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Danmel

(5,665 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:26 PM Saturday

Cognitive Dissonance Alert

I was at the supermarket and the person in front of me in line was wearing a maga sweatshirt. Then he had difficulty using his snap benefits and needed help from the checkout person who praised his maga sweatshirt.
How can these people not realize he literally wants to take their food away?
Boggles the mind.

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marble falls

(70,084 posts)
5. It's been a constant state of alerts since the elections. It isn't any one alert, it's the sum total of continuous ...
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:41 PM
Saturday

... interweaving of alerts. It all begins to sound like metallic crickets, like a ringing in my ears.

Did I put too fine of point on it?

IndyPepper

(55 posts)
6. My thoughts exactly
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:06 PM
Saturday

They deserve all the government has to offer ... but nobody who isn't like them or in their tribe is deserving. No, not racist at all. /s

popsdenver

(1,317 posts)
9. The most frightening thing is
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:58 PM
Saturday

they don't realize that Trump is screwing even them over now that they have re-elected him.

My only thought is also frightening.......that the Republican Party has a "lock".... on corrupting any/all future elections where his 70+ Million voters won't be needed ever again.........seriously...........

Putin has probably outlined how to do it.

Hitler's Goebbel? always said: It is not the votes that matter, .......BUT WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.....

With Putin showing them how they do it in Russia, and ELON messing with the compiling computers ???????????

Irish_Dem

(78,755 posts)
4. Trump hates the same people he hates.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:37 PM
Saturday

And he loves the cruelty.

This is all he cares about.

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