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Faux pas

(16,356 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 01:46 PM Jan 2024

I'm too old for this shit...

We all barely survived raygun and the bushes, at least I didn't lose my love for politics because of them. Since the rat bastard of all rat bastards made the scene and effed up the world, I find myself caring less every day. I don't watch any of m usual news shows at all. I get most of my news here because I don't have to listen to or look at anything if I don't want to.

While we were all living in our comfortable cocoons the slow rolling tsunami of hate and insanity got us while we were sleeping. I'm afraid that it's too late to stop or fix any of this.

Anyway Happy New Year DU


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I'm too old for this shit... (Original Post) Faux pas Jan 2024 OP
Sadly Traildogbob Jan 2024 #1
Yeah Faux pas Jan 2024 #9
I will dance with either outcome. Traildogbob Jan 2024 #19
The orange traitor isn't more popular ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 #17
Not gonna give up hope Traildogbob Jan 2024 #20
I hear you Faux pax, and yet the opposition play is to make us dejected. Never givve up.with c-rational Jan 2024 #2
Thank you Faux pas Jan 2024 #10
I feel the exact same samplegirl Jan 2024 #3
It is a revolting pile of Faux pas Jan 2024 #11
The pendulum is constantly swinging. Caliman73 Jan 2024 #4
We never corrected Faux pas Jan 2024 #12
I feel the same but also think this is part of the Republican game plan. chicoescuela Jan 2024 #5
I know we do Faux pas Jan 2024 #13
Go To Freespeechtv.org for news gab13by13 Jan 2024 #6
Oh thank you for Faux pas Jan 2024 #14
On my local Repub page Tesha Jan 2024 #7
The "others" do live in Faux pas Jan 2024 #15
Back at you malaise Jan 2024 #8
Thank you malaise! Faux pas Jan 2024 #16
You're doing the right thing with cutting off the media ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 #18
As i sit here taking in oxygen to survive tiredtoo Jan 2024 #21
Catastrophic climate change will make much of this moot Kaleva Jan 2024 #22

Traildogbob

(13,017 posts)
1. Sadly
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:03 PM
Jan 2024

You are singing my song. 7+ years of scouring news that this is the one that takes him down. Everyday it only makes him more popular.
I’m tired. Nearly 8 years of my 12 years of retirement have been with deep hate and dispise. No end in sight. Watching God’s newest spawn, Johnson, flap his gums at the border, smooth as can be, knowing it was all lies and bullshit, but floating around on his BuyBull, untouchable, made me vomit.
Time to spend what I got left without that son of a bitch in my face daily. All I can do is vote, and hope NC does not throw it out. The only news that will matter, is he has succumb to decomposition, and laid on top of Ivana At Mardi-Lardo out of the lives of every person on earth.
Good luck Faux pas. Maybe this WILL be a happy New year, seems like each one since he and his HO floated down the escalator.
Each Jan1 with hope this one is gonna be good and each December 31 with a what the fuck was the last year about.

Faux pas

(16,356 posts)
9. Yeah
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 10:50 AM
Jan 2024

I agree with you Traildogbob, the only "news" I want to hear is that he's dead or imprisoned. I'm sure we'll all make it, although it'll seem like an eternity.

Traildogbob

(13,017 posts)
19. I will dance with either outcome.
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 12:06 PM
Jan 2024

One would make it finality though. I would love to never see that facial anus ever again.

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
17. The orange traitor isn't more popular
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:20 AM
Jan 2024

His numbers have pretty much leveled off and aren't improving. He's strong with the traitor thug party and the dumber and more racist independents, but with everyone else he's not doing all that great.

Traildogbob

(13,017 posts)
20. Not gonna give up hope
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 12:09 PM
Jan 2024

I have family that voted for him and will not again. BUT, say Joe can not have another term. What they do to go against Joe, could plant Trump right back, Till Death Do Us Part. Then Jr. 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮

c-rational

(3,203 posts)
2. I hear you Faux pax, and yet the opposition play is to make us dejected. Never givve up.with
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:08 PM
Jan 2024

With that said, I have no issue with taking a long news break.

Faux pas

(16,356 posts)
11. It is a revolting pile of
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 10:56 AM
Jan 2024

deplorable sludge. The Universe needs to swing back to goodness and light. Peace samplegirl!

Caliman73

(11,767 posts)
4. The pendulum is constantly swinging.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:11 PM
Jan 2024

I am sure people during the Civil War, WWI, the tumult of the Interwar Years and Prohibition, WW2, the Cold War, the Civil Rights protests and riots, etc... also felt that "it is too late to stop or fix any of this" but things got a little better. Right now we are still in the rightward swing, or perhaps at the apex of the swing and getting ready to start the swing left.

We have gone through things like this repeatedly. Every generation thought it might be "the end".

My main concern is the pain that we will have to go through to correct the course. I don't care if I suffer so much. I don't want my children to suffer.

Faux pas

(16,356 posts)
12. We never corrected
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:02 AM
Jan 2024

from the boosh years. All of those effers are war criminals and they just skipped merrily off into the sunset. I feel sorry for all of us and especially the children Caliman73.

chicoescuela

(3,080 posts)
5. I feel the same but also think this is part of the Republican game plan.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:13 PM
Jan 2024

Make us feel hopeless. We have to gut it out a little while longer.

gab13by13

(32,318 posts)
6. Go To Freespeechtv.org for news
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:35 PM
Jan 2024

until Nicolle Wallace comes back

The right has a knack for controlling the narrative and it goes way back to when I was posting this:

Fox News says Obama beats his wife
CNN says it needs more information
MSNBC says no he doesn't.

All 3 stations are talking about Obama beating his wife.

Substitute Obama beats his wife with any other issue on cable.

Tesha

(21,141 posts)
7. On my local Repub page
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:49 PM
Jan 2024

people are always proving a point by posting a link to a video - and you KNOW it's ful of crap without even checking.
I am the evil one when I ask where I can find what they're saying in print - because I CAN'T STANT LISTENING TO THESE JERKS.

Pardon me for shouting - but they really are breaking our country.

Faux pas

(16,356 posts)
15. The "others" do live in
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:12 AM
Jan 2024

an echo chamber of alternative facts, for sure. The problem is, is they love it there. I blame it all on the destruction of our educational system, critical thinking is not encouraged. Hang ten and hang in Tesha!

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
18. You're doing the right thing with cutting off the media
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 11:24 AM
Jan 2024

At least the US variety. They've been in the tank for the wealthy and the traitor thugs for decades now. You'll be more informed if you shut them off and get your news from media outlets that aren't full of traitors. Start with the Guardian, and ProPublica.

Even watching one hour of NHK (Japan's state-run media) will keep you better informed of what's going on in the US than 90% of US traitor scum media.

tiredtoo

(2,949 posts)
21. As i sit here taking in oxygen to survive
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 12:14 PM
Jan 2024

at 83 it is questionable if i will make it to next election. But I will never give up in my efforts to eliminate the magats. Carry on my friends, carry on!

Kaleva

(40,365 posts)
22. Catastrophic climate change will make much of this moot
Fri Jan 5, 2024, 12:14 PM
Jan 2024

These are the last of the good days. Enjoy them while you can

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