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LonePirate

(14,101 posts)
1. None of them will ever receive a round of applause and a thank you from me for their conversions
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:19 AM
22 hrs ago

They should have never voted for him especially since many of them knew better. If they are expecting a welcoming party, they are in for a surprise.

Big Blue Marble

(5,615 posts)
3. Actually, we should applaud their courage.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:37 AM
22 hrs ago

And we need to welcome them. We need everyone of them to speak up and acknowledge
what they have done. If they are contrite and regrettable, this is not a time for recriminations;
this is time for action. Remember the more we welcome them, the more likely others
will speak out and join with us.

In this existential crisis, it is imperative that there aer more of us than MAGAS.
I am grateful for every one of them who sees the light and crosses over to join us.

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usonian

(18,131 posts)
2. He spelled out his plan in detail. Project 2025 and the Fascist Playbook.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:32 AM
22 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:03 AM - Edit history (1)

Fascist playbook.

It's a cookbook.

Examples:
The Fascists’ Playbook
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playbook/

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-fascist-playbook_b_585dfec2e4b04d7df167cfab

But people saw and heard only the discrimination and lies.



FAFO

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873

Here's how they plan to take complete control.
THEY CAN BE STOPPED

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

But it won't be easy.

ETA: Silicon Valley guru pours out regrets and tears for how "the geniuses" got taken to the cleaners.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220378706

artemisia1

(1,067 posts)
5. I'll accept her in our tent. Without former Trump supporters we just do NOT have the numbers. /nt
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 04:03 AM
18 hrs ago

Norbert

(7,074 posts)
8. If they will be suckered again like. 3.5 years ago, forget it.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:43 AM
15 hrs ago

I would find it more hopeful to see if my dog could interpret the writings on the Rosetta Stone.

mucholderthandirt

(1,534 posts)
9. Nah. They knew what they were doing, they get to suffer along with the rest of us.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 03:54 PM
6 hrs ago

The people we need are the ones who stayed home, or voted third party/no choice. The MAGAs will never change. They want Trump out, but will happily support the true people behind all this, Project 2025. A kindler, gentler dictatorship is A-OK with them! As long as the stupid liberals get what's comin' to them, it's all good.

Some people here are far too forgiving to people who stood by and listened to Trump's insane rants and went out and voted for exactly what he said he would do. Farmers? Go fuck yourself. I'm sure they thought the liberals would be put into labor camps by now and forced to pick those crops!

JHB

(37,722 posts)
10. I'm ok with rank and file seeing the light (however belatedly) and switching sides
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 05:13 PM
5 hrs ago

I have more problem with the welcoming with open arms of people who were media people, political advisors, politicians, those spent their careers building the road to the mess we're in now.

I know plenty of people on our side were all "the enemy of our enemy is our friend" about these people, because we needed every vote in the election, but they've proven (repeatedly, actually) that they don't move the needle at all, and it sabotages us to be seen being chummy with these people. (and plenty of them haven't really changed and are waiting for us to do all the dirty work so they can shiv us in the kidneys and go back to the Republican "normality" of 2005.)

Torchlight

(4,764 posts)
12. I dont really expect more than the smallest fraction to ever peel away anymore.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 05:26 PM
5 hrs ago

After all that's been done, said, and asserted, those still behind him will for most part, remain there until trump pulls his final act in the bunker. Even then, I expect more than a handful of his faithful flock to emigrate to Argentina and Brazil.

Nonnia Bisnez

(61 posts)
13. She seems a nice enough young woman.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:22 PM
4 hrs ago

I'm glad she realizes her mistake. But I still want to know what the hell she and others were thinking when they voted for Trump / Stein / didn't bother to vote. Trump told us what he was going to do. Harris warned us what he was going to do. She and her mom will suffer the consequenses. Unfortunately we all are going to suffer.

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