saaame. and extend that to surrounding area. I would not want to be anywhere else

I happen to live in a blue city in a red state, and Mom said apparently her neighbors were lighting off fireworks last night at hours I consider unacceptable regardless of who won. -_-

But Mom and I spend Wednesday evenings together, and today we mutually agreed on 'no news today'.

very blue town in blue state. one that's also had red flag warnings for days, so anyone setting off fireworks should be arrested

It's been damp here, at least.

And Dad's one of the few libertarians who looked at Trump back in '16 and went 'what the hell are you all thinking!?' and has made it his personal mission to volunteer for anyone running against DeSantis. (Dad and my stepmom retired to Florida for the weather.)

(Both Mom and Dad worked for the University, and one of the emeritus professors told Mom that her ex-husband was making way too much political sense sometime in 2018, and it was unsettling.)

Apparently my brother-in-law's boss has been obnoxious, but that's about it.

it feels like summer here. and there's one multi-acre brush fire that's still being extinguished nearby

Yikes. We finally moved into good fall weather, which I appreciate, even if it means 'sometimes cold rain'

Man you're lucky... I just had to unfollow my sister on Facebook because she was posting some really nauseating bullshit

Oooof. I live near/in a blue county in North Carolina, and given our lower-ballot results our state's not so bad...
Our Maryland relatives are okay, but most of our Florida ones are die-hard 'only Trump is good for Israel' Republicans.

We have reconnected with our less-red Floridian relatives in the past month or so, though, so it's not all geographic.

Yeah, it has been summerlike here in PA. And yeah, while my dad and I are politically aligned, there have been a lot of insuferables.

Yeah, my aunt on Facebook has gone full TERF (she lives in England, so not fond of Trump in general), but I only see her on Dad's comments page. Mostly because she and Dad giving each other shit for politics seems to be a basis for their relationship.

To give you a sense of my dad, he had to create a second Facebook page using the Irish form of his name because he'd spent too much time in political groups and the comments of news articles, yelling at people.

Oh dear.

I love my dad, but he also manages to do things like be a contrarian to contrarians, politically speaking. Think most stereotypes of a white, autistic libertarian atheist, without the misogyny and coming from Europe (and working with non-European immigrants), so a different set of priors than Americans.

A troll for the trolls?

Yes, very much so.

I can respect that.

Except for the '90% sincere in what he thinks, and only 10% trolling'.

(though probably not talk with him at length, yeah.)

Yes, I don't generally talk politics with Dad, because I don't take joy in arguing with him. We bond over science and nature, and hearing about his plants and his birdwatching. (Dad has a prickly pear he named Princess Bowsette in his garden, and he used to grow orchids before he started travelling more.)

(Awwww. ^^ )