Dear Maga: You made a catastrophic error in judgement.

[kpete]

[FalloutShelter]

1. X1000

[LoisB]

2. Excellent! Thank you.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Plain truth like that will never be believed

MAGA needs to be asked to reenlist, and those benefits pointed out to them.

[JanLip]

4. This ☝️

This needs to be posted everywhere. Thanks!

Jan

[3auld6phart]

42. Yes posted in

Also under, the heading of Morals, I guess it is okay to walk into a changing room while young teens are changing. Haven’t seen much mentioned about this discretion of decency. What a self
centered piece that of filth. For sure your post hits the nail. A shame the mush brained,drooling idiots, can’t read

[wnylib]

45. Excellent list and well written.

I want to print out copies for distribution, if it's ok with you, kpete.

[betsuni]

5. They were like that already.

Trump followed what his audiences liked, they trained him, not the other way around.

[XanaDUer2]

7. This nt

[OneGrassRoot]

12. Exactly. The middle items were already entrenched. n/t

[radicalleft]

14. ABSOFRICKINLUTLEY!

I am convinced to this day that his campaign strategy relied on trolling RW message boards and parroting what they were sharing all along! He has NEVER had an original thought!

[yardwork]

22. Absolutely. Trump reads a script that was written to appeal to millions.

The script follows their beliefs.

[TwilightZone]

26. Exactly. He molded himself to their image of what a "leader" should look and act like.

He looked at the political landscape and found the segment of it that was most likely to flock to his cult through fear and intimidation.

He then changed his act and political stances to target that segment.

[SergeStorms]

30. The powder keg already existed....

Donald Trump just lit the fuse.

[Marcuse]

34. Yes. Donald is not a leader. He merely jumped to the front of the tea party parade.

[GopherGal]

47. I agree.

My disagreement with the op is limited to: you underestimate their agency/accountability.

Trump laid bare their cravenness, hypocrisy and immorality. He didn't create them, but he recognized them and capitalized on them.

[GreenWave]

6. They are happy when some asshole "gives the gummint shit!"

[WestMichRad]

15. "Drain the swamp!"

When in fact what they want to create is exactly that.

[Celerity]

38. indeed

[WestMichRad]

44. LOL!

[ecstatic]

8. He has openly mocked his own supporters

From the very beginning.

Setting aside the "poorly educated" quips, in 2016, trump said he could kill someone in broad daylight and they would still support him. He wasn't wrong...

I guess for his 2024 speeches, he can add that his supporters have shown they would overthrow the United States for him. They will kill for him. They are willing to die for him--which is appropriate because that's exactly what a second trump presidency would mean. Death for millions of people in this country and around the globe due to nuclear warfare, genocidal warfare, sheer incompetence, or more criminal negligence before and during a pandemic. Can you imagine if it were Ebola that had been unleashed worldwide under his watch? Every one of us would be dead right now, but really we're still not out the woods as far as the long-term ramifications from covid either.

We have to do everything humanly possible to stop him.

[yardwork]

23. They did kill for him.

[liberalla]

9. Weak-minded maga. Dumbasses.

[Wounded Bear]

10. It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled...nt

[Whiskeytide]

41. Someone posted this David Frum quote here a while back ...

… and I’m paraphrasing it

You can warn your friend that he’s being conned, and he’ll get angry with you. Then when the con collapses and comes crashing down and he can no longer deny that you were right, he’ll never forgive you. He will forgive the con man because he only took his money. But YOU made him feel stupid, and he’ll never forgive that.

[wnylib]

46. I once had an experience that demonstrated that very well.

Back in the 1970s in a large discount department store, a con man set himself up to look like he was representing the store in a demonstration for sales items. This occurred at the back of the store in an obscure aisle, away from the cash registers and manager's office.

He began with a spiel about how to make money through small investments. A small crowd gathered around him to watch and listen. Soon the crowd grew. He offered to demonstrate what he could do for them and asked if they were ready to participate. Almost everyone (except me and a couple others) said yes. His tone of voice and demeanor made me distrust him right away. I just stood by and watched. There was a woman in the crowd that I knew from high school.

First the con man told them to each give him just one dollar and they did. My former classmate gave me a smug look when I shook my head no at her as she handed over her dollar. The guy used group feeling and social pressure in his voice tone to ridicule the holdouts, so one or two if them also handed out a dollar. I could feel the hostile tension in the crowd toward me and one other holdout.

Then the guy said that if they each added a five they would see how investments could work for them. H spok e quickly and smoothly. They gave him a five. He gave a quick speech about trust and asked who wanted to go higher. Several people offered him 10s and 20s. He went through a word salad about America and patriotism and how capitalism works. Then as people waited rcpectantly for a return on their money, he pocketed it, said "Caveat emptor" and slipped away through the crowd and out a door, leaving people stunned and trying to digest what had just happened.

Then they grumbled. My former classmate glared daggers at me because I had not been taken in.

[wishstar]

11. With any luck they'll forget all about their worship of him the way they did their Bush worship

They were quick to drop all support for the Bushes after Jr. left economy in shambles and they quickly pivoted to blaming Obama
as if Bush had never existed. They refused to support Jeb Bush after the GWB debacle.

We can only hope they drop Trump like a rock and that his wannabe clone DeSantis implodes after overreaching trying to emulate him.

From personal experience with a brainwashed close family member, they will pivot away if Fox continues with more Fox shows like the Bret Baier interview and if right wing radio and internet blogs plus outlets like the Daily Mail continue to be fed up and pile on the ridicule and criticism.

[yardwork]

24. Absolutely. They are easily led and don't think for themselves.

They'll do whatever Fox News tells them to do.

[Beartracks]

29. That's why Trump ran as a Republican. A con man needs marks, and...

... so many conservatives yearn for an authority figure to follow.

===========

[SergeStorms]

33. He tried to be a Democrat.....

but the Democratic party saw through his thin veil of respectability and wouldn't allow him to get anywhere near the reins of power.

Republicans had no such reservations. They knew all about Trump's racist tendencies, his predilection for lying and committing "soft crime", and they welcomed him with open arms.

[orangecrush]

13. That's no shit

[onecaliberal]

16. K&R

[Ray Bruns]

17. MAGA replies: "La, La, La. I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS1010US1010&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEdfM-QLppDh1wHpzR_jZ2xFje4UJbA:1687272418162&q=i+can%27t+hear+you&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0tP7Ii9L_AhVNElkFHZsvAPYQ0pQJegQICRAB&biw=390&bih=669&dpr=3#imgrc=6mF-3kKhjrBZrM

[Funtatlaguy]

18. Well stated. Wish my MAGA family would believe it

[LymphocyteLover]

36. I fear they are totally immune to this sort of thing

[Celerity]

39. they probably LITERALLY still see this in their feeble mind's eyes when they hear 'Trump'

when the reality is..........

[mgardener]

19. Yes!

Does anybody know who wrote it?

[mwb970]

20. Will any of them ever admit it?

[lastlib]

28. No. Becuz her e-mails. Benghazi.....

Hunter's laptop. Bill Clinton's penis. That's their mentality.

[Cosmocat]

21. They knew pretty much all of this

and they got exactly what they wanted ...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. "Oh, yeah? Well, wuddabout you guys and the Biden Crime Family, huh?"

If only it were as easy as grabbing them by the lapels (and/or bandoliers) and shouting that OP at them... but they won't allow themselves to accept it.

[captain queeg]

27. If we survive thru the next election the time will come where they deny they ever supported him

And they’ll just pick a new lord and savior to worship. They won’t admit how wrong they were.

[Quanto Magnus]

31. Unfortunately, MAGAts

don't care one bit.... They truly are a cult.

[The Grand Illuminist]

40. Much more than a cult.

A deadly network is best described.

[Recycle_Guru]

32. they should repent and vote for Biden

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. send this to Lindsey Graham

What a pathetic loser.

I am salivating the day that Trump finally brings down the Republican party. However that happens. An internal civil war in their party maybe. And Lindsey is at last confronted with his famous quote:

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it."

Especially since he has played such a vital role in keeping him in power and head of the party, for so long.

[mahina]

37. Us and Ukraine

💔

[Stuart G]

43. K and R...Thanks for posting.... TWO MORE IDEAS ABOUT...'DONALD TRUMP"

DONALD TRUMP IS A ...KILLER WHO KILLED PEOPLE.

.THAT IS PLAIN & SIMPLE......

WHAT KIND OF SENTENCE TO YOU GIVE TO A .....KILLER WHO KILLED PEOPLE..?

[SWBTATTReg]

48. And he is laughing at you behind your backs. Little shifty conman w/ the tinies hands in the

Universe.

[raising2moredems]

49. I saw some dumbass magat..

On a no-wonder-you-were-defunded-advertising-wise forum bitching about an "obiden executive order from March 2020". Replied Uh. if March 2020, it wasn't Biden. All I can say is the majority of the minority of TFG are dying by the day (COVID or no COVID).

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

50. BS on not being a christian

You don't get to pawn him off on non-christians just because you don't like him.

He was raised in a christian church. He has been an open and lifelong follower of an internationally known chrisitan minister, who officiated at least one of his marriages. He repeatedly talks about the influence that minister has had on his life, and plenty of evidence exists that much of his behavior is the logical extension of that minister's teachings.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-2016-norman-vincent-peale-213220/

Futhermore, he has never, ever professed to being anything other than christian. He lies about a great many things, but he has never bothered to lie that he's a non-christian of *any* variety.

He may not go to church often, but plenty of christians don't. Unchurched !=not christian.

He may be ignorant of the book, but, if if that were enough to disqualify someone from being christian, then that wipes out 90% or more of their membership ranks. That's how few have more than a passing knowledge of any part of the book. Not knowing the book != being not-christian. In fact, if you want to find someone actually informed about it, go ask the average atheist. A higher percentage of them know more than christians do about what's in their book.

He may be ignorant of various tenets of the faith or a particular sect--but, again, so are most christians. Ignorant of the more minute parts of what constitutes the religion != not being a christian.

So that part of the meme is a vicious, bigoted lie.