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by cakes
Wiping out the American dream, one small business at a time.
I was in Indiana for the weekend and my MAGA brother-in-law--who happens to have an autisic child (not severe)--brought up RFK and asked my thoughts on him. My BiL is a major dumbass, but I can see that he might actually be seeing light. Maybe not now, but I can see those gummed up gears in his mushy brain starting to turn. Anyway, as a response, I asked him if he knew of RFK's beliefs about autism. He said he hadn't heard. I told him that RFK thinks his son will never be able to function in society and that they will be burdens on us all. My wife chimed in and asked him what he thought about the registry that RFK wants for autistic people. He said he hadn't heard about that. He asked what they were for. My wife said, "I don't know, isn't that scary?" He looked like he was going to crap his pants.
Next, he brought up this crazy idea (I'm being sarcastic) that he discovered that only a handful of companies own everything. We laughed in his face and were like, "oh, you just learned this? We've been aware of that for the majority of our lives."
Next, we started talking about the soft power of the US. He asked a question, "What is soft power?" Now, this guy was in the air force, and then after that he became a cop, and now he's a construction worker. You'd think a man of the military would understand what soft power is, but maybe I'm the naive one. So, I explained to him what soft power meant and then talked about Trump destroying it all and going full in on military might and how stupid that is. Then I told him about Canada, Europe and Asia turning away from the US. Shit, Canada is looking to be the super power of North America now, they are building up their ports and infrastructure for energy exports.
He's dumb. He went on to say that democrats are awful. My wife and I were like, "WE KNOW". He shut up after that and seemed kind of depressed.
Anyway, the dude listens to Joe Rogan brocasts and thinks he's discovering secrets about the world. It's a real twist in the magaverse!
Double anyway, my sister-in-law went back to school so she can get a job. But her ultimate plan is to divorce him and be able to support their five kids.
Triple anyway, he's in a union, works for shitty companies, and at the moment is working shit hours for shit pay building an Amazon datacenter. The dude is a poster boy for a whipped American Trump supporter.