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Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy
The Atlantic ^ | 11/4/24 | Adam Serwer

Posted on 11/09/2024 12:17:37 PM PST by DallasBiff

MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump’s lies, and will support him until the end.

At a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had driven hours from out of state. Vendors hawked T-shirts with slogans such as Say no to the ho, and Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe Biden has dementia and Kamala isn’t Black, sometimes chanting the phrases out loud to amused onlookers.

Hundreds of people still standing in the winding queue shuffled off into a disappointed crowd when told that the venue was now full. Many hung around outside, browsing the vendors’ wares or grabbing a bite at one of the nearby food trucks. They were there to see Trump, but also to enjoy the sense of belonging that comes from being surrounded by the like-minded. They were there to see and be seen, dressed in MAGA hats, MAGA shirts, MAGA tights. Service dogs decked out in stars and stripes, men in silk shirts printed with an image of a bloodied Trump raising his fist. As “Y.M.C.A.” blared from inside the venue, Trump supporters stopped their conversations to sing along and shape their arms with the chorus.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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To: DallasBiff

Steve Jobs is probably spinning in his grave with his wife’s antics. Sail off on your billion dollar yacht to France and don’t come back.


41 posted on 11/09/2024 1:32:09 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: Paladin2

Fair to say Adam is the one living in a Dark Fantasy.


42 posted on 11/09/2024 1:33:41 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DallasBiff

How do the people at Atlantic function successfully in real life? I shouldn’t be surprised at the level of insanity they have achieved and then repeatedly exceeded. But I can’t fathom the thought processes of such demented (as in perverted sick, not dementia ill) people.


43 posted on 11/09/2024 1:34:50 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: DAC21

Is that his head or is his neck blowing bubbles? The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

/Dangerfield>

CC


44 posted on 11/09/2024 1:36:13 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DallasBiff

Here’s on for the losers at The Atlantic:

Don’t you ever feel sad,
Lean on me when times are bad.
When the day comes and you’re down,
In a river of trouble and about to drown

Just hold on, I’m comin’,
Hold on, I’m comin’.

I’m goin’ my way, your lover.
If you get cold I’ll be your cover.
Don’t have to worry `cause I’m here,
No need to suffer baby, I’m here.

‘Cause hold on, I’m comin’
Hold on, I’m comin’
Hold on, I’m comin’
Hold on, I’m comin’

Reach out to me for satisfaction,
Call my name now for quick reaction.

Don’t you ever feel sad,
Lean on me when times are bad.
When the day comes and you’re down,
In a river of trouble and about to drown,

Just hold on, I’m comin’
Hold on, I’m comin’

Just hold on, I’m comin’
Hold on, I’m comin’

Just hold on, I’m comin’
Hold on, I’m comin’


45 posted on 11/09/2024 1:36:53 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: DallasBiff

This is that bitter guy who wasn’t invited to a rockin party...SOUR GRAPES!


46 posted on 11/09/2024 1:37:56 PM PST by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

“Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe has dementia and Kamala ain’t Black,”
This article so far is a great Trump advertisement.


47 posted on 11/09/2024 1:43:57 PM PST by brookwood (51 Intelligence Agents say Russia Is Trying To Influence The 2024 Election)
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To: DallasBiff

The Atlantic another propaganda rag nothing to see move along.


48 posted on 11/09/2024 1:48:59 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: DallasBiff

yep.


49 posted on 11/09/2024 1:51:52 PM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: DallasBiff

Talk about the pot 📞 the kettle ⚫️.


50 posted on 11/09/2024 1:59:08 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: DallasBiff

“...but they believe Trump’s lies...”

Notice, they never bother to catalogue the supposed lies. Reminds me of the Russia hoax. They never bothered to explain just how the Russians moved in and commandeered the 2016 election, just maintained that the Russians with no previous experience in American elections moved in and beat the democrats at their own game.

Last night I watched a little of a PBS news panel. It was like the twilight zone. A lady was saying that Trump was spouting all those lies about immigration. She turned to a co-panelist and asked him if he believed that invasion angle. The guy said nothing and so she continued as if he had agreed that Trump was lying about immigration and that there was no invasion.


51 posted on 11/09/2024 2:06:47 PM PST by odawg
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To: DallasBiff
At a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had driven hours from out of state. Vendors hawked T-shirts with slogans such as Say no to the ho, and Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe Biden has dementia and Kamala isn’t Black, sometimes chanting the phrases out loud to amused onlookers.

Sounds greatI wish I had been able to attend.

Just what point is the author trying to make?!

52 posted on 11/09/2024 2:12:02 PM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: DallasBiff
This dweeb is so deeply troubled by gauche T-shirts and the vulgar chants of those he obviously considers deluded by fantasies. Meanwhile, he obviously is not concerned with dark non-fantasies of phony court cases cooked up by his political chums.

The "Lawfare" being waged by his side is a dagger at the throat of the Republic. May Trump's victory continue to stick in his craw.

53 posted on 11/09/2024 2:32:08 PM PST by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: DallasBiff

If I’m living in a dark fantasy, I’m loving it!


54 posted on 11/09/2024 2:39:47 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Not the whore in '24.)
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To: Paladin2

My thought. also


55 posted on 11/09/2024 2:40:27 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: All

Imagine my concern.


56 posted on 11/09/2024 2:45:46 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: DallasBiff
people who were far more deeply embedded in an unreality carefully molded

I have encountered precisely zero leftists who have any sense of irony.

57 posted on 11/09/2024 3:01:50 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: DallasBiff

The left still doesn’t get it why they lost so why should we tell them.


58 posted on 11/09/2024 3:44:31 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: DallasBiff

Keep it up, Atlantic. Keep calling the majority of Americans “racist” and “hate-filled.”


59 posted on 11/09/2024 3:46:56 PM PST by dangus
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To: DallasBiff

Trump supporters are living in the light.


60 posted on 11/09/2024 4:03:11 PM PST by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America! Trump won because good triumphed over evil.)
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