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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Outbreak of Palin Derangement Syndrome reported in Tiburon, California

2008-09-08

h/t Ace of Spades

The owner of this gallery posts in a Democratic Underground forum on his interaction with some conservative patrons. The gallery owner's excellent taste in merchandise is more than cancelled out by his incredible ineptitude at marketing and customer relations.
This couple was strolling around the Gallery, picking up things and talking about them.

The woman actually held a blown-glass conch shell to her ear and commented to her husband that it "must not be real, because I can't hear the ocean". That's when I decided that they were idiots and not worth any expenditure of energy on my part.

They finally walked up with a shallow Moroccan bowl, a beautiful piece.

When the woman reached into her purse to retrieve a credit card, I noticed a "Sarah in '08" pin affixed to her purse. So I asked her where she got it and she said she made it on her computer (I was, until today, unaware that one could do that).

So I said, "That's a joke, right?".

And she replied that Sarah Palin is America's only hope for salvation.

I pointed to the doors and said, "The sidewalk is right out there. Enjoy your stay in Tiburon".

The husband said they would just like to take the bowl, please.

I told him that the bowl could surely find a better home, and was - for the time being - not for sale.

He asked me if I was really going to turn down a $1,200 sale because of a difference in political ideology.

I did.

You think that's something? You should see what the other DU-niks are saying in response:

The bowl was "above" them...
I understand how you felt. A beautiful work of art deserves a place of taste to reside. Life should not be about money. Bravo!
And don'tchu go callin' us no "elitists," neither!

I think they SHOULD be marginalized and made to feel ashamed.
Right after the '04 election, I refused to hire a designer because she told me she was a Dem who voted for B*sh. And yesterday, I told a man who sells sausage that I didn't want to buy from him because he said he liked how Sarah had banned books and wanted creationism taught in schools.
I'm in the south bay. But next time I'm in Tiburon, I'll come by your shop.
You are my hero, Tom!

This is such an important point. You, for example, refused business with a Nazi.
No, really - anyone who wants to ban books is right on par with the Nazis.
They are DANGEROUS. Their support for republican policies GETS PEOPLE KILLED, and we're supposed to play nice with them and not hurt their feelings?
FUCK THAT!

Right on!
My wife and I took a nice country drive today and I told her I'm realizing I have a deep seated hatred toward the assholes in America who've given us GWB and are going ga-ga over McCain/Palin. I mean I fucking HATE these people, including my own family members. She said I need to let it go. I said maybe you don't realize the danger they pose to our nation if allowed to hold power any longer. They are the red menace. The enemy from within. God I FUCKING HATE THEM!
Wouldn't shock me if she started looking for a domestic relations lawyer.

But even in the darkest depths of the left-wing fever swamps, there are little outposts of sanity:

Wow, way to be part of the problem
These people weren't nasty towards you, didn't get up in your face, didn't shove their politics down your throat, yet you see fit to be an asshole and refuse them a sale. Gee, and now they'll go out and spread stories about asshole Dems and such.
Politics isn't life, there's a time to put politics away, do away with the right, left dichotomy, and simply be fellow human beings. Gee, you never know, if you had gotten to know these people, gotten friendly with them, and then gently shown them the error of their ways, you might just have gotten both a sale and a vote. Instead you've sent away a couple of people with a real nasty aftertaste about Dems and liberals, and the rest of us will have to work extra hard to correct your fuck up. Good job, NOT.
I feel sorry for you that you've let politics consume your life to the point where it interferes with normal everyday interactions. You probably also decide your listening and viewing selections by political affiliations also. Perhaps you should take a break from being a political animal and try being human instead.

Unfortunately, these little outposts are under constant seige. Tom the gallery owner and some of his friends replied with civil, well-reasoned discourse:

You are so fucking right. I am an asshole....
an asshole who prefers that the treasures that I have not end up in the houses of my enemy.
For the first time in my long stay here, I am asking that you put me on your "Ignore" list, so you don't have to worry your Beautiful Mind with any of my business.
Because it is MY FUCKING BUSINESS, don't you see?
Tom

And you, on the other hand, would rent to Nazis, since it's just politics?

And it's not just politics. These lunatics have blood on their hands, and more to come.
I know a this is a heated debate and some out there think it's better to make nice with all people of all stripes. Those that want to do that, should. Those of us who don't, shouldn't. For me, personally, in this case, I think there's such a thing as too much tolerance.

Posted by:Mike

#16 Bright Pebbles, My fellow countrymen and citizens are not my enemy until they show themselves to be by taking up arms against me. We may disagree on any number of things and I may dislike them intensely, but until they take up arms against me I will not consider them my enemy.

That doesn't mean I trust them in all things, however, and I will keep my own arms close at hand when dealing (or not dealing) with some of them.

I just prefer to think that my fellow countrymen and citizens deserve the benefit of doubt until they prove otherwise.

Posted by: FOTSGreg 2008-09-08 23:20

#15 Who knows? It may be fact, based upon fiction. What if a fellow traveler accidentally bumped the bowl, and it landed on the floor and it became highly disorganized? What would the owner do? Would he resort to the F-word? Would he call the Po-Leese? What if the customer used all the fellow traveler buzzwords, would he/she/it/them get a pass?

So many questions, so few working neurons.....it's a zen thang.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-09-08 21:47

#14 Sorry, but socialists are your enemy.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-09-08 21:14

#13 Fiction, though not very good fiction.

Posted by: DMFD 2008-09-08 19:43

#12 I think this guy is great at advertising!

I suspect that he made up this entire event just so he could be a hero for The Cause and hopefully generate some sympathetic buzz for himself.

The dialog sounds absolutely fake. The client supposedly said, "Sarah Palin is our only hope for salvation" which sounds like something that a moonbat would imagine a conservative to say in an imaginary exchange.

And then after tough boy kicks them out - the $1200 bowl (snicker) is just SOOOO beautiful that the husband begged to buy it anyway. Yeah right. Sure.

Smart guy. I have no doubt that the moonbats will flock to his store to show their solidarity and support.

Posted by: Betty Grating2215 2008-09-08 16:57

#11 Funny, if true.

Posted by: mrp 2008-09-08 16:54

#10 I live in Tiburon. I have no idea if I've ever been in this gallery. Doubt it. But I might make a point of it now, just to tell the owner/clerk what a jerk they are.

Posted by: remoteman 2008-09-08 16:35

#9 We are your countrymen and fellow citizens. WE ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING ENEMY, YOU FUCKING IDIOT! Don't make us your enemy because, like I pointed out above, we are everywhere and we have guns. You wouldn't like the result.

Excellent! (Not just that paragraph, but the whole comment--but that paragraph gave me a laugh.)

Posted by: Mike 2008-09-08 16:18

#8 Folks, there are a lot of things to notice in this piece. One I'd like to point out is that the incidence of the F word is much, much higher on these moonbat blogs than it is here in Rantburg. Also, a lot of the times when it is used here at Rantburg it is altered or partially self-censored with asterisks or other special characters by the posters so as to at least water it down a bit. Now, I admit that I have used this word from time to time in my life. But I don't allow it's use in my home and I feel a tiny twinge of conscience when I use it in other places. I also feel slightly threatened when I hear it in public places because I'm afraid someone with such blatant disregard for what polite society thinks might be so antisocial as to become violent. So, congratulations Rantburgers. By this measure you are less antisocial, more tolerant, more civil, more polite and just plain nicer to be around than Democrats.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-08 16:12

#7 Ten bucks says it wasn't his gallery; he was just the clerk.

Posted by: DoDo 2008-09-08 16:10

#6 These lunatics have blood on their hands, and more to come.

Forgot about the blood of the million and quarter Cambodians on yours and your kind.

The 'lunatics' won't have real blood on their hands till you do your stupid Ft. Sumter [circa 2008+] trick.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-08 15:58

#5 Pardon me, but this guy needs a Size-10 cluebat right between the eyes - WE ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING ENEMY, YOU FUCKING IDIOT! We are your fellow citizens and countrymen. We are your brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents. We're your boss, your employee, your customer, your sales rep, your accountant, your secretary, that guy or woman or who sits in the cubicle beside you or across the aisle from you. We're the people in the cars driving on the highway around you to and from work or sitting in that same stop n' go traffic with you.

We're your kids, your kid's teachers, your gardener, your golf buddy, your doctor, your lawyer, the girl or guy across the counter selling you that soda and bag of chips. We're the soldier fighting in Iraq, the seaman on duty on a carrier in the Persian Gulf, the weekend warrior in the National Guard, the security guard at the shopping mall, the policeman cruising through your neighborhood keeping you safe. We're your church pastor or one of the parishioners sitting around you on Sunday morning.

We are all around you and we are everywhere in all walks of life and in all professions. We do not wear our politics on our sleeve and will not wear any symbol we do not desire to. We carry guns, support gun control, choose life, or think that a woman's body and soul are hers to do with what she will. We support the President and our troops and we believe that the President is a few donuts short of a baker's dozen and that the war is a colossal mistake and a huge waste of money. We are rich, we are poor, and we are middle class, and everything else in between.

We spend money in stores where we see something we like to buy and we don't worry about what that shopkeeper's politics might be. We talk with our friends and family and we let them know what we think about situations and other people. We drink, we smoke, we abstain, we laugh, we cry, and we do all the things that you do and are everything that you could ever imagine being.

We are your countrymen and fellow citizens. WE ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING ENEMY, YOU FUCKING IDIOT! Don't make us your enemy because, like I pointed out above, we are everywhere and we have guns. You wouldn't like the result.

Posted by: FOTSGreg 2008-09-08 15:57

#4 Blow his brains out? He'd better have a laser scope on that pistol when he inserts it into this mouth ...

Posted by: Steve White 2008-09-08 15:41

#3 I think that guys is going to blow his brains out if Obama doesn't win.
Although, I don't know where he'd ever find a gun in Tiburon.

Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-08 15:24

#2 Ten bucks say these gallery owner's political positions helped make us dependent on the people who funded 9/11 for our oil and gas.

Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-08 14:55

#1 They said that if Bushitler was elected, people would be persecuted for their political beliefs. Apparently, it is true. I love the bit at the end about "such a thing as too much tolerance".

Posted by: SteveS 2008-09-08 13:56

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