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In reply to the discussion: Lunch with a Trump fan [View all]NotASurfer
(2,369 posts)49. Have to trust your judgement in this case
Your friend respects you enough to honor your request to change the topic. That says there's some decency that hasn't been consumed by whatever reality distortion field Faux News is generating.
So there's a chance that being exposed to the discrepancies between what they say and what Twitler actually says and does will register. Just try to steer your friend in the right direction if that happens
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You can't reason with those who believe we are the one who are brainwashed and out of touch with
Glimmer of Hope
Aug 2017
#7
No friend I have ever had would hold those views and still count me as "friend"...
Moostache
Aug 2017
#12
I don't think my stomach could take it. Don't know how you could eat lunch.
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2017
#13
The one Trump supporting friend I had doesn't call me anymore, and I'm fine with that
Downtown Hound
Aug 2017
#14
It takes all types, and America you have a constitutional right to be willfully stupid
MiddleClass
Aug 2017
#17
I put up with eight years worth of derogatory emails and conversation that indubitably
sprinkleeninow
Aug 2017
#64
I couldn't be friends w/someone like that. She's too stupid...or she KNOWS the truth
Honeycombe8
Aug 2017
#20
Reader's Digest Condensed version: "Trump voters are ignorant about everything."
WinkyDink
Aug 2017
#26
Your friend is a puppy, and Trump put him in front of an approaching garbage truck.
C Moon
Aug 2017
#31
I will not have my brain eaten a lunch and few beers ... I cannot stand this guy
MyNameIsKhan
Aug 2017
#48
this reminds me of the advice I've gotten about trying to reason with people who are delusional:
renate
Aug 2017
#54
I, personally, would never spoil a perfectly good lunch by eating in the presence of one of them. nt
Binkie The Clown
Aug 2017
#60