I thought my dad would have come around by now with everything going on. Last night he was gloating about how much work is getting done in the White House and how everything’s about to get a lot cheaper.
Insanity.
Then, you should challenge him and make him set a deadline for when everything is supposed to be a lot cheaper. When people starts to get sidetracked from thinking critically, that's when you need to make them set an ultimatum that either forces them to think critically, or make them set their own limit that you can then point back to later.
That only works for people who haven't taught themselves to ignore constant cognitive dissonance.
I mean, that's the real trump derangement syndrome. People who are outside of reality because of their support of the man.
Same with my Mom. I told her "yeah, Mussolini did a good job making the trains run on time". She never responded.
(Beside the point, but Mussolini totally did not run an efficient train network, it was a cluster fuck like everything else he did)
im pretty sure that's the exact implication being made lol
Yeah but if they knew enough to know that they wouldn't be voting Republican.
Ask your dad why the GOP needs to raise the Debt Ceiling by $4 Trillion in their budget bill, and how many of the now dozens of lawsuits Trump might win based on his performance in 2020 when he lost almost every single court case, even when Trump appointed the judges himself.
I tried that with someone on facebook. They retreated back to "we have to get federal spending under control." Maybe so, but this group isn't doing that.
His only concern is himself, he thinks he'll benefit so everyone else can suffer as far as he is concerned. This is the broad motivation of the entire movement. As if America first didn't make it obvious enough, it was really "me first". What they don't understand is how the me in that is entirely relative and they quickly become expendable.
maybe if you explain to him the cause of the great depression being isolationist economic policy hitting everyone really hard, meanwhile japan with its keynesian policy managed to do pretty well, even in the face of global economic downturn.
Some people find facts more reasonable, ironically, even if they will cognitively dissonant themselves from them.
I can't wait to talk to my parents. Lifelong republicans (though not specifically trump fans, just voting R), so it's extremely likely they voted for this.
I'm a federal employee. They voted to put my job (and my wife's job) in jeopardy. They voted for this. They voted to hurt us.
make it real for your dad - every chance you get, capture the price of a few things and chart it out over time... actual real evidence that you collected yourself is harder to refute than a graph produced by anonymous sources online.
wait until everything gets a lot more expensive, and then ask him what happened lmao
They want something not that different from the Taliban. Subservient women existing only to make and raise kids.
Project 2025....
https://2025realitycheck.com/ - please review, and if you're able go to the GitHub link at the bottom and help me fill everything out!
I will feel mad as fuck for you and use this as evidence when people say these EOs aren't hurting anyone other than illegal immigrants.
Completely unrelated, book burnings
I'm sure threads won't remove your posts
It's owned by Meta, so it might ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That was the joke.
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