After politely putting up with my resistarded older brother since 2016, I lost my shit because he believes HCQ doesn't work and fully embraces the church of the mask and the lockdowns. He accused me of being a "white supremacist Trump supporter." We're Latino (mestizo) Let that sink in for a minute. I followed up by letting him know he was brainwashed and basically a cult member of the Orange Man Bad Club at this point, blind to medical science due to his hatred of the president and a vile piece of shit. Wished him all the best and haven't spoken to him in months. Just needed to vent. Voted Trump in 2016, will vote Trump again.
Edit: To everyone who chimed in, thank you for the kind words and bits of humor. You guys really cheered me up.
My son is ignoring me and won't communicate with me. On the day Trump was diagnosed with Covid, he sent me a cartoon picture of Trump laying in a casket. I am a square boomer who never gives the finger and rarely cusses. However, I sent him an emoji giving the middle finger. My husband thinks I was terrible for doing it.
For what it is worth, I don't think you are terrible for doing it. I think it was perfectly deserved.
Thank you.
You did the right thing.
The wife of a couple in my conservative wife's social circle posted a Facebook picture of President Trump dressed up as Hitler. All the liberal hens chimed in agreeing and laughing.
I didn't appreciate it, so I posted:
"Does your asshole ever get jealous of all the shit that comes out of your mouth."
She unfriended me.
You should have sent him this:
https://imgur.com/qJLX5Af
I'm in the opposite situation. My boomer mom is suffering from low grade TDS.
Did you just call his mama fat??? Lol
I'm a 73 year old, extremely Conservative woman. Just want you to know that there are plenty of us out here who haven't drunk the Kool-Aid, and never will. I don't talk politics with either one of my sons, ages 53 and 49. They didn't get their political viewpoints from me that's for sure, and their father hasn't been around in over 30 years to influence them either. They're heads are still full of mush. Neither ever really grew up.
I'm about the same age as your sons. I wish my mom had been Conservative. Her and my dad always voted Democrat. Although I wonder (she died in 2009) if she would have been for Trump because she was very much America First. She opposed the Iraq War vehemently. She and my dad were so proud they voted for Obama but by just a few months after he took office she had major misgivings.
Same here. She once told me she wished death on Nixon, so I expect the same is true about Trump. Not about to ask, though.
Lol, I grew up hearing all about how Republicans were "evil" and Nixon was the worst president in history. For her next BDay I should get her one of those custom video messages from Roger Stone.
I was born in '47. My father was actually old enough to be my grandfather. He was born in 1904, and worked on the NY Central Railroad his whole life. He came here as a little boy from Holland, was naturalized, and remained a Democrat until his death in 1978. He was an FDR Democrat, and always told us the Democrat party was the party of the working man. When I turned 21 in 1968, and could vote, he made sure I registered Democrat, and took me to the polling booth on Election Day, and told me that I had to vote for Hubert Humphrey for President. I did what I was told, but thankfully, as I got older, I figured things out, and the first time I voted Republican, was for Ronald Reagan. Never voted Democrat ever again.
Good candidates for a wife swap episode.
My biggest fear of having kid is the battle for their souls from the media propaganda machine. I wish you the best of luck and hope your son comes around.
Kids come around. I didn't get along with my Dad until I was 30, now we're best friends. My kids have come around as they started working and paying bills and seeing how much is taken out of their paychecks. I have cousins that I wouldn't talk politics with because I'd get TDS splatter all over me.
Eh, sometimes. We have a good family friend with 3 sons in their 40s. Despite their dad being a hard working salt-of-the-Earth descendant of dirt-poor Italian immigrants who achieved the American dream, all 3 are perennial blue voters now. Its heartbreaking and tragic.
Working really does it. One of my sons owns a business and it's a nightmare dealing with woke employees.
I think you did the right thing. Parents are not meant to be disrespected and sometimes you have to let them know you aren't here for them to mistreat.
Make sure you updated your will. No need for him to profit on your death. My oldest brother has TDS and I cut him off January 2017. It feels good to cut that toxicity out of my life.