how many friends/family members have you stopped speaking to because of Donald Trump

p sure that is streaming in many places

streaming is Communist!

that explains many things about Morbs

last night there was this really aggravating redneck at the karaoke bar not merely cheering but SHRIEKING during everybody's songs in a piercing voice, and then after someone sang a song that he dedicated to the troops, she walked up to the karaoke host and the next singer and told them to stop and hold on a second, and said we needed to let the previous singer sing the National Anthem, because it was truly a great time to be alive right now. so it was obvious what she was saying without saying it - I'm of course at the bar to get away from shit like that and the whole bar had this uncomfortable atmosphere as a result (mostly cos no bouncers and employees just letting her carry on - it's a touristy bar).

The guy who she wanted to sing it wanted no part, and for the next 15 minutes, kept yelling at people to sing "God Bless America" or "The National Anthem".

never came so close to throwing a full glass of beer at anybody.

the only person i "know" who voted for Trump is one of the nurses at my hematology clinic; he draws my blood sometimes. He is a middle-aged Romanian immigrant.

Transylvania, by any chance?

I'm assuming you've noticed the lack of mirrors at the clinic?

open all night

Vampire In Trump Voting Fraud SHOCKAH!

and then after someone sang a song that he dedicated to the troops,

rly need 2 know what song, this sounds low key more fucked up than the redneck's antics.

I hope it was "Oliver's Army."

Love lift us up where we belong where the eagles cry on a mountain high love lift us up where we belong far from the world below up where the clear winds blow

I stopped speaking to my uncle over politics about a year before Trump, when he started letting his friends post pics of obama being lynched on his fb wall and he liked them. I did stop speaking to a cousin over trump though, as she was completely blind to the racist elements of his allure.

It started with a kiss, in the back row of the classroom how could I resist the aroma of your perfume you and I were inseparable, it was love at first sight you made me promise to marry you, I made you promise to be my bride but you were only eight years old and I had just about turned nine I thought that life was always good, I thought you always would be mine It started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this it started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this I remember every little thing, like fighting in the playground some good looking boys had started to hang around that boy hurt me so bad but I was happy 'cause you cried still I couldn't help but notice that new distant look in your eyes then when you were sixteen I had just turned seventeen I couldn't hold on to my love, I couldn't hold on to my dream it started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this it started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this You don't remember me do you? You don't remember me do you? Walking down the streets again, the star of my love story and my heart began to beat so fast, so clear was my memory I heard my voice call out your name as you looked then looked away I felt so hurt, I felt so small, it was all that I could say you don't remember me do you? You don't remember me do you? It started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this it started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this

it was "They're Coming to Take Me Away (Ha-Ha)"

j/k, I don't remember what lame country song it was

the only music genres i like are rap and country

Really about to stop answering the phone to my mum, who alleges the Kochs are registered Dems and that Left protestors did not vote and are on George Soros' payroll.

Kochs being registered dems would be interesting, considering their direct proxies are glad-handing republican legislators

I shit you not, the state director for Americans for Prosperity (the Koch proxy group) had his picture taken shaking the hand of my state's governor at the signing of a bill gutting collective bargaining

She is mixing this with saying very hurtful and/or racist things to me, perhaps she should look into adopting Ann fucking Coulter and leaving me the fuck alone.

sorry to hear that, suzy

Oh and get this: Obama never had as much vitriol thrown at him as 45 gets.

AAAAAAARGGGGGGHHHH

I don't know how to respond to that other than: OK?

I mean, I'm chuckling at the fact UK parliament voted to not even meet w/this fucker, but that says incredibly bad things for the state of affairs

20 years of this sniping has allowed her to think it's OK to say the most abusive shit to other people, and I'm sure it's harmed me long-term too because it's constant and undermines a lot of my other interactions. She has an extremely toxic co-dependent relationship with my sister, and although she has literally paid for it in thousands of ways, they just keep rolling around together like saloon cowboys in an unending bar fight.

if you are going to cut someone off then at least pause to think about why you were friends with them for so long (im not talking acquaintances) before this and furthermore why you tolerated those views prior to this political epoch. if they were your family then you must have been exposed to those thoughts and beliefs and on some level inform your social values. even if you do not subscribe to their ideology, you are still part of that system and that realm of privilege. imo cutting someone off is partially a denial of that privilege.

oh, god, fuck off

loooool

Amazing

Admittedly I've lived 4000 miles away from Toxic Madre for 25 years and haven't visited for six because of these issues.

I am willing to cut some slack to people who are going through shit times regardless of politics but in this case, Adam, I'm certain you should fuck right off. Really don't need to hear about privilege from some pasty-white emo boy, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWCXyKKUIw

pause to think about why you were friends with them for so long

ppl feel like they have to quantify/qualify their relationships and feel really aggrieved if some perceived social boundary is crossed, but the truth is that many social relationships are largely circumstantial. like I might be friends with a group of coworkers and be kind of close to a few and make lasting relationships, but it's just as likely I'll hang out with someone, share interests, and then switch jobs and maybe invite them to a gathering at my house. but maybe after once or twice, that's it! it's like they were never there. and if they're particularly noxious and I don't have to make nice at work, I have no reason to ever engage

like sometimes parents are good friends, or were genuinely good parents and still are, but there are truly shitty parents or those that were really only good at getting you from birth to age 18 and now they're just dicks

fwiw my grandfather, who my dad has always felt some obligation to despite the fact he is a total dick, is currently on his deathbed. since the death of my grandmother he's been more than reasonable and helpful

here are some delightful things my grandfather has said:
"I hope I outlive you!"
"If I die first, I'm going to haunt you!"

we can kind of laugh these off now, but in all reality my grandfather has haunted my dad for 20 years with this sense that he's responsible for helping him out, despite the fact he was a mean, emotionally needy asshole

if you are going to cut someone off then at least pause to think about why you were friends with them for so long (im not talking acquaintances) before this and furthermore why you tolerated those views prior to this political epoch.

It's almost like people can reveal new things about themselves or even... change.

would mom and I really have so much in common if we didn't live in the same house