As I disgustedly watch "Republicans" nearly soil themselves as they try mightily to avoid saying

[Atticus]

anything critical of Trump, I am reminded of what such people were called on the playgrounds I grew up on:

"CHICKENSHITS".

But, I'm an adult now, so I won't be so vulgar and nasty.

[Jarqui]

1. I'm all grown up too ... maybe not ... CHICKENSHITS!! ...nt

[OLDMDDEM]

3. Me too.

Chickenshits.

[vlyons]

16. How about scaredy cats?

Then there's also wimpy dogs, obsequious mutts.

[JanLip]

20. You guys are killing me 😂

I woke up with a frown and y’all put a smile on my face. I love it. I stepped in chickenshit when I was growing up. Not too pleasant.

Jan

[Callalily]

2. Well, cowardly is an appropriate adjective.

[yellowcanine]

4. Yes, cowardly CHICKENSHITS!

[Callalily]

22. Exactly!

[Phoenix61]

5. But the term still applies, they are chickenshit, lily livered, cowards. nt

[Magoo48]

6. I doubt I'll ever grow up, but yes, they most certainly are CHICKENSHITS.

A side question here if you please::what does lily livered mean?

[rubbersole]

13. Lily livered means chickenshits 🐔💩!!

[underpants]

7. Is it just political or are they concerned with their physical safety?

The Russian dirt angle is there too.
Seriously, are they more concerned about being primaried or they literally in fear for themselves and their family?

[Chainfire]

8. For those who haven't seen the definition:

“Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.”

― Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War

[Walleye]

9. Go ahead and use a Shakespeare quote, "lily-livered"

[Bluethroughu]

10. I'm thinking more like Co-conspirators.

Seditious Co-conspirators.

[MiHale]

14. Got my vote...👍

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. I'm partial to sycophants. nt

[WestMichRad]

17. This!

And “All of the Above”, too.

[GoCubsGo]

12. It's actually too nice a term for such vulgar, nasty people.

At least chicken shit is useful as plant fertilizer.

[Prairie_Seagull]

15. "CHICKENSHITS"

Ah, yeaaa.

[ananda]

18. LOL

[republianmushroom]

19. Yep

26 months and counting

[nevergiveup]

21. simple minded, feeble minded cowards and the

absolute most worthless species of the human race.

[cksmithy]

23. In my day, if a student said shit,

they were sent to the principals office were you could expect a paddling, from the paddle that was on the wall right next to his office door. Lily livered, yellow belly low life, and stink bomb (fart), were sayings I remember. We couldn't even say fart. The teachers provided yard duty, so no one could get away with anything.