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I lost a friend to MAGA By HatetheSwamp September 30, 2024 5:13 am Category: Friends & Roommates (0.0 from 0 votes) Rules of the Post Write A New Article How To Post Here

The best way to understand this post is to begin by playing the video. It's one I put on SS a few weeks ago.

I sent a link to a long-time friend the same day I linked to it here. On the subject line, I put, "This is too funny."

My friend, call him Mark, is a huuuuuuuuuge MAGA GOP.

Mark didn't think that the video was funny... AT ALL.

Before all was said and done, we exchanged about a dozen emails over it. Mark's not a Christian. Certainly, he's not an evangelical. He calls himself a deist.

Curiously, his initial response response to the video was to ask, how can a Christian like me think this is funny. We went back and forth on that for a few messages.

Then I wrote that seems to me that he wants to create an Iranian type Christian theocracy in America. And, I added, "The Jesus I know said, 'My kingdom is not of this world.'" I wrote that Mark's welcome to convince me that I'm wrong.

Mark's answer?

He started a fresh email chain with "Final Contact" on the subject line. His message:

"Please just leave me alone. Now and always. Thank you."

In reply, I expressed regret that our friendship was ending and promised to be available to him if he wants to renew our acquaintance.

Nothing.

Previously, I'd told him that we'd be near him today, 9/30, and asked if he'd meet us for lunch. He didn't respond.

Mark and I go way back. He even lived with us for a few months when he was homeless. But, it seems, the woke, MAGA, and the Swamp were bigger than our friendship.


BTW, I still think it's too funny.

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by Ponderer on September 30, 2024 8:13 am Simple answer: There are NO good reasons to vote for Donald Trump. Alexa just doesn't want to say that. Conversely, it could probably go on for hours about all the good reasons to vote for Harris. Politics can really show you who your true friends are. But I think it might be of some personal concern to you that your views are too much even for other MAGAs. I'm sure this was only a final straw for Mark. But you see, Bill? We haven't abandoned you because you're a flaming MAGA Hat who hasn't got two clues to rub together. We find it an endearing quality in you that's always at least entertaining. by HatetheSwamp on September 30, 2024 9:34 am po, Your compassion defies description. But, I can express this: You are an @$$hole. by Donna on September 30, 2024 9:42 am Hts - About your OP - Is Mark your friend, or is your OP something you found and shared here? by HatetheSwamp on September 30, 2024 9:49 am Mark was my long-time friend. by Donna on September 30, 2024 9:56 am I like what you said to Mark. Obviously he's conflicted and is trying to run away from himself. I'd like to see more posts from Bill Sloat rather than from your fake personas. by HatetheSwamp on September 30, 2024 10:05 am They're all from bill Sloat. Mark was my friend for many years. He's enigmatic. I never understood him. Apparently, I never will by Donna on September 30, 2024 10:18 am I don't think I'll ever understand you either. by Ponderer on September 30, 2024 10:26 am "po, Your compassion defies description." -Hate Well it's all coming from a place of love. It's good that you can still pick up on that. by HatetheSwamp on September 30, 2024 10:26 am Donna, Nor I you. It's okay. by Curt_Anderson on September 30, 2024 10:30 am HtS, You said your friend was once homeless. That likely indicates he has a history of making poor choices and decisions. Also you apparently helped him out. Nothing breeds resentment like being beholden. by HatetheSwamp on September 30, 2024 10:36 am He lived with is years ago. Much water had gone under the bridge since then. I do have to say that Mark's response stunned... STUNS me. by Indy! on September 30, 2024 10:45 am Alexa just searches the internet for information regarding the candidates. Looks like nobody has put a good reason to vote for Trump on the internet. by Ponderer on September 30, 2024 1:57 pm My brother is a pretty staunch HAGA. Don't know for sure if he has a hat. Never asked him. I was stunned recently when during a phone conversation he brought up the subject of illegal immigration. Sort of. Right at the end of the conversation, he asked if we aren't terrified of some rampaging illegal breaking into our house and killing us. I was STUNNED when I realized that he was serious. Like he imagined us, in Tucson, 62 miles from the border, like as if we were pioneers out on the prairie surrounded by bloodthirsty Apache's or something. What the hell have you been listening to, Mike? I wanted to ask him. But I kept my part of our previous agreement not to talk politics on the phone anymore and bid him a happy goodby. DISCLOSURE: The last conversation I had with him, last night, was one of the best we've ever had. Turning into old people can do things to a family. by Indy! on October 1, 2024 7:37 am That's my sister. I need to make an agreement like you have with her because she's obsessed with "illegals" unless they happen to be her friends from church or something - she's ok with them. 🙄 by HatetheSwamp on October 1, 2024 7:41 am Interesting. I have one brother. He's one of those moderate and independent common sense voters. My guess is, if he votes it'll be for Ms Mckneepads but considering the options, he may not vote... as I suspect many won't. by Ponderer on October 1, 2024 8:27 am Bill, I wish it was possible for you to experience the amusement that we get when you are driven by your despicable bigotry to parade your flaming, pig-ignorant misogyny every time you mention Kamala. You always say that we must be psychic to know what you are thinking. But it really isn't difficult at all. I mean... at all! Your innate bigotry has you intentionally choosing to only listen to the worst flaming malarkey that the far-idiot-right and Fox can sling at her and pretend that it's the entire story about her. That is your choice. You have free will and are free to be as blitheringly and shamelessly wrong as much as you want to be. But it has nothing at all to do with reality. Sorry. by Donna on October 1, 2024 8:48 am Republicans have always had a special hatred towards outspoken female Democratic politicians. They pretty much leave the Chuck Schumers alone, unless they're a "secret Muslim", even though ideologically they're in full agreement with their outspoken female colleagues. by HatetheSwamp on October 1, 2024 9:01 am "You always say that we must be psychic to know what you are thinking. But it really isn't difficult at all. I mean... at all!" No. I say that you suffer from delusions of omniscience. by Ponderer on October 1, 2024 9:35 am Well, you're wrong on both counts, Bill. by HatetheSwamp on October 1, 2024 9:40 am huh. I don't say that you suffer from delusions of omniscience!!!!!? I absolutely do. You've never been more EFFINwrong. by Ponderer on October 1, 2024 9:51 am You are a willfully pig-ignorant, Trump-loving twat, Bill. Go To Top

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