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Ultra Maga Co-Worker (Original Post) lame54 Apr 14 OP
Tell them from me... Moostache Apr 14 #1
THIS THIS THIS johnnyfins Apr 14 #2
Would rather snowybirdie Apr 14 #12
in an ideal world yes pimpbot Apr 14 #22
They are getting worried now. hadEnuf Apr 14 #61
You got it. OldBaldy1701E Apr 15 #68
Saw a similar tweet the other day. krkaufman Apr 15 #66
They maybe dumping Trump, but they'll never come over to our side. CanonRay Apr 14 #32
I agree LPBBEAR Apr 14 #23
Worst possible reaction and just contributes to the problem. Climate Crusader Apr 14 #29
We have spent some 40+ years reaching out to them (in all their various iterations), mwmisses4289 Apr 14 #31
Different side. Climate Crusader Apr 14 #35
Amen!!! Moostache Apr 14 #37
Exactly mercuryblues Apr 14 #58
It's unclear from the OP Wednesdays Apr 14 #46
As the song says... "This could be the start of something big" 🤞 Tim S Apr 14 #3
One of my MAGA high school classmates Ms. Toad Apr 14 #4
"I realise now what I did wrong, and am changing" GenThePerservering Apr 14 #5
yup ForgedCrank Apr 14 #9
As if they're going to vote D dpibel Apr 14 #14
best we can hope for pimpbot Apr 14 #24
No, they won't vote D.. thomski64 Apr 14 #27
Yes, that would be great dpibel Apr 14 #28
That's the same message sent to Dems MorbidButterflyTat Apr 14 #56
Arbitrary? dpibel Apr 14 #62
that is not it at ALL Skittles Apr 14 #63
.. BlueWaveNeverEnd Apr 14 #6
One at a time. I welcome them ALL. It's the only way we "Orban" this thing. Maru Kitteh Apr 14 #7
Especially when our authoritarian government will pull out all stops to disenfranchise and suppress the vote Martin Eden Apr 14 #39
Only Rapists Support Rapists. Only Nazis Support Nazis. Once A Rapist Always A Rapist. Once A Nazi Always A Nazi. MayReasonRule Apr 14 #8
The cult slowly awakens!!! nt City Lights Apr 14 #10
The 3 loud mouth dumpsters I know have been quiet & the one removed his tRump bumper stickers. AnotherMother4Peace Apr 14 #11
It's hard to admit you've been a fool, to be fair Easterncedar Apr 14 #13
There's always the chance that the bumper stickers were removed by his wife and kids FakeNoose Apr 14 #15
He is a she and if we didn't talk politics was really nice Lifeafter70 Apr 14 #30
Not the ones here. They're full steam ahead with tRump still. They are enamored with what he's doing ffr Apr 14 #16
Come out, come out where ever you are! BidenRocks Apr 14 #17
And years from now they will probably also deny ever supporting Trump in the first place. cstanleytech Apr 14 #18
Just like the man himself lame54 Apr 14 #21
The true believers are just like Trump, they'll double down on their stupidity. dem4decades Apr 14 #19
How I handle visitors, delivery drivers who might be Trump supporters. Really LiberalArkie Apr 14 #20
It looks like you've electrified the signs, so if they attempt to Abolishinist Apr 14 #54
The wire goes to a camera up above the signs... even better LiberalArkie Apr 14 #55
Did they remove it on their own initiative? JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 14 #25
On their own lame54 Apr 14 #26
You Can't Undo Being A Nazi Anymore Than One Can Undo Being A Rapist MayReasonRule Apr 14 #33
Doesn't mean he's changed his attitudes. Demobrat Apr 14 #34
She never really bragged when talking with her Lifeafter70 Apr 14 #36
There is a fairly large demographic that can vote either way somsai Apr 14 #38
And yet they were so smug after the 2024 election not fooled Apr 14 #40
An older, rabid-MAGA couple who watches our dog has taken down all their paraphernalia too Native Apr 14 #41
The stain of MAGA will NEVER Miguelito Loveless Apr 14 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Apr 14 #43
The stages of MAGA: Glaisne Apr 14 #44
But don't say they're a cult Zelda_Orchid Apr 15 #67
Well, it's a start. Wednesdays Apr 14 #45
I imagine it would be a big victory for us - if they just Ars Longa Apr 14 #48
Yup. I'll take it. nt Wednesdays Apr 14 #49
they can still go fuck themselves Skittles Apr 14 #47
Tell him it's time to grab a fire extinguisher proud patriot Apr 14 #50
How does one distinguish an "ultra" Maga from the garden variety? Martin68 Apr 14 #51
One of the stickers read... lame54 Apr 14 #53
That's just show-off. They are all ultra morons and proud of it. Martin68 Apr 14 #60
I love it when MAGA maniacs do stuff like this! ShazzieB Apr 14 #52
It would've been nice if Democrats had PUSHED BACK on Trump dubbing himself the peace candidate... biocube Apr 14 #57
Probably took all of it off MW67 Apr 14 #59
So much of the practices necessary for democracy has been lost over the last 30 years. summer_in_TX Apr 15 #64
Almost wish you could slap 'em back on. n/t krkaufman Apr 15 #65

Moostache

(11,237 posts)
1. Tell them from me...
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 11:50 AM
Apr 14

TOO FUCKING LATE!!!
You bought it, you gonna pay for it.....FOREVER!!!!

Trump will die (hopefully SOON, but not soon enough), their SHAME is eternal.


And I vote to drop "ultra-MAGA" and revert to the normal language of the pre-2015 world - "the racist scumbag" will do nicely.

snowybirdie

(6,725 posts)
12. Would rather
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:39 PM
Apr 14

See people come over to our side so we can convince them we're not haters like MAGA is.

pimpbot

(1,178 posts)
22. in an ideal world yes
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:09 PM
Apr 14

But maga man isnt coming to our side. He might not display the stickers bit come next election he will vote for whoever has the R.

hadEnuf

(3,641 posts)
61. They are getting worried now.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 11:24 PM
Apr 14

The tide is turning against them and they are feeling it. They are trying to hide now like the rock dwelling vermin the are.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,324 posts)
68. You got it.
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 07:54 AM
Apr 15

The rats are deserting the ship.

The problem is... that they are still rats.

We have to remember this whenever one of them acts as if they have become sentient.

People are always understanding and accepting when they are looking at socioeconomic ruin, starvation, and homelessness as the alternative.

It is when they are flush that they start to revert back to their old ways. They can't help it. It is in their DNA.

So, we can either keep doing this cycle, or we can remember what they are and take appropriate steps to make sure they cannot influence our politics ever again.

(We are going to stay with the first one, aren't we? )

krkaufman

(13,965 posts)
66. Saw a similar tweet the other day.
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 01:43 AM
Apr 15

… someone saying they’re done supporting Trump, but also that they didn’t regret any of their three votes for him … as any Democrat would be a worse alternative.

Just damaged, brainwashed people.

LPBBEAR

(669 posts)
23. I agree
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:09 PM
Apr 14

I think of Magats and Republicans and all of us as products that came down a factory assembly line. Magats and Republicans were assembled on either Monday, after factory employees had a long drunken party weekend, or they were assembled on a Friday after a long hard work week. The rest of us were assembled on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. That also neatly explains the percentage of defective die hard Trump supporters.

As a product they'll always malfunction no matter what they might currently say.

Climate Crusader

(166 posts)
29. Worst possible reaction and just contributes to the problem.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:34 PM
Apr 14

The goal should not be to weaken MAGA by convincing their faithful to abandon their position.

The more difficult, but ultimately the best route is to convince the other side to abandon theirr side and JOIN our side.

But, it's easier to call names and try to shame the weakened party.

It's why they have done it in the past and likely why weaker elements on our side will do the same thing.

mwmisses4289

(4,465 posts)
31. We have spent some 40+ years reaching out to them (in all their various iterations),
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:51 PM
Apr 14

taking the high road, told to try empathizing with them, we just didn't understand their concerns. And what have we gotten in return? Being mocked and demonized for being kind, decent, law abiding citizens who love this country. Well, no more. I, for one, am done. It's time to get down and dirty. It's time to insist those maga idiots who voted for t and hate America so much they love dictators around the world rather than America either start attempting to reach out to us (but prepare to be looked on with distrust and rebuffed), or move to one of those dictator loving countries they seem to admire so much.
I am polite to them if I have to interact with them at work, but off work- no.
They can go rot in whatever hell they believe in for all I care.

Moostache

(11,237 posts)
37. Amen!!!
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:23 PM
Apr 14

Not sure if the idea is to actually change things (because the last 47 years have been a straight up shitshow) or spoofing me, but I have been spit on and shat upon by GOP priorities far too often and too long to say that its OK to turn the other cheek any longer.

They go low? Then jump up and curb-stomp the motherfucker...

mercuryblues

(16,471 posts)
58. Exactly
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 07:42 PM
Apr 14

The John Birch society; Christian coalition; teabaggers; Magas; and more than a few I haven't heard of.

same shit different name.

These people hate democracy more than they love their country. Fuck them. They will still vote for the shiny object that has an R next to their name.

Wednesdays

(22,856 posts)
46. It's unclear from the OP
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:47 PM
Apr 14

...that the MAGA person changed because of something a Democrat did or said.

I'm betting that was not the case.

Rather, he/she is disillusioned with current Republicans, as is the case with a whole lot of former MAGAts. That's not something we have a whole lot of control over.

Ms. Toad

(38,731 posts)
4. One of my MAGA high school classmates
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:02 PM
Apr 14

Just made an anti-Trump post. Not even a reposted meme - an original post he thought up all on his own. I was so surprised I had to double check to make sure I wasn't just being fed a random post by someone else with the same name.

GenThePerservering

(3,526 posts)
5. "I realise now what I did wrong, and am changing"
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:05 PM
Apr 14

"Oh yeah? Well FUCK YOU!! You don't pass the purity test!!!!"

Cuz' we're all perfect here.

dpibel

(3,991 posts)
14. As if they're going to vote D
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:41 PM
Apr 14

Last edited Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:20 PM - Edit history (1)

You do realize, I trust, that there is a vast gulf between realizing Trump is a mess and actually changing the baseline ideas that go with voting R? Trump is an extreme version of modern Republicanism. I'm pretty sure that the number of sad MAGAs who are going to switch their votes is vanishingly small.

If this person is going to vote for Vance or Rubio or whoever runs in '28, then there's no purity test being applied. They continue to be stupid. They continue to believe the crap that FOX feeds them, just without the Trump part.

When former MAGAs start showing up on DU, let me know. That's when we'll need to debate purity tests.

pimpbot

(1,178 posts)
24. best we can hope for
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:15 PM
Apr 14

Is that they sit out the next election, or become fractured and vote for some looney toons who has no chance.

dpibel

(3,991 posts)
28. Yes, that would be great
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:32 PM
Apr 14

I don't think the application of a "purity test" by any Democrat is going to have much effect on that.

So scolding people on this site for being less than forgiving seems to me off base.

dpibel

(3,991 posts)
62. Arbitrary?
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 11:26 PM
Apr 14

Which ones are arbitrary?

Gender equality?

Racial equality?

Respect for people who are different from me?

Do you really believe that there's some group of Democrats who are arbitrarily demanding anything?

There may be some high aspirations. But does that constitute arbitrary?

What's your line between supported and arbitrary?

Or are you using arbitrary in some sense other than "chosen, decided, etc. seemingly at random or on a whim rather than in a reasoned or methodical way"

Skittles

(172,223 posts)
63. that is not it at ALL
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 11:40 PM
Apr 14

THEY HAD PLENTY OF FUCKING WARNINGS YET THEY UTTERLY DISGRACED AMERICA

Martin Eden

(15,743 posts)
39. Especially when our authoritarian government will pull out all stops to disenfranchise and suppress the vote
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:30 PM
Apr 14

We need a landslide.

And we need to understand that continuing to express grievance and hatred towards those who are beginning to realize they made a mistake may provide temporary satisfaction, but the ONLY practical effect it could have is to hurt our effort to defeat fascism in America.

MayReasonRule

(4,127 posts)
8. Only Rapists Support Rapists. Only Nazis Support Nazis. Once A Rapist Always A Rapist. Once A Nazi Always A Nazi.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:22 PM
Apr 14

Fascism is the state devouring itself.

Power welded to delusion, a self‑protecting fantasy that blesses “redemptive” violence and arms itself with law, police, and prisons—until Reason returns and law becomes an architecture of trust, not domination.

Once a rapist always a rapist.
Once a Nazi always a Nazi.

Fuck Rapists.
Fuck Nazis.

The GOP now operates as an ongoing wholly fascist criminal enterprise intent upon wholesale destruction of our representative democracy and anyone or anything that dares oppose their unbridled delusionally malevolent depravity unleashed as their ongoing crimes against humanity.

Jabberwocky's pissed as fuck and ready to roll.

Easterncedar

(6,396 posts)
13. It's hard to admit you've been a fool, to be fair
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:41 PM
Apr 14

Yes, I am enraged and purely loathe the magats, but the forces that picked up and amplified their worst natures are very powerful and effective - and are the real evil. The magats are mainly weak, greedy, ignorant, hateful and pathetic tools.

I try to tell myself that these assholes did not have the benefit of my privileged, open-minded upbringing, and that hating them is kind of like blaming people for being in poverty.

I will never like or forgive them, but I am glad when I hear that some of them are turning away from the dark, even if just to the extent of ceasing to broadcast their ugly stupidity.

FakeNoose

(41,997 posts)
15. There's always the chance that the bumper stickers were removed by his wife and kids
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:45 PM
Apr 14

But we'll call it a "win" anyway.

Lifeafter70

(1,136 posts)
30. He is a she and if we didn't talk politics was really nice
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:46 PM
Apr 14

She is first generation Cuba and I'm sure her father and husband were an influence on her politics.
I have seen her be compassionate and help fellow employees and customers. Her politics were confusing to me.

You wouldn't have known she was a trump supporter unless you saw her bumper stickers or engaged in politics.
Both lame54 and I worked with her.

Patty lame54 wife

ffr

(23,435 posts)
16. Not the ones here. They're full steam ahead with tRump still. They are enamored with what he's doing
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:47 PM
Apr 14

because they can see the hurt he's putting on the country, which they still see as leftist.



The GOP needs to be destroyed at the ballot box. Not just in this election, FOREVER!

BidenRocks

(3,397 posts)
17. Come out, come out where ever you are!
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 12:59 PM
Apr 14

One last chance to bring out all your maga shit and burn it!

If not you can wear it to a huuuge indoor chump rally!

(Cue the cinema from "Inglorious Basterds"!)

They should look up traitors in their history (book)!

Abolishinist

(2,984 posts)
54. It looks like you've electrified the signs, so if they attempt to
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 06:40 PM
Apr 14

remove them they get how much, 120?

And then I see there's a noose on the top left.

You don't mess around!

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,702 posts)
25. Did they remove it on their own initiative?
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 01:26 PM
Apr 14

Or did some manager tell them to get political stuff out of sight?

MayReasonRule

(4,127 posts)
33. You Can't Undo Being A Nazi Anymore Than One Can Undo Being A Rapist
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:04 PM
Apr 14

Fascism is the state devouring itself.

Power welded to delusion, a self‑protecting fantasy that blesses “redemptive” violence and arms itself with law, police, and prisons—until Reason returns and law becomes an architecture of trust, not domination.

Once a rapist always a rapist.
Once a Nazi always a Nazi.

Fuck Rapists.
Fuck Nazis.

The whole of the GOP operates as an ongoing wholly fascist criminal enterprise intent upon wholesale destruction of our representative democracy and anyone or anything that dare oppose their unbridled delusionally malevolent depravity unleashed as their ongoing crimes against humanity.

Jabberwocky's pissed as fuck and ready to roll.


Demobrat

(10,305 posts)
34. Doesn't mean he's changed his attitudes.
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:05 PM
Apr 14

Just that he doesn’t feel like bragging about them right now.

Lifeafter70

(1,136 posts)
36. She never really bragged when talking with her
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:21 PM
Apr 14

If we talked politics it was rare. What she did do was give the reasons she supported trump. Which both lame54 and I could shoot holes in. She was first generation Cuban so had hypocritical views on immigration but didn't support mass deportation. She didn't believe it was actually happening.
A few of our fellow employees all belonged to the same church.
As long as you didn't talk politics or religion she was nice and a hard worker.

Patty lame54's wife

somsai

(248 posts)
38. There is a fairly large demographic that can vote either way
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:26 PM
Apr 14

They can switch party they vote for or they can not vote at all. They decide close elections.

not fooled

(6,724 posts)
40. And yet they were so smug after the 2024 election
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:34 PM
Apr 14

and their signs were so big beforehand.

There's something very wrong with ANYONE who couldn't see this coming. Whether they supported him out of ignorance, stupidity, predilection for being in a cult, racism, religious zealotry, or anything else...the signs were so obvious and the warnings so clear that they have no excuse.

Native

(7,377 posts)
41. An older, rabid-MAGA couple who watches our dog has taken down all their paraphernalia too
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 02:37 PM
Apr 14

A giant Trump flag on the front lawn, Trump signs, bumper stickers, Etc. All gone. This happened a few months ago. My take is that if the brainwashed hoardes are now deculting, there is real hope.

Response to lame54 (Original post)

Ars Longa

(550 posts)
48. I imagine it would be a big victory for us - if they just
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:54 PM
Apr 14

won't/ don't vote at all!!!!!!!!!!

proud patriot

(102,540 posts)
50. Tell him it's time to grab a fire extinguisher
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 05:11 PM
Apr 14

To put out the fire he and all trump voters started and are responsible for. Otherwise you'll remind him daily of the stickers he is now ashamed of .

ShazzieB

(22,732 posts)
52. I love it when MAGA maniacs do stuff like this!
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 05:33 PM
Apr 14

As some have pointed out, this doesn't necessarily mean they're going to start voting for Dems or anything like that, but the schadenfreude of witnessing their discomfiture is very satisfying in the moment.



biocube

(235 posts)
57. It would've been nice if Democrats had PUSHED BACK on Trump dubbing himself the peace candidate...
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 07:06 PM
Apr 14

and Kamala didn't proudly accept the Cheney's endorsements.

You can't rely on the both-sides-ism media or right-wing media to report facts. Trump is a moron but he figured out the political winds had shifted a decade ago while Democrats campaign like it's 2004.

MW67

(200 posts)
59. Probably took all of it off
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 08:42 PM
Apr 14

To make room for the next disaster Republican bumper sticker ,soon they will all be talking about how they've got to get back to "Conservative" core value's and Fox will have them all in a fervor over their next Savior, just like with Bush and trump, I'm almost 60 and have watched them be snookered by the same old, " He's gonna straighten this Country out " nonsense since I was a child, it's a symptom of not being able to admit you were wrong to begin with, which is all of them I know

summer_in_TX

(4,205 posts)
64. So much of the practices necessary for democracy has been lost over the last 30 years.
Wed Apr 15, 2026, 12:41 AM
Apr 15

Key habits and values are essential to democracy. If we are ever to have a democracy again, we need to find a way to regain them: the willingness to give others the benefit of the doubt, to be curious about the person and be willing to look for what has shaped their lives, and to find connections where we can. Another one that used to be relatively widespread and is now on the ropes is tolerance of differences.

My husband shared a quote from a NYT opinion piece by Ezra Klein that he wrote recently:

“Conversation is not a reward to be bestowed on those with whom we agree; it’s a necessary habit in a democracy. The point is not to find agreement so much as to deepen understanding. To talk with others is to believe in the possibility of change — theirs and your own. Whether you like everything that someone has said should be severed from the question of whether that person is worth talking to.”


What are some of the other necessary habits in a democracy?

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