How to Talk Politics Without Making It Awkward (2023)

QUOTE: This romantic drive reminds me of the time COVID-19 drove the country crazy, even though the national survival rate before vaccines was 98.2% – and the survival rate for people aged 0-49 was over 99.6%.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (13 April 2021). COVID Data Tracker.

U.S. Food & Drug Administration. (22 September 2021). FDA Authorizes Booster Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Certain Populations.

QUOTE: Speaking of the free-falling U.S. dollar! Did you know during Biden's first year in office, Americans lost roughly $7,100 in spending power?

Heritage Foundation. (13 December 2022). Heritage Expert: November Inflation Numbers Show Biden’s Policies Have Cost American Families $7,100 In Annual Income.

QUOTE: Whatever's clever, Mister! The top 1% wealthiest people in the world are responsible for as much carbon emissions as the poorest 66% of all humanity (or 5 BILLION people), anyways!

Khalfan, A., Nilsson Lewis, A., Aguilar, C., Lawson, M., Jayoussi, S., Persson, J., Dabi, N. & Acharya, S. (20 November 2023). Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%. Oxfam International.

QUOTE: Speaking of media-manufactured outrage, does anyone else remember when CNN's Technical Director was caught on camera saying, "Our focus was to get Trump out of office"? And then he called climate change "the next pandemic-like story that we'll beat to death"?

Project Veritas. (13 April 2021). PART 1: CNN Director Admits Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency … ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That’.

QUOTE: Of course, dear! Unlike the book ban "crisis." Remember, Mommy told you: There's 13,318 public school districts. In the first half of the '22-23 school year, only 66 (or 0.5%) banned a book from their tax-payer-funded programs.

National Center for Education Statistics. (2022). Number of Public School Districts and Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools: Selected School Years, 1869-70 through 2021-22.

PEN America.(20 April 2023). Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools.

QUOTE: Heeyyyy! Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Unlike Biden's economic and commerce appointees. The median number of years of business experience among the top 68 officials in Biden's administration is ZERO. Z-E-R-O.

Moore, S. & Decker, J. (2022). Not Ready for Prime Time Players: Majority of Biden Appointees Have Zero Years of Business Experience. Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

QUOTE: Yes, ma'am! But it's always worth double-checking – just like elections! Fun fact: Two-thirds of all challenges to certifying a presidential election have been brought by Democrats!

Office of the Historian. (2020). Congress and the Case of the Faithless Elector. United States House of Representatives.

Office of the Historian. (n.d.) Electoral College Fast Facts. United States House of Representatives.

QUOTE: Wake up! Wake up! Santa brought presents! And Black Lives Matter brought $1-2 billion in damages, but only gave 33% of the $90 million they raised to charitable foundations!

Internal Revenue Service. (30 June 2022). Black Lives Matter Tax Documents. 

Kingson, J.A. (16 September 2020). Exclusive: $1 Billion-Plus Riot Damage Is Most Expensive in Insurance History. Axios.

Vincent, I. (27 May 2023). Only 33% of BLM’s $90M in Donations Helped Charitable Foundations. New York Post.

QUOTE: Oh Tom! No one can love anything more than Big Pharma loves the PREP Act COVID-19 Declaration that protects them from all vaccine-related liability – but I sure do love you a ton!

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (March 2020). Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act.

QUOTE: Imagine how the United Nations Human Rights Council must feel. 70% of their member countries are
non-democracies!

United Nations. (2023). Membership of the Human Rights Council for the 17th cycle, 1 January - 31 December 2023.

QUOTE: The CDC might. During COVID, they paid $420,000 to controversial data broker, SafeGraph, to monitor location-tracking on tens of millions of U.S. phones.

Cox, J. (3 May 2022). CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See if Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders. VICE.

QUOTE: Thank goodness! Because more terrorist suspects crossed the Southern Border in Fiscal Year 2023 than all of 2017-22 combined!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (n.d.). Enforcement Statistics Fiscal Year 2023.

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