Discussion Gifts

"I've never met anyone like you. You're just wrong about everything."

'But if He's omniscient, wouldn't praying just annoy him?'

"For this meeting we just need your gender and skin color. Please leave your age, religion, occupation, and community ties on the hooks by the door."

"He's Right Behind Me, Isn't He?"

"During this month that celebrates women and the contribution they have made to our history..."

"If I won forty-seven million dollars in the lottery, I wouldn't change a thing. Not at first."

"Well, I see everyone's coming to this meeting really ready to sit down and talk."

"It was self defense. He wanted to discuss gun regulation."

'I don't get it - Why can't you learn from your mistakes?

'I say it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere.', 'Who do you think you're kidding?'

"Could you tell me where I am? Not geographically - but in an existentialist way."

Dialogue

"I just hope that the twenty-twenties will be as roaring as the last lot."

An old cliche comes under fire from yet another special interest group.

"Sorry, I don't have an opinion - just in case I get vilified on social media. . ."

Intellectual support animal

"It's time we have a talk about the alternate facts of life.

Unemployable white male heterosexual - please help.

'Oh yeah! My self help group knows a lot more than your psychiatrist. First of all, there's a lot more of them.'

What is an expert?

"Discussion topic: Is our society becoming less civil and more violent?"

Your friendly neighborhood representative wants to know: How do you really feel about the way things are going?"

"Bob has always been more comfortable thinking inside the box."

"Look, the American people don't want to be bossed around by federal bureaucrats. They want to be bossed around by state bureaucrats."

"Would you like me to get one our experts to tell you what you think of it."

"I believe it because I believe it and that's how I know it's true."

The Stock Market

Opposing viewpoint.

'I don't buy any of those conspiracy theories.'

"My veganism is no more annoying than your ecofascism."

"Is America's heartland what people in flyover states call home?"

"What I want is a low tax high tariff economy"

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"And he paraphrased New York Judge Gerard Lynch when he said our country has an overinflated system of incarceration that is far too punitive, disproportionate in its impact on the poor, exceedingly costly and largely impotent in reducing crime. Anyway, that's what I learned in school today."

"No es problema para mi si no es problema para ti."