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Jerry442

(1,265 posts) Wed Oct 26, 2016, 06:15 PM Oct 2016

I've realized an unpleasant truth.

When you're listening to your friends discussing politics and you start to wonder what it would have been like to be Jewish in 1930's Germany -- it's time to get new friends.

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I've realized an unpleasant truth. (Original Post) Jerry442 Oct 2016 OP

If these are your friends and it took you this long to catch on... cwydro Oct 2016 #1

Cut them a lot of slack, hoping things weren't as bad as I feared. How often does that end well? NT Jerry442 Oct 2016 #3

No comment. nt cwydro Oct 2016 #4

I hear you Skittles Oct 2016 #6

Jerry, Denial is not just a river in Egypt... Raster Oct 2016 #7

Sad. elleng Oct 2016 #2

Profound blm Oct 2016 #5

You're better off alone. LuvNewcastle Oct 2016 #8

We'll be your new friends! Moonwalk Oct 2016 #9

I'm literally years ahead of you. Hayduke Bomgarte Oct 2016 #10

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

1. If these are your friends and it took you this long to catch on...

Reply to Jerry442 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 06:17 PM

Oct 2016

Well, hell...good luck with that.

Jerry442

(1,265 posts)

3. Cut them a lot of slack, hoping things weren't as bad as I feared. How often does that end well? NT

Reply to cwydro (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 06:20 PM

Oct 2016

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

4. No comment. nt

Reply to Jerry442 (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 06:21 PM

Oct 2016

Skittles

(172,880 posts)

6. I hear you

Reply to cwydro (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 07:19 PM

Oct 2016

Raster

(21,010 posts)

7. Jerry, Denial is not just a river in Egypt...

Reply to Jerry442 (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:50 PM

Oct 2016

...If it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist...

elleng

(141,926 posts)

2. Sad.

Reply to Jerry442 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 06:17 PM

Oct 2016

blm

(114,763 posts)

5. Profound

Reply to Jerry442 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 06:37 PM

Oct 2016

really

LuvNewcastle

(17,911 posts)

8. You're better off alone.

Reply to Jerry442 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:03 PM

Oct 2016

I have 3 good friends, and I'm lucky to have them. A lot of people can't even say that. It's good to be selective these days or you just don't know who or what you'll end up in a situation with.

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)

9. We'll be your new friends!

Reply to Jerry442 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:11 PM

Oct 2016

I'm sure you can find some of us in person where you are. And you could always head to a Hillary campagin headquarters in your area. I'm sure there'd be new friends to discover there.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)

10. I'm literally years ahead of you.

Reply to Jerry442 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:15 PM

Oct 2016

Back in '07-'08 as friends, relatives and acquaintances revealed themselves to be teabaggers, I cut all ties with them. Those ties remain cut.

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