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Hokie

(4,366 posts) Mon Jul 10, 2017, 11:09 AM Jul 2017

What are your encounters with friends or relatives who supported Trump like? [View all]

Lately I decided not to be polite any longer around friends or relatives who I know supported the Idiot. I lay into him with a vengeance. I find they never defend him. They just clam up and say nothing.

I have cut off a brother who supported Trump. It was pretty easy to do since he has treated me and my family like crap for 25 years. He told me during the Clinton days I wasn't his brother because I didn't think Clinton should be impeached. (That was in front of others too). He meekly apologized via email months later.

We have pretended to have a relationship by taking each other out to lunch on our birthdays. This year I decided to end that. I don't regret it for a minute.

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What are your encounters with friends or relatives who supported Trump like? [View all] Hokie Jul 2017 OP

Revenge. n/t rzemanfl Jul 2017 #1

I stopped talking politics with my a decade ago. Eom pirateshipdude Jul 2017 #2

Maybe they actually think this election bullshit doesn't matter. yallerdawg Jul 2017 #3

I agree with your thinking yallerdawg Hokie Jul 2017 #5

I've decided jehop61 Jul 2017 #4

I accepted W even though I still think he didn't really win Hokie Jul 2017 #7

I had gone that way for many years. Girard442 Jul 2017 #8

I don't know. Whole family is anti trump lovemydogs Jul 2017 #6

Blew off a couple of relatives... Xolodno Jul 2017 #9

And that's it. It never is politics alone. It is what makes people vote that way. Please don't lunamagica Jul 2017 #31

They aren't. Xolodno Jul 2017 #33

friends/family trump supporters SWBTATTReg Jul 2017 #10

I had dinner with my neighbor who has always been a bit iffy politically SharonClark Jul 2017 #11

I have cousins who voted for the Con. All older white men, incidentally. I ignore them. CrispyQ Jul 2017 #12

I had lunch with some Trump supporters a few weeks ago. hamsterjill Jul 2017 #13

I'm the one who has clammed up. pnwest Jul 2017 #14

Both my parents voted trump. I cut them off too GhostofJFK Jul 2017 #15

Recently spoke to one. Cracklin Charlie Jul 2017 #16

Be very careful, when the election euphoria wears off, she will never forgive herself for her choice MiddleClass Jul 2017 #24

I don't think she will turn her anger on me. Cracklin Charlie Jul 2017 #25

That's good, just be cautious not to leave something out there that someone can latch on to MiddleClass Jul 2017 #27

Luckily, I can't answer this PasadenaTrudy Jul 2017 #17

I try not to push the issue but most of them are ok with it still Amishman Jul 2017 #18

Not good...a lot of yelling and screaming on their part HipChick Jul 2017 #19

They rarely talk about Trump so it's not an isse Kaleva Jul 2017 #20

Here's the thing... sagetea Jul 2017 #21

I like to take a different road, MiddleClass Jul 2017 #22

I open with "Only an idiot racist fuckhead would vote for that idiot racist fuckhead." Orrex Jul 2017 #23

My hair cutter was the only person I know who supported WhiteTara Jul 2017 #26

Yup mercuryblues Jul 2017 #30

We need to take steps to secure ourselves -- sad to say. Freelancer Jul 2017 #28

I've had civil discussions with family and friends that voted for Trump. lib-ruhl Jul 2017 #29

Such encounters rarely happen Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2017 #32