Me too – only it was me who was the “traitor” since I openly did not support Obama.

But, I’ve tried to look at it this way: if they didn’t consider me a friend any more because of who I voted for then they weren’t true friends in the first place. Kind of sad; but, I think that is reality.

A classmate of mine wondered aloud in our discussion group if we would see another spike in anxiety disorders due to the Trump administration. If last year’s campus rants and public protests signify anything I’d say yes.

http://manningthewall.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDY17Xg_Ix5kaenkryh63g
https://twitter.com/manningthewall

High IQ and a PhD often, but not always, means zero common sense. Those people tend to believe their feces do not stink. They are pure, they are superior, they know everything we peasants are too mud splattered and dumb to appreciate their wisdom. That is their weakness and their self created nemesis.

As we say here in the South…. “Bless His Heart”

I am wondering what he is going to say when no family wants to visit at all or invite him to be around them. Once again, for someone with such a reportedly high IQ, he sure doesn’t have any common sense.

I asked him to elaborate. I later sent him two chatty emails about some liberal tv and comedy subjects we have discussed in the past.

Still no reply.

I’ve lost a number of liberal friends.

We simply do not discuss politics with daughters and grand children since the election. Early on, the daughters tried to go off on us, and we told them to “stifle themselves”, before they created a chasm. Frankly, my patience with this hysteria has been exhausted. I am transitioning from irritated to angry.

“Michael Flynn was one of the Obama administration’s fiercest critics after he was forced out of the Defense Intelligence Agency,” said Lake, who described “the political assassination of Michael Flynn” in his [Bloomberg View] column published early Tuesday.

“[Flynn] was a withering critic of Obama’s biggest foreign policy initiative, the Iran deal,” Lake said. “He also publicly accused the administration of keeping classified documents found in the Osama bin Laden raid that showed Iran’s close relationship with al Qaeda. He was a thorn in their side.”

Lake noted in his column that he does not buy fully the White House’s official spin on Flynn’s resignation.

“For a White House that has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with the truth, it’s strange that Flynn’s ‘lie’ to Pence would get him fired,” Lake wrote. “It doesn’t add up.”
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The forced resignation of Flynn is a most disturbing basis for concern about Trump, his motives, his direction.

It also makes them sound so stupid. I’m really wondering right now whether I want to talk to some of these people ever again.