With a few minor tweaks I think a lot of us could have written this essay.
During the 8 years of the Obama administration we read countless self-help articles by the left about how to deal with your crazy rightwing uncle who thinks Obama is deliberately destroying America.
Now we’re reading articles by the right about how these same self-help gurus have broken from the family now that the shoe is on the other foot.
The left is naturally unstable, it’s why they seek to destabilize the rest of society.
ht/ anymouse
The sad thing is that all this discord will be blamed on Trump, who could never have
been elected had the conditions for such animus not already existed. That’s like blaming
the symptoms instead of the disease.
The idea that anyone found the corrupt and ego maniacal Obama even a decent president shows severe dementia. It defies all logic and is based solely on emotional swings. The only exception is a two digit IQ.
I hope to see my niece an nephew at a Antifa protest…I’ll put knots on their foreheads faster than they can rub them, Little Commie.
“This must be similar to how the Civil War began.”
The author did not discuss the similarities he sees. The analysis would be interesting.
I have an older sister who is neurotic lefty. Very difficult having any conversations with her, at least about topics I like to converse about. The relationship won’t spark a war, though, so there is that.
One of my sons got out of the Navy when Obama got in office and for that reason. He was soon offered a job working for Lockheed building F-22 Raptors, but they said it would take a little time before he would get the call letting him know when he would start. They were even going to pay for his move to Georgia. He turned down good jobs because he had been assured by Lockheed that they wanted him. Then Obama cut the F-22 program way back and Lockheed simply wasn’t going to be building the number of Raptors they had contracted for. The job fell through. He went to work in Houston programing robotic welders building deep-sea drilling components that handle high pressure hydraulic fluids. Then Obama attacked the oil industry with his renewable energy BS. His employer was forced to cut his hours from 40 hours per week plus plenty of overtime to 32 hours per week just to manage to keep him on. He came very close to losing his new home that he had purchased a year earlier. He would have if I had not been able to help him out. Since Trump got elected, their business is booming and his company is in the midst of a large expansion. I’d love to have five minutes with Obama alone. Just five minutes!
Why worry about insane relatives when you have good friends here at iOTWreport?
Money, greed, pride and alcholics put splints in my family before politics ever could. But then again, we lean right as a family. The last time I remember a family member voting left was when we found out my newlywed brother who married a Yale graduate voted for Al Gore. He got the family ridicule. To his defense, he was non-political and got a quick lesson that night!
My “friends” are the lunatic Left. Thankfully, my family is conservative from one side to the other.
simple solution … tell them to take Oboinkadoik’s advise & ‘stop whining’ & call you when they matriculate to adulthood
Lost a Liberal friend I had since 1974, we had a wager: If Hillary won, I was to call him and tell him I thought Hillary would be a good president.
The reciprocity never happened and hell no, I aint callin’.
He isn’t a Prog, like most libs, still startled.
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
OtD, you didn’t lose a ‘friend’
Right after the election, I mean just a day or two, I was in a customer’s house and our conversation was interrupted by a phone call from his 30-something daughter.
While I could tell she was distraught and reaching out to dad for comfort, I didn’t hear a thing she said, just the emotion came through. I couldn’t help but hear his end. When he said she should see a doctor about some depression meds, I still had no clue what was going on and felt a little sympathy for someone who needs those meds.
After he hung up he said something along the lines of her problem was the election.
My sympathy disappeared and it was all I could do to not grin from ear-to-ear while I did my job.
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Things kinda unraveled for me, and family, when Scalia ‘died’.
I had the NERVE to compare him to my father, a man a Catholic who raised TEN children AND worked at a high level position in the NY court system.
So, the thread escalated to the point where my younger of two older sisters said she would ‘see me at our mom’s wake’.
My mom died two months later.
My personal friends, and Mrs., could post all day long here on IOTW…I am lucky!
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Hambone. I hear ya on wanting “5 minutes.” I want that with Biden, too. Thanks for sharing your story. Everything 0bama did was intended to inflict a wound. No one should ever forget that. Leftism destroys productivity, steals “fruit,” and props-up failure. That Trump loves America is becoming evident to more and more people. 0bama will soon be an historical ghost
“I’d love to have five minutes with Obama alone. Just five minutes!”
Well, for sh^ts and grins, I’ll hold him for you, but it’s not enough.
At 5 minutes each, it’s going to take something like 5,000 to 10,000 minutes to get down to an effective level of the deep state.
O himself is expendable and wouldn’t make a dent in the problem. Maybe even exacerbate it once the propaganda machine gets wound up.
Okay, had a judge friend who was liberal democrat and Hillary supporter. We disagreed on most all things political as in he thought it was great that I was always armed, but not so much for anybody else. Followed the some people are more equal thing. Anyway, he was terminal cancer and we had a card game once a month over the last year plus before he died. During one of the games I suggested there was one good thing about his cancer. He asked what and I said “Well it means there’ll be once less vote for Hillary.” Miss him even with all the opposite views political. Those games could be brutal with the ball busting.