Well my sister that had a trump flag and signs

[Beachnutt]

on her fence told me I should come see her as soon as I can and told me she threw away her last trump sign this morning, I haven't seen her in about 2 years because I refused to come there with all her trump crap.
I didn't push her this morning I just said I'd come by in a few days, hopefully they are finally seeing what he really is.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. That's good news.

They’ve had a shock. Be patient.

[Beachnutt]

5. I'm trying, I just called her a week or so ago after

not speaking for probably a year or more, I was thinking maybe they are seeing some of what his sorry ass is doing lately and then I called her again this morning to chat and she told me that.

[Hortensis]

17. Agree with being patient. You're doing really great so far. Eye on the prize.

“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." ~ Linus, 1966

[getagrip_already]

2. I've been seeing desantis 2024 flags pop up, so don't hold your breath....

Not saying that is the case with your sister, just that hate is mercurial.

[Celerity]

6. they are horrid

[Aviation Pro]

10. Make America Florida?

You mean stupid, DeathSentence?

No, thanks.

[3auld6phart]

33. Ouchouch

The limp dick state sends out the Cro Magnon man

[Aviation Pro]

35. Cro-Magat man.

....

[RocRizzo55]

61. I think they misspelled

Floriduh

[Pinback]

16. Omg, is this a joke?!

Probably not with these numbskulls.

[ancianita]

18. I now live in FL. Hell no. Florida's a billionaire captured state. Looks like their team's on it

with the symbols and slogans already.


I fear Val Demings and Charlie Crist will literally be ahead in the polls, then lose by the usual "close call" 1%, kinda how it's been for Dems since Gore lost.

[DFW]

57. "Republican surprise upset victories"

They have been an increasing phenomenon in a huge number of elections in the USA, starting with 2000, the 2002 midterms, and, especially, Ohio 2004. Florida has had plenty of them. Demings and Crist can still win, but to win by 1%, their true margin of victory will have to be 3% or 4% or else the Republicans will just manipulate the numbers in their favor—again.

[Zambero]

65. How else would one explain the series of razor-thin Rick Scott victories?

Could there have possibly been a worse candidate on the ballot? Well, DeSantis comes to mind!

[DFW]

72. And the DeSantis victory was another "close" one

Of course, for a party who claims their candidate won in a landslide when he got 8 million votes less than his opponent, I guess to them, DeSantis beating out his opponent by the usual Florida Republican “margin of victory,” means he won in their eyes by a 3 to 1 margin.

[PatSeg]

66. Yes, we've seen it over and over again,

yet they have the nerve to accuse Democrats of "rigging elections". Once again accusing your adversary of what you do - Republican tactics and somehow people keep buying what they're selling. So now if Democrats accuse THEM of cheating, they'll say it is sour grapes and every election in the future will be contested by one or both sides. Not sure if democracy can survive that.

[obamanut2012]

21. They've been around here since he was elected

[wnylib]

32. Yeah, make all of America into a humid swamplamd prone to

hurricanes. That should go ever well in places like Colorado, Minnesota, etc. Even ultra conservative Montana and Idaho would not feel any identification with that imagery.

[Aristus]

69. Make America a meth-infested, humid hellhole where getting cranked and flailing around naked

seems to be the state pastime?

No thanks. Keep Florida in Florida...

[Native]

41. Saw a woman wearing a cap that said "DeSantis Girl" -

she was definitely over 50, and this was at a Bonefish Grill restaurant in Hernando County, Florida (about 40 minutes from Tampa). Completely lost my appetite.

[Celerity]

43. shirts too

[Native]

45. Revolting

[Celerity]

47. indeed

[mgardener]

52. How demeaning

A woman calling herself a girl to endear herself to others.

[Celerity]

53. indeed

[COL Mustard]

55. For TFG, shouldn't they be called....

The Golden Shower Girls?

[PatSeg]

67. Oh, that is disgusting!

They've just switched to a younger version of a repulsive demigod.

[Permanut]

49. Bumper sticker in Oregon for Trump/DeSantis..

I'm 76 years old. I hope I live long enough to see Mango Mussolini, Abbott, DeSantis, Greene, Boebert, McConnell, Cruz, Johnson, Hawley, Graham, McCarthy, Jordan, Gaetz and the leaders of their Jesus cults, gun cults and billionaire PACS lose their power and just go away.

Not counting on it. I'm healthy now, so maybe.

[markodochartaigh]

51. DeSantis

At least in the case of deSantis you may get your wish. The home insurance market in Florida is melting down with companies fleeing the state. And it isn't because of anthropogenic climate change concerns, they are leaving because of rampant fraud. This disaster seems likely grow to the point that it will be covered nationwide, and for a long time.

Live long and prosper!

[Sky Jewels]

59. I support the Trump/DeSantis team...

to share a cramped prison cell with a bucket toilet.

[Claustrum]

3. Great news. At least one person leaving the cult.

I hope more will come around to their senses.

And congrats on gaining a relative back.

[lindysalsagal]

4. I hope your sister is representative.

[Beachnutt]

7. Me too

I miss her and alot of my relatives and old friends..

[blm]

8. Glad that happened for you, Beach

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Great news

One by one.

Everyone has always seemed to be waiting for some big awakening with Trump's followers, but that's rarely how cults work. It was always going to be a slow ebb of supporters leaving him. I think we're on the brink of Trump being electoral poison though now as no moderates will ever be able to vote for him again.

[SheltieLover]

11. Congrats!

[Ilsa]

12. Be good to her, as I'm sure you will. And maybe let it go, unless

she wants to talk about it.

Congratulations!

[Boomerproud]

13. Did she tell you the reason for the light bulb moment?

I'm still waiting for my coworkers to see the truth.

[Beachnutt]

24. No,

because I really don't want to push the issue right now.
Just glad she threw away all the trump stuff so I can stop by and see her, I will see if she and her husband still have fox and friends for breakfast, if so I probably will not go back for a while until more rethugs go to jail etc...

[G2theD]

39. Steve Douchey seems to be coming around.

He blasted Kristi Noem about the documents yesterday. He couldn’t understand why TFLG didn’t give back the “secret stuff”.
She deflected and digressed of course.

[womanofthehills]

56. Wow - if she has Fox on, just suggest you guys go to another room

If you are reconnecting, why have so many restrictions. I don’t get people who cannot speak with a relative if they are Republican. I have mostly Dem friends, but the girlfriend who will be there for me is a Republican. How hard is it to agree not to talk politics and enjoy each other.

[calimary]

70. Could be that some people are just harder to deal with.

I can understand the wish to avoid aggravation and conflict and possible arguments. Life’s too short.

Maybe you’ve had the good fortune to have met a Republican who’s also in touch with her humanity first, and then the politics and the what-they-stand-for problems later. I wish they were all like that. But sometimes, as one ages, it could be that repeated efforts at patience and understanding and compassion and camaraderie just don’t work with some people. And then, it might just be better and less potentially combustible to minimize contact.

Just my opinion, of course.

[appleannie1]

14. Each baby step counts in a mile.

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. If she has replaced with DuhSantis signs don't stop, keep driving.

[ancianita]

19. +1

[Beachnutt]

25. You can bet I won't

but I don't think she will, she misses me too and knows how I feel about the rethugs.

[Loge23]

20. I've noticed

in my neck of the woods, most of tfg signs have disappeared.
There's one business, in Palm City FL - a sod dealer - who displayed tfg signs for well years, they're all gone now.
There's another neighborhood - a white low-income area - that also had the flags waving for years - no longer.
Maybe!

[barbtries]

22. gives me hope.

please keep us posted.

my oldest brother has been lost to me for quite awhile now.

[Beachnutt]

26. I sure will,

best wishes for your brother

[czarjak]

30. LET'S GO BRANDON is still on a roof in four foot letters three blocks right behind me.

Ownership has conseQuences.

[Zambero]

64. Hopefully a large DARK BRANDON IS REAL sign will make an appearance in those parts!

[OMGWTF]

23. Some MAGAts are starting to sober up.

[Dirty Socialist]

27. I would take a bottle of wine

To celebrate

[vlyons]

28. Be nice. Don't rub it in with I told you so. Instead ---

Just listen. Then extol all the great things that Biden has done. Tell her that Biden wants to bring back the ban on assault weapons, but leave hunters alone. He wants to fund the police and train them. He's got the greatest job growth in recent memory, and has paid down the national debt. He also makes the fat corporations pay their share of taxes.

BE POSITIVE ABOUT VOTING DEM Make sure she is registered to vote.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. I know, I know....I'm the glass half empty.

Most if not all of these people will STILL vote for every fucking repug on the ticket, so that is a big NO for me. I will be civil but politics will NOT be discussed.

[niyad]

31. That is such good news. Happy for you both.

[lees1975]

34. Driving across southern Wisconsin, lots of the Trump flags and banners that stayed up

after the election are gone. Not sure if that means anything, but up until a few months ago, it was a regular feature in those counties.

My wife and I have some close friends who have also come to their senses recently. They have a son who we visited three years ago in Walter Reed where he was recovering after being injured in Afghanistan. Some of his buddies came home during the Biden airlift, and basically backed up his stories of the confusion and cross purposes going on there under Trump.

If the news media would just stop reporting every social media post he makes and every time he hits the head, and updated their "factoring" in the polling data, we'd find that his "base" or cult as I prefer to call them, is a lot smaller than it seems.

[Cha]

36. I love hearing

About these personal redemption stories.. Mahalo Beachnutt!!

[Tadpole Raisin]

37. If she has always been super conservative, but only when the moment is right,

and IF she talks about feeling betrayed maybe ask her to think about what news she follows since the one major news outlet that supported him knew the truth but lied to her anyway and that contributed to her false belief.

I saw some ‘study’ that had watchers of Fox News who agreed to watch something else for a period of time (? 2 months) and some of them really opened their eyes afterward about the BS Fox fed them.

I feel like if those people just beginning to see the light but who continue to watch Fox will just get sucked back down the rabbit hole sooner or later.

They haven’t connected the dots on the full level of the betrayal.

[G2theD]

38. The lunatic on my street still has his 4x6 ft. Trump/Pence 2020 sign up.

This guy is stubborn.

[Zambero]

68. And yet they wanted to kill Pence

The MAGA "thought process" is inexplicable in its mind-numbing contradictions.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

40. Good news!

[Lucinda]

42. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[phylny]

44. I drove south on Route 29 in Virginia coming home today

and didn’t see one Trump sign where there used to be many.

[No Vested Interest]

46. Take her a little gift of something tasty or sweet; just listen at first.

Try not to gloat.
Talk about family, and leave politics behind for the moment.

[Beachnutt]

48. Great idea, I will do that

Thank you...

[Native]

50. Let's hope she listens to you in '24 and doesn't vote for DeathSentence.

[DFW]

58. I marvel at your patience

I am fortunate to have siblings who think pretty much like I do. Now that he is finally allowed to tell me what he does all day (he retired and gave up his security clearance), my brother and I talk on the phone more often than we used to, and my sister was always in touch, even though she seems to be under the impression that Whatsapp and Facebook have replaced the spoken word altogether.

[Demovictory9]

60. Line the litter box with that crap

[Dorian Gray]

62. I'm glad your sister

reached out to you. I hope she's seen the light, and your family can rebuild it's trust with one another.

[Trueblue Texan]

63. Please keep us posted!!nt

[Martin68]

71. Very good news. Healing can begin.