Lost a bunch of longtime friends over this last election, it was just too much and now actively cheering on this authoritarian administration? Yeah, you turned into a terrible person that I don’t trust anymore. Cruelty, selfishness, misogyny, racism. When did these become your guiding principles?
When family supports a convicted felon, liar, sexual abuser, and thief, then yes, it is time to turn your back on them. For me it is about moral values and if you support that kind pf person I have every reason to question your values.
Trumpers are obnoxious. They constantly blurt out Fox News' talking points that have nothing to do with conversation going on around them. Most of those talking points are about hate. I refuse to talk to or be around 2 family members and 2 friends. I don't expect to see any of them ever again.
They still believed him after all the lies from 1st term, during Biden term and now?! That's on them. They deserve it. They are not owed love from their kids if they can't respect them.
The fact that he voted for Trump, knowing full well that he has two trans daughters, is why I refuse to even refer to my chromosome donor as "my dad" anymore.
I have a strong feeling son was protecting his kids from something more than an opinion about peace and foreign policy. Probably more likely doesn’t want them around someone who can make excuses for lying, racism, SA, fraud and misogyny.
I have an aunt and uncle I’m super close to who voted for this ass-hat. I haven’t made an effort to see them since Inauguration Day.
I had told them the year before: I don’t discuss politics with family, just to see their smiling faces as they watch Fox and cheered for him on Inauguration Day.
Then, watching them criticize Michelle Obama for not being present at the inauguration; I choose not to point out that Trump didn’t go to Biden’s inauguration 🤷🏻♀️
I can only take so much frustration & pettiness as people decide to cross my boundaries, helping to elect & defend a felon.
"I was really disturbed reading this and then I found this bag of Lays Bacon Grilled Cheese potato chips. Being American I failed to resist the distraction."
Sure, she voted for him simply because she didn't want wars. I don't believe that for one second. That's an attempt at justification, and it doesn't work for me. Her profile pic alone demonstrates that she is a member of the cult. Why would anyone believe a single promise he made?
I have relatives I can no longer have a conversation with. I helped one cousin, who was adopted and thought he was an only child, find two other siblings also adopted, through DNA. He won't speak to me because he moved to Texas and joined the maga cult.
I suspect Sherrie wasnt supporting chump purely to have no wars. Anybody voting for him 3 times is doing it for more reasons than that. I bet she is really a vile person and her son doesnt like it, but she wont say that in public.
No sympathy. The information about who Trump was & is has always been there. He's provided it by his behavior, from his own mouth & with his anti-democratic, oligarchical policies.
People chose to ignore all of that because he promised to punish the people they hated.
I wager that the mother who voted for Trump thought she was protecting the rest of us from those she thought unstable -- Hillary, Joe and Kamala. I disagree that Trump voters are unstable, but they were and are definitely deluded, voting in a with a history of bankruptcies.
My Mom recently died so I don't have to yell at her any longer.
My Dad is still here and my text stream to him is filled with the horror that I see every day. Hoping beyond hope that he'll eventually break out of the fog and apologize to me, my siblings, his grandkids and great grandson.
What the hell is wrong with this twat? I wouldn’t give up my child and grandchild for Jesus Fucking Christ!! Certainly not for the Orange Fucking Menace!! Cult!!
My father called me on my 50th birthday and started a political argument with me. He doesn't want to talk to me because I think people should be able to eat, go to good schools and the doctor. Truthfully? It really isn't a loss. I can't imagine not wanting a relationship because somebody cares?
We have never seen eye to eye. He has always been right leaning, but he is entitled to have an extra opinion that is better than yours because he is smarter than you and earned it. He is very alpha male, and it has only gotten worse as he has aged.
A lot of people tend to shift right as they age because they become wealthier and their self-interest is to preserve what they've gotten. They also have fewer worries about long term consequences of things like environmental policies or going to war. Old people don't go to war - they send the kids.
There are outliers in every group. And the tendency to swing from one side of the political spectrum to the other with age does seem to be generational. The Silent Generation (pre-Boomer) tended to not shift. Boomers were the biggest shift from left to right (also the most selfish generation).
A cursory scan of scientific literature did not help support a hypothesis that [age-related] neurodegenerative processes--damage to the brain--cause one to adopt (more) right-wing views, or even to show anecdotes (case reports) of this
There is the case of Fetterman, who people said was "liberal"
The other side of the coin is that everyone is entitled to vote the way they want without coercion. As much as I hate to say it, son was wrong to demand it.
Now if he'd said she wasn't allowed to show her support for Trump while engaging with her grandchild & she wouldn't agree, that's different.
What if it had been the other way around? If he'd said if she *didn't* vote for Trump, she couldn't see the grandchild? Would you still feel it was appropriate?
That "gotcha" doesn't work, as Trump is still the malignant issue. It's not unreasonable to expect people we CHOOSE to spend time with and allow access to our children to, to have basic decency. No one is obligated to ever tolerate people who want masked gunmen to abduct political targets.
I agree Trump is a malignant issue & access to our children should be based on human decency.
I disagree that manipulating anyone's vote is wrong, even if they're believing the lies about who will start wars. That would make us no better than them.
No! stop mislabeling, it's a deeply rooted sign of a cultist. That's the problem we need to start calling these fuckers what they are, they are in a cult of personality and they are CULTIST point blank full stop. Until we start calling a spade a spade nothing is going to change.
It isn't using a child as a weapon. My parents got the hint that they will not talk about Fat Caligula in my or my son's presence, or we go no contact. I won't allow them to shape him into a little nazi who wants masked men with guns to snatch up the neighbors.
They are better off without this person in their life. Voting for Trump is a symptom of a far greater malaise. Voting for Trump is not why she has been cut off but if believing that gets her through the day…..
My dad and I barely speak anymore. Didn't have a great relationship to begin with, but voting for trump 3 times and the looming threat my wife losing her job of 20 years has changed that alot. I let him see his grandkids, but he has been told that he is not to talk politics in front of them.
It’s pretty common. guy down the street was bragging that he and his second wife have not spoken with any of their children since they voted for him the first time around. Apparently one of their kids is gay.
I feel like these stories are never just about a vote or votes for Trump. Last straw? Thing we can say out loud? Sure, but I bet they had a bad relationship before the Trump vote(s).
This is evangelical behavior. They isolated their LGBTQ+ children, non-believing children, those who got abortions, ... Because their cult tells them to prioritize their church direction over everything. They also are taught you cannot be a Democrat and be a christian.
Absolutely. If you choose a convicted felon over a family member, then you need to seek counseling. If you can't do that, you need to take lots of time to analyze yourself and figure out why a pathological liar/sexual predator is more important to you than your own flesh and blood.
I have a neighbor whose daughter in her 30s will not talk to her over being a trump supporter. My neighbor says her daughter suffers from trump derangement syndrome. I asked her if her allegiance to trump is more important than her relationship with her daughter, who is deranged?
Went to the beach with my family and I know that my brother in law voted for Trump. We didn’t talk politics, we talked about family. Know where to call the line.
Yeah, I have largely stopped talking to and seeing my parents but it was because I showed them stories of children starving to death in Africa because of USAID cuts and their response was that we just have to root out waste and fraud.
Tragic, painful, and yet good. Good that many Americans are saying "no" even to their own parents, and other relatives. I wonder how many have begun to clue in, and how many never will?
Be fair, this is the same country who mindless recited pledges every morning and salutes a flag while profession to be Christian or going to church, where the priest wears a rolex , flys a private jet and ignores the plight of the needy, while telling you he can fix your life for you...
It's strange the people we knew for years and years and seemed somewhat "normal" crawled out from under their rocks with Trump. We've had to do some relationship winnowing too. Sadly, some were family.
My brother chose him instead of me. I haven't spoken to him since he last voted for him again. He knew the game plan for me & my husband, but he loved tRump more than me.
FAFO. Her son doesn’t want his kids growing up having to deal with people who have no intelligence and reasoning skills. I can’t say I blame him. (And if she voted for him 3 times, more than likely his childhood was filled with Church trauma and other things he doesn’t want around his kids.)
Respectfully disagree. This is on Sherrie and and her fellow estranged Trump voters. They cast the votes. They decided not to avail themselves of the ample information available about this man. They chose their loyalty to a hat over contact with their own families. It's 100% on them.
If I had to guess, there was a larger problem than just Trump. My dad and I disagree on politics all the time, but I wouldn't think of shutting him out of my life.
I would love to meet her son and shake his hand for sticking by his morals.
If he’s raising his daughter the way I think he is, how as a grandmother, can you explain to her you voted for a man who wants to slowly strip your rights away when she grows up?
That’s the question I have for people like Sherrie. I knew this one woman who proudly stated she doesn’t vote despite having a young 11 year old daughter. Her husband voted for Trump and I’m like “so you want your daughter to be treated like a handmaiden in the future?”
No way in hell would I let a Trumper have access to my child. Once I hear you utter one Maga word we are done. I'm not letting an unstable nut job who is out of touch with reality anywhere near my child or me!!
Same here. Not fun. I miss the good times, but I cannot look at them now without thinking, "YOU helped make all of this happen because you thought he was funny and would make you rich."
I think a lot of us have lost family members & friends because they voted for that man. I can't look at them without seeing him & knowing they didn't see how wrong it was to vote for him.
This is accurate. And if dare watch any real news network, they scoff at you & tell you that you are brainwashed. It's all-around insanity & I want no part in it.
Apparently, my sister, who is a conservative but at least not a lunatic, is really upset that after retiring, my mother basically sits in bed and watches Fox News all day to get worked up and angry. It's insane.
So many families can relate. My sister broke my heart. We were so close, but a few wacky, abusive Republican boyfriends twisted her mind along the way into a Kool-Aid-drinking MAGA! She now lives as a recluse.
I hate everyone that voted for Trump for these reasons, aside from all the obvious ones:
1. They voted to make my and my families finances worse
2. They voted to make my and my families health worse
3. They voted to take away my and my families Social Security
She literally voted to take away her granddaughters civil and human rights. Now she wants to claim it’s about not wanting a war?!? Right. I guarantee her son brought up his daughter’s human rights and she laughed it off.
Same with my sister. Really, growing up I would have never known. She just kept putting political stupidity on FB and I gave her a chance to stop the feeds on timeline, so I 1st gave her a 30 day time out. After, a total "block". Her loss, not mine.🤷♂️
I lost two close friends because they not only voted Trump, but also started to spout hatred, ignorance, and bigotry. One said that she figured that I would agree with her. Uh, have you talked to me...like ever?
Friendships have ended, relationships ended, families ended, all because of the insane acts of one single person who should be in prison, not in the white house...
I'm sorry George, no compassion left for these people. They get what they deserve, what they voted for. They voted for one person over the country. I have no time for that kind of person.
Well, Sherrie Jackal, it sounds like your son is simply protecting his daughter from you. I mean, I could list the different things that you'd bring to the table that would be nothing more than brainwashing, child abuse, and, overall, crimes against humanity.
It's mind-boggling the people who complain about being cut out either don't consume any news (or accurate news, I should say) or perform mental gymnastics to justify TACO and their vote.
Like, are you paying *any* attention to the world around you?
So she willingly lost contact with her son because she thought the guy who just started a USA war in the Middle East on false grounds wouldn't start any wars
You're right; saying now that "I don't want wars/I didn't vote for wars" **WHEN YOU VOTED MULTIPLE TIMES FOR THE PEDOPHILE, CRIMINAL FRAUD, RAPIST DICTATOR** isn't being whiny, **IT'S BEING INCREDIBLY STUPID & WHINY**.
Sherrie, & every other magat:
THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR
I haven't talked to my MAGA dad in years. There are underlying character issues that caused him to willingly vote for this shit. Things that will never change regardless of who's on the ballot. Even if he soured on Trump, I don't think we'd talk again. Any "clarity" would be for the wrong reasons.
Only because they intentionally avoid any information source that doesn't tell them what they want to hear.
The truth is out there, they just prefer to remain ignorant.
Exactly. Like why would anyone vote for the "grab their pussy" guy? Every time he was exposed, I thought he was done. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYONE VOTED FOR HIM. My brain is broken trying to understand.
That’s not an excuse to vote for a racist, homophobic, rapist, felon three times. If you have access to a phone, computer, and/or library you can damn well do some research. Including a “how to know if a source of information is credible” search. Ignorance isn’t an excuse.
Your point? It’s still not an excuse. Anyone claiming they didn’t know much about who they were voting for is just as complicit as those who willingly voted for the orange dictator. They had resources & chose not to care enough to pay attention. It’s willful ignorance & they can fuck a glass cactus.
Yep. Even though Trump never said "no new wars unless I think (without evidence) that Iran is about to get nukes".
But suddenly new wars in the Middle East are OK because their criminal orange Dear Leader said so.
It's a cult.
Similar situation in my husband's family. We have not had contact since covid due to their relentless MAGA idiocy. Sad, but necessary for our mental health.
This accidental good parenting is an example of why Moms for Liberty & other white nationalist "concerned parents" 503c4 groups are so rabid about books, teachers, curriculum: They deeply fear their own children becoming decent enough to recognize their parents are shit and brave enough to say so.
So she chose a lying incompetent felon over her family. Actions have consequences. Her son has the right to protect his child from the ignorant, including family.
I must say, I miss the people I have cut out of my life, but I don’t associate with people that support fascists. And I am worried. My granddaughter is going to spend a month with her other grandparents and there are felon 47 supporters on the at side of the family.
I wouldn't call those friends, or even acquaintances, so much as "people I occasionally share space, and have to maintain civility with", despite their cult actively wanting to erase me and mine.
Don't be silly. Claiming to be anti-war is just a Trumpist's cowardly way to say they are an un-American racist, a homophobe, don't give a damn about women and children, and lusted after someone who would hurt and kill all the people you hate, and voted for a lifetime criminal because of it.
I mean, I’m skeptical that that’s really what her vote was based on. To believe his word, she had to already inclined to ignore that he lies more than he tells the truth.
Yeah, and even if they are that gullible no way a lifetime GOP voter is suddenly anti-war so strongly they prioritize it over everything else about him that goes against everything else they used to claim to value.
truth will be that she is a raging racist who uses the ' trump wants peace ' bullshit to vote for him because she knows he is going to enable bunches of thugs to roam the streets attacking brown people.
I have a female friend with 2 young daughters who voted for him all three times. Claimed to be pro-choice. On Inauguration Day this year, she posted a photo of DJT with his little fists and some nonsense about “Daddy” being back in charge and ending forever wars. I just shook my head.
Cutting Medicaid
Racism
Rape
Stealing from children’s cancer charity
Watching 14 year girls old get undressed and boasting about it
Injecting detergent
Openly mocking a disabled man
Rampant homophobia
Renaming bases with confederate names
Rank idiocy
Wars
The vote for Trump by my now 93 yo father raised long buried but unresolved feelings of him rejecting me and my family. He divorced my mother after 32 years of marriage. I guess he divorced himself from his kids and grandkids too. I cut ties for many reasons. His vote for Donakd? Last straw.
If my father had lived he would have voted for him too. I cut off ties with him after he called me a bitch for saying I couldn't spend every Sunday with him because I had small children. He also kept trying to convert my kids to his religion. Enough.
As someone who went no contact with the majority of my family except my siblings and very low, carefully controlled contact with my parents, we warn them. Over and over. Most of us give them too many chances. Then when we say enough, they act blindsided. It would be funny if it weren't so damn sad.
This one hits really hard, too. My parents raised me to not be a bootlicker. To not be racist or homophobic. To never trust silver spoon rich boys. Then they went full MAGA. Worshipping the kind of "man" that my father in particular has been repeatedly screwed over by. An effete, whiny rich boy.
Geez. I am truly truly sorry. I hope they turn it around one day soon, so you can heal your relationship. In the meantime, please accept this Grandma hug: 🫂 Take good care of yourself, you’re worth it.
My sister and her husband are MAGA. I try not to bring up politics but she invariably does. She always has to make a dig at Biden or Democrats.
I tell her she needs to stop watching Fox and she always replies anything else is fake news which makes me not want to talk to her.
Because you are very stupid Sherrie. Dangerous stupid, to the point you WONT recognize how you could be hurting the child or family with your ingorance and undeserved self worth.
This is exactly it. People think I kicked them out because of “getting under my skin” or “differing opinions.” No. I kicked them out because they are such a danger to themselves that I don’t trust them not to be a danger to me and my loved ones!
The "no wars" was just an excuse to cover for their racism; they'll jump on the war train so fast that you'd think that they were in a Paris Metro station during rush hour.
And with all of that she still has that stupid photo as her profile pic. Imagine letting your own child go because you love someone like Trump. Brain dead.
The hardest part for me is I no longer trust my own parents because they can't see they're the ones who are the nazis turning in the Jews but he sure likes brown landscaping crew he's used for over a decade. They're the boiled dead frogs and they will die being brainwashed by a convicted felon.
I haven't spoken to my sister in over 4 yrs. She is hateful, cruel & vindictive, so of course a huge Trump supporter. The character defects are why we don't speak. The fact that she's a Trumper is just the icing on the shit cake.
My Cuban friends laughed at me in 2015 when I said know your history. Like Castro, we will be divided. Oh well.... now they have friend and family being deported.
We begged our families not to vote for him. Their vote is not the reason many of their families want nothing to do with them. Their shared hateful beliefs with Trump is the reason. It is hard to have that sort of toxic shit in your life and your kids lives day in and day out.
They loved the war he waged on the poor, the gay, the trans, all the civil liberties we have in this country, they loved the wars he waged on women calling them nasty, raping them, molesting girls, Epstein shit, they ate all that up. Don’t tell me these people who voted for him are anti war. BS
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Family is family and many adults have shut their parents out of their lives and visa versa
Does family matter or is it all about the individual family be dammed?
They don't even have to outright show a political stance; they often show it very clearly thru their beliefs and actions.
For many, finding thier own family is the norm; it's the only thing they can do to protect themselves these days.
Turning their back on abusive family is self care
I had told them the year before: I don’t discuss politics with family, just to see their smiling faces as they watch Fox and cheered for him on Inauguration Day.
I can only take so much frustration & pettiness as people decide to cross my boundaries, helping to elect & defend a felon.
Respect lost.
Buzz Dupp.
People chose to ignore all of that because he promised to punish the people they hated.
My Dad is still here and my text stream to him is filled with the horror that I see every day. Hoping beyond hope that he'll eventually break out of the fog and apologize to me, my siblings, his grandkids and great grandson.
"oh, they'll never touch medicare"
"oh, they'll never touch social security"
justified by
"Dems ran a stupid candidate"
and
"Biden let in 21 million illegal immigrants that get benefits and can vote for democrats, taking away the ability for republicans to get voted in"
I don't think it's a coincidence that as one gets older, they often go from political left to political right
This older parent. My daughter sees the truth and never supported Trump. And neither have I.
Yes, I don't have a net worth of $10 million, so that might explain something
But Pritzker is a billionaire, 5 years younger than I, I think he's a "lefty" (??)
There is the case of Fetterman, who people said was "liberal"
Either it mattered, and his mother helped cause this mess, or it didn’t matter and she decided to vice signal rather than simply not voting.
Now if he'd said she wasn't allowed to show her support for Trump while engaging with her grandchild & she wouldn't agree, that's different.
Everyone has their own choice about who they give time too.
She got what she was looking for. Thinking she would win this one.
Good on the son💙
Should be so proud.
If you do, then we'll have to agree to disagree.
I disagree that manipulating anyone's vote is wrong, even if they're believing the lies about who will start wars. That would make us no better than them.
We differ on how best to travel the high roads.
My grandchild is before everything.
I’m speaking about her choices and if he said that I would say no I am not voting for a liar and a Con.
Ugh
Have trouble getting cheques.
Son says choose me and your granddaughter…..
They’ll do anything but think critically.
Unbelievably moronic.
A victim… always a victim.
Because they have no sense of self.
No war,
War good.
Also, I'm not religious, but I'm looking at Uncle Alf's X handle and I really don't think "h8" was a big part of Christ's message.
So here we are.
It would take a show of great remorse and understanding to redeem Trump voters.
If he’s raising his daughter the way I think he is, how as a grandmother, can you explain to her you voted for a man who wants to slowly strip your rights away when she grows up?
That woman does not deserve a relationship with her son or grandchild…anyone who votes for a fascist doesn’t deserve anything good in their life.
1. They voted to make my and my families finances worse
2. They voted to make my and my families health worse
3. They voted to take away my and my families Social Security
But, hey! You've always got your cult!
Like, are you paying *any* attention to the world around you?
You're right; saying now that "I don't want wars/I didn't vote for wars" **WHEN YOU VOTED MULTIPLE TIMES FOR THE PEDOPHILE, CRIMINAL FRAUD, RAPIST DICTATOR** isn't being whiny, **IT'S BEING INCREDIBLY STUPID & WHINY**.
Sherrie, & every other magat:
THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR
The truth is out there, they just prefer to remain ignorant.
But suddenly new wars in the Middle East are OK because their criminal orange Dear Leader said so.
It's a cult.
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I am okay with:
Cutting Medicaid
Racism
Rape
Stealing from children’s cancer charity
Watching 14 year girls old get undressed and boasting about it
Injecting detergent
Openly mocking a disabled man
Rampant homophobia
Renaming bases with confederate names
Rank idiocy
Wars
I tell her she needs to stop watching Fox and she always replies anything else is fake news which makes me not want to talk to her.
Perhaps that's been said, didn't read all comments.
#BuyersRemorse
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