I have been spending the holidays with my fiance's family. All of them are die hard trump supporters. This town they live in, are all die hard trump supporters.
We went out to a restaurant with my fiance's parents and their friends. When it came time to pay their friends whipped out their cards and showed the table. Each card had a sticker delicately placed, the content of the stickers were of donald trump in many different contexts. Djt as a dollar bill, djt wearing a fake mustache at his mugshot, djt assasination attempt, etc. I was absolutely appalled. Then the waiter came over and I was expecting to see him perturbed as well. Nope. He wanted one and asked if they had anymore. They then gave him one and helped him put it on. In the middle of his shift.
Obviously trump is fucking disgusting in more ways than one. What baffles me is how you can flagrantly carry around a proven rapist in your wallet when you are a woman, not just a woman but a woman of color. Which the friend waving this dipshit around and making the stickers is.
I mean this man has literally talked about immigrants "poisoning the blood of this nation". These are actual fucking people he talks about and demonizes. People with families, lives, and friends. All that care just gets thrown out the window with these people.
I hate living in trump country, because I feel like I am losing my mind when everyone around me is flaunting him like their own son who graduated as validictorian. As if these people are part of his club. When he is one of the most disgusting individuals I have had the displeasure of hearing about for over 8 years going on 12 now. How can you be so ignorant? Every passing day in this state I understand more and more how Hitler gripped the minds of the masses and came into power so easily. People are so fucking stupid.
Please for my sanity, I need to talk to people who know this monster for who he truly is. How do you cope being in a similar situation? How do you speak up?
I've done exactly this, it works. You can see the partial stun on their face while they try to work it out.
Guy came over to get a thing off FB Marketplace, right after 01/06.
Him starting to get annoyed: "Hey. I saw what you posted on Neighborhood.com about January 6th. My brother's a cop."
"And those fuckers killed one cop, beat dozens of others and two suicided directly after! Fuck sakes, they were beating a cop with an American flag!" Fuck is wrong with these people! Why aren't cops shitting all over Trump!"
You could see the cognitive dissonance on his face, see him forming new thoughts. Pretty cool! And we parted very amicably.
On the taxes thing, I hit a (former) conservative friend with that when he was bitching about the IRS dunning him 2-years after filing.
"Well, yeah. The GOP has been slashing IRS funding for 2 decades. What do you expect? And why aren't these politicians going after the private firm you paid to screw up your taxes! Rebulicans should drop the hammer on fuckers like that instead of us working-class people getting fucked!"
We can do this all day.
"Fuckin' A I'm tired of illegals! Why the hell are the Republicans letting the employers slide on this shit! There would be no illegal immigration if they couldn't get jobs! Fuck me, I expect it from the Democrats, where's our guys?!"
This but with the slightly more moderate neoliberal pseudo-friend adjacent I have at university