Remember when the Republicans thought they were so clever by making most of the Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamp cuts go into effect AFTER midterms. ?

Hoping people wouldn't realize how dirty they did them until it was too late.

I remember.

They knew. They knew then that their policies were going to be very unpopular with everyone. But they thought they could lie their way out of reality and hide the worst of it until after midterms.

But it didn't matter how many times trump said inflation was down. Groceries cheaper than ever. Gas the lowest it's ever been. Employment up.

Even most Republican people noticed he was lying about a few of those things. But many still didn't blame Republicans per se. Just Trump's war. Just that. Only that. So some still voted Republican.

Only die hard magas stayed on his side completely and refused to acknowledge any wrong doing by any Republican. ~ 30%

They’re done just like they were done after Nixon. And after Bush and W. And after Harding, Hoover, and Grant before them.

MAGA was just a symptom of the much larger disease of conservatism. The disease has metastasized and is long overdue for a permanent cure.

Don't believe conservatives when they pretend they are done. They are already regrouping. They will be back, and next time it will be much worse if we don't eliminate this disease while we have the chance.

The people who voted for Trump in 2024 are still around. The fact that enough of them got hurt badly enough in the wallet to turn against him this time around doesn't change the fact that they're capable of looking at Trump's first term and thinking "yeah, I'd like another helping of that". Even if the "MAGA" movement in particular guess by the wayside, something else will come along, just as MAGA replaced the tea party folk. We need to stay vigilant.

I will enjoy watching MAGAs death spiral.

Watching the GOP blame all their failures as public servants in Trump is the most Trump thing ever. It's just scapegoats all the way down.

Someone should really define what "maga" even is.

So far, it is a word that sounds much like a baby-word ("maga" sounds like "googoo" and "gaagaa") and the movement seems to embody a set of people that adore a big-mouthed failson who was given a game show that gave gullible people the impression he's a bigly important businessman.

If you take donnie out of the equation, what do they even stand for? Racism, xenophobia, misogyny? Putting xtians on a pedestal and giving them special privileges? Sure. But that's pretty much the core of conservatism and always has been.

God I hope so, but I doubt it.

Trump hasn't cost you.

Your support of Trump cost you. Your never standing against his policies no matter how batshit they are cost you. Rubber stamping the Iran war cost you.

In the words of Lt. Gen. David Morrisson, "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.".
You've walked past Trump doing a ton of awful stuff, that is the standard you accept. The nation has judged that standard unacceptable and you with it.

Goes way beyond trump for me. Again the whole republican party allowed the constitution to be violated as a matter of executive policy. I can't treat it as a legitimate party or treat any of its voters as anything more than traitors. I know im going to get the "they have always been that way crowd" but a real line was crossed that can't be taken back and there is a big history of cozying up to the line since nixon with almost all of their administrations.

At least they're blaming Trump instead of Biden or Obama.

I'm quite frankly surprised they didn't double-down on the election fraud lies. At least this will apparently shut most of them the fuck up on that stupidity.

Alas, they retain the rest of their stupidity.

But it's nice to enjoy a little break from that particular lie.

Although it does make me roll my eyes even harder at the new reports of a :breathless reporter: ILLEGALS CARAVAN HEADING TO THE US BORDER!!!! :sigh: So that bullshit again.

Maybe MAGA should be asking if they're fucking gullible dipshits or not. You followed a conman for 10 years and this is what you have to show for it.

Treat the cause, not the symptom.

The country will continue it's pointless rock back and forth.

YOU cost you FFS...

The oligarchy that sponsors Trump, MAGA, and some of the Democrats, has cost you. And will continue to cost you unless you fight it.

Yes.

Well, Donald will throw a tantrum again on his way out.