Help,. Trying to refute my Trump loving mother's

[JesterCS]

Crap I hear daily. She read me this article supposedly from CBS saying that the WHO lied and it's not a virus but a bacteria and all you need is aspirin and anti-coagulants

Then she gets pissy with me when I tell her she's wrong.

[mucifer]

1. Ask her why all the doctors nurses respiratory therapists would not want to help people

and why some of them are dying if the cure is aspirin and anticoagulants.

[JesterCS]

3. She also said it was a conspiracy by bill gates

The vaccines that is....and I roll my eyes at her and think to myself, "mom you're not this stupid".

[mucifer]

13. Ask her why she doesn't respect nurses and doctors

[Thomas Hurt]

2. I think she needs to send you the link.

[JesterCS]

7. I just asked her to send the link

I googled what she was saying and there is nothing about it. I'm having a feeling it's not a real CBS link

[Thomas Hurt]

12. Likely it was propaganda she got in a 354th hand email.

[JesterCS]

8. Now she won't send the link and said forget it

And how I always think I'm right. I just said I know I am, because I do research instead of just believing whatever link someone sends me

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. You can't reason somebody out of something he or she didn't use reason to get into.

That being said she's your mom. Talk about other things.

[Takket]

5. ask he this:

"do you really think the WHO are the only people that have looked a this under a microscope? There are literally thousands of people examining this virus to help find a vaccine".

[Brainfodder]

6. So ummmm why the ummmm like ummmmm 100,000+ dead?

[JesterCS]

9. The sad thing is. She's fairly smart. Too smart

To fall for this shit. I live with my parents too so this makes things tense in the house

[Brainfodder]

15. Bad choice of news sources and years of it?

[JesterCS]

18. Who knows. It's mentally draining trying to tell my parents

Anything. They never believe it or I start explaining and they don't want to hear about it.

[Shermann]

10. Ask her to provide the original link from CBS

I've argued with many a conservative, quite often about anthropogenic climate change. I've noticed a pattern. There are a handful of corrupt scientists writing these scientific "papers". They may or may not be peer-reviewed, but are largely panned by the real scientists. These papers are never actually read by the majority of the right-wingers. There is a small group who do the reading and regurgitate it into more easily digestible blogs and conservative media stories. These clever people spice up the hash with some humor and conspiracy theories, and this is the content that gets consumed by the majority. Then that crowd parrots the info on the forums and social media, and it gets distorted and disseminated further.

We're sort of winning the battle against the conservative media right now, but this victory has come at a terrible price and the war is far from over.

[JesterCS]

11. She won't send the link now.

She's pissed off thinking I think she's always wrong.

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Here is a previous DU thread on this topic, with a good discussion:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100213492290

[JesterCS]

17. Thanks for the link. I sent her the factraker link

About it being tabloid news from the Philippines. Now she's just ignoring me

[Demonaut]

16. lost cause, don't discuss trump or covid, talk about how she is a great mom

[yonder]

22. Great advice. My mom is somewhat the same. I used to make an effort to understand

what her source for some claim came from. Anymore, I just disengage and do the small talk thing. It's a loss for both of us but much less exhausting.

[JesterCS]

19. Thanks everyone for the replies.

I guess I'll just have to not talk about anything that requires a brain to digest

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Why bother?

[JesterCS]

21. I'm trying to keep their eyes open, but my mother especially

Thinks Trump does no wrong, and that all of the major news and health organizations are lying

[G_j]

23. unfortunately

at this point, anyone who still believes he is not a pathological liar, with the mountains of hard evidence, is beyond reasoning.
Or else they believe lying to the country daily is a good thing.

[herding cats]

24. This is the second time today I've seen this mentioned.

I seriously can't keep up will all the COVID-19 conspiracies.

If you're curious check this out. The nuts are real and they're following the lead of foreign agents to spread lies and kill as many of us as they can.

http://www.docbastard.net/2020/05/covid-19-mythbusting.html

[stillcool]

25. read about this already..

chalked it up to crystal meth.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

26. It Showed Up Today On My Facebook Feed, Posted To A Trump Cultist's Page

You can always tell when the powers on high send down their latest bullshit talking points, because they ALL repeat them, just like the trained Pavlovian dogs they are. Those things spread faster than the virus does.

[dawg day]

27. You could say, "Mom, I love you so much I'm going to ignore this, and when/if you get sick--

I'll take you to a real hospital with real doctors and real nurses who don't watch Fox News and will treat you in accordance with science, not Trump."

Most of the elderly people I know are finally realizing they trust their doctors more than Trump.

[roamer65]

28. Disconnect from her completely for about 6 weeks, then contact her and act if nothing has happened.

My dad and I had a blow up about two years about Dump and I gave him the utter silent treatment. I then came back about 6 weeks later and acted like it didn’t happen.

I did NOT apologize and still will not. It’s water under the bridge now.

As parents get older, they revert to childhood in many ways. Sometimes they need a “time out” to think about their actions.