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Dear Trump voters: (Original Post) True Dough Yesterday OP
And remember this at the pumps, MAGAts! True Dough Yesterday #1
Eat a pinecone sandwich? Love it! 🤣 Chasstev365 Yesterday #2
Hey, True Dough Yesterday #3
I personally would prefer.... lastlib 22 hrs ago #11
FAFO usonian Yesterday #4
While I agree..... frogstar0 23 hrs ago #5
They can somewhat redeem themselves for doing the right thing at the ballot box True Dough 23 hrs ago #6
I say smile till we get their vote and tell them exactly what we think of them. Scrivener7 23 hrs ago #8
Thank you LA Blue Bengal 22 hrs ago #12
The Democratic Party needs to improve its messaging Martin Eden 22 hrs ago #13
The concept of "common good" has disappeared. ananda 23 hrs ago #7
You only care now because he hurt you too. patphil 23 hrs ago #9
I agree with everything you said. rubbersole 23 hrs ago #10
Amen means I agree. Here's a big fat AMEN! n/t aggiesal 22 hrs ago #14
I can recommend a better use for those pine cones .... nt eppur_se_muova 19 hrs ago #15
I know Trump voters who I don't think are bad people. thesquanderer 15 hrs ago #16
sure Skittles 7 hrs ago #17
There is a difference between bad people and e.g. ignorant or misinformed or stupid people thesquanderer 1 hr ago #18
I automatically read the title as Dear Dumb Voters Beringia 1 hr ago #19

True Dough

(27,212 posts)
3. Hey,
Sat May 9, 2026, 08:27 AM
Yesterday

if they swallowed Trump's horseshit for years, a pinecone sandwich isn't too much to ask.

lastlib

(28,539 posts)
11. I personally would prefer....
Sat May 9, 2026, 11:06 AM
22 hrs ago

a saguaro cactus, or a porcupine--but I'm flexible. Pincone sammich will do.....

frogstar0

(272 posts)
5. While I agree.....
Sat May 9, 2026, 10:14 AM
23 hrs ago

We should welcome all to opposing TACO. No they don't get a cookie but we should welcome their vote. Yes it will hurt to bite our tongues that hard.

True Dough

(27,212 posts)
6. They can somewhat redeem themselves for doing the right thing at the ballot box
Sat May 9, 2026, 10:19 AM
23 hrs ago

but it will be a long time before I'm ready to embrace them.

LA Blue Bengal

(65 posts)
12. Thank you
Sat May 9, 2026, 11:06 AM
22 hrs ago

I heard these words not long ago: “If you’re not uncomfortable, your tent is too small.” Focus on the common goal - getting rid of Trump and his minions.

Martin Eden

(15,847 posts)
13. The Democratic Party needs to improve its messaging
Sat May 9, 2026, 11:10 AM
22 hrs ago

Would telling prospective voters to "fuck off" be a successful strategy for winning elections?

We can induge our anger by directing it at fools who voted against their own interests, or focus on doing whatever it takes to build a Blue Tsunami at the polls.

A big chunk of the MAGA base is indeed full of irredeemable deplorables, but not everyone who voted for The Fascist Grifter fits that mold.

ananda

(35,435 posts)
7. The concept of "common good" has disappeared.
Sat May 9, 2026, 10:22 AM
23 hrs ago

The vote seems immaterial to this.

The entire GOP is completely servile only to
the good of rich white males...

period.

This will not end well for anyone at all.

patphil

(9,191 posts)
9. You only care now because he hurt you too.
Sat May 9, 2026, 10:44 AM
23 hrs ago

That's the truth.
But a part of me hopes that there's an awakening within these people; a realization that we're all connected in ways that result in the consequences of hate being reflected outward in unintended ways.
Hate is it's own trap. It renders the hater incapable of seeing, hearing, or feeling what the consequences of their hate is.
And then comes an awakening event; a invitation to see what hate has done, and how it doesn't care who gets hurt; how the one who gets hurt can be family, friends, or even the hater himself.
Most of these hate bound people are too far gone to respond, but some of them will.

I'm not about to welcome them with open arms, but their awakening is the first step in stopping the destruction that will inevitably follow as the consequences of hate tear away at the fabric of society.

rubbersole

(11,268 posts)
10. I agree with everything you said.
Sat May 9, 2026, 10:53 AM
23 hrs ago

The problem is they'll jump on the next racist bandwagon going down the street. They're not capable of introspection. It's not in their "privileged" DNA.

thesquanderer

(13,086 posts)
16. I know Trump voters who I don't think are bad people.
Sat May 9, 2026, 06:42 PM
15 hrs ago

They were taken in by thinking he'd be better for the economy, or better on foreign policy, or better on the border.

Remember that there were a significant number of Obama voters who subsequently voted for Trump. It is unlikely that they voted for Trump out of a desire to "hurt the people I hate."

Skittles

(172,643 posts)
17. sure
Sun May 10, 2026, 02:13 AM
7 hrs ago

the man is a misogynist, homophobe, transphobe, xenophobe, anti-worker, anti-science, etc. but hey, let's give him a chance

FUCK that and FUCK them, they DISGRACED America

thesquanderer

(13,086 posts)
18. There is a difference between bad people and e.g. ignorant or misinformed or stupid people
Sun May 10, 2026, 08:06 AM
1 hr ago

If they voted for Obama in the past, I think some such other explanation is more likely than that are "bad people" who voted for him because "he hates the people I hate."

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