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coolsandy

(479 posts)
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 06:54 AM Oct 2017

My FB 45 fans are having some serious meltdowns. I even feel sorry for them. They are so hateful

they are giving themselves strokes. The venom they spewed about HRC was so intense it was hidden most of the time.

They are totally devastated and they deserve every bit of scorn I am about to unload on them.

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My FB 45 fans are having some serious meltdowns. I even feel sorry for them. They are so hateful (Original Post) coolsandy Oct 2017 OP
I am about to unload on them. LenaBaby61 Oct 2017 #1
These are friends of yours? cwydro Oct 2017 #2
I don't get that either. Frankly I don't get "unloading scorn" on "friends" either but that's me. anneboleyn Oct 2017 #36
Im with you. cwydro Oct 2017 #38
What are they saying? MountCleaners Oct 2017 #3
Me too easttexaslefty Oct 2017 #5
Whatever Fox tells them to. Dustlawyer Oct 2017 #9
you forgot Soros Skittles Oct 2017 #41
Yup. Dustlawyer Nov 2017 #46
Just check out Discussionist DesertRat Oct 2017 #26
Post removed Post removed Oct 2017 #4
Just say to them: "Do svidaniya, Felicia!" WinkyDink Oct 2017 #6
What I find works well is, world wide wally Oct 2017 #16
Hey, hey, hey! WinkyDink Oct 2017 #24
All of mine are on ignore flygal Oct 2017 #7
why can't u unfriend the family members gopiscrap Oct 2017 #33
fewer questions at the gatherings. I did unfriend my husband's cousin for being horrible anti-gay flygal Oct 2017 #37
Yep, libtard, snowflake Hornedfrog1985 Oct 2017 #8
yep many of us saw this happening in real time! Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #15
The fact that Ivankas guest at the Inauguration was the wife of a Russian oligarch Maggiemayhem Oct 2017 #17
I'm white DownriverDem Oct 2017 #20
don't you hate it when they assume you're as bigoted as them Skittles Oct 2017 #44
Because Donald so innocent. Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #10
Just tell them Corgigal Oct 2017 #11
My husbands extended family has drank the trump kool aid and do not like liberals maryellen99 Oct 2017 #12
It's amazing DownriverDem Oct 2017 #14
after all these years pretty much everyone knows where i stand....and my claws stay out dembotoz Oct 2017 #34
I wish DownriverDem Oct 2017 #13
I kicked most of the ones I knew last November. Amimnoch Oct 2017 #18
Don't feel sorry for a sucker superpatriotman Oct 2017 #19
You sure it's not just anger and venom toward the Democrats, & that these are all lies? Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #21
I had a bad time election night 2016. Girard442 Oct 2017 #22
Girard442, did you read this Skittles Oct 2017 #45
Good read. TY. Girard442 Nov 2017 #47
Russians stirring the ole Shitpot! Cryptoad Oct 2017 #23
Not surprising SJMULE Oct 2017 #25
crap"Job"to repete what Republican partyTV plans for fox-lies talking point of the month. Sunlei Oct 2017 #31
facebook always cesspool of fake stuff. internet neurosis from spams of lies, its their own fault. Sunlei Oct 2017 #27
Be Polite but Firm wiley Oct 2017 #28
Sorry SJMULE Oct 2017 #32
Are they tired of winning yet? workinclasszero Oct 2017 #29
I thought it was six bankruptcies area51 Oct 2017 #40
That was probably post meme workinclasszero Oct 2017 #43
Mine have been clinging to the NFL kneeling protest, fake-wailing about disrespect. lkinwi Oct 2017 #30
Apparently, Russia is now our friend. rainin Oct 2017 #35
MAGA Many Are Going Away MariaCSR Oct 2017 #39
Ask them if they think Pickle will keep up his correspondence ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #42
Remove them like you'd an anal cyst. nt Snotcicles Nov 2017 #48

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
9. Whatever Fox tells them to.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:27 AM
Oct 2017

They hate Hillary, Obama, Pelosi... because Fox and RE radio continuously spewed negative lies on everything that happened. They believe that every action by these Democrats had a negative connotation.

This is proof to them they are in a bubble, encourage them to come out and compare Fox to any other network and learn they have been manipulated.

Response to coolsandy (Original post)

flygal

(3,231 posts)
7. All of mine are on ignore
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 07:47 AM
Oct 2017

those are the family members I can't unfriend. the others I just unfriended during the election because they were wallpapering the place with Russian bot fake news mems. I had lost all patience for that shit.

flygal

(3,231 posts)
37. fewer questions at the gatherings. I did unfriend my husband's cousin for being horrible anti-gay
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 12:01 PM
Oct 2017

the other family members I ignore are just mostly gun nuts.

 

Hornedfrog1985

(118 posts)
8. Yep, libtard, snowflake
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:01 AM
Oct 2017

Unpatriotic, etc. Well, at least when history has been recorded you were actually on the right side of it. I was announcing this russisa stuff to everyone LAST SUMMER. There was already little signs popping up. The dossier was swept under the rug. But emails omg! People laughed at me, said i was insane, said i sounded like id been up for a week. This was before the news was even talking about it. I was freaking a bit. Nobody was paying attention to it. I was questioning my own sanity because it was so clear to me...

Maggiemayhem

(809 posts)
17. The fact that Ivankas guest at the Inauguration was the wife of a Russian oligarch
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:57 AM
Oct 2017

should have sent out more warning signals. I watched a debate ( I believe it was that last one) where Clinton obviously won and the unscientific network polls had her in a big lead and suddenly the polls dramatically changed to Trumps favor. Someone put up a comment that showed most of the traffic was coming from St Petersburg Russia. Of course, Foxbots had been preprogrammed to think Putin was a great leader. Wingers at work were singing the praises of Putin long before the election because they heard it on Fox.

DownriverDem

(6,228 posts)
20. I'm white
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:00 AM
Oct 2017

and what bothers me the most is that the repub party is a party of white haters. I go out of my way to make sure folks I encounter know that I am not one of them.

Skittles

(153,150 posts)
44. don't you hate it when they assume you're as bigoted as them
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:39 PM
Oct 2017

I let them have it - silence = agreement

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
11. Just tell them
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:31 AM
Oct 2017

that Russia loves you. They may or may not get it, but you will and that is all it matters.

maryellen99

(3,788 posts)
12. My husbands extended family has drank the trump kool aid and do not like liberals
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:34 AM
Oct 2017

They don’t know that I’m a liberal. One of them even posted something about “liberals hating” on Eric Trump’s newborn son FFS.

DownriverDem

(6,228 posts)
14. It's amazing
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:56 AM
Oct 2017

It use to be that folks differed on the issues and would discuss them. Now after years of hate on the Dems & Liberals, repubs hate us. Yet when you bring up issues (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA), many righties agree with us, but still won't vote for the Dem because they are Liberals. In fact when some repubs are asked why they voted for trump & the repubs when they said they would hurt the issues they care about, they said they couldn't vote for the Dem. So how far do these folks have to fall before they wake up?

dembotoz

(16,799 posts)
34. after all these years pretty much everyone knows where i stand....and my claws stay out
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:11 AM
Oct 2017

take the high road? uh huh all the time

DownriverDem

(6,228 posts)
13. I wish
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 08:51 AM
Oct 2017

I have very few repub FB fans left. They left me a long time ago. I sure wish I knew how they feel now.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
21. You sure it's not just anger and venom toward the Democrats, & that these are all lies?
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:18 AM
Oct 2017

That's more the Trumper style. Total denial of facts and truth.

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
22. I had a bad time election night 2016.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:19 AM
Oct 2017

I had to face the painful truth that people I once liked were totally onboard with the idea of a racist, misogynist, Nazi-sympathizing dirtbag at the helm of our country. If they are in a state of anguish now because their guy is going down, well, payback is a bitch.

On edit: I'd add, if you start to feel any sympathy for them, then imagine what they'd be saying if Trump tweeted that Mueller is fired, the investigation ends now, and then Kelly sends Marines to board up his office.

 

SJMULE

(193 posts)
25. Not surprising
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:31 AM
Oct 2017

if they watched Hannity last night.( I did so you don't have to) He was apoplectic. He used the word incontrovertible at least 5 times in 5 minutes to describe the evidence against HRC "selling out our Uranium to an enemy" He had an allstar panel of the Nazi Seb Gorka, the adulterer and disgraced Speaker Newt and the liar Jay Sekulow. The last two actually sounded "relatively" same when compared to cement head Hannity.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
31. crap"Job"to repete what Republican partyTV plans for fox-lies talking point of the month.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:03 AM
Oct 2017
the money and "benefits" must be outstanding for the nazi-Republicans employees.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
27. facebook always cesspool of fake stuff. internet neurosis from spams of lies, its their own fault.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:57 AM
Oct 2017

IN my opinion a "D" shouldn't be "heaping scorn on them" , pity them- they were scammed for a vote & tossed aside.

wiley

(2,921 posts)
28. Be Polite but Firm
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:57 AM
Oct 2017

Remind them that Obamacare only needs to be fixed, and they should let their elected representatives know that. Encourage them to tell their elected representatives that the tax fraud scam Republicans are trying to enact will not help them at all. Don't gloat tell them to watch MSNBC starting with Ari Melber all the way through Brian Williams. It doesn't matter what they did in the past. They only need to make an effort and never let it happen again by never voting Republican again. Simple stuff, really. We all know that we must relentlessly rid this country of selfish, dishonest, lying, criminals that are in and associate with The White House. Ignoring their tantrums, and pouts and shrieks will be far more effective - including at getting off anyway. Subtlety can be brutal. Just don't let them vent in your presence. It's their toxic rage, not yours!

 

SJMULE

(193 posts)
32. Sorry
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:26 AM
Oct 2017

I take a different approach. I embarrass them. They deserve all of the scorn and ridicule. If they are truly that stupid to believe the lies they dont deserve pity and they shouldn't vote ever again. That is what I tell them. We lost by 70,000 votes in a stolen election in 3 rust belt states. FUK them. Get the millenials and independents and true blue collar voters to see the light and we never need the mouth breathers to come to our side.

lkinwi

(1,477 posts)
30. Mine have been clinging to the NFL kneeling protest, fake-wailing about disrespect.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:01 AM
Oct 2017

They’ve been very quiet about anything to do with tRump/Manafort.

rainin

(3,011 posts)
35. Apparently, Russia is now our friend.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:13 AM
Oct 2017

Thanks to Trump's excellent foreign policy skills, Russia is no longer a threat to the US. Hillary is the threat.

Propaganda works.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
42. Ask them if they think Pickle will keep up his correspondence
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 05:22 PM
Oct 2017

with his prison pen pal.

Dear Bloated Orange Felon,

Hi, it's me again, Pickle. Everyone keeps saying you did bad things and tried to sell our democracy to Russia. I just stick my fingers in my ears when they say that. I know you are in a maximum security prison, but I am still your biggest fan. Please find the goodie basket I enclosed. There should be two scoops of ice cream and some beautiful cake.

Love,
Pickle (now age 40)

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