A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap...

[maspaha]

and surgically enhanced “pouty lips” asked to meet my St Bernard dog and take her picture. I said NO. If you don’t share my values of common decency, I will not share my St Bernard with you. I protect my dogs from cruelty.

[ecstatic]

1. they KNOW what the cap represents

They are bullies. Plain and simple. I'm glad you said no.

[paleotn]

11. Don't be bullied. Point at them and laugh.

[Borogove]

2. These people have no familiarity with shame and should be banished from polite society.

[Tim S]

3. That's one way to win hearts and minds...

If we refuse to engage the ignorant and show them how they are acting against their (and OUR) best interests, they will never change.

[erronis]

5. They have no hearts or minds to win. That's why they are part of the cult.

They can go put their pouty lips elsewhere.

[mchill]

28. A MAGA wrote this to me on a FB group today

Re: The recent Epstein news

“….[MAGAs have never] given a crap about what Trump is or has been. It’s all about the policies that we want instituted.”

[lastlib]

9. If tRumpers could be reasoned with, they wouldn't be tRumpers.

If they can't see what he is by now, they most likely never will. His supporters are clearly impervious to truth or facts; only their own "alternative facts" (aka lies) sink into their cranial cavities.

A couple months ago, I was coming out of the local post office, and saw a man coming down the sidewalk toward the entrance where I was exiting. I was holding the door open for him, until I saw his shirt which said, "If you don't like tRump, you won't like me." I waited until he was about five feet from me, then closed the door, and said, "You're right!" and walked off. He was probably pissed off, but I didn't give a flying f about it, and still don't.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. It's Been Ten Years Now That Many Of These People...

...joined his cult of personality.
You think they are persuadable if 10 years of first hand observation hasn't already made them see the light?
That's an illogical expectation.

[Aristus]

21. Trying to win their hearts and minds is a fool's errand. And we are no fools.

They have neither hearts nor minds. Refusing to engage with them at this point is not malicious or short-sighted. It's protective coloration. We want them to not be Trumpsters. They want us dead. That's the difference.

I am an unashamed peace-and-love, campfire, kum-bah-yah kind of liberal. But even I know when to stop being walked on and start letting them have a dose of their own medicine.

[Cirsium]

25. No

That does not work and can be dangerous.

[Whiskeytide]

32. I think there is a stark difference between someone that ...

… voted for Тяцмp because they were inundated with lies and were fooled into thinking he would be better than a democrat at a few things he claimed he would do, and a cult member - who can be identified because they wear his garb and fly his flags. The former can often be made to understand the error of their ways. The latter are essentially hopeless. If you wear Тяцмp merch, it means you WANT people to know what you are, and perhaps even welcome the looks because it makes you feel superior. That’s too far gone in my opinion.

[travelingthrulife]

38. Uh-huh.

[LoisB]

4. Good on 'ya! Way to take a stand.

[Whyisthisstillclose]

6. Awesome. They only hear support from the other cult members because many of us are too polite to say anything negative.

Thus they think everyone agrees with them. This wasn't violence or nasty in any way. Fantastic way to make your point!

[Tribetime]

7. I love it no need for animal cruelty

[Chicagogrl1]

8. I Live For the Day When

They are embarrassed to represent the pedo sociopathic liar

[KS Toronado]

23. I told a MAGAt I know real well a couple weeks back

I can see what's coming in about 10 years, what's that he asked....

Ten years from now you'll be telling people he never fooled you and you never voted for him.

[Grim Chieftain]

10. Dogs are too precious to be used

for a MAGA photo op.

[paleotn]

12. I don't want to breath the same oxygen as those trash.

[TheRickles]

19. Actually, you'd be breathing the carbon dioxide that they exhaled. But I take your point. :-)

[paleotn]

20. Same atmospheric gases.

[travelingthrulife]

39. I always like to point this out to MAHA types. Each breath of air has already

been used over and over and over again.

[Emile]

14. Kristi Noem wanted to take a picture with your dog?

[IcyPeas]

34. Yeah! I definitely would've asked her about Noem shooting her dog

[BannonsLiver]

15. That line from Stand By Me comes to mind: "Chopper! Sic balls!"

[Collimator]

16. You could always shrug like you're considering it . . .

. . . And then say, "Maybe. Adolph Hitler did like dogs, after all."

[erronis]

27. Love that. It would be fun to count the seconds before she "got it".

[Fla Dem]

17. WOW! Way To Go maspaha!!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

18. ..

[Javaman]

22. You will know them by their red hats and bad lips

😁👍

[mountain grammy]

24. I'm glad for this post btecause it makes me think about what I would say and do in that situation..

So, I think if someone approaches me to take a pic with my dog and that person is wearing a trump or maga hat I would say, of course but you must remove your hat...I don't want my dog to appear in a picture associated with that fool.

If he or she removes the hat, maybe we can have a conversation.

[Irish_Dem]

26. I don't trust what this woman would do to your dog.

These people can be quite dangerous as we are finding out every day.

[Marie Marie]

30. As long as your dog didn't bite her in her oversized lips, I think you did all that was required of you.

[AdamGG]

29. It's a weird compulsion for them to

put their IQ's on their hats.

[Irish_Dem]

31. And their level of moral development and sanity.

It is like a combined IQ, personality, and morality test all in one.

[Dave Bowman]

33. K&R 👍

[3Hotdogs]

35. I ike pouty lips.

Where do you live?

[live love laugh]

36. Noem is in DC ... or a nearby military base.

[DFW]

37. I think the dog wasn't aware of the attempted insult.

Otherwise, pouty-lips would have had severe dog bites on both hands and arms.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

40. trmp's constant comments, punching down and equating that treatment of people, "like a dog" did it for me.

I am a disabled veteran with a medically-trained service dog. He goes everywhere with me. He IS a very charming and handsome guy (a Red Labrador Retriever) and people are always approaching me. He has no less than SEVEN tags on his blue vest that identify him as a service dog, two that say "DO NOT PET." And yet I still get these maga people coming up to me and wanting to pet him. (I was told long ago by the agency that trained him that I am a goodwill ambassador for every other service dog and handler out there and I try to keep that in mind for the good of our community.) But, it tries my patience when I have to explain this to these dimwits over and over that he is not a pet, he is a medical service dog and he has an important job - focusing his laser like attention on ME. Any distraction from that could be disastrous for me. They look at me like I'm being unreasonable. I remain polite. However since the shutdown began, I have lost my cool with these people and have started to ask them if English is their first language and of so, are they literate. One woman became very indignant with me and said of course she was literate. I then pointed to the "DO NOT PET" signs and asked her to read them out loud to me. That shut her up quick. I fear my patience is reaching its limit.