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Stargazer99

(3,477 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:44 AM Jan 2025

A message for all Repubican voters-how does it feel to be played and suckered

especially the middle and lower class Republicans-it is coming - you are going to hurt also-it is coming and demos are probably remind you what suckers you are...along with hurting others. I am going to remind you that you asked for it. You will pay more for insulin and maybe some will not have the money for it and will die. The health insurance for low income people will be destroyed, thanks to you, I hope you will be one of them as maybe it will dawn on you what you have done. Social Security might become destroyed...if I was a young person I'd be mad as hell. And there are more cruel things you will be responsible for while the wealthy that you have supported are going to rip you off.

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A message for all Repubican voters-how does it feel to be played and suckered (Original Post) Stargazer99 Jan 2025 OP
Cult research shows that some of them will peel off when truth bombs hit them. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #1
They don't care how miserable they are as long as they believe that we are more so Walleye Jan 2025 #2
Just replied the exact same thing Cosmocat Jan 2025 #9
Unfortunately their math works differently Cosmocat Jan 2025 #3
Math? Them? Layzeebeaver Jan 2025 #23
They thought you said "meth"... rubbersole Jan 2025 #41
The perfect response for me this morning Layzeebeaver Jan 2025 #56
Somehow they'll still blame Democrats FullySupportDems Jan 2025 #4
YEP Cosmocat Jan 2025 #11
Don't Rebl2 Jan 2025 #14
Lol Yeah, it's their super power FullySupportDems Jan 2025 #19
They don't really do logic. travelingthrulife Jan 2025 #21
All they need is to hear it johnnyfins Jan 2025 #25
LOL Skittles Jan 2025 #58
Even though the Rethuglicans own every branch of government now, the Dems will still be blamed. OMGWTF Jan 2025 #40
They are now in the FO phase IzzaNuDay Jan 2025 #5
There will be no FO for MAGA Cirsium Jan 2025 #39
Seems they thrive on chaos and drama Dem4life1234 Jan 2025 #6
I read this bdamomma Jan 2025 #17
Something is truly wrong with them Dem4life1234 Jan 2025 #46
You tell them durablend Jan 2025 #7
The Nazi resistance maintained names of Nazis for history to remember. If we ever overcome F47s in2herbs Jan 2025 #8
Unfortunately Cosmocat Jan 2025 #12
Not this time bdamomma Jan 2025 #48
Reality hasn't set in for them yet. missaj Jan 2025 #10
It wont set in for the berksdem Jan 2025 #13
How does it feel? Tommy Carcetti Jan 2025 #15
The Unforgiveables Clouds Passing Jan 2025 #16
Until we get beyond the notion that republicans were Politicub Jan 2025 #18
The 30-something percent who did not vote... Justice matters. Jan 2025 #44
The dumbing down bdamomma Jan 2025 #49
So Trump wants to remake the economy Johnny2X2X Jan 2025 #20
If what you say is true, then they better get the guns.... Dan Jan 2025 #35
Propaganda is a powerful tool Johnny2X2X Jan 2025 #38
Yes, bdamomma Jan 2025 #50
I'm laughing at all the idiots who bought inauguration tickets only for it to be moved inside and downsized LW1977 Jan 2025 #22
They don't feel fucked. progressoid Jan 2025 #27
wait until those credit card bills start stacking up IzzaNuDay Jan 2025 #52
I wonder bdamomma Jan 2025 #54
And it's only day 2. aeromanKC Jan 2025 #24
Send up a flare when they actually stop voting straight down ballot Republican Golden Raisin Jan 2025 #26
I think a lot of whites... Beck23 Jan 2025 #28
MAGAs care more about "woke" and "illegals" andym Jan 2025 #29
Why is this so popular? Cirsium Jan 2025 #30
Shirer was 100% correct Tansy_Gold Jan 2025 #33
Thanks Cirsium Jan 2025 #36
I remember reading that quote....and what Dan Jan 2025 #37
And our words aren't how we fight them and defeat them -- or else they would already have been defeated. W_HAMILTON Jan 2025 #47
What lesson? Cirsium Jan 2025 #53
There are some in my family Tansy_Gold Jan 2025 #31
They do not care as long as . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 2025 #32
As long as "the others" are MORE miserable... they're cool with that. WarGamer Jan 2025 #34
What they didn't realize when they chant "drain the swamp" Justice matters. Jan 2025 #42
I don't think they realize they've been played yet Vogon_Glory Jan 2025 #43
They don't feel like they've been played. People keep acting like they're going to come out of this. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 2025 #45
This message was self-deleted by its author Wifes husband Jan 2025 #51
It's a bit early. H2O Man Jan 2025 #55
fuck them Skittles Jan 2025 #57
The same message goes for Democrats who vote for Trump or a 3rd party candidate or didn't vote at all. elocs Jan 2025 #59
It will be a while before you will get an honest answer. republianmushroom Jan 2025 #60

Cosmocat

(15,374 posts)
3. Unfortunately their math works differently
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:47 AM
Jan 2025

if / when all this comes to happen, it will won't matter because we will be noting it and in their minds our being "tears" is their champagne.

So, its a win for them.

FullySupportDems

(422 posts)
19. Lol Yeah, it's their super power
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:27 AM
Jan 2025

Crafting insane realities and making us live as if they are real.

And stuff like making intersex people disappear, that seems to be within their abilities as well. Damn. It burns me up. My basic understanding is that just as many people are born intersex as are born transgender, and they literally are not simply male or female. It's basic science, it's not a choice of any kind, and there's a page full of medical conditions that can cause various kinds of intersex differences from the binary norm. And I can't fathom how it will be accepted to, what? What are they going to do to these people they deny exist? I always want to confront these gender nazi types with reality. Who are they to deny the people God made different? By their own logic, God doesn't make mistakes.

Sorry for ranting, it's a little off topic.

OMGWTF

(5,043 posts)
40. Even though the Rethuglicans own every branch of government now, the Dems will still be blamed.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:06 PM
Jan 2025

I have seen this movie, and it sucks.

IzzaNuDay

(1,264 posts)
5. They are now in the FO phase
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:48 AM
Jan 2025

They FA and elected that dotard, so they are getting what’s coming to them. They thought the dotard was only after those who were not white cis het individuals. WRONG.

I have no sympathy and ran out of fucks to give.

Cirsium

(3,673 posts)
39. There will be no FO for MAGA
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:00 PM
Jan 2025

If anything, we are the ones who FA'ed and will FO. We should have fought harder and fought sooner.

The MAGA cult members will never wake up, and they will never regret any of this. History is full of examples that show this to be true.

Dem4life1234

(2,533 posts)
6. Seems they thrive on chaos and drama
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:49 AM
Jan 2025

Think of every Rethug you know, they are always in some kind of drama or just plain off.

They are all nut jobs.

in2herbs

(4,345 posts)
8. The Nazi resistance maintained names of Nazis for history to remember. If we ever overcome F47s
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:54 AM
Jan 2025

Nazi takeover of the US would records of the names of F47 supporters (MAGATs) be helpful for writing our history for future generations?

IMO little Susie (who is yet to be born) should know that her grandpa and grandma were NAZIs.


bdamomma

(69,354 posts)
48. Not this time
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:59 PM
Jan 2025

we have to handle the domestic terrorists on our own soil. We did manage to go up against ourselves in the civil war, and we know the outcome of that??? Not like I'm wishing for that. But you never know his cult may find out they effed up when their health insurance is going to be privatized and no SS payments.

missaj

(41 posts)
10. Reality hasn't set in for them yet.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 10:58 AM
Jan 2025

They are watching Fox News all day and living in a state of euphoria. Raving over fashion and other nonsense.

berksdem

(908 posts)
13. It wont set in for the
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:07 AM
Jan 2025

MAGA losers. They are incapable of a rational thought process and will double down on the stupidity.

Tommy Carcetti

(44,449 posts)
15. How does it feel?
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:16 AM
Jan 2025


Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh you've gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ah you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

Politicub

(12,327 posts)
18. Until we get beyond the notion that republicans were
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:22 AM
Jan 2025

voting for something else, we're never going to get ourselves out of this mess.

I don't know if it's a form of comfort to believe that our fellow Americans would never vote for such an awful administration unless they were duped.

Well, they weren't duped. This is what they wanted. Trump was open about it. His surrogates were open about it. Their propaganda organs covered what he was planning. Everyone who voted affirmatively for Trump did so willingly and with effort. They don't get a pass for ignorance.

Justice matters.

(9,558 posts)
44. The 30-something percent who did not vote...
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:34 PM
Jan 2025

Will they "learn" the lesson?

So many ignorant of almost everything that matters...

Like watch Jimmy Kimmel's street surveys asking very easy questions about any subject, and witness their complete ignorance of the correct "easy-for-us-to-know" answers, and there they go. Ignorance on steroids!

It is so shameful.

bdamomma

(69,354 posts)
49. The dumbing down
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 02:12 PM
Jan 2025

of Americans has been going on for a long time. They want the citizenry to become basically ignorant that way we can be manipulated into anything, It worked didn't it????

Johnny2X2X

(23,836 posts)
20. So Trump wants to remake the economy
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:32 AM
Jan 2025

Forget that he has no idea what he's doing, but the radical changes he wants to usher in will collapse the economy, he thinks after the short term hurt, things will take off in a year or two. And he thinks it's early enough that he can blame Biden for the insane inflation and high unemployment his policies are about to bring about.

In reality, this is a plan to take everything from the middle class, and I mean absolutely everything. Social security, home ownership, retirement, fair pay, health care, they are coming for all of it and all of it at once. If you're a billionaire, this is going to be great for you, to the bottom 99.9% it's going to be slavery.

Johnny2X2X

(23,836 posts)
38. Propaganda is a powerful tool
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:53 PM
Jan 2025

Look at how zombiefied his more ardent supporters are. We're seeing a total takeover of the media and social media by the Far Right. I think with the control of information they can get people to hand over everything to them without so much as a shot fired. "Well, we have to forgo Social Security because Democrats spent it all and it's all gone now, using the surplus to balnce the budget is our patriotic duty." "Just be happy you've got a job and stop whining about wages and benefits." 'Health care is not a right, just be happy you get to work for your health care." And eventually, "Hey, isn't America the greatest? What other country will let you work 100 hours a week and give you a cot to sleep in and a bowl of oatmeal for lunch and another one for dinner. And we get every 8th Sunday off from work now because Trump is the best!"

Seeing how Meta and TikTok have imediately followed X in censoring AntiTrump content this week is a really really bad sign that things are about to get really really awful in America.

bdamomma

(69,354 posts)
50. Yes,
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 02:18 PM
Jan 2025

if guns get confiscated, that would get the Magats into a sheer panic or will they defend their 2nd amendment rights, hmmm..... what rights??? Would change the narrative very quickly.

Then we could say a Democratic President never came for your guns huh?????

 

LW1977

(1,611 posts)
22. I'm laughing at all the idiots who bought inauguration tickets only for it to be moved inside and downsized
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jan 2025

They came all the way to DC only to find out they couldn’t attend!

Ha ha Trump f—ked you! Trump F—ked you!

progressoid

(52,806 posts)
27. They don't feel fucked.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:11 PM
Jan 2025

They're in DC. That's all that matters. It was the weather's fault.

Someone from my youth proudly posted pictures of the ballroom she was in yesterday. She's middle class and gladly spent thousands on this. And then there are the people who respond that it's so great they get to be there!
Life is different, when you are in a cult.

IzzaNuDay

(1,264 posts)
52. wait until those credit card bills start stacking up
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 02:31 PM
Jan 2025

and some of those magas live paycheck to paycheck. Will be an expensive lesson!

bdamomma

(69,354 posts)
54. I wonder
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 03:07 PM
Jan 2025

if they were angry about that????? Putting out money for flights and hotel accommodations, and not being held outside, their tickets deemed as "commemorative souvenirs". One MAGA said "I could of stayed home and watched it on TV ". They are going to learn the hard way.

andym

(6,053 posts)
29. MAGAs care more about "woke" and "illegals"
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:14 PM
Jan 2025

they will ignore the economic issues. Trump's neo-imperialism will be all they see and cheer for.

Cirsium

(3,673 posts)
30. Why is this so popular?
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:23 PM
Jan 2025

"I hope they suffer and learn their lesson."

First, they will not be the only ones to suffer.

Second, it wouldn't make them change their minds.

The only way that the MAGAs are going to pay for this is if we fight them and defeat them. We can't just sit back and watch it happen.

As for the MAGA supporters ever having any regrets, read what William Shirer (author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) discovered when interviewing everyday Germans after WWII. By then every German city lay in ruins and millions had been killed. Had it dawned on them that it was all a mistake? Did they wake up? Did they learn their lesson? Did they regret supporting the Nazis?

No.

"There was so much that was true that did not make sense: the monumental apathy of the German people and their deep regret, not that they had started the war, but merely that they had lost it; their whining complaints at the lack of food and fuel and their total lack of sympathy or even interest in the worse plight of the occupied peoples, for which they bore so much responsibility; their boredom at the very mention of the Nuremberg trial, which they were convinced was only an Allied propaganda stunt; their striking unreadiness for, or interest in, democracy, which we, with typical Anglo-Saxon fervor and blindness, were trying to shove down their throats."

― William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary

Their deep regret, not that they had started the war, but merely that they had lost it.

Cirsium

(3,673 posts)
36. Thanks
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:44 PM
Jan 2025

Last edited Thu Jan 23, 2025, 05:33 PM - Edit history (1)

People are living in a fantasy world about this. "They'll be sorry now!" No they won't. We will be.

Dan

(5,030 posts)
37. I remember reading that quote....and what
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:48 PM
Jan 2025

Absolutely amazed by their lack of self-awareness, guilt or sense of responsibility due to their historical actions.

But then, I also remembered that Hitler had a full propaganda network going on since the early 1930’s. The indoctrinated (young) had no choice in the matter, the elderly not so much.

I read an article a couple days ago about a 13 year male who was thrilled with Trump because he had restored Tic-Tock. To him, Trump was a hero. So, the indoctrination starts early while they lack the critical skills. Trump has been a factor for 10 years - and the truth of what he is, is denied by so many.

To change things - to resist, is going to be a battle.

Sad, so sad.

W_HAMILTON

(10,242 posts)
47. And our words aren't how we fight them and defeat them -- or else they would already have been defeated.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:55 PM
Jan 2025

But letting them suffer the full consequences of their actions, that is one of the few ways in recent history -- namely 2008 and 2020 -- that Americans have finally learned the lesson we first tried to teach them through our words.

Tansy_Gold

(18,167 posts)
31. There are some in my family
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:27 PM
Jan 2025

There are some in my close circle of acquaintances. (I haven't called them "friends" for at least 8 years.)

I will offer none of them empathy or assistance. I have cut as many of them completely out of my life as I possibly can.

I have other friends and family members who are in at-risk groups. My support is only toward them; everyone else is SOL.

I have no kind words for anyone who supports this kakistocracy. Fuck them all, sideways.

AverageOldGuy

(3,575 posts)
32. They do not care as long as . . .
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 12:29 PM
Jan 2025

. . . “those people” can’t get food stamps and Medicaid MAGAts don’t care if they suffer themselves.

Justice matters.

(9,558 posts)
42. What they didn't realize when they chant "drain the swamp"
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:22 PM
Jan 2025

is that THEY R the swamp...

THEY sure will be drained to death.

If not ALL of them, idiots, many will be.

Vogon_Glory

(10,231 posts)
43. I don't think they realize they've been played yet
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:33 PM
Jan 2025

Ask them again in a year or two. Ask them again in the autumn of 2026. Ask them again in the autumn of 2028.

One of the many reasons I voted for former President Biden was because I wanted a soft landing from the excesses of Trump I. The downside of soft landings is that it gives the feckless, the gullible, and the forgetful a chance to forget how bad it was. That’s why Orange Julius won last fall.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,916 posts)
45. They don't feel like they've been played. People keep acting like they're going to come out of this.
Tue Jan 21, 2025, 01:38 PM
Jan 2025

They’re not. Ever.

This is what being in a cult is. He’s right no matter what happens. He’ll blame Biden and they’ll believe him. Or the “deep state” or whatever comes into his fever dreams.

This is a cult.

Response to Stargazer99 (Original post)

Skittles

(170,229 posts)
57. fuck them
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 04:25 AM
Jan 2025

seriously, FUCK EVERYONE who voted for these FUCKING NAZIS

AMERICA IS A FUCKING JOKE WITH THESE ASS CLOWNS IN CHARGE

 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
59. The same message goes for Democrats who vote for Trump or a 3rd party candidate or didn't vote at all.
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 08:06 AM
Jan 2025

He had already been president for 4 years so how could anyone claim they didn't know him or what he would do, that he is a liar.
Our country may perish for a lack of rational thinking by its population.

republianmushroom

(22,138 posts)
60. It will be a while before you will get an honest answer.
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 12:39 PM
Jan 2025

They will blame everything and everybody for their woes except trump.

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