Warning: Overheated rhetoric and plentiful profanity ahead.
My wife is often mistaken for white. She is actually half Cherokee, half Jewish, and, we believe, half Klingon. People who know her respect her and don’t cross her unless absolutely necessary. The group of male Trump supporters she encountered this morning didn’t know her. They do now.
She works insanely hard, far harder than I work, and because we live in the world we do, doesn’t make as much as I do. She works so hard that she often forgets to eat, or doesn’t leave herself time to eat during a work day, or doesn’t want to spend the money. Today she left herself just enough time to stop at a local fast food eatery for coffee and something quick. She did take the time to actually go inside and sit for ten minutes in what she assumed would be a cool and relatively quiet environment. The restaurant was cool enough, but quiet? Not so much.
It didn’t take long for her brief interlude of quiet to be interrupted by a gaggle of loudmouthed male Trump supporters squatting at one of the larger tables. Gender and racial slurs peppered their bellowing, and my wife sat there for a few moments, listening to the self-satisfied idiots yammer and spew, until one of them said something that finally tipped her over.
“Trump never said he didn’t pay his taxes,” one good old boy belched. “He pays plenty of taxes. That fucking bitch Hillary is lying about him. She lies about everything.”
At that point, my wife strolled over to them with her iPhone poised to strike. Being her, she started off calmly, attempting to reason with them from a place of mutual respect and rationality.
“You’re a fucking idiot,” she opened. Everyone at the table went silent. “He said it flat out at the debate. She said he didn’t pay his goddamned taxes and he said, ‘That makes me smart.’ I can pull it up on YouTube right now. Want to see it?” She waved her phone in their faces.
After a moment of flabbergasted silence, one of them managed to mutter, “I didn’t watch the debate. But she’s lying about him.”
“You’re lying, you jackass,” she responded. “And anyone who would vote for that cowardly Nazi motherfucker is a complete and total moron. You people make me too sick to finish my breakfast. I’m getting the hell away from you. Enjoy your day, assholes.” She snatched up her coffee, left her food on the table, and strolled out. Six “alpha male” Trump supporters and one small, impassioned woman. No contest.
Ask me why I married her. :) Not only do I love and respect her more than any person I’ve ever known, if I ever find myself in a knife fight, she’s the one I want by my side.
By the way, Snopes says Trump is a baldfaced liar. But we already knew that.