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Klondike Kat

(931 posts)
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 08:24 PM Jan 2025

Got a call from my Trumpist brother

My wife talked to him for a few minutes and then passed the phone to me. I lasted about two minutes before I told him to f off and hung up on him.

I don't respond well to stupidity (or so I've been told).

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Got a call from my Trumpist brother (Original Post) Klondike Kat Jan 2025 OP
What's his take on it? Gloating, or genuinely believing this is good? jmbar2 Jan 2025 #1
He thinks it's all good Klondike Kat Feb 2025 #9
Is he hurting yet? IzzaNuDay Jan 2025 #2
They're used to it. They consistently vote against their own interests. PSPS Jan 2025 #3
Bro, when are grocery prices coming down? Trump promised 'very soon'. Norrrm Jan 2025 #4
Did you keepthemhonestO Jan 2025 #5
Question Playingmantis Feb 2025 #13
Did he respond keepthemhonestO Feb 2025 #14
I have the same issue with stupidity. It made my stint in city goverment intersting. flashman13 Jan 2025 #6
Right now Tweedy Jan 2025 #8
Ooh I know that one Klondike Kat Feb 2025 #10
I have the same family problem Playingmantis Jan 2025 #7
They will always blame Democrats. yardwork Feb 2025 #11
Like steal traps Playingmantis Feb 2025 #12

Klondike Kat

(931 posts)
9. He thinks it's all good
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 09:50 AM
Feb 2025

And he doesn't even know what positions MAGA really takes. For example, he insists that it's Democrats that claim that "illegals are coming to take our jobs" when that's been the rally cry of the folks on the right for years.

keepthemhonestO

(628 posts)
5. Did you
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 10:23 PM
Jan 2025

Ask him what he's so scared of, why he lives in fear?

I'm stuck in a family group message with a bunch of Trumpers and I have not talked to any of them since the election. Well last night one of them posted about the plane crash and how everyone should pray for them.

So today I did not write anything, I just kept putting all the memes in the group that are going around about what trump did that likely caused it.

keepthemhonestO

(628 posts)
14. Did he respond
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 03:45 PM
Feb 2025

That's a good question what is he praying for? What are they praying for? They are so scared of trans people and brown people are they praying for them to be gone?

Tweedy

(1,284 posts)
8. Right now
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 11:24 PM
Jan 2025

Common sense reveals that nobody ever was quite as stupid as the DOGE group and the GOP’s dear leader. All of them originate in the private sector. These nincompoops are surrounded by some of the brightest geniuses in their fields (all public sector). The private sector fools’ response to that enormous depth of knowledge is to try and snuff it out of existence.

Maybe it is time to reexamine some of your priors.

Playingmantis

(561 posts)
7. I have the same family problem
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 10:52 PM
Jan 2025

Nothing will change them. .only when the suffer personally will they change and even then some will be like passengers on the Titanic that insisted the ship was unsinkable...even as the waters closed over their heads!

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