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Here’s What Happened When I Said I Couldn’t Be ‘Friends’ With A Trump Supporter (BARF)
Huffington Post ^ | December 30, 2016 | Michelangelo Signorile

Posted on 12/31/2016 12:57:08 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

Two weeks ago I published an open letter here to a long-time, long-distance friend after I learned she had voted for Donald Trump. I stated that I realized I never really knew her, that I couldn’t fall back on the thought that she lived in the Rust Belt and experienced “economic anxiety” (she doesn’t, and surely isn’t) and that I’m just being honest when I say we can no longer be friends.

There was a lot of response on social media and elsewhere, most of it positive, much of it from people in far more difficult situations ― people who opposed Trump and were struggling with relationships they’ve had with parents, siblings, children or closer friends who voted for Trump. Many expressed how the letter articulated thoughts similar to their own, no matter how differently (or similarly) they may navigate this in their own lives.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: homo; liberals; sjw; snowflake; weirdos
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“It is dangerous what this guy is saying. Look in history and see the horrible things that have come as a result of “I can’t be friends with you because your support the other candidate.” Really horrible, terrible things.”

Glad to see I’m not the only FReeper who caught this. And I will freely say I cut ties with a seriously hardcore Dumbocrat or two, but they were the kind who are driven truly insane by their ideology. That mantra is a VERY dangerous precedent if it becomes too embedded in how we live.


41 posted on 12/31/2016 1:21:56 PM PST by Laser_Ray
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To: GuavaCheesePuff; xzins; Gamecock

Posts like this are clear evidence that Today’s liberalism is a Religious Cult and not a political philosophy.


42 posted on 12/31/2016 1:22:28 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: tophat9000
Correct....they believe all they hear on MSM, which is nothing but liberal doctrine, and not in synch with reality. Only time will dispel the worries.

I for one will likely be disappointed that a more strict social path isn't taken, but I'll accept it if we build a wall, Obiecare, taxes, ISIS, globab warming etc.

43 posted on 12/31/2016 1:23:17 PM PST by chiller (One from the Right - One for the Fight)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

doesn’t know the meaning of friendship


44 posted on 12/31/2016 1:25:00 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I will generally stop by the comments section of most of the original sources of these stories just to humor myself, but the Huffington Post comment section is not even fun. They are absolutely deranged. All they do is tell each other how rotten and hateful all of the Trump people that they know are, and how their own family members turned out to be racist hate filled bigots, and that they will never ever forgive them for the destruction they are bringing to this once great nation. I have never seen anything like this in my life. I mean it is so bad I can’t even find joy in their lamentations. And that is bad.


45 posted on 12/31/2016 1:26:48 PM PST by TruthBeforeAll (November 18, 1978, Jonestown Guyana. What happens when liberals don't get their way.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Time to grow the hell up, punk.


46 posted on 12/31/2016 1:28:35 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison along with the jive ass punk obammy.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I could not read the whole pot of drivel. Is this a facebook ‘friend’? Boo-hoo.

I have neighbors who are left-wing moonbats and unionistas apparently, but we are polite neighborly friends with them. When Obummer got into office, I did not go on a tirade and formally UNfriend them. Will these libtards just grow up please?


47 posted on 12/31/2016 1:30:36 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I don’t understand- really- what’s wrong with Trump?


48 posted on 12/31/2016 1:31:32 PM PST by zeebee (There are no coincidences.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

These are the New Puritans. They are as obnoxious as the old Puritans.


49 posted on 12/31/2016 1:31:38 PM PST by arthurus
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

My little sister, a long-time leftie and Bernie supporter, had an epiphany when Wikileaks exposed the illegal and immoral activities of the Clinton Left.

When she happened to mention this in a very tentative manner on her Facebook page, she was immediately “unfriended” by friends and relatives with whom she had been friends for years.

I have invited her to check out FR.

She voted for Trump enthusiastically, and loves the articles I send her.


50 posted on 12/31/2016 1:32:47 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: chrisser

It really should be legal to identify political affiliation as a job requirement.


51 posted on 12/31/2016 1:33:12 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
So, the gay guy is mad that people voted for ...

Trump...

...and not Clinton

52 posted on 12/31/2016 1:33:22 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Jim Robinson

Not a communist. A Marxist socialist. Face it: the Communist bug-a-boo is non-sensical. The Marxist socialists are real threats—Sanders, etc. It’s the Leftie Marxist Socialists that have ruined the economy and the nation of Venezuela.


53 posted on 12/31/2016 1:33:23 PM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies as a warning--take scalps.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Executive summary:

I’m crazy as a loon and it’s all your fault because you voted for Trump!

Her friend is most likely relieved that her idiot friend is out of her life.


54 posted on 12/31/2016 1:34:24 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: IronJack

Leftists don’t have friends. They have Comrades. Comrades work together toward a common end. Any deviation ends the relationship. That is “comrades” as used by Communists for over a century.


55 posted on 12/31/2016 1:34:51 PM PST by arthurus
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To: IronJack

Leftists don’t have friends. They have Comrades. Comrades work together toward a common end. Any deviation ends the relationship. That is “comrades” as used by Communists for over a century.


56 posted on 12/31/2016 1:34:57 PM PST by arthurus
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Earlier this year, people would post pronouncements on Facebook such as: "If you're planning to vote for Trump, just unfriend me now. I don't want you as a Facebook friend." I was tempted to do it, but the snotty tone of those posts woke up my contrary side. I decided that if they wanted me off their friend list so badly, then why should I do the dirty work for them? They can click a button as easily as I can, so let them unfriend me. I began to take great pleasure in not doing as they said, all the while giggling at their pretentiousness. And now I have the added pleasure of watching them whine and freak out about Trump's coming inauguration.
57 posted on 12/31/2016 1:35:10 PM PST by Rainbow Rising (Please pass me another goblet of snowflake tears.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

If this is a deal breaker, you were never friends to begin with.

Casual friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.


58 posted on 12/31/2016 1:35:30 PM PST by Haiku Guy
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

This is the guy who would turn his neighbor in for speaking out against the government.


59 posted on 12/31/2016 1:36:17 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (The Left Lies All of the Time)
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To: Laser_Ray

It means an important step has been reached where people you once knew will now rat you out to destroy you.


60 posted on 12/31/2016 1:36:21 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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