Those lovable uniters on the left advise Democrats to shun their friends and relatives who voted for Trump
Of course they do.
Yale University psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Calhoun is advising that it may be necessary to cut off your family and friends this holiday. In that way, you can avoid being "triggered" by opposing political views — much like Yale itself. https://t.co/4YiaOZPwNy
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 10, 2024
I’d tell people who are that easily triggered to see a therapist, but the therapists are often the worst of all – as the above example indicates.
I’ll repeat what I posted on the open thread as it seems more appropriate here. Of course they shun and cut off friends and relatives because this is what they actually think of the rest of the country:
https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/465969583_1310348896664605_5318046208919354447_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=86c6b0&_nc_ohc=_kDBpbNFN84Q7kNvgEZV67n&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-1.xx&_nc_gid=Ay60H2YwJcKK7ZQMv2v3SRv&oh=00_AYAVUsGjk4vi6SD4wE2Uwif5Tl3FiZ-3EWuvAvNV0W4elg&oe=67382363
Pleaeeeeeeze, Br’er Fox, don’t fling me in dat brier-patch!
(Metaphor alert)
“Cut off” is a theme now. Friends, family, hair, sex-relations. Loons will loon.
Trump is great at blowing these people up. I would love to see him announce that he is going to abolish the filibuster and pack the court. (Of course, I don’t want to see him do that, but I would love to see their reactions. It would be priceless and soooo entertaining).
Actually, Melania will NOT be going to the WH to have Tea with Jill. Good for her.
The corollary to that tactic is it reveals just how lost to reason those former friends and estranged relatives have made of themselves. Pray for their souls, while remembering that people cannot be saved… from themselves. It is always their choice, whether to open their minds to facts and reason or not.
BREAKING – Republicans maintain control of the US House of Representatives! 218-209 (8 undecided)
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/11/breaking-republicans-maintain-control.html
Damn it SD!
I was just posting the same thing.
Still not happy with the thin majority.
On The Five (FNC) today, Greg Gutfield and another panelist directly argued against this “advice.” The latter cited a recent book on loneliness today and said don’t shun others; people need that human connection to avoid the malignancies that come loneliness. The former counseled to ignore politics with family members — don’t talk about it. However, the hoaxes and media lies are worth sharing, suggesting, or confronting with them. It’s the weak-point that needs pressing.
These insights reminded me of an investment advisor on a podcast last month who reacted to the discovery that his retired parents had become captured by the MSNBC tripe trollers by simply using the phones to connect them bot to these talking heads’ Twitter/now X.com accounts so they were tied into informed criticism of their lies!
If this worked to liberate his folks, it’s worth trying with your own family members, too. In short, it’s the opposite strategy of this far Left dupe at Yale.
Advising, or demanding, that one shun and/or cut ties with family members of friends is precisely what cult leaders do.
They do so so that they can control and brainwash their followers, isolate them, keep them ignorant and dependent, and ensure that they’re compliant.
IOW, “Biden”’s kind of “Democracy”.
And that of his abject enthusiasts.
Last month I participated in a conference call with my siblings and our paternal cousins. My sister coordinated the call, and per my request, stipulated that politics would not be discussed.
A yellow-dog Democrat cousin replied in a snarky text message to my sister that one should not discuss “the economy, religion, facts….”
The reason I didn’t want to discuss politics with my cousin was that in a discussion of the Big TX Freeze of 2021, he “corrected” me on a statement I had admittedly made without sourcing it– nor had he sourced his “correction.” I refuted his “correction” with a very well documented number from a federal government database.
That cousin, when I refuted his “correction” of a statement of mine with numbers from a federal government database, responded with the “lies, damned lies, and statistics” quip attributed to Mark Twain. I requested that he SHOW the veracity of his claim. He made no attempt to do so, but escalated with a kitchen sink of stuff unrelated to my original claim.
For my cousin, facts are facts only if they fit his narrative de jour. THAT is why I didn’t want any further politics discussions with my cousin– it would be a waste of my time.
I am tempted, if there is a subsequent discussion with my cousin, to tell him I need to end the call so I can get to the local meeting of the American Nazi Party– or was it the Klan? 🙂
I quit reading Jonah Goldberg when he went Full-TDS in 2016, but he has some good counsel on this topic in the link below, which one of our sons passed around to the family.
His wife is our family leftist — mostly from being raised in a Democrat family IMO, and only having time for the “top headlines,” which of course are all from the Regime Media; our son is medium-conservative, probably the most centrist of the five, and “translates” for us back and forth.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/stop-bashing-democracy-2/
I hope Jonah is taking his own advice.
Cut yourself off from people who love you and might have told you not to be so sure Kamala is going to win or even that it won’t really be the end of the world if Trump wins.
Only believe us. We are the only ones who really care about you. Your family just wants to control you.
If you go to Thanksgiving they will likely lock you naked in the basement with only a Handmaid’s uniform to wear. (It will even fit because while you were still unconscious from being drugged, they stole yours from your house.)
Ok, the last bit is probably a little over the top but the rest just sounds like a cult trying to cut you off from friends and family.
Indeed….in fact, why can’t the US be more like Sweden…?
“Fury in Sweden at video of Syrian asylum seeker pushing widow, 91, down stairs before mugging her”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14067721/Syrian-asylum-seeker-widow-stairs-gold-necklaces-deportation-Sweden.html
I watched the “Gutfeld!” show tonight for the first time in some months. The topic of the psycho psychiatrist mentioned in neo’s link came up. The whole show was excellent and very funny, but the part about the shrink was especially good.
More about those “hate has no home here” Democrats —
https://notthebee.com/article/elderly-washington-woman-arrested-for-hate-crime-after-punching-trump-supporters-in-the-face
https://notthebee.com/article/this-woman-decided-to-publicly-shame-her-maga-sons-why-are-people-like-this
But is this malice or sheer incompetence??
https://notthebee.com/article/mattels-new-wicked-dolls-include-a-link-to-a-porn-site
I’m not on social media, but have been reading another forum, which strictly bans politics and hot-button issues. It’s not very well written or highfalutin, but I find it humorous, relaxing, and I learn things there.
https://www.rimfirecentral.com/threads/the-watering-hole.1247871/page-3304
I can sympathize with Mattel… at one Israeli hi-tech firm I worked at, the Marketing staff approved a huge order for 4-color brochures.
The product being launched linked voice and email, and was called “Integrated Messaging”.
Printed as “Integrated Massaging”…. one of the native English speakers spotted it a week before the trade show.
Regarding crazy woke relatives… I think many normies should realize that they have dodged bullets… there is no need whatsoever to reach out to these people. Reserve your compassion for those who deserve it.
Every so often I think about contacting my family back in the States – who are all nonreligious progressive NY Jews…. wondering whether now is the time to reach out to the more normal among them…
The way to Tone Down The Rhetoric is to talk, calmly, with those who disagree.
But my 2 sisters, 1 nephew, 2 nieces + 1 husband (Yonas from Ethiopia), all visited for a week just before election, with little talk of politics. But we’re mostly Republicans (my Slovak wife a Christian Democrat), tho the adult kids are Independents, and likely not wanting to argue.
Good family relationships are more important for each individual family member than national or state politics, and usually local—unless one is in a campaign for election.
Terrible psych advice, especially in this time of loneliness.
Hey Gringo! Regarding your cousin who is way left of center and can’t see the truth (and for others in the same situation), you should do what I would do in that situation. Send that cousin an enema kit. That’s a “polite” way of telling him he’s full of the stuff that enemas will clean out of him!
Shunning, shaved heads, and celibacy are gentle and relatively humane.
Not so nice: MATGA
Ah yes, Yale strikes again! Didn’t they give us the Halloween Costume Meltdown of 2015, Trump hater Dr. Bandy Lee, White people hater Dr. Aruna Khilanani, $40 million med school embezzler Jamie Patrone and the 2020 law school students shoutdown of a conservative guest speaker. Who the hell would send their kid there? And why?