I just had an FB acquaintance defriend me because I told her in a private message that her post about Joe Biden being a child molester was bogus and was a prominent part of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
She told me I was a bleeding-heart liberal, QAnon was real, and that my adherence to mask-wearing and social distancing was helping to des…
I just had an FB acquaintance defriend me because I told her in a private message that her post about Joe Biden being a child molester was bogus and was a prominent part of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
She told me I was a bleeding-heart liberal, QAnon was real, and that my adherence to mask-wearing and social distancing was helping to destroy the economy. I did not know what to say back other than I disagreed with her and that she should fact check her posts. It did not matter, she defriended me.
I have an ultra-conservative next-door neighbor that is a retired policeman. I go out to water my Red Tip Photinia early in the morning, hoping to avoid him. He opens his garage door and voila! I endure an hour of Biden-shaming: Biden will increase taxes, open the borders, and destroy America. I do not know where to begin. If anyone should worry about another Trump term, it is my neighbor, a person collecting a pension.
Mitch McConnell would love it if our Democratic state would collapse but it would take massive changes in legislation for a state to go into bankruptcy because currently, they cannot. With a second Trump term, who knows? But if it came to it, the consequences would be most dramatic for state pensioners and bondholders. Union contracts could be rewritten, and a state than might re-negotiate its existing pension benefits. My neighbor’s pension and other pensions would go the way of the dodo and Social Security.
I have found that I cannot tell Republican acquaintances/neighbors anything remotely progressive. They do not want to hear a contrary opinion. So I keep my mouth shut. I am thankful for being able to make comments here, read others’ comments, and know that I am not alone in my experiences.
oy. Some people are operating in an imaginary world. The worst thing that could happen, for them as well as for us, would be for TrumpBarr and the QAnoners to continue on their present course. You are definitely not alone.
I just had an FB acquaintance defriend me because I told her in a private message that her post about Joe Biden being a child molester was bogus and was a prominent part of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
She told me I was a bleeding-heart liberal, QAnon was real, and that my adherence to mask-wearing and social distancing was helping to destroy the economy. I did not know what to say back other than I disagreed with her and that she should fact check her posts. It did not matter, she defriended me.
I have an ultra-conservative next-door neighbor that is a retired policeman. I go out to water my Red Tip Photinia early in the morning, hoping to avoid him. He opens his garage door and voila! I endure an hour of Biden-shaming: Biden will increase taxes, open the borders, and destroy America. I do not know where to begin. If anyone should worry about another Trump term, it is my neighbor, a person collecting a pension.
Mitch McConnell would love it if our Democratic state would collapse but it would take massive changes in legislation for a state to go into bankruptcy because currently, they cannot. With a second Trump term, who knows? But if it came to it, the consequences would be most dramatic for state pensioners and bondholders. Union contracts could be rewritten, and a state than might re-negotiate its existing pension benefits. My neighbor’s pension and other pensions would go the way of the dodo and Social Security.
I have found that I cannot tell Republican acquaintances/neighbors anything remotely progressive. They do not want to hear a contrary opinion. So I keep my mouth shut. I am thankful for being able to make comments here, read others’ comments, and know that I am not alone in my experiences.
oy. Some people are operating in an imaginary world. The worst thing that could happen, for them as well as for us, would be for TrumpBarr and the QAnoners to continue on their present course. You are definitely not alone.