I just got this from a "friend." This is enough for me to say you're no friend of mine.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Let me make this clear: I do not agree with any of the following. I am posting it so that we all can clearly see what the opposition believes. It makes me sick.

You can't justify this insanity: • If a guy pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

• Somehow it's un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.

• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine.

• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.

• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.

• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.

• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you'd better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.

• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang member or terrorist who jumps the southern fence is welcome.

• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for "free" health care is not.

• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

• If you cheat in an election nothing happens to you, but if you point out the mathematical errors of that election you are a conspiracy theorist & disdained.

• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan for us.

• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

• Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of their rights.

And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!

Nothing makes sense anymore - no values, no morals, and no civility. People are dying of a Chinese virus, but it's racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China. We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong but killing unborn babies is okay!

Wake up America! The great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, it's taking on water, and is sinking fast. We Americans are drowning. Speak up while you still have breath and a voice because if you don’t soon you will have neither!

[Deuxcents]

1. 🤬

I’m not in denial.. I’m just having a hard time believing what is going on and I’m scared for US

[Hekate]

2. Ack, Peggy. I hope you blocked them from further communications.

Just nuts. In Bizarro-world it was Joe Biden who blackmailed Zelensky. That makes me sick, too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I was quite gentle with her. We only communicate via email so she's not a real-life problem.

This is what I wrote to her:

I just want to ask you one thing: Do you really believe all of this? This is just the sheerest clap-trap. There is something wrong with what every sentence says. It's a twisted way to see today's society.

I feel sorry for anyone who really believes all of this. And if this includes you, then I feel sorry for you.

Peggy

Definitely bizarro-world.

[Laffy Kat]

5. Great response!

[GoneOffShore]

9. Great response to egregious nonsense, and you were far nicer than I would have been.

[Hekate]

10. Well done, dear Peggy

[HAB911]

19. Oh, much better than I would have done!

[Hortensis]

25. Good. And horrible for her -- every sentence drips imaginary grievance

devoid of rational hope or positive aspiration.

[Laffy Kat]

4. Oh, no. Yuck.

So sorry, CP. There's nothing you can do. Maybe just put the friendship on hold for a while?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Yuck is right! Normally she sends funny stories or beautiful videos.

It was her way to fight the isolationism of being indoors during the early days of the pandemic.

But every now and then she lapses into these extreme right-wing diatribes and I can't stand it.

[SergeStorms]

7. Lies, lies, and more lies.

I can debunk everything on thar stupid list, but it wouldn't do any good because that's what they want to believe.

It's a great list to get Donny's cult boiling mad, and that's all they care about. The lies keep coming and they're believed without ever checking their veracity.

Facts don't matter, truth doesn't matter, all that matters is their blood rage and "owning the libs". For now, anyway. Then it will become open season on Democrats and re-education camps. That's what they're really looking forward to.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. That is exactly what it is, my dear SergeStorms. You could not be more correct, alas. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

11. Welcome to Bizarro World

Where black is white and clocks run backwards. We need to make their lives a living hell. There is no deprogramming them.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

12. I have dumped many friends for far less than this.

It started back during the healthcare debate. I bluntly told several people that if they were OK with forty million Americans not being able to see a doctor, then they weren't the kind of people I cared to have for friends.

Since then it has only gotten worse. I really don't think I have any Trumper friends left. I don't say much to the Trumpers in my extended family either.

Good riddance to them.

[Woodswalker]

15. Same here

Back in 2010 when their insanity shot outta the ocean like an ICBM launched from a submarine when Obama dared say he wanted to make healthcare available and affordable for everyone

[Skittles]

28. thank you

I've said this many times: I will take an undocumented immigrant as a neighbor ANY DAY over a Bible/Trump-humping piece of racist shit repuke.....ANY DAY

[Demovictory9]

13. ugh.

[sarge43]

14. Going out on a limb here,

but I'm guessing your former friend watches Faux News 24/7.

[Captain Zero]

16. I've got a lot of FB friends on 30 Day Snooze

and when they come off, I usually just put them right back on it.
I think 30 Day Snooze is a great feature addition.

[Hav]

17. The repub party in a nutshell

You'd be stupid to fall for even one of those.
The belief that Biden, acting on behalf of the President and the west, would hold a press conference to explain to them how he's going to do something illegal is so laughable. Yet people aren't embarrassed to still repeat the Biden blackmail claim.

[NewHendoLib]

18. Propaganda from a cult member. Lost forever. Say bye bye

You share no values with this person

[Cairycat]

20. Quite a collection of straw men there

Might be a good exercise for pointing out logical fallacies.

[Scrivener7]

21. The terrible thing is that even people we once considered friends

are being so radicalized.

Your question is a good one: do they really believe it? For some, I'm certain it's just posturing aimed at getting a rise out of people. And what adult, thinking person chooses to live that way?

[Atticus]

22. I have difficulty deciding how to react to such "friends": Nausea? Anger? Both? nt

[2naSalit]

23. Sounds like a transcript...

From one of Margie three names' video screeds.

Good grief.

[Walleye]

24. How could Biden withhold funds anyway, he was vice president

The false equivalency firehose is killing us

[mitch96]

26. I lost a long time friend (50 yrs) to this type of thinking...I just asked him to prove it.

When he could not he would just refute my response as "fake news". We agreed to not talk politics but he would not give up his RW ideas sneaking into the conversation.
I finally had to put a stop to his "clap trap" (great term btw) and that was that. I guess his politics were more important than our friendship...
It's really sad as we were great friends.. I want my old buddy back...
m

[Skittles]

27. ditch this friend, but let her know WHY

CALL HER OUT