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maspaha

(688 posts) Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:55 PM 17 hrs ago

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A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap... [View all]

and surgically enhanced “pouty lips” asked to meet my St Bernard dog and take her picture. I said NO. If you don’t share my values of common decency, I will not share my St Bernard with you. I protect my dogs from cruelty.

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A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap... [View all] maspaha 17 hrs ago OP

they KNOW what the cap represents ecstatic 17 hrs ago #1

Don't be bullied. Point at them and laugh. paleotn 16 hrs ago #11

These people have no familiarity with shame and should be banished from polite society. Borogove 17 hrs ago #2

That's one way to win hearts and minds... Tim S 17 hrs ago #3

They have no hearts or minds to win. That's why they are part of the cult. erronis 17 hrs ago #5

A MAGA wrote this to me on a FB group today mchill 14 hrs ago #28

If tRumpers could be reasoned with, they wouldn't be tRumpers. lastlib 17 hrs ago #9

It's Been Ten Years Now That Many Of These People... ProfessorGAC 16 hrs ago #13

Trying to win their hearts and minds is a fool's errand. And we are no fools. Aristus 15 hrs ago #21

No Cirsium 14 hrs ago #25

I think there is a stark difference between someone that ... Whiskeytide 14 hrs ago #32

Uh-huh. travelingthrulife 44 min ago #38

Good on 'ya! Way to take a stand. LoisB 17 hrs ago #4

Awesome. They only hear support from the other cult members because many of us are too polite to say anything negative. Whyisthisstillclose 17 hrs ago #6

I love it no need for animal cruelty Tribetime 17 hrs ago #7

I Live For the Day When Chicagogrl1 17 hrs ago #8

I told a MAGAt I know real well a couple weeks back KS Toronado 15 hrs ago #23

Dogs are too precious to be used Grim Chieftain 17 hrs ago #10

I don't want to breath the same oxygen as those trash. paleotn 16 hrs ago #12

Actually, you'd be breathing the carbon dioxide that they exhaled. But I take your point. :-) TheRickles 16 hrs ago #19

Same atmospheric gases. paleotn 15 hrs ago #20

I always like to point this out to MAHA types. Each breath of air has already travelingthrulife 41 min ago #39

Kristi Noem wanted to take a picture with your dog? Emile 16 hrs ago #14

Yeah! I definitely would've asked her about Noem shooting her dog IcyPeas 13 hrs ago #34

That line from Stand By Me comes to mind: "Chopper! Sic balls!" BannonsLiver 16 hrs ago #15

You could always shrug like you're considering it . . . Collimator 16 hrs ago #16

Love that. It would be fun to count the seconds before she "got it". erronis 14 hrs ago #27

WOW! Way To Go maspaha!! Fla Dem 16 hrs ago #17

.. BlueWaveNeverEnd 16 hrs ago #18

You will know them by their red hats and bad lips Javaman 15 hrs ago #22

I'm glad for this post btecause it makes me think about what I would say and do in that situation.. mountain grammy 14 hrs ago #24

I don't trust what this woman would do to your dog. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #26

As long as your dog didn't bite her in her oversized lips, I think you did all that was required of you. Marie Marie 14 hrs ago #30

It's a weird compulsion for them to AdamGG 14 hrs ago #29

And their level of moral development and sanity. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #31

K&R 👍 Dave Bowman 14 hrs ago #33

I ike pouty lips. 3Hotdogs 11 hrs ago #35

Noem is in DC ... or a nearby military base. live love laugh 2 hrs ago #36

I think the dog wasn't aware of the attempted insult. DFW 48 min ago #37