She is still on facebook (and won't leave until her family moves to gab or something else) and her cousin messaged her, handing her a story that Moscow and Beijing have been bombed and that we have to prepare for retaliation. I told her I've heard no such thing and to find out where her cousin heard this crap. She was defending her cousin, saying she is dependable, blah blah blah. I told her to chill out, and let me know when she has a link because the one president that did not start a war would not bomb two countries out of the blue. I even checked RT to see (if Russia was bombed, RT would definitely have it up) and there was nothing. Obviously, the left is at work peddling this crap and trying to scare people.
On top of that, an Army vet she's friends with on FB told her to get 10-14 days of food and water because martial law is imminent. I told her that wasn't bad advice and that I had said she should do that this weekend when I visited. Not sure if he's in the know or what, but the combo of this and the above freaked her out.
If you know anyone who has heard similar things, let me know if they have links. I have yet to find anything making such claims.
That might explain it. I really don't know much about Charlie Ward but thought he was a Trump supporter... no Trump supporter would be spouting this crap. And if the military actually obeyed the DS and went around Trump to drop bombs.... I can't even imagine it.
I couldn't calm my mom with the no outside comms thing. I'm not sure she buys into it yet, but she was definitely hoping over the weekend the more I talked to her. Now if I could just get her away from facebook so she isn't fed crap constantly.
I think you nailed it with Fox. They built up trust so people would buy it when they turned on Trump. The assumed their followers were as stupid as CNN loyalists and were shocked as hell when they learned otherwise. I think many of the republicans played the same game, pretending to be loyal to build trust, thinking people would follow them instead of Trump when they turned on him (Graham, for example, once no-name was removed from the board).