Fact check: Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response | CNN Politics
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Former President Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    My wife and I visited my parents yesterday, and got in an argument with them. They were spewing out all of Trump’s lies, and we had enough.

    Of course, we didn’t start the conversation. My dad did. He does this because he wants the fight.

    My mom doesn’t want the confrontation, although she thinks we’re being deluded by the satanic communist Kamala conspiracy. She makes snide comments to her friends about us, which we know because she’s not competent with texting, so she accidentally sent it to my wife once.

    I’m not like all the people who think Trump corrupted their parents. It’s just not the case with my parents. Trump is the candidate they waited their whole lives for, and it’s very clear the only things they will believe are the things Trump says.

    There is definitely something wrong with me. I cannot bring myself to cut them off.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      There’s nothing wrong with you, it can be a hard thing to do when you know the person/people so intimately.

      I remember when I left a thanksgiving dinner because some people were being shitty. I got chinese food, talked to an old guy about motorcycles, and went out with some friends. Like, if you don’t need to go to your parents’ for Christmas it makes planning that holiday easier with your wife’s family, for example. You don’t need to spend time with rotten people and you don’t always realize you’re allowed to leave until you do.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I should clarify another detail. Part of the reason we’re visiting my parents is because I’m not expecting him to be around much longer. I know my dad is going to die soon. He’s got type 2 diabetes, fibrosis of the lungs, and congestive heart failure. He was just taken into the hospital this past week because he collapsed at a doctor’s appointment, and he had just been released a couple days before we visited.

        I’m having this heated argument with him, temporarily oblivious to the fact that he could have a stroke right there. Both my wife and my mom are trying to get the argument to stop because they realize it, but they are both also still arguing quietly along.

        It would be funny if it wasn’t so damn tragic.

        I have a brother and sister who both live close to our parents, and neither of them visited during or after his hospital stay.

        Yesterday my wife suggested that we shouldn’t visit until after the election, but I can’t do that because I’m not sure he’ll live that long.

        • rayyy@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 months ago

          In the meantime he is trying to fuck up your future and the future of everyone’s children.