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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 03:00 PM Oct 2013

Found on FB

(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???"

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Found on FB (Original Post) LaydeeBug Oct 2013 OP
K & R Iliyah Oct 2013 #1
K&R 2naSalit Oct 2013 #4
That's awesome! Roland99 Oct 2013 #2
My thought, too. silverweb Oct 2013 #6
Brilliant obxhead Oct 2013 #3
But the phone number should be rocktivity Oct 2013 #9
Definition of insanity. JaneyVee Oct 2013 #5
recommended nt arely staircase Oct 2013 #7
They are truly insane. Initech Oct 2013 #8
oh I wouldn't give them that much respect. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #10
Well, it depends on whether drmeow Oct 2013 #23
lol!! well I DO have vast experience BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #29
AMEN!!!!!! drmeow Oct 2013 #31
yep...I doubt the pukes even read any of their constituents' BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #32
Oh, MAN! drmeow Oct 2013 #34
Asswaffles. AAO Oct 2013 #26
Asswaffles! CoffeeCat Oct 2013 #27
Yeah, almost any word appended to ass seems funny to me! AAO Oct 2013 #28
me too! assgoppers BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #30
don't forget "asshat"...that one always gets me... CoffeeCat Oct 2013 #39
that and assclown crack me UP! BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #40
K&R! Fuck a bunch of Republican dick heads. Enthusiast Oct 2013 #11
You and I could not agree more. nt LaydeeBug Oct 2013 #16
K&R treestar Oct 2013 #12
Excellent. It will drive Republican relatives nuts. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2013 #13
Some body's party needs a TIME OUT yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #14
Repubs using anti-Constitutional extortion because they failed in all three branches of gov. nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2013 #15
fucking excellent krakfiend Oct 2013 #17
K&R Rebellious Republican Oct 2013 #18
Was so caught up in the moment, I forgot to post this... Rebellious Republican Oct 2013 #21
Just shared on my FB timeline Pretzel_Warrior Oct 2013 #19
Sept 24 2013: "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am." n/t Snake Plissken Oct 2013 #20
He will stand until he can stand no more LaydeeBug Oct 2013 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author Efilroft Sul Oct 2013 #24
There is no negotiation, only ransom. AAO Oct 2013 #25
yep. LaydeeBug Oct 2013 #41
Exactly. Xyzse Oct 2013 #33
PERFECT! johnlucas Oct 2013 #35
Excellent, although inaccurate. truebluegreen Oct 2013 #36
Saw it and shared it, too. SalmonChantedEvening Oct 2013 #37
K&R! oxymoron Oct 2013 #38

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
2. That's awesome!
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 03:59 PM
Oct 2013

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)
6. My thought, too.
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 04:10 PM
Oct 2013

[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.

drmeow

(5,025 posts)
23. Well, it depends on whether
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 11:43 PM
Oct 2013

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)
29. lol!! well I DO have vast experience
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 01:08 AM
Oct 2013

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)
31. AMEN!!!!!!
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 01:29 AM
Oct 2013

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)
32. yep...I doubt the pukes even read any of their constituents'
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 01:46 AM
Oct 2013

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)
34. Oh, MAN!
Sun Oct 6, 2013, 01:58 AM
Oct 2013

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 $$$

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AAO

(3,300 posts)
25. There is no negotiation, only ransom.
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 11:56 PM
Oct 2013

That's what hostage takers do. These are domestic terrorists.

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