What it's like to have a parent radicalized by Trump and QANON.

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Janessa Goldbeck
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What it’s like to have a parent radicalized by Trump and QANON. The Marine Corps prepared me for a lot of stuff, but not this. Hard to know how to off-ramp this kind of thinking. Unreal the stakes in this election.
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4:52 PM · Oct 24, 2022

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. This is why I don't associate with my "family"

[SergeStorms]

2. It poisons them to the quick.

Of course they must have some inner conspiracy minded footholds for this crap to find purchse to begin with. It certainly doesn't work with everyone.

[tirebiter]

3. Aasargh

Reminds me of my dad becoming a fan of Limbaugh. He retired from the Air Force in Sacramento and listened to KFBK. He had been a fan of radio since he was a kid and Rush entertained him. I wasn’t around to aim him to better material. He had been a fan of Capt. Carrot on the rock fm station KZAP. Things changed.

[czarjak]

4. "People are what they are, you can't change people" is the memorable Rushbo line for me...

Especially when the second most is "I know Christians and Christianity". Still calling bullshit.

[orleans]

6. my mom listened to him for awhile

nothing better to do around the house while i was working and the grandkid was in school

there was a change in her--and her political bent. it was pretty weird.

enter countdown with keith olbermann, (later when rachel got her own show), air america w/randi rhodes & mike malloy.

limbaugh was out the window. whew!

[ShazzieB]

13. Bullet dodged!

[orleans]

14. exactly.

the thing is--she was never a limbaugh type. i grew up with her telling me to "open your mind" and "keep an open mind" so that turn was really out of character for her. i remember we talked about it until she believed me -- and until she finally saw it.

[babydollhead]

5. Here is a good reply

"Dad, I'm in on this"

i read through the twitter replies, and it is shocking and sad how many people lost loved ones to this cult of hate and fear. When I returned from twitter, I was glad to be back in the land of comments and insights. I have laughed at DU's comments, funny and sometimes mean, all my years here. in gratitude, is my reply

[orleans]

7. for you

[Mariana]

8. "...will it impact your trust in whatever source provided you with this info?"

Not a chance. It's a religion, and these are religious beliefs. Religious beliefs aren't rational, by definition. They'll pull the lamest excuses out of their asses to continue to believe what they believe.

"God heard our prayers and intervened. Praise the Lord!"

"Trump somehow secretly stopped it from happening."
,
"It's still going to happen, it was just postponed for whatever reason."

"It actually did happen, but the news of it was suppressed by the deep state."

Etc.

[niyad]

9. I have been listening to this imminent threat bs for three years now. There

is ALWAYS some reason why it has been delayed. The person who keeps me apprised of this nonsense is so embedded in it that a brief power outage the other night had her convinced that it had started. I pointed out that the high wind warnings for Sat/Sun had been out for days, so it was not unexpected.

I keep shaking my head over the convoluted insanity, which gets more so every day. And I had thought that the whole "sovereign citizen" thing was beyond absurd. Those people sound almost sane in comparison.

[KS Toronado]

10. If a civil war does start, it'll be MAGAts lighting the fire

And again they'll claim it's Antifa without any proof. Tipping point will be when Der orange Fuhrer
starts crying "They're taking ME, the best President ever to jail, STOP THEM"

[LittleGirl]

11. I am one of the families

that lost a few of my own to this crazy talk.

[aggiesal]

12. The 1st time I listened to Rush Lumbutt ...

15 minutes later I asked myself, "Who is this @$$h0le?
The tuned the radio to another station.