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The convoy turning on each other. ......... (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2024 OP
It's what Magats do. gab13by13 Feb 2024 #1
Good one!........................... Lovie777 Feb 2024 #3
They've all got a purity test central scrutinizer Feb 2024 #50
When they tell you who they are, believe them. LakeArenal Feb 2024 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2024 #16
Fight, fight, fight! Jesus continues to weep Walleye Feb 2024 #4
Now, Jesus is laughing.j keithbvadu2 Feb 2024 #36
You know I think that may be true. I'd give the guy a sense of humor Walleye Feb 2024 #47
Kick dalton99a Feb 2024 #5
Thugs and bullies with only themselves to hassle sanatanadharma Feb 2024 #6
Reminds Rebl2 Feb 2024 #34
Like a nest of scorpions..... lastlib Feb 2024 #37
They must be awfully confused. Mariana Feb 2024 #49
Now if only they would make it terminal. niyad Feb 2024 #7
I can get behind that. MontanaMama Feb 2024 #24
"... they're not sending their best." Jim__ Feb 2024 #8
We need an S. Clay Wilson battle-to-the-death. Where's the Checkered Demon when you need him? NBachers Feb 2024 #9
It was just a matter of time. GoCubsGo Feb 2024 #10
counting down to dr strangelove? AllaN01Bear Feb 2024 #23
Lord of the Flies!! TSExile Feb 2024 #11
Put a bunch of hate filled vipers in one spot and this is what happens RAB910 Feb 2024 #12
MAGA version of the shootout between the Bandidos and Cossacks at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. sop Feb 2024 #13
I don't get it Farmer-Rick Feb 2024 #14
"You're not even from Texas" IronLionZion Feb 2024 #15
I had heard that DHS moved any migrants that were in the area BumRushDaShow Feb 2024 #17
Bon Appetit 😋😆 sheshe2 Feb 2024 #40
ROFL! Hekate Feb 2024 #56
Wait til they go home & find out their moms changed the locks Attilatheblond Feb 2024 #31
These people are really fucking stupid. Emile Feb 2024 #18
Where is Snake Plisskin when you need him? Layzeebeaver Feb 2024 #19
He was guarding the migrants KS Toronado Feb 2024 #21
Stupid is as Stupid does, and the stupid runs way deep with this bunch. Ford_Prefect Feb 2024 #20
I've been having problems posting Twitter links to FB TlalocW Feb 2024 #22
Just a wild guess, are you using twitter.com or x.com? usonian Feb 2024 #46
I think I've tried both TlalocW Feb 2024 #48
THis is what happens when your politics is all about hating "them" JI7 Feb 2024 #25
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2024 #26
Haters gonna hate mountain grammy Feb 2024 #27
I feel bad for their families, who are at the mercy of these "violent thugs". Midnight Writer Feb 2024 #28
Always the first thing I think. If they're that close to the edge in public, they routinely go over the edge at home. Scrivener7 Feb 2024 #53
This Enola Feb 2024 #29
I wonder atreides1 Feb 2024 #30
On 1/6... TSExile Feb 2024 #33
They didn't have to pay for it. llmart Feb 2024 #38
I have highly suspected dark money. TSExile Feb 2024 #45
Given that most remote work takes brains GenThePerservering Feb 2024 #52
They don't even realize that the authoritarian dream that they wish for chowder66 Feb 2024 #32
"Jesus wept." dchill Feb 2024 #35
If this isn't the perfect display of toxic masculinity... llmart Feb 2024 #39
If you are, then I'm bad too. TSExile Feb 2024 #62
Motto: "We're goons one; we're goons all" struggle4progress Feb 2024 #41
Dog Fight or just a pissing contest. 🤔 sheshe2 Feb 2024 #42
Was that a shotgun or some other kind of gun Demobrat Feb 2024 #43
Double post n/t Demobrat Feb 2024 #44
Watched without audio. limbicnuminousity Feb 2024 #51
Awww. This brings me joy. Hekate Feb 2024 #54
They're frustrated. They came all that way and all they found when they got there was each other. Scrivener7 Feb 2024 #55
LOL! peggysue2 Feb 2024 #57
Breaking: All Trump Supporters Go To Heaven! jmowreader Feb 2024 #58
$500 in fuel, $1000 in hotel/food/beer, a week of vacation burned, getagrip_already Feb 2024 #59
When you put enough like-minded people together, they will subdivide into 'us and them'. keithbvadu2 Feb 2024 #60
WWJD - Who Would Jesus Deck? rurallib Feb 2024 #61
OMG what a bunch of ignorant fuckers gopiscrap Feb 2024 #63
When I as a 4th grader. There was no internet to capture our lindysalsagal Feb 2024 #64
warms the cockles of my heart pfitz59 Feb 2024 #65

Response to LakeArenal (Reply #2)

sanatanadharma

(4,090 posts)
6. Thugs and bullies with only themselves to hassle
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 10:24 AM
Feb 2024

Thugs and bullies with only themselves to hassle hassle each other; and if alone, they beat themselves up in mind and spirit because they are not fully integrated human-beings with compassion and kindergarten graduation certificates.

lastlib

(28,603 posts)
37. Like a nest of scorpions.....
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 01:01 PM
Feb 2024

Ever watch a bunch of scorpions in a contained space? It's all-out war--pretty brutal.

These nitwits reminded me of that.

Mariana

(15,630 posts)
49. They must be awfully confused.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 03:11 PM
Feb 2024

Don't they usually prefer to pick on teenagers, small women, and frail old people?

Jim__

(15,276 posts)
8. "... they're not sending their best."
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 10:29 AM
Feb 2024

When MAGA "sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. ..."

NBachers

(19,570 posts)
9. We need an S. Clay Wilson battle-to-the-death. Where's the Checkered Demon when you need him?
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 10:37 AM
Feb 2024

Steve Clay Wilson was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson attracted attention from readers with aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of lowlife denizens, often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Clay_Wilson

GoCubsGo

(34,997 posts)
10. It was just a matter of time.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 10:44 AM
Feb 2024

When you're selfish and paranoid, eventually, everyone becomes your enemy. Even your own ilk. The same thing is happening with their GOPer counterparts in Congress. Pass the popcorn.

sop

(19,287 posts)
13. MAGA version of the shootout between the Bandidos and Cossacks at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 11:01 AM
Feb 2024

Or maybe it's an East Coast-West Coast white nationalist thing?

Farmer-Rick

(12,786 posts)
14. I don't get it
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 11:03 AM
Feb 2024

What are they fighting about?

Aren't MAGAts all about religion?

The white supremacist is upset with the bible thumpers? Weird, I guess any kind of hate will do in Nazi land.

IronLionZion

(51,550 posts)
15. "You're not even from Texas"
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 11:12 AM
Feb 2024


Not all MAGATs are about the same things. Some are just overflowing with hate and anger and looking for a fight with whoever is nearby.

BumRushDaShow

(172,207 posts)
17. I had heard that DHS moved any migrants that were in the area
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 11:17 AM
Feb 2024

away... So all they had left was to eat their own.

TlalocW

(15,675 posts)
22. I've been having problems posting Twitter links to FB
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 11:48 AM
Feb 2024

The text and videos used to just show up like they do in this post but not now. Did Elon break something?

usonian

(26,586 posts)
46. Just a wild guess, are you using twitter.com or x.com?
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 01:28 PM
Feb 2024

There was a problem a while back. I don't post such things, so I can't verify.

Midnight Writer

(25,733 posts)
28. I feel bad for their families, who are at the mercy of these "violent thugs".
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 12:06 PM
Feb 2024

Again, I wonder how many of these folks have previous criminal records, and how many of them are intoxicated.

Scrivener7

(60,067 posts)
53. Always the first thing I think. If they're that close to the edge in public, they routinely go over the edge at home.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 06:05 PM
Feb 2024

Enola

(38 posts)
29. This
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 12:10 PM
Feb 2024

is what would happen if they get what they want. People like this will kill each other off because they don't trust anybody. I say put them all in Texas and then go in and clean up the bodies when they're done.

atreides1

(16,799 posts)
30. I wonder
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 12:11 PM
Feb 2024

How many of those people are doing remote work...and do their employers know what they're up to?

TSExile

(3,363 posts)
33. On 1/6...
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 12:29 PM
Feb 2024

...it always amazed me how all these "average Joes" were able to afford to get to DC and have all this free time. How did they get time off from their jobs? Take vacation time? Some vacation...

llmart

(17,728 posts)
38. They didn't have to pay for it.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 01:02 PM
Feb 2024

Ginny Thomas probably footed the bill for them to get there. Also, most of them may not have jobs, and not because there aren't jobs out there.

chowder66

(12,506 posts)
32. They don't even realize that the authoritarian dream that they wish for
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 12:29 PM
Feb 2024

will cause their own to turn on each other. The big dogs will take out the smaller dogs in no time; taking their businesses, their money and worse.
Then those left with the most will start going after each other until you have a Putin 2.0 oligarchy. After that people will start falling out of windows right here in the good ole U.S.A.

llmart

(17,728 posts)
39. If this isn't the perfect display of toxic masculinity...
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 01:05 PM
Feb 2024

I don't know what is.

The anger and hatred these guys display is not only frightening and disturbing to me, I have to wonder how long before that eats them up to the point where they have an "episode".

Am I bad to get such pleasure out of seeing them turn on their own kind?

TSExile

(3,363 posts)
62. If you are, then I'm bad too.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 07:30 PM
Feb 2024

Have you ever read Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Du Mez? It's a historic timeline of how toxic masculinity and toxic religion begat MAGA. It explains a lot, really.

Demobrat

(10,310 posts)
43. Was that a shotgun or some other kind of gun
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 01:14 PM
Feb 2024

that I heard?
How delicious if they start shooting each other.

Scrivener7

(60,067 posts)
55. They're frustrated. They came all that way and all they found when they got there was each other.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 06:12 PM
Feb 2024

They're owed beer money and travel money and many experiences.

jmowreader

(53,394 posts)
58. Breaking: All Trump Supporters Go To Heaven!
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 06:52 PM
Feb 2024

THE GATES OF HELL (Spurious News Network) -- Satan, Dark Ruler of the Underworld and The Epitome of Evil, and Jesus Christ, Savior of the World, today announced a pact in which all Trump supporters are to be immediately shipped off to Heaven.

"We had to do it," said Satan. "They liked it too much in Hell."

In the early days of Donald Trump's Reign on Earth, all Trump supporters were instantly consigned to the Fifth Circle of Hell by Minos, guardian of the underworld, where the wrathful are banished. In the Fifth Circle, the actively wrathful fight viciously on the surface of the River Styx, a swampy and stinking cesspool. The passively wrathful, none of whom ever supported Donald Trump, are left to lie under the surface of the water.

This was originally intended to be a punishment, but it's no punishment for a Trump supporter.

"I got an urgent call from the Devil on the Red Phone," said Jesus. "I went down there and looked around, and saw nothing but immense joy among the Trump supporters. They loved to fight each other on Earth, and in Hell no one was stopping them from doing it - so they were just having the best time ever. You could tell by the smiles on their faces. So, a quick discussion with My Father later and...here we are."

A special section of Heaven has been gated off for Trump supporters. There they are treated to beautiful weather, nutritious all-you-can-eat vegan cuisine and all the Bud Light they can drink. No fighting or dissent is allowed. They are all required to live in peace and harmony.

They hate it.

According to Carl Witherspoon, a participant in the January 6 attack on the Capitol who died of falling down ten flights of stairs in federal prison, this is the worst thing that ever happened to him. "It's woke here! No guns? No red caps? No fighting? No telling anyone they're doomed because I don't like them? Having to eat this crap? Send my ass back to Hell! I liked it there!"

The leader of their movement will not be so lucky. "We have a special place in Hell reserved for Donald Trump. It's a little room with a chair in it and he'll never see anyone again. That's the worst thing that could possibly happen to him."

getagrip_already

(17,802 posts)
59. $500 in fuel, $1000 in hotel/food/beer, a week of vacation burned,
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 06:56 PM
Feb 2024

Who knows how much in drugs. And unless they go to a free clinic when they get back, those std treatments won't be cheap.

And for what?

They probably didn't even get a free hat or tee shirt.

Poor misguided souls. They don't even know how to vent anger properly.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
60. When you put enough like-minded people together, they will subdivide into 'us and them'.
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 07:24 PM
Feb 2024

Ideological, religious, and political, purity.

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