Posted on 11/12/2022 10:20:29 AM PST by Starman417
When the midterm election results were announced, I was disappointed, demoralized, and angry. I really anticipated a deadly red tsunami, 100 feet tall and moving at the speed of a Cat-5 hurricane, to overwhelm and destroy the Democrat party. I slept soundly on election eve with visions of the Democratic Party joining the Whig Party and disappearing forever. Yeah, that didn't happen
The morning after the election I arose from my slumber expecting to see stunned Democratic voters washed up by the tide with the other flotsam and jetsam. Suddenly, my wonderful dream turned into a nightmare. It was mortifying to learn that the election was a bust and Republicans probably wouldn't even win the Senate. It was disappointing on various levels.
Hari-kari with a butter knife crossed my mind, but my lovely wife said, "Put that in the "Life Ain't Fair File" and move on. Pouting, I went to our clubhouse (plus 55 community) to read a book and mope around without being judged. I encountered four old guys who were playing bridge and assumed that they were intelligent conservatives. That was my first mistake. Player 1 asked me how I was feeling, and I said, "dejected because of the election. We might get control of the House, but the Senate looks iffy. It may come down to Georgia because Warnock and Walker are locked in a run-off election."
Player 1 said, "I hate Walker. He hit his wife and doesn't deserve to be a Senator." I replied, "Both of those candidates are really, really, horrible, but we desperately need to win the Senate. Hey, how about Fetterman in Pennsylvania? He had a major stroke, can hardly speak, and has a bulge on his neck the size of a grapefruit. 650,000 votes were "collected" before he even bothered to debate. Somehow, he "won" and is now "the honorable" senator from Pennsylvania."
Player 1 responded, "I hate Walker. All he can do is play football." I changed the subject and said, "The tax dollars we are sending to Ukraine is excessive. We are focused on a border 5,000 miles away and ignore our open southern border." That's when the fight started-not an actual fight because our combined age was like a thousand years. Player 4 weighed in and said, "We need to stand up to Russia and defeat Putin." I said, "You mean like Vietnam, where we sacrificed 57,000 young men and women for nothing? How about Afghanistan, where we stayed for 20 years and wasted 2 trillion dollars? Do you feel sorry for Biden's botched withdrawal and the 13 young men who horribly died because of his incompetence?" Player 2 responded, "After 9-11, we chased Osama bin Laden into Afghanistan." I replied, "Yeah, but Afghanistan is the "graveyard of empires." We should have known better. We stayed 20 frigging years and forced our courageous troops to serve three and four tours in that medieval hell-hole. 2,456 soldiers were killed, 20,752 were wounded and many returned home with debilitating PTSD- ALL FOR NOTHING!
Player 4 chimed in, "We need to defeat Russia. Do you like Putin?" I replied, "Nope. I once respected him as a leader, but he made a terrible and costly mistake invading Ukraine." Player 4 replied, "So, you like Putin!" I replied, "Russia, Russia, Russia, is not the problem. The real problem is China!"
Player 3, who may be the smartest man in the room, said nothing. Player 1 said, "I hate Walker." Player 2 said, "We need to stand up to Russia and show our Pacific Rim allies that we will protect them." I replied, "Saber rattling is stupid. America cannot afford another war (31 trillion $ in debt) and lacks the resources and the conviction to continue policing the world. As the leader of the free world, America should broker a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine. We should have accomplished that task before the war broke out. Player 4 sarcastically said, "I'm, gonna get you an "I LOVE PUTIN" tee-shirt."
In retrospect, this was all my fault. I wasn't paying attention and suddenly found myself down the rabbit hole being relentlessly attacked. I responded with anger, which thwarted my ability to intelligently debate the issues. It is sad, but our country is so polarized that it is impossible for liberals and conservatives to rationally discuss the horrific problems that we are facing.
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As long as Demonicrats are in charge of the elections, their election fraud will override any red wave.
agree... what’s the differance?....NONE
Sometimes you have to let the “Player 3’s” know that they are not alone.
Split the country…secession…only solution…then they can be blue Rats in their own utopia…
Good observation.
“WHEN IN THE PRESENCE OF LIBERALS, NEVER, EVER, TALK ABOUT POLITICS OR RELIGION!” (From the article)
The problem is, that concedes the field to the liberals. Perhaps we should fight more. And hang together more.
Never Argue With Liberals or Stupid People“
A lesson l learned long ago. It really is pointless
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It is and I usually kick their buttons in one way or the other. They are contemptible scum.
Democrats in Arizona and Nevada are now manufacturing votes to put the Dem Senators and governors over the top.
Something that Rush demonstrated was that while it is a waste of time to stand face to face and argue with them, you can listen to them and when the moment or the inspiration of what seed to plant comes to you, try to place a seed into their mind.
Rush was never about trying to change the people today, now, he was always about starting them on an inner self-journey to where he thought the natural mind led us.
Some good Christian persuaders are like that, they know they might never see or speak to the person again, so they plant a little key in the person’s own mind to help that person think for themselves and get in touch with their better self.
“Do not cast pearls before pigs”; sometime even the Lord walks away and He tells His disciples to do the same.
Precisely.
BTTT!!!!
Never argue with people on this forum who don’t care about facts either
Never mind that conservatism sans truth is not shit honestly
Mark Twain
Just tell them, “Kind sir/maam, I would engage you in a battle of wits but i see you are unarmed and that wouldn’t be fair to you”
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