Hate Filed: How to shut down your Trump-supporting family member at Thanksgiving dinner

THe Hill ^ | 11/27/19 | MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF

[efs111]

“Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭27:22‬ ‭NIV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/111/pro.27.22.niv

[Alas Babylon!]

...any woman who would vote for a man that admits to sexually assualting women, does not deserve the respect of either men or women.

Ted Kennedy?

Bill Clinton?

Comeon, now, that sword cuts both ways...

[wbarmy]

A litany of (decidedly unimpeachable) patriots delivered a series of devastating blows to Trump’s defense.

I would actually love to ask one of these liberals to name just one of the devastating blows to Trump's defense. Trump's defense is the transcript of the calls, both to the President of Ukraine and to Ambassador Sondland. Neither of which stated anything like a devastating blow.

[wbarmy]

2018 was the first year ever that tax revenues actually declined in a relatively strong economy.

The government is getting less of our money than they used to? And she says this like it is a bad thing?

Although honestly, personal tax revenue went up, corporate tax revenue went down. Which resulted in businesses hiring a lot of people. Which raised the individual tax revenue to record heights. But again, why is it a bad thing if the government gets less money. Shut an agency or two down to make up the difference.

[wbarmy]

True that. My five children and my wife (their mother) talked about sports and school, and boyfriends and girlfriends, college and future plans, and a whole lot of jokes at each others expense.

But politics never came up. Never needed to come up, because we were talking about our family, as a family, and how God has blessed us.

[wbarmy]

Why can I not see the comments? They never load!

[miss marmelstein]

Or just do what I do at my Thanksgiving table: ban all political talk.

I don’t tolerate it. There is so much more in the world to talk about than politics.

[Albion Wilde]

What really matters is where you are going to spend eternity. And if you keep rejecting Jesus Christs free gift, you are going to spend it in hell and drag along with you your wife and children...”

Amen!

[Deaf Smith]

"His lousy economic numbers were the "new normal".

Hussein said loosing your job allowed you more time to spend with the family. As foreclosures increased, that having multiple generations moving into one house allowed people to live like the Waltons.

[Deaf Smith]

*Losing...

[Albion Wilde]

...any woman who would vote for a man that admits to sexually assualting women, does not deserve the respect of either men or women.

[Colt1851Navy]

Only one non Trump fan family member around here, large degree, larger education loan debt, and small income. Even though she is as old as the Golden Gate Bridge, she still gets her mom to do her laundry. She was a big fan of the Kenyan faker.

[firebrand]

Yet another anti-Trump post poorly disguised as intelligent comment.

[firebrand]

Mine was like a Trump rally too, because it wasn’t “family.” It was family: All attending had red-white-and-blue blood flowing in their veins and we talked politics throughout and had a great time.

[CodeToad]

Not to mention the BLS is a key Deep State swamp creature that lies for Obama and lies against Trump.

With Obama, bad news numbers were reported lower and then later “revised” up when no one was looking.

With Trump good news numbers the numbers are lowered then “revised” up when no one is looking.

[Wiser now]

The left appears to be on a campaign to abolish the holiday known as “Thanksgiving”.
We have myriad articles describing how we are lied to about the origins of the holiday and why we should be ashamed to even thing about celebrating such an evil act.
Then, since the Obama era, they have been suggesting starting political arguments at the dinner table, (while denouncing them at the same time) designed to make everybody dread the occasion.
The goal is to make the overall experience so unpleasant we just throw up our hands and quit.

[tbw2]

I generally host Thanksgiving at my house and did so this year. I’m openly conservative and conservative Christian. My family runs the gamut from conservative to liberal.

The only relatives that can’t have a civil conversation on politics are not invited. The aunt and cousins who screamed at me in my own home in front of my kids about my political and religious views (because my faith informs my voting, so I can’t in conscience vote Democrat) hasn’t been here in around eight years.

My moderately liberal atheist brother who can politely debate tax and immigration policy will see MAGA straws at Christmas as a gag gift. He doesn’t like Trump, but he isn’t addicted to the hatred of orange man bad. And he hates identity politics, because as a white guy, he knows it has cost him job opportunities.

[tbw2]

Clinton’s team did a great job of framing Trump as a dangerous and unstable Hitler-in-the-making. As I noted before, that provided moral cover for her supporters to threaten and physically assault Trump supporters in public.

Adams, Scott. Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter (p. 231).

[tbw2]

This is the evil of “the personal is political”. They feel morally obligated to inject their politics into science fiction conventions, religious events and family gatherings. You aren’t allowed to have neutral public places.

It is like Islam. That every symbol and opinion contrary to the totalitarian ideology must be attacked and torn down for the sake of ideological purity and their opinion of the public good. And true members of the faith are ordered to bring it up all the time.

[gr8eman]

Race War?