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edhopper

(33,580 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 07:23 PM Feb 2023

I don't get angry at the stupid and loathsome antics of the GOP

wearing murder weapons on their lapels, attacking vulnerable trans people. Trying to take everything that helps people away from them. I could go on and on. But that doesn't anger me. Disgust me? Yes. Bring feelings of nothing but contempt? Yes. See them as evil and completely corrupt? Yes.

But my anger goes to the too may voters who see this and still support these vile pieces of sewer sludge.

This came to mind last night when I thought about those who saw this and said, "No, I won't vote for that good man who is trying to improve the country and everyone who lives here, I will vote for the jackals howling from their seats."

Those fuckers make me angry.

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I don't get angry at the stupid and loathsome antics of the GOP (Original Post) edhopper Feb 2023 OP
They're internet trolls rolled out into the offline world. RockRaven Feb 2023 #1
Bingo! paleotn Feb 2023 #2
They don't want to govern. mac56 Feb 2023 #3
exactly Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #10
They want power and wealth, and will burn everything down to get it. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #15
Too many don't understand how our government works. Pobeka Feb 2023 #4
I get angry and I get even! BigmanPigman Feb 2023 #5
how can you be angry with someone when it is WhiteTara Feb 2023 #6
Get angry at those that are bankrolling this evil. Without them, the worms would crawl back erronis Feb 2023 #7
Vlad's and Rupert's utopia. rubbersole Feb 2023 #9
Excellent point. And that is where the focus of DOJ should be, after Mueller started it. And may we Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #11
If the fucking morons edhopper Feb 2023 #13
They aren't smart enough do anything good, so the only way they can get attention is housecat Feb 2023 #8
Nailed it republianmushroom Feb 2023 #12
I'm most angry at GOP voters as well. Irish_Dem Feb 2023 #14

RockRaven

(14,967 posts)
1. They're internet trolls rolled out into the offline world.
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 07:41 PM
Feb 2023

Like you point out, anger at them is pointless. Heck, your anger is what they are after. They feed on it.

The people who empower and enrich them are the ones to get angry at. We'd be largely free of the trolls if not for those enablers -- the trolls would be shouting to themselves in an empty room, instead of on CSPAN/in the Capitol.

paleotn

(17,918 posts)
2. Bingo!
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:30 PM
Feb 2023

Those gawd! fearing, "boot strap" grabbin' kind of folks who mindlessly vote for barely literate morons. It takes a special kind of stupid to gladly vote to F yourself. Those are the people I loath.

Irish_Dem

(47,102 posts)
15. They want power and wealth, and will burn everything down to get it.
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 10:01 PM
Feb 2023

And yes they love the hatred and vitriol they spread.

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
4. Too many don't understand how our government works.
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:33 PM
Feb 2023

I think if 100% of gen z completely understood how government works, there is no chance we'd ever have a GOP house, senate or whitehouse for many decades to come.

That's the frustration I have, good people not showing up to vote, because they don't know how incredibily important it is to keep the idiots from running the show and literally burning up the planet.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
5. I get angry and I get even!
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:34 PM
Feb 2023

I will continue to vote for every Dem down ballot, spread the word to GOTV and march in protest when I see injustice. I am not the forgiving type.

WhiteTara

(29,716 posts)
6. how can you be angry with someone when it is
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:35 PM
Feb 2023

their nature? How can you be angry at someone when it isn't their nature? Shantidevi The Way of the Bodhisattva

We know who and what they are, so why be angry. And if it's so out of character, how can you be angry?

As Obama says, Don't boo. Vote!

I know, I know, easier said than done. I'm working on my high blood pressure so I'm using this as a guide.

erronis

(15,269 posts)
7. Get angry at those that are bankrolling this evil. Without them, the worms would crawl back
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:37 PM
Feb 2023

underground. All of the maggats and the congress-critters. They're only performing for their bosses.

Follow the money. Some will be traced to Russia. More will be traced to fat cat Americans who hate democracy.

Evolve Dammit

(16,733 posts)
11. Excellent point. And that is where the focus of DOJ should be, after Mueller started it. And may we
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:57 PM
Feb 2023

please get the un-redacted version of that report that Barr buried. Pretty please?? Been a few years now. So much for transparency....

edhopper

(33,580 posts)
13. If the fucking morons
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 09:07 PM
Feb 2023

who vote for these fuckers just opened their eyes to who is pulling the strings and who their vote really benefits, no amount of bribe money would work.
But they just keep helping their real oppressors.

housecat

(3,121 posts)
8. They aren't smart enough do anything good, so the only way they can get attention is
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 08:41 PM
Feb 2023

to destroy and make fools of themselves.

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