I have ended a friendship with a MAGA
Me and this guy have been friends for 53 years. The ironic thing is he actually texted me saying "Can we talk? Fuck Trump, piece of shit". After that text we didn't talk until last night. I was flabbergasted and while walking our dogs with my wife she was also blown away but did say, "i hope this isn't like some sort of click bait"
Well last night was proof he was just trying to get me to click. We talked baseball then OF COURSE got into politics. NO, Fuck Trump commentary at all, rather complaining about NO Kings, which I told him I went to a protest and that's first amendment stuff. He did seem to back down on that. Then he doubled down on ICE actions against people basically saying, "get them all out". Again, I tried to argue against it. Then he went off on California and he being a HUGE Civil War (and pro South) asshole was called out on states' rights. Again, he stood down. Didn't really agree with me but then the clincher for me was the murder of the two lawmakers in Minnesota.
He recited the same bullshit ghouls like James Wood, Lara Looner and Mike Lee said. And instead of shutting his fucking mouth and allowing me to actually explain who this guy really he was went off on him being a "Friend of Tampon Tim", i tried to remain sedate but he repeated it a second time. I immediately said, "never call me again and fuck you", threw my phone across the basement floor, retrieved it and blocked his number.
The fact this guy believes this shit is a product of whatever "news" he is consuming. But I can't control what he does/does not listen to, but what I can control is my association with morons and idiots.
Oh it gets better, this same night I goto Facebook and see my moron Aunt literally making posts about how No Kings was an "Anti-American" movement. I never responded to her, but made a couple of very aggressive PRO No Kings posts on my own page. Basically, refuting her. If she blocks me for actually believing first amendment right to free assembly and expression is "anti American" then fuck her too.
My wife posted some pics from the protest and I responded to that, "freedom and Democracy in action, only Nazis and Fascists would have a problem."
I am done with these people. I can't do this anymore. Peace.
I am starting this thread to see if any others have had similar "I can't take this no mo'" experiences?
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The one you dumped was just cluttet, a distraction from your life & well being from the sound of things.
what was his opinion of the J6ers? 
so.....fucking juvenile 
LOL
Regardless, you have our support!
a bigot? a racist? a misogynist? a homophobe? a hypocrite? a self-centered/self-important bully? a delusional trumper dickhead? someone whose morals, values, and ethics are vastly different than yours? someone who doesn't give one shit about things that might be important to you? someone with a total lack of social conscience or social responsibility?
someone who makes you laugh once in awhile or you can go out drinking with but when you take a good look at them you see what an ugly person they truly are? someone without heart or soul?
whatever the good part of the relationship was, was it worth it? worth the aggravation? the insults? the frustration? the anger?
some people have this tendency to think "if i only say the right thing, make them think about something long and hard, tell them enough facts, tell them enough times" they will have a "come to jesus moment" and realize the democrat was right all along and, finally convinced, they now hate trump. BUT is anything a trumper says to you going to make you hate democrats and love donald trump? just like a lot of alcoholics, that change or decision to stop drinking or get help has to come from within themselves.
i have a friend who was always arguing and fighting and referencing facts to trumpers on facebook. it didn't matter how often i'd tell him he wasn't going to change anyone's mind, he kept doing it. he never did change hearts and minds (as far as i know) but then he started a democratic fb page and only allows dems to be a part of it and now he posts political posts to his heart's content and doesn't get into pissing contests with anyone. i'm sure that has had a positive effect on his mental health. i know he's preaching to the choir but so what? he can vent, get constructive feedback, and not be triggered by a bunch of republican/trumper assholes
i'm glad you cut this asshole loose. he sounds like he was a real poison pill.
so congratulations on new beginnings
but if they persist in their MAGA viewpoint, it's like they've gone away already. Some liberals are way too tolerant, way too nice. We're inclined to give people the benefit of the doubt, disinclined to write them off forever. Magas know this and bank on it. But these current insane times are a clear litmus test. If they like what's going on now, if they have no cognitive dissonance whatsoever, there really is NO hope. Engaging is a waste of time.
Sometimes you just have to show people the boundaries. It can be done without confrontation--in dealing with rigid personality types, you just become scarce, which can be done even if the situation requires further association on occasion. But if you keep close ties with people who you fundamentally do not respect, you will only lose yourself in the end. As the Samurai put it, "Do not allow a place for the sword to enter." A mental thing, not only physical. Do not be suckered back in out of misguided pity, a compassionate heart, or pangs of nostalgia. "He's really a good person" doesn't work as an excuse. (No, he's not). Put compassion elsewhere, deliberately. It's a practice that gets easier with time.
First step is accepting that there is a huge non-negotiable divergence. Congratulations on extricating! Thanks for posting.
and any kind of regulation by the government (who does some pretty amazing work BTW). I too, have thrown a device, although it was an NFL playoff game. 
It was a tv remote.
Don't blame you at all. They need to know but sadly, are up to their eyeballs in RW Kool-aid and I regard them as hopeless deplorables (to be kind). Life is too short to deal with numbskulls.
