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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 01:36 PM Oct 2019

Hoo Boy! Just got back from another conversation with Duane. He's the counter man at the

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local "Hooch 'n More" liquor store and, like he says, he's got his "finger on the pulse of Murika". He sees dozens of folks each day and hears the opinions of a real cross-section of the population. Hell, he says one of the drivers who delivers beer is even a black. So Duane's analysis is always worth hearing.

"There are NO grounds for the impeachment of our president!" Duane told me. "I have read every word of the whistleblower complaint AND the word-for-word transcript of Mr. Trump's phone call to this Zee-linski dude and the words "quid pro quo"---whatever the hell that means--- were never said by ANYBODY!"

Well, I can tell you I was stunned. If you're like me, you kinda tend to believe all this stuff being said on TV about there being "clear grounds for impeachment", but Duane says that's all deepstate BULLSHIT and he says that's a di-rect quote of Mr. Trump. That Duane! I swear ---one of these days we're gonna flip on the radio expecting to hear that Limbaugh guy and instead, we're gonna hear old Duane! The man is THAT good!

That's it for now. Just thought I'd share another of ol' Duane's "insights". That's what he calls what he says---"insights"! Is that a hoot or what?

(Only bad part of my shopping trip to "Hooch 'n More" is they were out of Slim Jims!)

Later.

(EDIT: The above was an attempt at satire---fiction. Sorry if not evident)

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Hoo Boy! Just got back from another conversation with Duane. He's the counter man at the (Original Post) Atticus Oct 2019 OP
slim jims! i was wondering what the "'n more" was. unblock Oct 2019 #1
Being out of "Slim Jims" sounds like the least 'bad' part of that visit. hlthe2b Oct 2019 #2
Fabulous, Duane. nt coti Oct 2019 #3
Wow. Duane sounds very ...informed. flibbitygiblets Oct 2019 #4
I'm glad he sells liquor instead of playing with subatomic particles...... lastlib Oct 2019 #10
you should treat Duane the way I was treated by some when I had a similar job. 5X Oct 2019 #5
i had lunch with a friend today. barbtries Oct 2019 #6
You lost me at .... getagrip_already Oct 2019 #7
Was David Brooks there doing some "research"? hatrack Oct 2019 #8
I we had a Hooch 'n More in my town. MontanaMama Oct 2019 #9
Daune has a subsidiary near me... Bluethroughu Oct 2019 #11
Funny, but not as funny as... The Liberal Lion Oct 2019 #12
There's a chain of gas stations here called geardaddy Oct 2019 #13
I read an effective technique for convincing people Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2019 #14
Duane's gilligan Oct 2019 #15
The judge asked him if his wife ever beat him up. trof Oct 2019 #16
K&R, ONLY 40 PERCENT OF REPUBLICANS BELIEVE TRUMP MENTIONED BIDEN IN UKRAINE CALL, uponit7771 Oct 2019 #17

hlthe2b

(102,298 posts)
2. Being out of "Slim Jims" sounds like the least 'bad' part of that visit.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 01:39 PM
Oct 2019

I am determined to be civil with people that think that way--not engage them because I recall reading what it takes to "deprogram" cultists. Still, it affects me nonetheless.

lastlib

(23,251 posts)
10. I'm glad he sells liquor instead of playing with subatomic particles......
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 04:04 PM
Oct 2019

I'll sleep better tonight knowing that.....

5X

(3,972 posts)
5. you should treat Duane the way I was treated by some when I had a similar job.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 01:45 PM
Oct 2019

The clerk is stuck there and normally can't just kick people out on a whim.
I would have "customers" (wouldn't even buy anything) that would pontificate for
hours about whatever.
Indoctrinate him.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
6. i had lunch with a friend today.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 02:13 PM
Oct 2019

his stepfather. my older brother and sister.

neither of us can really get the willful blindness of the trump cult.

did you ask if the rest were Whites?

getagrip_already

(14,766 posts)
7. You lost me at ....
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 03:47 PM
Oct 2019

He read every word.....

I know duane. Duane doesn't read. He listens to the tee-vee man (only stares at the "seat covers" as he calls them) and rahdeo.

Oh, and he keeps the slim jims up his butt so they stay nice and warm, just they he likes em.

Bluethroughu

(5,172 posts)
11. Daune has a subsidiary near me...
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 04:06 PM
Oct 2019
know as "The puff and Sip" it's next door to "Dogs on the chain"...

Sometimes I don't know why I bother trying to make any sense, to the senseless.

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)
13. There's a chain of gas stations here called
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 04:21 PM
Oct 2019

Pump 'n' Munch

They should build one next to Hooch 'n' More

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
14. I read an effective technique for convincing people
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 04:25 PM
Oct 2019

Is to act with confusion vs disagreement/contention. It doesn't put people on defensive.

Like, " Gee Duane! I did the same thing! I didn't see those fancy words either. So I looked em up. It means if you do something for me I will do something for you. Then I saw that trump asked him to dig up dirt or make it up, not sure, about Joe Biden and his kid. Then he said they wouldn't get US aid unless they did. So now I am confused Duane, sure does sound like quid pro quo, doesn't it? "

trof

(54,256 posts)
16. The judge asked him if his wife ever beat him up.
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 06:35 PM
Oct 2019

He said "Naw, I'm up at 6 o'clock, way before she is."

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