My trip to a diner tonight :( [View all]

[Delarage]

So....I went to the Wilmington Diner tonight with my bi-racial foster child (12 years old). I've been there before and enjoyed it. Tonight got off to a bad start and got worse---Faux News was on the big TV which, unfortunately, I was facing. I couldn't hear it--thank God--but the scrolling text said things like "Latest Left-Wing Effort Flops" etc. etc.

So I ignored that. Then an older white couple walked in and sat behind us. I overheard them say something about "Elon Musk" and Tesla. Optimistically, I hoped they were pointing out how evil he is--so I tuned into their conversation as best I could. What I heard were the most insane right-wing Q-Anon-type nonsense I have heard in public in a while. Highlights: FEMA used up so much of their resources housing "illegals" that there was no money left to properly help the good people of North Carolina. Now people want help for the leftists in California. Then something about some right-wing state trying to impeach a "leftist," who they felt should actually also be deported. Then how the department of education is wasteful and should be next on the chopping block.

I didn't confront them, but I did say out loud "OMG--I think there are real-life Nazis near us!" before we left. They looked like a normal elderly couple--I am shocked at the level of gullibility of "those people"