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Anyone seeing outbursts of enthusiastic Trump supporters? (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 OP
IRL? No. sakabatou Jan 2025 #1
No. I didn't see much for his election, either. Deuxcents Jan 2025 #2
Well, there was someone driving around our neighborhood... regnaD kciN Jan 2025 #36
With the exception of... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #3
And the two clowns... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #4
Nope! My take is they're realizing they're getting what they wished for. UTUSN Jan 2025 #5
Not me. .But then, I live in the slightly saner part of town. No idea what niyad Jan 2025 #6
Here, in metropolitan Los Angeles. Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #7
Guy up the street from us. Gruenemann Jan 2025 #8
I was driving on Wilson Street (near Jefferson HS) a few weeks ago and saw a backyard full of Trump signs. LeftInTX Jan 2025 #26
I had made a similar observation a couple weeks after the election Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #9
My point exactly. No real understanding of what they voted for...but, they will be fleeced. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #10
Perception becomes reality Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #12
But what if the power he holds over our thoughts, emotions and fears about the future was a total mirage? 🤔 OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #13
We know he killed hundreds of thousands of people last time due to the COVID misinfo, that was no mirage. Blues Heron Jan 2025 #14
Republicans gave him a ride on 2 legit Impeachments. Now the POTUS is a convicted con. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #20
All I've seen is one Commercial landscaper who had a Trump bumper sticker on the glass of his cab. Baitball Blogger Jan 2025 #11
Recommended. H2O Man Jan 2025 #15
Kind of happy that I never bought into Facebook. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #17
It allows me H2O Man Jan 2025 #34
"he quit in 9th grade" Dave Bowman Jan 2025 #31
Yes, it does. H2O Man Jan 2025 #35
Social Promotion Diplomas Captain Zero Jan 2025 #45
they are pleased as punch around here...deep east texas prodigitalson Jan 2025 #16
I guess I'd have to ask them. What are you looking forward to? OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #18
the mass deportations, for one prodigitalson Jan 2025 #19
Do they understand the economic consequences? OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #22
they understand neither economics nor consequences prodigitalson Jan 2025 #23
Apparently only the most primitive parts of their brains are working. Dave Bowman Jan 2025 #32
that is correct prodigitalson Jan 2025 #33
One of the key appeals of Trump... regnaD kciN Jan 2025 #37
I concur and would only add that while that is their reasoning they probably can't articulate it like you just did prodigitalson Jan 2025 #40
Red city and the local bakery is offering trump cookies Blue Full Moon Jan 2025 #21
A few jackwads in my neiborhood boonecreek Jan 2025 #24
This deserves a OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #25
Well thank you. boonecreek Jan 2025 #27
People are more subdued, calmer. Kaleva Jan 2025 #28
I hate to sound conspiracy-theorist-y, but... unblock Jan 2025 #29
I would prefer that the results were gamed then believe a majority wanted this criminal as President. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #30
I wouldn't... regnaD kciN Jan 2025 #38
The majority voted for someone other than Trump. SunSeeker Jan 2025 #42
See, the biblical writings in the New Testament of ... Tarzanrock Jan 2025 #39
And Barrabbas was a tax cheat, I think. Captain Zero Jan 2025 #46
I'm in Southern CA and saw a MAGAt flying a "Trump Won" flag off his pickup today. SunSeeker Jan 2025 #41
No. In fact, like others reported, although this is a dripping Mike 03 Jan 2025 #43
I wonder why that is? Shouldn't they be celebrating their win against the Libs? OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2025 #49
I live in a Trumpy part of a blue state. intheflow Jan 2025 #44
Same but they're still flying his flags and have yard signs out Arazi Jan 2025 #47
Roseanne Barr seems happy enough to RAP about it......lol EX500rider Jan 2025 #48

regnaD kciN

(27,038 posts)
36. Well, there was someone driving around our neighborhood...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:31 AM
Jan 2025

...in the Seattle suburbs on election night, setting off fireworks for hours.

There's also the WankerPanzer flying a Trump flag around the Madison Park area of Seattle, making a point of pulling over to harass homeless people, and making a point of either parking in a handicapped space or blocking a fire hydrant while doing so.

niyad

(123,658 posts)
6. Not me. .But then, I live in the slightly saner part of town. No idea what
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:35 PM
Jan 2025

they are doing on the northeast magat side. Although. . . .the first waves of the Arctic blsst are freezing and snowing on us, sooooo. . .

Tarzanrock

(836 posts)
7. Here, in metropolitan Los Angeles.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:37 PM
Jan 2025

Late this afternoon, I went down to the Mexican fish taco restaurant in my neighborhood to get some take out fish tacos and a plate of rice and beans. On the sidewalks just prior to the Turd's election, someone had spray-painted with a stencil pattern in white paint a silhouette image of the Turd with the lettering "Vote Trump." Today, I saw similar stencilled imaging spray-painted in black paint onto the sidewalks of a Mexican Aztec sacrifice skull with the lettering "FUCK I.C.E."

Gruenemann

(1,048 posts)
8. Guy up the street from us.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:39 PM
Jan 2025

We live in a very progressive neighborhood in the blue city of San Antonio, but there's a guy in the next block who has (gramatically incorrect) pro-police and pro-TSF signs in his yard, and saw today he'd added more TSF signs.

He's a sweet little old man we see walking a couple of frou frou dogs, always very friendly. Guess he doesn't know we're woke enemies of the people.

LeftInTX

(32,761 posts)
26. I was driving on Wilson Street (near Jefferson HS) a few weeks ago and saw a backyard full of Trump signs.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:35 AM
Jan 2025

They've mostly disappeared from suburbia, however.
I think the guy on Fulton behind the BCDP HQ finally took his signs down.

 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
9. I had made a similar observation a couple weeks after the election
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:42 PM
Jan 2025

I'm not seeing any of the red caps and t-shirts that were all over the place after 2016... I still see bumper stickers, but a lot fewer than '16 and '20. I also live in a DARK red neighborhood and only three homes had their TFG signs and flags up in celebration after the election. And when I'm out in public I don't constantly overhear the angry orange idiot's name in conversation anymore...

With the exception of some online spaces and social media, I haven't seen hardly any of the low-class, in-your-face gloating from Trumpers... I don't know if this is good for us, or really bad for us moving forward.

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
10. My point exactly. No real understanding of what they voted for...but, they will be fleeced.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:45 PM
Jan 2025
 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
12. Perception becomes reality
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:00 AM
Jan 2025

Donnie went from a joke anti-candidate to the White House in 2016 because people believed he could actually win...

He won again because people believed his comeback was inevitable and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now we're all believing he's about to be this all-powerful autocratic despot who will deploy his brainwashed minions to violently impose his will on anyone he seems disloyal...

But what if the power he holds over our thoughts, emotions and fears about the future was a total mirage? 🤔

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
13. But what if the power he holds over our thoughts, emotions and fears about the future was a total mirage? 🤔
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:02 AM
Jan 2025

Indeed....I'll be launching spitballs from the upper galley.

Blues Heron

(6,911 posts)
14. We know he killed hundreds of thousands of people last time due to the COVID misinfo, that was no mirage.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:09 AM
Jan 2025

He can do a lot of damage, the guy is insane. He has a track record.

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
20. Republicans gave him a ride on 2 legit Impeachments. Now the POTUS is a convicted con.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:38 AM
Jan 2025

Well done, "rule of law" Republicans. Especially Lindsey Graham...he should have gotten an Oscar for his performance of the righteous Republican anger when William Jefferson Clinton got a BJ..

Baitball Blogger

(49,985 posts)
11. All I've seen is one Commercial landscaper who had a Trump bumper sticker on the glass of his cab.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:48 PM
Jan 2025

But, now that you mention it, they're quiet. Too quiet.

H2O Man

(76,737 posts)
15. Recommended.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:14 AM
Jan 2025

I did see one guy on FB who posted a pro-felon rant today. I immediately contacted my sister -- she had been in school with him up to when he quit in 9th grade -- to see if she saw his post. It was rather obvious that he had been drinking heavily. I'm sure the felon and him would be buddies if they met! Pathetic!

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
17. Kind of happy that I never bought into Facebook.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:28 AM
Jan 2025

One less metaphysical rabbit hole that I was able to avoid. I don't think I missed much.

H2O Man

(76,737 posts)
34. It allows me
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:11 AM
Jan 2025

to see & talk to my daughter, son-in-law, and new baby granddaughter, who live in Europe,

Captain Zero

(7,853 posts)
45. Social Promotion Diplomas
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 05:26 PM
Jan 2025

I know full well a lot of the Maga voters from my high school were Social Promotion Diplomas.

That guy who quit 9th grade probably was promoted with his age group to 9th grade.

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
22. Do they understand the economic consequences?
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:41 AM
Jan 2025

Trump should make this happen in Texas and Florida. See how well that works.

regnaD kciN

(27,038 posts)
37. One of the key appeals of Trump...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:34 AM
Jan 2025

...is that, for his supporters, he can't necessarily make their lives better, but he sure as hell can make the lives of those he tells them are their enemies much worse.

prodigitalson

(3,082 posts)
40. I concur and would only add that while that is their reasoning they probably can't articulate it like you just did
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 04:01 AM
Jan 2025

it just occurs on a cellular level photosynthesis in plants

Blue Full Moon

(2,123 posts)
21. Red city and the local bakery is offering trump cookies
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:38 AM
Jan 2025

Almost every post was against trump. The guy across the street took down all of his trump garbage after 3 years of it being there.

boonecreek

(910 posts)
24. A few jackwads in my neiborhood
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:27 AM
Jan 2025

flying Trump flags, one with "fuck your feelings" on it.
I 'm waiting for a couple of years from now so I can ask
"So, how are your feelings now.?"

unblock

(55,091 posts)
29. I hate to sound conspiracy-theorist-y, but...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:46 AM
Jan 2025

Ok, I'm not saying there's any specific evidence of fraud and I'm not saying we should whine like Donnie did 4 years ago and so on...

I'm just saying, there's a lot of highly circumstantial evidence suggesting that the vote count was larger than his actual support. So little enthusiasm, so few signs, he barely campaigned during the last critical weeks, so little celebration, etc. I've never, ever seen a winning campaign look and act like that.

I'm just saying that if somehow, years later, it's revealed that there was fraud, then yeah, that would not surprise me in the least.

Not that it would change a damn thing, I mean, we found out later that Al gore actually won Florida, but that changed nothing....

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
30. I would prefer that the results were gamed then believe a majority wanted this criminal as President.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:52 AM
Jan 2025

regnaD kciN

(27,038 posts)
38. I wouldn't...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:36 AM
Jan 2025

...because him winning "honestly" means that the electorate might eventually come to its senses and start electing decent people again. If the results were gamed, that means we can look forward to Trump and his minions "winning" every national election forever.

Tarzanrock

(836 posts)
39. See, the biblical writings in the New Testament of ...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:45 AM
Jan 2025

Matthew, Mark and Luke where the crowd selected the criminal Barabbas over Jesus.

SunSeeker

(55,702 posts)
41. I'm in Southern CA and saw a MAGAt flying a "Trump Won" flag off his pickup today.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 04:06 AM
Jan 2025

We have 6 million crazed Republicans in CA. Thank God they're outnumbered by Democrats.

Mike 03

(18,443 posts)
43. No. In fact, like others reported, although this is a dripping
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 05:55 AM
Jan 2025

red area even prior to the election there were few signs. And the few signs there were disappeared so quickly this time--some Trump signs were taken down around the time of that Madison Square Garden rally prior to even the election. It's been like a ghost town since election day. (Some of that right now is due to cold weather, but even in November when it was sunny and warm there was just no activity to be seen on the streets.)

OAITW r.2.0

(30,201 posts)
49. I wonder why that is? Shouldn't they be celebrating their win against the Libs?
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 06:22 PM
Jan 2025

I think they won in vote only. Now they will get skinned, just like the rest of us.

intheflow

(29,554 posts)
44. I live in a Trumpy part of a blue state.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 11:06 AM
Jan 2025

I still see businesses flying Trump flags (I always go on Yelp to give a Nazi-callout review), but all the private Trump signs and flags are gone afaict. I can’t tell if it’s chilling (supporters have gone back underground) or hopeful (supporters are waking up).

Arazi

(7,768 posts)
47. Same but they're still flying his flags and have yard signs out
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 05:54 PM
Jan 2025

Nobody’s taken anything down at all in my area

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