Lunch with a Trump fan [View all]

[mreilly]

Last edited Thu Aug 10, 2017, 07:11 PM - Edit history (2)

Had lunch with a Trump supporting friend today. What I'm about to tell you is not based on the desire to vent, but to illustrate what we're up against.

According to my illustrious friend:

Trump is doing a wonderful job and anyone or anything which indicates otherwise is just fake news.

Trump is draining the swamp.

The stock market is booming thanks to Trump (oh, but if it tanks I can guarantee we can cue the moaning about Obama from this crowd in 3, 2, 1....)

Nobody anywhere has any valid reason to oppose or dislike Trump, period. Not possible. Nope.

Nobody has ever proven Trump is a racist.

Nobody has ever proven Trump is a crook, and never mind all the contractors he stiffed (they deserved it) the suckers bilked via Trump university (he had no knowledge of it) or the shady business deals (that's just being a good businessman).

Trump being photographed with LGBT folks during the campaign last year proves he's on their side and there's just no chance he was trying to court them solely to get their vote.

The allegations of sexual assault against Trump were just lies from people paid off by the Democrats.

Trump bragging about grabbing women by the genitalia was just "locker room talk." Guarantee if it hadn't been caught on tape he would have claimed it was just bullshit, period.

Even if Trump was a philanderer or a sexual assaulter that's just fine because Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Clinton, so apparently Trump can do whatever the hell he likes including rape and abuse women and that's OK. I told him: "Bill Clinton's affair was consensual. Trump grabbing women by the genitalia is definitely NOT consensual." No difference.

Putting his children into positions of power for which they are unqualified is perfectly fine.

Bragging about not paying taxes is just fine because that's what smart business people do. Never mind the fact we're left to pay our fair share while Trump gloats how smart it is not to pay taxes (guess that makes us suckers).

Not releasing his tax returns is perfectly fine and there's just no chance he is hiding something. Hillary didn't release hers either ("Yes she did," I said. "Google it on your phone right now." He made no attempt to do so, and had I done it for him he'd have just insisted it was fake news).

CNN is 100% liberal and anti-Trump, and only reports mean things about him since they hate him. If he saved a puppy from being run over by a garbage truck they'd refuse to report that.

Launching a war against North Korea is just fine because Kim Jong-un is crazy and deserves it.

The allegations of Russian collusion are all propaganda, but oh, let's go investigate Hillary again even though she was cleared time and time again, because clearly the investigations were rigged.

Trump's behavior is not that of a sniveling little toddler throwing a fit because he can't have ice cream for dinner, but is perfectly statesmanlike and gentlemanly.

When my friend started in with the horseshit about the Clintons murdering people I just rolled my eyes and said: "OK, enough is enough. Change the fucking channel. We're talking about the weather now."

I tell you this not to enrage you but to show you that we're up against people with an entire alternative universe carefully rigged so that their version of reality is the only one that exists. All evidence that contradicts their beliefs is dismissed as fake or a smear campaign. Anyone promoting any such evidence is dismissed as "a biased liberal spreading lies" even if they have been respected Republicans for decades. If Trump is shown to have been guilty of crimes associated with the Russians or elsewhere they simply will never believe it.

I was going to ask my friend: "What would it take for you to realize that Trump is a liar, a crook, and a sick old pervert?" I didn't bother because I knew the answer already: "Nothing. It's not possible." Unemployment soars? Obama's fault. The economy tanks? Obama's fault. Los Angeles gets nuked by North Korea? Obama's fault. Obama's fault. Obama's fault. Obama's fault. And if all else fails, "Well, crooked Killary would still have been worse."

This is why Trump's approval rating will never fall below 30%. And he knows if he plays the victim to his base they'll just eat it up. If he gets removed from power they'll go to their graves insisting it was a frame-up by sore losers.

It would be easy to just dismiss my friend as just an idiot or an asshole, but he's neither one. He's an otherwise smart guy who has personally gone to bat for me many times, and I suppose he sees me as "one of the few decent left-leaning types," probably because I like meat, guns and sports and don't drink lattes or drive a Volvo so that must make me a real American. I feel outraged for his being brainwashed by these disgusting media outlets who insist it's everyone ELSE doing the brainwashing.

So if you're wasting time trying to reach these people, don't. Focus on the undecided who outnumber them by 3-1. And take my advice, when they start in on politics just roll your eyes and tell them to "Change the fucking channel." Literally and metaphorically, because Fox News is a cancer of the brain.

Oh, and by the way, you know why I let my friend ramble on as long as I did? Because he was buying the lunch AND the beers!