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Beachnutt

(7,187 posts)
1. What happens when their theories don't pan out ?
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 06:53 PM
Apr 2021

They just latch on to some other crackpot theory...
I ask one the other day about the big 5g invasion that was suppose to happen.
She couldn't give me an answer

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
13. Oh, I saw 5g causes CV19, lol. I thought maybe we were talking 5g
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 09:12 PM
Apr 2021

zombies invading/destroying towns or something like that - because I do not put anything past them.






rsdsharp

(9,035 posts)
4. Trump, not Biden, flies on Air Force One?
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 07:12 PM
Apr 2021

I’ll bet she’s made comments about Joe falling on the stairs as he boards Air Force One.

Trump is using a Cessna, because he can’t afford to fix his old 757.

Permanut

(5,436 posts)
5. We know where Mom got this information..
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 07:13 PM
Apr 2021

but would love to have had the daughter ask her to confirm her sources.

doc03

(35,143 posts)
8. I know a couple people that do believe all this stuff. You can't talk
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 07:16 PM
Apr 2021

to them any opposing facts are fake news. They both spout the same crap that Biden doesn't have the nuclear codes Trump has them and the latest they think he will be back in August. I have heard the same thing that Trump still flies on AF1. They even claim Biden is a
robot. That stuff is even too crazy for Fox News.

Caliman73

(11,690 posts)
16. True. Fox News won't explicitly push those conspiracies.
Wed Apr 7, 2021, 05:48 PM
Apr 2021

However, Fox was the conduit for bringing those people into the bubble and convincing them that all other media outlets were "liberal" news and that it was somehow false and that Fox was the only real source of information. To the point that when Fox had to step back to protect its own legal situation, many of those viewers turned on them and went (at least temporarily) to Newmax and OANN where they were more willing to engage in the fantasy.

OAITW r.2.0

(23,810 posts)
9. Sad, used to be the parents that tempered the idealist tendencies of their children.
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 07:36 PM
Apr 2021

Now, it is up to the children of Trump devotees to help their parents to think critically.

mahina

(17,502 posts)
12. Just like any doomsday cult, when the end of the world doesn't come on the day they said
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 08:51 PM
Apr 2021

It would, they just come up with an excuse why they were right but got the date wrong.

Only some get peeled off. Keep hoping they see the light.

How do they know what hey think they know?
Mercy, how did we ever survive this long?

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
14. I would've slammed my mother for all the other lies
Wed Apr 7, 2021, 05:39 PM
Apr 2021

in this dialogue. As crazy as she was, she was still reachable.

But I can't even take calls from my foxbot brother now. Am totally "sick & done with" their fantasy shit.


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