# My friend has gone over the edge into Trumpdom **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 22, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123 "2019-10-22T07:11:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/161 "2019-10-26T14:24:58Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > You threw all of them away. Actually, much like most dumbass lefties you likely had no morals to begin with. All talk, no walk. > > Shit, going by your history you’d vote for Trump in 2020 if someone gave you enough money. I’m not a lefty, you moron. And I would never vote for Trump. Unlike you, I vote with a conscience. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/162 "2019-10-26T14:45:49Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Lots of your kind voted Trump for the sake of a trifling tax cut. Both me _and_ my employer got tax cuts, my good man. And we are both doing very well, thank you. > [@Monty](#): > > Unlike you, I vote with a conscience. Unless its with your feet, right Monty. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/163 "2019-10-26T14:51:35Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Fertilizer? Not if you want your plants to survive. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/164 "2019-10-26T14:54:32Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > You threw all of them away. Actually, much like most dumbass lefties you likely had no morals to begin with. All talk, no walk. > > Shit, going by your history you’d vote for Trump in 2020 if someone gave you enough money. Watching Trumper criticize somebody else for lack of morals is like watching a whorehouse madam criticize somebody else for promiscuity. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/165 "2019-10-26T15:00:33Z")
> [@margin](#): > > Watching Trumper criticize somebody else for lack of morals is like watching a whorehouse madam criticize somebody else for promiscuity. Coming from the same party whose people cut off their own private parts and take hormones to grow tits, and openly want to be able to do the same to children. Spare me, bud. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/166 "2019-10-26T15:10:17Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Both me _and_ my employer got tax cuts, my good man. And we are both doing very well, thank you. I am not your good man. I am your total fucking stranger. Be told. ---
**Author:** ![Annoyed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Annoyed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoyed)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/167 "2019-10-26T16:05:52Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I am not your good man. I am your total fucking stranger. Be told. Oooh so hard. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/168 "2019-10-26T16:09:01Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Does anyone in this forum ever get tired of calling people racist bigots? Does anyone on this forum ever get tired of calling people…who elected a guy who banned a religion, has constantly lied about that religion, has repeatedly let thousands of brown people die, has repeatedly called for the execution of five brown teenagers who were factually exonerated, has let brown allies get slaughtered, has denounced a nation populatedby a lot of brown people as rapists, has described hate groups (who kill brown people) as “fine people,” has-----totally coincidentally, I’m sure!-----denounced brown men who play sports----as racist bigots for racist bigotry? Granted, Trump’s a pussy-ass bitch who hates anybody who, for example, confronts him with his own words and actions, and who lies pretty much every time the words he’s saying aren’t, “My name is Dinald Trump,” but it’s not like people can’t notice that he has a pattern of at best indifference toward brown people while he adores the company of white nationalists who preach that white men are the master race. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/169 "2019-10-26T16:11:25Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Coming from the same party whose people cut off their own private parts and take hormones to grow tits, and openly want to be able to do the same to children. > > Spare me, bud. This dipshit thinks that displaying his ignorance and hatred somehow refutes criticism of…being iflgnorabt and hateful. Stop hitting yourself and blaming others, dipshit. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/170 "2019-10-26T18:36:37Z")
“Septic” - I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/171 "2019-10-26T19:40:02Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Unless its with your feet, right Monty. I did not emigrate. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > “Septic” - I like it! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/172 "2019-10-26T19:43:44Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Because all the virtue and all the morals you seem to have go right out the window when you can make money from an entity that goes against all of it. Chinese re-education camps? No problem, im getting paid. Chinese censorship? No probs. Chinese tyranny? $$ > > The chinese government goes against everything democracy represents, but that doesnt bother you enough to not take their money. Doesn’t your hero, Trump, love with the dictator of North Korea? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/173 "2019-10-26T19:52:48Z")
One of Trump’s kids did business with China while on what laughingly passes for official business in the Trump administration and this guy shits on those who oppose him? American schools really have a lot to answer for. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/174 "2019-10-26T21:30:46Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > **Psychobunny** : If that woman annoys you so much, why do you still allow her to be a part of your life? Why do you get so riled up about a person you can just walk away from? This. Cut all contact with the fool, forever. Give her a real life “IGNORE”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/175 "2019-10-27T04:53:45Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Coming from the same party whose people cut off their own private parts and take hormones to grow tits, and openly want to be able to do the same to children. > > Spare me, bud. But lo! Is this performance art? Of poisoned mind and spiteful heart? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/176 "2019-10-27T08:55:43Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Coming from the same party whose people cut off their own private parts and take hormones to grow tits, and openly want to be able to do the same to children. Dude, just relax - no one wants your dick. No one is going to sneak up on you while you’re asleep and cut it off. Don’t let your castration anxiety do the typing. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/177 "2019-10-27T18:40:15Z")
My sister voted for Trump and still supports him. She makes some compelling arguments. I don’t know enough about politics to argue with her. My gut tells me there’s something majorly wrong with Trump but honestly does it really matter if she’s for or against him? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/178 "2019-10-27T18:45:19Z")
Which of her arguments do you find most compelling? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/179 "2019-10-27T20:29:28Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Which of her arguments do you find most compelling? Good thing you’re not a fish, cuz you just took the bait. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123/180 "2019-10-28T18:10:05Z")
> [@HarleyQuinn](#): > > I couldn’t agree with you more. The more I read, the more sorry I felt for him. I have friends and family all over the political spectrum. I respect their rights to free speech. No matter how vehemently I may disagree with what they say, I will always stand up for their RIGHT to say it. And I must say, I miss the days when people acknowledged that they could coexist. It’s like, _Okay… You may disagree with me, but why does that have to mean we can’t be friends (or at least friendly)?_ Remember back when people use to MARRY their polar opposite?! (She’s a liberal progressive democrat, he’s a conservative republican)… I actually knew couples like that. (The opposite ideology in the other couple, but still…) It was POSSIBLE. Could you imagine if a liberal girl tried to bring her conservative boyfriend out to dinner to meet her friends today?! Well, it just wouldn’t happen. The “friends” would boycott the dinner and disown the girl. Unless and until she vowed to strictly tow the party line. There is no room for dissent. There is no room for diversity. There is no room for open minds. What a sad state the media has made our country. > > “Liberals” shouldn’t be called “Liberals” anymore. They are anything but liberal. > > An actual Liberal is someone who is tolerant and/or willing to accept behaviors or opinions different from one’s own view… Promoting freedom of thought and behavior. You are so right!. Why how intolerant it was for me to continue to go to dinner and parties with this person, to text her on her birthday and then take her to dinner and buy her gifts. What an anti-freedom person I am to let her expound her theories without criticizing her, trying to subtly change the subject, struggling hard to not roll my eyes and then ranting later on an anonymous messageboard. I am such a terrible person to try to steer the conversation to things that we have in common and agree upon so that I can still enjoy her company or at least enjoy events where we both are present. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-has-gone-over-the-edge-into-trumpdom/842123.md?page=10)