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ecib  ·  2689 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 16, 2016

    I have not spoken to either of my parents since the election. I just can't.

I'm with you. My father voted for Trump. In the last few months it sorta breaks my heart to say this but I lost a lot of respect for him just...as a person. Not because he voted for Trump, but for the way in which he went about it. I got months of paranoid, angry, obnoxious, reality-challenged, gleeful ranting. I felt like I was talking to a misbehaving child from another planet. It's fucking sad.

I finally answered his texts this weekend...he wanted to do lunch and I said ok. He called the past couple days in a row and I just stared at the phone and didn't pick up. Such a weird feeling...just no part of me wanted to pick up. Like Bartleby by the Scrivener, I preferred not to.

Good luck with your ma.





b_b  ·  2688 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My uncle texted and invited me to use his spare ticket to the MSU-OSU football game this weekend. Normally I'd be on board in a second, but I lied and said I was busy to specifically avoid talking Trump with him and my other two equally racist uncles. Can't deal with them quite yet.