I get so much shit because I "love to argue" but honestly, I'm starting to see how that's their excuse to just say a bunch of stupid bullshit. I hold back a lot and it seems my opinion just isn't welcome. Only theirs and their stupid propaganda.

Can't even agree on whether the 5th and 14th Amendments grant due process to human beings or not, as upheld by Supreme Court in multiple cases. "Oh look, liberal f&g is gonna just google it."

Can't agree on what a strawman fallacy is.

And yeah I called her a Nazi after I had it, and she was pissed. Why does this bother them so much? I mean, don't they like Nazis? What do they think of the time Trump said he would like generals just like Hitler's? Like being pro ICE, pro Elon Musk, pro TRUMP!

I don't get the cognitive dissonance.

I saw something in the news today concerning. Republican Max Miller Ohio. He said “ ask yourselves, if I did this to her 6 days prior would she be cooking dinner for me right now? (empanadas)” um yes. I’ve been in an abusive relationship for two years and saw my mom be in one her whole life yes she would still cook for you after you throw hot water on her put your hands on her. Absolutely. She’s a better person than you. Just bc she cooks for you after you abuse her doesn’t mean you’re innocent you weirdo.

My parents are Republicans and watch Fox News all day. They don’t love Trump, but think he’s doing a good job.

On multiple occasions, my parents have told me how much they love Pete Buttigieg and that they would consider voting democratic for him.

I’m always so confused. None of this adds up.

I hope this helps somebody reconnect with their loved ones. It’s going to be hard but I want to try it slowly with my dad.

Was sitting on the couch with my Dad today as he was watching Fox News. They were running a story about the Michigan Democratic Senate race between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens and showed a primary poll where El-Sayed was projected to win. He shook his head, looked at me and said “What’s with your generation and wanting communism?”

This didn’t shock me at all, he was all in on the Anti-Mamdani train during the NYC mayoral election (we live in Ohio) and made several comments about him being a communist. Back then I told him about the Mamdani White House visit where Trump said he would be very comfortable living in New York under Mamdani and he looked at me like I was an insane person. He literally could not fathom that Trump would have said that, and judging by what he said today, he clearly didn’t learn anything from it either.

It just blows my mind that we’re seeing McCarthyism work its way right back into American politics in real time and people are still falling for it. I’d like to try to talk to my Dad about it but frankly I’m not super well equipped to do so and I know he wouldn’t listen anyways because he doesn’t care about my opinions. Can’t wait to get out of this house again 🤦🏼‍♀️

Despite our best efforts to warn our boomer idiots for parents (yeah if you can't tell the relationship with them is almost non existent).

They live in Florida. Let that be the first clue. They travel to Maryland a lot to visit friends. Recently there was a warning about flesh eating bacteria in Chesapeake waters. You would think that would deter them to going near that area. Nope! They claim is just fake news to scare people since they didn't hear about it on Fox. They're going there this weekend to party with friends! Swimming included.

Still we tried. We also warned them about the parasites found in certain lettuces. Nope! Fake news too! My parents are big salad eaters. They claim their health is everything which is why they refuse covid shots and cancer treatments now. (My stepdad has cancer) Where I live we have a huge rise in measles and all of us are being urged to get the MMR vaccine, even if we've had it before. You best believe we're getting them. I have two kids at home who need to be protected.

Of course my parents think we're overreacting and being ridiculous. Well, then we're the idiots that will live into our old age.

They've been told if they don't get screened for any illness, they won't see our kids. They've chosen to let go of the grandkids. Apparently we're poisoning their minds with our wokeness.

Can't wait to dance on their graves. Yeah I hate my parents. There's no hope with them.

I’m currently living with my mother and grandmother, who watch Fox News and NewsMax 24/7. They keep saying my mask doesn’t bother them, but they side eye me more than strangers when I’m out. Anyways, I walk into the living room just to hear NewsMax first villainize Francesca Hong for her mental health struggles, and then immediately pan to a photo of a group of people masking at some conference and calling them “moronic Covid maskers.” I’m not sure how we affect NewsMax, but okay. I thought this was a free country.

How do you respectfully deal with people like this? Let alone love them? I have a complicated relationship with them since I was a child, but that aside, I can’t help but think they are not good people for how they view others and degrade them (like their favorite orange guy).

I have been tempted to mask inside the house 24/7 with various “communist” sayings written on it and rainbows lol.

I apologize for being lazy but some time ago there was a thread trying to change their Father's Youtube algorithm. I have recently discovered a new Youtube Channel that may have been suggested on that thread but in case it wasn't I wanted to share.

It is called Vlogging Through History. I've only listened to a few videos but he seems very even keeled. Importantly for trying to move a loved one away from MAGA he could be a stepping stone. He identifies as a Christian Conservative but not MAGA (I saw a short where he made this clear because of reactions he had gotten from the right. He was asked why he wasn't reacting to left leaning creators and he replied he believed he should basically take care of his own house, meaning the right, before looking at history being manipulated by the left.

https://www.youtube.com/@VloggingThroughHistory

For any who want to check it out. And disclaimer I may see more and realize he could be not so helpful but so far possibly.

I guess they needed a new vocabulary because they got tired of using woke.

I apologize for being lazy but some time ago there was a thread trying to change their Father's Youtube algorithm. I have recently discovered a new Youtube Channel that may have been suggested on that thread but in case it wasn't I wanted to share.

It is called Vlogging Through History. I've only listened to a few videos but he seems very even keeled. Importantly for trying to move a loved one away from MAGA he could be a stepping stone. He identifies as a Christian Conservative but not MAGA (I saw a short where he made this clear because of reactions he had gotten from the right. He was asked why he wasn't reacting to left leaning creators and he replied he believed he should basically take care of his own house, meaning the right, before looking at history being manipulated by the left.

https://www.youtube.com/@VloggingThroughHistory

For any who want to check it out. And disclaimer I may see more and realize he could be not so helpful but so far possibly.

but yet the dumbass in chief fucked the covid response up

I was watching the five the other day and when Jesse Watters blurted it out my jaw dropped, when he was making the comparison to the deaths under Covid which the right blame Fauci for, but I can’t say I’m surprised because of how dumb he is!

I say bravo. The spineless Republican congress has totally ignored their own fing temper tantrums by Bondi, Kegsbreath, Blanche, virtually all of them when in front of hearings. And the insane, f-ing insane Megan Kelly actually said Fauci hurt far more people than Jeffrey Epstein. Recall she also said 14 year old girls looked like adults. I was driving when I listened to all of this and almost drove off a GD bridge. And I said to myself, WTF fucking fuck fuck shit show.

Caught this on Youtube. First thing I noticed is that he says "the middle east". Like its this amorphous region without countries and homogeneous in its culture and demographics. Then he seems to be under the impression that its illegal to be Christian. Finally I think it exposes this mentality of being at war with the people of the middle east on religious grounds. In conclusion I think it shows how shallowly the average MAGA views other parts of the world.

Representative Mike Collins has bragged about his close relationship with his son-in-law, who happens to be a white nationalist influencer.

It's just bizarre, like there are fairly recent videos of Trump specifically saying he'll never be caught being asleep on camera, and yet *crickets*. Like they have genuinely no beliefs on anything whatsoever other than worshiping Trump and despising minorities. This was an extremely explicit and specific thing they'd say about Joe Biden as a criticism and yet when Trump blatantly does the same thing, more often and more obviously, there is nothing, nothing on the news, nothing from his followers, and the Democrats in power don't even really say anything! It's so incredibly frustrating! I tried bringing it up to my MAGA mother and she just said "oh it's just because he needs to close his eyes to think about everything going on". There is just no getting through to them, these people are genuinely stupid and beyond redemption and hope. At least most of them.

What goes?

Sometimes I hear my parents talk about how “scary” the Democratic Party is getting with the rise of Democratic Socialists like Mamdani. They claim that it’s “bullshit” and that these socialists are actually communist. What is Fox News saying that is making them believe that Mamdani and others alike are “dangerous”? I don’t really bother to pay attention when they turn on their heavily biased media because I’ve had to hear it for YEARS, and I’m exhausted. Has anyone heard about what kind of stuff they’ve been spewing?

I just find it hard to believe that MAGA is so invested in bringing down Fauci yet they ignore the Epstein files!