When I read some of the anectdotes here about encounters with tea-partiers, I sometimes wonder, can they really be that bad? After my Facebook experience yesterday, I have concluded that, yes, they really are that bad.
Yesterday I poked the hornets' nest on my dear and sweet cousin's facebook wall. It all started innocently enough, but then her sister-in-law (or at least I presume she was the sister-in-law), an apparent tea-jihadist, got involved. I don't know why, but every time I engage with one of them, it ends up with with me being reasoned and rational, but respectfully disagreeing, and them yelling and screaming and calling names. The topic dujour: welfare queens. Well, that's what she wanted to talk about anyway.
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