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mercuryblues

(16,478 posts)
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 02:28 PM Oct 2025

Is the tide is changing?

I live in a very red state.

So red that if the Devil ran as a republican and Jesus ran as a Democrat, The Devil would win.

At the gym today I heard a few people chatting. I have been going there for over a year and have never heard anyone talk politics ever. They are all National Guard and that spectacle pumpkin head and the bad seed put on yesterday have them pissed. On top of the shutdown. One asked, what more can I do to stay in good shape?

On the way home I saw a sign that said...Why won't he release the files? Trump signs are almost nonexistent. Very few mad, red hatters.

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Is the tide is changing? (Original Post) mercuryblues Oct 2025 OP
"So red that if the Devil ran as a Republican and Jesus ran as a Democrat, the Devil would win." sop Oct 2025 #1
I think reds are confused bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 #2
Sometimes, it takes FOR FREAKIN EVER for the obvious to set in. usonian Oct 2025 #3
Summer turns me upside down. Tetrachloride Oct 2025 #4
Is any Republican running unopposed there? Frasier Balzov Oct 2025 #5
I hear you mercuryblues Oct 2025 #6
They shut the government down to protect pedos in the Epstein files Ponietz Oct 2025 #7
and to stop people from gettiing affordable healthcare Skittles Oct 2025 #9
I know it is anectdotal but Skittles Oct 2025 #8
Maybe, too soon to tell... Fil1957 Oct 2025 #10

sop

(19,028 posts)
1. "So red that if the Devil ran as a Republican and Jesus ran as a Democrat, the Devil would win."
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 02:42 PM
Oct 2025

Depressingly similar to my state.

bucolic_frolic

(55,535 posts)
2. I think reds are confused
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 02:45 PM
Oct 2025

The American public is beginning to question the reality they see every day, on their radar is the morality of all this hatred. Their foundation is dissolving, very slowly.

usonian

(26,152 posts)
3. Sometimes, it takes FOR FREAKIN EVER for the obvious to set in.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 03:23 PM
Oct 2025

We (DU) saw it from day one.

I eagerly look forward to the “Epstein Event Horizon”

His BFF is calling.

Frasier Balzov

(5,085 posts)
5. Is any Republican running unopposed there?
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 03:37 PM
Oct 2025

You can't beat somethin' with nuthin'.

I certainly understand the reluctance to run a quixotic race.

But voters need a choice in order to properly express their displeasure and their belated understanding of what is being done to them.

mercuryblues

(16,478 posts)
6. I hear you
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 04:10 PM
Oct 2025

Some are. The good ole boy club. It seems like seats are considered sacrosanct and handed down from father to son. No matter how vile they are.

Ponietz

(4,379 posts)
7. They shut the government down to protect pedos in the Epstein files
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 05:17 PM
Oct 2025

It can’t get simpler than that.

Skittles

(172,342 posts)
8. I know it is anectdotal but
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 05:18 PM
Oct 2025

Last edited Wed Oct 1, 2025, 05:51 PM - Edit history (1)

these occasional stories give me hope that SOME people are waking up and while they may not become rabid progressives, they just MAY stop supporting that disgusting fascist POS Trump

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