I know I’m a tad late to this party, er, thread, but doing someone else’s vote is a crime.
Id, for Dog’s sake, rein in that senseayuma!
Dan
Off topic: Is your last name Dandan? So is your full name “Dan Dandan”?
Huge fan of Stan Freburg’s “St George and the Dragonet”, so had my name legally changed to “Dan da Dandan”.
Dan
I worked with a woman named Dandan at my job; she was one of my agency’s litigation specialists. Dandan was her first name.
She should marry our friend here. Then she’d be Mrs Dandan Dandan, wife of Dan Dandan. They could have a kid named Daniel Dan Dandan Dandan
And they will all sing…
Well, now I’m going to have to bring you in on a 412.
Oooh, head ouchies, here.
Dan
Today, my landlord was watching a political video with his wife in the living room (that’s all he watches; that and conspiracy-theory videos), and he said, “You hear that? Someone said that if the government is no longer supported by the people, it’s the people’s duty and obligation to abolish it.”
I didn’t have the words to express my disgust at the time, but I texted him.
Couldn’t help but hear your conversation. If you’re dissatisfied with the government, vote to change it, do it without voter suppression disguised as election reform, and don’t whinge when you lose clearly. This talk of overthrowing the government only ever comes from your side. Not to stick my head in the lion’s mouth. Just saying I’m concerned that everything you’re watching is radicalizing you.
While I completely sympathize with your disgust, I can’t see any positive outcome from sending that text.
Well, it lets ekedolphin feel like they’ve done something in the face of all that evil…
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(Me, I’d’ve moved out long ago, even if it was just to a park bench…)
Probably not, but I have always felt free to discuss my political disagreements with them and remain friends.
I’ve been homeless before in that I’ve slept in my car, surfed couches, lived in the church against their wishes, and lived more than a year in hotel relying on the inheritance given to my family by my late grandparents.
I can’t do that again. I can’t put my mother through that again.
Pardon if this was explained earlier in the thread, but how exactly were you were able to overhear your landlord?
Is this latest text a slight step up, in terms of “confrontation” (for lack of better way of putting it) than your previous chin-wags with him? Have things ever gotten considerably heated between you two?
Can you look for a new place to live?
No. We’ve never yelled at each other. I did have to lecture him about Putin, though.
I did yell at him today. I was angry.
As I was coming into the Big House to take a shower, he was out on the porch.
Me: “Did you hear about the power outage in North Carolina?”
Him: “No…”
Me: “A right-wing militia group shot up several power substations in North Carolina, leaving thousands without power, because they were upset about a drag show.”
And then I pointed at him.
Me: "Your side. Not mine."
Him [timidly]: “Well, that’s not something you should do…”
Later, after my shower, I apologized to him and his wife for being so vitriolic about it. Then I told them about Trump’s wish to suspend the Constitution. Neither of them had heard about it. I said, “It’s on his Truth Social page. You don’t have to take my word for it.” My landlord said he’d do that. And I said, “I don’t know how anyone can still support him after this, but some people still do.”
I swear to God, I’d better not see him rocking that red hat ever again.
Do you have a cite that it was a “right-wing militia group”? According to the NYT, neither the Sheriff nor the organization that produced the drag show have said that there’s such a connection.
It’s a well-known “fact” that those on the left are terrified of guns.