The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

And egg prices and illegal immigration and the number of people eating dogs and cats...

 

Yeah, we won't talk politics over the next couple of days. It was really only my FiL who was the big political guy back in the 80's and 90's (he was a Limbaugh/Buchanan/Buckley guy). My BiL and I used to be close but he became a big born-again Obama basher and so we haven't talked for years, with the exception of being nice over holiday meals. My SiL, completely over the top self-proclaimed Trump girl who seems to care more about abortion than any other issue...so yeah, I have to roll with it. And be nice. For my wife. I don't mind doing it for her, but it will test my patience.

 

I have. They have cycled through "you're over-reacting" and "we're still Trump supporters".

 

Or the counterargument is that, "well we were still friends when Biden/Obama was President". As they wished Biden would croak during his presidency or they would easily call Obama the N***er President.

 

Let me guess:

Various things the Dems predicted aren't happening because your relatives aren't directly experiencing those things.

 

We do, my Sil’s daughter (who’s a medical doc in Southern CA) married a Black man and they have three kids. And my BiL met his wife in the Philippines, after his divorce, and they have a daughter.

 

Wow it's like we're the same person

Yeah that's the parroted Fox News line isn't it

 

SiL’s daughter is more right leaning but she’s very low key about it, but they’re church people, more conservative, etc., she’s great though, I’ve always admired her, knew she wanted to be a doc at age 12-13. Just bought a house and ranch for her horses between LA and San Diego, a little inland from the coast, I’m very proud of her. BiL and his wife, their daughter is just hitting teen years, who knows how that will work out but she’s too young to care much about politics.

 

There's no such thing as "teen years/too young to care about politics." I knew by age 9 that I had to start paying attention and caring because I'd be dealing with other people's mistakes my whole life; anybody who doesn't figure that out by their teens is putting their head in the sand while wearing a "kick me hard sign."

 

My wife is similar, really doesn't follow politics at all. Just wants to go to work, go to church, text with her sisters about mom stuff, and try to find time for an occasional date night.

 

lol kids with well formed political views by age 12-13.

 

I'll tune into Faux News for a laugh as they're constantly propping him up to make him look good. They rarely talk about tariffs or the crappy job market and never talk about the skyrocketing grocery prices and people's rent.

 

Wife's sister? That could have been avoided by vetting the whole family. Next life, you'll know better.

Bro's wife? That's a no-brainer- it eats in the garage with the dogs, and they are kept safe from it by a fence

Tell ya what- being Black (and not just having melanin), at least I don't have to dine with pedophiles and other predators. I feel your pain.

 

It may be lol to you, but to a Black kid, it's pretty much a method of survival. Putting "Well-formed" out there doesn't work with me. Every step towards survival is political.

Not doing so could end you up like Emmitt Till.
I thought you were in your 60s. You have a... youthful... approach to knowledge of oppressed minorities ways of getting thru the day alive.

 

You know y'all like to get along with each other, so you suspend morality for family and friends.

 

That is the advantage indeed.....I do not know anyone in my immediate family and friends circles who is maga....Having said that, I would cut them off w/out any mixed feelings if there were.

 

No, you don't.

I'm sorry, but as one of the people they target I don't buy this. You don't have to "roll with it", a behaviour that only serves to legitimize their viewpoint. The lives of minorities could be in danger because of people who just "roll with it". I'm sorry, but it's attitudes like this that really piss me off given my life has been irrevocably changed because of these people.

 

Oh, hell, no. at this point, we would probably treat him like Moonshine (King of the Monkeys- Soldier's Story) if s/he were family. I choose my friends, so, that's a given.

Cut off their breathing...

 

Gee, be friends with people who want me to have my rights stripped completely away and potentially be executed because I exist, or let them know their views are unacceptable. Tough choice that.

 

We all have decisions to make, I think it makes more sense to stay in the US and stand up (with the rest of the LGBTQ community in this country) for gay rights.