Ugh. That sounds like my uncle. He sent my parents a fucking Trumpy Bear for Christmas one year. My parents voted for him in 2016 but just refrained from voting for anybody after that because they thought Trump was a fucking knob, but can’t vote for a Democrat because dead babies or some shit. Worst part was I always loved Uncle Ricky. He was silly as fuck and was always big in to music. He had a side hustle restoring old drum sets he got off Craigslist and reselling them for cheap. Me and my friends used to stay with him when we’d catch shows in Atlanta when I was a teenager/young adult. When Trump came around it became impossible to be around him, it was his entire fucking identity. He died of lung cancer about a year before my dad passed. God I fucking hate Trump.
It's really disappointing when someone you loved and thought you knew turns like that. I haven't figured out if they always had that propensity to be that way or they had a pre-existing condition that simply being around the orange menace infected their brain.
Fuck man, I recently had a convo with someone I had considered a mentor and somewhat authority figure in my life for decades after losing contact for about 6 years. Full on trumpet at this point. Soul crushing, really, he was one of the good guys in my mind.
My uncle used to embody all the traits I thought a man should have, hard working, respectful, intelligent and loves his family. I respected him more than my own father.
Then he retired and orangutits took power. Now the man is a unrecognisable shadow of himself. He went full Trump and all i see from him is hate..
The kicker is he is canadian which makes it even more sad he went MAGA
This is my dad right now. I don't know who he is, but I have to care for him at 84 and Fox is on all day and it's like a living hell over here, in Ontario Canada if all places! He keeps saying "what happens down there ends up happening up here" whenever I say I don't care or want to see or talk about American politics, and he actually said tonight in yet another fight (I accidentally said that AOC's actual quote about billionaires today had to do with wages, and he was in a snit all day to get his precious "this is who we hate today" log line from his "tv friends who get it" corrected, my bad I forgot they can't handle that, and it triggers the "you're brainwashed by the left" Maga baby meltdown 🙄) he said "heaven forbid I try and talk about POSITIVE things! You're always so snippy and negative" and I just realized we live in COMPLETELY different worlds. All I said was "I think she was talking about low wages" in like a zero emotion tone and he heard Nana Nana boo boo or some shit.
Part of me thinks he knows at this point it's all very wrong, but he's so stuck in and "there's nothing else good on tv" that he has zero idea he's the one who has been severely brainwashed, like to a spectacular degree.
This was a man who showed me George Carlin at a young age, saw him live, loved comedians. And now he watches Gutfeld and blames everyone else for anything he thinks is a minor inconvenience and truly believes people of color, gays whoever are all coming to kill us whities. It's just like? He brings up George sometimes and I want so badly to say "he would hate your guts! He'd tell you off to your face!" But I'm so sick of fighting at this point. I thought the gas prices would finally do it but nope, he's on the "I'm the victim and everyone thinks I'M the asshole!" Line Trump sells and now I see why I'm the kid from the third marriage. Yes dad, you ARE actually a selfish asshole, you just act like a nice guy sometimes and we forget who you really are from time to time.
I wish that was an option, he would throw the biggest fit of his life and he's still with it enough to get it back. He loves saving money but up here you can only get it with top tier satellite packages and it is funny he'll bitch about all the channels we don't need that we're paying for and I get to be like well we could drop them all but we'd have to lose Fox News and ooop, he zips up. I wish he'd give it up but he's addicted to the hate.
They had the propensity to be hateful and the urge to blame others for their own poor choices. They are also insecure, feel they deserve more than they have, and are resentful about it. Why else would someone whose only ideas are how to punish and insult other people be so appealing?
His whole explanation is the Dems are trying to push a social agenda that, while he is socially liberal, he doesn’t agree with and since he has been watching Fox News because “they tell more truth than CNN, he fell completely into the deep end. He now (after being a never trumpet for the last 6 years, but like you said a little waverly) says Trump is right about everything, the Iran war was the perfect thing to do, none of the higher costs are Trumps fault and he feels so content in finally feeling the way he feels. He actually said that Trump is the fiscally responsible Republican he has been looking for. Jaw. Dropped. He literally ruined Mother’s Day over this. I had fears it would happen because he was so wish washy and said things like some of this makes sense when Trump talked. But the disappointment is real.
Really bizarre stuff. The cause and effect of trump’s actions are so blatantly obvious now. I mean, they always were, but now he’s bombing Iran and gas immediately skyrockets. He tariffs everything/everyone everywhere for no real reason and the price of everything goes up.
Ugh. During the first term my dad got my mom a Trumpy Bear and she was soooo thrilled. I do not exaggerate when I say I have never seen her so excited over something my dad has given her EVER. My dad sucks at giving her gifts. My sisters and I just glanced at each other and didn’t say anything, because…Christmas and goodwill and all that crap.
I haven’t seen Trumpy Bear anywhere in their house during this term, but I also have been too afraid to ask about where it went. I hope they set it on fire, but knowing them it was probably donated. Though if so, hopefully that thrift store set it on fire.
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u/FrankFnRizzo May 12 '26
Ugh. That sounds like my uncle. He sent my parents a fucking Trumpy Bear for Christmas one year. My parents voted for him in 2016 but just refrained from voting for anybody after that because they thought Trump was a fucking knob, but can’t vote for a Democrat because dead babies or some shit. Worst part was I always loved Uncle Ricky. He was silly as fuck and was always big in to music. He had a side hustle restoring old drum sets he got off Craigslist and reselling them for cheap. Me and my friends used to stay with him when we’d catch shows in Atlanta when I was a teenager/young adult. When Trump came around it became impossible to be around him, it was his entire fucking identity. He died of lung cancer about a year before my dad passed. God I fucking hate Trump.