I just un-followed my sister-in-law's daugher on Facebook.

[Aristus]

She posted a pic of bottle openers with President Obama's likeness on them, and captioned it: "Target practice, anyone?"



I convinced my Republican wife to vote for President Obama in 2012, but I guess the rest of her family is beyond help...

[mnhtnbb]

1. I have unfollowed several of hubby's Georgia relatives on fb

First it was not well disguised criticism of 'teh gays', then it was LOVING
Duck Dynasty, and finally anti-Obama for whatever reason--including
ACA--so I hid the bunch of them. All of them related to hubby's
half sister.

[a la izquierda]

2. I unfollowed my husbands entire family.

They're all climate-change denying, Teabagging lunatics. I don't understand how nice people can have such screwed up beliefs...

[magical thyme]

3. I let go of my eldest sister a couple years ago

Teaparty lunatic started calling me up threatening me at the top of her lungs. Apparently I'm going to "lose everything and never have a nice life" because I go into my garden, find bugs that never lived this far north before, and believe it's due to climate change.

Until then, she was welcome to her beliefs and even allowed to bore me to tears with her silly rants about how "they" were going to take over the government ("they" being a teaparty general she "knows&quot . But when it escalated to threats against me, that was a bit too far down the pike to the loony bin. Enough already.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

4. That sounds like a direct threat to the President....

Maybe teach the little darling a lesson and send it on to the Secret Service?

I got off FB when I realized most of my 6 siblings and their children posted crap like "Its America, speak English!" and other racist crap.... and some of those same siblings have grandchildren of more then one ethnic background, and I am not talking Irish vs English here! Although that tension arises occasionally!

At least yours' are by marriage? I share the same DNA!

[Tempest]

5. I did the same to one of my relatives

They were posting racist crap about Obama and then had the nerve to claim they weren't racist.

[Hula Popper]

6. I don't speak

with any repugs at all . Friends , relatives, no more arguing with them.
I gave it up for my health and sanity.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Holy crap!

Family gatherings must be such a joy.

[LibertyLover]

8. I had to do the same with several cousins -

They kept posting teabagger crap and racist "jokes". I lost it when one of them posted a "joke" about the Chinese and the other 2 picked it up and ran with it. My daughter, and so their cousin, is adopted from China and I will not tolerate "jokes" about it or her. I posted that I was unfriending him for it because of my daughter, the little girl he had just had a wonderful time with at a family gathering. He posted some some lame BS about he didn't mean her of course, because "she was raised white."