I was gonna say, I’m of the demographic and they’d still find a way to take my vote because of living in a blue city.

Fuck man, I’m in the middle of all that fucking bible belt out. you’ll have a lot of us trying to get the hell out.

Honestly, we still are now.

While I agree, the cult has fractured a few times. It’s the irritating part of Trump that he’s just smart enough to back off when he knows he’s losing his cult.

The vaccine thing is one of them. Early on there was a speech where he’s talking about how good it was, and that he has it and that his people should have it. His crowd booed him. That moment he went full anti-vax in his rhetoric. Trump is in the lead and pouring gasoline on the fire, but he doesn’t have control over his own cult if it goes a way he doesn’t want it to go. Unfortunately he’s just smart enough to keep them happy knowing they’ll tear him apart if he steps in their way.

HE WAS THE ONE THAT PUSHED OPERATION WARP SPEED! The literal thing that created the shots! The method of them being “developed too fast” was Trump!

We were always at war with Eastasia.

Mitch McConnell could be argued to be the man who killed the US with how much damage he did to it. Right now Trump is the evil that’s at the top because he got control of the party, but the house wouldn’t be falling apart around had the termite infestation of Moscow Mitch not put holes through the entire thing.

You’re completely right. Identifying as a republican doesn’t matter if you voted Trump or not, Republicans ARE the problem.

A southern term I grew up hearing and will use “I wouldn’t cross the street to piss on him if he was on fire.”

I 100% agree with this. But I can agree while saying this is illegal and must be stopped, he also 100% deserves it happening to him while it’s happening.

I’m not gonna stop on this, but I’m certainly going to point and laugh at Bolton.

Sad part is, any of his followers are cheering for this.

Hypocrisy to them is a virtue.

Had me going in the first half, not gonna lie.

I mean… He’s a Missouri AG. Both Senator positions from Missouri are filled with AGs who didn’t finish their terms being MAGAt mouthpieces, only so many ladders to climb.

Two years of free credit monitoring, which when you sign up for explicitly in the fine print gives permission for the credit monitoring service to sell your data.

He bankrupted a casino. That’s all you need to get.

The problem is the big hungry bears are looking at y’all trying to figure out how to divvy your area up, and only thing keeping the Trump one from just cozying completely up to the other is his inability to stick with a thought process for more than five minutes.

Oh I’ve done the compassion front right up until the last election. I talked just like this on “No, we need to meet halfway.”

After enough “I did it to own the libs” I’ve learned my lesson.

Where does that get you? Does writing them off instead of reaching out to them make the world better?

I’ll tell you where working with them, trying to understand them, trying to help them see how the different parties have direct affect on their lives has gotten me. I’ve got to have the ability to talk republican because I work in blue collar jobs, yet I’ve tried so very hard to show how it directly affects their lives and being compassionate.

It’s gotten me them proudly coming in and crowing they voted Republican, keeping to their sports teams, and the people who hate the republicans telling me “I just really don’t care about politics.”

So where does me writing them off get me? Finally understanding I CANNOT get to them, and my life has been a process of teaching a pig to sing. It wastes my time and annoys the pig.

Yet we have people that seems to defend these people like they’re not.

I don’t have a lot of hope of “winning people over”, it might come from living in a red state where people keep voting for the party that fucks them over, they get mad when they get fucked over, then they vote for the party that promises to take away the lube.

As in: WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?

They’re the ones that are supporting tyranny. The 2A shit was always a grift.

Cripes…No Democrats, it’s not fighting Texas, it’s fighting against every damn red state.

Speak to shit realistically for the love of democracy.

From Missouri: THANK YOU!

No no no… you don’t get it. Walmart isn’t cowards.

They funded Project 2025. This is EXACTLY what they want.