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(I did not write it, but did share it)
And the beat goes on...
Oct 2008: "You'll never get elected and pass healthcare."
Nov 2008: "We'll never let you pass healthcare."
Jan 2009: "We are going to shout you down every time you try to pass healthcare."
July 2009: "We will fight to the death every attempt you make to pass healthcare."
Dec 2009: "We will destroy you if you even consider passing healthcare."
March 2010: "We can't believe you just passed healthcare."
April 2010: "We are going to overturn healthcare."
Sept 2010: "We are going to repeal healthcare."
Jan 2011: "We are going to destroy healthcare."
Feb 2012: "We are going to elect a candidate who will immediately revoke healthcare."
June 2012: "We will go to the Supreme Court, and they will overturn healthcare."
Aug 2012: "The American people will never re-elect you, because they don't want healthcare."
Oct 2012: "We can't wait to win the election and explode healthcare."
Nov 2012: "We can't believe you just got re-elected and that we can't repeal healthcare."
Feb 2013: "We're still going to vote to obliterate healthcare."
June 2013: "We can't believe the Supreme Court just upheld healthcare."
July 2013: "We're going to vote like 35 more times to erase healthcare."
Sept 2013: "We are going to leverage a government shutdown into defunding, destroying, obliterating, overturning, repealing, dismantling, erasing and ripping apart healthcare."
Oct 2013: "WHY AREN'T YOU NEGOTIATING???"
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I hope this goes viral!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Would be better to include actual quotes from the right that are probably pretty close to all of those.
I might have to do some googling.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm imagining an infographic representation of quotes with attributions that can be easily verified... then get it go viral so that even the most intransigent, thick-headed morons can't escape it.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)WHINE-1-1.
rocktivity
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)They're gaping, flapping assholes, is what they are.
drmeow
(5,025 posts)you classify Personality Disorders as insane. Personally, I don't - I think of insane as having a psychotic break - which means you're right, they aren't insane. But they do have Personality Disorders and they've have demonstrated being a danger to others which, in my opinion, qualifies for a mandatory involuntary minimum 72 hour lock-up. Of course, the people who are usually subject to mandatory involuntary lock-up are the ones who are insane so ... AH F**k it - You're right, they're just assholes
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)up close and personal with a long line of Cluster B's.
It's a totally different flavor of insane, and empathy is the LAST thing you need to have with them.
You HAVE to get away from them and strengthen yourself and your ethics....or if you can't get away, don't engage in their games and take care of yourself first. Cut your losses if you have to. Protect yourself.
Because they're such assholes.
drmeow
(5,025 posts)Been there, done that, too! Dealing with a Narcissistic Personality Disorder at work right now - at least the 3rd in the last 4 jobs (at least this time it isn't my direct boss unlike the last 2 - shudder!) - and a few short term (very short term) relationships! (Plus the PhD in Psychology gives me a lot of understanding, even though it isn't in Clinical). I keep telling people - all the data shows that the only thing that someone with an Antisocial personality disorder responds to is the threat of loss of power and loss of money (and loss of freedom and life but since they never think they will get caught/blamed/killed, that one is weak). It drives me nuts when people make remarks suggesting that "if they only understood the suffering, they'd behave differently." NO, NO, NO, NO - they won't! It's not just that Romney doesn't understand the effect of what he does on other people, he genuinely DOES NOT GIVE A F**K! Bush actually enjoyed other people's suffering.
That's why I never use appeals to empathy in letters to Repuke reps (Repukes tend towards Antisocial and Narcissistic, Dems tend towards Histrionic with a little Narcissistic on the side). It's never "this is how it will hurt people." Instead it is always "This will cost you/the state money AND I will do everything I can to cause you to lose power because of this." It, of course, never works since Repuke reps don't actually respond to what their constituents want (another symptom) but at least I'm pretty sure I've gotten through to them in a context they understand.
And so true - the only way to deal with them if you have to is take of yourself first.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)mails. Ever.
Ugh. I come by my expertise starting with my mother, who was borderline. Severe and untreated.
Nuff said!!
Well, and that their thought and emotional processes are incomprehensible.
They're fucked up!!!!!!
drmeow
(5,025 posts)I have a friend who is Borderline (long distance friend) - but has gotten extensive treatment (self medicating with pot seems to help her). SEVERELY abused as a child (resulting in neurological damage). Luckily she's never had kids. For some reason she responds very positively to me. Now that I don't smoke pot anymore, I can only take her in small doses.
My SIL's mother is Narcissistic.
Sorry to hear about your sitch!
As for Repukes reading mail - they read enough to id the topic (to occasionally send a generic form letter back) and whether they agree - that way they can id who to ask for $$$
AAO
(3,300 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)Love it! That is a hysterical word.
Lol!
AAO
(3,300 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)asscurtains
assbungles
assblovators
assshavings
assticles
asstobogans
asscheeses
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)So funny.
Welcome to fun with ass humor!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Assrockets
Assbaskets
Asslamps
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)That is all.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)That rules!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)copying for fb.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,044 posts)krakfiend
(202 posts)Wish there were excact quotes and from who actually said them.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)RIP Sonny.....
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)(or until noon the next day) lol What a stunt.
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AAO
(3,300 posts)That's what hostage takers do. These are domestic terrorists.
and they think they're being reasonable.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)johnlucas
(1,250 posts)Flawless Victory.
John Lucas
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Supreme Court decision was before the election, not after: June 2012
SalmonChantedEvening
(31,953 posts)It's all over the place.
K&R!