Encountered a teabagger today

[Freeper]

Star Member liberal N proud (44,946 posts)

Encountered a teabagger today

I was filling my car with gas today when the attendant came by and struck up a conversation about how I was one the few who followed the signs and entered from the right direction. I mentioned another establishment didn't have problems getting people to enter from one direction. This led to him saying his employer wouldn't spend any money to control traffic, this led into his bashing his employer because they cut everyone's hours to avoid Obama are.

The next sentence out of his mouth gave him away. He said "he shouldn't be forced to buy healthcare."

Then I lost it! Really, I said, you are required to buy car insurance, why not healthcare? He said you don't have to buy car insurance but there was a penalty if you don't. I said yeah, ask the uninsured woman who hit me several months ago. I then said it was wrong that I have to carry uninsured motorist because people don't buy insurance, then before he could respond, I said, who do think pays for those who don't have health insurance -- ME! I pay for all of those ER visits through higher cost at the doctor, hospital and insurance.

He turned and walked away. Hopefully it soaked in. The stupid, it hurts!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023804472

 

I bet what really happened is the DUmmy drove the wrong way and the attendant asked him to follow the signs next time. As the DUmmy drove home he made up the story.

Blue Owl (9,205 posts)
2. We'll done, make 'em THINK!

It will make people think alright, they will think what a DUmbass.

Star Member Auntie Bush (15,694 posts)
3. Tea Baggers are too stupid to put two and two together.

Can't understand the repercussions of a gov. shut down.
Can't understand the science behind global warming.
Too late at night to go on and on but you get the idea.
They are just plain stupid!

 

Star Member Quixote1818 (16,873 posts)
5. Republican's are all for personal responsibility when it doesn't include them

 

It's because of personal responsibility that we don't need the government to hold our hands through life. There isn't a single member of CC who is living in the "Sally" and dreaming of getting section 8 and food stamps. We all have jobs and pay our own rent or mortgages. WE don't need government telling us that we need health insurance and what kind of coverage we need, we figure that out for ourselves.

DissidentVoice (564 posts)
6. My wife encountered a couple in a McDonald's drive-through

This has been a few months ago, but my wife was in a McDonald's drive through when a couple of TP types got behind her. Both our cars have Obama bumper stickers on them and a car with a couple of these idiots started yelling insults at her while she was getting her order. It frightened her.

Had I been there, the outcome would have been much different.

Sure it would have tough guy. 

Star Member SheilaT (13,314 posts)
8. Cognitive dissonance.

It's a fancy term for a disconnect between what one thinks and what is reality.

Your guy could almost be a picture postcard for cognitive dissonance.

I simply do not understand why so many people think that having health care is so awful. And it's not as though those who think that way actually have the Republican Health Care Plan, by which I mean they never get sick. Often, those who oppose Obamacare, excuse me the ACA, themselves have all sorts of health issues. And whether they themselves have healthcare, be it Medicare, Medicaid, or whatever, they just don't get it that health care ought to be a fundamental right for all.

I'm one of the annoying ones who never gets sick, and I'm crazed by those who don't understand why health care for all is so important. I suppose I should complain that I've been paying into the system all these years and never gotten back even ten percent of what I paid in. But I don't see it that way. I know that my personal excellent health is some kind of a gift, and I should NEVER resent that others "cost me money".

On the other hand, I have a Geek Squad card for Best Buy, and I've used several multiples of whatever it cost me.

Wait until you realize that the 0bamacare isn't free. 

Star Member Spitfire of ATJ (11,015 posts)
13. I tell them Nixon's original plan was to have EVERY EMPLOYER NATIONWIDE provide healthcare....

You work, you're covered at NO cost to YOU.

Then he met the Kaiser and instead we got HMOs.

One big problem with that for you DUmmy, you would have had to work to get it. 

[Big Dog]

Star Member SheilaT (13,314 posts)
8. Cognitive dissonance.

It's a fancy term for a disconnect between what one thinks and what is reality.

No, DUmmy. It isn't.

You are describing "delusion", such as the delusion that the government is concerned with your best interests; or the delusion that Keynesian economic models would lead to long-term prosperity.

[JohnnyReb]

Bought gas this morning, $2.96/9, and not a damn soul said anything to me.....I must look mean.

[Karin]

You're right, Big Dog.  ShielaTheIdiot did not define "cognitive dissonance" properly.  "Fancy term"    What a tool.

DUmmies, you're going to have to face reality.  Look at the prices of these plans.  Start with that inconvenient but rather famous San Jose Mercury article.  The math (simple 3rd grade arithmetic) does not work. 

[67 Rover]

Bought gas this morning, $2.96/9, and not a damn soul said anything to me.....I must look mean.

It has been many years since I have seen gas under $3.00 what part of the country are you in?  

BTW here in Assachusetts the gas tax now automatically raises with inflation so no chance of it ever reaching the $3 threshold.  Right now I am paying $3.69.

[JohnnyReb]

It has been many years since I have seen gas under $3.00 what part of the country are you in?  

BTW here in Assachusetts the gas tax now automatically raises with inflation so no chance of it ever reaching the $3 threshold.  Right now I am paying $3.69.

South Carolina......red state hell....if this be hell, I'm loving it.

[67 Rover]

South Carolina......red state hell....if this be hell, I'm loving it.

And to think of all the people that have told me to go to hell actually have been trying to help me. 

[ChuckJ]

If I'm correct this is the first gas station Bouncy in a long, long time. It just needed a "so" to start it off.

And to the DUmmie, you're not require to have auto insurance just because you're alive. There is a difference between auto insurance and Obamacare.

[USA4ME]

South Carolina......red state hell....if this be hell, I'm loving it.

I was in Greenville, SC last week and bought it for $2.99. Was in Atlanta and they're at $3.19. Still $3.35 here in WNC.

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[Gina]

Star Member liberal N proud (44,946 posts)

Encountered a teabagger today

I was filling my car with gas today when the attendant came by and struck up a conversation about how I was one the few who followed the signs and entered from the right direction.

OMGosh    This is just hilarious 

[TXJohnny]

Then I lost it! Really, I said, you are required to buy car insurance, why not healthcare?

Because, DUmbass, if your health is screwed up because you smoke or live off Big Macs, you can't kill or injure someone else. You just have to buy liability insurance when you drive, for that reason. And who pays for the whole adventure of Obamacare, if not the taxpayers?

Sounds like "lost it" refers to mental faculties, not temper.

[Rebel]

Then I lost it! Really, I said, you are required to buy car insurance, why not healthcare? He said you don't have to buy car insurance but there was a penalty if you don't.

Wrong, DUmbass. I can buy a truck and drive it all damn day long, year round, on my OWN property with no tag, no license, and no insurance. If I decide to exercise the "privilege" of driving on publicly-funded roads, I have to meet the requirements set forth by elected representatives carrying out the will of the people who's taxes were used to pay for the roads.

Obamacare, however, is a tax on nothing but ****ing living.

You idiots know accurate analogies like a Chimp knows plate tectonics.

[Wineslob]

Star Member Spitfire of ATJ (11,015 posts)
13. I tell them Nixon's original plan was to have EVERY EMPLOYER NATIONWIDE provide healthcare....

You work, you're covered at NO cost to YOU.

Then he met the Kaiser and instead we got HMOs.

So tell me, DUmbass, just how does that work?

Oh ya:

Collect underpants:

???????????:

PROFIT!


Too much FAIL this early in the morning.     

[blitzkrieg_17]

This is a very poor quality Bouncy. It follows the template and the current talking points much too closely so I must give it a zero.

[Mike220]

And... Fumesucker kills the thread.

Fumesucker (33,663 posts)
20. Congratulations, you used an argument that's been debunked about a thousand times on DU alone

[DLR Pyro]

Star Member liberal N proud (44,946 posts)

Encountered a teabagger today

I was filling my car with gas today...

How can you be a proud liberal when you are killing the planet by driving a gas guzzling polluter with a huge carbon foot print and at the same time contributing to the profits of big oil.  You need to ditch your car ASAP and get something more friendly to the planet like a recumbent bike.

[jukin]

Well I'm pissed off!!

1. I'm paying over $4.25/gallon.
2. This bouncy sucked, ZERO bongs.

[98ZJUSMC]

Fumesucker (33,663 posts)
20. Congratulations, you used an argument that's been debunked about a thousand times on DU alone

 

[Chris_]

Star Member Spitfire of ATJ (11,015 posts)
13. I tell them Nixon's original plan was to have EVERY EMPLOYER NATIONWIDE provide healthcare....

You work, you're covered at NO cost to YOU.

Then he met the Kaiser and instead we got HMOs.

Who is this he Spitfire is talking about?  Surely not Nixon... it was Teddy Kennedy who introduced the HMO Act of 1973 in the Senate.  Nixon's sin was allowing another Democrat abortion to become law.

[lastparker]

Star Member liberal N proud (44,946 posts)

Encountered a teabagger today

I was filling my car with gas today when the attendant came by......

Where is this magical place...this place where you pump your own gas AND there's an attendant meandering about?

[thundley4]

Where is this magical place...this place where you pump your own gas AND there's an attendant meandering about?

A couple of states still require full service at stations.  However, this could have just been the cashier coming out to tell the DUmass to follow the signs the next time and not impede traffic flow.

[BlueStateSaint]

A couple of states still require full service at stations.  However, this could have just been the cashier coming out to tell the DUmass to follow the signs the next time and not impede traffic flow.

A far, far more likely possibility.

[BannedFromDU]

     FFS, they're not even trying anymore. There was a thread comparing mandated auto insurance to 0bamacare yesterday. So the thought progression, if you can call it that, was cars...gas...gas station...attendant...stupid attendant...0bamacare...and suddenly, boom, you have a bouncy.

     Try harder, DUmmies.

[GOBUCKS]

Gasoline pumps are almost as fertile for bouncy tales as grocery store checkout lines.

After all these years, DUmmies still believe they happen.

The few DUmmies who realize they're fiction still have to express belief to maintain their DUmp cred.

[jukin]

Gasoline pumps are almost as fertile for bouncy tales as grocery store checkout lines.

After all these years, DUmmies still believe they happen.

The few DUmmies who realize they're fiction still have to express belief to maintain their DUmp cred.

A good trait of a mole.