caught up with my Dad and stepmom. was brilliant via text and phone call. they just had their 49th anniversary. they aren’t deplorable. she’s actually a brilliant forgiving woman that did for her family. my dad’s like me lol. manic, ‘born again.’ I intend to get into his head on Trump.
Ill share what I find out
I was just informed yesterday by a family member that a major company has gone woke. I shall give you 100 guesses what company and why
McDs.
Reason:Opening up a spinoff restuarant somehwere near chciago that sells boba teas and hibiscus smoothies and avacado tomitillo burgers.
You talking about CosMc. All the rage now and does have right wingers up in arms.
If that’s not enough, then boot up Santa Camp on MAX.
Focuses on a Black Santa, a Santa with spina bifado, and a trans Santa. Proud Boys show up at one point but get denied when their protest is out shouted by pro trans allies.
i’m kind of interested in unstucks take on the Taylor Swift/brittany Mahomes thing. are you guys friends with trumpers still at this point in MAGAtime? are you inviting them to double dates and hugging them? does taylor have any responsibility here at all to cultivate her friend group knowing she’s an intensely popular public figure and that hugging brittany will be seen as a acceptance/endorsement after she doubled/tripled down on trump support? should anyone care at all?
i personally live in a red state and know several 2024 trumpers still, but i would count 0 of them among friends that i would go grab a drink with or see a sporting event with.
I would find it hard to be friends with anyone who at this point has doubled/tripled down on Trump support.
I would not want Taylor to be friends with anyone who has done so either. I don’t think it would be seen as an endorsement, however, due to how strongly opposed Swift has been to Trump.
if you love trump you live in a different universe than i do and i don’t hang out with space weirdos
I want absolutely nothing to do with anyone Trumpy. Whether I can judge someone else who continues those relationships is harder to determine. I will say I was disappointed Swift didn’t make a statement after Trump posted the fake Swifties for Trump stuff.
I’ve been awesome at avoiding talking politics with my mother. Made my life so much better.
My trumpy uncle stayed a few days at my parents place after his round the world cruise and wanted to take them out to dinner as repayment, which I got invited to, he was wearing his stupid Trump bracelet and his favorite place in the entire world cruise was shockingly the Trump properties in friggen Dubai. I would almost never order the most expensive item on the menu being taken out to dinner, but damn that huge lamb shank was phenomenal.
As Michael Jordan would surely tell you, MAGAs listen to music too.
Fuck MAGA people. Half the people you see every day are decent human beings, be friends with those people. It makes your life way better anyway.
I’m lucky that I’m about the only liberal I know, but I’m also about the only politically aware person I know. Everyone I know is vaguely conservative, but not in a grotesque MAGA kind of way.
Would you say JD Vance fits this description?
I live in SC. Everyone is deplorable
I’m in Oklahoma so I can relate. My guess is there are tons of left leaning people in SC just like there are here. Finding 5-10 friends who aren’t deplorable is doable.
I won’t lie one of the hardest things about the first Trump cycle was finding out some people that seemed apolitical were total pieces of shit. It sucked losing them as friends. But i would have legitimately lost my mind if I had to talk to some of these people on a regular basis.
Now if you are MAGA but aren’t someone who talks about it, then sure we can be friends. But I sure as shit am not wasting one second discussing or arguing politics with these people and/or listening to them talk about their insane beliefs.
I know it isn’t the generally accepted way you’re supposed to operate, but jesus christ if you love trump you are legitimately an alien species living in an alternate universe from me, and I don’t hang out with weird ass aliens. I get that you’re supposed to respect differences in opinion and shit, but naah weirdo aliens can get all the way fucked life is too short to force yourself to interact with garbage people.
I mean in my view it isn’t just for MAGA people. If you are an ass, or not any fun to hang out with, or whatever then get lost. There are literally billions of people out there to interact with and forcing yourself to hang out with people you really don’t like out of loyalty or something doesn’t make much sense to me.
I gave the example of the “quiet MAGA” but do any of these people really exist? They are dying to get their weird beliefs into any possible conversation.
My wife’s sister is married to a guy that became disabled and then became too online too quickly without developing the resilience that many of us who have been here forever have. The brain worms got him and he quickly devolved from a right-leaning greedy gimme mine type to having a gigantic Trump banner in his yard.
The first time I saw that will be the absolute last time I ever walk into that house. That’s a no for me, dog.
