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Why Am I Losing Friends? [1]

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Date: 2025-02-15

I was never a popular person in high school, but I did have a few good friends. I’ve kept in touch with several of those friends through the decades. One friend is a very strong MAGA follower. She called me in 2015 when Trump was first running for president. She said, “You are a Republican, right?” I told her I was until Trump came along. I told her I could never support him. She accepted that and we remained friends on Facebook and often met for lunch. That was until November 2024 when I shared this post on Facebook:

“I will never understand how there are poor people who think that billionaires like Musk have their best interest in mind.”

She replied with a scathing post, 10 or more sentences about how horrible Biden is, open borders, the Biden mafia family, a basketball player who had drugs getting released from a Russian prison before an innocent man, sending money to Ukraine, ignoring American hostages in Gaza. I responded by just saying, “I’m not sure why you took offense at a post about billionaires not caring for the common folk.”

I received a friend request from her shortly afterwards. I thought her profile had been cloned since we were already friends. I then noticed that she unfriended me. I was going to accept the request, thinking she unfriended me in a fit of anger. She deleted that friend request. We remain unfriended on Facebook since my last comment to her in November.

I have another friend with whom I’ve kept in touch with since high school, back in the mid 70s. She got married and moved to another state 45 years ago so I seldom saw her. We did write to each other with letters, text messages, emails, and phone calls. She is a very, very strong republican, a MAGA republican. Her Christmas cards always contained a copy of the Epoch Times, which were thrown in the trash. Yesterday she sent me a meme of Trump’s deportation efforts.

I told her that I am not a Trump fan and didn’t want to see it. She replied that never would have expected that I wasn’t a Trump fan. She said she likes all of his policies. She went on to criticize Biden and Obuma. Yes, “Obuma.” I said, “I find him highly offensive and not compatible with my Christian values. And his name is Obama, not Obuma. Don’t stoop to what Trump did by purposely mispronouncing names like Kamala.”

Her scathing response was, “Trump is the best president since Ronald Reagan. History will show he is saving our country from communism, socialism, canceling the corrupt FBI, CIA, Dept of “Injustice”, Obama and Biden mafia. Wake up (my name inserted). The Democrats are corrupt and baby killers. Trump is pro-life! Oh and I call her Kamel because she looks like one AND most democrats look like ghouls. You don’t find Biden highly offensive putting his hands up a secretary’s skirt and telling her she is a nobody, and they crushed that sorry! And the Bidens taking millions from China? And Biden pardoning his whole corrupt mafia family, especial Hunter!” An unbelievable rant!

She went on about how horrible Biden is, killing mostly black babies in low-income neighborhoods. She said Biden is more offensive to Christian values. Her last comment for the evening was, “Trump is saving our country from utter ruin.”

I did not respond to her. This morning, she sent another long text. “THANK GOD we have President Trump who fights for the average American and especially unborn babies. You will see over the four years history will show him to be above Reagan as the best American First President!”

I didn’t respond and don’t know when I will talk to her again. If I will. My husband and I are going out for a few beers. My husband is concerned about going to a bar. He said, “I hate looking like a ghoul. It’s so hard to order a drink.”

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