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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 04:58 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

Chased a MAGAT from the dog park today

A former history prof I talk to and this older bearded white guy were talking history and she was making comparisons between drumpf and Harding when I chimed in that at least Harding wasn't crazy. Now if a MAGAT (MAGA Trumpist) is a red hat wearer so as to be obvious I stay away from them and talking politics generally but I assumed this guy wasn't one. Wrong. He became pissed and started talking about how drumpf had fixed the economy and the VA and I started hitting him - with the facts.

Usually I don't bother since they are like paranoid schizophrenics who think the CIA is after them so does no good to use facts. But I was already in it with him and kept at it. He got up, left in a huff mumbling words and left the park. Then I sat down with the professor and she filled me in on some relevant history (apparently Aristophanes' play The Knights is applicable to today) and we had a nice long talk while the dogs played. It was a good day at the dog park.

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Chased a MAGAT from the dog park today (Original post)	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	OP
here is an irrefutable fact for anyone who thinks he has accomplished anything-	mopinko	Aug 2017	#1
K&R for MAGATS	trof	Aug 2017	#2
Thanks.	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#3
DO IT!	trof	Aug 2017	#4
On second thought it might get one of the good guys killed	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#21
Yes ...	GeorgeGist	Aug 2017	#5
I look terrible in ball caps & I'd still buy a hat.	irisblue	Aug 2017	#10
Can I get royalties?	Lucky Luciano	Aug 2017	#12
Sorry had not seen that!	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#17
+100000	irisblue	Aug 2017	#9
Almost like my FB confrontation with...wait for it.. a FB friend. Facts only enrage them and they	haveahart	Aug 2017	#6
MAGAT - Great achronym	rock	Aug 2017	#7
I always think "When are they going to deploy the Lysistrata strategy?"	ProudLib72	Aug 2017	#8
It was a mutt - think cattle dog, a lot of those where we are in AZ	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#20
Oh well, I had imagined a rat terrier	ProudLib72	Aug 2017	#23
You're not necessarily wrong	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#25
Maybe it would be better to judge by the individual dog's personality	ProudLib72	Aug 2017	#26
Well done!	smirkymonkey	Aug 2017	#11
Thanks!!	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#19
K&R	SalviaBlue	Aug 2017	#13
Cheat sheet	Owens	Aug 2017	#14
The Knights	Achilleaze	Aug 2017	#15
Sure sounds applicable to today. Thanks n/t	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#18
I upset a coworker friend of many years a couple of months ago...	chwaliszewski	Aug 2017	#16
OMG! THAT'S AWESOME	Sedona	Aug 2017	#27
Very good link. nt	Lucky Luciano	Aug 2017	#28
Wow, that upset him?	GulfCoast66	Aug 2017	#29
This is great. I love stories like this.	NurseJackie	Aug 2017	#22
Thanks. Normally I avoid the MAGATS there	Bradshaw3	Aug 2017	#24
Well done!!	MLAA	Aug 2017	#30

Response to Bradshaw3 (Original post)

Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:29 PM

mopinko (59,326 posts)

1. here is an irrefutable fact for anyone who thinks he has accomplished anything-

he has yet to pass a budget. nothing that he wants to do happens w/o a budget.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:33 PM

trof (53,156 posts)

2. K&R for MAGATS

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:41 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

3. Thanks.

Maybe I should patent it and sell hats.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 05:54 PM

trof (53,156 posts)

4. DO IT!

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:13 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

21. On second thought it might get one of the good guys killed

So maybe Lucky or someone else can.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 06:13 PM

GeorgeGist (23,919 posts)

5. Yes ...

I'll buy one.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 06:56 PM

irisblue (25,541 posts)

10. I look terrible in ball caps & I'd still buy a hat.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:11 PM

Lucky Luciano (10,122 posts)

12. Can I get royalties?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9493211

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:06 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

17. Sorry had not seen that!

And I know not to cross Lucky Luciano or I'll be swimming in concrete shoes.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 06:54 PM

irisblue (25,541 posts)

9. +100000

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 06:32 PM

haveahart (905 posts)

6. Almost like my FB confrontation with...wait for it.. a FB friend. Facts only enrage them and they

end the confrontation in a huff. BUT they cannot unheard the facts once it's put to them. They can deny the facts, ignore the facts, trash the facts but they cannot unheard them. And once heard the words enter into the inner man and haunts the hell out of them. Sometimes driving them to join hooded marches and don their AK-47 or spit fire. Most of the most vocal idiots have heard some of the facts and that is what enrages them. In their rage, they think they can change the facts and when they can't, they make up shit like, Bowling Green, and Obama being President during Katrina and out golfing instead of being in LA.

Face it, they are lost and unredeemable.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 06:36 PM

rock (13,218 posts)

7. MAGAT - Great achronym

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 06:37 PM

ProudLib72 (17,984 posts)

8. I always think "When are they going to deploy the Lysistrata strategy?"

I'm really curious now. What kind of dog did the MAGAT own?

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:10 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

20. It was a mutt - think cattle dog, a lot of those where we are in AZ

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:40 PM

ProudLib72 (17,984 posts)

23. Oh well, I had imagined a rat terrier

or some other small and annoying dog. I guess my theory about judging who is a likely MAGAT by what dogs they own is blown.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:49 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

25. You're not necessarily wrong

The cattle dog mixes tend to be the most aggressive and controlling, so a MAGAT would like that. They also seem to favor the pit bull mixes.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:54 PM

ProudLib72 (17,984 posts)

26. Maybe it would be better to judge by the individual dog's personality

Rather than single out breeds. I have a cattle dog mix, and he is high strung but nice. He would bite the hell out of tRump (or any one of his supporters).

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:10 PM

smirkymonkey (58,911 posts)

11. Well done!

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:08 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

19. Thanks!!

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:19 PM

SalviaBlue (2,676 posts)

13. K&R

Love MAGAT ... gonna steal it😀

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:24 PM

Owens (72 posts)

14. Cheat sheet

We need to hand out cheat sheets- with web links) to these MAGATs when they start spewing false facts.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:44 PM

Achilleaze (14,424 posts)

15. The Knights

From CLASSICAL LITERATURE:
The Knights” (Gr: “Hippeis”) is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It won first prize at the Lenaia festival when it was produced in 424 BCE.

The play is a satire on political and social life in 5th Century BCE Athens, and in particular a diatribe against the pro-war populist politician, Cleon. In the play, a sausage-seller, Agoracritus, vies with Paphlagonian (representing Cleon) for the confidence and approval of Demos (an elderly man who symbolizes the Athenian citizenry) and Agoracritus emerges triumphant from a series of contests and miraculously restores Demos to his former youth and glory...

...After a shouting match between Cleon and the sausage-seller, in which each man strives to demonstrate that he is a more shameless and unscrupulous orator than the other, the Knights proclaim the sausage-seller the winner, and Cleon storms off to denounce them all ...

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:07 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

18. Sure sounds applicable to today. Thanks n/t

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 07:51 PM

chwaliszewski (1,424 posts)

16. I upset a coworker friend of many years a couple of months ago...

who just happens to be a Trump supporter. I sent him this link and it so upset him that we haven't spoken for months. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 09:26 PM

Sedona (3,480 posts)

27. OMG! THAT'S AWESOME

Thanks for sharing

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 09:45 PM

Lucky Luciano (10,122 posts)

28. Very good link. nt

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 10:03 PM

GulfCoast66 (10,782 posts)

29. Wow, that upset him?

The article did not take on single political position. It did not criticize anyone or any side.

It simply talked about brain science.

Sound like he is a typical person. Deep down he knows he is wrong, but he weighs that fact vs the pain it will cause him to admit the errors of his ways and just double downs on the asshole.

Have a nice evening.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:36 PM

NurseJackie (38,733 posts)

22. This is great. I love stories like this.

What kind of dog do you have?

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 08:46 PM

Bradshaw3 (5,245 posts)

24. Thanks. Normally I avoid the MAGATS there

There's one who always wears his hat and tries to talk to me but I just walk away. Fuck him for his vote and for continuing to wear that fucking hat.
My dog is a rescue who looks most like a Flatcoat retriever but is probably a mix of lab, retriever and border collie. Just a mutt but the best dog I've ever been around - loves people, dogs, ferrets, llamas, even cats. Just a 60-pound puppy. Thanks for asking.

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 10:06 PM

MLAA (8,183 posts)

30. Well done!!

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