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iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:19 PM Jun 2015

I just witnessed some delicious hypocrisy

and just had to share...

I was just at my local IGA where I noticed a pick up truck with a huge 'Not a Liberal' sticker on its back window...

I went inside and while at the counter noticed the people in front me use their food stamp benefits... I could care less, of course...
Until I see them get into that pick up truck and drive over to the gas station next door.
My suspicious mind couldn't help but wonder if they were going to go buy some cigarettes...
Yep, they were. Pulled out a 20$ and got themselves a few packs.

It took everything in my being not to say something to them or call them out in front of people.. but as a liberal that they dislike so much, I respect their privacy while using said benefits...

But mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the hypocrisy was sooooo sooo YUMMY!


Sorry, I Had to share with some body or it was going to eat me up... so I have burdened DU with that
Sorry in advance.

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I just witnessed some delicious hypocrisy (Original Post) iamthebandfanman Jun 2015 OP
I am glad you used caution and didn't say anything yeoman6987 Jun 2015 #1
This isnt the first time ive seen the truck... iamthebandfanman Jun 2015 #7
Your awsome and thank you for sharing yeoman6987 Jun 2015 #10
Why is it padfun Jun 2015 #2
I've seen it personally. JanMichael Jun 2015 #5
"I deserve it. But no one else does." hifiguy Jun 2015 #6
they are not against government assistance Skittles Jun 2015 #9
I don't give a flying flip about the packs of butts Warpy Jun 2015 #3
maybe they are anti gay JI7 Jun 2015 #4
Id imagine iamthebandfanman Jun 2015 #8
Cool story, bro! TheManInTheMac Jun 2015 #11
.. PowerToThePeople Jun 2015 #12
That "Not a Liberal" sticker caused me to laugh my ass off a few weeks ago. Elwood P Dowd Jun 2015 #13
Why would you care MuseRider Jun 2015 #14
Such a great question Change has come Jun 2015 #15
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. I am glad you used caution and didn't say anything
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:28 PM
Jun 2015

It may not be their car or could be one of their kids car. We don't know.

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
7. This isnt the first time ive seen the truck...
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:50 PM
Jun 2015

and im 100% positive it was theirs..
I live in a city of around 7 thousand people..
I could even tell you the street they live on, that's how often I see certain people around town...
this was just the first time I had been directly behind them in a line...

but still, I respect the safety net system too much to do something like that (alienate someone using it)...

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
10. Your awsome and thank you for sharing
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:54 PM
Jun 2015

I definitely hate hypocrites and I feel ok saying that about them after your second reply.

Have a great night!

JanMichael

(24,902 posts)
5. I've seen it personally.
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:37 PM
Jun 2015

People that are disabled or otherwise in need of assistance that only Government can provide that hate gummint.

2008 Crazyman/Palin stickers on a truck that I know who the owner is and who I know also has a housing choice voucher (section 8 for those who do not realize the name has changed). Reason is non-existent here.

Skittles

(153,321 posts)
9. they are not against government assistance
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:53 PM
Jun 2015

they are against government assistance for brown people

Warpy

(111,480 posts)
3. I don't give a flying flip about the packs of butts
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:31 PM
Jun 2015

After all, he could have been buying them for somebody else.

However, I might have commented about his sticker and biting the hand that fed him.

Stupid people can never connect the dots. They need help.

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
8. Id imagine
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:52 PM
Jun 2015

that if they are like most conservatives I know..

they are anti anyone besides themselves
and taking these benefits just fits into that greedy ego of theirs

But youre right.. they could be single issue folks.. they definitely exist and in large numbers...

I had the pleasure of changing a one issue voters mind a few years ago..
they absolutely didn't care a thing about anything beyond abortion..

I pointed out the moral hypocrisy in believing in life, but only when its in the womb ...
they agreed..
decided to vote democrat for the first since their first time voting (they had voted democratic in their youth)...

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
13. That "Not a Liberal" sticker caused me to laugh my ass off a few weeks ago.
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:00 PM
Jun 2015

There is this big fat loudmouth dude, about 50 I guess, who has all kinds of repuke stickers on the back of his pickup truck including that one. I see him in the local convenience store and sometimes in the Dollar General out in the rural area where I live, so he obviously lives somewhere in this area. Well, a few weeks ago I pull up to one of the stores and see his truck parked out front. There was a new sticker added just below the red "Not a Liberal" that said "Just a Moron". The fool had not even noticed it. It was all I could do to keep from cracking up laughing at him when I was standing in the checkout line.

MuseRider

(34,142 posts)
14. Why would you care
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:42 PM
Jun 2015

enough to follow them and get upset about them buying cigarettes? Apparently you cared more not less.

I so applaud your not saying anything.

They could have been buying for someone else, either the food or the cigarettes but who cares? Isn't it enough that they are not getting by well enough to not need food stamps?

Still, glad you did not say anything.

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