Have any of you lost close friends or family relationships over politics?

Trump seems to cause a lot of people to lose it.

Yes. My brother, a few others. They’re eaten up with TDS and I’m evil as I’m an independent Trump supporter.

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He then said in 2020 that David Dorn (the cop that was killed in Minneapolis) deserved to get shot and killed because his job was enforcing white supremacy, and I cut him off for that. He had turned to evil.

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Yeah….i understand this as one of the friends I was talking about said Charlie Kirk was a nazi and maybe didn’t deserve to be murdered but he was a piece of shite

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I have one close friend that I’ve known for almost 20 years that’s a hard core liberal. If the subject ever comes up, I just lie and say I agree with whatever he thinks.

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Is he actually your friend if you can’t bring that up and have to lie to him? I have liberal friends and we’ll talk some shite and hug it out in the end. I don’t think you should lie to a friend. You can tell him you don’t want to talk politics, but don’t lie.

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i understand this as one of the friends I was talking about said Charlie Kirk was a nazi and maybe didn’t deserve to be murdered but he was a piece of shite

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There were at least five people on my Instagram feed that said Charlie deserved to be murdered and it’s a good thing he’s dead. One of them was a nurse that I had two dates with back in the day and I highly considered contacting her employer about it.

Another is one of my best friend’s best friends and it’s come to the point where I’ve told my actual friend to tell me if his friend is around because I don’t want to be there if he is. And my friend is more right wing than I am, and he agrees with me that if our acquaintance found out randomly that he died and only knew about the political opinions of his friend and nothing else that he’d say he deserved to die.

And here’s also the hilarious thing: this scumbag and his “girl friend” (a girl who is his friend that he’s not dating) were kicked out of a friend group for gloating about Charlie being assassinated and then were bitching at me and my actual friend that no one wants to hang out with them anymore.

He bitches that they’re mostly Democrats themselves and doesn’t understand why they no longer respond to their texts. I tell him that “Yeah, because they’re not evil and don’t simply disagree with you on tax policy. You disagree with them on the fact that anyone who disagrees with you doesn’t deserve oxygen.” And I did say that to him two months ago and haven’t seen him since. I’m sure I’ll bump into him sometime and it may become hostile.

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Is he actually your friend if you can’t bring that up and have to lie to him? I have liberal friends and we’ll talk some shite and hug it out in the end. I don’t think you should lie to a friend. You can tell him you don’t want to talk politics, but don’t lie.

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He is. And politics is the only thing I lie to him about. It rarely even comes up enough that it’s an issue. I think the last time we had a discussion about it was right after the election. He’s done the whole “if you’re a Trump supporter then unfriend me and lose my number”.

I just roll my eyes and keep going on about my life. And I knowing that he, like a child, will have his little tantrum and calm down.

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No. I don’t bring it up at all. I have one close friend that I’ve known for almost 20 years that’s a hard core liberal. If the subject ever comes up, I just lie and say I agree with whatever he thinks. If people are going to act like children and cut people out of their lives over politics, then I’ll treat them like a child and lie to them like we do about Santa Clause being real.

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This is a bitch-made post. Essentially what you're saying is that you don't stand your ground.

Personally, I've lost a few. I don't worry about it. I'm going to continue speaking truth to power the same way I have since long before Trump got into office. Literally the only difference in my life is that TDS has infected some folks to the point where those people and I no longer can even be friendly. And that's ok, because in the end they will see the truth and those relationships will be restored. Hopefully.

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If the subject ever comes up, I just lie and say I agree with whatever he thinks

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You would lie to keep the peace? Just to keep a friend?

The Marxist have won.

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Ehh, it still hurts.

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Sure. But lots of shite hurts. I cannot and will not allow the loss of a relationship to a dumb shite hurt me worse than, say, losing a loved one to cancer. Not when they're still kicking and just being a dumb arse, and the loved one was lost to cancer due to this same necrotic fricking bullshite that these other people literally cannot see because they have OMB blinders on and don't realize that the same people trying to remove Trump are the ones who are responsible for the 400% rise in cancer cases we see since 2020.

I can try to tell them, but if they can't see it, frick them. They are still healthy. They are still spewing hate. If they're too fricking ignorant to actually see the evil that surrounds us, frick them.

On a different level though, I still love them. And when this is over we can pick back up where we left off. No harm, no foul. So long as they see what actually fricking happened. I don't even need an apology. Just recognition on their part.

ETA: that was just an example, by the way. But I'm trying to impress how serious their ignorance is.