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This is the "Turning Point USA" we need.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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LMAO. Suffer, bitch.
I get all of the comments here. I understand the anger and distain that so many of you are feeling over the current state of things. I share in many of the frustrations and anger.
But it depresses me that Trump won't run for office again. He will be replaced by someone and the entire pool of former Trumpers will see that person and think that they can do all the things they hoped that Trump would do.
Even if Trump exits office without doing any further significant harm, the people who have made these kinds of revelations, like in the OP, will probably still vote for the same party, in spite of it all. Sure, they may never vote for Trump again, but they'll never get the chance to anyways, so who cares?
This was calculated.
Don't be surprised if the next candidate follows the same playbook as Trump, and don't be surprised if the MAGA crowd falls for it again.
The only way forward, to ensure that this kind of damage is stopped, is to rally together in sufficient numbers to ensure that these folks don't get into office any more. The absentee voters need to get out and vote.
I am confident that the numbers would work out if we could get enough people to the voting booth.
I would love (well...not really "love") to see the rest of that tweet as I expect them to say something along the lines of "...but I still love you and believe in you and how much you love America yadda yadda"...
When exactly are children starving through their own fault?
When are adults starving through their own fault?
It's just something to add emphasis, no need to nitpick.
When someone leaves a cult, ya got two choices. Accept them or reject them. If you reject them they'll just run straight to another cult
She voted 3 times for a racist idiot. The last time she knew he was also a pedo.
I may have missed some posts, but I didn's see a word about deportations tearing apart families. She's cool with that. She's angry because Trump hurt the "wrong gmoups". He was supposed to hurt only some other groups.
Fortunately for me, I don't live in the US, I am not a US citizen, and I don't have to "accept her".
I bet she will rally behind the next guy promising to hurt "others", but posing as anti-Trump because he hurt some "good" Americans.
didn't say you had to forgive. Just that you had two choices.
Rejection will 100% guarantee they will flock to the next leader promising to retaliate for them
fall for it once or twice shame on them, for fore it more than 3 times shame on the person.
Ain't wrong. But this is bullshit.
Agreed. Too good to be true.
Not a single phonetic-based misspelling? Such lies.
the Epstein shutdown
At least she sees it. I'm glad she does.
Pretty sure this is fake. People who don't think so have way way more faith in these idiots than I do. The ones who do not starve to death will be voting for him in the next election.
Why would this be "the Epstein shutdown"? Sorry I'm out of the loop(non-american)
While it isn't the full motive for the shutdown, part of the motive is likely avoiding release of the Epstine files. Currently, only one more "yes" vote is required in the House of Representatives to pass a resolution calling for the release of the files. There is a new member of the House who was elected in Arizona but she hasn't been sworn in yet. The Speaker of the House has been delaying swearing her in for two months and has essentially shut down the House to avoid the issue. In the mean time, this means that the House is doing literally nothing to end the ongoing government shutdown.
The house isn't the hold up in the shutdown, but the rest is accurate. House can't help end the shutdown until the filibuster in the Senate ends. But there's other things, like committee investigations, they could be doing.
They're also holding up shutdown negotiations by not passing anything new that the senate can work with. They're basically saying "do a clean CR or nothing".
I really don't understand how these people manage to dilute themselves into believing he'd be any different to the first time he was in office.
The fact that her username is The Patriotic Blonde really just tells you all you need to know. She's got no personality at all, she has one character trait, and it may not be all that interesting but nonetheless, her entire life revolves around it.
The fact that her username is The Patriotic Blonde really just tells you
…that the whole thing was probably never a real person posting their actual thoughts to begin with?
dilute themselves
Though I don't feel bad for her, I would argue we should try to be nice. I'd rather have her see the light for the mistakes she made than her continuing being on the side of evil
We need more people on the right side
She hasn't changed. She'll vote for the next Trump who they believe will be more surgical when it comes to hurting people they don't like. This is her basically telling the party to reduce the collateral damage. The ideology that brought her to support them hasn't changed.
It's taken the collapse of the system for them to even notice there is a problem. Notice how she has no issue with ICE and their abuses? Her issue is that the economy isn't doing well, and her investments are falling apart. That's what she's upset about.
These people are not seeing the light, they are simply upset that they are having to burden the consequences as much as the "Other™" people.
In most free societies, an individual's political beliefs are viewed as product of their circumstance, and since circumstances change for people all the time, their politics are also expected to change. The very concept of democracy revolves around the idea that people are able to change their opinions. This idea that politics is some sort immutable personality trait is only found among authoritarians because their ideologies are so rigid that they don't leave any room for nuance.
Your opinion here is shouldn't even be argued. It should be the standard for any individual who genuinely believes in the concept of democracy.
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Maybe all of you on Lemmy see this and sigh, but there's a lot of MAGA supporters out there who might need to see this.
They would most likely claim this is dem fake news and/or put the responsibility of her demise on her.
Cute, but of course it's fake, a 'feel-good' post for the left. Some of the phrasing ('we see you', 'Sit down', etc) exposes this as someone on the left impersonating a magat. MAGA simply does not talk like that.
Look at the profile and timeline. It's all anti-trump, anti-repub stuff, just done in a way to sound like coming from a conservative POV. No posts bashing Democrats which a real maga account would definitely have.
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All the MAGA morons I know are totally fine with what is going on
I frequently chat with my neighbor who is a Q-class Trumper. Over the past year, I've been able to observe the leopards licking his face as if I were filming a nature documentary in 4k. We actually get along great. I like having a window into whatever inane, batshit information he consumes, and he really enjoys my company, as I don't outwardly judge him, and I listen. Naturally, he's on disability and dependent upon the state. As such, he's running low on funds and needs to move in a couple months.
We had elections this past week in my state. I told him that I voted, and he offered up some excuses as to why he can't make it to the polls. We tend not to directly discuss politics, because I told him a long time back that I'm still salty about Bernie. Deep down, he knows that we don't align, but he doesn't want to rock the boat. I give his pets treats. I give him treats. He occasionally mentions various religion-based conspiracies and alludes to looming conflict and the criminality of the left, but he's become more mum on this front. I think, the gears may be turning in his head.
I don't have any grand insights with which to conclude my anecdote. I give the guy a 30-70 chance of rediscovering reality. But, by being nice to the dude, I do think his chances are much better than they would be had I ignored him the past few years.
But your story just continues to show that nobody with such strong opinions seem to care until it directly effects them. In your case, it sounds like they are right on the border of realizing this. It just sucks that this is what it takes for them to even consider this.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be Compassionate! She THOUGHT that by Electing Trump ONLY Trans and Brown kids would be Hurt! She NEVER Thought ~~Jesus~~ Trump would go after WHITE People too! Be NICE!
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Patriotic but only to one particular citizen America as a whole can get in the bin that's the real American patriotism
Our little victim doesn't even know basic vocabulary. This was not "gaslighting". It was plain old "lying". Simple, easy to spot, as long as you try.
I cannot bring myself to believe that this is real. The only way I can believe someone so eloquent of a writer would believe Trump is if they are in on it and it seems she's not a billionaire. Also, I don't think people who would vote for Trump 3 times would ever have the ability to reflect and change their view on him.
If they would be capable of that, we wouldn't be here in the first place.
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