how many of us did not see close MAGA family members this holiday season?

[Anonymous]

How do you question family members about their votes? That’s not the right thing to do. Do you question them about their paychecks? Their religious beliefs? You demand everyone in your family vote the way you want or you cut them off? Everyone is entitled to their vote without your input or consent.

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All you have to do is look at the voting patterns and protests. Democrats in Congress vote no to any sort of ID that would determine whether someone is illegally here. Lots of states won’t allow a business to check or act on it. So many of you don’t like ICE doing their jobs. Y’all are now supporting a man who literally ran over his own people with military vehicles and has held a country hostage by appointing himself leader. It’s completely baffling to me how someone can hate Trump over a man who has done such evil things. You all surmise Trump has done evil things but can never actually prove it. The outrage is laughable at this point.

So now you want people to carry "papers?"

That is a Nazi/communist/Authoritarian thing.

History matters.

We have to show papers to enroll kids in school, to get utility service, to drive cars get a mortgage, rent an apartment, buy alcohol, see a doctor, etc. is that a Nazi thing?

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Anonymous wrote:The love we have for each other trumps politics. Plus we have a firm rule that we NEVER discuss politics and religion.

You’re lucky you have a decent family. No one has ever laughed at you for losing your job, told you that your trans daughter is going to hell or that women should not vote and should let the man lead their house. This thread is obviously not about you and your family.

Your family thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote in 2026? Where are these idiots from?

DP- I imagine sitting next to Pete Hegsbreath and the church congregation he attends.

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All you have to do is look at the voting patterns and protests. Democrats in Congress vote no to any sort of ID that would determine whether someone is illegally here. Lots of states won’t allow a business to check or act on it. So many of you don’t like ICE doing their jobs. Y’all are now supporting a man who literally ran over his own people with military vehicles and has held a country hostage by appointing himself leader. It’s completely baffling to me how someone can hate Trump over a man who has done such evil things. You all surmise Trump has done evil things but can never actually prove it. The outrage is laughable at this point.

So now you want people to carry "papers?"

That is a Nazi/communist/Authoritarian thing.

History matters.

We have to show papers to enroll kids in school, to get utility service, to drive cars get a mortgage, rent an apartment, buy alcohol, see a doctor, etc. is that a Nazi thing?

No.

Does that answer your stupid question?

You don’t see the difference?

Man, our educational system has failed. Or, the educational system of whatever country you are posting from.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. There is hurt that is deeper than just them being MAGA. Last spring my spouse who is a high ranking fed came very close to losing his job during all the DOGE insanity (and did lose more than 100 direct reports) and my dad said they were all redundant because well, Fox News told him so. We had a huge blow up over this.
And perhaps the most toxic part is that they every time we're with my parents we're handed a long, typed out letter about how we are going to hell. My parents have always been religious but in their old age it's been escalated to deep fear of eternal damnation. The letters ares all about how they fear for our souls and at holiday gatherings (for the past 2-3 years) before eating we have to listen to a 30 minute talk about it all. In the context of the MAGA beliefs this is just all too much. Their political beliefs make them about the least Jesus-like people we know and yet they never shut up about their faith. I just can't.

This is abuse, full stop. You don’t owe people like this anything, not even if they birthed you, and ESPECIALLY if they birthed you. Family owes you more care, not less.

By keeping your distance, maybe you can salvage a decent memory after they’re gone, remember them from a time when they presumably weren’t such nasty horrible creatures. My heart is with you. It’s time to start mourning them as if they’re already gone.

Apple doesn't fall from the tree. PP's children will say the same about them 30 years from now.

Oh look. Nasty grandma found the thread.

What a horrible (and unfounded) thing to say. Shame on you.

I’m not a grandmother nor MAGA, but that is a reasonable possibility. Children learn behavior from their parents. All these people who have cut their parents off over political differences are teaching their kids that sort of tantrum-like behavior is acceptable. And it is indeed likely to be repeated.

So if your parents told you at length that your NIH physician researcher husband deserved to lose his federal job as he was a waste of taxpayer's money you would just call them up the next week and talk about the weather?

I have a mentally ill relative who will say nasty, unhinged things like that. I consider it the illness speaking, and use the gray rock technique. As I don’t respond with the desired attention, that behavior doesn’t happen often to me or my young adult kids any more, as my kids have also learned to gray rock.

I did not throw a tantrum myself and cut them off.

How is that different? I have done this to family, it's essentially a you're dead to me maneuver. That family member is now dead, I win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you question family members about their votes? That’s not the right thing to do. Do you question them about their paychecks? Their religious beliefs? You demand everyone in your family vote the way you want or you cut them off? Everyone is entitled to their vote without your input or consent.

Smart families don't talk politics. It is no one's business who you vote for. If a family member mentions Trump or Biden, ignore them and they'll shut up.

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Anonymous wrote:I have not spoken to my 83 and 82 year old parents for 9 months because they are fully in the MAGA cult.
We live in DC and our lives, jobs and income have been personally impacted by this administration.
We did not call them or see them this holiday season for the first time in my 51 years. My brother was the same.

Anyone else? I pretend to not care but it's just awful.

NP. You are a truly awful person, but your kids will do the same to you when you are elderly.

I’m not remotely MAGA either, just not in the blue cult like you are.

There is no blue cult. If there were, there would be biden hats, biden signs and the like. We never saw any of that.

Never change. LOLOL

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Anonymous wrote:I have not spoken to my 83 and 82 year old parents for 9 months because they are fully in the MAGA cult.
We live in DC and our lives, jobs and income have been personally impacted by this administration.
We did not call them or see them this holiday season for the first time in my 51 years. My brother was the same.

Anyone else? I pretend to not care but it's just awful.

NP. You are a truly awful person, but your kids will do the same to you when you are elderly.

I’m not remotely MAGA either, just not in the blue cult like you are.

There is no blue cult. If there were, there would be biden hats, biden signs and the like. We never saw any of that.

Deny, deny, deny. That is the sign of the true blue.

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That’s funny my father- a local university professor, called me the day before the election. This man always hated Trump and never voted for him (despite being a conservative). Anyways, he told me “the world did not need Trump in 2016, did not need him in 2020, but damn sure the world needs him in 2024. Im calling to just remind you that tomorrow is the election…”

lol

Lettttts gooooooo!

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Anonymous wrote:How do you question family members about their votes? That’s not the right thing to do. Do you question them about their paychecks? Their religious beliefs? You demand everyone in your family vote the way you want or you cut them off? Everyone is entitled to their vote without your input or consent.

Smart families don't talk politics. It is no one's business who you vote for. If a family member mentions Trump or Biden, ignore them and they'll shut up.

I think there are posters here who don’t understand that there are MAGA family members out there who do not shut up about their views and make hurtful comments without being asked. Dems that I know who have gone no contact did not question anyone and make them say who they voted for. You have it wrong. You obviously do not have family and friends who make unsolicited hurtful and offensive comments so this thread is not for you.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you question family members about their votes? That’s not the right thing to do. Do you question them about their paychecks? Their religious beliefs? You demand everyone in your family vote the way you want or you cut them off? Everyone is entitled to their vote without your input or consent.

My MAGA family members are extremely vocal, there is no need to question anyone.

Our family has never talked about politics, and I would have never asked them about anything, but the MAGAs just can't shut the f*ck up apparently.

Fortunately, most of them were sick this Christmas, so win win.

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In this thread a bunch of insufferable people who have families that talk politics in both directions. Sounds horrendous. Do not want.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you question family members about their votes? That’s not the right thing to do. Do you question them about their paychecks? Their religious beliefs? You demand everyone in your family vote the way you want or you cut them off? Everyone is entitled to their vote without your input or consent.

Smart families don't talk politics. It is no one's business who you vote for. If a family member mentions Trump or Biden, ignore them and they'll shut up.

I think there are posters here who don’t understand that there are MAGA family members out there who do not shut up about their views and make hurtful comments without being asked. Dems that I know who have gone no contact did not question anyone and make them say who they voted for. You have it wrong. You obviously do not have family and friends who make unsolicited hurtful and offensive comments so this thread is not for you.

I didn't even read your response pp, before I wrote my own. Dedicated MAGAs are out and proud about being MAGAs in my family. It's like their whole personality now, there is no need to ask.

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Anonymous wrote:In this thread a bunch of insufferable people who have families that talk politics in both directions. Sounds horrendous. Do not want.

Actually, no one in my family ever talked politics before Trump. And the only ones who bring up politics after Trump are my MAGA family members, who have made FOX News their whole personality.

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Anonymous wrote:In this thread a bunch of insufferable people who have families that talk politics in both directions. Sounds horrendous. Do not want.

Actually, no one in my family ever talked politics before Trump. And the only ones who bring up politics after Trump are my MAGA family members, who have made FOX News their whole personality.

exactly this.

It’s odd so many on this thread are giving advice to strangers about who they should talk to/not talk to.