I was at my parents house earlier just helping out with a few things. My mother went on a crazy rant about liberals and I just corrected her on something she said and she kicked me out. I hope one day the right stops this hate/fear mongering bullshit. It’s ruining families.
Yeah, try not to let politics divide the family. I've had some deaths in the family that have made hard feelings over politics feel really damn petty. Even if I was being reasonable, I wish I'd been more than reasonable.
You should stand your ground and not apologize. Correcting disinformation is more important than anything else Coddling MAGA who spew disinformation and conspiracies is a bad look regardless of who that person may be. Correcting disinformation is healthy
I've surprised myself that I've been able to maintain relationships with my MAGA family since 2016 for sure. However the frustrating thing is the double standard. My family and friends that are MAGA are socially allowed to throw crap out there in family member's faces, and I'm not allowed to respond and argue at family gatherings or I would be considered the problem. Look I think about the situation, and feel proud that I'm being the adult, and making sacrifices to ensure that my daughter grows up knowing her grandparents. However every once in awhile I have to ask myself how fair I'm being to myself and my immediate family in the long run by subjecting us to such toxicity, racism, and hate even though they are my family that I love, and seem like nice Christian people on the surface. I'm not sure how much worse it can get before families in America really do start seeing more and more splits. My wife is a public school teacher, and my wife had to sit there at dinner and listen to my mom go on about how public school teachers are groomers. Yes.... I had words for my mom later that weekend when I addressed it, but spoiler alert... not only did she not back down on that opinion... she let me know how she really feels, and tried to gaslight me into apologizing to her for attacking her "1st amendment rights." I've just come to the conclusion that if you are going to have relationships with MAGA family members, you have no choice but to stay silent while they spew their BS, and offend you even if they don't intend to. These people are NOT reasonable. The big question is when am I as a husband, and father doing a disservice to my family, and would be better off just cutting ties ourselves??
Has there ever been a judge of a politician where the judge finds the politician guilty, and disregards the... you know.... Jury??? The same Jury that the politician's lawyers agreed to?? Either you are an idiot who knows nothing about how trials work, or just fcking with us. Now if he sentences Trump to 40 years in prison then maybe we at that point can start questioning his bias towards the defendant. Up until now the only thing he has done is managed the trial. He nothing to do with the evidence. He didn't call witnesses. He didn't bring the charges. He didn't do anything other than just preside over the trial. So either learn judicial law 101 or stop fcking with us.
There were 2 lawyers and at least 1 definite Trump supporter on the jury.Jury number 2 said they got their news from Truth Social and X, only. Are you Juror number 2?
You allowed your mother to bad mouth your wife and spew conspiracies and disrespect her profession to her face without walking out? Jesus christ man
What excuse do you lined up when Trump's appeals fail? I do not have any inside information, but ... the general legal opinion is that an appeal of a 34 count, unanimous conviction is likely to fail.
anyone in my family that deep into MAGA is getting cut off, I’m sorry ain’t no way we can’t even get through dinner without conspiracies being spouted left and right with the double down and gaslighting afterwards
If you know how MAGA old people are you know how it goes. They gaslight you to try and make it seem like you are out of line because Of COURSE they weren’t talking about my wife. It’s about all the “other” teachers. Etc etc. So no I didn’t let them directly talk crap about my wife. We tolerate their BS for the sake of keeping our family civil with each other. If I did decide to cut ties with my family though I do feel I have every right to do so, and I obviously can blame how they’ve been radicalized over the past 8 years. They won’t understand though and will get offended and tell everyone how we are just being overly sensitive etc etc. So it’s a complicated situation but I’m not the only one in America dealing with it and I’m willing to bet I’m not the only one who sits there listening to offensive BS and hold my tongue because I know once I fight back you won’t win, and there’s a good chance my daughter won’t have a relationship with her grandparents.
Insanity man. I've cut off my brother after he went off on the deep end and now he's slowly realizing how dumb MAGA is. The only way to deal with MAGA is to cut them off. Let them realize how isolated they are. You should totally cut them off. You will feel very liberated and you'd be surprised at how they may react. My brother reacted bad at first but then feels left out for now being involved and left alot of the conspiracies. Allowing your kids to be around disinformation and conspiracies is not healthy sorry.
