Who here has lost friends due to political differences?

[debbiedowner]

Why do i have to tell you this? He gave up his salary for one. He gave up his cushy life because he felt the importance of getting this country back on track from career politicians and liars SUCH AS...Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden and others. He has been cheated out of a second term as well as the people who voted for him. He has endured backstabbing from both parties because he threatened their wealth and power off OUR BACKS. He is still enduring consistent and vicious persecution and harassment from the left and ignorant people such as yourself.

Yep, he sure did.

Wealth of Donald Trump - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

During his presidency, Trump reported over $1.6 billion of outside revenue and income from his companies, including the Trump Organization. "While Trump publicly took credit for donating his taxpayer-funded salary," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington noted, the presidential salary he donated was not even one-thousandth of what he was earning as a businessman.[30]

Political donations from small and large donors alike ended up funding Trump's personal businesses. During his presidency, his businesses received $8.5 million from political fundraising under his control, including the Trump campaign, and $2 million from other Republican fundraising sources.[31]

Though the Trump Organization claimed it would let federal employees who traveled with President Trump stay his properties “for free” or “at cost”, it charged the Secret Service up to $1,185 per night, generating over $1.4 million in Secret Service lodging expenses over four years. This bill is charged to taxpayers and paid to the Trump Organization.[

 

[debbiedowner]

LOLOL

You're such an idiot. Yeah, he gave up an annual salary of 400K for 4 years and then bilked his base for a quarter of a billion dollars.

That's a sacrifice, huh?

More the a quarter of a billion.

 

[initforme]

The diversity of my friends views are a huge strength. Their beliefs are all over the board and that to me is what makes a nation great.

 

[playtime]

Only one. I live in a fairly rural area and there are lots of Trumpers here. For the most part we agree to disagree and leave politics out of our interaction.

One however was a neighbor who was a snowbird and eventually moved to Florida. We tried to keep in touch via Facebook and wow did we ever learn who he really was. Disgusting homophobic racist rants were the norm for him.

Ghosted him after that. Just don’t need that in my life

a friend of mine that has a FB account said the same thing about some people she knew.

 

[Slade3200]

LOLOL

You're such an idiot. Yeah, he gave up an annual salary of 400K for 4 years and then bilked his base for a quarter of a billion dollars.

That's a sacrifice, huh?

Except for he didn’t give up anything. He got the salary and “donated it”… tax deductible donations that he would have made anyways. Difference here is he branded it so that his supporters would think he was a hero. How are people so gullible?!

 

[playtime]

Except for he didn’t give up anything. He got the salary and “donated it”… tax deductible donations that he would have made anyways. Difference here is he branded it so that his supporters would think he was a hero. How are people so gullible?!

because donny...
“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.”

knows his mark.

 

[Faun]

because donny...
“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.”

knows his mark.

666

 

[The5thHorseman]

Maybe this has been covered ... my politics is based strictly on my wallet ... and keeping money in my wallet ...

No one disagrees with my politics ... I lose friends the regular ways ... our interests diverge or we move away ... never about my wallet ...

Does this mean you favor fiscal responsibility?

 

[alang1216]

Having a core group of friends, especially for guys is a huge part of American society. It is a political thing. Only in the recent times have things like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Black Lives Matter, LGBT things broken up friendships. This is a relatively new thing. It has happened in the past but today it’s a more serious problem for sure.

I had four really close friends that I’ve known since high school really close with them for 15 years. But Around 2020 with the rise of the Black Lives Matter riots …. those friendships were shaken up.


I’ve lost good friends from my high school years because they are far left wingers.

For example, when the 2020 BLM riots took place. A good friend of mine went to BLM rallies, he supported what they were saying. I was astonished at it completely shocked. We would get into arguments. I would tell him you can’t do this. You’re of Italian heritage like me. You can’t turn your back on your ancestors and call them racist when they weren’t racist when they were honorable people. We would get into arguments. He would call me a racist. It’s the same friend who has been a “stay at home boyfriend” for about 10 years now. His girlfriend goes to work and makes all the money. He’s a disgrace. He’s also a drug user … smoking weed using cocaine various things. if you look on his Facebook page, he has an LGBT flag. He is a different man compared to when I knew him in the high school years and my early 20s.

By the way, here’s the idea for this conversation



Throughout the podcast featuring Andrew Tate and Justin Waller, you get to hear the importance of having good friends around you. Strong minded people who care about honorable traditions. It’s really important for men to have friendships with strong minded men who are drug-free, who work out who respect traditions. If one has weak friends, one will be weak.

If one has strong minded, kind, compassionate, honorable friends, they will retain those values.

I had about four really close friends growing up through high school… I saw one of them about four weeks ago. He’s also a far left wing extremist. He doesn’t wanna listen to things.. he’s unemployed. He smokes a ton of weed. He sits around selling things on eBay, making a fraction of what he made his old job.

The third friend I recently texted a few weeks ago. He supports abortion, infact, one of his girlfriends from 15 years ago or so actually had an abortion. He’s not really that religious. But he still retain some level of Dignity …he works. He just had a child. Of the four close friends I’m talking about here. He’s the only one with a kid. He smokes weed quite a bit I think, sells weed. Of all four of my high school friends this is the one I might retain some level of a relationship with we will see.

And then my fourth friend would always call me when he’s drunk. He seems to have various issues. He smokes a lot of weed. Who knows where this one will go… he lives in Florida and likes Ron DeSantis, which is interesting considering the amount of weed he smokes

And so I have myself as I have told many people on this board was in a terrible car accident about three years ago. I eventually came to the conclusion that I need to work out, be healthy. Be strong get off the weed. I am off weed work out as much as I can. I got all the reasons in the world to give up. But I don’t. And I could change who I am to try and go back to my old friends who support BLM, whi smoke dope , who support waving an LGBT flag and probably who even support waving the flag of Ukraine. There’s no way I’m going to do that. Because I am who I am and I’m a man I can’t change that. I can’t become lesser of a man to fulfill the desires of far left wing extremists, even if they were my close friends in high school.


Btw I do have a few traditional old school friends that I play poker with. I have known these guys for 10 + years. But for the most part they’re much older than me in their 70s including Vietnam veterans. Really great guys to hang out with. But other than Poker I don’t really see them much.



I’m sure many people here can relate their own stories of losing friends because of a difference over Donald Trump or something similar. And these people, my fellow posters many of you might be in a similar position where you’re trying to find new friends meet new acquaintances. And this is again important thing for a man if you wanna be able to find a woman, it helps to have good close, friends guy friends that is with like minded thoughts.

I’m happy to say that I recently I went back to the Islamic school I used to work at (I made a thread about this). I talked with a guy I recognized from my time working at the school. And I realize I can probably get something positive from this. I can start hanging out with this guy and more people from the mosque, who are about traditions, being strong, doing the right things opposing far left wing extremism. And they don’t even necessarily have to be Muslims. I realize that these types of guys they’re black, they’re Arab, some are white but they are all from the “old school” even though we’re in our 20s and 30s. And so with these types of men, we won’t be sitting around smoking dope watching some dumb cartoon movie playing some dumb video game…. will be sitting around like men discussing real topics how to make our lives better how to be stronger. That’s it. Have a nice day folks

And please share your stories if you have them if you lost close friends due to political differences… and what you’re doing to find new friends with like-minded thoughts to make yourself a better person to make those around you better to make your community stronger.

My friends have generally shared my values and that is hardly surprising. My newest friend, we walk one morning a week, is a die hard conservative, evangelical Christian, exactly opposite me. We have some spirited discussions but we also share mutual respect. He is my friend, in part, BECAUSE we are so different and can offer each other new points of view.

If you lost friends because of their politics, that's on you.

 

[FranklinRoosevelt_FTW]

Who is dumb enough to let politics interfere with a friendship?

how is one supposed to react if they get called racist by a friend for opposing multi millionaire politicians taking a knee to support blm, and convincing poor Americans addicted to drugs to take to the streets to destroy a statue of Christopher Columbus….

What man in their right mind would continue to be friends with someone who calls him a racist for no good reason.?

One would have to be a very weak individual to attempt to still remain friends with somebody who calls them a racist on a daily basis in a casual matter. That’s not what friends do.

In the past seven years, the great majority of friendships that have been broken up are due to far left wing racist Democrats, who engage in racism, intolerance, and anti-Americanism.

 

[FranklinRoosevelt_FTW]

My friends have generally shared my values and that is hardly surprising. My newest friend, we walk one morning a week, is a die hard conservative, evangelical Christian, exactly opposite me. We have some spirited discussions but we also share mutual respect. He is my friend, in part, BECAUSE we are so different and can offer each other new points of view.

If you lost friends because of their politics, that's on you.

It’s a matter of choice. I choose to not associate myself with weak racist Democrats. I think that’s the right thing to do.

It comes down to do you wanna be in the same room with somebody who believes and thinks it’s totally fine and casual to call you a racist for saying wait A second slavery was a worldwide issue Black people owned white people. Slavery was not a white man’s thing.

 

[initforme]

I don't have any friends that call me a racist so I can't relate. Politics of the nation are not any kind of high i.pirtance in our conversations but we do denigrate and poke fun at our elected leaders regardless of party. Our politics is the source of many laughs. If this makes me unpatriotic....oh well. But I'm really not.

 

[2aguy]

Who is dumb enough to let politics interfere with a friendship?

The majority of leftists.

 

[ActionJackson]

I hired a dude who seemed pretty normal at first. We got along well. Then I found out he had actually voted for Pedo Joe. I was shocked that someone in my region was that stupid. So my opinion of him changed. Any friendship that was developing came to an end, but we worked well together on a business level.

When the Covid scam took place, he started masking then double masking. He started to insist that everyone else do the same. Of course, the answer was a resounding NO.

At first, the only thing we agreed on was that the experimental vaxx was out of the question. He believed that previous vaxxes had given his son autism. I happened to agree with him. But later, his other son talked him into getting the vaxx as well. At that point, I considered him a complete lemming, puppet, fearmongering follower. When I continued to refuse to wear a silly, ineffective mask, he gave his notice and left the company. THANK GOD!!

 

[2aguy]

my friends lean left, as do i - but my family members are big time right wingers & avid watchers of fox. i don't start any political conversations but won't back off when the regurgitated fox spewing points start to make their way into a fun time. the thing is - when presented with the truth, they usually back down because they can't really defend themselves.

today will be an interesting day for sure since i haven't seen them in a few months & the indictments of their chosen one has occurred - i wonder if they know that guiliani has probably flipped & it's starting to feel like more charges are gonna be dealt to donny soon enough....

The political persecution of Trump has occurred.......you could start there to be more accurate.

 

[2aguy]

I hired a dude who seemed pretty normal at first. We got along well. Then I found out he had actually voted for Pedo Joe. I was shocked that someone in my region was that stupid. So my opinion of him changed. Any friendship that was developing came to an end, but we worked well together on a business level.

When the Covid scam took place, he started masking then double masking. He started to insist that everyone else do the same. Of course, the answer was a resounding NO.

At first, the only thing we agreed on was that the experimental vaxx was out of the question. He believed that previous vaxxes had given his son autism. I happened to agree with him. But later, his other son talked him into getting the vaxx as well. At that point, I considered him a complete lemming, puppet, fearmongering follower. When I continued to refuse to wear a silly, ineffective mask, he gave his notice and left the company. THANK GOD!!

You dodged a bullet there.......

 

[alang1216]

It’s a matter of choice. I choose to not associate myself with weak racist Democrats. I think that’s the right thing to do.

It comes down to do you wanna be in the same room with somebody who believes and thinks it’s totally fine and casual to call you a racist for saying wait A second slavery was a worldwide issue Black people owned white people. Slavery was not a white man’s thing.

Do you every thought that comes into your head? Maybe you need a filter. Or do some growing up.

 

[alang1216]

The majority of leftists.

And FranklinRoosevelt_FTW

 

[leftwinger]

Do you every thought that comes into your head? Maybe you need a filter. Or do some growing up.

Some posters are "creators". Some have a lot to say from a big brain or decades of experience. Some posters are repliers. Please Let him post his thoughts.

It's all i have left. I quit MSM. All but GP headlines or business pages. Can't discuss anything with co-workers.

 

[john doe 101]

my friends lean left, as do i - but my family members are big time right wingers & avid watchers of fox. i don't start any political conversations but won't back off when the regurgitated fox spewing points start to make their way into a fun time. the thing is - when presented with the truth, they usually back down because they can't really defend themselves.

today will be an interesting day for sure since i haven't seen them in a few months & the indictments of their chosen one has occurred - i wonder if they know that guiliani has probably flipped & it's starting to feel like more charges are gonna be dealt to donny soon enough....

You mean they havent learned to blame everything they can't explain on the deep state or the FBI being run by communists?