My parents are both dead, but a few of my friends still have parents in their 90s and what they do is turn on the tv for comfort and unfortunately it's usually turned to fox. It's sad really.
Yeah I get an earful. I usually just let it go. Really what’s the point. But some stuff I cannot let pass. His parents died when he was 5 & he got aid to dependent children until adult. But everybody else is a freeloader. I’m like, listen to yourself you hypocrite’. But it doesn’t stick. 😢
I finally cut them from my life after this election. I begrudgingly gave them all the benefit of the doubt about the 🍊🤡’s first term, and Biden won in 2020 so I let their votes slide then. But this time? Nope ☕️
My mom just told an old friend she could no longer be friends with her. It hurt her but after a while it was cathartic; letting go of that negativity and a person who doesn’t have the same values my mom believes the friend had.
So very sorry. Such a great loss for many of us. And frustrating as we're viewed the bad people simply because we want rights and dignity for every human
After 9/11 I kept close touch with Muslim American buddies to see how things were going. With rare exception, they said that when they shared their experiences of being discriminated against, harassed or even assaulted, they all had friends or even relatives say things like “but you understand why”.
Awful indeed, and awfully widespread enough that they didn’t even express disappointment that the excuses were coming from the most unexpected of people close to them. That was what they had already come to expect from even privately sharing their experiences.
It kinda means you can now fly and achieve as much as you want without family members getting mad cause you are showing off and might hurt someone’s feelings
I grew up during the time of protesting the Vietnam Nam war. Every friend who protested with me has tried to friend me on FB and I refused them because every single one has gone full-tilt MAGA. I don’t get how that happened but it’s damned disappointing.
I saw that kind of change happen with some too. If they felt like they had hit a big wall in life as they got older, they tended to start complaining about visible demographic changes in the places they grew up or lived — and the shift was worse if those areas became relatively poorer over time.
To much comfort, sugar and tv 🙄. The 70’s and 80’s generation have forgotten what outrage looks like and are enjoying too much luxury. Everyone wants at least 2 cars, a tv of the size of a wall and food to feed a small country at the price of fast food 😳
Not true re: enjoying too much luxury. That is making assumptions out of a large group and many of us came from poor backgrounds and worked our butts off from a young age.
True: definitely too much sugar and tv!
Will be interesting to see where their thoughts lie after 44 years....as for me, I have my solar panels and generators and am thinking of plans for a bunker.
I've watched the mask slip on a lot of people I used to think were of sound moral character.
I don't give a fuck how much DNA we have in common, nor how many good times we might have shared. If you're celebrating this cruel, hateful shit, I do not want to know you.
Me too was just talking about this.People I dearly love but have separated from.Where the screws got loose started when they jumped on the Reagan train.
They are in a cult led by a dimwitted criminal. He'll die soon & they'll begin to come around.
Resistance isn't futile.
Revolution is necessary.
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Made the final cut last night. My mom tried every tactic to make me feel bad for cutting her off because I don't think like her politically. I told her it's not longer just political. This is now right vs wrong. Evil rulers cannot prevail.
My daughter and her husband are both Trump supporters and they kicked me out of their lives and now I have no contact with my grandkids. I wish I could forget.
“Grandchildren are the parents’ revenge on the child.”
Keep a little journal about you thinking about the grandkids when you do; send them birthday cards but make sure to first photograph the cards and put the photographs in the journal. Make sure they get the journal when they move out as adults.
That is exactly what I’m going to do. I love my grandkids more than anything and they aren’t receiving anything I sent them. The journal is a great idea.
I pity the poor children who are being forced to live with their crazy parents who are entrenched in this cult. I hope you can find a way to reverse the damage someday. You know how kids reject their parents at some point. Maybe they’ll seek you out.
Looking down the road when the orange menace is dead and gone, and the economy & country is in shambles; What will these MAGA cult followers do then? Will we be forgiving and allow them back in our lives? I, for one, will never forget.
I fear that even when he dies his followers, his children, and JD Vance will pick up his mantle. If history shows us anything it’s that this is how our country, as we know it, ends. My hope is that something better will take its place. But in the meantime we resist, and protect who we can.
100% I went to catholic grade and high school with what grew up to be a bunch of trumpers.
Somehow they were taught something completely different than I was. And I’m the atheist!
Anyone else having the experience where they don't deny the reasons we are cutting them off? They simply just don't care and want us to put up with who they are.
We should love our children and grandchildren unconditionally. I have a stepdaughter and granddaughter who are gay. I love them just as much as I love my other step children and grandchildren. If I can do when we are not biologically related there is no excuse for a biological relationship to not.
I don’t understand how people can abandon their own children. I offer free mom hugs to any LGBTQ person who needs it because some of them don’t get them.
No. That is simply not true. There are plenty of things that family can do that sever the bond.
That's not to say that I agree with these people doing it over politics, but it is what it is and likely at least in part a result of this country's repression of emotional interaction at this time.
Yesss.. it’s somewhat comforting, for lack of a better word, that others are going through..
Interesting thread of others people’s experiences, fr🙏🏾
We should all feel good we’re on the right side of history
My mom, step-dad, brothers (entire family), and many “friends”. It’s very sad but I guess at least I know and can surround myself with better people now.
I sent my message to friends, family members, colleagues, and neighbors, telling them to choose the moral high ground. Let's just say that as a blue dot in a MAGA county, I am pretty much on my own. So be it, I will network here.
My brother and I stopped talking to our sister years ago. She thinks she is such a good Christian. Really she is ignorant & hateful. She thinks Trump is sent by God. She is happy immigrants are being kicked out & fetuses are protected. She loves her gun too.
Never thought I’d be someone who would cut family members or lifelong friends out of my life. Always thought people who did that were petty and unforgiving… but here I am.
Mine chose to be willfully ignorant, and got defensive when I tried to present them with facts. I will never speak to my sisters again. Fox news and the cult of celebrity ruined my family.
I'm seriously considering it. The rope I've afforded for the past love I've had for them is only so long. I have boundaries, and racism is high up on that list.
I always say the worst advice we have ever been given was to not discuss politics or religion. Frankly, if we would’ve been discussing these things, we would’ve known how people “really feel” before we invest ourselves into others..
Beyond them turning in Ann Franke, I am afraid that some of my close group of friends will inadvertently turn me in just for being a Dem down the road. I won't speak to a few of them anymore about politics because if they talk about me with their children, family, friends, etc. I would feel unsafe.
I tried to keep them around, but eventually I came to the conclusion that the people that I knew are gone. They're different people now. Ones that I'm no longer interested in having in my life.
This is so hard! So many people I know that voted for trump are good people, but they have issued the destruction of our rights, starting with those we are supposed to be protecting. How do I reconcile that? My family, friends, and some of my congregation…If we leave the table, they still win.
Actually anyone who voted for him isn’t a good person. Anyone who supports someone who makes fun of physically disabled people isn’t a good person. Or supports a serial cheater. Or a rapist. Or a liar. THEY ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE. Good people don’t vote for racism, sexism, and hate.
I find it hard to discern why they chose him over her, but I can’t say they aren’t good people. It’s not my place to judge character and I never will. What I can see is the actions that don’t line up with the vote. They have such disdain for him as a person but stilled voted for him. It’s baffling
It actually is your place to judge, because it protects you from dangerous people when you judge someone to be a threat to you. You can say they aren’t good people. Good people don’t vote for racism, sexism, for rapists, for adulterers, they just don’t. They’re not good people. It’s hard to admit.
I hear what you’re saying, but I disagree. These are people who have opened their home and their lives to refugees, orphans, the poor, the weak, the scared, most of whom are not citizens or white. What I don’t understand is how they could have voted for him and still have these good qualities.
Good people don’t help the needy then support someone who wants to punish the needy. Good people don’t turn in Anne Frank, they hid her. Bad people said the people who slaughtered her and her family were good people, just following orders. Stop. Justifying. Hate.
Ditto.
Eldest of 10 (total, multi marriages, both sides) I'm the only one who voted for Harris.
Haven't hung with most of em in years anyway.
Once, when she was 16, my younger sister told me she would hate my classes because she would have to think too much. Now, they are all part of the #idiocracy
And they’re the same ones who preach God’s love and made us sing “all the children of the world, red and yellow black and white they are precious in his sight” wild, isn’t it?
Same here. I lost an aunt and uncle over this - but I told them that if they voted in favor of Nazism in the US they no longer have a place in my life.
My family is considering a different approach. The entire group of us are working on getting dual citizenship. The America my parents struggled to reach has slipped into history, the promise the Statue of Liberty offered, has been bartered away. In Europe, my grandson won’t be doing intruder drills.
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Same here. I gave up my hairstylist who was also my friend. I gave up two life friends from high-school. I don't know them now. I was given up by some family and my BF because I voted for Biden. I'm now in my 60s having to regroup, find a different path in an uncertain America.
Wife and I were in one of our fav restaurants this morning and one of his disciples was trying to impress his breakfast guest by making stupid shit remarks about “illegal immigrants”. This is the misinformation that we have to repeatedly put up with from these morons. 😖😖
Mom and Dad were republicans....but not this kind. They gave to the poor, had steadfast friends of color and were gracious and considerate to others. My sister and brother are magats. I am an only child.
Light bulb moment for me - I kept wondering why people voted for Trump despite him being a fraud, felon, racist, rapist and bully then I realized that many people voted for him BECAUSE he is a fraud, felon, racist, rapist and bully who they see as a “tough” guy.
Damnnnn. Turns out that it was always most people that couldn't step up. I remember that similar scene with Landa in Inglorious Basterds when he got the guards to shoot up the floorboards.
It is one of the worst disappointments in life, to realize that those you once trusted, have become those you cannot trust again. You question whether they changed, or whether they had just never been tested seriously enough before, so their true natures were not visible. It is hard to reconcile.
Unfortunately, I have my whole family on my husband side who voted in this manner. And we have to go visit them at least once a year in the Midwest. even though we don’t talk about politics, I can’t stand any of them.
My maga in-laws say I’m the unreasonable one for cutting them out. They voted for him 3 times-they say “I know he’s bad but I couldn’t vote for Dems cuz…xyz. But we are still a good people.”
NO. Good people do not empower bad people to keep doing bad things.
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Agreed. I’ve ditched all but 1- my 91 yo Dad. My moral duty just won’t let me turn him away.
just how fucked up they are
They know exactly who you voted for.
It’s not the election. It’s the VALUES you decided are ok to lay on the rest of us. No empathy for others and no humanity. Only cheaper eggs and gas.
Seemed like decent guys.
Fellow Firefighters, a brotherhood.
Now I see many of them on social media, and it sickens me.
So full of pure, unadulterated hate.
How was I fooled back then??
I got rid of people that are unrecognizable !
True: definitely too much sugar and tv!
“They won’t give peace a chance; it was just a dream some of us had…” -Joni
I don't give a fuck how much DNA we have in common, nor how many good times we might have shared. If you're celebrating this cruel, hateful shit, I do not want to know you.
Resistance isn't futile.
Revolution is necessary.
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Bye.
It's so sad.
Keep a little journal about you thinking about the grandkids when you do; send them birthday cards but make sure to first photograph the cards and put the photographs in the journal. Make sure they get the journal when they move out as adults.
If you support a Nazi, you are one. Owning TSLA is direct support for Nazi's.
Somehow they were taught something completely different than I was. And I’m the atheist!
Wow....this is me
After golf, over a beer, he says “I KNOW 12 PEOPLE WHO DIED FROM THE VAX”
I said “I don’t believe that”
He didn’t even stop to argue, just kept Gym Jordan fast talking me
I regret not dumping a pitcher of Schlitz on him
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That's not to say that I agree with these people doing it over politics, but it is what it is and likely at least in part a result of this country's repression of emotional interaction at this time.
Interesting thread of others people’s experiences, fr🙏🏾
We should all feel good we’re on the right side of history
I’m old enough to sleep alone!
Eldest of 10 (total, multi marriages, both sides) I'm the only one who voted for Harris.
Haven't hung with most of em in years anyway.
Once, when she was 16, my younger sister told me she would hate my classes because she would have to think too much. Now, they are all part of the #idiocracy
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You don’t need them
Cut them out of your life.
NO. Good people do not empower bad people to keep doing bad things.