never takes a break from their obsession.

I don’t know how the man in the dry cleaners knew that the author was a Republican. Perhaps she’s locally well known or something. But in any case, I have seen exactly the same thing happen, an attack by a stranger on someone suspected of not following the narrative.

The other thing that is common is that the leftists just assume that everyone thinks the way they do - especially if you’re in certain fields - and keeps up a steady stream of raving about political matters.

And they do this anywhere. I like to hike, for example, but I simply don’t go on group hikes because they can’t shut up about their politics…even though it’s bad form to talk much while you’re walking. They don’t care. They’re obsessed, which I attribute mostly to the 24-7 left wing howling of the media.


8 posted on 05/24/2022 3:52:47 AM PDT by livius
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To: Kaslin

Was walking downtown Buffalo, NY, 2018 minding my own business with baggage in tow when an elderly man of a certain ethnicity pedaled over to me on his bike, stopped and said to my face, “Trump is a racist,” and then pedaled off into his fantasy world. I was wearing no Trump gear, let alone anything with a partisan message on my person other than white skin and clean clothes, both of which must be racist these days. Shrugged it off, but kind of wished later that I would have had the time and inclination to buy him a beer. Oh well.


9 posted on 05/24/2022 3:52:59 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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The man sounds like a self-hating Jew type, by way of Russia. The split of the Soviet Union opened the floodgates of Bolsheviks to America. Many went to Israel (for a brief time) as a stepping stone before coming to the USA and Canada. If I were King, I would send all the American Bolsheviks to Russia!


10 posted on 05/24/2022 3:53:09 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I went to the American Thinker website. It’s a short article but worth reading the whole thing.


11 posted on 05/24/2022 3:54:11 AM PDT by livius
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I would have merely said.. “FO you Moron...” and continued my stroll. Buy him a beer?? Really??


12 posted on 05/24/2022 3:56:13 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: sit-rep

IIRC she’s in or ran for a seat at the state legislature in PA. I think this took place in Philadelphia, so I am not disbelieving of the story at this point.


13 posted on 05/24/2022 3:58:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/attacked_at_the_local_dry_cleaner_for_my_politics.html


14 posted on 05/24/2022 4:07:23 AM PDT by Chicory
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To: muir_redwoods

That’s a good one!


15 posted on 05/24/2022 4:07:56 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Kaslin

She should have blamed him for Bernie Sanders not being the nominee in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and then kicked him in the trans area.


16 posted on 05/24/2022 4:11:04 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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When I'm out and about, and some fool gives me grief about my Trump hat or shirt or whatever, my reply is always the same and in a very calm voice.

I say, "Some people call this a fanny pack, I call it a holster".

End of discussion.

17 posted on 05/24/2022 4:15:34 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Kaslin

Pssst...Lynne....why would you say to an obvious nut job “You don’t really believe that”?


18 posted on 05/24/2022 4:20:12 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Kaslin

I don’t have to go out to get scolded, lectured, and threatened. They bring it to my house. Fresh every day. Also there’s the internet in case I haven’t gotten a complete daily dose of hate.

Also, dry cleaning is a hoax. Any type of fabric can be washed. Stop wasting your money, nice lady.


19 posted on 05/24/2022 4:20:32 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Stay out of crowded places. Telling you this because I care. )
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To: Kaslin

BS story. Was she wearing a Let’s Go Brandon shirt?


20 posted on 05/24/2022 4:27:28 AM PDT by albie
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