Posted on 08/25/2016 8:23:20 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
This morning as I was out running errands I happen to tune into The Mike Gallagher Show and his topic was have you lost friends in this election, Liberal friends, etc. because of your support for Donald Trump.
Gallagher related that he had, and it was a person formally who supported Trump but now will just sit at home and not vote at all regardless of the dangers of a Hillary Presidency.
Well that hit home for me. Last night I had had enough of my Facebook account and closed it. I have a number of friends on there that regardless of the corruption being exposed will not listen to any cogent or logical reasoning on not voting for her.
I have debated, offered documentation and facts to those I have engaged and yet nothing seems to deter these people and on top of that I am called names and accused if all manner of things not true.
I have always tried to be careful and deliberate on whom I would friend on Facebook, but of course you have people you have known since grade school or college you have kept in touch with and now you find out what they think and what you think politically are 180 degrees off.
The last straw was last night with a couple of people who on the surface would seem to know better and yet they are willing to settle for a criminal and have little interest in getting to the truth. That was it for me and I promptly closed my account.
Depending on the election results I may or may not revisit Facebook on November 9th.
I am to the point that if Trump does not win I am not sure whether I will ever vote again. I am not sure there will be another Republican candidate that can or will ever win again after four to eight years on more Democrats, Will there be anything left to really salvage after all the damage that will be done????
Only God knows and I pray almost everyday for this country and it's future.
I know I have. Take care and God Bless all of my Free Republic friends.
Obama took out any “friends”.
Heck, I have utter contempt for half of America.
When my liberal friends called me a racist for opposing Obama they lost me. Some of them are no longer Obama lovers, but I lost all respect for them and refuse to interact with shallow minded numb skulls.
Mark Levin.
I don’t have any liberal friends.
I haven’t lost friends, but it’s actually affected dating. I don’t bring up politics, but the girls seem to ask, and I have no problem telling them where I stand. Great way to weed out the nuts, but sometimes disappointing at the same time.
As an aside, I’ve noticed political content conspicuously missing from LinkedIn. I bet they’ve recognized political disagreement could be disastrous to the goal of their site, which is to build professional networks.
None. Zero. Zilch.
None.
But some of them have lost me.
If you have, then they weren't friends to begin with................
Only here
Yep. Dumped a friend since 1968 who recently destroyed something of great personal value I had given her in the early 70s – because I am campaigning for Trump.
If Trump loses, there is no reason to stay in the United States. I'm looking at Spain. Tons and tons of American ex pats in select cities and villages and you can actually live on your social security there.
My standard comment in the “real world”, when someone asks who I’m voting for is to say, “I’m buying more ammo.”
But in the real world, people know me. They know the whole person and not just my posts on an internet site. They get how I’m being both funny and serious and what I actually mean when I say that.
I’ve lost respect for a lot of folks here over this election. I’m not going to say why, though.
Yes, I have lost a friend. It baffles and saddens me. This friend understands Conservatism and what is at stake. I sincerely believe that there is a brainwashing effect from daily tuning in to some of the radio hosts.
“Mark Levin.”
Yup. That’s all that needs to be said.
ML epitomizes how this election has separated the wheat from the chaff.
Had dinner with a couple of high school buddies last night. One, a judge, is so fed up with the way Trump has been treated by the media and the political system he’s considering voting for him as a protest. And he’s been an MSNBC watcher. He’s on top of the drip, drip of Hillary’s criminality and now finds MSNBC’s bias intolerable. The other was non-committal. I’ve ruled out Hillary a long time ago. May vote Trump just to piss a lot of people off. At the rate we’re going, Hillary may be tagged for jail by November, at least in the voters’ minds.
My feelings exactly. A nice island somewhere.
Good one. For me it’s Michael Medved. I now see him as the pseudo conservative mouthpiece for the #uniparty. He’ll never get my respect back on this one.
“Liberal friends”
I have liberal acquaintances, but I snipped the cord with every liberal I once called ‘friend’, a long time ago.
I don’t discuss politics with liberal family members on Facebook anymore. Not worth the grief and hard feelings. Some relatives haven’t spoken to me since the 2008 election.
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