Another positive sign that some cult members are waking up

[Siwsan]

There's a house that is along my brother's bus route, in a VERY deep red part of the township. It has always been festooned with trump* flags/swags and also had a life sized cut out of the sexual offender that they displayed on their front porch.

Yesterday when my brother drove by, he saw the cut out snapped into pieces and stuffed in a trash can, along with all of the other trump* swag.

That made him VERY happy.

[MiHale]

1. Cracks are forming...

Seeing a lot of maga stuff disappearing and not being replaced.

[LuvLoogie]

3. They aren't waking up. They're pissed and embarrassed.

They will pivot to Vance in a heartbeat. They're still all in with the racist militias terrorizing the minorities, immigrants, and inner city poor.

They like the gameplan, they just want a new quarterback.

[NCDem47]

7. Yes, have slid back under their rocks.

Funny. Their guy wins. "Governs" AWFULLY...and now they aren't as outward in their support. Interesting how that works.

[Raven123]

34. Let's hope they stay there during election season

[llmart]

56. Same thing happened with Nixon after he resigned in disgrace.

He won by a landslide yet no one would admit they voted for him. Funny how that works.

[3auld6phart]

12. True

I agree with you. …Hatred is ingrained in people… has been from the beginning of re corded history … Not everyone but enough. The

[liberalgunwilltravel]

20. Vance has no following

He’s hated by pretty much everyone. When Trump is gone, Vance will be too. There are others to be concerned about, but it’s not Vance. He has all the warmth of an iceberg and the joyful personality of badger. I don’t think even Peter Thiel’s money can buy him a winning personality. At least that’s the way I read things.

[LuvLoogie]

23. It won't be about a winning personality. I mean Putin doesn't need a winning personality.

Vance will make MAGA feel like they have a winning vocabulary. Vance is like a Charlie Kirk, slick and full of Racist Jeezuz.

And the press will normalize him and both sides us even more than they do now. He will apologize for the Nazis in office now and continue to run interference for his Nazi loving base. He is the Bro Blogger Veep.

They don't need to like the guy, just the things that he does, the policies he impements.

[Gum Logger]

42. The Repukes are the masters of social engineering

More kabuki dance to watch

[BattleRow]

47. When will it be announced that God is a registered Republican?

[Jack Valentino]

52. I think they already did that many years ago......

[Qutzupalotl]

54. Makes you wonder why he created Democrats.

I like to tbink it's for contrast.

[lostnfound]

29. You could be right. But the GOP base hated Russia until a few years ago...

The message machine works wonders on that group. Sometimes the GOP can engineer a major turnaround in sentiment in less than a year.

https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=223069

[progressoid]

21. This is sadly true.

Correction. It is infuriatingly true.

[wcmagumba]

26. They will follow Jon Dumbass but he doesn't have quite the Evil Stench of rump...

Maybe he can dab on a little orange stain along with his morning eye liner...

[Skittles]

33. no fucking way Vance keeps the majority of the cult

no fucking way

[LuvLoogie]

36. Maybe, but he'll get some of the never trumpers and a lot of the "moderates"

All of the same farmers. The exact same percentages or better of white men and women. He'll be sold as a return to sanity for the GOPs.

[Skittles]

37. the man has the personality of a paper towel

like DeSantis, he tries to mimic human behavior - BADLY

[malaise]

44. The racists will not pivot to Vance n/t

[LuvLoogie]

59. He will validate them. And the media will validate him.

The racists will flock to anyone who elevates their world view. Certainly the farmers who voted for trump will vote for Vance. Who in the GOP is going to run against him? The only one who could give him a run for his money Is Margorie Taylor Greene, I think. She might just have enough "I don't give a shit." to do it.

Do I want trump's racist coalition to fall apart? Absolutely, yes. But I think that these people have so entrenched themselves and can taste the bloodlust that trump is providing them. They fear that there will be reprisals. They fear justice. Vance will shield them and advance their delusions that the targets of their bigotries are the cause of their miseries.

[Beartracks]

55. That's what I'm thinking: Down on Trump, but still MAGA to the core.

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[Attilatheblond]

4. Recently read some 'Trump Stores' have closed up around the country

[Callie1979]

6. ICE arrested the guy who STARTED the 1st Trump Burger in Tex. No shit; that happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/09/trump-burger-ice-arrest

[Permanut]

14. Poster boy for FAFO.

[Skittles]

35. right?

fuck him

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Is the occupant okay? perhaps a wellness check? /nt

[Keepthesoulalive]

5. Maybe we should let nature take its course

And give the devil his reward.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Whoopee!!

Thanks for sharing this, Siwsan!

❤️ RESIST!! ✊️

[chia]

9. I live in a blue neighborhood adjacent to a red area, and around the 24 election

there were about five houses in my neighborhood who were flying some variation of a Trump flag.
In the months after the election, they came down one by one, with one holdout. I passed the house the other day for the first time in a few weeks and the Trump flag was down. So all the Trump flags are gone now.

What I’m seeing more of these days are California state flags.

[PatSeg]

10. That is wonderful!

Hopefully it will snowball.

[LAS14]

11. Every time Trump and his minions push the envelope even further, I think...

....Maybe this is the straw that breaks the camel's back!

[Joinfortmill]

13. I'll take it, but it's likely because some policy affected them

The lack of empathy is a trademark of magas.

[calimary]

15. Good point.

All too often, that’s how you know them.

[drmeow]

40. I stopped discussing issues

with people I knew to be conservative (long before MAGA) when I realized their default was "if it didn't happen to me, it isn't true/doesn't exist." Same concept. They are the single most self absorbed idiots I've ever known.

[mucifer]

48. A lot of them blame Obama, Biden and Harris for what is happening to them NOW.

[Skittles]

49. even THEY have to realize just how fucking stupid that is

repukes own the entire government now

[ananda]

16. That IS a good sign!

Excellent!

[Warpy]

17. Wait until those stupid fucking tariffs really start to bite

and they will. They're going to chew away at all levels of the economy, taking jobs and whole businesses with them.

[aggiesal]

18. FAFO n/t

[Fullduplexxx]

19. dear leader did something this guy wanted and it turned around and bit him so now f t.rump

[jgmiller]

22. For every 1 that wakes up and flips hopefully there are 10 that become discouraged

and just go back to hating in private and not voting. The magic of what Trump did to come into power was not to get "regular" GOP voters to the polls it was to get the apathetic voters of any persuasion to the polls to vote for him and his cronies. If the apathetic go back to being apathetic then they are doomed. This is why they are in such a rush they know Trump is deteriorating and without him they have nobody to do what he does.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Insightful post. . . . .nt

[moose65]

57. Correct!

Trump woke up the grumpy, apathetic folks who never voted. And they STILL don’t vote for anyone except Trump. They didn’t come out and vote in 2018, and they won’t vote in 2026, even if Trump begs them.

And they absolutely will not worship Vance like they do Trump. Vance is exactly the kind of pretty boy that they can’t stand.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. They are getting tired of "winning". A few might think "Wait, this is the government WE warned about!". . . .nt

[OMGWTF]

28. I heard recently that Crusty Gnome is now coming for everyone's guns.

Obama expanded gun rights by allowing people to take their firearms into national parks and on Amtrak. Weird.

[Gum Logger]

43. So funny, if it wasn't such a tragedy

[CrispyQ]

30. I literally LOLd at "snapped into pieces!"

I predict a dour Christmas & if the dems had a marketing department, they'd blast the nation with ads about who has really declared a war on Christmas.

[Gum Logger]

45. Why do not the dems have a marketing department.

The repukes are all marketing department

[frogstar0]

31. Just a reminder, as much as I hate it too....

We need to welcome them if they really might vote dem. Especially if they are family or friends or former friends.those are the ones we might just get on the side of reality. Every maga voter who is turned in two votes gained. Yes I want to scream at them etc. but democracy is more important than, and we need to have as many votes as possible to leave no doubt about who won. And yes I know TACO will clam they one but the larger the dem votes the less this claim will be taken seriously.

[Skittles]

50. NOPE

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THEM - ZERO FORGIVENESS

concentrate on the people who didn't vote

[3Hotdogs]

32. A maggot in my hiking club announced that he gave up on Oranganus.

He's still a maggot. But at least he developed some sense of awareness that this is all fucked up.

[Skittles]

51. please, it is MAGAt

REAL maggots serve an actual important purpose on this earth

[58Sunliner]

38. Maybe the hubby/resident moved out.

[DUgosh]

39. We looked at used RV's on a lot in deep red Medina, Texas

A couple of weeks after the election. When asked “how’s it going?” the “entitled” owner scratched his head and said “we haven’t moved many units this month”.
We happened to drive by today and the entire fleet of Rv’s were gone, the office closed and boarded up. That fool could have sold unit after unit to his Magat buddies to retreat to the hill country as doomdayers had Kamala been seated - he voted against his own interest.
The gun club in nearby Bandera is for sale - nobody is hoarding ammo

[LogDog75]

41. Looks like the MAGArt in our town has woken up

When you drove over the bridge from San Diego into Coronado, as you come to an S-turn on Third Street there were banners above the owner's wall saying things like Arrest Biden, Arrest Fauci, Make America Healthy Again, Where's Hunter's laptop? These banner were up from the day the Orange Turd was elected until about a week ago. Now, the only thing there is a small anti-Newsom poster tacked to the side of his house.

I'm hoping he's seen the light and realizes the con man conned him.

[Mtnmama]

46. Must have realized that their medicaid payments

Are going to be cut and their insurance premiums going sky high. Oh, and maybe they got laid off, permanently or short term, from their job.

[Jack Valentino]

53. The vast majority of the magats will NEVER vote Democratic------

but if a lot of them stay home without pedophile TRUMP on the ballot,
as they are in the habit of doing,
that is likewise helpful!

[mucifer]

58. Doesn't the swag and flags come out pretty much around election time? Not sure this is a true sign.

[Siwsan]

60. But it didn't disappear, even after the election

Remember - it's a cult so he and his followers are not rational. I just drove through a part of the county that has had trump* related flags AND signs in their yards since 2016. Today I saw zero.