This weekend, I’m going to see some old friends, a couple of which have been engulfed into the propaganda and alternate reality of the current administration. “I’m not an independent, but I voted for Trump. What? No, I’ve never voted Democrat.”
Yes, I have little tolerance for these people, and I do my best to avoid them at most opportunities. They discourage and me drain my happiness. Be that as it may, I’m going to see them because we go way back and sadly they’re great people otherwise. But we’re gonna get drunk, and one or both of them will bring up dumb shit because I’m outnumbered and they can’t help themselves.
I’d like to go into this prepared for what they’re going to parrot from Fox or the blond bimbo talking heads or other charlatans, and I refuse to watch or read that garbage myself. Perhaps the fine folks here know people like this as well, and have heard all of the current tropes they’re reciting. You would be saving me a lot of headache.
Thought and/or encouragement are appreciated.
If they at least pretend to be Christians you can always quote passages from the Bible (aka “liberal talking points”) that condemn their ideology. Really good chance they’ll scowl and stare at their shoes. You might even see just the smallest twinge of guilt before they shake it off and go back to parroting the latest OAN headline.
But, you’ll have so much ammo you can just keep at it all day if you want to. Not that it will change any of their minds. It probably won’t.
I have no hope of changing their worldview, but if they come at me with their cable news bullshit I’d like to be ready. Last year it was “migrant caravans” and egg prices, both obviously Biden’s fault.
They really are providing so much fodder for arguments against them. Maybe eventually they’ll stop standing behind the cross and own up to just being fascists. Because i cannot understand how they could justify any of this in Jesus name.