Yesterday, I had a long conversation with a fellow in Vancouver. He’s not a dummy and is very well versed with what’s going on in the world. But he also has an unhealthy TDS infection, though it’s not extreme. He went off on a few rants that I wanted to run by all of you, under the premise of “What would you have said?”
The first focused on what is happening in Minneapolis. He insisted that the violence and deaths we’ve seen are entirely Trump’s fault, due to his inflammatory rhetoric. I conceded that I don’t always like the way Trump phrases things, but added that I do prefer his direct, plain spoken approach to the mealy mouth mumbo jumbo of people like Carney. He didn’t disagree with this. I also added that I strongly believe that what we’re seeing in Minnesota is carefully orchestrated by the DNC and global elites above them, all to do with winning the midterms this November.
We segued into talking about deportations under Obama. There were many more and there were no protests. I reiterated my argument above. He insisted that it was due to Obama’s quiet soft spoken approach and that he didn’t use ICE to do it. I’ve since researched his last point and it’s absolutely false.
He then moved onto a rant about Trump’s children. He took me down the path of conceding that Joe & Hunter Biden were both corrupt. Then he pivoted and said, “So I’ve admitted that the Bidens were corrupt. Thus you must agree that Trump’s kids are stealing millions?!” I was honestly confused by this and asked him to share some examples. He told me that he’s not going to do my research for me. So I did some, here and here. There are lots of allegations, but no convictions. If there was actually something there, would not the corrupt legacy media, who clearly hates Trump, be smearing his children 24/7 ?
In summary, I generally don’t trust any politicians without question. I don’t put Trump, or any other right-of-centre politician on a pedestal. But if you’re going to state something unequivocally as a fact, you absolutely need to bring facts from credible sources along with such statements. I’m sincerely interested to learn how you handle such conversations in your life.
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