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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother positive sign that some cult members are waking up
There's a house that is along my brother's bus route, in a VERY deep red part of the township. It has always been festooned with trump* flags/swags and also had a life sized cut out of the sexual offender that they displayed on their front porch.
Yesterday when my brother drove by, he saw the cut out snapped into pieces and stuffed in a trash can, along with all of the other trump* swag.
That made him VERY happy.
MiHale
(12,629 posts)Seeing a lot of maga stuff disappearing and not being replaced.
LuvLoogie
(8,521 posts)They will pivot to Vance in a heartbeat. They're still all in with the racist militias terrorizing the minorities, immigrants, and inner city poor.
They like the gameplan, they just want a new quarterback.
NCDem47
(3,325 posts)Funny. Their guy wins. "Governs" AWFULLY...and now they aren't as outward in their support. Interesting how that works.
Raven123
(7,548 posts)llmart
(17,320 posts)He won by a landslide yet no one would admit they voted for him. Funny how that works.
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,080 posts)Hes hated by pretty much everyone. When Trump is gone, Vance will be too. There are others to be concerned about, but its not Vance. He has all the warmth of an iceberg and the joyful personality of badger. I dont think even Peter Thiels money can buy him a winning personality. At least thats the way I read things.
LuvLoogie
(8,521 posts)Vance will make MAGA feel like they have a winning vocabulary. Vance is like a Charlie Kirk, slick and full of Racist Jeezuz.
And the press will normalize him and both sides us even more than they do now. He will apologize for the Nazis in office now and continue to run interference for his Nazi loving base. He is the Bro Blogger Veep.
They don't need to like the guy, just the things that he does, the policies he impements.
Gum Logger
(327 posts)More kabuki dance to watch
BattleRow
(2,090 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,375 posts)Qutzupalotl
(15,661 posts)I like to tbink it's for contrast.
lostnfound
(17,407 posts)The message machine works wonders on that group. Sometimes the GOP can engineer a major turnaround in sentiment in less than a year.
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=223069
progressoid
(52,585 posts)Correction. It is infuriatingly true.
wcmagumba
(5,640 posts)Maybe he can dab on a little orange stain along with his morning eye liner...
Skittles
(169,584 posts)no fucking way
LuvLoogie
(8,521 posts)All of the same farmers. The exact same percentages or better of white men and women. He'll be sold as a return to sanity for the GOPs.
Skittles
(169,584 posts)like DeSantis, he tries to mimic human behavior - BADLY
malaise
(292,828 posts)LuvLoogie
(8,521 posts)The racists will flock to anyone who elevates their world view. Certainly the farmers who voted for trump will vote for Vance. Who in the GOP is going to run against him? The only one who could give him a run for his money Is Margorie Taylor Greene, I think. She might just have enough "I don't give a shit." to do it.
Do I want trump's racist coalition to fall apart? Absolutely, yes. But I think that these people have so entrenched themselves and can taste the bloodlust that trump is providing them. They fear that there will be reprisals. They fear justice. Vance will shield them and advance their delusions that the targets of their bigotries are the cause of their miseries.
Beartracks
(14,352 posts)===========
Attilatheblond
(8,299 posts)Callie1979
(1,147 posts)Permanut
(7,993 posts)fuck him
bucolic_frolic
(54,053 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(2,120 posts)And give the devil his reward.
littlemissmartypants
(31,659 posts)Thanks for sharing this, Siwsan!
❤️ RESIST!! ✊️
chia
(2,751 posts)there were about five houses in my neighborhood who were flying some variation of a Trump flag.
In the months after the election, they came down one by one, with one holdout. I passed the house the other day for the first time in a few weeks and the Trump flag was down. So all the Trump flags are gone now.
What Im seeing more of these days are California state flags.
PatSeg
(52,190 posts)Hopefully it will snowball.
LAS14
(15,457 posts)....Maybe this is the straw that breaks the camel's back!
Joinfortmill
(20,082 posts)The lack of empathy is a trademark of magas.
calimary
(89,041 posts)All too often, thats how you know them.
drmeow
(5,929 posts)with people I knew to be conservative (long before MAGA) when I realized their default was "if it didn't happen to me, it isn't true/doesn't exist." Same concept. They are the single most self absorbed idiots I've ever known.
mucifer
(25,526 posts)Skittles
(169,584 posts)repukes own the entire government now
ananda
(34,435 posts)Excellent!
Warpy
(114,389 posts)and they will. They're going to chew away at all levels of the economy, taking jobs and whole businesses with them.
aggiesal
(10,543 posts)Fullduplexxx
(8,604 posts)jgmiller
(670 posts)and just go back to hating in private and not voting. The magic of what Trump did to come into power was not to get "regular" GOP voters to the polls it was to get the apathetic voters of any persuasion to the polls to vote for him and his cronies. If the apathetic go back to being apathetic then they are doomed. This is why they are in such a rush they know Trump is deteriorating and without him they have nobody to do what he does.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Trump woke up the grumpy, apathetic folks who never voted. And they STILL dont vote for anyone except Trump. They didnt come out and vote in 2018, and they wont vote in 2026, even if Trump begs them.
And they absolutely will not worship Vance like they do Trump. Vance is exactly the kind of pretty boy that they cant stand.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)OMGWTF
(5,013 posts)Obama expanded gun rights by allowing people to take their firearms into national parks and on Amtrak. Weird.
Gum Logger
(327 posts)Response to Siwsan (Original post)
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CrispyQ
(40,672 posts)I predict a dour Christmas & if the dems had a marketing department, they'd blast the nation with ads about who has really declared a war on Christmas.
Gum Logger
(327 posts)The repukes are all marketing department
frogstar0
(221 posts)We need to welcome them if they really might vote dem. Especially if they are family or friends or former friends.those are the ones we might just get on the side of reality. Every maga voter who is turned in two votes gained. Yes I want to scream at them etc. but democracy is more important than, and we need to have as many votes as possible to leave no doubt about who won. And yes I know TACO will clam they one but the larger the dem votes the less this claim will be taken seriously.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THEM - ZERO FORGIVENESS
concentrate on the people who didn't vote
3Hotdogs
(15,032 posts)He's still a maggot. But at least he developed some sense of awareness that this is all fucked up.
Skittles
(169,584 posts)REAL maggots serve an actual important purpose on this earth
58Sunliner
(6,273 posts)DUgosh
(3,128 posts)A couple of weeks after the election. When asked hows it going? the entitled owner scratched his head and said we havent moved many units this month.
We happened to drive by today and the entire fleet of Rvs were gone, the office closed and boarded up. That fool could have sold unit after unit to his Magat buddies to retreat to the hill country as doomdayers had Kamala been seated - he voted against his own interest.
The gun club in nearby Bandera is for sale - nobody is hoarding ammo
LogDog75
(1,103 posts)When you drove over the bridge from San Diego into Coronado, as you come to an S-turn on Third Street there were banners above the owner's wall saying things like Arrest Biden, Arrest Fauci, Make America Healthy Again, Where's Hunter's laptop? These banner were up from the day the Orange Turd was elected until about a week ago. Now, the only thing there is a small anti-Newsom poster tacked to the side of his house.
I'm hoping he's seen the light and realizes the con man conned him.
Mtnmama
(134 posts)Are going to be cut and their insurance premiums going sky high. Oh, and maybe they got laid off, permanently or short term, from their job.
Jack Valentino
(4,375 posts)but if a lot of them stay home without pedophile TRUMP on the ballot,
as they are in the habit of doing,
that is likewise helpful!
mucifer
(25,526 posts)Siwsan
(27,813 posts)Remember - it's a cult so he and his followers are not rational. I just drove through a part of the county that has had trump* related flags AND signs in their yards since 2016. Today I saw zero.