r/FoxBrain

My family shares a lot of similarities with the Trump family, but (I'm assuming) without the pedo behavior and blatant corruption.

Dad: Retired business exec. 3x Trump voter. Splits his time between a millionaire/billionaire country club in Florida and the NYC region where we're from. Doesn't sleep in the same bed as my mom, has had who knows how many escorts and affairs. I'm low contact with him.

Mom: She's not similar to the Trump family. Kind but conservative, has mental health issues.

Sibling 1: Conservative think tank sister focusing on anti LGBTQ propaganda who I've written a lot about here. Went no contact with her in January 2025.

Brother-in-law: Well-connected lobbyist for a Fortune 500 company that has benefited from the Trump administration. They are members of one of Trump's country clubs.

Sibling 2: Works in finance. Not a Trumper, but also just wants to live in her wealthy bubble and is very close with sibling 1. We all stand to get a sizeable inheritance someday, and both siblings are planning their lives around that.

Me: Career in public health, have seen my field decimated by the Trump administration and have lost many colleagues. Taking a stand against this horrific regime and my family who supports it, despite the risk of losing my inheritance.

Just a vent, thanks for reading. They recently planned a summer vacation and didn't invite me, assuming I wouldn't want to come. I probably wouldn't, but it still hurts.

Sometimes i get into it a little and raise my voice a bit and my dad gets all offended and starts yelling about disrespect and wanting to beat my ass

he hates being yelled at but its fine for him to do it

You know, I don't talk to my parents that often. The fox brain has made in unbearable. I do not live in the United States any longer, so I guess I am in full control of how much we talk. The few times I do, I try to stick to topics like my kids, work, sports. But they just can't exist without talking about Trump and MAGA talking points all of the time. We have gone through all the phases - Angry arguing, not talking, now barely knowing each other. The only time they called me this year was to check my reaction to Charlie Kirk being shot. I am socially liberal, but I think the democrats are bought out by big money too. I have no problem with financial republicans, but its never been like this. They don't exist other than to consume Trump media and regurgitate it on the phone.

In a recent call they told me they were going to Nashville, and I remembered there was a shooting there recently and said something along the lines, of "yeah be careful". They went into a full tirade of democrats making stuff up about voting lines and having to cheat to win elections..

Sure I moved the conversation back to the grandkids and what was going on in their life. Less than a minute into that conversation somehow Trump being in China came up. They asked me if the news in this part of the world was celebrating him. I told him that China calls him 川建国 "The Nation Builder" since he is building China up. They then said well he needs to build a ballroom, so China will respect us. I then redirected the conversation to the NFL draft and our feelings on it.

My mom somehow took this as a chance to talk about how she's glad Massie lost, as he was a RINO and pro Iran. I didn't engage, and moved the conversation back on. They asked me if I would send my kids to school in the USA, I pointed out that the cost of living to salary is much better here for me, which lead them to go on about how the democrats ruined the economy with electric cars.

I just feel awful, I want them to experience their grand children growing up, but it feels like I am doing a two part dance to stop from fighting. They literally live off of Fox News and the Dan Bongino pod cast. I don't even want to visit them for Christmas anymore.

Trying to correct them leads to -> Fake news claims, when shown the source documents, they change topic to random other hit piece fox news told them.

Trying to avoid politics -> They bring it up.

My parents used to be empathetic good people. I hate the disconnect from that to who they are now. Cheering for children to be thrown in cages, saying semi-racist things constantly.

It's a cult and its disgusting.

my dad is, i guess easier to deal with, just full brain rot MAGA

ok, makes sense in a weird way, trump cult, got it

my sister tho, she just... doesnt care, like at all, about anything

is that worse? the people that just have pure apathy?

i cant talk to her about anything, she refuses to read the news

im like 'damn all that ICE stuff is horrible' and shes like 'oh, yeah that sounds bad'

no further comment, no further thought, no questions

gas prices go up, she has no clue why

i dunno lol, just fuckin drives me insane

its like, she just stands for nothing, knows nothing

i guess this is better than being MAGA? maybe?

maybe this is the wrong sub for this, but it makes me crazy

maybe im in the wrong, i really dont know

So, my nephew will be leaving for the Air Force in about a week, in the meantime, he's muted me.

We last spoke about a week ago since I've been helping him get his documents and paperwork in order. With boot camp and his training school, I probably won't hear from him again for another six months. Some of you warned me that his listening to that Chinese psuedo-professor wasn't going to bode well.

So, I tried to counter with the facts; such as, when my nephew said that the best technological universities in the world were ALL in China, I Googled it and sent him a link showing that they were located around the world.

He was also looking into trying to get stationed somewhere in Asia. (Not likely)

So, with such little time remaining, I was trying not to bring up anything political when suddenly he did.

We'd been talking about family stuff, like, what did he do for Mother's Day? ...when Nephew announces that the people with the highest IQ in the world are the Chinese. Plus, he absolutely insists that I check that on Chatgpt. Well, I don't have that app and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole so, nephew sends me a link to a Reddit post with a map of IQ averages for each country, with China (of course) showing the highest. Now that I've seen this, nephew also has to point out that the lowest scores are in Africa.

Now, I know there's IQ, and then there's IQ, and what this chart said to me was that *the education system* varied from country to country, and some students learned how to take tests better than others. Nephew is affronted, "Look at the map! Look at the map!", he insists. Okay, I tell him, I'll fact-check it, but he demands that I check it on 'X'. Elon Musk's rightwing echo chamber is another app that I have no use for.

So, I tried logic; I said the USA scores are almost as high, and we have a diversity of people - we've just educated them. "No-no," he protests, "It's that China has a homogeneous race!"

Oh. Shit.

He proceeds to spout the first MAGA propaganda that I have ever heard; 'White people are the most prosecuted race in America because there are no holidays celebrating White culture.'

I was trying very, very, very hard to stay calm, while he's starting to babble and railroad me into not being able to speak. I persevered and pointed out that Octoberfest was a celebration of German culture which is White. Any European holiday was a celebration of being white. Nephew countered erroneously that American white people were not European. WTF!!!?

I swear, I'm not making this up.

That's where the communication stalled to a dead stop. How the Hell did MAGA make my Mexican nephew racist!? I've been riding with him when the police pulled him over for DWB Driving While Brown - his favorite comedian used to be David Chappelle!

(Mods, the following is not my POV, but MAGA talking points that I have heard and disagree with)

However, I do see why my nephew was trying to convince me that Africans have lower IQs. Just a few days later, the SCOTUS desecrated the Voting Rights Act, and what better way to get average citizens to accept that than to convince them that Blacks are too dumb to vote?

I had to get off the phone by then and told my nephew that I had to go and do research. He told me not to, and we left it at that.

I haven't heard from him since then. He doesn't respond to my texts. It could be six months, or I may never hear from him again.

😢

I spent all day helping my uncle with yard work only for him to tell me to "Get the hell out!" because as we were sitting on the couch and he flipped on Fox, I pointed out against the stupid host that Thomas Massie losing is bad for democracy because it just shows that some Isreali billionaire casino lady and foreign intrest groups can drop $35 million (that we know of, it's probably more) and buy an election...assuming it wasn't also rigged.

I spoke calmly not thinking anything of it, but instead of disagreeing he just lost his sh*t and threw a tantrum like a f*cking toddler. Fox News is literally brainwashing for old people.

My uncle went from being pretty normal when i was a kid to over time getting more and more deranged since he started watching that sh*t. He basically watches nothing but that and NCIS reruns and it's straight-up rotted his brain.

You know it's also ironic and extremely hypocritical of them too, because i can't count the number of times that stupid TV channel has aired pieces about how "Only democrats cut their family off over politics" yet our older relatives will do shit like this because they're brainwashed by mainstream media. F*ckin boomers man....

I just wabt to vent. There's a guy in my liberal town. He likes to go wave his American flag and his Trump flag. He's out on the corner right now. I've been civil. We recognize each other. Seen each other at protests. My girlfriend is down there now, counter protesting with double birds towards him.

But I've genuinely tried talking to him almost got through and started showing him articles online until my phone died. That was the closest we came to actually talking I keep offering to sit down and talk. Mat at a pub. I keep trying, and he keeps saying no. Or stonewalling me when I bring uo current events.

It's ao damn frustrating.

It's worse when people honk and show supprt to him. He gets a lot more flak than support. But still.

I support his right to free speech. But he's an idiotic asswipe who refuses to even *consider* additional information, nevermind reconsider his views.

I need to move on because I have lots of talks to get done and about 2 hours to do them. Just need my blood to cool off a bit.

Update! He agreed to talk! Somehow, they got talking about Jesus. And she pointed out that Jesus would be livid with what was happening. And that was enough for them to actually start talking. He said he'd be interested in dinner somewhere to talk! There's hope!

This is my mom's latest maga obsession. Constantly posting and talking about "liberal activist judges" who she says are letting criminal immigrants run loose on the streets...every example she cites, I'm able to debunk in under 60 seconds of searching online...Anyone else noticing this? I assume it's a current fox "news" talking point?

My family lives in up state New York and my wife and I live in across the country. Flying home to visit for the first time since thanksgiving and told my mom my wife and I are making plans to go to a nice restaurant in New York City one night and I invite her to be nice. I immediately sensed the tension through the phone and realized I fucked up by brining up going to the city with my MAGA mom. She starts going on a crazy rant about every bad going on in New York right now and I had to finally cut her off and just tell her it’s fine if she doesn’t want to go And that I was just asking to be nice.

I grey rocked my MAGA father and then went no contact. I can't talk to someone who wants my friends and neighbors disappeared...or worse. Yesterday I see a package addressed to me, from him, on the porch. He lives in Arkansas and I do not. I thought about throwing it away but I was curious. It was a book called The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. His favorite shirt has the picture of a child rapists mug shot and reads "I voted for the felon". The man who thinks brown people belong in cages thinks I need to find religion. I threw the book in the trash where it belongs. I promptly went to my local UPS and mailed him the book The Twilight of Democracy (the seductive lure of authoritarianism) by Anne Applebaum.

Other than the obvious one being bigots, i genuinely want a deep answer cause i genuinely dont understand why

also the fact some think the military is full of straight perfect christians (my sister said i dont deserve to join cause i wont date a christian girl lmao)

He said the price isn't that much higher where he is and he doesn't mind paying a little more, and what about all the tankers now filling up at US ports? Isn't that great?

So... you're literally OK with paying a gas tax at the pump just to cheer on the oil companies. Fantastic.

Ashley St. Claire has fully turned against MAGA and is now on our side, and she admits she harmed the trans community. She's on TikTok and is sharing many interesting stories; some are surprising while others aren't.

One of the more interesting stories has been about the affair between DC Draino and Anna Paulina Luna. She also verified that there are tons of drugs, cosmetic procedures, and sex going around MAGA (which we already knew but she verified).

She also did tons of work with Benny Johnson, and she said she believes he's a psycho or at least has some sort of personality disorder. A main reason being that she said he would scream at her and other employees until the point where they cried.

Ashley said she's working on a video where she has all the receipts on Benny.

There's so much more that I could put on here, but it would take too long; just go look at her page.

My partner and I live with my mom and step father. We moved in with them several years ago due to my mother being disabled and needing a lot of help with daily tasks. Her husband works overnight and refuses to help much around the house on his days off. They are both devoted members of the MAGA movement despite conceding that he may be a pdf file and that the economy keeps getting worse. Recently people in the neighborhood have been gawking at the trump flag my step father still has up.

It is literally the first thing anyone who comes to the house sees. Their devotion to this man is delusional. My partner is non binary and we can't even come out without fear of retribution. We are really trying to get out of here but I love my mom and despite her issues I don't want to leave her alone in her condition.

Anyway I guess I am just venting to the void because I am very burnt out between working a full time job, tending to virtually all the household needs and dealing with deranged lunatics that are actively supporting the destruction of my future. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

To preface, this is just copied from a post i made on r/canadaleft, with some recent additions and edits.

I’m f14 and we live in southern Ontario. My dad has always been conservative, and we aren’t at all religious. My mom is “apolitical”, and tells me she avoids the news because she either “doesn’t know” or it’s too much to keep up with. Over the past two years, especially post covid, I’ve noticed my dad become a lot more reactionary and a lot less open to opposing views.

Obviously, as a 14 year old I know I’m not the most educated person in the world on every topic but I have personal morals and values. My dad is 47(?), has his own small business for landscaping/irrigation with no other employees, and my mom is a wedding planner. He’s been really struggling to make money. He tells me he’s jealous of other people’s wealth. He told me yesterday that he used to see his outdoor physical labor as an escape and he feels useless when he’s not working.

He’s so incredibly racist, he constantly does minstrel like impressions, thinks trans people are pedophiles, islamophobic, anticommunist, watches asmongold clips, gets his news solely from twitter, he’s a great replacement believer, HUGE anti vaxxer, hates the homeless, autism is fake and caused by vaccines, elon musk is just autistic and thats why hes a nazi, still on about the trucker convoy, wants to own a gun, rfk jr lover, trump dick rider, poilievre supporter, anti immigration, thinks climate change is fake (the glaciers melting is the earth cooling itself obviously, and if it notices its a little warm, it just tilts five degrees!) and i just don’t even know what to do anymore. It bleeds into everything. He was yammering about islamic pedophiles and i brought up the catholic church and allegations (not the best tactic i know) and he justified it saying they were probably pent up from abstinence!! its so scary to hear that. hes also constantly bringing up clinton and carney to deflect from trump and epstein. As if they’re the ‘left’!! He also says he needs to build a lightweight aircraft in case iran bombs canada because “there’s a lot of terrorists in canada”. He also thinks the irgc is like hamas, thinks israel is good but also occasionally complains about big jewish donors.

He’s like an ameriboo. He’s alone 24/7, no friends, just watching fox and his YouTube shorts. It’s unbearable. He LOVES trump!! He thinks he’s really smart and innocent and was actually saving children from epstein!! It’s so sad to watch this happen but he’s become so hateful. Yesterday he told me that the first non white person he met was when he was 22 in 2000, a turkish man with a tiny quran!! And the craziest part, he thinks he’s a CENTRIST but “fiscally conservative”.

I’m not sure if this is fully fox brain, but I know he does watch a lot of fox and a lotttt of american right wing media. I just want to vent a bit because it’s getting increasingly harder to enjoy time with him when all he wants to do is talk about trump and muslims. I just wish he had friends.