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A couple of Republican guys were discussing their Dear Leader Donald Trump. They were saying how "great" he is. They were saying nasty and perverted things they want to do to Nancy Pelosi. Then they asked me what candidate I was going to vote for. Uh oh. I said "not Trump". Then one of the guys went off on me. "Trump is responsible for the best economy in 50 years!" I asked him which news shows he watches. He said Fox News. "Fox News is never wrong". I then tried to tell him Fox is not a news network. However, he repeatedly interrupted me. So I told him that Republicans are poor listeners. So he called me a snowflake. He also called CNN and MSNBC "fake news".
I then told him about Trump's unpopularity at the World Series and the auFC match. He then said Trump is very popular because he was cheered by 100,000 people at the football game, and booed by only 35,000 at the World Series.
I asked him what Trump has done to help him.
Crickets.
I then told him Trump was crooked. He responded by saying nobody has anything on him, and Democrats are mad at him only because he beat them.
I thought Trump Humpers were deluded, sociopathic, sadistic, and brainwashed. I was wrong. For many Goose Stepping Trump Humpers, it's worse than that. How depressing. I thought this would never happen here, only in Cuba and the old USSR.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,527 posts)Were these close friends? Coworkers? Strangers at a lunch counter? Were you part of the group or did you jump into their conversation? Just curious.
Dirty Socialist
(3,248 posts)And they wanted my opinion of which candidate I would vote for.
Also, he asked me about my opinion on abortion. I considered that extremely inappropriate.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)I always tell them it's between a woman and her doctor. It's nobody else's goddamn business.
Dirty Socialist
(3,248 posts)He said unemployment went UP under Obama. Taxes on everyone, too.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Alternate universes.
TheFarseer
(9,308 posts)He cut my taxes
brush
(53,473 posts)Cuba was right in overthrowing US-backed dictator Batista.
Dirty Socialist
(3,248 posts)Another propaganda channel.
Cuba was right to overthrow Batista. They just replaced him with the wrong guy.
brush
(53,473 posts)would've turned out if the US hadn't reacted immediately and continuously with hostility towards Cuba with a cripling boycott and clandestine funding for counter revolution attempts.
But I guess it should be expected that capitalist and imperialist US would react that way and it continues for most part today with but a brief lessening under Obama.
Wonder what would've happened if would've established normal relations with Cuba wanted when he first visited the US after the overthrow?
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)us with some insight on their state of mind. Depressing indeed! I just don't see how the US can continue in it's current state when half the population is that ignorant. Our fate is in the hands of Fox "news," it seems.
egduj
(804 posts)bdamomma
(63,657 posts)60 Minutes last night they had a journalist reporter on and what she was saying was very relate able to what is happening there and in the US. Two sick weirdos running/ruining their countries through hate and similar word phases such as "fake news."
One thing struck me is how this POS (tRump) could shoot someone and no one would stop him, how would they feel if they were killed by this sick POS. They are NOT immune.
Regarding to who you were talking to, they can''t think on their own, they want a "daddy" figure and this POS has not given them one thing accept hate, lies and division. They look to blame someone else and not themselves. FOX news is not news, just propaganda.
But boy, tRump is going to steal everything from them including their jobs, health care, and social security, are they going to be still singing him praises???? How sick and twisted.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Tell them that Trump is benefitting from the economic cycle that President Obama started and sustained to hand to Trump. Say "when you get to a private place, get on your knees and thank President Obama". Then sip your coffee and walk away.
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)are a cult, I'm beginning to really believe that.
doc03
(35,148 posts)economy, unemployment, the Dow and the deficit under Trump and they just refuse to listen. I asked one the other day
where he gets his news, Fox? This one says he doesn't have cable and he gets all his news from the internet doesn't watch
the networks they are all fake news. So they either get it all from Fox or some right wing site or Facebook I guess. I use
Facebook myself and I don't care what a post is about a Republicon has to make some comment about Obummer, Hillary or
liberals. Any of my friends post Republicon bs I put them on ignore. The area I live in is a right wing hell hole.
TlalocW
(15,358 posts)Now admittedly, I'm very openly anti-Trump on FB, and I normally refer to him as President Pussygrabber. I posted about his ripping off the veteran charities, and this guy gets on my case about being vulgar and insulting. I asked him if he were willing to denounce Trump for being vulgar and insulting as well. He did everything in his power to avoid having to denounce him for what he was pissed off with me about. The tactics he tried to use included
1. He tried to bring up my defending people he didn't like
2. Brought up Ellen saying we should get along
3. Said he didn't really approve of some of Trump's behavior, but he was doing things he liked
4. Painting the left with a broad brush
5. Conspiracy theories about the media
6. A both sides do it argument
7. Tried to turn it into a religious message about how there were no perfect rulers other than Jesus.
I called him out on each thing he posted. He got mad and said I was twisting everything, name-calling because that's all the left does, etc.. I reminded him that I did nothing he was accusing me of, and that I stayed on three points - Donald's charity, his attack on me, and his refusal to condemn Donald for the same things and pointed out everything in my list. I haven't heard back from him. I have a feeling that he's going to defriend me. The guy is the type who thinks because he's a certain type of Christian, God is on his side so even when he's wrong, he's right.
TlalocW