So, remember my Trump voting cousin?

[bravenak]

Well, now that he started watching the news, he is super scared and has no idea what to expect from Trump going forward. It's like he only started listening to what Trump was actually saying he would do to the economy AFTER he voted for Trump.

So, he has decided to go to college so that he will be occupied until Trump is no longer president. He thinks that if he is in school, Trump can't do anything to hurt him because of all of the programs he says Obama put into place. He also realizes that those jobs are not coming back. He no longer believes Trump is for jobs. He says that maybe Trump is scamming all of us, lol. I'm really really tired. I no longer have the energy to say, " I told you so." Too tired to rub it in. Too tired to tell him his plan is unusual and might be wasting space that someone with actual goals might need to educate themselves. He does want to take a US government class, "To learn how government works". So maybe the space won't really be wasted. He wants to learn. Baby steps. It's progress. I have heard no racist blaming of Mexicans since he realized Trump was the one taking his medicare. That's nice.

[metroins]

1. I want to curl up into a ball

I think the only way to say "I told you so" is to talk to them after 2 years from now.

Hopefully next year I get my spine back and I can help out in the congressional races for 2018.

[bravenak]

9. I wish I could sleep for four years

[okieinpain]

17. +1 n/t.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

2. Hopefully he's an elector?

[longship]

3. It's never too late to help your cousin.

Keep encouraging. If we all survive Drumpf, your cousin may come out okay.

You've done well so far.

[babylonsister]

4. I have to say,

this is the first positive impact I've ever read trump having on someone. School is good!

[Lotusflower70]

5. And this is why

It is very important to be an informed voter.

[adigal]

6. That's how we win - one person at a time

Im tired, too. But your post gave me encouragement. Thank you.

[jack_krass]

7. Cool

[JCanete]

8. when people learn its a beautiful thing. No sense anybody hating on him for being a dumbass before.

Encouragement and support in becoming less of a dumbass is the kind of compassion that we need to promote and build on.

[stillcool]

10. sounds like someone...

getting sober...guess it kind of is.

[bravenak]

11. It is to me

He looks sick inside

[brer cat]

12. Please tell him to gather up a few thousand

like-minded trump voters and send a letter to your EC representatives telling them ooops, I forgot to do my homework before the election, and now I have changed my mind.

Surely we can make some lemonade here!

[bravenak]

13. I would love to but he has no clue what the EC even is

[DeminPennswoods]

14. On All In from Kenosha

I caught a few minutes near the end of the broadcast from Kenosha and a couple white guys on the panel of Trump voters sitting with Sanders said they were sure Trump couldn't do any of the things he said because they wouldn't pass Congress. Sanders sort of disabused that notion by saying he was IN Congress and they shouldn't be so sure. One guy even acknowledged that manufacturing jobs like the old days weren't coming back.

My take was these voters were frustrated, Trump told them what they wanted to hear, they thought a lot of it was BS but they figured they'd send a message since nothing bad would happen because someone or something would tie up all the crazy stuff in congress. They never gave a thought that bad stuff might actually happen to them and now they're going to be begging Dem senators to save them from themselves.

[Laffy Kat]

30. Bernie also pointed out that if Trump didn't follow through on his promises..

He was a liar. Why would they want to vote for a liar?

[DeminPennswoods]

37. I heard that too

I thought I noticed a few seconds of kind of stunned silence after that question as if they'd never given that a thought.

[mcar]

15. I'm guessing he won't be the only one

whose eyes are suddenly opened.

I'm also guessing there will be loads of psych studies about how these people were so easily duped.

[Gothmog]

16. People who voted for trump are idiots

[Squinch]

18. Our new slogan: "Now do you believe us, dumbasses??" I'm having bumper stickers made. Want one?

And do you think your cousin is representative of Trump voters? I'd love it if he came into office with a 10% approval rating.

[bravenak]

21. I would love a bumper sticker

I have noticed the Trump stickers dissappearing, lol

[Squinch]

23. And there are more Hillary stickers than before the election.

[ailsagirl]

19. Why couldn't he see that before the election??

[bravenak]

22. I asked him today

He literally said, "I thought at least he would get rid of the mexicans!" I said, "you are stupid as fuck and racist with your black ass, Trump don't give a fuck about you, you're black, yiu live on Hell Street." My cousin, he is dumb. I asked him if he felt better not having medicare if mexicans got sent away, he said no, he could die. I broke down and called him forty seven different types of dumbfucks and told him how to register for classes.

[ailsagirl]

24. I'm so sorry-- I didn't mean to sound flippant

I'm just so discouraged about everything

[bravenak]

25. Don't be sorry

This shit is hella stressful for all of us. It's hard to understand them

[ailsagirl]

27. You can say that again, bravenak!!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

31. Good for you. Not a single Trump voter who is all of a sudden coming to realize

that they may actually be worse off under him totally deserves any sympathy. What they deserve is to be told exactly how stupid they were.

You are nicer than I would have been in regards to telling him how to register for classes.

Is this the same relative that owns a brand new SUV and expects others to buy his groceries?

[bravenak]

33. Same cousin

His car looks awesome, he looks miserable. I get a bit of a boost when he admits he was wrong. It aint much but its something

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. Just don't enable him.

He's an adult. He's made certain decisions. Don't bail him out.

I know how hard it can be with relatives, I've been in a similar place. But since this person has enough income to pay for an SUV, he has enough income to support himself. Hang in there.

[Takket]

20. well he's way ahead of most Trump supporters

Who are already choosing Putin over the CIA

[muntrv]

26. Better hope that Betsy DeVos doesn't destroy education.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

32. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that she'll be so busy

destroying the public K-12 schools, that she won't have a chance to hurt the secondary schools.

[dhol82]

28. Too late.

For everything.

[struggle4progress]

29. Let's listen to Sam

[meadowlark5]

34. I was talking to my Trump voting MIL this morning on the phone

I made a short comment about my family is not a family that will fare well under a Trump presidency. I have 2 siblings that worked manufacturing for decades and because of bad backs and knees are on disability. One other sibling is an adult but has Asperberger's syndrome. He's high functioning enough that with assistance of county/state regional services and the income from SS as well as SS survivor benefits from my late father, he lives in the home I grew up in on his own. But dependent totally on the govt for income to buy groceries and pay utilities.

All of these family members are at a much greater risk with Trump and his anti-governement, government.

She stopped me and tried to console me by saying, "wait, wait -- Trump will make America great again!" And it was true and sincere. She really meant it as a comfort to my worry. Good God.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

36. Ask her exactly how she thinks Trump will make America great again.

And don't let her get away with platitudes and generalities. Push her, really push her about what she thinks Trump will do.

One problem for all of us is that politicians almost always speak in generalities. We don't require that they give us specifics, and we should.

[meadowlark5]

38. It's useless

I've had my go around with her over the decades. During the Obama years, I had to put a politics talk gag order on her. I told her if she and I are to have a harmonious relationship, we can't talk politics. That made her mad the first year I imposed it and she refused to come out for a visit - either out of anger or because she knew she couldn't control herself. But since then we have stuck to that general rule and things have been fine. I accidentally blurted out the thing about my siblings during a our phone call about Christmas and our plans.

We will go back to that gag order. She speaks in generalities, she let's Fox news form her opinions for her, and she parrots what she hears. It gets me no where but frustrated to discuss politics with her so we don't - can't.

[GoCubsGo]

39. One down, 60-something million to go.

Not that I expect most of Comrade Trump's cult followers to have this kind of epiphany...

[uponit7771]

40. I asked a PuTrump voter last night and the reply was "I don't know about any of that" but they knew

... about every other freaking detail about everything else.

They're running from this issue, the Russia issue isn't good for Benedict Donald