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watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. I live among Trumpers in central Pa.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:57 PM
Apr 2019

let me tell you something else about them. They despise another group of people, they can't be as open about it though because they are the #1 voting block; women.

My 86 year old golfing buddy; Korean war vet, did Meals on Wheels, active in his church, does military funerals, asked me a question, he said what was the day that will live in infamy. I answered Pearl Harbor Day. He said no. It was 1920, the 19th Amendment when they gave women the right to vote. He was not joking.

Siwsan

(26,263 posts)
2. I have a cousin who thinks the same thing
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 01:24 PM
Apr 2019

He's male so, to his mind, he has every "God Given" right to vote. I'm not sure what his draft situation was, during Vietnam, but I do know he never served.

But he would deny that right to me, an honorably discharged Navy veteran. He would also would have denied that right to his aunts who worked in the factories, during WWII, building the equipment that helped us be on the winning side. And he's not joking, either.

I've made it a point to avoid too much contact, and when he is involved in family social occasions, we just don't discuss politics.



CousinIT

(9,245 posts)
3. Trumpers hate women.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 01:55 PM
Apr 2019

I have a brother who does. He became a Trumper the day a woman want the nomination in 2016. He said "I'm not gonna vote for no feminism!"

He never served.

He had no dates ever that I know of.

He is not married and never was.

Racism and Sexism are the two biggest indicators that a person is a Trumpista Cultist.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
7. You're missing a big opportunity to start implying he's a closet gay. No implication that it would
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:35 PM
Apr 2019

be wrong, but guys like him HATE being subtly razzed about that. What's behind his attitude is anyone's guess. It's a miserable way to live your life: even just as a straight misogynist. He's obviously afraid of women, to be more politically correct.

obamanut2012

(26,079 posts)
9. Do you have any idea how offensive what you suggested is?
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:49 PM
Apr 2019

Insult the guy by implying he is "a closet gay"? wtaf???????

Nothing you can say can make this an okay thing to suggest or harharhar over.

Shameful.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
10. Oh, I get your point, which was why I hesitated.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 04:14 PM
Apr 2019

Lighten up. I won't go into personal reasons as to why I hesitated because it would sound like the usual "my best friend..." All I can say is 1) I had an family member who was continually wearing me out by being a homophobe, and this shut him up. 2)I knew someone would freak out and come back at me as you did. I expected it. BTW: what does the added a (in wtaf) mean? I 'm well aware I was "politically incorrect." I'll manage to live with it.

Maraya1969

(22,482 posts)
12. Wait a minute. What the poster said was not a reflection on gay people, it
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 09:35 PM
Apr 2019

was a reflection on the many misogynist men who are homophobic as well. The 2 go together like peas and carrots. And I bet a good deal do have homosexual feelings that they absolutely are terrified of. (A lot of people have straight and gay feelings )



maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
13. Thank you for getting my point. I won't go on to defend having many gay people in my own and ..,
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 02:08 AM
Apr 2019

children's lives, There was a period when my daughter's best platonic male friend, a major high school jock, came out to her, As a teacher who had his younger brother in class, I found that the brother was always uncomfortable knowing that I knew. Too bad, His gay brother's GRANDMOTHER was the supportive one in the family who opened her home to him.






AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
5. lots of women are misogynists
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 02:59 PM
Apr 2019

arent there more anti-choice women than men in America? I’ve seen the stats a while ago.

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
6. The hate and venom will continue to spread like fire--
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:05 PM
Apr 2019

Last edited Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:35 PM - Edit history (1)

fast and lethal as long as there's Fox and other extreme outlets to spread propaganda.

K & R

appalachiablue

(41,140 posts)
8. This far right nationalism, fascism is spreading- Hungary, Brazil, EU, SA,
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:42 PM
Apr 2019

>SPAIN's Election now with expected seats for the far right 'Vox' party, the first in decades since democracy in 1975.

> "Supporters like the Vox party's tough stances against immigration and feminism, < and against the push for independence in the Catalonia region in northeastern Spain."

> "They're increasing hate, racism, and a lot of things that were hidden," says María Bayó, 40, who is talking about politics with friends outside a bar in the outskirts of Barcelona, in Catalonia.

'In Spain's Election, Far Right Could Win First Seats In Parliament In Decades,' NPR, April 27, 2018.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/27/716706293/in-spains-election-far-right-could-win-first-seats-in-parliament-in-decades

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