Yeah that makes me feel very fortunate that my mom is merely an MSNBC boomer lib who thinks Mueller is going to save the Republic.

She isn't violent or abusive towards other minorities and has never been that way. She'll never be seen holding a tiki torch at a Charlottesville type of rally. But it doesn't change how destructive and hateful her opinions are.

Basically my entire clan of extended in laws are classic Trumpkin dip****s.

Grandma was a rural public school teacher living on a very generous pension. Enormous racist. Her husband, dead from obesity, basically never worked and was always on some form of government assistance.

Their kids (5) are all huge racists allergic to work. They are white trash city, substance abuse problems, tons of divorces, totally unjustified arrogance, lots of messed up kids of their own.

All told there are about 20 adults, all voted Trump and will do it again (other than my wife, obviously). I refuse to be in the same room as any of them.

Ohio, of course.

I've basically stopped seeing the trump supporting members of my extended family. And if I do see them, I make sure that it's for a short enough time that politics (hopefully) won't come up. Apparently my grandfather is complaining that no one will visit him anymore, but that's kinda what happens when you spend so much time being a dick around the only people that do visit you.

I know a few Trump supporters:

- a really nice, good man, who goes out of his way to help strangers, volunteers at church, works with disabled kids, etc, but wanted Trump because he is afraid of illegal immigrants, and Trump is a successful business person (those are two separate reasons)

- two good, nice women, who help with feeding homeless people, etc, but are very religious and want abortion to be illegal

- a younger 30-ish dude who believes in the Q conspiracy (is there a Qtard thread, its one of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories out there) and despite Trump being against everything else he believes in, he thinks Trump and his DOJ are secretly prosecuting tens of thousands of child sex trafficking rings, so that makes up for the rest of it

FYP

Well yeah, if you take the worst of any president you can say his supporters must be evil because of it. Both of the abortion people are against the locking up kids in tent cities stuff. I haven't asked the guy about that.

Nah, not always. You can say that specifically in the case when they support a president who is unique in doing these evil things.

Given a choice between locking kids up in tent cities and a candidate who would not have done that, they (presumably?) do not regret their choice. Cool ****ing story that they shed a single tear at night over kids being locked up if they're still going to vote for Trump in 2020.

All the ultra pro Israel congregants including my Rabbi at my synagogue. A number of congregants who were active in social justice have cut their memberships because of that.

I'm lucky to not have family that supports trump but my brother is so incredibly anti Clinton and Obama and thinks every conspiracy theory is true he may as well be. O and he digs "that Trump is the most pro Israel president since Truman" (notice the abomination of those two names in the same sentence)

O one other guy. The dude who owns my house cleaning company. Every time he comes over to help his cleaning team he tears into me... and makes Jewish and racial cracks around me. Very unprofessional... but I think he's a weirdo and is messing around. his cleaners are all legal Mexican immigrants, drive nice cars and he pays their medical insurance. They are super loyal to him and do an amazing job cleaning our house obviously. I'm impressed by that. So I shrug his behavior and politics aside.

i mean i'm not gonna tell you how to live or what you should/shouldn't be upset by, but if that was me i'd either 1) fight him or 2) fire him and his crew

ain't nobody gonna come step onto my property and start talking some racial ****, that's for damn sure.

I never tip him. I always give his workers tips but not him. Last time he was here I gave his worker while the two of them were heading out $20 and told him he didn't deserve it with all his trash talk. We had a good laugh. Trust me, there's no way we would broach the subject if I were to take it personally. He and his folks really take care of our place. I realized I described the situation as personal but to me it isn't. I definitely tear into him as well. But.... I personally would never talk politics with clients. So I think it's not professional.

My brother is a libertarian, doesn’t pay much attention to politics but all his friends love tax cuts and small government and support Trump—I fear he voted Trump but he claims he voted Clinton (DC suburbs in VA). His wife is a member of an ethnic minority that oddly enough the GOP caters to and the Dems have ignored and she’s Essentially a single issue voter and as long as she doesn’t vote trump I can excuse her going gop down-ballot... her single issue is justified

Parents were lifelong GOP but left the party due to Trump; my dad helped write NAFTA and was an auto industry lobbyist and thinks Trump is WOAT on trade and is destroying international relations.

My sister is a bit of a politically apathetic stoner but I know she and her husband voted D in the midterms.

i doubt it, since you won't just come out and say it. but cool story i guess

Nope. Don't care what the single issue is.

what ethnic minority does the gop cater to?

Cubans?

apart from the shared pasttime of hating on mexicans, the GOP does ****all for the cuban american community

but yea something something boo socialism castro bad herp derp

Uyghurs. Her family is literally being herded into concentration camps by the Chinese government. She has been targeted for blackmail (gets threats from Chinese that if she doesn’t return to China/allow them location tracking on her phone/share all bank info/personal info/other insanely intrusive demand they will murder her family and friends). It’s worked on some living in America—if you got a call from your uncle courtesy of the Chinese government that if you didn’t do these things he would be tortured to death, how would you react? Her best childhood friend returned to China to “save” her parents after one of these calls, no one has heard from her since.

Marco Rubio speaks out against Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs. Most everyone else is silent. Her close family friend was personally evacuated from a Chinese prison by Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice. And Trump talks tougher on China. They aren’t “really” supporting her, but it’s closer than anything that’s come from the Democrats—hence why I don’t feel able to judge. She knows Trump is an idiot but for her this issue just kinda outweighs everything else.

After reading what she’s going through, can you blame her? FYI because I was the best man at her wedding in a small rural farmhouse in America my reddit account was doxxxed by Chinese spies the next day, and I am pretty sure they will read this too and know who I am given my past experiences. This **** isn’t a joke.

lol this sounds even more idiotic now

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So let me get this straight- marco rubio once said something or another about uhgyurs ergo this woman is "justified" voting straight ticket GOP..? Also that means GOP caters to her minority demographic?

Im literally not even going to touch the rest of it

Throwing out 99% of a post to cherrypick one point out of many and claim that’s all her justification? You would make a fantastic Fox News host. Maybe Trump should nominate you to replace Huckabeast?

I didn’t ask my sister in law to detail the outreach efforts from the GOP. She gave me a few examples, and I took her word for it that they are there in some way, shape, or form—and I can see why this is an issue that affects her personally enough that it would outweigh everything else for her specifically. I did t say she was right to vote GOP, I said she was justified in making this her single issue.. I can empathize with her. I don’t really care if you agree.

Honestly I'm more concerned that this piece of ****'s dad helped to draft NAFTA. Next to you see your father tell him stinkubus wants to thank him for destroying his home town.

Since you start by calling me a piece of **** and finish with the intellectually dishonest proposition that NAFTA was what killed your home town, rather than decisions of corporations, or just the inevitable economic shift toward the service-sector, I’m not going to shed a tear for your Luddite ass or your failed town. Happy holidays!