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Anyone seeing outbursts of enthusiastic Trump supporters? (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 4 hrs ago OP
IRL? No. sakabatou 4 hrs ago #1
No. I didn't see much for his election, either. Deuxcents 4 hrs ago #2
Well, there was someone driving around our neighborhood... regnaD kciN 1 hr ago #36
With the exception of... 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #3
And the two clowns... 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #4
Nope! My take is they're realizing they're getting what they wished for. UTUSN 4 hrs ago #5
Not me. .But then, I live in the slightly saner part of town. No idea what niyad 4 hrs ago #6
Here, in metropolitan Los Angeles. Tarzanrock 4 hrs ago #7
Guy up the street from us. Gruenemann 4 hrs ago #8
I was driving on Wilson Street (near Jefferson HS) a few weeks ago and saw a backyard full of Trump signs. LeftInTX 2 hrs ago #26
I had made a similar observation a couple weeks after the election Blue_Tires 4 hrs ago #9
My point exactly. No real understanding of what they voted for...but, they will be fleeced. OAITW r.2.0 4 hrs ago #10
Perception becomes reality Blue_Tires 4 hrs ago #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 3 hrs ago #13
We know he killed hundreds of thousands of people last time due to the COVID misinfo, that was no mirage. Blues Heron 3 hrs ago #14
Republicans gave him a ride on 2 legit Impeachments. Now the POTUS is a convicted con. OAITW r.2.0 3 hrs ago #20
All I've seen is one Commercial landscaper who had a Trump bumper sticker on the glass of his cab. Baitball Blogger 4 hrs ago #11
Recommended. H2O Man 3 hrs ago #15
Kind of happy that I never bought into Facebook. OAITW r.2.0 3 hrs ago #17
It allows me H2O Man 1 hr ago #34
"he quit in 9th grade" Dave Bowman 2 hrs ago #31
Yes, it does. H2O Man 1 hr ago #35
they are pleased as punch around here...deep east texas prodigitalson 3 hrs ago #16
I guess I'd have to ask them. What are you looking forward to? OAITW r.2.0 3 hrs ago #18
the mass deportations, for one prodigitalson 3 hrs ago #19
Do they understand the economic consequences? OAITW r.2.0 3 hrs ago #22
they understand neither economics nor consequences prodigitalson 3 hrs ago #23
Apparently only the most primitive parts of their brains are working. Dave Bowman 2 hrs ago #32
that is correct prodigitalson 2 hrs ago #33
One of the key appeals of Trump... regnaD kciN 1 hr ago #37
I concur and would only add that while that is their reasoning they probably can't articulate it like you just did prodigitalson 1 min ago #40
Red city and the local bakery is offering trump cookies Blue Full Moon 3 hrs ago #21
A few jackwads in my neiborhood boonecreek 2 hrs ago #24
This deserves a OAITW r.2.0 2 hrs ago #25
Well thank you. boonecreek 2 hrs ago #27
People are more subdued, calmer. Kaleva 2 hrs ago #28
I hate to sound conspiracy-theorist-y, but... unblock 2 hrs ago #29
I would prefer that the results were gamed then believe a majority wanted this criminal as President. OAITW r.2.0 2 hrs ago #30
I wouldn't... regnaD kciN 1 hr ago #38
See, the biblical writings in the New Testament of ... Tarzanrock 1 hr ago #39

regnaD kciN

(26,674 posts)
36. Well, there was someone driving around our neighborhood...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:31 AM
1 hr ago

...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

(121,193 posts)
6. Not me. .But then, I live in the slightly saner part of town. No idea what
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:35 PM
4 hrs ago

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

Tarzanrock

(558 posts)
7. Here, in metropolitan Los Angeles.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:37 PM
4 hrs ago

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

(1,043 posts)
8. Guy up the street from us.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:39 PM
4 hrs ago

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

(31,345 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, 12:35 AM
2 hrs ago

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

Blue_Tires

(57,396 posts)
9. I had made a similar observation a couple weeks after the election
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:42 PM
4 hrs ago

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

(28,978 posts)
10. My point exactly. No real understanding of what they voted for...but, they will be fleeced.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:45 PM
4 hrs ago

Blue_Tires

(57,396 posts)
12. Perception becomes reality
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:00 PM
4 hrs ago

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

(28,978 posts)
13. But what if the power he holds over our thoughts, emotions and fears about the future was a total mirage? 🤔
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:02 PM
3 hrs ago

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

Blues Heron

(6,259 posts)
14. We know he killed hundreds of thousands of people last time due to the COVID misinfo, that was no mirage.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:09 PM
3 hrs ago

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

OAITW r.2.0

(28,978 posts)
20. Republicans gave him a ride on 2 legit Impeachments. Now the POTUS is a convicted con.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:38 PM
3 hrs ago

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

(48,729 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, 10:48 PM
4 hrs ago

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

H2O Man

(75,971 posts)
15. Recommended.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:14 PM
3 hrs ago

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

(28,978 posts)
17. Kind of happy that I never bought into Facebook.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:28 PM
3 hrs ago

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

H2O Man

(75,971 posts)
34. It allows me
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:11 AM
1 hr ago

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

OAITW r.2.0

(28,978 posts)
22. Do they understand the economic consequences?
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:41 PM
3 hrs ago

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

regnaD kciN

(26,674 posts)
37. One of the key appeals of Trump...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:34 AM
1 hr ago

...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

(2,996 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, 03:01 AM
1 min ago

it just occurs on a cellular level photosynthesis in plants

Blue Full Moon

(1,432 posts)
21. Red city and the local bakery is offering trump cookies
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:38 PM
3 hrs ago

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

(362 posts)
24. A few jackwads in my neiborhood
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:27 AM
2 hrs ago

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

(54,324 posts)
29. I hate to sound conspiracy-theorist-y, but...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:46 AM
2 hrs ago

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

(28,978 posts)
30. I would prefer that the results were gamed then believe a majority wanted this criminal as President.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 12:52 AM
2 hrs ago

regnaD kciN

(26,674 posts)
38. I wouldn't...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:36 AM
1 hr ago

...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

(558 posts)
39. See, the biblical writings in the New Testament of ...
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 01:45 AM
1 hr ago

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

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