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Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. I agree that there are some serious topics discussed too.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 09:53 PM
Nov 2012

I have also told my right wing friends/relatives to stop with the loony emails, but they don't....it is too much fun for them to get me riled up. Some of them also like to have me research them and do the work of debunking. I am not entirely sorry that I still get them. It is better than going to FR to find out the latest wingnut conspiracy. You are right, they are rarely sourced. But the ones that are sourced are the funniest. Often they will state "check this link to Snopes to see that this is true", and when I actually click on that link, it will go to the Snopes debunking of that same email. Not one of the goobers who forward those emails ever click the link. Which is almost sick on the part of the originator of the email---making them look even stupider.

So picture me surprised when I see some of these screwball theories that are new to me. I thought I got them all. Maybe the people who know me are nuts, but not nuts enough to forward an email saying that Obama is a lizard....even this one is too far out for them.

BTW, whenever I debunk these emails, I have been told by the wingnuts that Snopes is also a conspiracy....I have to use Truthorfiction. Well unless they agree with Snopes. Sigh. It is basically "stop throwing facts around here"!

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