It's All Over

For some time now I have been sharing with you, loyal readers, my ongoing struggle with maintaining friendships and familial relations with people in my orbit that have become MAGA cult members. Now, they either don't know they are cult members or have become so wrapped up in the middle of it they can't recognize they are slipping away from earth one.

Many of them have stopped speaking to me years ago and while it was hard to accept I decided it wasn't worth the fight. Some of them have held me at arms length as they struggle with knowing that I am not ever going to become a member. A few of them have tried to keep our splintering relationship together, as have I.

One of the things that absolutely sets them off is when I called those in the cult stupid for their listening to the felon and beliving anything that comes out of his lying mouth. They forcefully pointed out to me that everyone has the right to their opinion and I shouldn't call them stupid for it. Apparently in their now twisted brain the only opinion that is acceptable is theirs. I am not allowed to have an opinion that is different and when I've pointed out to them that this seems a bit one sided they call me names.

Since I also have the right to an opinion, then my opinion is that if you still think the felon is the answer to your problems, then you are stupid. For some reason this really pisses them off. But, as I've written before, I will continue to point this out to everyone on the wrong side of this issue. Furthermore, I would say I was vindicated last week when the MAGA movement was crushed by most of the country.

My point in all this is last week I had to walk away from a friendship I have held dear since 1980. He was one of my very best friends and I'm going to miss talking to him. We've had many disagreements over the years, mostly about politics, and occasionally about sports, but nothing ever got to the point of immense anger towards each other. We would eventually laugh and go grab another beer.

I remember back in the day when he was a diehard Bill Clinton fan and I found the ex President to be a disgusting excuse for a human being with his fooling around in the White House with an intern. I've written several times that the number one issue with me and politicians is character and Bill and the felon have none.

We were able to move on from that whole time period and remain close. Once the lying piece of crap came into the political arena in 2015 we have been at each others throat about his effectiveness and character. Somehow we made it through his first term and the Biden years which drove him insane but this time around we struggled.

He, like most of the cult members, turn a blind eye to his hate filled rants, disgraceful behavior towards women and people of color, and his out of control grift of our money to name just a few things. We stopped talking to each other for about nine months until I reached out to him and said this was stupid, let's move on.

We tried to but it was clear that our relationship was now at a different place. When the Democrats sent a loud message to the felon and his thugs along with the MAGA party that they have had enough of their nonsense I thought that he would join in the rest of the world here on earth one and see the light.

I sent him my blog about the election from last week where I wrote about it being time to start working together to fix the mess we have here. I thought it was pretty non partisian but his response was to spew all the insane talking points being tossed out on dangerous far right media. Biden this, and Obama that, and all immigrants are rapists, and on and on.

The absolute final straw was when he said that thank God the felon bombed Iran because only he had the balls to stop them from building a nuclear bomb. I pointed out that we already had an agreement with Iran to not build one that John Kerry had negotiated during the Obama administration and it was working quite well until the felon ripped the agreement up in his first term.

My friend is a researchaholic who won't buy toothpaste without spending three weeks on line to decide which is the best one to buy but he didn't spend forty seconds to Google this and get the facts. That was it.

Honestly, I was stunned. I expected him to make some smart mouthed comments about me being a flaming liberal but the vitriol and hate he came back with really sent me rocking. I had reached my breaking point with this whole cult and enough was enough.

Like most people with a self inflicted disease, they can't see it themselves and they will never get better until they ask for help and really want to get better. At seventy-two I don't have time for all this bullshit from them. Spending the rest of my life walking on eggshells around these morons is not what I want to do so I told him that I was sorry but our friendship was over effective now.

He returned the gate key for our development I had given him to make it easier for him to get in when he visited so I guess he agrees too. It is sad that we are ending this friendship for this stupid reason but for me, this is all on him.