But they're too much in denial to bother.

hasn't it? Very odd that that group of con men can get loyalty from almost all the shitty corners of our society, including the shitty people it hurts the most.

of some of the current problems we are facing as a society going forward. Thank you for this post. These people have great momentum at this point and access to misinformation networks and money like never before in history. Combine this with a large population of barely literate and easily manipulated and the future looks like a true battlefield for common decency.

A lot of insidious 'wellness' folks there. IE Anti Vax, Anti Science, etc. etc.

But of the 6 Costco's I have within an hour from me are all crawling with MAGA types. These jokers are all fueling their trucks with Costco gas, buying offroad tires, loading up their carts with steaks and ribs. Can't escape them even in California.

The stupid red hats have disappeared.

After a couple of nasty grams Car Quest told their manager to ditch the Trump flag. I suspect sales were declining.

I don't

And I was going to add bookstores. But I used to work in a book store back in the mid 90's And every shovel-brained, inbred, redneck, illiterate moron would come in to the store to get Rush Limbaugh's latest publication of printed transcripts of his shitty radio show; copies of "The Bell Curve", which "proved" people of color were intellectually inferior to white people, Laura Schlessinger's hateful crap masquerading as books, etc.

I guess they wanted them to display on whatever passes for bookshelves in their little hovels. Keep their right-wing street cred up to date.

The place is crowded with kids and parents. Pretty sure that crowd has a high percent of MAGA in them.

For anti-vaxxers, woo-woo religious, Quiverfull idiots, MAGA and RFK lovers. And since most home schoolers can't afford the expensive text books of highschool, they frequent the libraries to compensate.

Every afternoon our local library is swamped by ragged kids and sullen teenagers. I try and get there in the morning when the homeschoolers' mothers are mostly still asleep. It's almost always the mother's burden to do the homeschooling. Never seen a father in the library trying to explain how to use the library to their school aged kids.

In my experience they are as MAGAtty as they come.

I was thinking about the Dentists and staff. Have quite a number of relatives that are dentists and others that work in dentist offices, MAGAts one and all.

Not my dentist so much, but his new hygienist. OMG what a loon!

They offered to pay for her schooling to become a dental hygienist. She declined, thought it sounded like too much work.

Why work hard? Trump promised to halve prices and give away houses for free.

Who works half days for my brother who took over my father's business. She's really looking forward to working half days. I haven't heard whether that's my brother's plan (he's one of the more tolerable MAGAts I know, his wife and kids are another story).

Not to mention a shitty father.

MAGATism runs deep with the dentists that I know.

rather than the politics of dental professionals

Sort of like asking for the COVID vaccine when they're dying in the ICU.

But her patients are of all stripes, one time I showed up for my appointment and Fox "News" was on the TV in the waiting room - discussing Hillary's emails. Her assistant came in, changed the channel and apologized, said that the older female patient before me had requested it...

Especially independent bookstores. Locally owned coffee shops. Mexican tiendas (which often have good prices on staples).

Where the cuisine has not been co-opted by national chains.

My local Ethiopian restaurants are safe.

On Edit: Patronize these NOW, before the owners get deported

They can't lead. So, they need to follow or get out of the way. (To paraphrase Ted Turner)

In the wise words of a friend who is one tough cookie and the best stick nurse in America, imo...

"If you're scared, get a dog."

At food bank or homeless shelter.

Check out books at library.

Deliver meals-on-wheels.

I'm looking for a new dentist right now because I went in to make a hygienist appointment and one of the staff was wearing a "Justice For Charlie Kirk" t-shirt.
An overt political display in a professional office is already a bridge too far, but its even worse that she picked such a controversial figure.
The dentist was standing right there, so this must be ok.
It's so unprofessional that I won't go there now AND it was MAGA. So the dentist office isn't necessarily an safe space from Maga-try.

Political tee shirts in a dentist office? Hard pass. That's a sign of very poor judgment on the part of the dentist.

Exactly why I'll never go back.

when I have to go in.

I'm sure there are MAGA at yoga studios and dentists, too

Only guarantee - our home!

Dentist’s offices seem to always have FOX Swen on.

But there is a special group for them, called Densa.

certified maga free.

Pretty much any kind, preferably without cocoanut or nuts. Please and thank you!

and many nonreligious charity centers for helping others.
Independent ethnic restaurants and markets might be too diverse for MAGA.
Community centers who teach classes on various useful topics that MAGA would be against.
Drag brunches
International travel outside of cruise ships and all inclusive resorts.

Didn't Rush Limbaugh mock the whole idea of community service, saying it was for convicted criminals?

Jazz clubs, international grocery stores, tai chi classes, meditation centers….

A broad generalization and stereotype, but I get the point. Of course there are vast exceptions, but we should pigeonhole them like they pigeonhole everything in their own lives.

The ballet, the symphony, the opera.
Unitarisn Universalist churches
Natural food stores

Any place feminists gather.

Any Drinking Liberally meeting.

Any Dem meetings.

Our love for Pilates so we all get along in the studio.

She needs to try again.

Like atheist get togethers, hanging out where people don’t speak English, gay communities things like that.

I know several anti-vax, anti-immigrant, bigoted assholes that are vegan. It's part of a bigger discussion we have in the vegan community as well. "How could they possibly..."

It's a smaller percentage, but they definitely exist.

On second thought, lots of rich R-types go there to be seen by High Society and sleep through the music.

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, another place('s) is establishments that display PRIDE flags.
We have a few in our town that we support. It's always a great place to shoot the breeze.

on Kauai's Costco... Farmers Markets, too.

I know it's all Different over here. 💙

But I see them everywhere. Remember, there was over 70 MILLION of these toopid asswipes.

This will all go away when we take over in a landslide. Everyone. Everywhere.

and anything to do with bicycles.

The hundreds of local, regional, national, and international environmental, environmental justice, and climate justice Groups including:

Greenpeace
Natural Resources Defense Fund
American Lung Association
Sierra Club
World Wildlife Fund
Environmental Defense Fund
Earthjustice
Friends of the Earth
National Wildlife Federation
Audubon Society
Isaak Walton League
The Wilderness Society
National Parks Conservation Society
Indigenous Environmental Network
Earth Island Institute
Rainforest Action Network
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
Oceana
Whalewatch
Center for Biological Diversity
Earth First!
Break Free From Plastic
Environmental Working Group
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society...

No MAGATS there.

they don’t operate on a capitalist model.