Heard at our local small grocer in SW Ohio.

[Norbert]

We shopped for some lunch meat and other things and were at the checkout.

We were at the checkout with a middle-aged lady as the cashier. My wife mentioned that she would like to get home in time to watch the mayor and governor (DeWine) and their daily news conference. She then said she thought they were doing a good job. The cashier said. The governors ARE doing a good job. The president, huh, not so much. She saw me with an ear-to-ear smile on my face than added, He's an idiot. There, I said it." My smile went beyond my ears.

This is located in the middle of a red township that thinks St. Ronald of Reagan is the patron saint of all that is good. I sure hope this is a sign that the tide is turning.

[samnsara]

1. yay!!

[Ohiogal]

2. This is encouraging

But will they vote blue in November? Or will they have short memories.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Kind of hard to forget when you have either loved ones or friends that have died from the CV,

plus those not involved w/ the CV at all, be treated like crap by rump and cronies, when they cut future SS benefits to 'balance their budget' massively.

It's pretty hard to forget bad treatment.

[lagomorph777]

13. As the death toll ramps up in red states, it will become impossible to ignore Trump's murderous

intent. These people will vote to save their lives. Nothing focuses the mind like a gun to the head.

[spudspud]

17. They'll gnash their teeth about Trump's stupidity...

but short of one of their own dying from COVID, they'll go into the booth and vote for Trump again.

[AlexSFCA]

3. encouraging that people in reddest districts are no longer fear intimidation by trumpsters

[Botany]

4. If we make to the election Trump has a chance to lose all 50 states

Because as more and more people know that Trump is not responsible for the C-19 virus
but he is responsible for the federal govt.'s response to the virus and the coming pandemic
and as all those red voters know somebody who is sick and or died because of C-19 and
as their jobs go away and their 401k plans fall to nothing Trump will keep losing voters.

[Bengus81]

10. Take Trumps Nazi rally "Democrat HOAX" statement for a commercial........

And run it over and over in a 30 second spot each time showing the number of CV cases climbing and the deaths climbing. No voice over needed. Maybe just a loud bell sound with each increasing set of numbers.

FUCK HIM............

[Botany]

14. In 2004 the Kerry Campaign should have hung the 8/6/2001 PDB around w's neck.

And if we have anything on Trump & Kushner grifting off of the C-19 pandemic we
can run that too. Especially Trump trying to make money from his own brand of
C-19 test kits and his pimping of hydroxychloroquine when he had a stake in the
company that makes it.

[smb]

18. Like This?

[Stuart G]

22. Yes...That is it, and that is all of it...Thanks for posting..great 30 second ad.

[murielm99]

6. I live a few miles from St. Ronnie's hometown.

I wonder what they are saying there.

[gibraltar72]

7. One at a time.

[BamaRefugee]

8. Unfortunately, when they get in that voting booth, their *mind* is gonna click on guns and abortions

nothing's gonna change for them.

Ever.

[Bengus81]

12. That's the hard core 29-35% of Trump voters.....

Nope,Trump has their vote even if he's killed off their grandma. But there are millions of fence setters who want leadership,not this buffoon.

[calimary]

15. THAT's what we work for (and who we work ON).

I always think of it as working to save their souls. And their country. Which is also MY country.

Anymore, I find myself thinking of the work we're doing in our Indivisible group here - as saving our country.

EVERYTHING and ANYTHING you do, or can do, to reach just even one more voter on the urgency of November, is helpful.

[progressoid]

23. Yep.

My hope is that a good percentage of them will be disinclined to even go to the voting booth because of his bullshit.

[Dirty Socialist]

9. Good for Her

Hopefully more will come to their senses

[lunatica]

20. She may have always been against Trump

That’s more likely than that she’s “come to her senses”. I know a few people who’s entire families were MAGATs, yet they weren’t.

[Person of Interest]

11. I imagine that those who are old enough to remember Reagan would find Trump to be repellent.

[calimary]

16. Welcome to DU, Person of Interest.

Welcome! From one of those "old enough to remember Reagan" and would "find Trump to be repellent" whether Reagan had clouded our vision or not.

And back then, I thought Reagan was the worst we'd see. (Well, at least til dubya...)

[True Blue American]

19. As more and more

See their loved ones sick or dying, families laid off, 401K’s drained down the tube, so many with no Insurance, listening to Trump ramble through each day they are not likely to forget that.

I remember when Obama ran the counties all down the Ohio River from Portsmouth to Cincinnati that voted blood red for 100 years voted for Obama. People were amazed, but the times they are a changin’!

[Skittles]

21. once again

I refuse to be encouraged because it takes the threat of DEATH for some people to see the OBVIOUS

[Olafjoy]

24. My 83 year old mom found some toilet paper at the senior hour of her market this morning.

Was about ready to FedEx her some. This is our life. SMFH.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. That's an encouraging anecdote!

I live in SW Ohio, and many of us have been conditioned to keep quiet about liberal or anti-right wing viewpoints.

Meeting like-minded people often involves discreetly dropping hints about it. I assume it’s akin to how gay men would manage to hook up, especially in years past.

I took an Amtrak trip through California a few years ago, and the guy next to me LOUDLY expressed his anti-right wing thoughts. It was just like the loudmouth right-wingers around here, except with liberal ideas. I joined in, but then I started looking around after awhile, paranoid about others hearing us. All of the other passengers acted like it was commonplace. Some of them had a remorseful “blank expression”, though, which reminded me of how some people look in this area when a loud-mouth right-winger spouts off in public.

Edit: I’ve made the “mistake” of revealing liberal ideas at jobs, and I was treated completely different by coworkers thereafter. I was previously viewed as a hard-working “good guy” who always tried to be helpful, but was suddenly an “asshole” because of my political beliefs. Given that my bosses and other managers were almost always right-wingers, it usually didn’t pan out well for me.

[Stuart G]

26. Thanks for the thread..lots of great posts and discussion..K and R

[left-of-center2012]

27. My brother in Ohio loves Trump

Elderly and ill, he and his wife have to stay home these days.
Says watching Trump on TV is one of his few pleasures.

(Oh, and he's an evangelical christian)

[marble falls]

28. Its happening, I hope we really pile it on and take down a bunch of Senators with him.

[BigmanPigman]

29. No one around here would be able to see me smile

and I can't see their smiles since they/we are covered with masks.

I last went out 11 days ago and I was the only one with mask and gloves. Today half of the people have them on. I am surprised your store wasn't having workers wear them. We can't even carry bags into the store, plexi partitions are up around checkers who can't bag your stuff...you have to do it. Also, people were respecting the "stop here" signs on the floor 6' apart.