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calimary

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33. I really LOVE the term MAGABomber. It's perfection!
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 01:07 PM
Oct 2018

An outstanding framing job! LOVE it! Throws so much shade on the whole MAGA construct. Adds massive negativity, which is very well deserved.

I look at those jerks at his rallies, cheering his insults, gobbling up his lies, hooting and yowling and mindlessly chanting “Lock her up!” - it’s like a two-minute hate. No - a whole maddening string of two-minute hates at every rally. That’s all those rallies are! And these assholes flock to it, with their deep-seated inner sewers of resentment, racism, misogyny, bullying, misplaced sense of entitlement, and every bad thing your mom (hopefully) told you not to do.

One of my favorite movies is “Forbidden Planet,” where a brilliant scientist is overcome by his inner demons, which his own research into boosting his mental powers had unleashed. He called them “monsters from the id.” When those monsters escaped into the open, mayhem, violence, horror, and death soon followed.

I wonder if that’s what we’re seeing - what trump is bringing out in people. What he’s connecting with, deep inside his fans, who’ve probably been told those feelings and urges and deeper, baser instincts are not nice and should be suppressed and gotten over and buried. And they don’t want to have to be suppressed like that anymore. Nor do they want to be told those inclinations are bad or undesirable or immoral or wrong or anti-social. They want that inner poison to be validated, which I suspect is why they love trump and cling to him so ardently. HE says it’s okay. I look at those rallies and those wretched attendees and cannot stop asking myself - “what does that say about them?”

After all, trump couldn’t connect so thoroughly and intensely with that element - if it wasn’t already there in the first place.

NY Post: Caught Red Hatted [View all] demmiblue Oct 2018 OP
Kick dalton99a Oct 2018 #1
New York Post, not the Daily News. SMC22307 Oct 2018 #2
Thank you! demmiblue Oct 2018 #4
Ha ha, I do stuff like that too... no biggie! SMC22307 Oct 2018 #6
It's an honest mistake. GoCubsGo Oct 2018 #18
Has the NY Post run other front pages which seem anti-Republican? NT Eric J in MN Oct 2018 #15
Yes. Do a quick Google of NYP Trump headlines. SMC22307 Oct 2018 #19
Ah, Bushy-Babes, lest we forget! RVN VET71 Oct 2018 #25
Ugh, thanks for the walk down memory lane. SMC22307 Oct 2018 #37
Americans have the memory of a gnat BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #46
Pretty sure it's a White thing... czarjak Oct 2018 #47
That second one should have gotten Bush impeached Polybius Oct 2018 #28
Nobody covered this, because nobody WANTED to cover this. calimary Oct 2018 #29
That's a damn shame Polybius Oct 2018 #30
Hillary Clinton displayed her NY Post copy on the senate floor oasis Oct 2018 #49
"Left-wing" media covered all of it... SMC22307 Oct 2018 #35
Who covered it ? Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #42
Keith was all over it! SMC22307 Oct 2018 #50
Many ... Silver1 Oct 2018 #22
Actually, the NY Post tparrett62 Oct 2018 #3
I take this as the wind is finally maybe blowing in our direction. Hugin Oct 2018 #5
Let's hope so Maggiemayhem Oct 2018 #13
"Florida stripper" - I love it. yardwork Oct 2018 #7
Big difference between previous strippers and this guy Maggiemayhem Oct 2018 #14
The description will enrage "manly men" Trumpsters. yardwork Oct 2018 #16
Never thought I'd see this from the NY Post MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #8
Media 'turning a corner' on trump coverage? empedocles Oct 2018 #10
God I hope MaryMagdaline Oct 2018 #12
Nah. Just whatever will sell more copies today. Expect nothing. yardwork Oct 2018 #17
I know! The Daily News maybe, but I was kind of shocked to smirkymonkey Oct 2018 #39
LOL!!!! CatWoman Oct 2018 #9
MAGA: Make America Gory Again. raging moderate Oct 2018 #11
I really LOVE the term MAGABomber. It's perfection! calimary Oct 2018 #33
Red hat/Hatred PunkinPi Oct 2018 #20
Dang! BOOM! calimary Oct 2018 #34
Your hubs is right. Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #43
Ii LOVE it!!!! hostalover Oct 2018 #21
To add to the profile (from posts I've seen elsewhere): RVN VET71 Oct 2018 #23
Speaking of which, I have several red hats w different things on them, and now Crutchez_CuiBono Oct 2018 #24
Same here ThoughtCriminal Oct 2018 #38
GREAT picture!! Crutchez_CuiBono Oct 2018 #40
MAGAs are never that happy ThoughtCriminal Oct 2018 #41
I feel your pain. Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #44
Trumpkins, red hats, republican liberal N proud Oct 2018 #26
Clever! BobTheSubgenius Oct 2018 #27
What's wrong with his face? Too many "selfie filters"? Or has he had work done? NurseJackie Oct 2018 #31
Sorry, I was more stuck on Denzil_DC Oct 2018 #32
Or Blackadder !!! Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #45
I can never read these, so don't ever know what they say. PatrickforO Oct 2018 #36
Wow. This is the NY POST!!! Murdoch-owned. sharedvalues Oct 2018 #48
K&R Docreed2003 Oct 2018 #51
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