Maybe I'm just having a bad day. Maybe the seven years af daily drip, drip, drip of putrid

[Atticus]

narcissism and evil have finally entirely eroded away all of the "nice" I ever possessed. For whatever reason, I cannot any longer in good conscience give any Republican who did not strongly and clearly renounce Trump after the January 6, 2021 insurrection ANY "benefit of the doubt". NONE!

These are not "decent people". They are spineless anti-American cowards who are shamelessly willing to applaud anything Trump spews. They are monster enablers.

I don't like any of them and I don't want any contact or association with them. I will not "work with" any and I will no longer even try to mask my contempt for them. They get in my face at their peril.

Some who disagree will say that "it may take years", but eventually we'll " move on"; "forgive and forget".

I will not live so long!

[RandySF]

1. I'm having a blah day.

But I am up and down anyways.

[SledDriver]

2. This from early 2021

[imaginary girl]

3. So much this!

[hibbing]

4. I stopped talking to my neighbor

I know there are thousands of people who have lost friends and family. No matter what I went over to talk to my neighbor about, he would bring tfg up. I just stopped going over there. At least some other neighbors in this blue city in a red state are cool.

Peace

[vanlassie]

6. My neighbor still has Trump flags up.

[Justice matters.]

33. Make a flyer to drop in his mailbox at night :)

The "abysmal malfeasance during the COVID-19 pandemic" of careless hair furhair:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17712914

[allegorical oracle]

42. You nailed it. "They" have to keep digging. It's about "owning" libs and how they've been having

lib policies "shoved down their throats." At first I took that seriously -- had I done that? But as time rattled on, I came to doubt it.

Their grievances were more about other issues...like their parents, teachers, getting lousy jobs, horrible bosses, and blacks or immigrants getting "all the breaks."

Decided they have had proverbial chips on their shoulders for their entire lives and djt became their heroic tool to voice their whinings -- hell with the country. Now they won't shut up.

[yonder]

8. Thanks for this. It sums it up for me.

[Joinfortmill]

12. Amen to that

[fierywoman]

13. This is perfect! Thank you for the clarity.

[2naSalit]

21. Amen!

But, I have to interact with quite a few though I limit my exposure as much as possible. I'm a Democrat in a rural state that was overtaken by magats, I can't function without interacting with some of them. In a place where survival comes before politics, it's a little different.

I also know people who have never paid much attention to politics because they don't understand it and won't be educated no matter how you try to explain that it affects them directly. I have tried with many. If I could be more self sufficient I would not be dealing with most of them. But aging makes you make concessions.

Otherwise, I couldn't argue with the concept at all.

[LakeArenal]

36. Your second paragraph says it for me and my relationships.

[not fooled]

40. Yep

Your second paragraph explains my situation entirely. I'm in yuma--armpit of the desert SW and rife with trumpers--packing to move.

A neighbor is helping me (I pay him). He's probably a full-on trumper but doesn't say much around me. However, yesterday--in response to his wondering why I am so set on leaving the country--I told him that it's being turned into a fascist theocratic oligarchy and I don't want to stay around to see it to completion. So we talked politics for a while--turns out he hates the government, thinks it doesn't do anything right, thinks both parties are equally bad, had no knowledge of e.g. the Dominion lawsuit (although he does "know" that Murdoch is a registered Democrat, so there! (???), Citizens United, etc. Gets his news apparently from fecesbook (he was reticent on that point) but claims he doesn't watch faux, only the Fox Business channel. High school education if that. Religious and a gun "enthusiast." There is no way he will become better informed and vote his economic interests. Racist posts on fb.

I told him that guns, abortion, religion, racism, anti-gay and trans etc. are all being used to stir us up and keep us divided and fighting amongst ourselves while the monied interests rip us off. Didn't seem to resonate with him and I sensed I was ticking him off, so ended the discussion. In the absence of facts there is no way he will change his thinking, and he doesn't want to be better informed or change what he thinks.

I just need to be sure to keep off politics until the packing and moving are finished.

[Torchlight]

32. Wow! Succinct, accurate, and expresses my sentiments

far better than I ever could.

[Bluethroughu]

34. This sums it up.

My mom needed some money, and my sister told me that my mom gave her a stack of trump dollars and told her she could have them as an exchange, they're worth a lot of money...I told my sister why didn't she go to the bank and pay her bills with them then.

I'm un-interested in these people and their excuses for the ugly disturbing mindset.

[CrispyQ]

37. I have two family members I have no issue applying this to,

but I have one that I'm heartbroken about, that he could still be a trumper after everything that's been revealed. If my mother were alive, she'd be a trumper, too.

[allegorical oracle]

38. My sentiments exactly. Thx! nt

[CloudWatcher]

5. "any Republican who did not strongly and clearly renounce Trump"

Much too long, just shorten it to "any Republican" that has not left the party.

They are not the loyal opposition, they are the party of insurrectionists and traitors.

[Wounded Bear]

7. K & R...nt

[MySideOfTown]

9. At least

I got to live through 50 years of liberal advancements (after 1973).

Now, I think I don't have much longer and I can probably put up with the shit that' going to happen. I won't like it, but the next generation is going to have to turn it around again. I won't live to see it. They will always have my vote, for as long as I last.

[Joinfortmill]

14. Me too

[allegorical oracle]

39. Agree, but am struggling because of DeSatan. Now have TWO ugly pols to upset me. nt

[Joinfortmill]

10. I hear you

[lpbk2713]

11. Party over country.

I don't see how anyone with a conscience can do it. So obviously they have no conscience. I have no use for anyone who says they are that party which I shall not name.

[Joinfortmill]

15. 👍

[bdamomma]

16. Propaganda works

this is what happens in a fascist state, repeat the lies over and over again, people believe it. These MAGA thugs just can't wrap their heads?? that we are not going away. This is Putin's wet dream to get revenge, and just think there's that slither of ? Americans who want a totalitarian government and burn everything that our fathers, brothers, uncles, sisters fought for many years ago. We will NOT surrender to these disgusting, and hateful MAGA thugs.

[ananda]

17. I just want *something* to turn this all around.

I'm tired of being depressed with news every damm day.

Basta!!!!!!!!!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

18. I am exactly in the same place, time and sentiment Atticus. I have had enough of coup-enablers

and MAGATS. No more. Glad to know I'm not alone. Sadly it has taken a toll on our faith in humankind. I feel very differntly than I di seven years ago. I truly hate the MF'ers.
Take care

[llmart]

19. +1000

I'm in complete agreement. You said everything I feel about those people. I don't have enough years left on this earth to spend any of that precious time on any of them. They don't deserve it.

[barbtries]

20. been saying it for years now.

we will be generations rooting out the rot left by trump. if we do. I'm with you.

[Baked Potato]

22. They are terrified of their own constituents.

Republicans know their crazies will hunt them down and kill them.

Their constituents want NO cooperation or compromise with Democrats.

Republicans built these monolithic jack-wagons, now they must suffer them and hope Democrats save their sorry, cowardly asses.

[spike jones]

23. " Never forgive a friend who betrays you once, he will betray you again." Plato

[panader0]

24. "Forget and forgive" is overrated. Who, that has lived through TFG, can ever do either?

[Initech]

25. I'm with you! I'm getting increasingly intolerant of conservative bullshit every day.

No, I don't want to hear anyone's thoughts about woke advertisers or homeless encampments or that the election was stolen. Conservative bullshit is everywhere and it's getting exponentially crazier. Shit, Tucker Carlson is now openly spewing genocidal rhetoric on the air every night and they're banning books and attempting to police thought. I can't support anyone who is in favor of banning books of any kind. It's completely unconstitutional.

[Martin68]

26. Sadly and reluctantly, I have come to the same conclusion. Like the "bad apples" in the police force

who can continue to to their dirty work because of the "good apples," every Republican who protected Tump and his supporters with their votes is guilty as hell.

[Stuart G]

27. Can anyone forgive Hitler?...Trump through neglect, killed hundreds of thousands.

Trump didn't care. He said the pandemic was all a "hoax." That, and the January 6th riot will be what Trump will
always be remembered for. Trump is a fool and in time he will be remembered for that too. I believe too that when
I remember Donald Trump, I will compare him to a killer who didn't care who he killed. ..
....I am not "nice" when I think of Donald Trump and his crowd. Anyone who supports him now, is anti-democracy and
anti-United States. I will not forgive Trump, ever. (You are not alone) Trump did what he did because he could do it,
and say it because of the same.
.....Imagine the commercials from us whit Trump saying it is all a "HOAX" ....I don't think he can get elected to anything
with those commercials. He may have as much as 25 percent. But the other 75 percent, hate him like we do.

[GenXer47]

44. it was worse than neglect, it was malfeasance

https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-axed-for-political-reasons-report-2020-7

The deliberately killed an early testing plan because more people were dying in blue states.

[lees1975]

28. There are some real benefits to living in one of those big liberal cities these nut jobs

love to put down.

It gives us a much more realistic picture of how things really are. Most Americans don't live in the bigoted, racist, small towns and rural areas, they live in the cities and suburbs. Here, there are way more of us than there are of you.

No, there's not as much crime as you say there is.

Property values are high, conveniences are many, and we don't have to listen to the Trump lies. He'd never hold a rally here, he tried once, no one showed up.

You can complain about all the influence we have in elections. That's how it works. If more people live in the big city, then there will be more votes from the big city. Votes win elections, not wide open spaces. I don't care how big the red spaces are on the map, there are ten times as many people in the blue spaces.

If it wasn't for the taxes we pay, on the salaries we earn that are bigger than yours, you wouldn't have the infrastructure or the benefits that you have.

I'm with you, Atticus. And with the majority who feel the same way all around me here in the great city of Chicago. I'd rather live here than anywhere else.

[efhmc]

31. Lucky you. But the rest of us have to live our lives in dread and danger. Especially women in Texas.

My people came here when we were a nation and I was always proud to be from here but not now. My female friends of my age say the same. Why do they have such power?

[electric_blue68]

49. I think of all my women sisters in the Red States where abortion has been practically, or totally...

banned. 😔

[efhmc]

52. Actually both of my daughters had to have D&Cs. For one it was not a problem. She was in CA at that

time. The other one worked for a Catholic hospital in Austin and had to go to another facility to get the D&C done because that hospital did not do any "abortions". Both fetuses had no heartbeats. Each woman was trying hard to have children (happily both were able to each have two wonderful children later.) That was 10 years ago. I still do not understand and never will understand why women are not treated as humans but as reproductive units in the state I once loved so much.

[electric_blue68]

53. Woah. That's so tough! Yes, certainly one of my signs for a march when Covid dies down more...

would be "Women Are PEOPLE First!!!"


It's so infuriating!!! 😩🤬🤬🤬

I don't get it, either, really.

[electric_blue68]

50. I give thanks that I was born to liberal parents in NYC, and not in a Republican neighborhood...

they're here, but quite less of them!

I love 🥰🧡🥰 NYC!


(no, it's not perfect but it's benefits and perks far outway it's cons.)

I also love, and have visited other cities in the past, as well as amazing deep countryside!

Chicago is the one city I've yet to visit that I might be able to save up for over time. Seattle is probably out of reach travel $$ wise.

[Skittles]

29. keep in mind

they have absolutely no problem with questioning the patriotism of kneeling football players

[thatcrowwoman]

30. There's something disturbed in the air today

Posted this in music appreciation, but thinking you need it, also, too, Atticus.
Shout it out, rant it out, sing it out and feel more better after a musical interlude? Works for me most times.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[judesedit]

35. Their behavior is inexcusable on all fronts

[maxsolomon]

41. This is how my wife feels about my Dad.

She blames him for all this shit because he votes GQP & watches Fox with his GF.

Makes for really enjoyable dinners where I'm expected to explain his reasoning. The thing is, it's not reasoning - 99% of the time, he doesn't know jack about any given MAGA/GQP topic. It's always news to him when I bring things up.

He's a propaganda victim, he's 86, and he won't listen to me or any of my siblings. He's not angry about it, he just won't vote for a Dem.

There's a lot of GQP voters like him.

[OldBaldy1701E]

43. I will never forgive insurrection.

Nor will I look kindly on those who propagate it.

[AllaN01Bear]

45. part of me wants to clock out and go home but part of me wants to stick around and

then clock out and go home wound up in the icu twice where i am and came close to clocking out and going home , but didnt.

[Pepsidog]

46. I avoid contact and conversations with republicans like the plague. Although last week

I represented a 20-year-old guy for two duis that occurred three months apart. His readings on both days were over twice the legal limit, and I have representes him for about one year. Waiting for your to start, I asked him if he was interested in a career in healthcare like his mother. He said he doesn’t like being told what to do and refuses to be vaxxed. Here we are in a courthouse where we had to go through a metal detector to get in the building, and this dope thinks freedom is saying no to being vaxxed. I looked at him and said if you want to be freed, move to Somalia or some other country where it’s survival of the fittest, and stop hiding behind his mother’s skirt.

[Playingmantis]

47. Can anyone top this?

My sister compared Obama to Hitler and insists the election was stolen.

My son applauds the insurrectionists and says he would have burned the entire building down, my daughter-in-law says Biden is senile, one of my best friends voted for Trump and says the FBI lies and cant be trusted, another is a big DeSantis fan, the guys I had morning coffee with turn out to be Trumpers...( never had coffee after that) .and the asshole down the street flies a US flag, a Trump flag and another that says "Fuck Biden"..and i live in a New England state..

The disease is everywhere! I am so goddamned sick of it all! I feel trapped in a nightmare of stupidity that never ends!

[electric_blue68]

48. Ohhh boy, you have a plateful of crazy! Gah!

[Meowmee]

51. Yes all to blame

Including those who did not vote, “could not” vote hrc etc. As far I am concerned they murdered my beloved father, and the dear leader is still walking free. I wish I had had the good sense to leave before it happened. Really I wish we never came here at all.

If justice is not served in any form to the top level, it says all of the crimes are ok.