DUchebags on Thanksgiving Conservative Relative

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Thu Nov 28, 2013, 10:04 PM

TlalocW (9,280 posts)

Thanksgiving Conservative Relative
I post a fair amount of political rants on Facebook and do some (but not enough) "real life" political events, but I always dial it back for family events. I'm one of few liberals in the family, and I just don't care to get fights started when I want to be enjoying pie - in fact, I head them off. Once my brother-in-law and his brothers were having a political discussion after dinner, and I went in to get another piece of pie, and they asked me what I thought, and I told them, "Easy," then pointed at each of them in turn while exclaiming, "You're wrong! You're wrong! And you're wrong! I'm right, but I'm not telling you how or why!" They found that funny, and it broke up the discussion.

For the past two years though, the BIL's step-dad, who is very religious, has been trying to start political arguments with me. Last year about abortion (family is close to Wichita, KS, home of Dr. Tiller). I was feigning being asleep after dinner and was actually trying to drop off when he started up about abortion and tried to drag me into it. I think I headed off any further discussion by saying, "You can be against abortion all you want from a religious standpoint, but if you're also against things like comprehensive sex education and birth control, then you can wring your hands about so-called immorality and pray all you want, but you're just working against your primary goal of reducing the abortion rate."

This year, out of the blue, he just made some crack about Obamacare, while looking straight at me. I was eating at the time so didn't bother replying. Later on, he brought it up again (particularly the website), so I headed him off with a two-pronged attack - first the website isn't Obamacare. It's a tool that needs fixing, and second, Obamacare has been with us for three years, and both democrats and republicans like it as both will gladly take money through the program to benefit hospitals and medical facilities in their districts including a couple of republicans from the Wichita area who did photo ops earlier this year at a couple of medical facilities giving some big-ass (both in physical size and amount) Obamacare checks to them. It's just the republicans turn around and hypocritically bash it."

He shut up after that.

TlalocW

Well, this stupid ****er has no basis on his Obamacare point.

Then there is this.....

Response to TlalocW (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2013, 11:03 PM

Star Member gopiscrap (10,796 posts)
5. I refuse to visit, eat or host

anyone who is a republican. I haven't seen my inlaws in 30 years because they are a bunch of tea baggers.

and this

Response to Skip Intro (Reply #9)

Fri Nov 29, 2013, 12:42 AM

Star Member gopiscrap (10,796 posts)
12. If you're not liberal, you can never be family to me!

everything that happens politically has a major effect on your life. I lost both parents as a child due to political decisions. So yes, politics does transcend everything.

How did you lose your parents?  Sounds like the "Stupid Batman" complex.

[BattleHymn]

I was feigning being asleep after dinner and was actually trying to drop off when he started up about abortion and tried to drag me into it.

Are you saying someone tried to drag someone who appeared to be asleep into a conversation? 

I think I headed off any further discussion by saying, "You can be against abortion all you want from a religious standpoint, but if you're also against things like comprehensive sex education and birth control, then you can wring your hands about so-called immorality and pray all you want, but you're just working against your primary goal of reducing the abortion rate."

Wait a second- you're the one telling the story here.  How do you "think you headed off further discussion"?  You either did, or you didn't. 
   

He shut up after that.

 

I'm so blown away and baffled by your brilliant rebuttals, I've fallen silent over here, too.