Dealing with Politics and Family

There does seem to be a bit of the, "make Americans mad again" movement going g around.

Don't get emotional.

My dad used to let my grandma move all the furniture around in our house, the house where she grew up. After she left we moved it all back.

UncleBuck said:

does hillary clinton think that we need to kick black people out of stores because they are black, like you do?

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She could think that, but I don't think that. I don't believe in this imaginary "we" you've come up with either.

Individual people sometimes hold similar and dissimilar beliefs. For instance you claim to be Jewish, and have shit on a floor with wild abandon. Bob Dylan is Jewish, yet he never spoke of or wrote songs about shitting on floors did he?

I believe if Hillary Clinton owned a store she should decide how she wants to run it. Don't you?

Don_Sequitor said:

There does seem to be a bit of the, "make Americans mad again" movement going g around.

Don't get emotional.

My dad used to let my grandma move all the furniture around in our house, the house where she grew up. After she left we moved it all back.

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People will often allow themselves to be browbeat in hopes they will get an inheritance.

Your dad should have told the noisy old lady to get the fuck out or at least locked her in the basement until she learned some manners.

Sir Napsalot said:

My father-in-law hates Trump, but he also hates me

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My father-in-law thinks Trump is the funniest guy on earth...but then again he did work for the KGB for 20 years.

He also happens to love me, but made it abundantly clear that would end immediately if I ever screw up with his daughter. 20 years later, I'm still here.

TacoMac said:

My father-in-law thinks Trump is the funniest guy on earth...but then again he did work for the KGB for 20 years.

He also happens to love me, but made it abundantly clear that would end immediately if I ever screw up with his daughter. 20 years later, I'm still here.

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So you're keeping a rusted out Monte Carlo around just in case you need a quick crash pad eh?

TacoMac said:

My father-in-law thinks Trump is the funniest guy on earth...but then again he did work for the KGB for 20 years.

He also happens to love me, but made it abundantly clear that would end immediately if I ever screw up with his daughter. 20 years later, I'm still here.

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Russians have a dark sense of humor.

Rob Roy said:

People will often allow themselves to be browbeat in hopes they will get an inheritance.

Your dad should have told the noisy old lady to get the fuck out or at least locked her in the basement until she learned some manners.

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*dislike*
They termed that "strategic bequest."

She had impeccable manners.

hotrodharley said:

The minute you hear “chemtrails” know that whoever you are talking to is already gone. Irretrievable. Beyond hope.

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Prince believed in chemtrails big time. Saw an interview where talk about them.

Sir Napsalot said:

My mom thinks Truman is president

it actually makes things easier for me

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She got the first four letters right.

Obepawn said:

Prince believed in chemtrails big time. Saw an interview where talk about them.

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Lol, I was listening to a Mavis Staples interview yesterday and she was asked if Prince was really strange. She replied, "Oh, he was really strange".

Obepawn said:

Prince believed in chemtrails big time. Saw an interview where talk about them.

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At least he was a brilliant musician and a decent person.

hotrodharley said:

At least he was a brilliant musician and a decent person.

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Mavis thought so too.

Unclebaldrick said:

Mavis thought so too.

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Note he didn’t venture into politics. A bonus point.

hotrodharley said:

Note he didn’t venture into politics. A bonus point.

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I am not sure that chemtrails are even in the realm of politics though they tend to be related. Kind of like flat-earth or anti-vax.

I remember having a conversation with somebody here who insisted that planes didn't make contrails when they were a kid. I posted some pictures of US bombers on the way to Germany with huge persistent contrails and suddenly the argument was we must have been using chemical weapons on Germany.

The primary thing isn't the politics, its that acceptance of rubbish knowledge that often becomes political or is manipulated by others into becoming so.

Technology (internet, ubiquitous cameras, etc.) is killing off the old ways and undoing the Age of Reason with unintelligent or over-religious people. I am strongly starting to suspect it will not be going away and yet cannot exist in a single successful country to the extent it does.

TacoMac said:

My father-in-law thinks Trump is the funniest guy on earth...but then again he did work for the KGB for 20 years.

He also happens to love me, but made it abundantly clear that would end immediately if I ever screw up with his daughter. 20 years later, I'm still here.

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20-years married/ together, that great bro. Me and my wife been together 27 1/2 years.

hotrodharley said:

At least he was a brilliant musician and a decent person.

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He was also quite a good guitar player. He never gets mentioned for that at all, which is unfortunate really. I was at a gathering he played at once, just him and a Gibson Hummingbird.

I was impressed.

I guess the thing that they have in common is the necessary belief that the great majority of people are evil and seek to control others through the creation of conspiracies. That does ten to lead one down the rabbit hole pretty hard.

Obepawn said:

20-years married/ together, that great bro. Me and my wife been together 27 1/2 years.

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I've been married about 32 years. That's over ten years average per marriage!

Unclebaldrick said:

I've been married about 32 years. That's over ten years average per marriage!

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So, you're always on the lookout for the next former Mrs. Unclebaldrick?

TacoMac said:

So, you're always on the lookout for the next former Mrs. Unclebaldrick?

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Nah. The first was a Mulligan. I was young and my father was dying slowly and her's just unexpectedly died suddenly around the same time. So we got married . I knew on the honeymoon (which was spent partially in the eye of a class 5 hurricane) that I needed a divorce and got one soon after. I liked the second one but she had some serious problems that I would not just ignore. In a bout of relationship brinksmanship, she gave me an out. We had no kids - I took it.

Now I have a child and a wonderful wife and will not be marrying again.