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QueerDuck

(1,619 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 11:32 AM 4 hrs ago

MAGA Suddenly Wants 'Common Ground' When Trump Hurts THEM?


MAGA voters are suddenly talking about “finding common ground.” Now that the policies they supported are hitting their own lives, they want unity and cooperation. But let’s be honest about what actually happened. Millions of people voted for a candidate with felony convictions. They voted against women’s rights. They voted against gun reform. They voted against raising the minimum wage, universal healthcare, and taxing the wealthy.

Those votes had consequences.

Now that the same cruelty, dishonesty, and reckless leadership are starting to affect their own wallets, their own healthcare, and their own families, the call suddenly becomes “let’s come together.” But accountability matters. Political choices matter. You can’t spend years supporting policies that harm others and then ask for immediate forgiveness when the damage circles back.

This conversation is about responsibility. Democracy only works when voters own the outcomes of the leaders and policies they support. If the country is going to move forward, it starts with honesty about the choices that got us here.
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MAGA Suddenly Wants 'Common Ground' When Trump Hurts THEM? (Original Post) QueerDuck 4 hrs ago OP
To ask for forgiveness... lame54 4 hrs ago #1
I have no fucks left to give about them! nt intheozone 4 hrs ago #2
I do... Resistance1 3 hrs ago #8
Yes - he touches at least briefly on a lot TBF 4 hrs ago #3
Arrest yankee87 1 hr ago #31
same - TBF 1 hr ago #35
And when he's gone, & the drama & chaos die down, & things seem better, who will they vote for? CrispyQ 4 hrs ago #4
Yep. The professional liars at fox will circle their wagons 24/7 Justice matters. 2 hrs ago #13
Unfortunately, Scubamatt 1 hr ago #22
"Oooo, a tax break? SOLD!" Grokenstein 1 hr ago #28
Tax cuts don't matter when you don't have a job. CrispyQ 46 min ago #37
Simple Question For Those Folks ProfessorGAC 4 hrs ago #5
If you MAGAs out there want common ground with us "Dummy-crats" and "libs," you'll have to prove Vogon_Glory 3 hrs ago #6
K&R c-rational 3 hrs ago #7
Here's your common ground: vote blue. Vinca 3 hrs ago #9
I think, in their honor, we should adopt the Hegseth policy of no quarter given. ffr 3 hrs ago #10
Winner yankee87 1 hr ago #32
That's easy enough. They can simply stop trolling and start voting Democratic. Gaugamela 2 hrs ago #11
Open Arms orangecrush 2 hrs ago #12
I wont speak for anyone else, but im not asking for a purity test, per se... Volaris 1 hr ago #24
Next year, after Dems crush the midterms, Mblaze 2 hrs ago #14
I'm ready to vote for a PURE majority of dems that WILL ACTUALLY FIX IT! BComplex 1 hr ago #30
The simple fact that they voted for an adjudicated rapist was all that I ever needed to know about those that support chowder66 2 hrs ago #15
fuck MAGA the only solution I can suggest for them is gopiscrap 2 hrs ago #16
Great post QueerDuck, thanks for posting this! Emile 2 hrs ago #17
Kicked&Recommended! Cherrycheeks 2 hrs ago #18
Only thing bigger than their inflated egos is their chutzpah. BattleRow 2 hrs ago #19
All true, but our problem isn't the MAGA voters FakeNoose 2 hrs ago #20
I would welcome them back to reality Hassler 1 hr ago #21
Especially not after laughing and saying "screw them, their libs, let their houses burn" ChicagoTeamster 1 hr ago #23
If they decide they want to vote blue 'cause of the leopard eating their face, I welcome them unconditionaly with open Fil1957 1 hr ago #25
Let them "vote blue" if that makes them feel better. But I'm not going to offer pity or support or friendship... QueerDuck 1 hr ago #27
Fair enough. Fil1957 1 hr ago #29
Letting "bygones be bygones" TBF 1 hr ago #33
Absolutely not. OldBaldy1701E 1 hr ago #26
The only "common ground" remaining with them.... SergeStorms 1 hr ago #34
Common ground? Frankly... Norrrm 50 min ago #36
Consequences are a bitch. North Coast Lawyer 40 min ago #38
There is no common ground Warpy 36 min ago #39
ok, but snot 32 min ago #40

lame54

(39,647 posts)
1. To ask for forgiveness...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 11:39 AM
4 hrs ago

Before casting a vote against them
They may be Trump suckers but we're not

TBF

(36,471 posts)
3. Yes - he touches at least briefly on a lot
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 11:49 AM
4 hrs ago

women's rights/abortion
rape/pedophilia
poverty/homeless
health care
minimum wage
racism/bigotry
general costs such as gas


I would add that there's no common ground until we address both economic inequality and social equality. Nothing about homosexuality. Nothing about abuse towards transgendered folks. The racism/bigotry of MAGA voters is where we really have a deep recess. I'm having a very difficult time "finding common ground" with folks who want to build concentration camps. It has started with "illegal aliens". What happens when they decide all people who aren't white republican male straight Christians are "alien" to them?

It needs to stop and MAGA needs to be gone. Their leaders need to be impeached and tried, where applicable, for their war crimes. Then we can have a conversation about common ground and whether we can do another 250 years of this "experiment".

yankee87

(2,813 posts)
31. Arrest
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:44 PM
1 hr ago

Arrest them all until trial. I have lgbtq children and they don’t go to club anymore because they are scared of getting shot. FUCK THEM ALL

TBF

(36,471 posts)
35. same -
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:49 PM
1 hr ago

my daughter is gay. I'm not into the "oh let bygones be bygones" after what they've done.

CrispyQ

(40,925 posts)
4. And when he's gone, & the drama & chaos die down, & things seem better, who will they vote for?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 11:50 AM
4 hrs ago

A huge majority of them will go back to voting republican & you can take that to the bank.

Justice matters.

(9,728 posts)
13. Yep. The professional liars at fox will circle their wagons 24/7
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:18 PM
2 hrs ago

And they will all flock back in line like the gullible un-educated cretins they've always been.

Scubamatt

(303 posts)
22. Unfortunately,
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:59 PM
1 hr ago

this is 150% true - unless the MAGA leaders in Dump's administration are actually held accountable for their wrongdoing. When we take back control, I do NOT want to hear about "looking forward" or "healing the country" or "reaching out to the other side" unless and until folks are held to account for their wrongdoing. If the rank and file MAGA voter sees and understands that there are actually consequences to being a treasonous grifter who only represents, at most, a third of this country, then they might think twice about associating with the movement.

CrispyQ

(40,925 posts)
37. Tax cuts don't matter when you don't have a job.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:06 PM
46 min ago

That was a bumper sticker I saw back in W's time. You'd think the dems would have hijacked it & used it during campaigns & tax cut legislation, but no. SMDH

ProfessorGAC

(76,562 posts)
5. Simple Question For Those Folks
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 11:51 AM
4 hrs ago

Will you vote for democrats now?
If the answer is no, I have no interest in hearing their problems.

Vogon_Glory

(10,285 posts)
6. If you MAGAs out there want common ground with us "Dummy-crats" and "libs," you'll have to prove
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 12:02 PM
3 hrs ago

Talk is cheap and your say-so has been cheapened below the value of soiled toilet paper. If you want some help, PROVE IT! Vote Democratic this fall and we might be willing to listen.

ffr

(23,383 posts)
10. I think, in their honor, we should adopt the Hegseth policy of no quarter given.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 12:52 PM
3 hrs ago


Too bad. So sad, snowflakes.

Get back to us when you fully support Democrats and governmental norms. Until then, eat sh*t!

Gaugamela

(3,483 posts)
11. That's easy enough. They can simply stop trolling and start voting Democratic.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 12:56 PM
2 hrs ago

In the meantime just suck it up, buttercup.

Volaris

(11,660 posts)
24. I wont speak for anyone else, but im not asking for a purity test, per se...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:19 PM
1 hr ago

I WOULD like an acknowledgment from some of these clowns that the rest of us TOLD THEM 'ITS A FUCKING LEOPARD.' would go a long way...

Mblaze

(1,007 posts)
14. Next year, after Dems crush the midterms,
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:24 PM
2 hrs ago

They'll return to complaining that Dems don't fix it fast enough.

BComplex

(9,880 posts)
30. I'm ready to vote for a PURE majority of dems that WILL ACTUALLY FIX IT!
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:34 PM
1 hr ago

I haven't seen that so far. Dems just seem to go back to business as usual, and that won't play anymore with me. This whole mess has proven that there are multiple systems that are TOTALLY broken, and we need fighters who will actually fight to fix the problems.

It's time that all elected Democrats WOKE up!

chowder66

(12,185 posts)
15. The simple fact that they voted for an adjudicated rapist was all that I ever needed to know about those that support
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:25 PM
2 hrs ago

him. Hell, the fact that they voted him in for a 2nd time is bad enough.

BattleRow

(2,347 posts)
19. Only thing bigger than their inflated egos is their chutzpah.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:52 PM
2 hrs ago

Reminds me of the old joke about what is chutzpah?

A son killing his mother and father,then throwing himself on the court's mercy because he is now an orphan....

Not really funny,but illustrative.

FakeNoose

(41,329 posts)
20. All true, but our problem isn't the MAGA voters
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:53 PM
2 hrs ago

As Democratic Party regulars, our problem was that we lost the independent and once-in-a-while voters who SHOULD HAVE SEEN all this, but instead they closed their eyes and voted for Chump.

And don't get me started on the huge number of Americans who didn't care enough to vote, and never gave it a 2nd thought. If we can get them to show up at the polls and vote D, it won't matter what the MAGAs are crying about.


Hassler

(4,907 posts)
21. I would welcome them back to reality
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:55 PM
1 hr ago

As long as they know all of this was known and predicted by millions of us who were warning them. They dismissed our warnings, and often mocked us. So, as long as they can take a long look within to learn why they believed it and to then exorcise those grievances and beliefs, and going forward change their behavior, I am open to them.

A simple ask, but difficult for most. More likely they will simply look for the next guy offering the same thing and convince themselves this time will be different.

Fil1957

(689 posts)
25. If they decide they want to vote blue 'cause of the leopard eating their face, I welcome them unconditionaly with open
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:21 PM
1 hr ago

arms. Anybody that wants to be part of the solution should be welcomed even if they helped cause the problem in the first place. Let bygones be bygones, this is an existential crisis and we need and should accept any and all the help we can get.

QueerDuck

(1,619 posts)
27. Let them "vote blue" if that makes them feel better. But I'm not going to offer pity or support or friendship...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:26 PM
1 hr ago

... to console or make them feel better. They've shit in their own bed... let them lay in it or clean it up themselves.

TBF

(36,471 posts)
33. Letting "bygones be bygones"
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:48 PM
1 hr ago

is easier when the results aren't so severe.

How many people have been killed since (and including) the Jan. 6th insurrection? Venezuela, Iran, Salvadorean prisons, the streets of Minneapolis with ICE literally shooting citizens?

Yes, we can have some ground rules and move forward after MAGA is removed, but "let bygones be bygones" is really not the stage we're at here.

It's not just a football game or something ...

OldBaldy1701E

(11,029 posts)
26. Absolutely not.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:23 PM
1 hr ago

Even with the voting against their own interests, these people were the scum of the earth when the time came in the past for 'coming together'. I know that even some here saw the vitriol and hate these people were spewing against the entire Democratic establishment.

And, now you want us to pretend that you were just 'being conservative' when you voted for a felon who instigated an insurrection and got away with it, a criminal who has been in court rooms his entire life, a sleezeball landlord who discriminated whenever it suited him and then tried to lie about it. You want us to just pretend all of this was just a 'political disagreement'?

How about 'NO'? Does 'NO' work for you? Because it works great for me.

SergeStorms

(20,475 posts)
34. The only "common ground" remaining with them....
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 02:49 PM
1 hr ago

is the ground in which we'll be buried. Even then, I'd prefer to be buried with fellow human beings, not hateful, misogynistic, racist, criminal, pedophiles, if that's possible.

I was never, nor am I now, perfect, but I believe everyone has a right to human dignity, decency, and respect. None of those things are within the MAGA lexicon, so even in death I don't wish to be associated with them.

I'll have to find a "No MAGAs allowed" cemetery, I guess.

North Coast Lawyer

(255 posts)
38. Consequences are a bitch.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:12 PM
40 min ago

I'm so tired of conservatives droning on about personal responsibility for others but not for themselves. MAGA folks voted for this insanity. Liberals and conservatives need to suppress their instinct to comfort and help the afflicted. Conservatives need to learn some hard lessons.

I'm reserving my empathy and support for the people MAGA targeted.

Warpy

(114,563 posts)
39. There is no common ground
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:17 PM
36 min ago

with people who want to be ruled by a divine right king instead of the rule of law.

snot

(11,752 posts)
40. ok, but
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:20 PM
33 min ago

united we stand; divided we fall.

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."

– Jason "Jay" Gould, per Philip Sheldon Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States Vol. 2: From the Founding of the A. F. of L. to the Emergence of American Imperialism, P. 51 (1998, 2d ed.).

Let's focus on the common ground – of which I believe there's plenty – and not be the tools of tyrants who use division to keep us powerless.
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