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Botany

(70,589 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 10:33 PM Dec 2019

Nutball @ my low rent gym wanted to know what I thought about all this "impeachment stuff."

Asked if I support it and I said yes and the followed up w/well look at all the democrats
and all this stuff they are doing and so on to which I said they are doing the right thing,
following the Constitution, and showing that no man is above the law. Besides are you
comfortable with Russia installing Trump into the White House and they you can't be for
America and Trump @ the same time. They are mutually exclusive. To which he said but
what about all the dealings Obama had w/Russia? And that Hillary skipped campaigning in
the rust belt states because she thought she had won and ....

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Nutball @ my low rent gym wanted to know what I thought about all this "impeachment stuff." (Original Post) Botany Dec 2019 OP
You had me at nutball. No point at all in even engaging with them. Useless. CurtEastPoint Dec 2019 #1
Probably best to say: ''I'm not following the impeachment proceedings" YOHABLO Dec 2019 #2
I try not to engage with them Ohiogal Dec 2019 #3
Glad you took the opportunity to try to inform him, elleng Dec 2019 #4
Trump had done a hell of a lot more crimes than getting a blow job. Kali Dec 2019 #5
I just say I don't speak Russian kairos12 Dec 2019 #6
If they don't want the truth they shouldn't ask you for it! Good job. Maru Kitteh Dec 2019 #7
It's as bad as talking to a flat Earther. Flaleftist Dec 2019 #8
I have fun telling them safeinOhio Dec 2019 #9
I say, "He takes babies from their mothers and puts them in cages!" n/t retread Dec 2019 #10
 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
2. Probably best to say: ''I'm not following the impeachment proceedings"
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 10:36 PM
Dec 2019

No sense trying to be a hero for a lost cause.

Ohiogal

(32,093 posts)
3. I try not to engage with them
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 10:56 PM
Dec 2019

It’s not unheard of to find your car keyed, that’s how mature most of them are.

elleng

(131,159 posts)
4. Glad you took the opportunity to try to inform him,
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 11:35 PM
Dec 2019

one never knows (contrary to opinions of others.)

Kali

(55,025 posts)
5. Trump had done a hell of a lot more crimes than getting a blow job.
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 11:54 PM
Dec 2019

The Dems are just doing their fucking jobs. Unlike him.

Maru Kitteh

(28,343 posts)
7. If they don't want the truth they shouldn't ask you for it! Good job.
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 11:58 PM
Dec 2019

You never know when engagement of this kind will actually sink in and do some good. It wouldn't necessarily even have to be that guy, it could be someone who overhears your conversation.

Well done.

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