SATIRE (MAYBE)

How To Talk to Trump Supporters

An antidote for the poison that is Trump

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Do you have an unhinged Uncle Ike or crazy Cousin Cathy who goes to Trump rallies? You want to talk with them about how they’re being defrauded by the man they admire, but they’ve lost the capacity to listen to you. You’ve pleaded with them to listen to reason, but all they can hear is “poisoning the blood of our country,” and “build the wall.”

Hitler made “poisoning the blood of our country” a thing. When you try to point this out, they just stare at you as though you were the crazy one. Maybe they’ve never heard of Hitler.

So, you try saying that building a wall is stupid since many immigrants get into this country through ports and the Canadian border, and you ask if they’ve ever heard of ladders. You even show them pictures of the Mexican congressman who climbed on top of the wall at the Southern border.

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“Please wake up to Trump’s lies,” you say, but they can’t even hear you ’cause they’re already yelling “woke!”

After that, do you still want to try to wake these people up? If you do, here’s a simple…