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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGA people who are disowned suddenly want everyone to be Kumbaya. Great discussion on Reddit.
Some of the discussion is that some think life changing policies are in a different bucket than politics. Politics is a sport, my jersey just won. Why are you so mad?
The total lack of empathy with that view is breathtaking.
A lot of other good theories in the thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1gmd4e9/maga_people_who_are_disowned_suddenly_want/
Ferrets are Cool
(22,044 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,782 posts)onethatcares
(16,613 posts)Fuck their feelings
BluenFLA
(171 posts)Got no more Fs to give about them and their sudden lets all be united BS.
Native
(6,689 posts)Now they're discovering that this was no joke. This was life and death for some of the people they chose to fuck over. And now they're dumbfounded. How could anyone take this seriously? What do you mean my kids have written me off as a Nazi? This was only *football*!
This isn't nearly the fun I thought it would be!
Stupid bastards are so conditioned to believe that anything bad has to come from an outside source.
When the reality of a 1930's Germany style pogrom hits and some of them and their friends get caught up in it then it will be too late. We may never ever get to go back to what this country was.
Actually it is probably too late already.
ananda
(31,042 posts)In a Nazi regime, no one is exempt.
hatrack
(61,335 posts)Holy shit my mom was in total shock today from my reaction when I said Im done with her. Reality is hitting them fucking hard as a mother fucker and its feeding my life force.
"Fuck your feelings, and your rights! Soft leftie live and let live shit! "
k, bye pig.
"Nooo. Not like that 🥺🙏
Fucker, no! This isn't a disagreement about what temperature we want the thermostat in the house to be set to. By voting for Trump, you are literally saying that you are okay with others losing rights and healthcare and handing the keys over to Russia for what?! $0.50 less in gas? Do you think the housing market is going to bounce back? Do you even understand why it's high in the first place? Do you think we're going to spend less on food? Fucker, do you even know how tariffs work?!
I told my mom that I'm renewing my family's passports for korea. My SO is a Korean immigrant and is a PR. Our children are duel us/Korean citizens. Going back to Korea is our plan if things really hit the fan. Both my parents voted Trump and I told them the consequence of that is when things get bad and they will then they will never see their grand kids again
"Jeez Jessica, it's not like I endorsed a president who'll annihilate your body autonomy, right? All I said with my vote is that you should be forced to breed against your will and that if it goes wrong, you should bleed to death with your ectopic pregnancy, and you're really taking this personally for some reason." On the plus side, they won't have to despair when the price of eggs doesn't actually go down since they won't be hosting family dinners any more.
Just on and on and on, nothing ever matters until they're the ones dealing with it. Then all of a sudden it's crying about how nobody warned them.
The Third Doctor
(397 posts)ratchiweenie
(7,962 posts)hadEnuf
(2,844 posts)Nothing else has worked. They can't say they weren't warned.
Sort of like the roaring 1920's, then the 1929 stock market crash, then the 1932 election that put FDR in office for 11 years and the rest of the Republicans out in the wilderness for almost 50 years.
live love laugh
(14,637 posts)LiberalArkie
(16,744 posts)Simple Free Market economics. The companionship of Republicans has fallen in value, and people are choosing to get it elsewhere. They can't expect brand loyalty if they're going to shit in the cereal boxes.
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Linda ladeewolf
(521 posts)I can relate to what many are saying and Im an old fart!
mommymarine2003
(299 posts)for Biden the first time. This time she seems to have been all in for Trump. She thinks he is funny. I cannot remember what I said but it was not too political. She then said that that Trump never colluded with Russia and that basically the Democrats made that up. Then I mentioned Project 2025, and she said Trump knows nothing about that and that it won't affect the country anyway. Then later in our walk, we were discussing our current HOA Board (all Trumpists), and she called them a bunch of dictators. Such a disconnect. I live in Oregon right outside of Portland. There are a lot of right-wingers in east Multnomah County. I live in an affluent neighborhood, so most of these people will be okay, at least at the start. In two years, I expect we will start hearing that "I never thought this would happen". I feel super sad.
Aviation Pro
(13,617 posts)That would be my response to the motherfucking MAGAts who are estranged from their children.
Also, die alone, you fucking shitstains.
wolfie001
(3,911 posts)And besides an occasional text, I do not engage. I've been doing this since the first dump term. Zero regrets.
I honestly don't think watching and losing loved ones will make these people regret their vote. We have already lived through that. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their friends and family during assholes mishandling of COVID. All it took was for him to call it a hoax and all is forgotten and forgiven. It will happen again and he will feed them his lies and they will believe it. How managed to win the last 3 election cycles is probably just luck that Trump's name wasn't on the ballot.
Blue Full Moon
(1,391 posts)That way they can report you to their SS officer.
louis-t
(23,812 posts)Lt. Hanley is disguised as an Albanian officer. While sitting in a train station, 2 Hitler Youth come up and ask him about his uniform. "Albania". So, the one kid pulls out his Nazi handbook and looks it up. He then reports to who he thinks is a Nazi officer (that turns out to be a British undercover officer) to tell him Hanley looks suspicious because his uniform doesn't match the drawing in his handbook. The thing I think he will try hardest at is punishing anyone who disagrees with him or reported negatively on him. I don't think Americans will react kindly to reporters and politicians being imprisoned.
Blue Full Moon
(1,391 posts)D_Master81
(1,926 posts)Ive said for years Americans have just turned elections into jersey waiving sports and dont actually pay attention to anything in the interim. Hence way Trump can win re-election after all the things that shouldve disqualified him. Hes the captain of the team not the leader of the country.
Ysabel
(2,080 posts)and he also keeps telling the rest of my relatives back in Illinois that we have "made up" with each other and are getting along fine...
That little liar is full of shit. I never "made up" with him we never talked at all. I don't answer his phone calls and I will never forgive him for moving in with a Nazi whore and trying to sick her on me by giving her my phone number to call and scream at me and harass me and I will absolutely never talk to him again...
Nope, I will never be getting along fine or talking with any Nazis or any Nazi lovers either!
The saddest thing is my sweet grandsons keep on saying he's not that bad and I keep thinking to myself he needs to stay the hell away from them...
uponit7771
(92,119 posts)EnergizedLib
(2,283 posts)I will never forgive them. Ever.
And remember, what goes around comes around. What we felt eight years ago, what they felt four years ago, what we're feeling now, it can be only a matter of time before they're feeling it again.
And they might be celebrating now, but they won't when they are hurt by the very same policies they voted for.
louis-t
(23,812 posts)charged into my office after Obama was elected. They were outraged, loud and vulgar.
RockRaven
(16,606 posts)disowned. Most of the dickheads being cut out of someone else's life have had many, many conversations about TCF/politics/specific issues with the people doing the cutting.
Sudden, as commonly used, means quick and unexpected. The last straw breaking the camel's back isn't a sudden injury. Any fool could see the camel was being overloaded, the result is totally predictable.
Same with this crap. These fools have been told what they were doing was harmful, and they reveled in the doing of it anyway. Any cry of "unexpected" is disingenuous if not an outright lie.
ibegurpard
(16,889 posts)I started expunging all Republicans from my life in 2016