Don't get me wrong. I love my parents, but calling my dad is like calling into Rush Limbaugh. He seems to be jacked directly into the GOP echo chamber. A conversation turns into a never ending stream of conservative talking points, obscure anti-Obama anecdotes, and outright bullshit. I spend almost the whole call googling and debunking each claim but we'll immediately jump to a different claim. Some recent gems:-Obamaphone: free cell phones for poor folks (a program supposedly started by Obama but actually implemented by Reagan, then Bush).-Any jobs created in the last 4 years were government jobs (in reality, public sector jobs have declined sharply)-A dozen points about how Obamacare sucks (even though it's the same shit as Romneycare).-The only reason Social Security is unsustainable is because Clinton bankrupted it-Obama keeps raising taxes (despite the fact that federal taxes are at historic lows)I'm thinking "This isn't fair. I don't get a stream of constant liberal talking points from listening to NPR." And I voted for fucking Gary Johnson anyway.Anyone else have this problem?
11/7/2012 8:53:08 PM
Nah, my dad isn't a dick.
11/7/2012 8:55:01 PM
Thankfully I don't have to deal with that shit from my dad. He's likely thinking some of it, but still.I do have to deal with someone on a regular basis, however, that does this. It's absolutely the most annoying shit because I can't respond to the guy and tell him how much of a fucktard he is due to business reasons.
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11/7/2012 8:59:31 PM
^This. How about recording the next call?
11/7/2012 9:01:22 PM
No, but I do get to hear ultra conservative right winged Christian political drivel from my step-father whenever I go see my mother.-"God blesses whoever supports Israel. That is why America has been so prosperous up until now."-*insert some reference to Obama being a Muslim here*-"Obama pays a woman at the clerk of court to keep his birth certificate a secret."-"This is not what our forefathers intended when they wrote the constitution. It is "One Nation Under God."-"Oh, everyone believes in the same God. Even the Jews and the A-rabs believe in the same God."
11/7/2012 9:04:33 PM
My dad hates to talk on the phone and my mom has hearing loss so we mostly communicate through email. I delete a lot of the political stuff my dad sends, and when he asks I'm just like "oh yeah, so funny ha ha ha"
11/7/2012 9:07:18 PM
my brother and i have the same problem as OPwe just laugh at him
11/7/2012 9:10:19 PM
Wait Reagan gave cell phones when he was pres? Is that how Zack Morris got his?
11/7/2012 9:25:18 PM
My family on both sides are pretty much all democrats from grandparents down, so I don't have this problem at all.
11/7/2012 9:26:53 PM
I come from the land of good old fashioned New Deal Democrats, who are racist as hell evangelical Christians who forget all about their affiliation when it's a black man running for office.[Edited on November 7, 2012 at 9:36 PM. Reason : .]
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11/7/2012 9:44:30 PM
i dont talk about politics with my dad.
11/7/2012 9:46:32 PM
My dad is conservative and my mom is liberal. My dad is more outspoken about politics than my mom. But our conversations are hardly ever centered around politics (other than around election time). My parents don't talk that much about politics with me.[Edited on November 7, 2012 at 10:00 PM. Reason : d]
11/7/2012 9:58:13 PM
meh - my parents aren't badmy brother in law in the worst but i just don't talk to him
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11/7/2012 10:07:59 PM
my brother & i just spend the day ignoring our dad's political rants (we both work for him). dad work black in mourning today.
11/7/2012 10:10:39 PM
BECAUSE TODAY AMERICA DIED. But at least Romney wasn't allowed to mutilate the corpse.
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11/7/2012 11:14:42 PM
this is not my experience talking to my parents at all, which i am very grateful for.
11/7/2012 11:39:17 PM
The phone program begun under Reagan was to subsidize landline phone service to poor people and in rural areas; the uses of the Universal Service Fund were expanded under the younger Bush to include free basic cellular phones and only noticed by the right-wing echo-chamber during the Obama years because it fit in better with their narrative about Obama giving away free shit to undeserving brown people.
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11/8/2012 2:48:27 AM
My mom and dad both ramble on and on about shit I could care less about. I use to "accidentally" hang up on my dad all the time. They never rant....just ramble.
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11/8/2012 7:19:11 AM
Luckily, my parents are not interested in talking politics !
11/8/2012 7:58:31 AM
My dad was disappointed that I wasn't going to vote for as he calls him "Ol' Mitt." We still can talk but I hate it when he says things like "Romney can produce jobs if he is president" when on several occasions Romney sneered at Obama for thinking government could produce jobs. ("sneered at" sounds wrong. hmmmm)So yes...I, too, have this problem.[Edited on November 8, 2012 at 8:41 AM. Reason : yeah, I don't know about that Israel claim. Wow. ]
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11/8/2012 9:01:08 AM
Don't get me wrong. I love my parents, but calling my mom is like calling into Keith Olbermann. She seems to be jacked directly into the Democratic echo chamber. A conversation turns into a never ending stream of liberal talking points, obscure anti-Romney anecdotes, and outright bullshit. I spend almost the whole call googling and debunking each claim but we'll immediately jump to a different claim.
11/8/2012 9:01:43 AM
Whenever my parents (and other family members) talk politics, I just try to ignore. However, sometimes it gets so out of hand (Obama is the anti-christ, he's a muslim that wants to ruin 'Merica, etc) that I have to open my mouth. And then when that happens I get called a confused and lost young person, and if I don't get myself in line then I will go to hell.Fortunately my brother agrees with me, which is why he's the only person I call on a routine basis.
11/8/2012 9:03:28 AM
My step mom and dad are like ^ but my real mom and dad aren't.
11/8/2012 9:05:56 AM
My step mom and dad are like ^ but my real mom and dad aren't.[Edited on November 8, 2012 at 9:06 AM. Reason : I guess double post for two sets of parents? ]
Thankfully my parents and I agree for the most part politically. So no problems there. And since dad got a dSLR a few years back and subsequently got my first one as well, we talk more about family and photography with a little news, sports, and some politics interspersed. Mom does not really care about politics at all, so I never get that from her. She just wants to know how her grandsons are doing.Honestly, politics can be more aggravating when I talk to my wife. She is more of social conservative, where I am far more into straight up fiscal conservatism/social libertarianism. So while our political beliefs can overlap, she gets into the "the world is so terrible, this is obviously the endtimes" kinda stuff. I was more of a Ron Paul or Gary Johnson kinda guy, while she was pulling more for Rick Perry.
11/8/2012 9:07:49 AM
For those of you who are wondering where the concept of God blessing those who bless Israel comes from, which has been a political talking point of evangelical Christians:"I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Genesis 12: 3). Evangelical Christians have taken these words that are said to Abraham as meaning that nations who support Israel against it's enemies will be blessed.
11/8/2012 9:09:24 AM
^^She clearly does not value her uterus.[Edited on November 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM. Reason : ^^]
11/8/2012 9:10:23 AM
If either of my parents have ever voted they have done so without my knowledge and without telling me about it. A political discussion with them is typically lighthearted and usually ends with jokes/laughter at the expense of any party and sometimes at just the absurdity of politics in general.My wife's dad told us and her family that anybody that doesn't vote Romney is disowned. Her mom chimed in that they had decided this after much consideration even though, in her words, they watch msnbc sometimes (never when I'm around lol). Luckily it is only around election time when they want to talk politics.[Edited on November 8, 2012 at 9:37 AM. Reason : ]
11/8/2012 9:37:04 AM
My parents have never complained to me about anything lol... At least nothing real. My mom occasionally complains when she can't get something to print correctly or something lolI'm krallum and I approved this message.
11/8/2012 1:55:04 PM
bottombaby, the edit on my earlier post indicated that by "they" I meant followers of the Abrahamic religions, even though the ignoramus you quoted said "everybody"
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11/8/2012 4:28:27 PM
i haven't talked to my mom in like 8 weeks, which bums me out because it means i'm going to have to talk to her again pretty soonmy dad's alright, though
11/8/2012 4:33:08 PM
my parents and older brother voted for obama. younger brother voted for romney and i voted for gary johnson. we do discuss politics but as far as i can tell nobody gets butthurt about it
11/8/2012 4:51:47 PM