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Question: Do you plan on heated confrontations with family over politics this holiday season?
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« on: November 22, 2017, 02:57:19 PM »

Do you plan on having any heated conversations with family members this Thanksgiving and holiday season over President Trump, Roy Moore, Phil Murphy, BLM, flags, TYT, O'Reilly, etc., or will politics be out of the households this weekend and in December/January?

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article116568698.html

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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2017, 02:58:29 PM »

Do people really get heated over Phil Murphy?
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2017, 03:05:26 PM »

I come a family of union-loving stevadores, pot shop owners, and my grandmother whose earliest memory was her entire family weeping at the site of FDR's funeral train so no, nothing but good discussion.
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2017, 03:07:25 PM »

Not seeing family, so no.
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2017, 03:09:59 PM »


^Got banned from the holiday family reunion 5 Thanksgivings ago.
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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2017, 03:12:11 PM »

Of Course not



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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2017, 03:15:41 PM »

Do people really get heated over Phil Murphy?

Yes, because some see him as another Florio/McGreevey/Corzine wrapped up in Obama/Sanders.
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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2017, 03:18:05 PM »

Sadly not this year Sad
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« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2017, 03:19:28 PM »

God no
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« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2017, 03:23:20 PM »

If it happens, I'll change the topic to my new pets, Pepe the Cat and Kek the Iguana.
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« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2017, 07:04:35 PM »

Not really, because we all hate Trump.
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« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2017, 07:05:36 PM »

I never discuss politics with my family or friends. I love them all regardless!
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« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2017, 07:20:46 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2017, 07:21:58 PM »

Thanksgiving was a month ago.
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« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2017, 07:22:15 PM »

i plan on getting drunk so hopefully no
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« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2017, 07:30:29 PM »

Nope, I never discuss politics with family.  They're all on either the left or right extreme, and either way I'm certain to offend them eventually. Smiley
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« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2017, 09:09:47 PM »

Nah.  My family doesn't usually discuss politics and my wife's family is mostly that rare breed called southern white progressives. (Not northern transplants, but true southerners.)
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« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2017, 11:46:25 PM »

I assume there will be a Brexit argument at some stage by Boxing Day.
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« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2017, 04:30:31 AM »

I voted yes, but not because I want to have them. My grandmother has lost her social filter and become conspiratorial in her old age, and she is almost certainly going to bring Trump and Killery in the course of what would otherwise be civil conversation.
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« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2017, 05:33:40 AM »

No. An unofficial gag rule is in place, and I just have to watch two people. I have a strict crack down procedure against it that doesn’t take thirty seconds.
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« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2017, 07:47:14 AM »

No, we are like all massive Trump fanatics, and the ones who aren't know better than to speak on the subject. They can go carry their lattes upstairs for a quick snicker.
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« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2017, 07:48:29 AM »

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« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2017, 08:37:47 AM »

Im technically one of the most liberal members of my extended family so I doubt it.
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« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2017, 08:50:03 AM »

My grandparents (specifically the 2 that are visiting, as the other 2 have died) think that Israel should be allowed to engage in apartheid policies, while my brother and I think that Israel should be held accountable for crimes against humanity it commits.  That is going to create major arguments.
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« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2017, 09:39:30 AM »

With me politics inevitably is a topic of conversation. I don't even have to start it. Some will resist, but if they want to know how I'm doing, they will have to get into politics at some level.
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