It’s time to make your echo chamber great again.
In 2024, this means curating your world to exclude those who voted for the 45th and now 47th president, Donald J. Trump.
Especially if those voters are close friends or family members: slap the ban on them. Just say no to sharing a plate of Thanksgiving yams with your Trump-supporting aunt, even though she voted for Obama and Hillary twice in 2016.
It’s on the doctor’s orders!
Last Friday, MSNBC resident Chicken Little, Joy “Democracy is Falling” Reid, welcomed her show Yale psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Calhoun – who dispensed a prescription for festering bitterness and loneliness.
Hostin said it’s okay not to spend the holidays with family members who voted differently than you, calling it a “moral issue.” ABC/Nicolas Fondacaro
“There is a societal norm that if someone is your family, he or she is entitled to your time, and I think the answer is absolutely not,” Calhoun told Reid when talking about interacting with Trump voters.
“So if you find yourself in a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends, who you know have voted in a way that is against you, against your livelihood, then it’s okay not to be around those people and tell them Why.”
Isn’t that something? Festivus is for? To come together and express your grievances – the key word is ‘together’.
MSNBC host Joy Reid (left) hosted Amanda Calhoun, a psychiatrist who advised people to cut ties with family members who voted for Trump. MSNBC
Donald Trump’s political comeback has been historic, but it has also led to calls from liberals to freeze family members who voted for him. Damon Higgins/PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Not for Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, who said Tuesday that she supports ideological segregation during the holidays and called it a “moral issue.”
She said pulling the lever for Trump is far worse than voting for George W. Bush because the former is a more “flawed” human being. In other words, the new man we call Hitler is much worse than the old man we used to call Hitler.
“And so I think if people feel like someone voted not only against their families, but against them, and against the people they loved… I think it’s okay to take a step back. ”
‘Star Trek’ George Takei urged followers on X to “turn away from those who voted for Trump.”
There is an inherent selfishness in this argument. Why didn’t you think of ME and my oppression madness when you voted? Not your own interests.
It’s a sentiment littered across social media in TikTok videos and tweets, accompanied by performative acts of resistance: women shaving the heads of their heirs in protest, organizing sex strikes and wearing blue friendship bracelets.
The ex-communication movement has mainly emerged from the types who definitely have a yard sign stating their tolerance (“In this house we believe …” yada yada).
Sunny Hostin (left), co-host of “The View,” says Donald Trump is much more “flawed” than George W. Bush. ABC/Nicolas Fondacaro
People like “Star Trek” actor George Takei, who is so out of touch that he wants struggling Americans in the Rust Belt to think of another country first.
“Another reason to turn away from those who voted for Trump is because of the people of Ukraine,” he wrote on X Sunday, adding that “Trump voters have condemned so many of them to be ground under Putin’s boot. It’s unforgivable.”
And a Democrat named Rick Taylor, who made a long-shot bid for the Ohio Senate seat won by J.D. Vance in 2020, went to X to call his aunt a “traitor” for supporting the evil orange man. And he won’t be spending turkey day with her, thank you very much.
Ironically, his X biography says he is “still fighting to rebuild a working class coalition.”
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(Note: I’m still not convinced this is a real person.)
A highly viral tweet from a man with the handle @DerekNeverFails announced that he had cut off his MAGA father and sister: “I will never talk to them again. I will spit on their graves.”
He forgot to mention that he will delete his account after being widely ridiculed (yes, that happened).
Personally, I would like to see all these crazies take their message to children in foster care, or to the dozens of people affected by our epidemic of loneliness.
Democrat Rick Taylor, who ran for Ohio’s U.S. Senate seat that J.D. Vance ultimately won, called his aunt a “traitor” for voting for Trump. Rick Taylor/X
Instead of performing an autopsy on the Kamala Harris campaign to understand the loss, these Democrats want to stick their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and scream to drown out all the realities that are unpalatable to their worldview. Why try to understand how Trump built a multiracial working-class coalition when it’s easier to demonize those people? This method preserves their own virtue and moral superiority.
When Trump won in 2016, shock, awe and outrage were widespread – and sparked a full-scale resistance movement. Libs marched in pink hats and turned most of our institutions into anti-Trump vehicles.
The mood is stronger now. More personal. Even more pathetic.
Donald Trump’s victory puts pressure on families with mixed political preferences. AP
Gone are the days of putting on your big girl and big boy pants and learning to get along.
That was once a wonderful feature of our society and, yes, even our government, as politicians would do that all day and meet for drinks in the evening.
Destroying family and friends because of a politician who doesn’t even know your name is a grave mistake and a testament to someone’s vulnerability.
And if you participate in such a partisan cull, here’s one hard truth: your late grandmother is very disappointed in you for acting like a loser.