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Dear Ma & Pa MAGA: (Original Post) 634-5789 Apr 2023 OP
Wow, that really sums up trumpty dumpty in a nutshell. Ziggysmom Apr 2023 #1
WOW is right! flor-de-jasmim Apr 2023 #2
My first thought was ... Wow ... that was perfect! KPN Apr 2023 #11
Love Jo JanLip Apr 2023 #15
Will homegirl Apr 2023 #23
Text Mosby Apr 2023 #28
Thank homegirl Apr 2023 #29
On the button! vishnura Apr 2023 #3
Spot on Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2023 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Writethinker Apr 2023 #5
K&R, uponit7771 Apr 2023 #6
Nailed it malaise Apr 2023 #7
incredibly important tweet bucolic_frolic Apr 2023 #8
Pretty much dead on... SKKY Apr 2023 #9
The best description yet. ProudMNDemocrat Apr 2023 #10
And the Republicans voted against everything, but hate legislation. Bluethroughu Apr 2023 #12
And there it is in a nutshell. Scrivener7 Apr 2023 #13
My parents died before they got infected with MAGA. LakeArenal Apr 2023 #14
My brother JanLip Apr 2023 #17
It has all been the same path... Caliman73 Apr 2023 #24
K&R... llmart Apr 2023 #16
Spot on. niyad Apr 2023 #18
They would give up a lot more Farmer-Rick Apr 2023 #19
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2023 #20
He did one thing. He demonstrated how fragile our Democratic Republic is. patphil Apr 2023 #21
K&R onecaliberal Apr 2023 #22
My first thought was "WOW, this is perfect" Richard D Apr 2023 #25
KR NT ProudProgressiveNow Apr 2023 #26
Nailed it republianmushroom Apr 2023 #27
"Ma and Pa Maga." dchill Apr 2023 #30
Bingo! Jo is absolutely spot on. nt crickets Apr 2023 #31
Perfect! What he did do was ruin or kill everything he touched, and he didn't give a shit if you housecat Apr 2023 #32
He hates the same people they hate. Lunabell Apr 2023 #33
AND IT IS SO TRUE. Trueblue1968 Apr 2023 #34
SPOT FUCKING ON!! Evolve Dammit Apr 2023 #35
Scary accurate EnergizedLib Apr 2023 #36
I participate in a local mostly Republican fb group... Tesha Apr 2023 #37
Here's the Actual Tweet.. Cha Apr 2023 #38
Kickety Kickin' Faux pas Apr 2023 #39
"He hates who you hate" Javaman Apr 2023 #40
He didn't ban TikTok, He didn't withdraw from Afghanistan Habitation Apr 2023 #41
K&R! This needs to be a handout at TFG rallies... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2023 #42
k&r BSdetect Apr 2023 #43

flor-de-jasmim

(2,126 posts)
2. WOW is right!
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 05:55 AM
Apr 2023

Every democratic politician at every level should make these points about the Republican party generally...

Did they fix your roads?
Did they......
on and on and on...

Then tell what the Dems have done or proposed to do.

Mosby

(16,411 posts)
28. Text
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 02:06 PM
Apr 2023

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,

donald trump didn’t lower your taxes. He didn’t get your roads fixed or your bridges built. He didn’t get you healthcare coverage, lower the price of your prescriptions, decrease the deficit, end the opioid crisis, revive the coal industry, he didn’t make “covid disappear”, didn’t make Mexico “pay for the wall”, he didn’t “put America First” and he sure as hell didn’t “drain the swamp”.

So when you say he “fought for you”, you mean he validated your hate.

Because he didn’t do a goddamn thing for you other than that.

He hates who you hate.
And sadly, that’s all you think you need.

Response to 634-5789 (Original post)

bucolic_frolic

(43,471 posts)
8. incredibly important tweet
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 07:21 AM
Apr 2023

Ma & Pa MAGA ......

Why do they hate everyone? Many of these people had successful, above average or upscale lives.

JanLip

(846 posts)
17. My brother
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 09:46 AM
Apr 2023

Was eat up with right wing crap but sad to say he died with it. We could never carry on a civil conversation. He believed everything Rush spewed. He even went to one of the orange baboons rallies.

Caliman73

(11,760 posts)
24. It has all been the same path...
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 12:38 PM
Apr 2023

There really isn't any distinction between today's MAGA and the Dittoheads of the 90's and 2000's. Just a matter of degrees. Trump took off the very thin pseudo intellectual veneer, mainly because he isn't very intellectually adept. He has a carnival barker skill for self promotion but his articulation is among the worst ever in politics. Limbaugh said essentially the same things, but he had a better vocabulary and slightly better skill at crystallizing a point.

When you have and buy into a Conservative mindset, eventually you will arrive at what MAGA type people espouse. Either that, you will withdraw from politics and simply vote and not publicly hold the beliefs, OR, if society is lucky, you will abandon Conservative ideology and be on the correct side of history.

Both left and right CAN lead to authoritarianism, but only the right guarantees it. When the appropriate shape of society is a pyramid, which it is in Conservative and right wing ideologies, you accept promote that some people are "just better than others".

Farmer-Rick

(10,235 posts)
19. They would give up a lot more
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 11:19 AM
Apr 2023

Just to keep their hate monger.

The burning consuming hate covers up and protects them from so much emotional turmoil that they'll give up their lives...and some did by dying of COVID...to keep their delusions intact.

It's sad, pathetic, stupid and spiteful.

patphil

(6,249 posts)
21. He did one thing. He demonstrated how fragile our Democratic Republic is.
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 11:52 AM
Apr 2023

He put cracks and chips in it the last time he was President. If he's elected again, he will surely double his efforts to shatter it completely.

Richard D

(8,814 posts)
25. My first thought was "WOW, this is perfect"
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 12:53 PM
Apr 2023

My second thought was "WOW, this is perfect"
That went on for a while and ended with "Who is the Jo person? She rocks."

housecat

(3,121 posts)
32. Perfect! What he did do was ruin or kill everything he touched, and he didn't give a shit if you
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 02:56 PM
Apr 2023

needed them

EnergizedLib

(1,907 posts)
36. Scary accurate
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 05:07 PM
Apr 2023

They care not one bit of the shape the country is in if he makes the people they hate miserable.

Tesha

(20,860 posts)
37. I participate in a local mostly Republican fb group...
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 05:17 PM
Apr 2023

I would love to post this there, but lately I’ve been asking them to think logically far too much - they would probably block me again.

Maybe I’ll hold it for a week or so.
Thank you, this is great.

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