Conservative parent is sad his daughters aren't coming for thanksgiving after voting for Trump

FAFO

Idk who needs to hear this but:

Your children don’t owe you self assurance, if they chose to cut contact with you fully then that’s their right.

Ah the classic:

"Your behaviour has harmed me, so I do not wish to see you anymore"

"No, wrong, it is YOUR behaviour in saying this that has harmed ME"

Slightly off topic:

When my parents divorced, I was bummed out that I had to attend two thanksgiving dinners. The second was not turkey. We charred hot dogs over an open fire (lived in the midwest at the time) and made smores. It was pretty great.

This had nothing to do with the election. It's just a nice memory.

"I just supported taking away your rights. Why are you mad at meeeeee????"

The leopards, they hunger

"I let them"

Dudes showing internally he thinks he controls their votes. That he could've not let them had he chosen so.

So his daughters should be thankful for such a benevolent patriarch. /S

merely because they believe my one vote...

He thinks his vote doesn't contribute or something?

"Childish and rude".

Kinda reminds me of someone.

I hope the three girls organise their own thanksgiving dinner and invite their mom.

If liberalism is a mental disorder than neoliberalism is a new mental disorder that is so bizarre it doesn't even have a definition yet.

Interesting that he phrased it as liberalism.

"I voted for the idea that women aren't people, now the women in my life don't like me."

With lines like "[your political opinion] is a mental disorder", why is he surprised they aren't coming?

"Liberalism is a mental disorder" These people are very telling how they treat people who they think legitimately have mental illness.

Said the man who made his political opinion his whole twitter profile.

This is so sad.

Those three women deserve a better dad.

Boycotting Thanksgiving organizing an asshole free Thanksgiving

Ftfy

There’s clearly more to this story. The simple fact that his username is “Conservative” indicates that he is one of those people that make their political ideology a major part of their identity.

This man is probably an insufferable ass.

Your dinner, their choice

“My kids don’t want to hang out with me after I dismissed their opinions as a mental disorder and the party I voted for tries to control their bodies! Why must I suffer? I didn’t do anything to them directly! These kids today are so unfaaaair!”

What a jackass.

I hope his kids have a great holiday. Good on them for standing up for their beliefs.

“Allowed”.

Think I found the “nice guy” underlying reasons.

"I openly voted against the interests of my own children and also openly claim they have a mental disorder for their views."

Get fucked.

These people really are clueless. No appreciation at all for how their actions affect others. They get surprised when people stop putting themselves in harms way by simply not being around them.

Want your family back? Realize that what you think is some free speech populist revolution is just an excuse for a lot of people to be assholes and expect no consequences.

It might be because this guy voted for trump, and that would be justifiable, but it's more likely that it's because they have made MAGA their entire personality. Their twitter feed is just a non stop bullshit feed filled with retweets from the usual suspects, there's no self taken photos, no fun shitposts, nothing about hobbies or events they go to.... just transphobia, bullshit and even praise towards Matt Gaetz ffs. Who would want to spend a dinner with someone like that.

Their inversion of introspection is amazing.

"Now I have been informed that all three children are boycotting thanksgiving".

Hmm, maybe it has something to do with shit talking them on twitter. Maybe, and this is just a guess, the family gatherings are not politics free zones but full of conspiracies and drama and more shit talking. Just a guess. But none of this is his fault, it's those damn brainwashed libruls who are spoiling his fun. Now how is he going to do his trump victory lap if his daughters stay away?

I let them vote how they wish

How wholesome

Lol he said his kids have a mental disorder and expects them to keep talking to him.

Conservatives never learn anything. It’s part of why they’re conservative in the first place. They don’t grow, expand their minds, or learn from life. They hit a point where they harden and ruin relationships.

If I was told this by someone in private I would at least be sympathetic, but blasting your children in a public forum is like yelling in walmart. I just can’t view you as any semblance of a good person if you’re publically taking the “eternal victim” stance.

Like, the expected outcome for this rube is that an echo chamber shits on his kids. Gee I wonder why his kids don’t like him, must be mental illness.

Well, golly gee, he "let" his independent, grown-ass adult offspring vote for the candidate of their own choosing. I can't imagine why they'd spurn him after such selfless and generous act.

Conservatives seem to have this weird belief that if they tried something and failed, then everything should be as if they never tried at all. Like, "attempted murder" just isn't a thing in their eyes.

Maybe it's just how their fragile egos handle not winning everything always.

It's simple - they hate others more than they love their kids.

Visceral proof that conservatism is a legitimate mental disorder. Good on the kids, they’ll very likely have the outstanding thanksgiving they deserve.

You know, I'm not sure I believe that "PDX Conservative" keeps all of his political beliefs to himself and didn't argue with his kids about their political beliefs. Given his tweet with over 200K views, it seems to me like Mr. conserve_p may be understating his willingness to loudly declare his political opinions to anyone who will listen including to his liberal children that he is publicly calling rude and childish.

Yeah I haven’t told my parents I voted for Trump. Don’t plan to either, at least not soon.

Even when I was still a democrat I didn’t like talking politics with them because it was all so mean-spirited. They didn’t talk about policies or futures or problems they just talked about Republicans.

So I just don’t talk politics with them and as I started to shift I just got more and more silent. I don’t really care how they vote. I don’t really care about their politics. They’ve my parents. I’d never cut them off for opposing me politically.

But I’m worried they might. Or I just don’t know what would happen. So I don’t bring it up. They talk their shit over dinner and I smile and nod and don’t add anything, because I don’t get to see them very often, and I love them.

Seems to me that the kids are almost certainly having thanksgiving, just not inviting their father.

what people keep missing is that some things, even though actions of a government, aren’t political.
e.g. trump’s a convicted rapist… it’s not politics to hate someone that is permissive of a rapist just because they think he’ll help your tax bracket (he won’t, and he fucked the economy last time too).
racism isn’t politics, destroying the environment isn’t politics… they’re moral imperatives….

It's not necessarily about his vote, it's about what it presents. His enthusiasm shows not only is he okay with Trump and his associated behaviour, he's actively advocating for it.

And considering how Trump treats women, anyone who can look their own daughters in the eye and advocate for that POS doesn't deserve them in his life.

It's misled, not mislead, you absolute potato brain.

Last sentence is right. It is very sad.

It isn't because he voted a certain way. It's because the person he supports and his followers make his daughters less safe. The person he supports is a rapist and by supporting him you tacitly condone rape. And the more people look the other way the more accepted it becomes. Your daughter's aren't in danger because of some migrants, your daughter's are in danger because weirdo men want to control their bodies to the point that they'll let your daughter's die to save a fetus. Whether or not you, the father, personally believe these things, you are empowering those that do. You are making the world a more scary and less safe place for your daughters.

Yeah, no wonder they don't want to associate with you. I wouldn't either

Maybe the part about telling children they have a mental disorder is why they’re upset…

General Grant would not approve

God I kind of wish my parents would vote for Trump so I could avoid Thanksgiving and take the days off to get other shit done.

The missing missing reasons.

This time he actually listed the reason then called the non sequitur "a disease".

Yeah sure the daughters fell for the propaganda

My dad is hardcore conservative, identifies as independent. My mom was Democratic, she's now hardcore Republican to reflect the political views of her 4th husband.

I want so badly to just not see any family for Thanksgiving because their political views are so dramatically opposed to mine, but that just doesn't feel right in my heart.

Everyone I love supports things I'm ethically and morally against, but shit dude, my circle of people is already so small. I want to have family and friends in my life, but I also want to surround myself with people who share my values. Unfortunately I have to choose one over the other, and that feels dirty.

Isn't that Grant from ACW? Not american, but how does that work with a union general and MAGA?

As much as I want to boycott my parents thanksgiving dinner, my dad is almost 80 and I only got so many days left to even hang out with him. Plus my mom is cool so I got that going for me.

His daughters are victims of powerful propaganda. It's sad but they'll get over it eventually.

womp womp

I kicked my son out of the house when I found out he voted for Trump. That was 8 years and I haven't spoken to him since. I heard from my daughter that he was homeless for a couple of years and is now working retail while couch surfing.

If your children are going to disown you over who you voted for, then don't tell them who you voted for! Family harmony restored, simple as that!

But no, they need that persecution complex to solidify the false reality they've built in their minds.

I think this story is fake. Its too perfect and his response is too sensible to be a real person. too much irony here to bear.

If more women had held men accountable for this shit over the last 8~ years he wouldn't have been reelected. Don't tolerate these POS'.

Doesn't sound sad to me 🤷‍♂️

I have to ask, are there conservatives in PDX?

Their username is PDX Conservative. This is on purpose and is their entire personality

Politics breaking up families like this is always fucking weird to me

I can understand beef between third party voters and Biden/Harris folks. For the life of me, I cannot understand the beef between Harris and Trump voters.

Their platforms were nearly identical. They’re both genocide supporters. And pretending Harris would’ve been better on reproductive rights has no basis in reality. Biden/Harris have refused every call for them to use federal workarounds to grant abortion access to those in red states, but we’re supposed to believe she would’ve suddenly done something about it after election?

At least the Trumpers are openly fascist maniacs. Dem voters are not being honest with themselves about what they’ve been supporting.

It's tough having special needs children.

Sad that elections tear families apart. And that goes for all sides making discussions like this. The moment you stop dialogue you stop the change you want to make. Both pathetic and sad, I hope for a future of coexistance in American families.