I am a hard nosed yellow dog democrat and have been since Raygun. I read the “right minded news” articles on Fox, OAN, The College and other similar sites no matter how mind numbingly drooling stupid they are, and they have a point occasionally but not enough to justify the rest of the garbage they write. I just can’ read the comments on those sites.
I have not hated trump, I thought he was an aberration that would die off in the next election and we would have years of repairs to do to before we could ever resume something like normal.
I do now; the divisiveness he has fostered can never be forgiven.
I may have pushed to many facts at my son and inadvertently fed his rant.
- There is no oversight on the 500 billion for large companies; trump fired the person who was placed in charge of it.
- Small businesses are not getting the loans they need while large business owner with multiple small business are.
- The virus we have here has European genetic markers, not Chinese which in the real world means we got the virus brought to us by Europeans so trump closing our borders to China did not do anything to protect us.
- If trump was all over this why was he calling it a democratic hoax and that it would disappear like a miracle.
- Trump was told by his intelligence agencies about the problem in January and Feburary but still do not do anything.
- Why is trump offering ventilators to Russia when he cannot seem to get then to our own states.
This was apparently the breaking point.
You are a liar if you believe this dad. He has given coumo and everyone everything they need even if they don’t need it.
Are you calling me a liar son, because we need to end this call if it is going to get personal.
Yes you are lying.
With my voice cracking from anger and pain, I ended the call, well hung up on him actually.
I hope these are not our last words.
These are a few of the points he was trying to make.
- People are buying TVs Wal-Mart so everyone is spending their $1,200 on TVs.
- Pelosi and Schumer are preventing small business from getting money.
- trump prevented the virus from being worse than it is by closing our borders to china.
- That saying the genetic markers on the virus in New York show it came from Europe is supporting china.
- China lied. (actually agree with this but saying that authoritarian leaders and governments consistently lie and cover up anything that might make them look bad did not go over well)
- China told WHO to not investigate and they did not, which is why not funding them is a good thing.
- The virus is a hoax by the democrat to destroy trumps economy and make us communist.
- They are counting every death as a corona virus death and the numbers of deaths reported are fake news.
- Fauci, Pelosi and Schumer said it was ok that the virus was not real.
- The intelligence agencies were lying and Barr is getting ready to indict them all, including Muller.
- trump was only saying what everyone else was and is now getting all the blame for it.
- trump gave cuomo everything he asked for even if he did not need it and has sent all the state all they asked for and anyone saying different is a liar.
- Anyone believes and repeats fake news is a liar just like those who report it. (I wholeheartedly agree with this.)
Be careful when talking to your trumpers, did not let them get started on a rant. I had been successful in this since before shithead’s election. But today, somehow, this call turned from me calling to see how he was doing after him getting injured to this massive clusterfuck of a conversation.
Friday, Apr 17, 2020 · 4:22:55 PM +00:00
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WTFurious
My son called back this morning. He says that it was the heat of the moment and he did not mean to call me a liar. He said he thinks I am “misinformed” instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
I said we need to agree to disagree on the current state of politics. Since we are so much alike and are polar opposites on this subject we need to avoid this type of discussion in the future if it starts to get heated. I told him I loved him and my family more than politics. It did not change our points of view but it did change the parameters on how we will interact and discuss these issues in the future.