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 told one friend that I thought there were similarities between Cruz and Benedict Arnold. Man, was he pissed. I really didn’t mean to offend him, I was really taking about wanting personal recognition and gain over selfless service. I didn’t know he would take it so hard. He really seems to hate Trump. Anyway, yes, it seems to have affected things.
I haven’t lost friends. I am, however, VERY careful what I say at church. I’m well aware of the presence of a few bleeding hearts and those who just plain hate anyone who has done well financially. Sad that the green monster of covetousness is so alive and well in the Body of Christ.
I don’t truly hate anyone, and hope to build on that. Having said that, when Bill Clinton was elected for office the first time I was in training as a physician. One of the people I knew well and considered a good friend told me ‘Hillary is going to get you’ - referring to her appointment as the ‘health care reform’ person. I came from a blue collar family, was the first in my family to even go to college, and here is the person, my supposed friend, telling me that their person, Hillary, was going to ‘get me’. For what? For what crime? I didn’t have money. I’d worked manual labor jobs during summers to help pay my way, and was moonlighting to pay off my student debt. Nonetheless, this ‘friend’ wanted me to be ‘put in my place’ by Hillary. This was one of my first experiences with liberal resentment and hatred. Friends don’t want your life to be screwed over by politicians.
They have bought the mass media idea that Trump is Hitler. They totally believe it. I do plan on ridiculing that idea, but there is no way I am going to disabuse them of all the left-stupidity about Trump.
Maybe not, but Trump has a way of ousting those who adhere to political correctness. Closet Lefties.
No, I don’t pick friends who would vote for Hellary.
Communists (some try to call them liberals) fundamentally hate everything I stand for - individualism, freedom, liberty, believe in God, limited government, integrity, duty, honor.
I simply cannot see how a communist, who loathes everything I stand for, could be my friend, in any sense of the word. So, I have no commie friends. Some acquaintances, but never a friend.
When a family member professes loyalty the commie ideals, I avoid all future contact with them. They are working against me in every sense of the meaning of the word. I will not tolerate their presence, since they hate me.
I will not willing be in a position to have a “friend” go Judas on me when the time comes.
You better be planning on having more than SS to support you. The dollar will be worthless.
Lost a few friends but not many. Most of the libs deleted me years ago on FB. My office is 100% Trump but I live in Louisiana. Although I was originally for Cruz I’ve deleted 3 of them who wouldn’t let it go.
Who have lives in the toss up states? I live in a pro-Trump echo chamber. Some of your comments regarding coworkers and family concern me. I was wondering if you just live in a blue state we would never win anyway.
I have no liberal friends. I dumped them all during Bill Clinton’s reign of terror in the ‘90s. Have not seen an ex-friend liberal in that long. I simply cannot stomach their hypocrisy, lies, spin, and excuses.
I have no liberal friends goingbon 20 years. One of these was from grade school and was among the worst of rabid liberal enablers. A real head case.
I speak about trump only with people who are informed. Those who do not like trump are misinformed or uninformed. The misinformed are certain that liking trump is a moral issue. They believe that to support trump is pure evil. The uninformed are uninformed.
Both groups vote when they are morally obligated to not vote for being ignorant
Neither group wants to know what I think, even if they ask me.
I know two people willing to admit that what goes on with the democrats is so beyond anything compatible with maintaining a free country that to not get trump in is the end of our future in biblical proportions. I’ll talk to them about trump.
So I haven’t lost friends. But I could. In a New York minute
I am going down with the ship. After all Obama has done to destroy her, Abmerica is still the world’s best nation by orders of magnitude. Here I will die. There is no place better to go.
Got “unfriended” by a former Co-worker on Fakebook.
Apparently correcting her Hillary / Obama loving Friends by using Facts upset her. Of course all of her Friends attacked me personally for bursting their Bubble.
My favorite insult from a 60ish Hillary loving Woman, “anyone with a Uterus is smarter than you”. LOL
So how many of you out there have had a similar experience or experiences with friends, co-workers, and family over this election, and have you had to re-assess friendships and relationships because of it???
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Absolutely.
And I can accept if someone doesn’t like Trump.
But when someone reveals themselves to be totally ok with a candidate that is a proven serial liar, corrupt, misogynist, downright crook - whose husband is a rapist! - someone to be president of the US when others go to prison for such things - if someone is honestly supportive of that - why would I want to be friends with that?
“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.”
THIS....
People that I respected called me a RACIST for daring to speak the truth about Obama, and what he intended to do.
Now that time has proven almost everything I said about him, his policies, and the Democrats has been proven to be right, those people get very sheepish around me, not wanting to talk about politics AT ALL, though there are some who still swallow the propaganda lines, no matter how much MediaMatters changes them, day after day.
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.
I've been fortunate to have talked a fair amount of Cruz supporter friends (real friends, not just on FR) off the ledge, one who even once told me she would consider voting for Hillary because there was no difference.
I said some strongly worded things to her, about how that wasn't true, explaining why. I think she was hoodwinked by Cruz. No other way I can explain that when somebody supposedly from the right tells me there is no difference.
Well, my words must have stuck with her. We went out with them on our boat the day after the Cruz speech to the convention, and I was expecting her to talk about how great the Cruz speech was. Not only did she not say that, she was angry at Cruz beyond anything I've seen in a long time.
She's 100% pro Trump now. Hates Cruz for what he did.
I don’t keep up with my old college friends anymore. Most are leftist to the point of being communists. Once we got into a shooting war with Islam, I considered them to be traitors.
I don’t have any Democrat friends. I rooted them out long ago. Anybody with a “D” after their name is the enemy.
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