Leopards Ate My Face

They will literally collect names and addresses for shipping Merch.

All 6 items in their store being the same price also makes this feel like a low effort scam. MAGA are susceptible to the grift, as proven by being maga to begin with.

Also, why the fuck make this shit red‽ pick literally any other color.

All that said, I do fully support the IDEAL of embracing people who feel that they are no longer maga, or are coming around to the leopards-ate-my-face kind of realization. They are primed to believe us the next time we warn them.

They may not deserve forgiveness but if reaching out to them can get them to admit their mistake, and in doing so we together can rollback some of the insanity of the last decade, it'll be better for all of us. Based on numbers alone we're very unlikely to do that without some help from "reformed" Republicans.

My Mom recently left MAGA. Rest her soul.

Same with both my parents.

While I was helping with my father's home hospice care he told me that he likes watching Newsmax because "it's pretty much in the middle". FFS. He was about 5% conspiracy kook already but really took the bait once he started listening to Rush Limbaugh. Then it was anti-Clinton bumperstickers everywhere, and stuffing crank political into every conversation he could. Went downhill from there.

I asked my sister-in-law who worked for the VA (retired a few months ago) about the end of the road emails, literally I asked "Hey I heard that a bunch of crazy emails went out to all federal employees, did that happen to you at the VA too?" and she went off on how everything has been nuts since trump took over and how people are being removed from W2 and made all gig workers with 1099 so they don't have to pay out insurance or benefits or earn time towards a government pension / retirement, and how lucky she is she gets to retire before that fully takes affect and how its "all Elon's fault". Saying it was all Elon, and Trump had nothing to do with it, is some serious mental gymnastics... This was August of last year.

The hijackers get pardoned and regroup but don't include the queesy people next time so the hijacking is successful.

No. we're at the beginning of step 3.

Let's first get this over, once we are done with the cheeto we can squabble about what to do with Maga. At the very least it should be designated a prohibited domestic terrorist organization

1. You’re on a plane, minding your own business.
2. A drunk with a gun demands that the plane be flown to Mar-a-Lago, or he will kill everyone on the plane. He's well armed and insults some of the fellow passengers for saying negative things about Trump.
3. After a while, a fellow passenger political centrist whacks him while he's not looking. The gun flies out of his hand, and discharges, but there is little injury and damage.
4. Others tackle and hold him. He's arrested and charged. Trump pardons him.
5. He wants to be taken off the now-fly-list (or lists if it's up to private airline companies). He says that he has since given up on guns and drinking alcohol, and promises not to do it again. (He might also have said "MTG has some good criticisms of Trump.")

The guide basically reads, "Treat them like idiots and pretend to be one yourself."

I very much understand you anfd feel you

Having said that, let me play devil's advocate for a second.

A very simple point: we still have to live with these people. They're our neighbors, our families, "friends" and co-workers. Is it wise to hate them all forever? We still have to live with them, we can't "simply kill" every Republican in the country (as many magas would like for all the Democrats) as it's dozens of millions

These people are not victims, but they have been ~~misled~~ brainwashed by literally decades of Republican propaganda through Fox News and others. The US government allowed that. For decades. Fox News suing to be able to lie as a news organization should never have passed, but it did. Citizens United effectively ended your democracy, it should never have passed. But it did.

I think this is like the Stanford prison experiment. Some became prisoners, others guards, but all played by the rules set by those in control

I think our hatred should be reserved for those that really caused all this shit, not your every day maga. Republican law makers (on federal, state, and local levels) caused this. Billionaires funded all of this for their own gains. Those are the ones that should be locked up forever, those are the real Nazis. Take ALL possessions and money away from all billionaires and the setup a hard cap of 1-10 million dollars, anyone having a networh of over that gets 100% tax on their income untill they're below again

No more millionaires no more people with the single handed power to fuck over a country for their own gains

Then require news organizations and journalists to always be truthful, by law. Fund them from an independent foundation that only cares about factual news

Then you'll have to rebuild your democracy from the ground up. American elections are a shit show, and have been since WWII. Get a parliamentary democracy, get rid of your presidents

Hell, while at it, let's end super powers. Right now is a great time for that. Russia is on its last legs before death, the US is shooting itself in the face multi times now, and China is about to feel the real force of the demographics freight train hat is about to hit it. Split all super powers up into small states, te US included, with it's 50 states. Form a United nations with teeth that can smack any non democratic government down as replace it with democracy world wide.

Sounds like a pipe dream? Maybe, but its better than eternal hate