A convo I had today with a magat

[Dorothy V]

She is my insurance lady and a most enthusiastic magat over all the things the orange monstrosity does. She loves the idea of deportations, taking over Greenland et al, getting rid of all sorts of agencies, and everything else little magats are supposed to just love. So I mentioned Musk. Her tone changed at once. She trashed Musk for about five minutes and thinks the orange monstrosity can't get shed of him quick enough, although in the same breath she said the orange monstrosity is using Musk and will dump him as soon as it has gotten what it wants from him. I didn't bother telling her Musk was using the orange monstrosity. Why waste my breath? Still, it was nice seeing a magat hates Musk as much as I do. As for her opinion of the orange monstrosity, she's beyond reaching, but she does hope the US stays in NATO, since somebody having her orange god's back is always good. I didn't say anything to that either, another waste of breath. I am satisfied that if it takes us out of NATO, she'd applaud it - and if it keeps Musk around, she'd approve of that too regardless of what she said about him.
We didn't get around to the price of eggs. By the time we'd spoken for about 15 minutes I was having trouble keeping a straight face.
Can't trust a damned thing a magat says. At least she's been a good insurance lady. Keep the subject on term life and she's sensible.

[rzemanfl]

1. Dorothy, if you could have a conversation that long with a MAGAT...

I hate to say it, but you aren't in Kansas anymore.

[Dorothy V]

2. Good Lord, I hope not! I'm in Arkansas!

I Have to be good at talking to magats - I'm up to my eyeballs in them here!

[rzemanfl]

3. Florida is the same way. I just don't speak to them.

My response was based on your name, not your location. Welcome to DU.

[Dorothy V]

5. Thanks for the welcome, and a friendly reminder ...

Just in case you get tempted by my name again, I allow OZ jokes only if somebody can come up with one I haven't heard before. As I've been stuck with my name for almost 72 years now, good luck with that!

[rzemanfl]

7. My eldest daughter, after seeing the Wizard of Oz for the first time at around 3 years of age,

refused be called by her given name and said she was "Dorothy Gale from Kansas." We were going to have her name legally changed when she grew out of it. She would have been fascinated by a teenager named Dorothy. She met a middle-aged adult named Dorothy and was in awe of her.

[roamer65]

4. Going to get interesting in a Medicaid heavy state like AR.

[Dorothy V]

6. It's gonna get plumb awful!

I am worried sick about my DiL in Oklahoma. She had her first heart attack when she was only 31. Now she also has bum kidneys, her knees are kaput, and her lungs sound like she's spent her life chain-smoking cigars - except she's never smoked. Son is an electrician and makes good money but good money goes only so far. She NEEDS her Medicaid!
At least if she passes I won't have to do anything - Son would beat me to it.

[Ms. Toad]

8. And you trust this person to handle your insurance? n/t

[bluestarone]

9. THAT was my automatic thought!

No way in hell!!

[Dorothy V]

10. Yes. She's not only been our insurance agent since about 2005, all the other insurance agents around here are also

magats. Magats are everywhere I go, the pharmacy, the supermarket, the dollar stores, the banks, Everywhere. So long as we are sticking to business, they do well enough. It is actually unusual for one to spout off like she did, I think they often just assume I am one of them. I'm starting to think that in this case she was trying to convince herself.
Those who know I am not one of them tend to steer clear of mentioning anything about the orange monstrosity or the Dems to me because they know I'll say something that leaves them stuttering.

[Ms. Toad]

11. It isn't the spouting off that would concern me.

It is the (lack of) intelligence the specific beliefs she was spouting suggest. I have a Democratic insurance agent that I don't trust to make recommendations, since she doesn't understand all of the nuances. I do give her my business so that she gets the commission - only after I've done all of the research and decided what I want.

I wouldn't trust anyone who even entertains the idea of acquiring Greenland or the wholesale dumping federal agencies to advise me on insurance.

[Dorothy V]

13. I wasn't asking her for advice. If you must know, my husband died and I am transferring a life insurance policy he had

on me to our son. Cut and dried stuff. Son lives out of state and will then deal with his agent. Since he lives in OK, I expect his agent is also a magat.
How can I avoid them when they are everywhere around me and I can't afford to move to a blue state or city?
I do what I can to get at least some of them to hopefully think, but don't ask me to just lock myself in the house and stop doing anything, which is the only way I can avoid magats around here. I live in a small farm town in a mighty red area in Arkansas. My roots in this state go back before statehood, so even if I could afford to move I wouldn't, they are not running me out of my home.

[Ms. Toad]

14. I'm not suggesting you avoid them entirely.

I have a Trump supporting doctor. He is good in his areas of expertise, knows the local community of doctors so when I need something specialist - but run of the mill - he can appropriately refer me. He rejects the most extreme and nonsensical crap. And it is a good antidote for some of the biases he might have to be regularly exposed to a lesbian couple married 43+ years with a 34 year old daughter. I was just reacting to the specific (particularly extreme/idiotic) things you were reporting that she said. I would not expect someone who believes/supports acquiring Greenland against their will just because it is a nice shiny toy Trump was told he couldn't have (for example) to have enough brains to properly manage my insurance for a couple of decades.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Morbius]

12. Dorothy, have you considered moving? n/t