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doc03

(35,344 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 03:56 PM Sep 2020

Seventy Five year old retired white male teacher, Trump sticker on car, Trump 2020

cap quote "I have never seen this country so f---d up in my life. We have to elect Trump and get that Biden out of there".

How do you deal with stupid?

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GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
2. In this case, I think an intervention by medical personnel is in order.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:00 PM
Sep 2020

I'm not so sure this is "stupid." This person sounds like he/she has lost their grasp on reality. Maybe he or she has early stage Alzheimer's or dementia?

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
11. I'll never forget that video.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:43 PM
Sep 2020

MAGAt at a Trump rally says Obama was playing golf and not in the White House on 9-11.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. There are a number of current teachers I know who are pro-fascism.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:04 PM
Sep 2020

They're giving society a big FU since Walker destroyed the unions here in WI.

Not the reaction you'd expect.

Lefta Dissenter

(6,622 posts)
6. I have a family member who recently took a competency test.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:05 PM
Sep 2020

One of the few questions she answered correctly was “who is the president of the United States?”

“That idiot trump” was her response.

Edited to add that the physician noted in the results that the patient responded correctly to that question.

dem4decades

(11,296 posts)
8. I worked in a state DEP agency and the were plenty of fuckard Republicans there too.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:08 PM
Sep 2020

They take their union raises and hate Democrats. Am i bitter because they suck ass. Why yes i am.

crimycarny

(1,351 posts)
10. At first I thought it was a sarcastic bumper sticker -- lol
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:41 PM
Sep 2020

I first read that as a 75 year old male had the bumper sticker with the phrase: “This country is so f—cked up, we have to elect Trump and get Biden out of there.” II thought it was on purpose and the man was making a sarcastic comment to the way Trump tries to call his failures “
Biden’s America”. I thought “Hmm, clever but maybe too clever by half and I’m not sure people will get it.” (My second thought was “That’s a lot of words for a bumper sticker—seems like the letters would be awfully small”)

But in re-reading your post I think you meant the man has a Trump 2020 bumper sticker and he actually said the part about needing to get Biden out, out loud—and he was serious.

Sadly I think he’s part of a group who only watch FOX news and buy into the fear. Makes me think of the documentary a daughter did about her dad getting brainwashed by FOX.

doc03

(35,344 posts)
14. You are right it was a word for word quote. He is a retired
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:55 PM
Sep 2020

Phys Ed teacher made it through school with football. So I hope all teachers aren't that dumb.

crimycarny

(1,351 posts)
15. I bet he watches FOX news all day
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 05:06 PM
Sep 2020

Did you ever see the documentary “The brainwashing of my dad”. Daughter documents how angry her (previously liberal) dad gets after he starts listening to right wing talk radio on his long commute to work. Then added watching FOX news all day. He lost many friends, the family couldn’t even have pleasant dinners as it would devolve into her dad ranting about politics. Her dad became so angry and isolated, obsessed with watching FOX. It was frightening to watch. I think lonely seniors are more susceptible to this.

https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

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