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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne of my Facebook friends just went on a rant about "President Trump" and "innocent Muslins"
Obviously, I'm not going to link to his post and reveal his identity, but this saddens me, because he's a decent and funny guy who also has an extreme "fringe" side to his personality. It doesn't come out often, but when it does......anyway, I thought it was worth sharing the inner workings of a Trump supporter. He's not alone in his thoughts, and that is beyond tragic.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)bombed Pearl Harbor. At least according to President Blutarsky.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...then I realized he was serious and went through a few moments of shock.
Initech
(100,078 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... Doesn't anyone watch the credits?!
underpants
(182,818 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)Sorry.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I don't know how two people can walk around in one body. I know the medical explanation for it, but that doesn't make it any easier.
Darb
(2,807 posts)And a sheep. Too bad, because that's how fascism takes hold.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)Irrational nature of fear.
edhopper
(33,580 posts)people with similar posts. I don't have room in my life for idiotic bigots.
Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)Go ahead and un-friend me if you must. But Donald J Drumpf is a fucking joke and a disgrace...a faux-populist con-artist, modern-day- carnival-barking-provocateur whose only motivation is protecting the interests of the top 1% while APPEARING to care about the "Middle-Class"
I'm caling BULLSHIT on his whole act and hope those of you who have fallen for his reality show like campaign of Media-Manipulation will come to your senses and not make the President of The United States & Commander-in-Chief become the Reality/Comedy Show Fascist Dictator of The United States & Twitterer-in-Chief.
edhopper
(33,580 posts)is four to many.
Mendocino
(7,495 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)Personally I would unfriend and tell them why I think they are crazy. Ask him how would he feel if his type committed a terrorist act and were treated like Don the con is suggesting. Sometimes people need to be reminded to step into another persons shoes.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I know people who get drunk, high or both, and then post on Facebook. He's one of them. This accounts for about 5% of his behavior. Granted, it's a repellent 5%, but if I told him how I feel, it wouldn't sink in. He functions entirely within his own reality, but most of the time, he is gregarious and polite and many people like him. That said, he's getting responses like "I'm down with Trump, bro."
I'm not trying to judge him and say "He won't listen" before I try to speak with him, but he's like many people I knew back in that town. They have their own reality and like it there, so you go out for some fresh air while they're in that mode and come back when they're finished. You have to actually live in that town to see what makes people tick. It's a very paranoid, closed society..."Obama's gonna take my guns" all the way.
Posts like the one I shared here account for about 1 out of every 200 of what he posts.