Yeah at my Christmas one of them sat down, turned to me, and said so what did you think of the election? Bastard.

Had an aunt tell me that a huge, huge, part of this election was the topic of liberals telling people they could no longer breastfeed they had to call it chest feed. They said it was a massive part of the election cycle. Where the fuck did that one come from?

I was the leftist, and I instigated the trouble with this T-shirt, sorry not sorry:

Yeah…. I wasn’t quiet. Heh. Super trumper cousins left in tears that the “left” was destroying our Christian country as barraged them with the anti-Christian things they did daily. The rest of the family decided to drop the topic since there were “equal” sides to the arguments. Christmas was actually good, once the obnoxious ones left.

I will not be silenced

I laid down a carpet-bombing that lasted a full two weeks onto Facebook, every horrible, terrible thing I could source, meme I could grab, and fact I could post, in a strategic, all out assault of leftist ideology.

The family got shook, I got sent a ton of messages, had a shit ton of fights, saw every one to the end and got to a point where every combatant got to the well, we can't talk about politics with you phase.

HALLELUJAH.wav

Thanksgiving? Nothing. Zero. Nada. No one said the word Trump once.

Christmas? Exactly the same. It's as if it happened in 2014. Not a single word of politics anywhere.

They knew I'd go off like a Roman fucking candle, no mercy, zero prisoners if so much as the word truffle was misspoken and I only heard the tru-.

You're their family member too, you know. They have every right to dread your mouth as yours does theirs. I say give them damn good reason.

I was the one getting too heated when my debunking of anti trans misinformation (“trans women have a clear inherent advantage in sports compared to cis women") was ignored and again when Umberto Eco's 14 common features of fascism were summarily dismissed in favor of an unspecified "expert" my brother had heard on a podcast saying that Trump and his cult aren't fascist 🤦

Really sucks that, no matter how right I am and how wrong anyone else is, all someone has to do in order to make me look like the unreasonable one is to refuse to listen until the futility and injustice of it all makes me raise my voice in exasperation 😮‍💨🤦

god damn, am I that (leftist) uncle?

Uncle with no personality, redeemable traits, or an actual understanding of how the government functions has extemely strong opinions on how the government functions. Any push-back from family members on said strong opinions will be conveniently disregarded as liberal brainwashing/fake news.

Ask if a mother is unable to feed her children if she should be provided with food assistance. It's kind of surprising how popular leftist policies are. Also if you are strong enough to do real time fact checking then good luck.

Could I have made a scene? Oh, yes, especially when the talk turned to coal and how closing down coal mines would make West Virginia 'the poorest state in the country' and how 'Trump is already having an effect on the economy, you can see it in the gas prices'.

Would it have helped? Would I have gotten any satisfaction from it? No, and no.

I fucking hate family holidays.

I love correcting my dad, and grandpa when they give ahistorical retellings then we argue and I say they have no idea what they're talking about which makes them super mad. They can't do shit because I'm bigger and they can't argue because I know more.

I guess I've been lucky. Although the majority of my extended family is poorly educated, lives in rural areas, and has a certain set of toxic political views, my close by family is well educated and lives in urban areas.

I haven't had to share a holiday meal with one of the toxic people in probably decades.

Last time I saw my extended family I had that look on my face as my trump supporter uncle was using the N word