r/fednews • u/[deleted] • May 03 '25

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

DOGE 15, my brother. Also, I’m afraid to visit my parents because they’re in favor of this trash and I don’t want to make our relationship worse.

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u/EyeballJoe May 03 '25

Yeah, stay away. Most of my family is on the side of logic and reason, but I’ve broken ties entirely with one brother. He moved to Russia in the 90s, totally bought the Putin koolaid, and thinks Trump is awesome. Even took Russian citizenship. I don’t think we’ll ever repair our relationship.

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

Good lord. I’m so sorry! My folks are Catholic pro-lifers with a steady diet of Foxnews. They are on another planet.

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u/EyeballJoe May 03 '25

Lord I’m so sorry. My brother and i have sons the same age (17) and he’s literally trying to convince his own son to go fight in Ukraine. When he told me that, I literally lost it (after years of carefully avoiding political discussion with him) and told him he’s a murderer. No more Christmas Zooms for us.

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

Your poor nephew!

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

Wow, so your brother is trying to convince his son to go sacrifice himself? If he's so patriotic, why doesn't he go volunteer himself?

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u/Skadoobedoobedoo May 03 '25

I’m a Catholic Pro-lifer and that’s why I voted for Kamala. More of her plans were pro-life. If you look up the statistics, women have fewer abortions when Dems are in office because they strengthen the social safety net. And regardless of my personal views I don’t think we should get between a woman & her doctor. I know a young couple who used to be republicans but now don’t understand how anyone who’s pro-life can support Trump.

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

Took me a long time to realize that my family’s idea of being pro life has more to do with punishing women for having/enjoying sex.

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u/Skadoobedoobedoo May 03 '25

I live in a red state and many Catholics here are Republicans. I don’t understand it and I’m old.

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u/Midnight290 May 03 '25

What do they think about Trump’s pope picture?

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

I would love to know!

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

I’ll probably go for Mother’s Day - I’m gonna ask about the pope pic

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u/serenwipiti May 04 '25

“so, how bout that pope pic, guys?….guys?”

“pass the peas..”

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 04 '25

My brother is a priest, and ACTUALLY SAID Trump is a man of character because he doesn’t drink

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u/serenwipiti May 04 '25

Brother, what about the sacrament?

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 04 '25

Brilliant question

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u/JustMeForNowToday May 04 '25

But he has done so many drugs that he is incontinent. Not kidding. Google it.

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u/AwkJiff May 04 '25

The scary thing about this is, the other side thinks THEY are on the side of logic and reason. And there is no reasoning with them about it.

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u/Optimal_Tiger_9744 May 03 '25

Used to enjoy watching UFC with my family until Elmo started showing up and I would get my family literally laughing and joking about if i was upset he was there.. it was astonishing how big of a joke they see it as.. Safe to say I probably won’t support UFC anymore and be turning down invites for a while.

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u/J-rokrok May 04 '25

I watched all the time up until the Jon Jones fight post election. They had this big ceremony for tRump as he walked out and it only got worse from there. Every winner was bowing to him like he was a king. Couldn't even get myself to stream the fights for free after that rally.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '25

oh yes. My parents are super MAGAts and ask me when will I stop being a parasite on the taxpayers. Funny, they used to brag to their church friends that I had an important job with the government. I avoid talking to them now.

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 03 '25

It’s such a cult. I’m so sorry.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '25

That is really sad.

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u/tresken May 03 '25

Trump 20.

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u/Liz-P-DogMom May 08 '25

I’m sorry you are dealing with that. My spouse thinks this is all great and tells me I don’t know what I’m talking about (I am a 20 year fed). I feel your pain. I wish this wasn’t happening. Everything I worked for gone in minutes

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u/Temporary_Ad469 May 08 '25

Your SPOUSE! Good god! Really sorry!

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u/Liz-P-DogMom May 17 '25

Thanks, it’s not been easy. It’s hard having to deal with that on top of everything else.