for other sites. Clever.

This is priceless!

Thank you Solly, you made my day!

There comes a time when people need to pick up a book and take their heads out of their asses. They have to make the change before they'll listen to anything we have to say.

Wicked!


You put a lot of work into this. Nicely done!

DURec

The best thread I have seen in a long time, and practical too. I've been wondering if I had the wherewithal to train a deplorable, and now I see how it's done. However, I'm leaning toward being a foster at first; I just don't know if I can keep one on hand long-term without a lobotomy.

I was just having me some fun.

and can I use the kit on more than one deplorable or do I have to purchase a kit for each?

and your $19.95 plus S&H for the first kit, and a $5.00 charge for each additional kit.

You could help help 3 Deplorables for around $35.00. But, really, you'll be helping far more people in the long run.

You can get the one kit and use it for several, but you may face a revolt once the spray runs out and the newspaper starts to tear.

It could get ugly.

Equality =/= implying people be treated and trained like dogs.

Yes they're wrong, racist, and even stupid. But this is fucked up.

And it doesn't bring me any joy to think of fellow Americans this way.

Yep, they do it to us, I know. But I ain't them. We're bigger than that. Bigger than this.

I know you put a lot of effort into this OP but, think about it.

Sadly, I await the disapproval of my opinion.

But I'm not looking to change your opinion or attack you for it either.

I deal with their hate through humor. I am aware they aren't dogs. My dogs would never vote republican. (that was more humor, btw)

But they threaten to kill us, rape us, and strip us of our rights. So instead of responding in kind - and I am not responding in kind - I respond with humor.

Now, if I really thought they were dogs, believe me, you'd know it. Everyone would know it. I adore dogs.

Guess it just depends on the mood.

We both want this country and all its citizens to have it better.

So we're allies, no doubt.

having enough to eat, having actual health-care, having a living wage, somewhere to live, and not being discriminated against in any way.

But sometimes I get angry - too angry - and I need to release that anger through humor. Even biting, mean humor.

There are other posts on the greatest page today that must also offend you.


👋 Bye now.

Satire is a genre of humor easily missed as it includes the complexity of juxtaposition and exaggeration which are easily ignored if one lacks perspective.

Many people also misunderstood Swift’s purpose in A Modest Proposal, assuming it to be a serious recommendation of cannibalism (he suggested the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies-- and many dull wits took it literally)

So I doubt there is disposal of your opinion, merely regret you missed the original premise.

nice if you had mentioned that sooner.

(For the satire impaired, I am Irish and have never put an Irish baby into a rice pilaf. However, I make no affidavits about my pot pie recipe.)

(Kidding.)

(Or am I?)

Make me laugh so hard I scared the poor cat out of one of his lives!

I love this, and quite frankly I reLly needed a good belly laugh. 😂

Not so much on a deplorable tho. Can you help me out?

I'll have to see if I can't buy one separately. (in real life) lol

You definitely win DU for the month of June,
if not the whole internets.

I needed the release, so I thought I'd use humor to do it.

Glad you enjoyed it!

That is just too funny, Solly. I really needed the laughs today.

Thanks!

With everything being said and done, we need to laugh.

It gets surreal at times that we are expected to be the better people when their knives are at our throats. We have to laugh or we'd go crazy.

requiring time on the screened porch to calm down.

Still waiting for the AT&T phone repair guy to come fix our land line...so there may be another meltdown about to bubble up.

Guy shows up at 4 PM. Says problem not at the pole. Must be in the house.

Uh, no, muthafu*ka. It's not time for you to go home and pass the problem to someone else tomorrow.

My husband had the same problem with his business line coming in to the house. Got it fixed. (Did he bother to ask about
house line? No. But that's a different department, anyway, right, for a residence?) So he goes out to talk to the guy. Guy says
he needs another truck. Drives off.

I told my husband we won't see this guy again today.

Total meltdown. I am SO sick of people who don't want to do the job and work for a corporate culture that encourages it. Maybe they could
send a fu*king robot?!?

My throat is sore from yelling.

Husband just said the guy is back with the different truck.

The same company that was putting in a window unit upstairs - it's that hot - does the main AC. So they looked at it and said they needed a part. Drove away and never came back. We had to call repeatedly to get them to come back out.

It was close to quitting time with the first group. The man who came back out replaced the part in 10 minutes. That's all it took - 10 minutes. A part, the man claimed, they keep on the trucks at all times.

The phone guy did come back. Turns out when they were fixing my husband's line, they screwed up the house line.

My husband came in and told me the guy thinks he has it fixed (45 minutes later) and has gone off to the "center" to reconnect
the line and phone me as a test.

Now it works!

Funny how the problem wasn't in the house, huh? I bit my tongue to not say it to the guy.

Hope your a/c is keeping you cool!

I needed the release because all the news over the last few days has really gotten to me.

to keep some semblance of sanity.

Cuz it's a sensory overload of fuckery out here.

patience to finish one.

I'll look online for where to buy.

before they will listen to anything we have to say.

They will have to turn off the disinformation on their own and research the facts for themselves.

A long time ago, someone said - you can lead a man to knowledge but you can't make him think.

Sadly, some have to learn the hard way. Like those just now realizing they will lose their needed health care even though people tried to tell them before the election.

And it is sad - but it is so frustrating that it takes them getting hurt themselves before they'll listen. Because that means that they didn't care when they thought it would only hurt others. That's the thinking that needs to be changed. That as long as it doesn't affect you, then it's OK. We can't allow anyone to be hurt by bad law and policies.

all i could think of was my brother. sigh. i'm sticking with trying to get my rescue dog to act civil around strangers.

In 6 months time, both your dog and your Deplorable will be greeting strangers with the warmest of respect.



Or not.

i love him more, but i like her better, ya know? anyhow he's on the other side of the country. it's hard to believe he and his wife are not suffering buyer's remorse by now, but i cannot deny that many people - not most, but many - think this gawdawful turn of events is just the best thing to come along since truman dropped the bomb.

That it will - somehow - turn into something glorious once all is said and done.

I don't bother asking them how they figure this will happen. I'm too busy walking away from them as fast as I can.

I wouldn't want one as a pet but they are fun to watch on nature shows...in a weird sort of that is gross but I can't look away kind of way.

Deplorables are people. They just don't seem to know they aren't the only people in the world.

At first the Washington Times scared me..."whaaaat???"

Oh! Aversion therapy! Very good. 👍🏾

That's very important.

Also note, "tightly wrapped":
Please indicate in your order which type of Deplorable you prefer--
Tightly wrapped
Too tightly wrapped
Not tightly wrapped enough



😆

Truth!

Thanks!

... I'm off to the mall!

I've read at DU in a very long time!

Where can I get that hat??!!

Thanks!

Heading to cafe express now.

This thread is great

... who were all judged difficult by animal shelters.

Two of our dogs were on death row. They are good dogs now, but they were not when we took them home. It took some work to civilize them.

One dog was terrified of abusive men wearing caps. (A strange man wearing a red MAGA would still terrify her.)

One dog had been kept chained up in a front yard and worn down his teeth chewing on his chain. (It's illegal to keep a dog like that here, that's how he ended up at the shelter.)

One dog had been feral, an escapee of a less reputable dog breeder, a chicken thief suspicious of humans, coyotes, and over-the-top PTSD about guns and air guns.

One dog was a pig hunter with no pigs to hunt when her owner had to move to the city. (She hunts rats now, and keeps my feet warm at night.)

Sadly, deplorables are more difficult. It's like playing chess with pigeons. They shit all over the board, knock over all the pieces, and insist they've won.

But bloody hell, a few of them have landed on my doorstep. Best you can do is nurse 'em back to health and hope they don't hurt you too badly when you set them free.

This is what happens.

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Family can be the toughest, I think. And the most painful.

I grew up an an anti-fascist environment.

Thanks!

Mahalo, Solly!

I was releasing some steam after reading the republican, I forget which one, claim that people didn't understand capitalism (too stupid, I guess) or we would know that Trump-care would work due to trickle-down.

Then Ryan talking about how people wouldn't be dropped from insurance,but instead they would simply choose not pay for it. Never mind they can't afford to pay for it, but what do I know?

Then the mother in WV whose daughter overdosed and wants funding for medicaid and needed rehabs to remain, but who still believes in and supports Trump - and just wants him to listen to the needs of poor people. And her story wasn't the first of its kind that I've read over the last few days.

I was ready to explode. Because no matter how much compassion you can have for people, it can be so frustrating when they insist on propping up their own oppression. And not just theirs either.

So, I opted for humor.

I know I offended some people and that wasn't my intent.

you do it! I would explode, too But, you're so right.. humor is the best way.. and I don't know who you could possibly offend on this board.

I like this one best..



I can see me in fetal position when the next fresh hell come down the pike.

Solly!

nearby.

I'd be having my Netflix next to me and a blueberry smoothie

K&R

And

I'm all better now.

I hope to see some more of your quality snark in longform.

Love it!

Thank you.

Not to mention right wing cognitive dissonance?

they tend to accept those facts better.

"Mother Goose and the Mercurial Climate" is always a good choice.

And true. Maybe that's the only way we'll be able to cut through the shit of decades of corporate propaganda. Saving one person at a time.

Just like the Salvation Army.

If you can change your own corner of the world just a little, that's still progress.

Their brain cancer is not treatable

I would, too.