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mountain grammy

(27,699 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 11:39 PM Apr 11

If he fires Tom Homan and stops arresting people

maga will turn against him.. Then and only then.

There are currently over 41,000 human beings being held in ICE detention.

He still has a 50% approval rating on immigration. As long as there are arrests, maga is happy. No Supreme Court is gonna shut him down.

This is what they voted for.

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If he fires Tom Homan and stops arresting people (Original Post) mountain grammy Apr 11 OP
They got tariffs, inflation, and a wrecked economy as a bonus...... lastlib Saturday #1
He's not firing Homan. RubyRose Saturday #2
Of course not mountain grammy Saturday #4
No. What will turn maga is them losing businesses, jobs, and cars Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #3
Nope mountain grammy Saturday #5
Lost your job? "Thanks, Biden!!" Lost your house? "Thanks, Biden!!" hatrack Saturday #6
1) You are making a different point from your OP. 2) I'm reading DU reports of magas turning Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #7
Oh for heaven's sake.. mountain grammy Saturday #8
Your posts don't offend me. I replied to your OP. But when you switch horses it's hard to have a discussion. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #9
didn't mean to do that mountain grammy Saturday #10
When levees break, they start with trickles and later a tipping point is reached and the water bursts through Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #11
It's a cult totally focused on him.. mountain grammy Saturday #12

lastlib

(25,735 posts)
1. They got tariffs, inflation, and a wrecked economy as a bonus......
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 12:05 AM
Saturday

not to mention a wrecked government and a fascist police state. "The art of the deal"........

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,741 posts)
3. No. What will turn maga is them losing businesses, jobs, and cars
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 03:31 AM
Saturday

Fire Tom "Bullneck" Homan? What did you eat for dinner that gave you such a whack fever dream?

hatrack

(62,235 posts)
6. Lost your job? "Thanks, Biden!!" Lost your house? "Thanks, Biden!!"
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:23 AM
Saturday

Living in a homeless shelter? "Thanks, Biden!!"

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,741 posts)
7. 1) You are making a different point from your OP. 2) I'm reading DU reports of magas turning
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:35 AM
Saturday

1) Your OP says maga won't turn until a near impossibility happens (Homan fired).

My reply addresses your OP as to A) maga turning. B) Homan not being fired.

So here you reply as if your OP was about tRump being stopped and as if I was talking about tRump being stopped when I had said nothing about that in my reply and you had said nothing about that in your OP.

Get your story straight if you want to have a coherent discussion and don't jump horses mid stream. If you are thinking about something and feel it is essential to your point, put it in the OP. I can't read your mind.

2) I read reports on DU front page every day about magas being affected by family members losing jobs or losing business, and regretting their vote.

mountain grammy

(27,699 posts)
8. Oh for heaven's sake..
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:50 AM
Saturday

please stop yelling at me. I'm sorry if I offended you in any way.

I honestly don't have a "story" it's just my very humble opinion. I don't think Homan will be fired, it's just my opinion that would turn magas. They're racist. They hate immigrants and they hate Democrats..

Take a look at the ICE website.. all notices of violent, child molesting immigrants being rounded up and deported. I know lots of immigrants, none are criminals.

50% approval rating for his immigration policies which are basically disappearing people, many are legally here.

So very sorry if my irrational rants offend you but people are disappearing here and I believe it will get worse and maga approval is driving it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,741 posts)
9. Your posts don't offend me. I replied to your OP. But when you switch horses it's hard to have a discussion. . nt
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:53 AM
Saturday

mountain grammy

(27,699 posts)
10. didn't mean to do that
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 10:23 AM
Saturday

I don't see that happening at all.. I also don't see much change in maga support for the dictator. They're everywhere, but most important, they are the majority of our Congress and Supreme Court.

Only one branch of government now and it wants to get rid of people. One maga may wake up when his son "disappears" but for the most part, they're on board.

Oh, and another thing. Since January military recruitment is up. Now there are many reasons for this: incentives, healthcare, education, wanting to serve your country, etc, etc. But some just want to "fight for trump" and to me that means "fight against Americans"

on the other hand, around 25% of new recruits don't cut it, physically or mentally. But just you wait, Hegseth will lower the standards for the white guys who profess their love of maga. The dictator needs a loyal military.

A few magas changing their minds isn't going to stop this..A million dead from COVID will seem like nothing.

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,741 posts)
11. When levees break, they start with trickles and later a tipping point is reached and the water bursts through
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 11:31 AM
Saturday

The million dead of covid is one in 330, easy for them to overlook.

Unemployment doubling to 8% (of labour force) is an extra 7 million people, for a total of 14 million people. That's about one in 24 of the overall population, one in 12 of the workforce. All of maga will know someone unemployed, might have an extended family member who lost a job. Much harder to overlook. That number of unemployed means business shuttered on Main Street; also hard to sweep under the rug.

Yes, maga is willing to take a hit in the wallet (car prices to rise over $5,000) for the cause. But when they fear for their jobs, that cuts deeper than their hate of the other.

Add on to that disruptions of social security, delayed tax refunds, and skyrocketing produce prices. They will notice and they will not like it one bit.

They already notice the decline in their 401Ks. What happens when their 401Ks have declined 40%?

mountain grammy

(27,699 posts)
12. It's a cult totally focused on him..
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 01:03 PM
Saturday

Oh yeah, they'll take a beating but they're still blaming Biden and even Obama and Hillary and always Democrats

It is a cult. Even as aid arrived in NC, they believed trump that FEMA was doing nothing.

The only light and hope I have is that we outnumber them. More disapprove than approve, except on immigration and that's slightly weakening. Right now that doesn't seem to matter, and if it does he'll declare Martial Law or something. He already declared a national emergency then went off to golf for 4 days before announcing tariffs.

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