I don't care. Most people are morons anyway.
Are you disappointed in family members who are Trump voters?
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You tell her that god gave Trump a shot across the bow as a warning?
Why do you keep thinking we correct them? We don’t engage.
Makes me mad they’re so brainwashed.
Maybe I misread your post but I thought you stated something like what do you do with that?
I was responding to that part of the post.
You do realize they might think you are brainwashed too (if you support Democrats)
The actual Trump supporters in my family (not just republicans) are white trash and awful, hateful people. I did whatever I could to avoid them before Trump. Their Trumpiness just gives me more reason to avoid - couldn't care less if they're family. Trash is trash. So no, not disappointed.
Most of the basic repubs in my family don't like Trump and have either decided to abstain or hold their nose and pull the R handle. I respect the abstainers and am disappointed in the nose-holders.
Most of the basic repubs in my family don't like Trump and have either decided to abstain or hold their nose and pull the R handle. I respect the abstainers and am disappointed in the nose-holders.
The only relatives I have who are Trumpers were asshats long before they were Trumpers.
I’ve said for some time the worst part about the changing media/social media world is we no longer have a shared reality. People carve out their own reality based primarily on propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. I know people for whom most of what they “know” isn’t true.
In answer to the OP, yes, I am disappointed in those family members. I’m also disappointed in my liberal family members who also fall for stuff that isn’t true. I guarantee some of them are certain Vance had sex with a couch.
It’s one issue, hating liberals.
Trump's biggest attribute is that he is very good at being a conman. He is also good at playing to people's fears. I think many of his supporters are decent people and they are convinced that he is the answer to their (and this country's) problems. For the record, I am not a fan of either party and am pretty much disgusted by the whole political process.
It honestly depends on on the dynamics of the room or how many people are there. If it's a big party, just smirk and politely move on and get another plate or drink. If it's more intimate, like at dinner table, then just tell them directly and succinctly that you don't agree with them, but you still love them and are greatful to be with them, as you are family and that matters most. Then watch their reaction.
It’s the packaging, the cultural issues that, to you may not be issues. Trans dudes in women’s sports, the border(though that’s a big issue), cutting the razor wire Texas installed, etc.
Agreed, and as you know, plenty of liberals overdid it with covid precautions, not from the evidence but from a revulsion to Trump and his followers.
But that doesn't make the issue or phenomenon equal and opposite. What has happened to the GOP is much worse
I’ve noticed that the bulk of the people wagging fingers in this thread are the people who support the rapist fraudster with 34 felony convictions who staged a coup.
Tsk, tsk for being so shallow as to question a family member who supports that.
I think you're right, they get even more mad when they have to justify their issues. Why should they have to explain why they're fired up about some dude with issues who wins a high school girls cross country championship in a different state. That really bothers them.
Nobody is forcing you to be trans. I keep telling you that.
I find it curious that given your profession you’ve been upset at people who question chiropractors, yet you obsessively deride medical doctors and their patients who are trans. Weird.
My family members who are rabidly pro Trump are the poors down in Louisa County who didn’t have the ambition to get better in life and make some money. Everything bad in their life is because of the tan suit guy and the DEI.
I find this kinda weird. You are negatively labeling them in front of strangers, presumably for pats on the back from strangers. Maybe they have problems, and rightfully so, but if they called in the middle of the night, asking for help? Would you answer the call? Or roll over and talk about it here with a smarmy smile?
What if he's just accurately labeling them in front of strangers for the sake of discussion? Is that still weird? Do you think it's weird that you presumed that he's looking for pats on the back from strangers, presumably for your own pats on the back from strangers?
Bullshit. They think people like Romney and Liz Cheney aren’t Republicans. Why?
Am I surprised the same people who go caught up in Amway and cult like churches are Trump supporters? No, it's been a life long pattern.
I don't have any family members that are Trump supporters that I am aware of. We come from good genetics, and value education.
My brother and a friend have both become extreme Trump supporters and believe every conspiracy created (Dems created Covid to get Trump out, creating George Floyd division, Soros and Black Rock control everything, Biden is a dictator, etc). It wouldn’t be so bad but they took what used to be a fun text group and Twitter group and turned them into all political stuff. I never initiate and have asked multiple times for them to leave me out of their political stuff but it’s constant. Always ranting about DEI and teachers and gays. They say there hadn’t been racism in the YS in 59 years except by the racist Dems. They have gotten mad and left the group but it always starts up again. They are convinced if Dems win the country is done and Trump has done nothing wrong but be a BSer, or he would be in jail. It has been slightly better as I ignore it all all the time now and that’s slowed it down. Have heard nothing since Trump’s implosion yesterday (they normally send every clip on Biden or Harris speaking or laughing they can find).
I make an exception for one of the best and most complete linebackers to ever suit up for the Hawkeyes
The people in my extended family who I suspect will vote for him are idiots, so no.
Not until this election. All friends and family get a hall pass for sure for 2016 and even 2020. It’s sometimes hard to admit or see you have made a mistake and politics has become team sports long before Trump.
However, post 1/6/21 and the complete dumpster fire of last 3 years of intentionally stealing and likely sharing state secrets, having to pay 10s of millions for sexual assault, indictments in three different jurisdictions for three different crimes and 34 felony convictions, I am defiantly disappointed in anyone voting for Trump in 2024. It is sad and very troubling and a huge red flag our fourth estate has collapsed and a giant chunk of Americans get their information from sources full of misinformation and disinformation.
However, post 1/6/21 and the complete dumpster fire of last 3 years of intentionally stealing and likely sharing state secrets, having to pay 10s of millions for sexual assault, indictments in three different jurisdictions for three different crimes and 34 felony convictions, I am defiantly disappointed in anyone voting for Trump in 2024. It is sad and very troubling and a huge red flag our fourth estate has collapsed and a giant chunk of Americans get their information from sources full of misinformation and disinformation.
People are so busy screaming at each other, that most don't realize how things are unraveling right in front of us. This isn't going to end well.
Both sides want to win the pissing match be "correct" through the media but we all know very little will actually get done in the end.
Not disappointed at all because the only family members who are Trump supporters have already been well established as dumbass douchebags long before MAGA became a part of the American white trash lexicon.
I have no idea if any of my family are R's or D's. I could probably guess but that's all it would be and I may be wrong on a few. Pretty big family but I don't ever recall a political conversation in our family.
Also, that's why it's a free country baby. Vote for who ever the F you want to.
Also, that's why it's a free country baby. Vote for who ever the F you want to.
I have zero immediate family members who will be voting for any democrat this election.
I realized how isolated i am yesterday when i went for my dl renewal. What a freak show. Looked like a pro choice rally.
Got some distant relatives on the no-pic wife's side of the family that are bat-sh*t crazy MAGA's, but they do quite a lot to bring disappointment regardless of who they vote for. My own gene pool isn't that shallow, so I don't have anything to worry about.
If someone's political choice causes you to have zero respect for someone, that's a YOU problem.
Life's too short, work on yourself.
