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 unironically agree with this. We should fix underlying causes of violence--issues like systemic racism and misogyny, poverty, etc.--rather than focusing on the tools used for violence.
As do I. Plenty of countries have high gun ownership, but only we have such a plague of violence to go along with it. It obviously isn’t the guns—or not just the guns.
The devil of it is, we and conservatives often agree with the general scope of isssues and often our solutions are palatable to them… but since they’ve been taught that everything we do is anathema, they will automatically hate our ideas even if they agree with them. Obamacare is an excellent example of this.
The HCA has been a deeply imperfect attempt to solve a serious problem. Given the popularity of Brian Thompson's not-timely-enough demise across party lines, it's clear that people are not satisfied with it. Yes, it's better than what we had. But we've been fighting for 15 years to fix problems with the HCA, and IMO it's time to admit that the real issue is healthcare being treated as a way to make money.
True, but my point was more about how if you called it ‘Obamacare’ they hated it, but if you called the exact same thing the ‘affordable care act’ they liked it.