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maspaha

(690 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:55 PM Nov 12

A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap...

and surgically enhanced “pouty lips” asked to meet my St Bernard dog and take her picture. I said NO. If you don’t share my values of common decency, I will not share my St Bernard with you. I protect my dogs from cruelty.

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A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap... (Original Post) maspaha Nov 12 OP
they KNOW what the cap represents ecstatic Nov 12 #1
Don't be bullied. Point at them and laugh. paleotn Nov 12 #11
These people have no familiarity with shame and should be banished from polite society. Borogove Nov 12 #2
That's one way to win hearts and minds... Tim S Nov 12 #3
They have no hearts or minds to win. That's why they are part of the cult. erronis Nov 12 #5
A MAGA wrote this to me on a FB group today mchill Nov 12 #28
If tRumpers could be reasoned with, they wouldn't be tRumpers. lastlib Nov 12 #9
It's Been Ten Years Now That Many Of These People... ProfessorGAC Nov 12 #13
Trying to win their hearts and minds is a fool's errand. And we are no fools. Aristus Nov 12 #21
No Cirsium Nov 12 #25
I think there is a stark difference between someone that ... Whiskeytide Nov 12 #32
Uh-huh. travelingthrulife Nov 13 #38
Good on 'ya! Way to take a stand. LoisB Nov 12 #4
Awesome. They only hear support from the other cult members because many of us are too polite to say anything negative. Whyisthisstillclose Nov 12 #6
I love it no need for animal cruelty Tribetime Nov 12 #7
I Live For the Day When Chicagogrl1 Nov 12 #8
I told a MAGAt I know real well a couple weeks back KS Toronado Nov 12 #23
Dogs are too precious to be used Grim Chieftain Nov 12 #10
I don't want to breath the same oxygen as those trash. paleotn Nov 12 #12
Actually, you'd be breathing the carbon dioxide that they exhaled. But I take your point. :-) TheRickles Nov 12 #19
Same atmospheric gases. paleotn Nov 12 #20
I always like to point this out to MAHA types. Each breath of air has already travelingthrulife Nov 13 #39
Kristi Noem wanted to take a picture with your dog? Emile Nov 12 #14
Yeah! I definitely would've asked her about Noem shooting her dog IcyPeas Nov 12 #34
That line from Stand By Me comes to mind: "Chopper! Sic balls!" BannonsLiver Nov 12 #15
You could always shrug like you're considering it . . . Collimator Nov 12 #16
Love that. It would be fun to count the seconds before she "got it". erronis Nov 12 #27
WOW! Way To Go maspaha!! Fla Dem Nov 12 #17
.. BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 12 #18
You will know them by their red hats and bad lips Javaman Nov 12 #22
I'm glad for this post btecause it makes me think about what I would say and do in that situation.. mountain grammy Nov 12 #24
I don't trust what this woman would do to your dog. Irish_Dem Nov 12 #26
As long as your dog didn't bite her in her oversized lips, I think you did all that was required of you. Marie Marie Nov 12 #30
It's a weird compulsion for them to AdamGG Nov 12 #29
And their level of moral development and sanity. Irish_Dem Nov 12 #31
K&R 👍 Dave Bowman Nov 12 #33
I ike pouty lips. 3Hotdogs Nov 12 #35
Noem is in DC ... or a nearby military base. live love laugh Nov 13 #36
I think the dog wasn't aware of the attempted insult. DFW Nov 13 #37
trmp's constant comments, punching down and equating that treatment of people, "like a dog" did it for me. Haggis 4 Breakfast Nov 13 #40

ecstatic

(34,986 posts)
1. they KNOW what the cap represents
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:56 PM
Nov 12

They are bullies. Plain and simple. I'm glad you said no.

Tim S

(50 posts)
3. That's one way to win hearts and minds...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:08 PM
Nov 12

If we refuse to engage the ignorant and show them how they are acting against their (and OUR) best interests, they will never change.

erronis

(22,035 posts)
5. They have no hearts or minds to win. That's why they are part of the cult.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:19 PM
Nov 12

They can go put their pouty lips elsewhere.

mchill

(1,179 posts)
28. A MAGA wrote this to me on a FB group today
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:58 PM
Nov 12

Re: The recent Epstein news

“….[MAGAs have never] given a crap about what Trump is or has been. It’s all about the policies that we want instituted.”

lastlib

(27,194 posts)
9. If tRumpers could be reasoned with, they wouldn't be tRumpers.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:35 PM
Nov 12

If they can't see what he is by now, they most likely never will. His supporters are clearly impervious to truth or facts; only their own "alternative facts" (aka lies) sink into their cranial cavities.

A couple months ago, I was coming out of the local post office, and saw a man coming down the sidewalk toward the entrance where I was exiting. I was holding the door open for him, until I saw his shirt which said, "If you don't like tRump, you won't like me." I waited until he was about five feet from me, then closed the door, and said, "You're right!" and walked off. He was probably pissed off, but I didn't give a flying f about it, and still don't.

ProfessorGAC

(75,298 posts)
13. It's Been Ten Years Now That Many Of These People...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:43 PM
Nov 12

...joined his cult of personality.
You think they are persuadable if 10 years of first hand observation hasn't already made them see the light?
That's an illogical expectation.

Aristus

(71,356 posts)
21. Trying to win their hearts and minds is a fool's errand. And we are no fools.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:57 PM
Nov 12

They have neither hearts nor minds. Refusing to engage with them at this point is not malicious or short-sighted. It's protective coloration. We want them to not be Trumpsters. They want us dead. That's the difference.

I am an unashamed peace-and-love, campfire, kum-bah-yah kind of liberal. But even I know when to stop being walked on and start letting them have a dose of their own medicine.

Whiskeytide

(4,616 posts)
32. I think there is a stark difference between someone that ...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:11 PM
Nov 12

… voted for Тяцмp because they were inundated with lies and were fooled into thinking he would be better than a democrat at a few things he claimed he would do, and a cult member - who can be identified because they wear his garb and fly his flags. The former can often be made to understand the error of their ways. The latter are essentially hopeless. If you wear Тяцмp merch, it means you WANT people to know what you are, and perhaps even welcome the looks because it makes you feel superior. That’s too far gone in my opinion.

6. Awesome. They only hear support from the other cult members because many of us are too polite to say anything negative.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:26 PM
Nov 12

Thus they think everyone agrees with them. This wasn't violence or nasty in any way. Fantastic way to make your point!

KS Toronado

(22,189 posts)
23. I told a MAGAt I know real well a couple weeks back
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:12 PM
Nov 12

I can see what's coming in about 10 years, what's that he asked....

Ten years from now you'll be telling people he never fooled you and you never voted for him.

TheRickles

(3,081 posts)
19. Actually, you'd be breathing the carbon dioxide that they exhaled. But I take your point. :-)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:35 PM
Nov 12

travelingthrulife

(3,870 posts)
39. I always like to point this out to MAHA types. Each breath of air has already
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
Nov 13

been used over and over and over again.

Collimator

(2,052 posts)
16. You could always shrug like you're considering it . . .
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:59 PM
Nov 12

. . . And then say, "Maybe. Adolph Hitler did like dogs, after all."

mountain grammy

(28,456 posts)
24. I'm glad for this post btecause it makes me think about what I would say and do in that situation..
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:45 PM
Nov 12

So, I think if someone approaches me to take a pic with my dog and that person is wearing a trump or maga hat I would say, of course but you must remove your hat...I don't want my dog to appear in a picture associated with that fool.

If he or she removes the hat, maybe we can have a conversation.

Irish_Dem

(78,101 posts)
26. I don't trust what this woman would do to your dog.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:47 PM
Nov 12

These people can be quite dangerous as we are finding out every day.

Marie Marie

(10,750 posts)
30. As long as your dog didn't bite her in her oversized lips, I think you did all that was required of you.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:02 PM
Nov 12

Irish_Dem

(78,101 posts)
31. And their level of moral development and sanity.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:07 PM
Nov 12

It is like a combined IQ, personality, and morality test all in one.

DFW

(59,426 posts)
37. I think the dog wasn't aware of the attempted insult.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:53 AM
Nov 13

Otherwise, pouty-lips would have had severe dog bites on both hands and arms.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,499 posts)
40. trmp's constant comments, punching down and equating that treatment of people, "like a dog" did it for me.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:29 PM
Nov 13

I am a disabled veteran with a medically-trained service dog. He goes everywhere with me. He IS a very charming and handsome guy (a Red Labrador Retriever) and people are always approaching me. He has no less than SEVEN tags on his blue vest that identify him as a service dog, two that say "DO NOT PET." And yet I still get these maga people coming up to me and wanting to pet him. (I was told long ago by the agency that trained him that I am a goodwill ambassador for every other service dog and handler out there and I try to keep that in mind for the good of our community.) But, it tries my patience when I have to explain this to these dimwits over and over that he is not a pet, he is a medical service dog and he has an important job - focusing his laser like attention on ME. Any distraction from that could be disastrous for me. They look at me like I'm being unreasonable. I remain polite. However since the shutdown began, I have lost my cool with these people and have started to ask them if English is their first language and of so, are they literate. One woman became very indignant with me and said of course she was literate. I then pointed to the "DO NOT PET" signs and asked her to read them out loud to me. That shut her up quick. I fear my patience is reaching its limit.

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