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orwell

(7,779 posts)
17. I had a shouting match...
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 12:30 PM
Mar 2020

...with an older man who is one of my customers. The gist of the conversation:

Trump is great. What a leader!
Pelosi is the devil.
It's all Pelosi and Schumer's fault.
Obama was slower to respond to H1N1 than glorious leader.
Nobody could have known how bad it was.
Glorious leader shut down the border to the Chinese or it would be much worse and the left ripped him for it.
Cuomo is a grandstanding idiot and the reason NY is in such bad shape.

You get the drift. This is how 40% of the country sees this.

We yelled back and forth for almost 20 minutes on the phone. He is so freaked out that anyone who comes in his house, his maid, his wife from her job at a rest home, must strip in the garage, shower in the bathroom off the garage, and change into new clothes to come in the house.

He is really upset that some people will make up to $15 per hour with the Investor Bailout Bill's unemployment provision. He is also upset that couples who make more than $150,000 will have their $2,400 of "bailout bucks" reduced. The reason he called me in the first place was to tell me he had figured out a way around this clause and he would tell me about it for a 2% kickback. A special favor for us "special people." When I told him that my wife and I barely make 30K a year he was shocked. I am an IT consultant in a poor NorCal county and I give a lot of my services away to poor people and businesses trying to stay alive. My wife is a retired artist living on SS.

This is what we are dealing with people. This is a highly educated lawyer.

We are so fucked...

I am really glad to be working from home right now. redstatebluegirl Mar 2020 #1
Right now? Aristus Mar 2020 #2
You beat me to it. n/t customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #25
Me either. I can't bury my anger. hlthe2b Mar 2020 #3
If you made it until just recently before going zero tolerance, you are more patient than I am... RockRaven Mar 2020 #4
No. It's more than anger here, it's pure unadulterated rage. I fucking hate these fucking soulless onecaliberal Mar 2020 #5
Not quite zero yet, but close...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #6
I've been like that since November 2016 ibegurpard Mar 2020 #7
No, You're Not The Only One ProfessorGAC Mar 2020 #8
Yes I am. :) Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #9
Yep! ProfessorGAC Mar 2020 #12
Thanks hun, it's nice to be remembered ... Hugs Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #22
Me too snowybirdie Mar 2020 #10
Had been blunt before shelter at home WyLoochka Mar 2020 #11
I'm throwing punches at TrumpWorld 24/7. Progressive Jones Mar 2020 #13
You aren't wryter2000 Mar 2020 #14
I know one thing that I'll bet folks on both sides would agree with: Towlie Mar 2020 #15
I'm being very unlady-like and telling them - OhZone Mar 2020 #16
I had a shouting match... orwell Mar 2020 #17
"Right now"? Different Drummer Mar 2020 #18
No. I have uncharacteristically lost it a few times on social media with people I used to be smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #19
My personal solution gratuitous Mar 2020 #20
I cut any I knew out of my life over a year ago. ooky Mar 2020 #21
Been FURIOUS? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #23
Right there with ya FiveGoodMen Mar 2020 #24
I don't do twitter, facebook, or any other so-called social media bubbazero Mar 2020 #26
A friend of mine told me this morning her children and grandchildren were in NO lynintenn Mar 2020 #27
I avoid them Windy City Charlie Mar 2020 #28
I've had zero tolerance since November 8th 2016 SallyHemmings Mar 2020 #29
A glimmer of hope Freddie Mar 2020 #30
No. I hate 'em all and have since he got the nomination. hamsterjill Mar 2020 #31
You are not the only one, for damn sure, and count... 3catwoman3 Mar 2020 #32
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