Facts:
- He’s a sore loser
- He has a VERY fragile ego
- This is the first time in his life that something hasn’t gone his way
- He spends too much time on Twitter
Like idk I think if the man sees enough memes about “wow if I was Donald Trump rn then I’d literally slit my wrists in a bathtub” then he might actually do it?
I have a lot of extended family that I don’t give a shit about either. They all left a Mennonite cult a few years ago so they got exposed to the Facebook propaganda machine full blast. They were already rich conservatives living in the boonies of California so it was only a matter of time before they became hardcore Trump supporters.
I couldn’t fathom dealing with your father in law, that’s so fucking awful.
And yea, I 100% understand what you mean about empathy for some of these people. It is like they are chipping away at the edges until you have nothing but a broken and dried up piece of rubber.
It can be so tiring but there’s always some sort of act of love out there in the world that can keep you going.
My whole family is poor rednecks who all came from Kansas. My wife’s family is poor rednecks who came from Indiana. None of them have any material interest in voting Trump and some of the people in my generation have broken away from it but most of them are still all for Trump on both sides of our family.
My father in law is straight up emotionally abusive to my wife. He shot her with a bb gun when she was a child just for fun on multiple occasions and is constantly demeaning and rude to her. And then after a couple days or hours or years he will out of the blue apologize. He apologized for shooting her with the bb gun about 10 years after the last incident.
When he ranted at her to go be with the damned and called her a lost cause it took him 4 hours to call and say that he loves her. He didn’t actually say sorry but just asked if she was mad at him. I think he should be cut out of her life, especially with the stress he brings and her being pregnant. However her mom, sister and brother all still live there and she doesn’t want to cut them out so she told him no. I don’t want to strain and stress her anymore than she already is so I haven’t pushed it.
I have tried to be patient and be forgiving but I think a lot of these people are lost to me. If someone wants to make an attempt to be better I am here for it. I was a shitty ass teenager until I was about 15. But actual adults who still hold these beliefs just aren’t worth the argument for me a lot of the time.
