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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFound this on Reddit in the Joe Rogan sub: "You got your wall. And I'll never forget or forgive it."
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This is a great letter that I would send to the shit part of my family who might be a shithead MAGA fuckface. Fucking FIRE!!
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My sister hasn't spoken to me since the election. Yesterday my mom sent me something my sister wrote and was debating on posting to social media.
What she wrote:
Dearest Magat friends and family,
No, we absolutely will not and cannot agree to disagree. Not again, not after what you just chose to do this country.
I am done with extending you grace or making any attempt to comprehend your appalling lack of character and integrity. We have done that for 8 years now, without any of you ever once extending us the same courtesy. One of the darkest realities of life in the United States since November 2016 has been learning just how much hatred so many of you harbor in your souls. That is some truly dark and shameful shit. Yet so many of you still have the utter audacity to call yourselves Christians. Tell me the part again where Jesus put terms and conditions on which neighbors to love. You are not good people. You just pretend to be.
This election wasnt business as usual and you knew that. You knew what was at stake, what was on the line. Two hundred and forty-eight years of storied history, a gloried nation founded on hard fought and won freedoms. You just handed ALL of it to a wildly unhinged man that has been completely open and transparent about his plan to systematically dismantle and destroy everything our country was established upon. You literally heard this man say we will never have to vote again after this election and that he will use the military against those of us with dissenting opinions. You really decided none of that was a deal breaker for you despite how horrifically UNAMERICAN it is.
You chose hate. You chose it over your love of country and you chose it over us. Just as your cowardice to do what was right for we the people shall impose lasting consequences on us, I take immense comfort in knowing it will now do the same to you.
And it starts with us. Your presence will no longer be welcome in our lives going forward. We will never allow our children to think that such an egregious and disgusting lack of moral character is acceptable under any condition. So be you friend or family, if you voted for Donald Trump, please show yourselves out. Being around our children was always a privilege, never a right. You dont get to proclaim to love our sweet and gentle son, the boy who rocks a neurological speech disorder, and then vote for a man who has continually denigrated, ridiculed, and mocked people with disabilities and encouraged others to do the same.
You dont get to proclaim to love our daughter, the fiery, astute, whirling dervish of razor sharp perception and the argumentative prowess of a seasoned district attorney and vote to strip of her rights to her own body. You dont get to love her and tell her that her sole worth is her ability to birth children.
You cannot proclaim yourselves to have been so proud of my immigrant husband when he took the oath to be an American citizen and then vote for a man who says he will deport him in spite of that citizenship. He would like to remind you that you are merely American by birth, he is American by choice. You all agreed hes a damn good one too.
You cannot claim to love me and then vote for the man that has emboldened and protected men like the retired law enforcement officer who tried to harass and intimidate me into sharing how I voted in the election while I was working on Wednesday.
You chose one man over your country, you chose him over the safety and the well-being of your family, of your friends and neighbors, of the people you proclaim to love, to protect. You chose it over us.
You got your wall.
And Ill never forget or forgive it.
superpatriotman
(6,570 posts)Thanksgiving dinners should be very interesting this year.
Irish_Dem
(58,939 posts)As Trump does more and more damage again, MAGAs will be harder to tolerate.
God forbid. I suspect by Thanksgiving 2025, the tone will be different. All that will go wrong will be blamed on the good folks.
Irish_Dem
(58,939 posts)for anything. It is going to be everyone else's fault.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)That was a thing back in 16. Assholes mocking people who literally had PTSD from seeing Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent win the election. Gloating about liberal/snowflake tears being delicious.
Oh, yeah. I remember. Ill never forget it. The it cant happen here scenario has already happened.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Ill check it out. Thanks!
radical noodle
(8,749 posts)Rules do not apply to them anymore so they can say or do any damn thing they please to those who didn't vote for trump.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)MAGA can shove a turkey where the sun don't shine.
Irish_Dem
(58,939 posts)BattleRow
(1,231 posts)An enormous dark golden brown turkey on a platter with a Trump likeness sticking out of the neck cavity.
Folks forgive me I been really stressed out...
A more righteous rant would be hard to figure find,IMHO.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)BattleRow
(1,231 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Wicked Blue
(6,728 posts)Ligyron
(7,904 posts)soldierant
(7,949 posts)(or, if the turkey is already dead and frozen, a waste of a perfectly good turkey.)
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)BonnieJW
(2,594 posts)Jessie Watters' mother uninvited him to the family Thanksgiving dinner. Brilliant woman
deurbano
(2,959 posts)the bigger question is why so many smart, accomplished, awesome women would go near such POS men to start with. She's 89, so I know male options are limited, but I'd MUCH rather spend my time with likeminded women friends and likeminded family members. And I don't think they are having sex...so what's the point? Just male companionship? It's not like he's smart, funny, kind or a sparkling conversationalist...which you can already guess, given his cult membership, but which I can also emphatically confirm from painful experience! I mean, her deceased husband (my husband's stepfather) was also a rightwing asshole, so I guess it's what she knows. Once he passed, it was a relief not to have to keep our mouths shut at family gatherings in order to placate him, and as the candidate whose election we SHOULD be celebrating reminded us, "We are NOT going back!" (We will no longer shut up just to placate THEM.) I cut off my own MAGA sibling in 2017 when Trump's inauguration (which she attended with my mother!) emboldened her to finally reveal what a POS she actually is.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Initech
(102,316 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)hlthe2b
(106,585 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)peggysue2
(11,500 posts)Hard letter to read and I imagine 1000x harder to receive. Or maybe not if the effect of the Kool-Aid lingers. Regardless, the details are all too true. The choice was clear, yet so many voted to put a gun to the country's heart and then pulled the trigger.
Now, both here and beyond our borders, we'll all suffer the consequences of the truly deluded marks who woofed down the lies without reflection or hesitation.
Get ready for the unimaginable. Because it's coming to a picture show near all of us.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)ShazzieB
(18,872 posts)I think there are a lot of Trump voters who had no idea wtf they were voting for. I am NOT saying that to let any of them off the hook. People should make damned sure they know exactly wtf they are voting for and consenting to BEFORE they fill in the bubble, pull the lever, mail in their absentee ballot, or set foot in a polling place.
The amount of pity I have for those who vote for a candidate without bothering to FULLY inform themselves about what that candidate stands for is ZERO, a big fat goose 🥚.
Cirsium
(1,036 posts)We are cutting ties with some family members, people we love and have supported for years. They chose to completely ignore what we had to say, to cut us off, despite the fact that we had patiently listened to their right wing nonsense for literally decades.
Trump voters may not have fully understood what voting for Trump meant but they sure knew that they were saying "f*ck you" to their friends, family members, co-workers and neighbors. There is no way they could not know that, no way at all. There were "f*ck Joe Biden and f*ck you if you voted for him" signs all over the place.
They knew. A red line has been crossed. It is over.
calimary
(84,504 posts)FUCKING MAGNIFICENT!!!
Holy COW!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this, SoFlaBro!!! It sure speaks for me and EVERYTHING Ive been feeling since last Tuesday night.
I wont forget OR forgive, either. Nobody held a gun to their heads and forced them to vote for that orange ass. Im just grateful that everybody in my current circle of friends voted the same way I did (for Kamala) and remains unrepentant about it, even though some of them are trying to cope and get on with their lives in spite of whats happened.
Unfortunately, it will have a bearing on who my future friends will be. Anybody who sided with Agent Orange really cant be a friend, by definition, because doing so tells me things about them that are deeply disagreeable. Sorry, but thats where Im at, these days.
I do reserve the right of the olive branch if they eventually see what theyve done and how bad a decision it turned out to be. I do believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption.
But theyd have to find their way there, on their own. I cant help them get there. I know that, cuz I already tried.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)It captured EXACTLY how I want to address friends and family that notice my sudden absence from their lives. I won't play ball with this shit anymore.
calimary
(84,504 posts)Holy Freakin Cow Pie!
Its just politics. It isnt that serious.
Wow, this may be the time to say now Ive heard everything and really mean it, for once.
Just politics is HARDLY the way Id regretfully describe the leadership or policy goals of the upcoming Most Powerful Man in the World. I expect that, in hindsight, well be talking about The Second Four Years of the Poorest Leadership and the Greatest and Most Broad-based Public Humiliation that All the Other Nations on Planet Earth have Ever Witnessed.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)They either refuse to feel the impact or refuse to realize the impact. Either way, they are brain dead idiots who are poised to drag us all down with their dumb, anvil heads.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,585 posts)And a pale feeling of superiority, they sold out their daughters.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Shit.
relayerbob
(7,057 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Writing is on the wall.
relayerbob
(7,057 posts)Yikes
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Might have to try a different approach with her.
"What if they mention it often that your bf is a ? Is there a point where you won't want to associate with them?"
relayerbob
(7,057 posts)But not from friends. My wife is an attorney in Georgia so she has to deal with the less savory types (ie MAGA) also, but it stops at the office door.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,342 posts)have more firearms than they need and at least one pricey oversized gas hog pickup truck in their driveway
SomedayKindaLove
(1,108 posts)With a bumper sticker that said Joe Biden owed them gas money.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,041 posts)Most of them are not suffering in any financial way that Biden/Dems are responsible for and most will do worse under Felon/Fake Hillbilly.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Doodles
(42 posts)And I have 4 of them and 5 granddaughters. I cant accept this for them or my 4 grandsons either. We are leaving them nothing and they liked doing it. Sadness just wont end.
orleans
(35,150 posts)ffr
(23,132 posts)"You chose hate...And Ill never forget or forgive it."
No more niceties. They're on their own!
SWBTATTReg
(24,270 posts)other people are shutting out those people in their former lives that were ignorant, and voted tRUMP in, regardless of the impacts to their own families.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Linda ladeewolf
(459 posts)This is how most of us feel. They sold us all out for a wall.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(10,614 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)badhair77
(4,646 posts)But some people deserve harsh. Well said.
LittleGirl
(8,463 posts)wryter2000
(47,556 posts)Make Thanksgiving better for everyone else.
Wicked Blue
(6,728 posts)white_wolf
(6,257 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)slightlv
(4,404 posts)is doing Thanksgiving this year. No one feels like there's anything to celebrate, even family being together. We're all... each of us in our own way... marked by this election this year in a bad way. Between my autoimmune disease and my sisters kidney failure issues, neither of us have the energy to go the extra mile this year. And our brother, we figure, is one of the turncoat magats. My mother is in a nursing home. Sis and I will go out to say hello and spend time with her, but that's it. Thank goodness Mom is far enough gone now not to know or care about elections.
Neither Thanksgiving nor Christmas will be decorated, celebrated, or be anything like it has been in the past. Just too much depression across the family; too much worry. Beyond that, we're all squirreling away what little disposable income we have for the harder days ahead to even think about gifts, holiday food, etc.
Not ideal, but it's the truth and I don't see anything changing anytime soon. And I'd better not hear firecrackers on the fourth of July, or I'm calling the cops this year.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)mood.
well penned
flying_wahini
(8,043 posts)Besides, Im tired of feeding TG to 24 every year. Let them stew in it.
SoFlaBro
(3,361 posts)Icanthinkformyself
(303 posts)Those who should won't and those who don't need to will. I have no sympathy for anyone who voted for a convicted felon and rapist. Whatever happens to them is earned and deserved. Sadly, the innocent will be swept up and sent away to who knows where. It's not my place, however, to sort them out. Most of those who voted for the fascists want the chaos, confusion and destruction that's coming. Many will find out the hard way as they look out of the window of the bus taking them to the deportation camp, then dumped at the border and told to never to return.