Amy has a childhood friend that I met once for 20 minutes and told her to never bring him around me again.

Guy set off every alarm bell.

He was handsome, nice, and the appropriate amount of 'politely flirtatious'.

And he set off EVERY alarm bell. And I know to trust my gut.

Dude has gone full white nationalist on Facebook.

Amy, 'Hey remember that guy you haaaaaated'

Me: Yep I sure do.

Amy has had to parse about 1/3 of her childhood friends are absolutely horrible people who loooove Trump.

We slightly deconstructed it yesterday using the dude I was like 'NOPE' on.

Because she realizes that guy has never had a conscience. At all. She thinks now he's probably a sociopath, looking at his actions and words.

She was saying when you're kids you miss a lot of that.

I disagree. But I can because none of my oldest friends are shitbags. They may be dumb as a bag of rocks sometimes. They may have not made the best choices for themselves sometimes. We all have those issues.

But they are all EXTREMELY NICE PEOPLE.

Amy didn't filter her friends that way. Which is not a blast on her. She had a rough childhood, her mom died when she was young, her Dad didn't parent and was an abusive drunk.

She picked friends for fun and escape. BECAUSE OF COURSE SHE DID

Which is not to say they didn't have the deep convos me and my friends did.

But it was about fun and escape. Who's hot. Who's with who. What's going on with this show.

Anyhoo. That's been really rough for her.

And the last like six months she dove in hard. NOT with NOPE dude...but with others.

Including a half sibling who's a Trumper.

Showing love, patience and firm firm facts.

That's gone about as well as you can imagine.