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My wife and I own a Disney timeshare. A couple times a year we invite friends I used to work with to stay with us over a weekend in our timeshare. He is an ultra liberal and we decided many years ago we would not talk politics. This is how we have remained close friends for almost 20 years. On Sunday morning he was up before my wife and I and had one of the Sunday morning news shows on, I think it was NBC. WOW just WOW the first fifteen minutes to me was nothing but pure bull shit. What a waste of time. The only thing worth watching was the local weather because we were going to EPCOT and wanted to know how cool it was going to get that evening. Now I know why I stopped watching the news. Does anyone else have a friend like this that you do not talk politics to stay friends with? The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State NRA Life Member | ||
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delicately calloused |
Broadcast TV is Soma You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
When my ex-wife slid from "traditional Southern semi-conservative blue dog Democrat" over to "full blown raging liberal", starting circa 2016ish, it got to that point between us. We had to avoid talking politics, because it would just piss both of us off. Not the reason we got divorced, but it sure didn't help. | |||
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No sir. Your a better man than I am if you can stomach it. Politics ALWAYS comes up one way or another somehow or otherwise. I NEVER give it that chance. Harshes my calm. | |||
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Having lived in Silicon Valley for quite a few years, we had a number of friends/neighbors with quite liberal views. When politics came up, I would bite my tongue, smile (ie, I heard your comment), and then it was time to go. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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Yes, several. Your decision to avoid politics shows immense maturity and character. I don't believe we would have been better off if Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill would have been mortal enemies instead of friends. | |||
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No, I don’t suffer fools. Life is too short to deal with them. I’d weather wrestle a bobcat in a toy box than to deal with the mentally challenged. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Probably on a trip |
My sister. She went to law school in San Francisco, worked in New York and has been in London for 15 years. Raging, frothing liberal. I love here and we still have fun together - we spent almost two weeks together in Athens and Crete in 2019 for her 50th birthday, but we have long ago agreed to not discuss politics or else we both get pissed. Also, there were other people on that trip (all her friends) but I made the rule on day one of no work talk and no politics while on vacation and it actually worked! This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector. Plato | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I tapered off watching the news when SCOTUS turned down the Texas lawsuit and I completely shut down after Jan 6. Eff em. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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I don’t know how you do it . I can’t be in the same room with mentally challenged sub human morons and not get pissed off to the max. He wants to burn the US constitution to the ground and you are willing to share a house with him? Whatever . ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
I won't be friends with someone like that. They can move to Cuba since they hate this country so much. _____________ | |||
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We retired 6 years ago - corresponding to our TV news boycott. I get my new here or another conservative site like American Thinker or OAN N. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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is circumspective |
Nope. Intellectual incompatibility. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
I have a couple of friends of many years, and a sister, who watch and believe the pap put out by the news media. Naturally they’re liberals. I try to get along with them but find that I limit our exposure to them to some degree. My sister worked as a geologist for Exxon Mobil her entire career, and retired a couple years ago. She’s a gun owner, too. She voted for Biden. Krazy. I wonder if she is even aware of his plans for the oil industry and firearms rights. | |||
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I used to read the raw news feeds- Reuters, Breit Bart, Tampa bay online...... Then read the newspaper \ new sites. There's only so much space available to print the news But it was obvious the bias displayed by the stories they chose to print. The impression they crafted and created didn't reflect reality. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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i met with a customer the other day and while i was waiting -- he had to take a phone call -- CNN was on in the background in their conference room it was disgusting to overhear CNN. Soviet propaganda from the height of the Cold War couldn't have been any worse 110% completely one-sided ------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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We used to have friends like this, but one of this woman's friends was a failed state politician and successful big mouth carpetbagger from Massachusetts. A litigious control freak with a temper. She finally invited just him (and his wife) along with My wife and I to her house. Just us. I tried like hell to get out of it but couldn't. I resolved to be quiet, but it was eventually obvious that was truly impossible. The fireworks that ensued had the ultimate result that my wife has no real contact with her since. It felt like that was the desired outcome to me. I had known it when it was just the two couples invited and was the reason I tried repeatedly to beg off.
I have had the very same comparison in mind for some time. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 ...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted] | |||
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Yes, one of my closest friends is a liberal. We don't bring up politics. If you can stay away from politics long enough to know someones true character and build trust, its not that hard to have a great friendship. However if it's the type of person who defines themselves by their political beliefs, forget about it. That kind of shallow individual is impossible for me to be around no matter which side they are on. | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
Mrs. Flash has a friend like that, typical Democrat who doesn't know what's going on in the world. They remain friends but we're in Arizona and she's in South Texas so it works out. I don't have any liberal friends. I can't see having friends who are actively trying to enslave me. | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Don't have a lot of friends, and politics never comes up, even within the family! But then, all our family members are very conservative and we have no need to discuss politics. Wife and I discuss of the current events stuff over coffee in the morning, but it is mostly about what has appeared on Fox news that morning. Not to change the thread, but seems to both of us that Fox is slipping away from "news" and getting into something less. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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