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wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:34 AM Jun 2018

For the first time in my political life I am getting scared. The trump supporters I deal with on

Facebook don't have a clue how evil he is or what a threat he is.

If we don't at least take back the House and start some real investigations we will become a fascist state.


Here we are playing 40 words and wypipo and other dividing games.


POC we ain't the enemy! That's him!


Let's get together and defeat trump not each other!

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For the first time in my political life I am getting scared. The trump supporters I deal with on (Original Post) wasupaloopa Jun 2018 OP
I hear ya SHRED Jun 2018 #1
Trump has really divided America, all the racists are out of their holes. What bothers me the most, akbacchus_BC Jun 2018 #2
Or move to Toronto? wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #4
I wish you could move to Toronto. I live in BC. Expensive as you could not imagine! akbacchus_BC Jun 2018 #9
My wife still has a good job, I am retired and need to stay put. wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #12
You could always try to migrate to Canada when your wife retires. akbacchus_BC Jun 2018 #15
Well I thought that Canada was less racist. I see I was wrong. wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #17
I came here in 1991, times have changed especially when Chretien was our Prime Minister. akbacchus_BC Jun 2018 #19
Canada doesn't have a retirement visa. OliverQ Jun 2018 #39
Honestly, I don't think moonscape Jun 2018 #5
I think the same as that asshole of your president thinks that akbacchus_BC Jun 2018 #11
No we can't... worried he'll get another SC pick that throws the Court to the Alt-Right. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #29
Looks like you were prescient! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #38
I have a dear passed friend who uttered uh-oh KPN Jun 2018 #3
Don't play their game. Scruffy1 Jun 2018 #6
I am on the verge of unfriending them. wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #7
I went on a purge get the red out Jun 2018 #28
#1: Delete Facebook. It's now just the tool of the kremlin to rile you up. PSPS Jun 2018 #8
NO SHIT!! What the hell is it gonna take to wake people up? Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #36
what do you mean "we" ain't the enemy ? if they are supporting Trump they are the enemy including JI7 Jun 2018 #10
Don't you get really angry when people of color support that piece a shit in the white house? akbacchus_BC Jun 2018 #20
they are idiots but many of them are bigots against other groups or some other fuckup reason JI7 Jun 2018 #22
Probably the same thing that is wrong with white morons who support the cheetoh. kag Jun 2018 #23
So true. My withers are occasionally wrung for those Hortensis Jun 2018 #32
25% of this nation are almost too stupid to keep breathing. Dave Starsky Jun 2018 #37
It's war!! Buckle up... we're going in!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #30
Slap them down. Belittle them. Laugh at them. Ask them what their LuckyCharms Jun 2018 #13
You get no arguments from me. wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #14
There is a large portion of Americans that fall hook and sinker for Trump's flim flam. Kablooie Jun 2018 #16
fear nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror wasupaloopa Jun 2018 #18
"What is it that makes so many people so damned dense..." pazzyanne Jun 2018 #24
Rule number 1: DO NOT ENGAGE WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #21
I agree whole heartedly. pazzyanne Jun 2018 #26
For me, that's rule number 2 Bettie Jun 2018 #35
I'm ready YOHABLO Jun 2018 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2018 #27
start doing what is needed, register new voters, volunteer for local campaigns, and help get the beachbum bob Jun 2018 #31
Aha! You said "voters." egduj Jun 2018 #33
"POC we ain't the enemy!" I'm white and I support the effort to call out white supremacy ck4829 Jun 2018 #34

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
2. Trump has really divided America, all the racists are out of their holes. What bothers me the most,
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:40 AM
Jun 2018

is that a lot of people feel he will get a second term. His presidency is already destroying America and if he gets a second term, he will completely destroy America. You all have got to fight back, get the voters out this November and ensure Democrats get elected to the House and Senate.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
4. Or move to Toronto?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:43 AM
Jun 2018

I visited Toronto last year. All the different cultures on the harbor walking up and down in peace.

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
9. I wish you could move to Toronto. I live in BC. Expensive as you could not imagine!
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:58 AM
Jun 2018

Canada is wonderful but it is really difficult to migrate here. However, you can try!

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
15. You could always try to migrate to Canada when your wife retires.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:16 AM
Jun 2018

It is something to consider. Getting a job here is difficult but sometimes, one can luck out. When I came to BC, I am not kidding you, I sent out over 100 applications, seldom got called for an interview. When I did get an interview, they already had their quota of colored people. It was an eye opening experience for me. I always thought the best qualified got an interview, never thought that the color of your skin was a criteria.

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
19. I came here in 1991, times have changed especially when Chretien was our Prime Minister.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:31 AM
Jun 2018

Now that Mr. Justin Trudeau is our Prime Minister, the challenges of migrating to Canada is not that bad. After all, our PM took in 25,000 refugees from Syria. It does not hurt to apply to come to Canada, you never know what your chances are. Go for it, is my suggestion.

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
11. I think the same as that asshole of your president thinks that
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:01 AM
Jun 2018

he governs by bleeps. What a let down! I don't wish him bad as then he will be a martyr by his supporters. I wish he just effing step down, but his VP is much worst. Who would have thought that America could be so divided, one faction for peace and the other a war mongerer!

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,123 posts)
29. No we can't... worried he'll get another SC pick that throws the Court to the Alt-Right.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 06:10 AM
Jun 2018

Then we're really deep-fucked! Can't believe this happened... what could have been.

KPN

(15,665 posts)
3. I have a dear passed friend who uttered uh-oh
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:41 AM
Jun 2018

once when my wife answered the phone for me at 6:30 am one Saturday morning.

Scruffy1

(3,257 posts)
6. Don't play their game.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:52 AM
Jun 2018

What they want is to instill fear. If you don't show it they don't know what to do. The best advice is to unfriend them. If you show fear they win.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
28. I went on a purge
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 05:30 AM
Jun 2018

After Obama was elected, most of my high school class publicly transformed from average Americans posting grand baby pics to flaming white supremacists. I could not deal with the fights that would leave me shaking in rage and them probably just thinking they got that libtard.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
36. NO SHIT!! What the hell is it gonna take to wake people up?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:18 AM
Jun 2018

I dropped my Facebook account years ago, so I have been blissfully ignorant of Obama's FEMA camps, Pizzagate, and every other piece of crazy flying monkey nonsense that spreads like gonorrhea on that site.

Private message your REAL Facebook friends and give them your e-mail address. Then delete your account. If you never hear from them again, they were never your friends to begin with. And that right there is priceless knowledge.

JI7

(89,278 posts)
10. what do you mean "we" ain't the enemy ? if they are supporting Trump they are the enemy including
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:59 AM
Jun 2018

POC who support him like Dinesh dsouzza .

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
20. Don't you get really angry when people of color support that piece a shit in the white house?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:35 AM
Jun 2018

That Paris guy makes me want to puke. What is wrong with these assholes of color who support Trump? Trump do not give a shit about them, the effing morons. I have not seen Trump tweet that he likes Paris, the moron!

kag

(4,079 posts)
23. Probably the same thing that is wrong with white morons who support the cheetoh.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 03:45 AM
Jun 2018

Unfortunately, whites don't have a monopoly on bigotry, misogyny, ignorance and evil. It just seems that way sometimes.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
32. So true. My withers are occasionally wrung for those
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:05 AM
Jun 2018

poor conservative POC bigots who're rejected by the rest of their sort in Trump's party. Even bigots need to belong, or especially.

Reminds me of when Charles Krauthammer, writing about what the Republican Party should do to draw in black conservatives, said they should do nothing, that America already has the Democratic Party.


Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
37. 25% of this nation are almost too stupid to keep breathing.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:22 AM
Jun 2018

I include these people in that category.

LuckyCharms

(17,463 posts)
13. Slap them down. Belittle them. Laugh at them. Ask them what their
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:09 AM
Jun 2018

problem is. Ask them if they are joking.

Don't "deal" with Trump supporters. There is no dealing to be done with them.

My extended family is full of Trump supporters. And they are cowards. They have said things to me in chain emails that they would not have the courage to do face to face.

I almost came to blows one time with a Trump supporter in a car dealership service waiting room because I called him on his loud mouthed shit.

Slap them the fuck down. This is no time to be "civil". I am not addressing you in particular...I don't know how you treat these people. But I always encourage others not to take any shit and to find your voice and be ready to protect yourself if it comes to that.

Seriously...most of these people are scum. I lurk on a few facebook pages of right wingers. These dumb fucks think it is their duty to express their warped political views ad nauseum on facebook for some reason. They are stupid, and they deserve whatever scorn they receive.

I am a white man, and I fucking hate racists, bigots, and hateful dumb fucks. I'll call them dumb shits right to their stupid faces and watch them squirm. Fuck those assholes. Never fear them.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
14. You get no arguments from me.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:16 AM
Jun 2018

I told this one guy he was afraid of brown people getting a head of him on the food chain. He said I had no right to criticize him. I said sure I did and posted his own words about how the people coming from Ellis Island did it right and got jobs and paid taxes and these in Texas are illegal and come here to take from us. I explained how they are asylum seekers not illegals to no avail.

Kablooie

(18,641 posts)
16. There is a large portion of Americans that fall hook and sinker for Trump's flim flam.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:17 AM
Jun 2018

It's hard to believe anyone could seriously believe in him but many do.

What is it that makes so many people so damned dense that they can't see a blatant scam right in front of their nose?

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
18. fear nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:28 AM
Jun 2018

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

FDR

pazzyanne

(6,558 posts)
24. "What is it that makes so many people so damned dense..."
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 04:13 AM
Jun 2018

Even though they are poor as church mice, they worship people who are millionaires and billionaires. tRump made himself visible on "The Apprentice" where he flaunted his wealth and power. It is the cult of money, pure and simple. My father was a laidback, kind, hard working man whose life was money centered. Not that Dad had money, but he almost worshiped tRump and people like tRump because they did. He never missed an episode of "The Apprentice", I mean NEVER. Even the poor, low income people can center their lives around money which is sad. At least this is my take on the flim flam artist tRump and his appeal.

pazzyanne

(6,558 posts)
26. I agree whole heartedly.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 04:19 AM
Jun 2018

After years of evangelical right wing abuse from my sister, I blocked her yesterday. For years I put up with her crap in order not to tear the family apart. The longer it went on the more vile she became. With tRump she fully "bloomed" and for my own health and well-being I blocked her so she could no longer use that forum for her hateful posts. The family members need to make their own way and decide if they are going to be ruled by hate or not. My life is more peaceful these days. Resist and Persist, no matter what! Carry on!

Bettie

(16,130 posts)
35. For me, that's rule number 2
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:22 AM
Jun 2018

Rule number 1 is NEVER read the comments section. On anything. Ever.

Response to wasupaloopa (Original post)

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
31. start doing what is needed, register new voters, volunteer for local campaigns, and help get the
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 06:30 AM
Jun 2018

vote out

thats how we take back our country

ck4829

(35,094 posts)
34. "POC we ain't the enemy!" I'm white and I support the effort to call out white supremacy
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:14 AM
Jun 2018

I'm following the efforts to resist white supremacy, without which, there would be no Trump administration.

Let's get together... We're waiting for you.

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