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augyboston

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Mon Dec 23, 2024, 07:58 AM Dec 2024

While waiting at the deli counter [View all]

While waiting at the deli counter last week a man engaged me in conversation about the high price of groceries. Then he starts in about how tRump will fix it. That's when I kicked into high gear by telling him that tRump had just stated a few days prior that bringing down the price of groceries would be very hard and how day glow basically said there wasn't much he could do about it.

Then I kick it up another notch by using my ant-MAGA strategy. I tell these knuckle draggers that I do not believe in tRump and that both parties deserve our disdain. I tell them that George Washington was against political parties and that both parties suck. I tell them that I wish a pox on both their houses and that I hate all politicians and politics in general. I finish up with the only people who can save us are ourselves.

These people are anti-government anyway, so it is quite easy to get them thinking that all people involved in the government are scum bags. Without creating confrontation I get them to question their fealty to anyone and that includes tRump and the Republican Party.

Then I finish with how the multi-national corporations own everyone and how the high prices are the result of big business gouging all of us.

I love seeing the confused look on their faces when I plant the seeds of doubt.

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While waiting at the deli counter [View all] augyboston Dec 2024 OP
Well done! Think. Again. Dec 2024 #1
Well done ThePartyThatListens Dec 2024 #2
I live among the Magats gab13by13 Dec 2024 #3
I agree, you can't appeal to everyone to support democrsts. If you had tried that JI7 Dec 2024 #4
Glad you stood up to MAGA cultist. However, Timeflyer Dec 2024 #5
It's a strategy Kaleva Dec 2024 #8
Trump will never run again. yardwork Dec 2024 #15
It's a common strategy used by those who troll Kaleva Dec 2024 #21
Exactly! It is addition by subtraction. augyboston Dec 2024 #19
I don't agree with this approach at all. yardwork Dec 2024 #6
Not sure bashing the Democratic Party is a great strategy. Fla Dem Dec 2024 #7
It's addition by subtraction. Kaleva Dec 2024 #9
Bit of a stretch. Fla Dem Dec 2024 #11
You're not going to be able to convince a Magahat to start supporting Dems Kaleva Dec 2024 #12
I think it's the worst possible message. yardwork Dec 2024 #14
So both sides are the same? travelingthrulife Dec 2024 #10
I'm coming back to comment again because I hope you'll reconsider your approach. yardwork Dec 2024 #13
How'd that work out for us during and after his first term? augyboston Dec 2024 #20
I don't think we've done it right. yardwork Dec 2024 #22
I am still shopping at the wrong stores sarisataka Dec 2024 #16
I'm about to do a Costco/Safeway run Sympthsical Dec 2024 #18
I was at the Panthers game in Charlotte this past Sunday. yardwork Dec 2024 #23
And then the macaroni salad applauded Sympthsical Dec 2024 #17
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