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I Lost an Old Friend Because of My Support For Trump
Townhall ^ | 09/11/2019 | Michael Brown

Posted on 09/11/2019 9:27:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/11/2019 9:27:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m 66. Over my lifetime I’ve lost a lot of “friends” over various issues. I used to hang around quite a few musicians. Most of them are gone from my life now. Some left with expletive laced posts in FaceBook. It’s kinda comical to me, really, I’ve experienced, personally, the projection of the left. They are a touchy group. They’re pretty easy to intentionally set off, as Trump demonstrates daily.


2 posted on 09/11/2019 9:29:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are cowards. They are afraid that you might explain your ideas so well that they might have to actually think.

Think that your ideas are better and that they have to figure how to live with all of their leftist comrades knowing that they know they are wrong.


3 posted on 09/11/2019 9:31:51 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: SeekAndFind

If a friend cannot carry out a rational debate about Trump and threaten to break up the friendship when they cannot defend their opinions with logic and facts, then they are being ruled by their emotions and it is unlikely that you will be able to convince them that they are wrong.


4 posted on 09/11/2019 9:32:07 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: cuban leaf

Jesus himself that we would lose friends and alienate family by choosing to follow Him.

It’s something Christians should not fear for being in the right.


5 posted on 09/11/2019 9:32:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s not a loss.


6 posted on 09/11/2019 9:32:16 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly! It is how I respond to it when it happens.


7 posted on 09/11/2019 9:33:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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RE: If a friend cannot carry out a rational debate about Trump and threaten to break up the friendship when they cannot defend their opinions with logic and facts,

If this is the case, are they still worthy of being your friend?


8 posted on 09/11/2019 9:33:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ya know, I’ve had friends that were Obama supporters and I didn’t disown them. I think it’s just the left that acts so childish.


9 posted on 09/11/2019 9:33:58 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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But... but... What about diversity of ideas? What about tolerance toward people who think different than you do?
10 posted on 09/11/2019 9:34:18 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: SeekAndFind
I have a number of liberal friends, some going way back to Jr. High. Some I stay in contact with via Facebook. Facebook is no place for politics. It is not good to get cut off from people, even liberals. Facebook is no place for politics!
11 posted on 09/11/2019 9:34:41 AM PDT by olepap
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To: SeekAndFind

If a friend can’t respect your opinion, they’re not really a friend.


12 posted on 09/11/2019 9:35:57 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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One of my best friends was a liberal in college. I ignored it. He has gotten much more radical. A Bernie supporter now. But for the most part we just DON’T talk politics anymore. Occasional digs, but that’s about it.


13 posted on 09/11/2019 9:36:16 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Over 50 of Hilary’s friends and colleagues have ‘committed suicide’ in suspicious circumstances. And the Clinton Foundation is a thin veneer for child trafficking and extortion.

Ask these liberal ‘friends’ why they think Jesus would have voted for her.

Also, Trump walks the walk on Pro-Life. Ask these pharisees why their version of Jesus is ok with infanticide.


14 posted on 09/11/2019 9:37:46 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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It is up to you. If you can maintain a friendship and avoid politics then maybe. Is their friendship important to you?

I am in a similar situation with an old friend from HS. He has accepted the Liberal dogma, drunk the cool-aid, and we have had heated email exchanges with us not talking with each other for months. When we see each other, we avoid politics which means the conversations are high-level and superficial... which means the friendship is “superficial” too.

15 posted on 09/11/2019 9:38:28 AM PDT by dhs12345
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Same here- I had a person cast abuse in my face, in my own home, because she was incapable of defending her BS liberal views and getting the worst of the discussion.

She was not invited back and it doesn't matter, because my estimation of her diminished by about 5000%

Not because of her views, but because she forgot how to conduct herself

16 posted on 09/11/2019 9:38:48 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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Has anyone here who uses Fakebook NOT been unfriended by a “tolerant” Liberal so called Friend?

My experience.

I respond to ridiculous statements by using Facts.
The responses contain personal attacks against me.
I call them out.
They unfriend me.

Rinse, repeat.


17 posted on 09/11/2019 9:39:37 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stop talking to the Left. They want you dead and they refuse to learn.


18 posted on 09/11/2019 9:40:56 AM PDT by The Toll
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I would never have a “friend” that wanted the government to kill me.


19 posted on 09/11/2019 9:41:11 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would someone who doesn’t see Jesus in the same way as a Christian care if Jesus approves of one thing or another? That’s just a technique to manipulate the narrative, no matter how nicely it’s done. Push just a little and usually that person will reveal just how much they respect what Jesus approves of when they want to say homosexuality is just love or a woman deserves the right to kill her baby.

Peach


20 posted on 09/11/2019 9:43:31 AM PDT by CarolinaPeach
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