Hi, and welcome back to The Carol Markowitz Show on Iheart Radio.

And welcome to the new time slot. The Carol Markowitz show is moving to Wednesdays and Fridays.

So you can get my non-political podcast, this show, the Carol Markowitz show, on Wednesday and Friday,

and then normally the political podcast I co-host with Mary Catherine Ham every Tuesday and

Thursday. So really Monday is the only day you're living without me. Ha ha. So for the last few weeks

on this show, I've been talking theoretically about not losing friends and family over

politics. And now, of course, the election has happened. And the reality of that friction is here

for a lot of people. There's so many posts on X, on Instagram, elsewhere, about cutting off your

family members if they voted for Trump. And yes,

these posts always do go in one direction. Never someone seems to be cut off for voting for

Harris. One of the posts advised cutting off your family who voted for Trump and people responded

things like they were no longer going to see their kids or

grandkids because of how they voted. One that I highlighted on my ex-feed was this person saying,

we became estranged from our daughter. Eventually, we went no contact two years ago. It's heartbreaking,

but it had to be done. I miss my grandsons, and I still love all three of them

fiercely, but we will not give hate a safe harbor here in our home. I mean, just bananas.

They think they're not being hateful. It's absolutely wild to me. And then there was one lady

who said that her family actually voted for

Harris, but she was dreading seeing just one uncle who went for Trump over Thanksgiving. The

original poster who had started this whole thing and actually has since deleted his account,

I think, because he got a lot of pushback, commented that she shouldn't be attending any event with a Nazi.

So even one family member voting what you think is wrong means you skip Thanksgiving.

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