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There's an axiom that goes, "People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses."

I wrote the following on the 6th. It resulted in me cutting ties with an aunt and an uncle (different branches of the family). There were several other people who unfriended me without commenting.

I'd been winnowing out the Trumpers for a while, but at this point, I'm done.

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Please, if you support any of the actions taken by the insurrectionists in the Capitol today, do me a favor and unfriend me. If you still support Donald Trump, delete my phone number. If you think the election is stolen, cut ties.

Just get the fuck out of my life.

I do not have the patience or the strength to try to help you see reason any longer.

For five long years I’ve reached out to person after person defending the indefensible. It has never made a difference, not once. I cannot penetrate the bubble of misinformation in which you live. It is pointless.

You are a lost cause.

I’m through with you. I’m done.

I hope your pathetic, slavish devotion to your bigotry and selfish beliefs, and to those so-called leaders that embody them, was worth it.

Whew. I just read this on Facebook and had to come here to share it for those of you that have relatives that have fallen victim to the craziness that is trump. I am debating reposting it myself.

No, Biden’s rallies weren’t bigger. No, you didn’t see many Biden flags on houses or Biden bumper stickers on cars. No, you don’t know a single person on your street or at your church who supports Biden. But guess what? We’re here.

Biden’s rallies were small because people who live in reality don’t want to expose themselves to the virus you continue to downplay or deny. We don’t fly Biden flags because we don’t want our houses burned down. We don’t put Biden bumper stickers on our cars because we want to avoid becoming targets for road rage. We don’t trust you. We’ve decided to minimize our interactions with people who cannot be reasoned with. This is for our own safety.

In private groups - where you’re not invited - we share our bewilderment of your descent into madness. We all have stories about how we’ve cut ties with you, our family and former friends, because we don’t want your hatred poisoning our social media streams. We can’t stand to listen to you vomiting the lies of your cult, day after day. You used to be different. We liked you. But now that we know what was inside your heart all along, we’ve decided you don’t deserve to know about our lives.

We’ll skip family reunions, even after we get the vaccine. We’ll make up some excuse just to be polite. But in reality, we just don’t feel like sitting around eating potato salad and making small talk with people who have such monstrous beliefs.

To all the brothers and aunts and cousins and dads and neighbors out there who just can’t wrap their heads around what this means going forward, know that these scars aren’t going away anytime soon. We won’t be reaching out, and we won’t be mending fences. It’s not up to us to apologize for the wounds you have gleefully inflicted upon us and our friends. You poured the gasoline, you lit the match. You burned this to the ground.

So if we seem different from now on, I guess we are, in a way. We’ve seen your truth laid bare, and we’re horrified.

I hope Trump was worth it.

https://www.facebook.com/132748546893761/posts/1807696746065591/?d=n

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As for the subject of wearing a mask to prevent the spread of COVID, Maynard finds the political polarization of the virus “ridiculous.” “It's just an absurdity. We wear seatbelts. We don't smoke in trains, planes or taxis anymore, or even restaurants. There's reasons for those things. I don't know. I feel like there's this twist on the idea of personal freedom where somehow freedom is you being able to walk into anybody's house and take a dump on their meal or shout ugly things at their grandma. That's not what freedom is.”

“Freedom is the ability to pursue your lifestyle, pursue what you want to do for your family, for your future, what education you want to get. And with that freedom comes a responsibility to look out for yourself, for your neighbor, for your family, for everybody. So there are some compromises that come along with freedom. I'm not sure why that's so difficult to grasp.”

Insightful!

This is what needs to be done from the roofs about this debate. Holy shit.

https://twitter.com/THEJordonBrown/status/1311137101325443074?s=19

Idiocracy

Our federal government has failed us

I've got an easy solution: Stop playing the national anthem before domestic sporting events.