Family friend and stepgrandfather started talking about how Trump was “already having an effect on the economy” because gas was “finally 2.95” and that there was enough coal and gas in West Virginia to “power the whole country”, that Joe Manchin was an evil liehbrul who stood up with HILLARY GODDAMN CLINTON and promised to shut down coal mines, that renewables were on their way out, that we needed to drill more, and that West Virginia would be one of the poorest states in the country if they closed down coal mines.
I only attend family holidays for my mother’s sake, who had a rough time raising me and finally gets a ‘normal’ family life, if only her crippled son comes and participates. So I bit my tongue and ground my teeth together (in fact, even reciting this I can feel my fucking blood pressure rise) and endured some people who would never change their mind and are incapable of parsing facts.
My mother, incidentally, is religiously conservative, but also has always had a strong environmentalist streak.
My grandpa use to be the atheist who debated street prosteltizers. He now is trump man talking bout the illegals.
People are bizarre. Bit tongue in same way for people you love who are there. Sucks that often they’re the same people.
Good on you for seeing pushing past it. Part of what makes you more open minded than them.
Last time RATM was in my city, tickets were $500+ and the band showed up in limos. Their revolutionary days are long over
Mostly on the same page with my in-laws, but they are more neoliberal than leftist (we’re working on it).
Still, where previously they had mourned Brian Thompson and bristled at our pro-Luigi stance, by the time we came back for Xmas they were like “Why is the news still talking about this guy? So many people have died since then! This is bullshit. The media is bought and paid for.”
Funny to see the propaganda machine backfire.
Funny to see the propaganda machine backfire.
The maga-ites in my family tried to employ a strategy shared on conservative social media, through my father to pressure me to keep my “commie” mouth shut and it backfired on them because they’re unaware that I’ve been lending him the rent & medical bill money that they’ve refused to lend him. (He doesn’t know that they’re gifts that I never expect to get back).
I still think I’m lucky since they were at least willing to walk in egg shells around me while I visited out of fear of permanently alienating me like they did to my mother and sister.
However things will change if they ever realize that they need to help Dad/Grandpa/great-grandpa rather than buying a new mustang or buying a bigger house for themselves.
Unrelated, but I made eggnog for the first time this year and it was amazing! I will not be buying eggnog from the store any longer.
Eggnog? Yes. Made a large jug of Clyde’s tequila-sherry eggnog.
Politics? No. At least, none I remember.
Close family couldn’t gather, so most of my Christmas evening was spent in VR drinking with friends. I think I downed nearly half a liter in a card game called “Shitty”.
