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Family Reunion Vanity
FreeRepublic ^ | 8/10/2019 | Ed D

Posted on 08/10/2019 11:38:00 AM PDT by Eddie01

I'm the president of the Reunion.

My cousin, first to arrive, is 20 years older than me.

He says who needs assault rifles.

I explain we need them to protect ourselves from the Government.

He says the 2nd amendment is outdated, not meant for these times.

Then he says Trump is a white supremacist.

I said no he is not and please provide one thing he's said or done to back that up.

...anyone sensing a pattern?

I said, you don't watch CNN or MSNBC do you?

He say, you don't watch Fox do you?

Then he says, "you lack critical thinking skills"

I reply, I have a masters from the oldest ivy league engineering school in the United States. (RPI)

He dropped it. His wife and sister were listening in.

They are out their in droves. Retarded group thinkers.


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To: Eddie01

“I’m the president of the Reunion”

Sounds like there is a good reason for that.

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21 posted on 08/10/2019 12:15:44 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Eddie01

When it comes to family, the best you can hope for is mutual tolerance.


22 posted on 08/10/2019 12:18:50 PM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: dp0622

They’re just going by the script they’ve learned. They cannot debate conservatives and win so the must discredit you via dismissal and ridicule. They can’t win the argument so they must not allow you to make one. Don’t sweat it at all.


23 posted on 08/10/2019 12:19:00 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: Eddie01

“I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong” is good for situations like this.


24 posted on 08/10/2019 12:19:03 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1946)
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To: Eddie01
He says the 2nd amendment is outdated, not meant for these times.

The right of self defense is not only a perfect duty, but also is a perfect right that is never outdated, because it is derived from and implied by the God given natural right to life and property and the natural duty to preserve and protect one's natural rights.

25 posted on 08/10/2019 12:22:57 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Eddie01

sounds like some of the conversations I’ve had with my in-laws.

One time my wife, her sister, her husband and two friends were sitting around the table. The topic of gun control came up and there my sister in law went. Going on and on about gun control and why she didn’t think that anybody needed a weapon. People with guns were crazy. She could never be in the same room as someone carrying a gun. Blah blah blah.

I am a gun guy but I dont advertise it much. So I am sitting there with a 1911 .45 concealed on my right hip. I’m a big guy I can conceal it well and I have been over to their house many, many times over the years. I always carry.

After about 15 minutes of this she is back to I just couldn’t stay in the same room as a gun. I would know. They just bring a bad aura into a room. Then she ends it with a “Right?!” Now she doesnt really want anyone elses opinion. She just wants knowing nods and acquiescence.

Dont know what came over me but I had had enough. I unconcealed, drew that Dan Wesson .45 popped it down on the table and said “damn straight!”

Now you have heard people say time stopped and maybe you didnt believe them but I saw it right then and there. I swear not one eye moved from that .45 and not one breath was taken for close to 30 seconds.

I stood up, picked up the .45 and holstered it.Then walked out the door. Man did I get an earful on the ride home. She who must be obeyed was NOT happy. I never said a word on the drive home and nothing was ever said again about gun control.

So worth it!


26 posted on 08/10/2019 12:26:06 PM PDT by Syntyr (Happiness is two at low eight!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Ask him if the government is putting people into concentration camps.”

Likewise, ask him if we Trump supporters should be put into concentration camps.

But be prepared, he’ll have to answer yes.


27 posted on 08/10/2019 12:35:15 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Syntyr

“She who must be obeyed was NOT happy. “
_____________________________________

LOL

Syntyr, you must dearly love your bride.

(Seriously)

I think I’d have been laughing and cheering on the way home! My beloved tells me I’m an anomaly, all the time.

Well, until he gets angry and then I’m just like the rest of women.

LOLOL


28 posted on 08/10/2019 12:38:50 PM PDT by Notthereyet
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To: Eddie01

ick. I have to make my nephews look me in the eye and say “NO POLITICS!!!” because they have a hissy if you don’t see things their way.
and I have an ultra religious niece who’s a NeverTrumper because she does not like his tone.
all over 45, btw.


29 posted on 08/10/2019 12:40:59 PM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: Eddie01

Remind him that gun laws didn’t save Vince Foster or Jeffrey Epstein.


30 posted on 08/10/2019 12:46:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Moe-Patrick
Not discussing politics for generations has created this problem.

It was like this in 2000 with Bush and Gore. Clinton, the other Bush and Reagan were subjects of a lot of controversy. It wasn't as intense but it was definitely there. Things were heated in the Johnson and Nixon years, though the divisions weren't as clearly along party lines.

It took Trump being elected to educate die hard republicans that politicians are not conservatives.

But conservatives defended and stuck up for both Bushes. You might think that they were wrong, but they were certainly talking politics back then.

31 posted on 08/10/2019 12:48:15 PM PDT by x
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To: ConservaTexan

in back pocket now - thanks


32 posted on 08/10/2019 1:13:25 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

The simple answer when he asks “who need assault weapons?” You say “I do. So when you and the rest of your brain washed Communists comrades because you decide that me and my family are no longer needed, I can take you with us!”


33 posted on 08/10/2019 1:16:44 PM PDT by Bommer (2020- Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!?)
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To: Eddie01

What age range is he in?


34 posted on 08/10/2019 1:17:08 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: ronniesgal

Marxists are not born that way, but made that way.

Liberation Theology is Not scriptural, either, but beliefs have been shaped. (Can my tag line work, here?)

It’s imho, that Both ideologies become a mental pathology. “Self righteousness” generally accompanies these boobs for BS.


35 posted on 08/10/2019 1:23:08 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Publik Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: Eddie01

It would be ironic if you shot your cousin with a ‘assault rifle.....


36 posted on 08/10/2019 1:44:50 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Eddie01

I would have told him that liberalism is an infantile mental disorder.

And to back up his false claims with facts or there’s the door...


37 posted on 08/10/2019 1:53:43 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: conservative98

early 70’s


38 posted on 08/10/2019 2:06:24 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

So, was he able to give one example of Trump’s racism?

Why anyone subjects themselves to family reunions is beyond me.


39 posted on 08/10/2019 3:09:42 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

No. He shut up and dropped it which I found surprising.


40 posted on 08/10/2019 3:10:58 PM PDT by Eddie01
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