Yeah, maybe it got reposted. I dug it up when I was doing the “research” for my post so I might as well drop it here:
Ahhh. I was referring to Kayliegh McEnany in my text. Too many to keep straight who is who.
Tomi = Nazi Barbie
Kayleigh = Propaganda Barbie
We all know Ivanka is Nepotism Barbie (credit Ayanna Pressley)
There’s a whole lot of overlap possible obv…
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Meanwhile my Chinese boss has a Chinese housewife friend who’s completely gone down the Qanon rabbit hole and a mega-Trumper.
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You should just play the clips of him slurping Xi before the COVID shit hit the fan. Or before that. I’m sure it wouldn’t help. But it would at least have troll value.
Is her whole household MAGA or just her?
Just her. Husband is a doctor. Kids are teenagers. Too much time on her hands. Oh yeah - thinks covid is a big hoax of course.
These are all sexist. Sexist about terrible people, but sexist nonetheless.
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I’m actually kinda curious what these people think actually happened in portland. They throw this “BLM burned cities to the ground” line, do they actually think, like, Portland just got wiped off the map? How bad do they actually think it got there? How many people would they guess were killed? etc.
except… he’s not
So I use my friend’s crazy ex as a barometer for how bad it is. Mind you this is someone who hated Trump before COVID hit. I can’t even begin to understand wtf these crazies are talking about. All of her posts are like this and half the comments are always, “Soon the sheeple will see the truth! It’s so obvious!”
Like holy shit. What the fuck is this? Buy 1 get 15 insane conspiracy theories free.
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I think that’s the plot to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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A Vietnamese restaurant owner from Chicago was at the capitol and people have been flooding his restaurant with calls threatening to break his windows and shit. He was on the news giving some tepid bullshit on how he was only down there to support freedom baby!! It sucks because the restaurant is pretty good, ate there just pre covid. I’m guessing his windows might get broken though because of where it is in the city lol
He’s from Portland. So he was invested in viewing it from his point of view (50 nights of riots!!). He’s from the small business, I’m successful so I must be right faction. Having daily protests that include violence combined with not being able to go to the high end steak house downtown equates to “the city burned down”. There are many grievances that get conflated though.
Clearly lots of people do believe that literally cities are gone. I’m sure that when he discusses it with friends, thats the impression they get and its reciprocal and reinforcing.
Ugh.
So I have this lady on my FB friendslist who is a long time family friend and has helped me and the family out a lot in the past but is a through and through deplorable. I made a post about right wing violence and she made a comment about " I disagree with what happened at the capitol, but BLM was just as bad " and my friends took it easier on her only calling her a fucking clown and dunking on her argument based on the merits after that.
She made a comment about Wow nice friends you got here etc and I do feel kinda bad, but she already did this once before and I asked my friends to remain civil but what the fuck do you expect commenting on this shit, I don’t comment on your political shit. Obviously I should have blocked her from seeing it but I figured she would have learned from the last time.
Part of me wants to ask people to remain civil and focus on arguments because I feel bad but mostly I just want to ignore it because when you make posts you have to do with the consequences of them you’re fucking 62+ years old smh.
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“Aunt Lisa, if you say things that some people are going to find hateful you need to be prepared for some strong reactions.”
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I saw this a ton after the capitol riots. Normies who rarely comment on someone else’s posts seemed to feel the need. It was all either “BLM was just as bad” or “What did Trump say to incite a riot?” which was particularly infuriating.
Yeah i was planning on going with something like this but letting her down even a lil easier lol. I got a soft spot for her even if her views are horrific. I probably shouldn’t
My brother followed a similar political evolution to mine where we both used to be conservative, both grew uncomfortable with the GOP to the point that we preferred not to identify with it even though we maintained a willingness to vote for a number of them, then violently divorced it as a result of the rise of Trump. I went left a little before he did, but the timeline was fairly similar.
We discuss politics frequently over email from across the country, but there’s always this elephant in the room where we’ve never mentioned our (still loyal card-carrying Republican) parents. We say shitty things about Trump supporters and then never mention out loud that our parents are in this group; they’re of the “not too hot on Trump, but too Republican to not vote whatever piece of shit the party nominates” variety rather than full-on Trump cult member, but still. For years I’ve wondered if he continued talking about it with them after I just dropped the subject with them entirely (I always thought he’d be better suited for it because he’s a nicer person than I am), but I’ve never brought it up. Finally it came up shortly before the election, when he opened the door…I figured I would indulge it and find out.
Him: “One thing I refrain from doing with both kids is maligning the president(s), but instead describe the principles and which politicians adhere to which principles - and they will be free and smart enough to connect the dots. I do tell them which way I’m voting. One thing I wish Dad had done differently was to indulge the principles discussions more and attack the politicians less - because I wasn’t able to glean anything from that other than he hated them, and Bill Clinton more viciously than any of them. The cool thing is both of my kids have already indicated by their own observations that there is something very rotten about Donald Trump.”
Me: “I don’t really credit Dad for having ever had a ton of nuance to his political views. For years, his stance was, ‘I don’t vote. They’re all crooks.’ Then one day he adopted the Republican Party because he hated Clinton so much. I’ll say I think it’s perfectly fair game to have attacked Clinton for his behavior while in the White House - Clinton’s behavior was bad at the time, and has aged even worse - but at the same time, a person’s purported moral stand looks very hollow when there’s no consistency to it over time.”
Him: “To counter my own critique and in fairness to Dad, he also was key to instilling a humble and self-sacrificial daily behavior, and condemning the elements of narcissism (whining, self-pitying, self-promoting) and self-serving opportunism. He follows his own counsel, and that is the real foundation of noble living. I would just hope that he would never turn a blind eye to give someone like Trump a pass, considering he constitutes the single greatest violator of the Dad’s core principles.”
I nodded understandingly. He has chosen laughably willful ignorance. I get it. I can’t go as far as him and adopt a stance of “boy I sure hope they’re not voting the exact way that I 100% know they are,” but I get it. I don’t give my folks any sort of pass, but I don’t wish to sit around dwelling on that reality when it’s just a source of anger and there’s nothing I can do to fix it; I prefer to keep as positive of a relationship with them as I can.
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