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piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:30 PM Apr 2024

I hate republicans.

It has just occurred to me that I have been stressed out by them at least since they stole to election in 2000, if not before. Every time I think they can’t fuck us over more, I get surprised. Every time I think they can’t introduce worse crazy fucks to us, I get surprised.

Ok, just venting. I will vote, even though I live in TN and it won’t matter. We have the chance to oust that monster Marsha Blackburn, but I’ll be surprised if we do. This seriously stupid Trump country.

Maybe I just need a hug. I’m glad we have DU.

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I hate republicans. (Original Post) piddyprints Apr 2024 OP
I feel your pain! Wuddles440 Apr 2024 #1
Trying. piddyprints Apr 2024 #7
Hate is a strong word TexasDem69 Apr 2024 #2
Thank goodness we have strong words to express strong emotions! Think. Again. Apr 2024 #3
... piddyprints Apr 2024 #9
They're trying to destroy our democracy. piddyprints Apr 2024 #6
Agree 100% Tansy_Gold Apr 2024 #44
I use the word DENVERPOPS Apr 2024 #99
I'm convinced there's a contingent who don't just hate us & want us to suffer, they want to kill us. CrispyQ Apr 2024 #113
It goes far beyond policy issues. I have no problem hating people who want to kill or enslave me simply because I am: Celerity Apr 2024 #27
Exactly. piddyprints Apr 2024 #31
Post removed Post removed Apr 2024 #42
Spot on! piddyprints Apr 2024 #45
Absolutely spot on!!! niyad Apr 2024 #64
No matter how insane and "death culty" these motherfuckers get. You'll always Carlitos Brigante Apr 2024 #127
Good for you. I flat out hate them. Sky Jewels Apr 2024 #62
I am not as spiritually evolved as some are. I HATE the people niyad Apr 2024 #63
Oh FFS Doc Sportello Apr 2024 #68
. Think. Again. Apr 2024 #4
Thanks. piddyprints Apr 2024 #10
I feel the same. Any party who would vote Emile Apr 2024 #5
Right? piddyprints Apr 2024 #12
I'm here too... spanone Apr 2024 #8
Yep. piddyprints Apr 2024 #13
I'm with you piddyprints spanone Apr 2024 #20
Thanks, spanone. piddyprints Apr 2024 #23
Did you see your fellow TN an Liberal Redneck's video on Monday? niyad Apr 2024 #66
Yes! piddyprints Apr 2024 #105
Trae is fabulous! I grew up in Kentucky right on the state line north of Clarksville yellowdogintexas Apr 2024 #109
My mom wouldn't have minded. piddyprints Apr 2024 #110
Poll: Too many GOP voters back authoritarian vision under Trump LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2024 #11
And those same people piddyprints Apr 2024 #14
As The Grandson Of A Member Of The Original US Antifa... GB_RN Apr 2024 #100
Daughter of a Bronze Star Original Antifa and niece of a double Purple Heart Original Antifa yellowdogintexas Apr 2024 #104
I have hated/despised/loathed Republicans for decades yellowdogintexas Apr 2024 #107
Hugs! Rizen Apr 2024 #15
Truly. piddyprints Apr 2024 #19
We all need to be careful not to hate that label - Republican erronis Apr 2024 #16
Is it ok, then, to say piddyprints Apr 2024 #18
We all understood what she meant. Do you think it somehow wrong niyad Apr 2024 #122
The stress has gotten worse since the Orange Menace came down that escalator. LoisB Apr 2024 #17
I agree. piddyprints Apr 2024 #21
I hoped he would leave too but I think we're stuck with him so long as the media give him air time and he has LoisB Apr 2024 #26
Maybe Sarah Palin piddyprints Apr 2024 #28
Agree. I am counting on major MAGA losses in November (including Donnie). LoisB Apr 2024 #33
Alaska is conveniently close to Russia Clash City Rocker Apr 2024 #35
That was my thought. piddyprints Apr 2024 #38
That was Tina Fey, playing her in an SNL sketch, lol. ShazzieB Apr 2024 #71
let us refresh our memory barbtries Apr 2024 #96
LOL Thanks. piddyprints Apr 2024 #106
Chin up. I'm in royal blue California! BUT in red hell county. onecaliberal Apr 2024 #22
Trying. piddyprints Apr 2024 #24
Same with my district. We had Devin Nunes, then we had Kevin McCarthy onecaliberal Apr 2024 #30
You win. piddyprints Apr 2024 #32
I feel your pain, neighbor Tansy_Gold Apr 2024 #47
I've been donating to Gallego. onecaliberal Apr 2024 #70
Me too claudette Apr 2024 #25
.... piddyprints Apr 2024 #29
We feel your pain... surfered Apr 2024 #34
me too LymphocyteLover Apr 2024 #36
In Tennessee . . . AverageOldGuy Apr 2024 #37
Yes, I know. piddyprints Apr 2024 #40
I know what you're saying. wendyb-NC Apr 2024 #39
To be sure. piddyprints Apr 2024 #48
Don't let people own your emotions. Patton French Apr 2024 #41
I own my own emotions, piddyprints Apr 2024 #43
I'm merely telling you something that may help you Patton French Apr 2024 #49
See post 68. niyad Apr 2024 #69
Your vote does matter. Aristus Apr 2024 #46
They are very inspiring. piddyprints Apr 2024 #51
Yes. You have to keep voting. Aristus Apr 2024 #57
One problem is piddyprints Apr 2024 #58
Me too. This is from 2004 FoxNewsSucks Apr 2024 #50
Wow! piddyprints Apr 2024 #54
I just copied the link to play this on DU BigmanPigman Apr 2024 #79
that's my anthem! barbtries Apr 2024 #97
I try hard not to hate but their behavior makes it real work. mahina Apr 2024 #52
The 2000 election is why... S/V Loner Apr 2024 #53
I would have if I'd know. piddyprints Apr 2024 #56
Agree 100% cate94 Apr 2024 #55
TN here as well ... sarchasm Apr 2024 #59
It stands to reason that since they hate themselves, they hate each other, they hate people who are louslobbs Apr 2024 #60
Huggggggggs. I am thankful every day for DU. EVERY vote matters, niyad Apr 2024 #61
Hugs! Richluu Apr 2024 #65
Amen to that! PortTack Apr 2024 #67
I hate them, too. stage left Apr 2024 #72
I'm grateful we have DU, too! And, I'm just realizing that Cha Apr 2024 #73
Congratulations on all those years! calimary Apr 2024 #103
Mahalo & Congratulations to you, calimary! I just read your Cha Apr 2024 #112
Oh really? Wow - that long ago. calimary Apr 2024 #115
Yes we did! I was in NYC the day after New Years Eve in 2001 Cha Apr 2024 #118
I found it after first discovering a site called "Resident Bush." calimary Apr 2024 #120
Interesting.. I love hearing how we DUers found Cha Apr 2024 #121
23 years for you in October. I am absolutely with you on the saving my niyad Apr 2024 #123
Me too! piddyprints Apr 2024 #108
Aww.. you explained it so Well, piddyprints! Cha Apr 2024 #114
Thanks. piddyprints Apr 2024 #117
Good for you.. my family and friends don't know Cha Apr 2024 #119
hate is a strong word. agreed - YD Democrat Apr 2024 #74
Teach your children, and grandchildren, as I have: ALL REPUBLICANS--- DemocraticPatriot Apr 2024 #75
they have long been very disgusting Skittles Apr 2024 #76
Hugs needed flamingdem Apr 2024 #77
As a fellow TN res Annie Moosee Apr 2024 #78
The last redistricting was horrendous. What they did to TX 5 just blew me away yellowdogintexas Apr 2024 #111
I hate them too. Maybe we need a new 12-step group: Republican Haters Anonymous. raccoon Apr 2024 #80
Hey, here's a hug from me - I may be in New York, but I have Stefanik... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2024 #81
What I can't figure out are the people constantly whining about Democrats being too nice, betsuni Apr 2024 #82
They lost any credibility with me at Nixon. CCExile Apr 2024 #83
I'm in Iowa Bettie Apr 2024 #84
Every one of them is complicit Orrex Apr 2024 #85
They are easy to hate. liberal N proud Apr 2024 #86
Hate! Jean Genie Apr 2024 #87
Votes always matter IbogaProject Apr 2024 #88
Ditto in MO joanbarnes Apr 2024 #89
Me too SARose Apr 2024 #90
I'm in Tennessee, too. I'll keep voting but this political environment here is a nightmare. SharonAnn Apr 2024 #91
Growing up all I ever heard from my Dad was him saying " dirty, stinking, lousy republicans". kimbutgar Apr 2024 #92
I don't hate Republicans. They have one branch by a fingernail Roc2020 Apr 2024 #93
I hate them too. Some more than others. 58Sunliner Apr 2024 #94
i hate republicans barbtries Apr 2024 #95
We have been discouraged, denied, and super-stressed. pandr32 Apr 2024 #98
With you 99% -- I cut the ones who refuse to vote KPN Apr 2024 #101
Take a number. calimary Apr 2024 #102
Republicans are the cause I lost 43 people I knew, worked with, learned with and my brother. Traurigkeit Apr 2024 #116
They F*** us over in Memphis the worst! MeNotThatKindOfOrc Apr 2024 #124
more than Metro Nashville? I knew they tried to mess with Memphis/Shelby County yellowdogintexas Apr 2024 #130
Sending Hugs BlueKota Apr 2024 #125
I love them. Matt 25:40 says Wonder Why Apr 2024 #126
Bible verse? Really? piddyprints Apr 2024 #128
I didn't impose anything on anyone. I don't follow any religion. I just remembered a couple of word from my youth Wonder Why Apr 2024 #129
 

TexasDem69

(2,317 posts)
2. Hate is a strong word
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:34 PM
Apr 2024

I disagree with Republicans on almost all policy issues. I don’t hate any of them (Trump may be an exception). Hate drove the genocide in Rwanda and Germany.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
6. They're trying to destroy our democracy.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:48 PM
Apr 2024

They have decimated women’s bodily autonomy and are working on denying our right to vote. They want to destroy healthcare. They want to destroy everything good about our country. They want us to be pariahs on the world stage. They want to destroy our planet for profit.

I make no apology . If there was a stronger word, I’d use it. They hate us and want us to all to suffer.

Tansy_Gold

(18,167 posts)
44. Agree 100%
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:04 PM
Apr 2024

I got tired of the "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" bullshit a looooooooooooooooong time ago.

I hate them, and I hate anyone who makes excuses for them, too.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
99. I use the word
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 02:26 PM
Apr 2024

LOATHE............

By the end of the WBush administration, (In reality it was the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration) I had finally rid my world of any and all Republican friends, associates, or family members........

CrispyQ

(40,973 posts)
113. I'm convinced there's a contingent who don't just hate us & want us to suffer, they want to kill us.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:21 PM
Apr 2024

This would be the folks who look up to Kyle Rittenhouse. Pretty sure I have at least one in my family.

Celerity

(54,446 posts)
27. It goes far beyond policy issues. I have no problem hating people who want to kill or enslave me simply because I am:
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:29 PM
Apr 2024

Black

Female

Queer

Atheist

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
31. Exactly.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:38 PM
Apr 2024

Those same people want to end our country and, indeed, the world. There might be better words. Despise, abhor, loathe, detest come to mind.

Response to piddyprints (Reply #31)

 

Carlitos Brigante

(26,848 posts)
127. No matter how insane and "death culty" these motherfuckers get. You'll always
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 08:32 PM
Apr 2024

see someone here virtue signaling how above it all they are. Because life and death issues are just a "disagreement", you see. Just a "tad bit of a difference of opinion between gentlemen" .

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
62. Good for you. I flat out hate them.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:15 PM
Apr 2024

These fascist GQP motherfuckers have destroyed everything that was once good about this country.

niyad

(132,499 posts)
63. I am not as spiritually evolved as some are. I HATE the people
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:18 PM
Apr 2024

who are working so damned hard to destroy us, and I make neither excuse nor apology for feeling so, and stating same.

Doc Sportello

(7,964 posts)
68. Oh FFS
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:26 PM
Apr 2024

See anything like genocidal tendencies among Democrats as was seen in Rwanda? Or even among the nutjob MAGATs, some of whom have committed atrocities alreay. Good grief. Try to be more precise next time you choose an analogy.

Emile

(42,314 posts)
5. I feel the same. Any party who would vote
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:47 PM
Apr 2024

for a fucking traitor who tried to overthrow our government, earns my hatred!

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
12. Right?
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:58 PM
Apr 2024

And it’s not like they’re condemning him like some of them did after Jan. 6. They’re fucking ENDORSING him. And Mike Johnson is just as evil, just younger.

yellowdogintexas

(23,696 posts)
109. Trae is fabulous! I grew up in Kentucky right on the state line north of Clarksville
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:13 PM
Apr 2024

I might as well have lived in Tennessee since we got all our news from Nashville. My mom would have loved him (except for the expletives)

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
110. My mom wouldn't have minded.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:15 PM
Apr 2024

When she was still alive, I used that language around her all the time and she never even blinked twice. She might have liked Trae.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,940 posts)
11. Poll: Too many GOP voters back authoritarian vision under Trump
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 08:57 PM
Apr 2024

A new national poll found 57% of Republican voters endorsing the idea of Donald Trump "taking action ... without waiting for Congress or the courts.”



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/poll-many-gop-voters-back-authoritarian-vision-trump-rcna147012

Trump also signaled an interest in seizing control of government departments and agencies that have historically operated with independence, enacting radical anti-immigrant plans, using government powers to crack down on journalists, and hiring right-wing lawyers who would be positioned to help Trump politicize federal law enforcement and exact revenge against his perceived political foes.

This authoritarian vision didn’t appear to have any meaningful effect on the former president’s support within his party, as evidenced by the fact that he easily won nearly every primary and caucus he competed in. Did Trump excel despite his desire for a radical power-grab or because of it?

The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake summarized in his latest column:

Polling on the GOP’s appetite for a more powerful chief executive has been slow in coming. But it has been coming. And the emerging picture is that Republicans are remarkably on-board with a president who isn’t answerable to Congress and the courts — significantly more so than Democrats. And perhaps as significantly, very few Republicans seem to strongly object to the idea.


The Associated Press reported this week, for example, on the latest national AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey, which found that 57% of Republicans endorsed the idea of Trump “taking action on the country’s important policy issues without waiting for Congress or the courts.”.....

The obvious problem, of course, is that too much of one of the nation’s political parties is moving away from democracy and the American system of government. But it also helps explain recent events in GOP nominating contests.

The more radical Trump became, the more his critics pointed to the former president’s authoritarian vision. It was against this backdrop that much of the Republican base effectively said in response, “Sounds good. Sign us up.”

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
14. And those same people
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:02 PM
Apr 2024

have a shit fit if President Biden has the nerve to sign an executive order for anything at all. They want authoritarianism, but they’re too fucking stupid to realize it doesn’t always work in their favor. They will FAFO, but the problem is that we’ll all get the FO part, even if we didn’t support the FA part.

GB_RN

(3,561 posts)
100. As The Grandson Of A Member Of The Original US Antifa...
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 02:47 PM
Apr 2024

This shit horrifies me.

To think that The Greatest Generation went to stop the Nazis and fascism and now the Republicans ARE the fascists. 👎🖕

yellowdogintexas

(23,696 posts)
104. Daughter of a Bronze Star Original Antifa and niece of a double Purple Heart Original Antifa
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:05 PM
Apr 2024

I grind my teeth every time one of those yahoos accuses Antifa of anything! Mr YD told me his brother is absolutely convinced Antifa was behind January 6, just because someone said they saw the word antifa on someone's arm or jacket or something in that crowd. For all we know, that was actually F*** Antifa and the first word was hidden. The man is too addicted to all the craziest MAGA sources. Mr YD tries to explain to him but has so far had no success

yellowdogintexas

(23,696 posts)
107. I have hated/despised/loathed Republicans for decades
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:11 PM
Apr 2024

The root cause of my dislike is their blatantly obvious plan to appeal to the worst aspects of human behavior.
Now that the authoritarian/oligarch/dictator/ part has taken first place in their objectives I am beyond hatred and have graduated to fear and dread.

erronis

(23,916 posts)
16. We all need to be careful not to hate that label - Republican
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:13 PM
Apr 2024

Because when we all turn against them, they'll rebrand as some other label.

They've been around since before the Civil War and will resurrect and be traitorous under a different name as needed.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
18. Is it ok, then, to say
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:19 PM
Apr 2024

I hate the non-democratic asshats who are occupying the side of the house and senate that is currently labeled republican, but are, nevertheless, still seditious America-hating Trump-humping fascist nazi criminals, no matter what they choose to call themselves? In the end, it’s the same cretins who are trying to destroy us.

niyad

(132,499 posts)
122. We all understood what she meant. Do you think it somehow wrong
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 05:35 PM
Apr 2024

if we were to feel insulted that you think so little of our mental abilities that a mere label would confound us?

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
21. I agree.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:22 PM
Apr 2024

I so hoped he would leave the country when Biden was elected, as he said he would. Now I think I’d prefer him to choke on his Diet Coke or stroke out from his KFC diet.

LoisB

(13,040 posts)
26. I hoped he would leave too but I think we're stuck with him so long as the media give him air time and he has
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:29 PM
Apr 2024

even one MAGA follower. He belongs in a psychiatric facility. Maybe there are some nice ones in Moscow where he would be welcome.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
28. Maybe Sarah Palin
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:34 PM
Apr 2024

could keep an eye on him from Alaska. That would give her something useful to do.

He does belong in a psychiatric faciltity… but what does that say about all the people, in and out of our government, who support him? This is some scary shit!

I just don’t get the appeal. It’s long past time for MAGA to go. I just don’t know how,

ShazzieB

(22,612 posts)
71. That was Tina Fey, playing her in an SNL sketch, lol.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:49 PM
Apr 2024

That line in the sketch was based on Palin claiming that Alaska's proximity to Russia gave her some kind of foreign policy cred. Fey took that ridiculous assertion and used it as the basis for great satire. And now a lot more people remember that line than remember Palin's silly claim.

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
22. Chin up. I'm in royal blue California! BUT in red hell county.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:22 PM
Apr 2024

We must all vote. Peaceful
Vibes your way. Hugs. 🫶🏻 🤗

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
24. Trying.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:26 PM
Apr 2024

You bet I will vote. I voted for Joe Biden for the 3rd time a few months ago (primary), even though it makes no difference here. I have to depend on other states to make it right. TN will never learn.

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
30. Same with my district. We had Devin Nunes, then we had Kevin McCarthy
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:36 PM
Apr 2024

I vote even though it seems pointless.

Tansy_Gold

(18,167 posts)
47. I feel your pain, neighbor
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:11 PM
Apr 2024

Arizona is sort of purple, but with huge red splotches and a horrible red legislature. I used to have Gosar, now I have Biggs, but at least we also have Hobbs, Mayes, and Fontes, as well as Kelly. The big question is whether Ruben Gallego or Scary Kari will replace Sinema

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
70. I've been donating to Gallego.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:31 PM
Apr 2024

The asshole who will most likely replace Kevin is only slightly better than the election denier running against him. There are no Dems. We didn’t make it through the jungle primary.

AverageOldGuy

(3,858 posts)
37. In Tennessee . . .
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:48 PM
Apr 2024

. . . the Republican-controlled legislature just passed two laws:

1. Require children be taught firearms safety beginning in Kindergarten,
2. Schools are required to arm certain teachers.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
40. Yes, I know.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:55 PM
Apr 2024

I am not a gun fan, far from it, I have never owned one and never will, even though I have lived on military bases, in suburbs, and “out in the county,” and am surrounded by gun humpers. I am so glad my daughter quit her teaching job in TN earlier this year and equally glad I have no school-age children or grandchildren in this state. However, this legislature is what the majority of Tennesseans voted for. They do love their guns, bibles, and confederate flags here.

wendyb-NC

(4,695 posts)
39. I know what you're saying.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:54 PM
Apr 2024

Republicons do not have the well being, needs and interests of 99.98% of their constituents at the heart of their job.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
48. To be sure.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:11 PM
Apr 2024

They have the well-being, needs, and interests of those who own 99.98% of the money at the heart of their job. That’s a huge part of the problem.

Patton French

(1,824 posts)
41. Don't let people own your emotions.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 09:59 PM
Apr 2024

Once you learn to conquer that, which isn’t easy, you’ll feel much better. Guaranteed.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
43. I own my own emotions,
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:04 PM
Apr 2024

But thank you for your concern. If I can feel better about a major party in our country going after the rights of women, gays transgender, people of color, people who don’t believe the drivel they believe, etc., and actively making life worse for the country and ultimately the rest of the world, there is something wrong with me. I own that I utterly despise them and what they are doing and trying to do.

Patton French

(1,824 posts)
49. I'm merely telling you something that may help you
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:14 PM
Apr 2024

Cope with such feelings, which we all have. But if you’re totally good with how they make you feel, I’m happy for you.

Aristus

(72,200 posts)
46. Your vote does matter.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:08 PM
Apr 2024




Never forget that. Don’t forget that the honorable young gentlemen got their offices back because decent Tennesseeans stood up for what is right

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
51. They are very inspiring.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:17 PM
Apr 2024


I’m not sure how my vote matters, because this state is so red and so dug in. But I do it anyway. Those gentlemen are in a very few of blue dots here, far from us. Still, I’ll keep trying.


Aristus

(72,200 posts)
57. Yes. You have to keep voting.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:28 PM
Apr 2024

How many are there out there in the sea of red who think blue but don’t vote because they think it won’t make a difference? They might start voting if they notice an uptick in the blue vote percentage. And that will lead to more blue votes, and still more.

As “President” Dave Kovic said in Dave: “You’ll never know what you can do until you decide to really try.”

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
58. One problem is
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:32 PM
Apr 2024

That republicans run unopposed in almost every race. I have had countless democratic primary ballots with no names on them at all. It gets pretty discouraging. I still write something in on the general election ballot, just to make sure they don’t fill in the republican circle for me (I’m allowed to vote by mail). My friends all write in my name for the same reason.

BigmanPigman

(55,177 posts)
79. I just copied the link to play this on DU
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 04:51 AM
Apr 2024

I love singing this song at the top of my lungs.

I want to sue them for ruining my health. The stress increased to the highest level of my life over the last 8 years. They should at least be sued by the families of dead Covid victims.

I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE them!!!!!

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
56. I would have if I'd know.
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 10:28 PM
Apr 2024

I didn’t find DU until 2005. I voted the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County in 2000 and remember how I had to put it just right into the machine to make sure I was voting for Gore. I still have our sample ballots. What a nightmare that was! I worried all day long that people wouldn’t make sure their ballot went in correctly. Turns out the worry was justified.

sarchasm

(1,310 posts)
59. TN here as well ...
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:02 PM
Apr 2024

Music biz guy here. Hope Gloria makes it! Love our "TN three!"

Hugs all around!

louslobbs

(3,416 posts)
60. It stands to reason that since they hate themselves, they hate each other, they hate people who are
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:05 PM
Apr 2024

different then them and or disagree with them, they hate people who don’t practice their phony baloney religion, they hate black people, they hate Jewish people, they hate gay people, they hate immigrants, they hate rules, they hate laws, they hate caring, they hate kindness, and they even hate education and intelligence….these people are so filled with hate, is it any surprise that the majority would one day come to the place, where they would end up in return, hating those who have injected so much ugliness and hatred and division into almost every facet of society?

niyad

(132,499 posts)
61. Huggggggggs. I am thankful every day for DU. EVERY vote matters,
Wed Apr 10, 2024, 11:15 PM
Apr 2024

that is why they are working so hard to stop us. Quite frankly, if they all vanished overnight, I don't think it would bother me one bit (see Trae Crowder's latest!!!).

Cha

(319,141 posts)
73. I'm grateful we have DU, too! And, I'm just realizing that
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:07 AM
Apr 2024

my Cussing started out slowly on DU 22 years ago and has built up over the years so I don't even recognize my Vocab anymore... Who is this woman?

calimary

(90,067 posts)
103. Congratulations on all those years!
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 02:59 PM
Apr 2024

I think my number may be somewhere around the same. Been here a long time. And never tiring of it!

Sometimes I think it's saved my sanity.

No, check that. ALL of the time I'm SURE it's saved my sanity!!!

Cha

(319,141 posts)
112. Mahalo & Congratulations to you, calimary! I just read your
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:19 PM
Apr 2024

Profile and you've been here since Oct 1, 2001!.. Good on you!

Sanity Save, too

calimary

(90,067 posts)
115. Oh really? Wow - that long ago.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:25 PM
Apr 2024

Well, both of us found our way to the same good thing!

Cha

(319,141 posts)
118. Yes we did! I was in NYC the day after New Years Eve in 2001
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:36 PM
Apr 2024

and got a Nation Mag and it had Alternative news sources with DU Listed.

It took me awhile. I had to buy a computer first and learn some things.. I finally joined July 8, 2002.

calimary

(90,067 posts)
120. I found it after first discovering a site called "Resident Bush."
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:52 PM
Apr 2024

I remember thinking - "AT LAST!!!! SOMEBODY ELSE thinks the same way I do, about this!"

And "Resident Bush" was great! I was there a lot, and I started noticing the left-side column where there were other like-minded sites listed. One of 'em was the Democratic Underground. So I went there - and have never left since then!

I still remember feeling so alone in how I felt - about the theft of the election from Al Gore. Just really alone and isolated and discouraged. And MAN - this place perked me right up. I never felt alone like that again.

DU, !!!!!

Cha

(319,141 posts)
121. Interesting.. I love hearing how we DUers found
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 04:51 PM
Apr 2024

DU... Meant to be.. So lucky how we found it decades ago!

niyad

(132,499 posts)
123. 23 years for you in October. I am absolutely with you on the saving my
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 05:43 PM
Apr 2024

sanity part!

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
108. Me too!
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:13 PM
Apr 2024

There was a day when I would NEVER have said fuck. I thought it was the mother of all cuss words. Dang, I rarely said any of them. But my cussing vocabulary has expanded. Nice words just don't work anymore when describing those asshats.


Cha

(319,141 posts)
114. Aww.. you explained it so Well, piddyprints!
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:25 PM
Apr 2024
"Nice words just don't work anymore"..

Pretty sure it helps our Sanity. I don't talk that way in real life.. except to myself! lol

Cha

(319,141 posts)
119. Good for you.. my family and friends don't know
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:45 PM
Apr 2024

my DU personality.. they have no idea what I do.. except I told a couple of my sisters that I've been on a Democratic Underground Board for 22 years with almost 3oo,000 posts. So that keeps me busy.

YD Democrat

(20 posts)
74. hate is a strong word. agreed -
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:07 AM
Apr 2024

and I believe with all my heart that your one single vote always matters.
Sending hugs your way

 

DemocraticPatriot

(5,410 posts)
75. Teach your children, and grandchildren, as I have: ALL REPUBLICANS---
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:09 AM
Apr 2024

Are LIARS!!!!!

as well as the scum of the earth, maggots, and a few other things....


:::hugs::::

flamingdem

(40,899 posts)
77. Hugs needed
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:50 AM
Apr 2024

here too!

I've been saying this since Obama's first term. It's the republicans. THAT is the problem.

Hugs to you.

Annie Moosee

(184 posts)
78. As a fellow TN res
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:32 AM
Apr 2024

I feel ya’. When my parents moved to Ohio from NC, I thought NC was on the right track. When I moved to TN, I thought they couldn’t be worse than NC was back in the 70’s.

I was so wrong.

yellowdogintexas

(23,696 posts)
111. The last redistricting was horrendous. What they did to TX 5 just blew me away
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:16 PM
Apr 2024

The 5th had never sent a Republican to Congress. The redistricting cut it up so that a Democrat could never win it. They tried to do it to Memphis/Shelby county but didn't get there

We have had lots of that here too but ours are more strangely shaped districts, not cut like a pizza

betsuni

(29,080 posts)
82. What I can't figure out are the people constantly whining about Democrats being too nice,
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 06:57 AM
Apr 2024

spineless, naive and clueless, don't do anything, bringing a noodle to a gun fight and so on. Rare to find anyone full-out blaming Republicans for fucking up the country.

Bettie

(19,709 posts)
84. I'm in Iowa
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 08:13 AM
Apr 2024

so I get it. We used to be purple....then, apparently, electing Barack Obama short circuited a whole bunch of people's brains.

Heck, in our county, we can't even get Dems to run for office, because the Republicans are so vile.

ETA: It is hard for me to reconcile how I feel about people with MAGA flags, Trump paraphernalia and the ones who just spout off about him and "the libs" all the freaking time.

I honestly just can't spend time around them, at family gatherings, I take my kindle and find a place to read, because I just can't manage to make small talk with someone who worships that orange man. In our town, they are everywhere and I find myself just withdrawing from everything. I just can't with it all anymore.

Orrex

(67,116 posts)
85. Every one of them is complicit
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 08:17 AM
Apr 2024

No one can plead ignorance. Either they support Trump and the GOP in spite of the openly racist, misogynist, fascist agenda, or because of it. There are no innocent actors; every single one of them has voted for years and with eyes open to drive the country toward extremist rightwing tyranny.

The only good Republican is the one who says “holy shit I was wrong!” and vows never again to vote Republican at any level.

liberal N proud

(61,195 posts)
86. They are easy to hate.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 09:20 AM
Apr 2024

They despise everything that defines democracy. They spend every effort trying to take away rights of others.

Jean Genie

(544 posts)
87. Hate!
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 10:04 AM
Apr 2024

I hate hating anyone. After all, we're all just human beings, aren't we? HOWEVER, this endless fracas over Louis DeJoy and his "god-given" (actually trump-given) right to destroy the postal system because because no one seems to be able to fire his ass, is simply beyond belief! I find that I'm coming perilously close to hating DeJoy and the bastard who appointed him in the first place. Benjamin Franklin must be rolling in his grave!

SARose

(1,831 posts)
90. Me too
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 10:52 AM
Apr 2024

Yesterday I stayed away from the news and everything else. I woke up to read the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America was going to Florida to hold a joint news conference with the Orange anus. Jesus wept.

I was outraged and I know my bp was off the charts. Thank you DU for the image dumps, dog and cat vids. You helped me thru yesterday.

Xxx’s and Ooo’ Rose

SharonAnn

(14,175 posts)
91. I'm in Tennessee, too. I'll keep voting but this political environment here is a nightmare.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 11:26 AM
Apr 2024

kimbutgar

(27,257 posts)
92. Growing up all I ever heard from my Dad was him saying " dirty, stinking, lousy republicans".
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 11:34 AM
Apr 2024

He used to say it all the time especially during the Nixon and Reagan years. I am some grateful he had passed on before the orange monster it would have caused him to have a heart attack listening to him. He also used to buy the National Enquirer and didn’t like the orange maggot then.

Roc2020

(1,787 posts)
93. I don't hate Republicans. They have one branch by a fingernail
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 11:37 AM
Apr 2024

they are the party NOT in power. A political party not in power is almost useless. Everything the GOP is saying or doing is to get back in power. That's what political parties do, whatever the consequences. Hating them only harms You. Just go and vote D and take 10 people with you.

barbtries

(31,310 posts)
95. i hate republicans
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 12:29 PM
Apr 2024

Last edited Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:15 PM - Edit history (1)

i go back further, to nixon and reagan, but since gw ... everything you said. republicans are heinous sociopaths and they are destroying the US. what's not to hate? they should go the way of the whigs and tories and disappear!!

:screaming:

pandr32

(14,281 posts)
98. We have been discouraged, denied, and super-stressed.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:34 PM
Apr 2024

Hardly the way to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
This is what happens when sociopaths make their way through our weak-for-Republican-and-not-for-Democrat vetting processes into government. Instead of serving the People they serve themselves and at any/all cost(s)--they don't care.

KPN

(17,379 posts)
101. With you 99% -- I cut the ones who refuse to vote
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 02:53 PM
Apr 2024

for trump a little slack.

What pisses me off is they hate us — for no honorable reason.

calimary

(90,067 posts)
102. Take a number.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 02:57 PM
Apr 2024

I've disliked and distrusted them for decades by now. But I've gotta admit, that has turned to flat-out hatred since the donald burst (like a big fat ZIT!!!) onto the scene.

 

Traurigkeit

(1,290 posts)
116. Republicans are the cause I lost 43 people I knew, worked with, learned with and my brother.
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 03:29 PM
Apr 2024

The Ninth Circle of HELL will not be enough for every Republican, republican supporter, right winger to be fallen into once they die.

yellowdogintexas

(23,696 posts)
130. more than Metro Nashville? I knew they tried to mess with Memphis/Shelby County
Tue Apr 16, 2024, 08:58 AM
Apr 2024

but were not as successful as they were in TN 5
I lived in Nashville for 15 years and it is now and has been a Democratic stronghold for decades, in local and national politics. It makes me sad to see what is happening now.

BlueKota

(5,358 posts)
125. Sending Hugs
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 08:05 PM
Apr 2024

I hate the majority of them too especially now with Trump and his magats. I voted for Regan in my first election in 1980, but after I went to a Community College and a local Liberal Arts College to get my B.A. I haven't voted for a Republican in a state or national election since. I have stopped voting in my local elections all together since most Republicans run unopposed in our town. So I sympathize with being surrounded by the enemy. If it weren't for the fact that I love the land that has been in our family since 1904, I would have moved.

Claudia, can't stand her ass, Tenney is my Rep. Makes me want to puke everytime I see her on TV.

At least NY State usually votes for Democrats as Governors with a few unfortunate exceptions like Pataki.

Wonder Why

(7,041 posts)
126. I love them. Matt 25:40 says
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 08:25 PM
Apr 2024
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’


And, Lord knows, repugs are the least of our brethren - the very least.

Besides, there's nothing like a repug that could make me feel like the smartest person in the room.

piddyprints

(15,107 posts)
128. Bible verse? Really?
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 10:18 AM
Apr 2024

Why in the world would you try to impose your religion on other people? That's a republican trick.

My dad was a minister, I went to 2 very conservative Christian universities, and my husband was a minister for the first decade of our marriage, until he saw the hypocrisy and got out. I know the verses and all the contradictions, so I'll pass.

The bottom line is that those people are hurting "the least of these." And I hate them for it. I make no apologies.

Wonder Why

(7,041 posts)
129. I didn't impose anything on anyone. I don't follow any religion. I just remembered a couple of word from my youth
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 01:56 PM
Apr 2024

and searched the internet for the words brethren and least and then copied it. I never would insist one has to love repugs because the "least of my brethren" did not in any manner, shape or form mean those type of people. I even ended with a smart-assed comment about them.


Use your head.

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