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7. Have her write it down
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 02:02 PM
Oct 2019

Ask her to be specific about her fears and the danger she thinks she's in. Democrats will take her guns? She will get "lock her upped" for being a Trump fan? Liberal mobs will run rampant in the streets? Then the date by which these things will happen. January 21, 2021? February 1? June 1? December 31? Have her sign it and make her a copy. Put $100 on each prognostication, and go around to collect as each deadline passes. Maybe if their ignorance costs them*, it will put them on the road to recovery.

*I used to play in a monthly poker game. Nickel ante stuff, and you usually ended the night within five bucks of even, for which you had a lot of fun with the guys. One guy brought his son along a couple of times. More than once, Sonny was about to fold a winning hand when Dad interrupted and gently suggested he look again. We took Dad aside and asked him not to do that anymore; Sonny would learn better to pay attention if he lost a pot or two. Dad didn't bring Sonny to the game after that.

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