It seems Trump has cost me a friend
We were friends in real life 25+ years ago. We ate dinner at each others houses, our wives were friends, we worked together at a large boat manufacturer. Hell, he came over and poured the concrete slab and helped me build a shed in the back yard that still stands today. (I can promise you had he not helped it would be a jumbled pile of rust and rat shit today). For free. Well, some sweet tea every hour or so but we had that in abundance back then.
But things change. I got laid off from the boat place after the Reagan luxury tax cut pretty deep into the yacht business. (what? Reagan taxed stuff? You wouldn't know it by today's memories.) He got a divorce and we saw less and less of either of them and then I heard he moved to North Carolina.
After a couple years of trying, I found him on the Facebooks last year and friend requested him. He accepted but other than the very first "Hey, long time no see, blah blah..." message we didn't interact. But his posts kept popping up on my timeline. It was pretty clear right from the start my friend had changed (or I was just more aware - Meaning we didn't really discuss religion or politics much back then. We discussed work and music and food. We went to RC Car races and he built a red clay track in his back yard so we could have people over and race even more. He must have gotten religion up in NC. Because he damn sure wasn't religious down here.). His posts were all about Obama and getting him out of office and then, lately, they have all been about how Trump is the savior of the universe.
It was one of those deals where you just can't believe someone you thought you knew could post such moronic shit. But I never commented on any of his posts. I simply posted stuff on my own timeline that countered the bullshit. I didn't tag him or go out of my way to make him aware nor hide it. I figured I'd see if he was reading anything I posted.
This morning I thought, Hmmmm, haven't seen any weird shit from L**** in a while so I checked. Yep, I been defriended.
Oh well. I miss the old L**** but the new one holds little appeal.
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It's a loss but one I can withstand. His loss too but he'll probably never know it. It's not like i'm incapable of having friends with different political and religious positions. I have quite a few, actually. But he was posting some WAY off in the deep end stuff so I doubt he would be interested in cultivating a new relationship.
But at least Trump is proud about the size of his unit. And his tiny hands.
holding it in those tiny hands
burning up the fiberoptics together right now. 
We've lost more than a few friends this way over the years, but my husband lost his new "favorite" barber down here in Florida on first visit today. She'd been very strongly recommended by a neighbor, and he did return with a nice cut saying -- "Never again!"
Turns out everyone in the shop, staff and clientele, spent the entire time loathing on Obama and Hillary, Democrats, Obama, Obama, Hillary, emails. I thought some of the details might provide insights into their thinking, but there were none. They were as ignorant as they were impassioned, and it was a half hour of nothing but tedious insults echoed by all, then repeated, and repeated. Of course, my honey was wise enough to keep an appropriately stupid look on his face and not say a word while she was in his hair.
I've had two hair cuts since 1998 but I enjoy going with my wife to her hairdressers - it's a shop run by some wonderful gentlemen that do a great job and they let me drink beer out of their private fridge while waiting for her to get done.
Maybe they let everyone have a couple beers but I prefer to think I'm special.
