• Kalkarino@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • limelight79@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      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.

    • hansolo@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month ago

        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.

    • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I mean, that’s the real trump derangement syndrome. People who are outside of reality because of their support of the man.

    • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 month ago

        That only works for people who haven’t taught themselves to ignore constant cognitive dissonance.

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      1 month ago

      Same with my Mom. I told her “yeah, Mussolini did a good job making the trains run on time”. She never responded.

    • lightsblinken@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      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.