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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Wait, so all the rest of the world agreed to fake a virus just for American politics?
And volunteer to die just to make it seem real.
plimsoll
(1,668 posts)Obviously.
TheBlackAdder
(28,169 posts)underpants
(182,632 posts)went right along OR every single one of them fell for the hoax.
Sounds perfectly reasonable.
dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)RussBLib
(9,005 posts)Truly sad. All kinds of crap and critters can sneak in if you are bone stupid.
H2O Man
(73,512 posts)Yesterday, a guy I knew in high school -- who worked as a union carpenter with my cousin, and who is a member of the Trump cult -- posted on FB that his best friend had died from the virus. I think it has shaken his belief in Trump. It's sad that it took this to open his eyes.
malaise
(268,724 posts)H2O Man
(73,512 posts)When some people around Trump and VP Punce got it, I asked my cousin if he thought it might spark some humanity within them? His simple answer was, "No. That will not happen."
It's a sunny day here. My cat had kittens last night, and I have ten new cicks. And I'm adding onto my garden. I try to ignore Trump, as am outlining an essay on the benefits in my mind. Life is good, Trump is terrible!
How are things your way?
malaise
(268,724 posts)One of our close friends also returned with her son - they were stuck in Miami for three months while she was being treated for cancer.
Sadly her prognosis is real bad but we're all glad she's home.
H2O Man
(73,512 posts)she is home now. Sorry that she has a bad prognosis. Last weekend, my son took me to see some Native friends, to do ceremony for another old buddy who is doing poorly. I think that we are going to get together again soon, and so we will be sending Positive Vibrations to Jamaica.
2020 has been a tough year. I've had too many friends die. The current social-political environment seems to make that and many other hardships worse. That's why I enjoy ceremony and gardening. Plucking a few weeds while on break today .....they are a constant reminder that the Earth is alive, which I love to see.
Also: I learned yesterday that a Good Friend had a baby Saturday, while we were in the lodge. (Not her, of course, though she's done ceremony with us for years. She told me she thought that was a good birthday, knowing it was mine!)
malaise
(268,724 posts)The well needed rain should show up later today - next week I'll transplant some beans and peppers.
The best news is a new baby - it reminds us that life continues no matter how bad we think things look. Yesterday as we were talking we were observing the beautiful poui trees in full bloom. As you remind us regularly, there is still much to celebrate.
LittleGirl
(8,280 posts)(It meaning Anything) until it happens to them. Then they have a moment of clarity.
Wednesdays
(17,321 posts)Too often, that's the next step.
H2O Man
(73,512 posts)Cows moo, ducks quack, and republicans parrot stupid.
LittleGirl
(8,280 posts)to see it over and over. Same sh*t, different decade.
H2O Man
(73,512 posts)I've been alive for many decades. While I can't say that every republican in my life-time has been a brain-dead shithead -- for I haven't met most of them -- I see zero evidence that they have evolved as individuals or a group. Just the opposite. I never anticipated seeing another year that could compete with 1968, but we are certainly in that territory today.
H2O Man
(73,512 posts)They have moral/ethical rabies.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)sick mother****kers R us . . .
t-rump, cronies, administration and the republican party.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)just a big liberal media and deep state conspiracy to bring down the only man brave enough to make America great again
ProfessorGAC
(64,877 posts)They've been convinced that hospitals are getting extra cash for calling deaths COVID related, even if they're not.
I managed to convince one of them that such a thing is nonsense. The insurance companies just won't do it.
And there's nothing in the stimulus bill to reimburse hospitals beyond actual cost of treatment if swamped by COVID patients.
He actually took my ridicule of Faux seriously. I told him to read the bill provisions for himself, and send an email to his own health insurance company asking if they're doing that.
Surprisingly, he admitted he should have looked up the details for himself.
You know, the internet thingie that everyone has used for 25 years!
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)they're all over the globe! They're so sneaky and devious like that. It's all a big massive conspiracy, man. There's chemtrails from the flyovers. That's why those damn liberals are staying home and wearing masks. China is so damn evil that they released the virus on their own people first to avoid suspicion. They can't fool real patriots.
Really shows how crazy about 40% of the country is
StarryNite
(9,440 posts)She believes the cases and deaths are fake. And it's all a hoax to bring down the American economy and tRump. How can some people be so effing stupid?
Yavin4
(35,423 posts)And why would Italy blindly go along with this? They shut down their entire economy just to spite Trump?
LittleGirl
(8,280 posts)StarryNite
(9,440 posts)So powerful in fact that they literally did make the world a stage.
The past few weeks she was having some serious health issues. She was in the emergency room then had to go back in for an outpatient procedure. She said the doctors and nurses weren't wearing masks. Prior to the procedure she had to go to an urgent care clinic to be tested for Covid-19. She said nobody there were wearing masks. I said then how do you explain the nurses and doctors on the news talking about how they wear masks all day in the hospitals. Her answer...you guessed it...they are all actors. This is a woman who retired from working in a hospital lab less than two years ago.
rainin
(3,010 posts)What if we just roll with this one --
Perhaps the entire world volunteering to die to influence an election should be a sign to even the most dim-witted tRump voter.
Where's the "divine punishment" evangelicals who find a way to blame a natural disaster on the failure of a bathroom bill or a marriage equality bill? Can we convince them we're being punished for electing tRump?
AllaN01Bear
(18,016 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,016 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,459 posts)... too much, or they begin to seem irrational. Just superficially roll with them. They brain much easier that way.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)that Trump has engendered.
Yavin4
(35,423 posts)Well done everyone! Well done!
Upthevibe
(8,018 posts)USA! USA! USA! We, the snowflake libs, conspired together with the rest of the world - to piss off dt and his cult members. I feel so satisfied.....
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)They hired the same ones from the Bowling Green Massacre?
Some guy named Alex was foaming at the mouth and yelling about it to anyone that would listen, so it must be truth?
Faux News, also all actors, but really horrible ones, it's like where actors go to die, people say?