Had an encounter with a MAGAt yesterday and now the wife is angry with me [View all]
Let me preface this by saying that this happened after church -- immediately after this dude's wife gave a lovely sermon about our need to listen to God and help with healing people, feeding people, and meeting their needs in the spirit of Jesus' having compassion with people in the story of feeding the the 5000. (Iowa City location)
Someone else asked if he was voting for Kamala. He was rather non-committal. Then he said "Politics is too contentious with people on the extremes, I miss the days when people used to compromise and get things done."
Original woman said -- "YOu mean like the bipartisan border bill that Trump ordered republicans to kill after a Republican Senator from Oklahoma wrote it that had all the things the republcans said they wanted in the bill."
Dude says "I don't think it happened like that."
Original woman then says "You would vote for a convicted felon and rapist..."
Dude says -- "If they can go after Trump for that, then they could go after any of us."
I can't take it anymore and say -- "Yep, you're right. Who among us has not paid off a porn star over $125,000 for sex and then claimed it as a business expense. Yep, they could certainly get us all for that kind of fraud."
My wife yanked me away and said that I was being an asshole and that I wasn't going to change his mind that way.
My response -- " NOthing is going to change hs mind and I am sick and tired of them thinking they can't be fact checked when they lie all the time."
She was VERY ANGRY -- he was being respectful and you were a jerk.
Am I the asshole or is my wofe making excuses?
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