I got my haircut today by my longtime barber. He is a Vietnamese refugee who became a citizen in the 70s. He is a huge Trumper, a non-critical thinker, but watches his Fox and OAN and considers himself extremely politically astute. He will never vote for the Democrats because they are “close to being communist, and he knows all about communist from his time living in Vietnam”, don’t you know….
We’ve had a truce for some time where we don’t really get into politics. Today he wanted to talk about DOGE, and why it was good to eliminate the fraud. I told him the fraud was a lie, they just wanted to get rid of anyone who could stop Trump from implementing his project 25 plans.
He then switched to how terrible it is that people don’t get along because of politics. Because he wouldn’t drop it, I told him it is no longer politics. We are no longer fighting about trickle down economics, or fighting about Middle East policy. We have a pathological, liar, felon, rapist, con man - supported by white supremacists - who is destroying the efficiency and fabric of American government to an extent that can’t be cured if we ever get a Democrat back in.
He told me it was “ silly for politics to interfere with friends and family”. At that point I’ve had enough and told him I no longer have anything to do with Republicans who voted for Trump in 2024, because they are fake Christians and false patriots who are actually traitors- and although I wish the upcoming American pain could be confined to people who voted for Trump, I am looking forward to lots of pain in rural and stupid GOP strongholds. At this point, he was getting pissed at me, and said that I was brainwashed. He doesn’t make much at his hair cutting, and his federal employee wife is the big breadwinner in the family. He then told me his wife had to give five reasons why she should be retained, and she gave 15 so she would be kept. I laughed and said she’s gonna be fired anyway, and told him to call up Trump on the line when she gets fired and explain why that was wrong.
Whelp, I was advised that I need a new barber.