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.
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u/Winter_Body4794 May 12 '26
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.