Posted on 11/26/2016 7:44:26 AM PST by detective
We had an obnoxious, self important liberal at Thanksgiving dinner. She brags about how she controls her household, makes all the decisions and tells her husband what to do.
A friend and I were talking about how great the stock market was doing and I said it was due to Trump. We then talked about the media bias and how upset all the media talking heads are about Trumps victory.
She practically went crazy. Her face turned beet red. She was clenching her fists and almost yelling "She won the popular vote."
Of course we ignored her and kept on talking about how great Trump's win was for America.
Our Thanksgiving was 100 percent Trump supporters. But my aunt did say that her Hillary-loving sister has stopped talking to her, and another guest said half of his adult children are not talking to him because he voted for Trump.
We chose NOT to go to our extremely liberal relatives for Thanksgiving this year!!!!!!
INSTEAD we had the loveliest TRUMP only Thanksgiving with our daughter and her family!!!!!!
And the next day we all went to the Magic Kingdom ( yes, I know).....but we were as happy as little kids and felt like acting silly and giggly!!!!
It was awesome!!!
My mom’s pussy of a new boyfriend cancelled his Facebook account because he couldn’t “tolerate” the Trump talk, and now gutlessly posts under her name (non-political stuff). If only my dad were alive, Thanksgivings would be so much better.
“She brags about how she controls her household, makes all the decisions and tells her husband what to do.”
Sadly, enough you could be describing the relationship of a dear, dear friend of ours: the husband is the one we love and admire for his intelligence, generosity and his warmth, and the wife is as you describe.
“You should have cold cocked her and bodily thrown her out of your house.”
the group completely ignoring a person like that is the absolute worse thing that can happen to them.
Nope. We all solidly supported Trump so no controversy at Thanksgiving. Even the little kids liked Trump.
But all through 2000-2008 he always brought up Bush and what a terrible person he was.
And all through 2008-2016 he always brought up Obama and how great he was and how awful the hard right (McConnell, Boehner, McCain, Romney) were.
I've spent 16 years just smiling and nodding, avoiding a family fight.
This year, no one mentioned politics at all. Like, for the first time ever. It was nice.
“I should have brought the Preparation H for all the butthurt.”
the above ointments are WAY more effective than Prep H for the malady that you describe!
No problem at our Thanksgiving Dinner. Our grandkids participated in surveys at their private schools, and both were told that they were the most conservative students in their classes, Sophomore and Senior.
Our guests donate free time to feed the those in Need at our Local Salvation Army and believe there should be no welfare.
One of our sons makes me look some what moderate. His younger brother is an independent, who hates socialist liberals and the GOPe. He is laughing at all the liberals claiming that they are going to Canada. He asks them why not Mexico.
My wife and DIL despise liberals, who try to make them, their sisters and daughters look helpless and in need of someone like H. Clintoon.
So the basic politics was thank you Lord, for our new president, Donald Trump, Amen!
You might also posit something like this - "If we went by popular vote, suppose it ended up that one candidate led the other by a mere 100,000. If you think Florida 2000 Bush/Gore was a zoo, what do you think that one would be like?"
My brother-in-law is a skilled trades union guy with 20 years in and his uncle is a lawyer who represents that union. He votes (D) ever since he got the job in ‘97 out of some kind of loyalty to his uncle. My sister votes that way too, and all because they both think they’ll always be in his good graces if they do. They never speak out against any Democrat no matter what. So, we were talking about whether the Russians had really manipulated our electoral process and my sister said, “I think he’s an idiot.”. I assumed that she was referring to Putin. Being a guest at her house, I just waited for somebody else to follow it up but it didn’t happen. She knows what I think, so maybe she was really talking about me!
Unfortunately, when there is only a 1% to 2% difference in the popular vote, errors and cheating can make the difference.
The question: what is the expected error in our electoral process — +/-3%? More? Less?
That was smart. I’m sorry that your Dad isn’t doing well.
For us, it was a time of healing.
Yeah! Right!
Rubbed their faces in the dirt. Healing? Here;s some carbolic acid.
Actually it was very pleasant. I guess the lefties I know make it a point to stay away from me.
Healing? After they tried to ruin this country the last eight years! I’ll show you healing....
That sounds lovely. :)
Surprisingly, all the older family members, even if they were Democrats, said that Trump should be given a fair chance to show us what we can do. I got the impression that all the mature people were pretty pleased that Trump got in and not Hillary. The young ones needed work though and they started getting shrill and yapping about the "popular vote." I schooled them pretty well on the Electoral College and even the older folk were impressed with the way I laid it out. Even the Bernie-bots agreed that it wouldn't be a good idea for Los Angeles and New York to decide the election for everybody else. Which is what we'd get in a popular election scenario.
It all was pretty civil and nobody got out of hand. The 20-something nieces and nephews were 100% behind Bernie Sanders and had no love for Hillary. Yet they are genuinely scared of Trump because of all they have been told by their professors and the social media circles they hang out in. I learned that there is a Left Wing equivalent to Free Republic and Reddit/r/The_Donald out there and it is pretty huge. All kinds of conspiracies out there on how Trump and Hillary "stole" the election from Bernie. But they seemed to concede that Hillary would have been worse. They do love their Bernie though. They defended him through thick and thin. I don't get the love affair that our young people had - and still have - for Bernie Sanders. He really hit a chord with them.
I have a feeling that if Bernie was the Democrat nominee, this election might have turned out different.
That's what I was trying to get at - with THAT small a margin, a National Recount would be called for - and wouldn't that be fun (using 2000 Florida as a benchmark).
I had hoped to harass my mother over Thanksgiving, she considers herself very liberal, stumped for Obama etc She never liked Hillary... still upset with her since 2008 but really didn’t like Trump. She didn’t vote this election, but I still expected her to rail against Trump.
Instead she told me she was very impressed how hard he fought HILLARY!
She still doesn’t like him, but she’s gone all he’s our president... very disappointing. Politics is not something you are allowed to take personally in our family, so harassing the other side and post electoral gloating is appropriate at get togethers!
Killjoy.
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