My Rightwing cousin sent me this email:

[scheming daemons]

Sigh.

I fucking hate my family.

I believe that George Soros, and other powerful foreign interests, are manipulating our financial markets in order to ensure that 0bama is elected.

No amount of liberal "reasoning" by you will convince me otherwise.

We're all being had. Powerful international interests are trying to turn America into a socialist state. The only way they can do this is to have Americans so scared finance-wise that they don't pay any attention to 0bama's relationships to terrorists and other American-haters or two his muslim past.

This is a financial 9/11, perpitrated by socialist terrorists like George Soros - who I think is the anti-christ. 0bama is just one of Soros's minnions.

I will NEVER consider Barak Hussain 0Bama to be my President. Never. I love this country, and the day 0bama is elected, this country no longer exists to me.

I'm stalking up on food, water, and ammo. The end times, at least as far as this country is concerned, are near.

I can't beleive that my own flesh and blood is working for the first muslim candidate this country has ever had.

Don't bother responding to this email with your liberal talking points. You've bougt into the lies and I seriously think you have been brainwashed by your communist friends.

I will weepe for my country next month, and I'll pray that you snap out of your dream and realize what a dangerous man 0bama is.

Goodbye.

[whistle]

1. Send him this link

http://www.youtube.com/user/ubseconomics

[RoadRage]

43. Tell him he doesn't have to leave the US.. he can just move to Alaska..

Palin will be back up there.. he can have as many guns and as much ammo as he wants, and Sarah will send him a check every year for his troubles.

Also, Obama probably won't go near Alaska.. so he really has nothing to worry about up there. And, I hear they have churches for just his type.. he'll feel right at home.

Sorry your cousin sucks.. nothing you can do about it.. :(

[Hansel]

44. Send him a dictionary. n/t

[The Magistrate]

2. If He Is Stalking Up On Food And Water, Sir, Let Us Hope It Stays Still And Unsuspecting....

[Left Is Write]

9. I guess he could stalk up on his food with his gun and his ammo.

[Fleshdancer]

40. Update: Food and Water just filed a restraining order against right wing cousin

right wing cousin is not allowed within 500 ft of Food and Water.


:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

47. ....

:spray:

[opiate69]

49. *snort*.. well played, Sir!

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

75. *snarf*

[MrMickeysMom]

3. So, it's the old George Soros routine, with a twist, is it?

Well, I don't blame you for saying that.

I doubt that the letter writer sender was the writer, but you probably know that.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Let me guess....

...he doesn't know how to use spell check.

[Hissyspit]

Um, your cousin is an idiot AND an asshole.

[Left Is Write]

5. Where did he learn to spell? George W. Bush University?

And how typical of the wingnuts. "I'm going to tell you exactly what I think, but don't bother trying to reply because I can't hear you! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!"

[cynatnite]

6. So, what country is your cousin moving to?

I'd like to know so I can yell 'good riddance'.

I have a few RW nutjob family members myself. I love 'em dearly, but fortunately they're not nearly as far gone as your cousin.

[scheming daemons]

13. The good news... he lives in West Virginia... not a swing state.

As far as I'm concerned... West Virginia *IS* another country.

[cynatnite]

21. A poll came out of WV with Obama at 50% and McCain at 42%...

http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2008/WV08.html

A few more polls will tell if this is a trend.

[scheming daemons]

24. That would be incrediblty cool. Obama winning WV, to me, means 400 EVs.

[Sebass1271]

7. Wow!!!

oh brother.. what can i say? Don't even bother, don't respond.

[meowomon]

8. Send him a link: http://www.spellcheck.net/

[The Shadow]

10. After Barack Obama Is Elected Tell Your Cousin He Will Have To Leave

If he doesn't love this country he can simply leave, no-ones making him stay here. Real Americans don't talk that way. It's that simple!! Fuck him!!!

[1corona4u]

11. Oh for fuck sake...

what a fucking drama queen/king. Just ignore it until a year after Obama is in, then ask what they think. That's my plan anyway.

[Chichiri]

72. That's a very good idea.

I think I'll have to steal it.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Tell him that the dangerous one is already in the fucking office.....

that's why if he has a 401K, it is now a 101K.

9/11 3,000 American dead, and no Bin Laden caught dead or alive
IRAQ costing almost a trillion and 4,000 American lives and thousands of Iraqis
KATRINA cost us a city
WALL STREET BAIL OUT, thus far as cost 850 Billion...
DOW Dropping down to the lowest point in YEARS!

Tell your dumbass cousin, McCain/Palin will be 10 times as bad.

[Trajan]

14. I have cut off my brothers and sisters ....

Because they have become stark raving right wing loonies, just the last month ....

This is the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life ....

[skipos]

15. Sounds like a person who isn't worth talking to.

I have relatives like that.

Why didn't Soros use his magical powers on the market back in 04 and save us from Bush? Damn him!

[philosophie_en_rose]

16. Your cousin needs help.

He sounds like he might hurt himself. At the very least, you could buy him a spellchecker for the holidays.

[smoochpooch]

17. Let him go, In fact, it seems like he's already been gone for a long time.

The sad thing is people like this who say he'll never be THEIR president. It's so closed-minded and exacerbates the division between left and right.

[tedoll78]

18. We're going to see this kind of thing for the next four years.

I have a few family members who are also of this mindset. It's going to be hysterical watching them react to living under the rule of "that black man." After the past 8 years, their despair gets no pity from me.. just sheer schadenfreude.

[ddeclue]

19. BREAKING: "Food water and ammo" have taken out a restraining order against your cousin!

:rofl:

[RichGirl]

20. I have a couple of family members like that too.

You can't talk to them. I'm just going to keep my distance for a few years and wait for THEM to wake up. I've never liked McCain, but understood why others respected and honored him. I can't believe he would encourage this kind of hatred just to win an election. He is a small, very sad and pathetic man.

[Sebass1271]

22. I take it back.. you should reply by

saying LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA (not listening).. this will truly enrage him/her..
I mean, he/she wants to listen to him/her BUT doesn't want to hear from you..
so just say

LA LA LA LA LA LA (covering your ears)

[elkston]

23. I just don't get it. Is it THAT bad to have a black guy as President?

Because I simply cannot recall this level of hysteria and misinformation, EVER.

In their hearts, they don't really think Obama is a Muslim. They are afraid of the black man.

I am black and I just don't get it. I am like every other American. I root for this country, pray for its saftey, own a home, pay my taxes.

WTF? What are they so fucking afraid of?

[scheming daemons]

27. Their world-view turns upside down when a black man succeeds at the highest level....

It's cognitive dissonance.

[tedoll78]

33. No clue.

It's gotta be the name and the skin color. There's no other logical explanation.

It wasn't nearly this bad with Bill Clinton.

[Arugula Latte]

34. They have shitty self-esteem (for good reason!They're ignorant and uneduated & usually unattractive)

and so they look for somebody to look down upon to puff up their sad little sense of self. The problem is, Obama is everything they're not -- smart, successful, articulate, educated, compassionate, well-read, sophisticated, humorous, attractive, handsome, etc. etc. and it infuriates them that the object of their scorn is so obviously superior to them in every way.

[Grey]

73. I'm white and I don't get it either,

I was on a cruise with some other Canadians and got to chatting with a couple of US men. They said they would love to visit our country but they couldn't.
When we asked "Why?" they said because the border guards wouldn't let them bring their guns. Several of us asked "Why do you need guns, what are you scared of?"
They couldn't answer but there was a look in their eyes as if they were fearful.

You are right, "WTF? What are they so fucking afraid of?"

But, then again, I'm Canadian so I don't 'get' a lot of stuff that goes on "South of the border".

[Historic NY]

25. Tell him the fairy planes will wisk him off to RW freeperland on 11/5/08

he has to get his ticket tomorrow.

[stopbush]

26. The bad news? Another wing nut has a gun and ammo. The good news?

Most wing nuts with a gun and ammo end up killing only their relatives (within a 10-mile radius...because their car got repo-ed) and themselves.

So if you live outside that radius, you'll be OK.

[scheming daemons]

28. I live 90 miles from him.... he's in northern WV

[Arugula Latte]

29. Now he knows how we feel about Bush -- Not my president. Never has been. Never will be.

[BlueIdaho]

30. Respectfully...

Your cousin is a self righteous, sanctimonious, and self important shack of shit - not to mention melodramatic.

[scheming daemons]

37. No need to be respectful..... I agree with you.

[endthewar]

45. LOL! Reminds me of the SNL spoof on Biden

Starts with something like, "I love John McCain" but ends with an insult to John McCain. :rofl:

[TheKentuckian]

31. Its sad

but I am weary beyond imagination of their crying about socialism. Its their guy that has the government buying banks, insurance companies, and mortgages.

What socialism do these idiots have to fear at this late stage, Comrade Sam has already bought up the failed private sector.
Apparently, they need to project the very damage they have done onto others.

Sorry Rebubliscum OWN YOUR MESS!!!

[Incitatus]

32. People like your cousin are the dangerous ones.

He has these beliefs but no facts to back them up, just hate and ignorance.

I'm sorry your cousin is such a lunatic, at least you have your sanity.

[texpatriot2004]

35. I have never considered * to be my president yet I have had to

endure, in a civilized way, all of the horrible things that this Administration has done.

I don't blame you for not liking this person. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

[abumbyanyothername]

36. Did your cousin graduate middle school?

Soros cannot manipulate the entire fucking world credit market.

Stocking, not stalking.

Believe, not beleive.

Barack Hussein, not Barak Hussain.

Bought, not bougt.

Weep, not weepe.

Could be more.

[scheming daemons]

38. Truck Driver... lives in WV.... got a GED.

[Sebass1271]

55. I understand now why your cousin is like that

As soon as you said Truck Driver.. He listens to AM right wing radio ALL day. This is one of the major problem in this country. there is no balance on the radio today. I know, i live in Florida and most of the radio stations are right wings. There is one 1290 that the mornings starts with Glenn Beck for THREE HOURS, then, Rush Limbaug for another THREE HOURS, then, Schmidt (sp?) for THREE HOURS more, continues with HANNI TY (3 hours), Laura Ingraham (you know for how long) and to seal the deal? Bill O'REILLY.

Yes, folks. It is our supposedly liberal media. The hatred your cousin feels is from these bastards. I sometimes listen to them to hear what the say. BELIEVE ME, it is not pretty. All they do is trash Democrats and the situation we are in are Democrats faults. We are the devil, the terrorists, the mean people, the communists, socialists, god-haters. WE ARE BAD.

I wouldn't blame your cousin, i would put most of the blame on the FCC and some on BILL CLINTON himself for installing all these hate mongers on our radio.

[morillon]

60. Fixing the media is job one for an Obama administration.

Unless we can dial back the brainwashing, these folks are lost forever. Having been in a cult for half a decade some years ago, I know from brainwashing, and that's 'xactly what's going on with these people.

[Sebass1271]

64. From your lips to God's ears... really

Something must be done with the media.. I hope Obama does something.. I want some balance on the airwaves. I am not asking for these shows to be canceled because i am a true believer of freedom of speech, however, the FCC should enforce some balance to these radio stations.. if glen beck wants to spew garbage, that's fine, but let's balance it with the next radio program to be a progressive one and so forth...

[morillon]

71. Or require them to break up their broadcasts...

...with fact checks interspersed every 15-20 minutes. That, or a liberal rebuttal. No way should they get three hours of drilling their memes into people's brains.

Non-textual sources of information are the most effective way to brainwash people. Anything you read has to enter your brain through your intellect. The lizard and pack brains can't read. Only the intellect can.

Unfortunately, the intellect is way slower than the other parts of the human brain. It has to be. The more primitive parts of the brain are the ones that start your feet running to get you out of danger. By the time your body is well on its way to getting the fuck out, your intellect has only just started to catch up.

When you watch a TV show or listen to the radio, those faster parts of your brain are absorbing information in ways that your intellect can't even begin to keep up with. Appeals to emotion go straight to those centers.

I'm not saying that those parts of your brain are bad. Of course they're not. But when folks set out to brainwash others, those are the centers they appeal to, and the poor intellect can't keep up.

I went through having to deprogram myself from a cult, and that experience taught me to READ the news, not watch it or listen to it.

[rvablue]

79. Don't know how old you are

but I remember back when I was kid and half-watching the news with my parents that during local broadcasts, people would come on for a few minutes to give a commentary in opposition to something else the news had run.

It was called the Fairness Doctrine, a FCC rule, but I guess that wouldn't apply to cable??....

But it would apply to Hannity's and Rush's and Ingram's radio programs because those are public airwaves.

BRING BACK THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!

[abumbyanyothername]

56. Well . . .

For 26 years I have been a member of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous).

Part of the program over there is that we work with others who want the solution we have found.

However . . . they say, "to waste too much time with a man who does not want what you have is to deny another his opportunity to recover."

Same thing in this election. Just let your cousin steam. And turn your attention to people who are more open.

At least that would be my suggestion.

[progressivebydesign]

69. fascists love people like that with paranoid fantasies. much easier to manipulate. n/t

[Hobarticus]

39. Tell him to "keepe" on with that "weepe"....hope he can "sleepe"...

[Hope08]

41. He's not going anywhere

Or moving into a bomb shelter. He's like all those people on our side that threatened to move out of the country if Bush got reelected (or, more precisely I suppose, elected).

Guess what? Here's the really sweet part . . . He's just gonna have to eat it just like we did for 8 years. Sucks to be him. Schadenfreude is awesome.

[Teaser]

42. Why would George Soros *want* a socialist state?

Powerful finaniciers want socialism?

Only if they are TEH JOOZ!!!!

I cannot really fathom the mind of a wingnut. Things just work differently there.

[bedazzled]

46. i'm sorry to hear about your cousin. lost my favorite cousin that way

she turned into a limbot. it's like she died,
even though she's still walking around.

maybe it's just her brain that died.

anyway, it's hard to "lose" a family member
like that. maybe the further hardships
in store will turn his/her head around, but
i doubt it. sounds pretty far gone to me.

[Teaser]

48. Seriously, just beat the shit out of your cousin...

I have found that the possibility of physical violence is the only thing that has shut up my more obnoxious relatives.

[scheming daemons]

54. 50-years-old, 235 pounds, arms thicker than my legs.... I don't think so.

;-)

[Teaser]

78. guile, baby. Guile is how it works.

a dollop of sand, capsaicin, and salt in the eyes will get you a leg up on almost anyone.

[apnu]

50. save the email. When the world doen't explode with Obama's Presidency

Toss it back in his ignorant face.

[jberryhill]

51. I like the sneer quotes around "reasoning"

Yeah, don't try any of that "reasoning" stuff.

[Left Is Write]

52. Yeah, don't be hitting me with stuff like "facts" and "truth."

[AspenRose]

61. It has a well-known liberal bias, you know.

*sigh*

People like that are beyond help.

[budkin]

53. Weepe FTW!

[morillon]

57. I have a feeling some of my relatives feel this way...

...but so far, they haven't sent me any emails like this. If they decided to open such a dialogue with me, things would get rather interesting. :-) (I'm pathologically good at mixing humor, analogies, and logic. A couple decades of flame wars will do that to you.)

If the conversation ever degenerated to the point they did with your relative, I'd advise the person to leave the country. If they're that scared, they should be getting the hell out of Dodge, not hunkering down. For a threat as overwhelmingly powerful as the one s/he described, a civilian just doesn't possess the weaponry to fight back.

[elshiva]

58. "Obama, TERRARIST! SOCIALIST! MUSLIM."

:puke:

[Mz Pip]

59. My response would be

And I am getting snarky with this stuff at this point.

Dear cousin, brother, whoever,

Do you need some money for a ticket out of here? Let me be the first to donate. And don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Good luck with your end of days shit. You and your kind aren't the only ones with ammo.

[Sebass1271]

66. This one was good..

i like your response.... say this say this!!

[Hutzpa]

62. Tell the Mutha fucker to jump...

JUMP FUCKERS....

:evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

63. Heh. He acknowledges that he's lost. That's good enough for me.

[Renew Deal]

65. He's right. Bush bought an insurance company.

:shrug:

Tell this fool to leave the country since he doesn't love it anymore.

[Window]

67. Block his/her emails. Change your telephone number and your name.

Move. Get into witness protection.

[progressivebydesign]

68. I'm sorry that your cousin appears to be illiterate. Not a blood relation, I hope.

What an idiot. Sorry.. I know it's a relative. Because that person was so very rude to you, and told you not to bother responding, then I would say you have every right to send them one last email telling them to seek help for their persecutorial complex, and that they are now blocked from you email.

You have my sympathies.

[youthere]

70. I'd send it back with the spelling corrected with this note added:

If you can be so wrong about something so simple as spelling and punctuation, isn't it possible you could be wrong about something as important as the next leader of this nation? Something for you to ponder as you await the apocalypse. Wish you well.


OR
You could respond by telling him/her/whatever that you PERSONALLY forwarded their address (with driving directions) to Obama's campaign headquarters with a copy of that email.

[Krashkopf]

74. Nice!

[On the Road]

76. So He Thinks All Those Huge Financial Companies

voluntarily bankrupted themselves as past of a master plan? OK

[iamthebandfanman]

77. i woulda just wrote back the following

'dude, wtf is wrong with you. seriously, if you need someone to talk to or want help getting someone to talk too, give me a call'

lol