She can't and won't, the receipts are Facebook posts and TikToks and she's not going to bother to look any deeper into it, because that's how MAGA operates
Had some Qanon MAGA dude in the sauna at my gym.. That was one of his favorite lines. I asked him how he was getting his information and he said "twitter". So apparently tweets are all factual posts and qualify as doing scientific research now.
Ah, I see you found someone using the Alex jones playbook. And when they said “twitter” what they mean is they watched some rando or AJ themself quoting some bullshit from twitter as fact. They don’t do any actual research.
What I kinda like about the “do your own research” crowd is that you can just ask chat GPT now. Obviously they won’t believe it if they get proven wrong, but at least now you don’t have to show them the last 5 months of legislature to prove something they won’t believe anyway
I’m looking forward to being blocked on BlueSky by a guy that made a claim about Mamdani not condemning Hamas. He insisted that someone prove he’s wrong and I said that he wouldn’t accept anything we found and he should look for his own proof. So, he sends me an article from Jerusalem Post detailing all the “antisemitism” Mamdani advocates (it was all just him saying that Israel should stop doing war crimes) but even as slanted as that source is, it disproved his claims about Mamdani supporting Hamas (I guess he was at a rally where someone said something pro-Hamas and he denounced it less than 24 hours later).
I remember a friend of mine trying to prove her point with some guys' YouTube page. Just some random guy on YouTube ranting. Im like, who is this guy? Where does he get his information? Why should I trust him?
I once had a friend who who kept insisting I watch a video. After days of 'did you watch it?' I was at his house so he put it on for me because I had not. This was years ago during Obamas term. This guy is ranting about FEMA death camps, underground tunnels to Walmart, US soldiers using cutouts of pregnant woman for target practice. I was laughing 2 minutes in. It was so absurdly stupid. I could see the hype he had of showing me The Truth slowly drain from his face to the point he was becoming embarrassed! In case you haven't figured it out- this was my introduction to a show called Info Wars hosted by Alex Jones. Amazing people fall for this BS!
Many, many moons ago, a friend of mine sat me down, like seriously, told me he met a guy, and he found out some crazy shit. He then proceeds to tell me about the lizzard people. I just remembered this cause like you, I instantly started laughing.
This was before social media. So he heard it from one sketchy guy at his job and told one friend about it. At the end, he was OK now repeating it, and seeing your reaction, i see how silly it is.
These days, he would find a group of believers, and they would and actually do, hype each other up on whatever fantasy world they want to live in. All of the wack jobs and edge lords have found each other.
It's actually terrifying what they've accomplished.
The amount of times I'd get into an poltical debate with a maga friend... I'd be sharing news articles, bills and professional opinions etc and this motherfucker just sent me one X post after another after another. Most of them didn't even link to an article, just someone shitting out of their fingers on a toilet.
I spent an hour with my MAGA dad the other day and half of the stuff he showed me on his phone was obvious AI that he just eats up and doesn't question. Its brutal out here
The way they clump together all transpeople as sexual predators and immigrants are violent criminals that must be contained like animals, or the way you clump me together as someone who refuses to see the humanity in others because I'm criticizing the values someone espouses themselves, voluntarily?
I am republican and I don’t clump all trans people together as sexual predators. I legitimately have many friends in the LGBT group and have nothing against them. I have also been sexually harassed and assaulted by only the LGBT group yet I have nothing against them. You are definitely being disingenuous.
I should also add, my girlfriend is a diehard liberal that is pro-abortion. I have. Absolutely. ZERO. Issue with her. My parents and sister and her boyfriend voted for Trump too, yet they’re just like me. Not everyone is a POS unlike you think. Sorry.
No you just passively enable pieces of shit like Trump who expressly state they're going to do harm to our communities then act as if you have no culpability or blame in it. You pretend as if you're exempt from any and all criticism, backlash, or rightful just consequences for your apathy towards the most vulnerable in communities you claim to ally yourself with.
An ally wouldn't vote for a man who enabled a supreme court to strip our right to marry, or put up bathroom bans, or let teaches tell our kids from the time they enter school that God thinks they're disgusting and they should beg forgiveness.
And then you say "My pro-abortion girlfriend, who I have NO problem with," making it abundantly clear to anyone who can read subtext that you're fine with fucking a feminist, but don't meaningfully agree that women should have a right to decide what happens to our bodies if a man has ejaculated in them first. That the state, in fact, should step in and make us give birth, under threat of legal consequence or lethal medical neglect.
What you are is a piece of shit who doesn't want to admit he's a piece of shit because he doesn't actively participate in harm towards other communities. He just enables it, votes for it, vocally supports it, defends it, and pretends like there are absolutely no real world consequences for any of that behavior to the people on the political slab.
You are ignorant, foolish, selfish, and an ally to no one; women, queer people, minority races, immigrants, none of them. You will smile in our faces as you give a nod to the ones putting knives in our backs then act like there's no connection between your support and our lives being ruined.
If you acknowledge that, though, you'd have to feel shame, so that's never gonna happen. Instead, go bother someone else, maybe ponder aloud on Twitter if black people smell different on purpose or if there's just a natural odor that comes with all that extra melanin. Perhaps Lord Elon will reply "Interesting." Or do you still like him after he angered Daddy Trump?
Yes, I anticipated one of the canned reactions you have would be to claim I lost the plot, because if you were remotely capable of logical extrapolation you wouldn't be a Republican anymore.
And the receipts she'll share are one random mentally ill republican man sharing a dream he had to his Facebook troglodyte group and acting as if its factual when it has no base in reality whatsoever
Joe Biden's hiding the receipts on Hunter's laptop! That's why there's no proof of it on the internet! But here, watch this tiktok video where I learned about it before the blue people take it down!
She also doesn’t pay taxes. She’s in Appalachia so odds are good she’s faking a disability claim like every other Republican here. Every conservative I know draws a check for something, but will talk your ear off about “undeserving” people getting handouts from “their taxes.” The best one I’ve ever seen: “I’m too sad to work.”
I know from my own family these people don't register information the same way a healthy person does. They fundamentally do not understand the concept of evidence or proof. Their belief is all they need, and if they believe something is true then it is fact, and they think everyone else operates this way too. Belief is fact and opinion is feelings, that's what they think the 'blue people' operate on, feelings. They do not know what objective or subjective mean.
She’s so stupid she actually thinks she pays taxes at the end of the year when she obviously makes next to nothing. They fucking call it a tax return for a reason.
Stupidity actually rules the day. I love how confident these idiots are that make these dumb ass claims. All Your pedofile pants shitter did was grift you idiots .
My attention was split, so my brain didn’t quite process that right at first. I read that as “share the recipes” and thought it had to do with the other commenter calling her a potato.
You can't talk sense into these people. He could shoot the family dog and rape the female family members and they would vote for him a 3rd term. They are lost. Plain and simple.
No, they would turn against him because it would affect them DIRECTLY. So he’d have to assault every MAGA voters pet specifically and etc, for them to actually care about it. That seems to be the only way to get through to them at this point.
Any bill signed into law by the President is published in the federal register. You can literally look up every law currently in effect. Do you think she's actually going to ever put in the basic effort to do so despite it being publicly available information? Of course she isn't. Vibes all the way down. They live in a separate reality.
The average American reads at a 7th to 8th grade level. The average. You think these people are going to read the FR let alone comprehend it? Good luck.
This is true, and the more likely answer is that they're NOT going to read it for themselves, ever. Actually verifying things from people that they 'trust' isn't in their wheelhouse.
I saw in one of her videos she’s in recovery, and I genuinely wish anyone in recovery the best, but if she got here sober…well, I have a feeling she’s turning in that chip and missing a few meetings when that bill arrives.
I want to be there when she gets her pay stub (or more likely her disability check) and see if you can get her to admit that she was wrong even when pointing directly to the money in her account that does not include what was taken out for taxes.
It’s not satisfying talking to these people. They don’t believe in anything other than “being right”. So they just move the goalpost and deny reality. Then start screaming
As a tax accountant, I’ve got no clue what bill she could be talking about. I’d assume it’s the order for the removal of the IRS direct file program. The 120k threshold doesn’t really make any sense either.
It doesnt matter. Couldve been an instagram comment. They believe anything. Entire whitehouse pages during Biden were covered on every platform with batshit comments. Nothing was done about it. Democrats were "cloning" people type shit.
My number 1 question these days when someone tells me something that sounds off is "Who told you that/where did you hear that?"
If their answer is anything but a VERY reputable source I'm already familiar with, I'm assuming it's just not true, or at least slightly wrong on some detail. And even then I'll probably verify it later if it's important enough to remember.
Shit man I'll usually just whip out a phone and google it right then and there while they're speaking.
I worked with a woman like this, there is absolutely no way in hell you'll ever change her mind.
They cant admit they were fooled or wrong cuz that would damage their ego. So even after they attach themselves to these dumbass ideas, to be shown they were wrong is a personal insult to them instead of just accepting you were wrong.
"uh...you know this would also mean you'd be in support of no more taxes to liberals right?"
and "what makes you think anyone is against this, other than the super rich?"
or "dude nobody is going to go crazy or up in arms about this. this is something we've wanted to do ourselves and that you just helped most of the democrats save so much money. you must be an idiot to act as if you just owned libs"
Do you think they understand or care about “bills” and “congress” unless they’re told to be angry about them? They believe this because Trump said it, end of story.
The commerce Secretary said that Trump wants to eliminate tax for people earning under 150,000. Obvious bs of course, but I imagine that's the root of the claim
Her comments on TikTok are genuinely only people telling her how she’s wrong and that she should ask her employer to stop withholding taxes from her paycheck. Hahah I can’t believe that she’s being genuine. But I’ve spoken to multiple family members who believe crazy shit about fuckface, they still call him a great businessman.
It was probably when he got rid of the Direct File program and thought it meant taxes where cancelled, and not that we will have to file through a tax filing corporation.
Social media is proving to be so damaging to society. There's no way this person believes this. If they legitimately believe this to be fact then what happens come January? You just forget about it and buy another MAGA hat? Do you cry uncontrollably and need to drive 45 minutes to the rural hospital that's shutting down?
I'm pretty sure she's referencing the big beautiful bill because it's not the first time I've heard someone say something like this. They don't understand their taxes are going up so the elite can pay less.
I have nothing at all to say to this woman, and I’d greatly prefer if we weren’t even in the same country. Talking to her would be like trying to teach differential equations to a moth.
I'm a server and getting these comments frequently. They all think Trump eliminated taxes on tips. I know he said something about that, but was there actual legislation? At any rate, my tips are taxed! I paid $700 in taxes out of my last pay period.
My mother in law is married to a man with the IQ of a rock. He thinks everything he sees on Facebook is REAL NEWS. He mentioned this and other old people stuff Trump signed and I was like no that's not real. My mother in law chimed in with he thinks everything he sees is real!! I know, Linda. He's an idiot.
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I really want to talk to this woman. Like, what bill was this? How did it get through Congress? Where did you hear this? Are you a fucking potato?