F*** You! F*** all of you!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Dumbphuckery has won the day. We’re two weeks removed from a major disaster and two days away from another. A time to potentially demonstrate our strength and resilience as a nation and a people. But noooo….

I heard that the government controls the weather. I also heard that the Jews are denying FEMA benefits to the God fearing good people of Appalachia because…well just because. Instead we’re giving away all of our money to pet eating immigrants who are going to chow down on Fluffy before they break into our homes to kill us in unspeakable ways so they can steal our jobs. I know it’s true because I read it on the internet.

Meanwhile, TV and the newspapers are full of interviews with “undecided “ voters who mostly seem to struggle with coming up with an excuse to vote for Trump. Nobody thinks to ask what exactly Trump says that even comes close to making sense. The right questions from reporters should be something like “what kind of dressing do you like with your word salad?” Instead these morons are treated like they’re carefully deliberating some weighty policy issues and not idiots for thinking some guy who bankrupted a couple of casinos would do wonders for the economy.

All that really is being accomplished is the normalization of bigotry, xenophobia, racism, misogyny, and every other base human characteristic that festers in our society today. Trump speaks to you? How is that? Nothing the guy says even remotely makes sense. In fact, if he’s making sense to you I suggest you see a neurologist because you probably either had a stroke or have a brain tumor. But we’ll continue to have this discussion like it was normal discourse.

But we’ll see poll after poll, rally after rally, idiot after idiot interviewed, all trying to tell us that Trump and his knuckle dragging flying monkeys represent a legitimate political point of view. All while a category 5 hurricane barrels towards Tampa-courtesy of some new technology our government must have stolen from a Bond villain just to get at the MAGA’s of Florida.

It’s all not so hard to believe once you’ve accepted that illegal immigrants are flooding over the border to vote for democrats who are really global socialists who want to replace white Americans who fished Hunter Biden’s laptop out of a swimming pool only to find evidence of illegal payments from Kazakhstan along with child molesters in the basement of a pizzeria in DC while weaponizing the justice system to stop one of the…no THE greatest president ever from returning to his throne-I mean rightful place at the helm of our nation. It just makes so much more sense than believing a serial philandering scam artist is lying to you-again.

The fact that this election will even be close is a testament to dumphuckery. The fact that we treat the drivel that comes from Trump and the MAGAts with any sense of dignity is a testament to- I really don’t know what. But to everyone who sells this crap and everyone who buys it, f*** you! F***all of you!

[jimfields33]

1. First hurricane in Tampa in a hundred years.

Typically a safe area.

[4catsmom]

24. Is Mar-a-lardo near Tampa?

can't remember where it is. I only hope Trump is standing right in front of Milton as it makes landfall

[jimfields33]

25. About three hours away.

[Wednesdays]

42. So, too far away to bear the brunt of the storm

Maybe some minor property damage, but that's about it.

[True Blue American]

52. Not if it goes across Fla.

As they are predicting.
A cousin of my DIL came back to Ohio, said she has had it. Her Fathers house has 4 inches of water in it. Her brother was living there. He can not get back to the house. In Sarasota. Now another one coming. She lives in a Condo but has had it.

[jimfields33]

54. Yep. Orlando will have 50-60 mile an hour winds.

And not even that if the hurricane hits port Charlotte which it may.

[LisaM]

44. I don't want Mar-a-Lago flattened.

I want Trump out of there and for it to be passed into worthier ownership.

[Marcuse]

62. If Maralago is flattened he'll start a GoFund Me.

[JCMach1]

53. 1 serious jog South already

Tampa's protection spell might hold???

[onecaliberal]

2. I agree. But it's all meant to dishearten. Turn it off. The fascist media is all propaganda, all of the time.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. "The fascist media is all propaganda, all of the time."

The first thing to remember!

[Magoo48]

34. Yes, yes, yes. Why raise your own anxiety and pay for the privilege?

Every time we watch, listen to, or read the MS CORPORATE M, we help them survive just that much longer.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go ...

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Network - I'm Mad As Hell: Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is mad as hell and wants the world to know.
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
In this lauded satire, veteran news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) discovers that he's being put out to pasture, and he's none too happy about it. After threatening to shoot himself on live television, instead he launches into an angry televised rant, which turns out to be a huge ratings boost for the UBS network. This stunt allows ambitious producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) to develop even more outrageous programming, a concept that she takes to unsettling extremes.

{snip}

[calimary]

49. "Network"! STILL one of my favorite movies of all time!

Along with “Forbidden Planet” and “A Hard Day’s Night”.

[ChazInAz]

56. We have similar tastes!

[A HERETIC I AM]

63. "Give us a kiss"

[SouthernCal_Dem]

4. Well said. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. To me the upside of what you are saying

is that thanks to all of their ignorance, Trumpers tend to depart this life earlier than many of us.

I'm inclined to think, based on anecdotal reports (I KNOW they are not data) of yard signs changing from Trump-Vance to Harris-Walz, and other such, that in the end, the margin of victory for H-W may well be the largest ever of a popular vote.

Keep in mind that the media wants to sell papers and news shows and whatever, and so they are in desperate need of a "horse race."

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

7. I hope you're right

I actually think that you are. Driving around this weekend with my wife we saw Harris signs on a lot more front lawns than I ever would have imagined in our very red part of the state-and we haven’t gotten any anonymous hate letters in our mailbox because of ours-yet. My wife’s observation was that this is a good sign. Trumpsters never put up just one sign-it’s always two or three banners and they appear more numerous (and they’re clearly some kind of a cry for help). If Harris is making inroads in our neck of the woods then things are looking good.

[Metaphorical]

10. They do, actually

The problem is the Trumpers also believe in breeding like rabbits, to make even MORE of them. Statitically, it tends to be something of a wash - for every four children or so, you're really only likely to get one MAGAt, but it does keep their numbers stable.

[Persondem]

6. So write a letter to the editor yourself or email an editor or two directly. Light a candle .... nt

[AZJonnie]

8. 1,000,000 times THIS!!!

You said it so well, DPR. 100% truth. We're dealing with a basket of dumphucks and deplorables.

[dchill]

35. Would that it was only a basketful.

[Beartracks]

61. Dumplorables.

[calimary]

64. Good one!

Dumplorables! I like it!! I like it A LOT!!!

[mdbl]

11. Exactly!

[Evolve Dammit]

12. He is "The Chosen One" after all. And it seems like half the populace and a Big chunk of MSM are good with it. K&R

"Never underestimate the stupidity of the American electorate."

[bluestarone]

20. Yea he is the CHOSEN ONE alright. BUT

I'm thinking that if he's the chosen one he would have 100% of the votes? What a bunch of DUMB ASS's we found out we have in America! Thank God they wern't around during our most important wars!! Bad enough they are here shitting on our veterans today. Low life fucking traitors.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Yep.

[RobinA]

13. Great Summation

of this ridiculous moment. Second paragraph says it all.

[DET]

14. Thank You!

That was very well written and you nicely captured the insanity of our times.

[pansypoo53219]

15. humans are devolving fast.

[BattleRow]

16. I want to see a national ad from Harris

with the headline..Truth or Consequences..

There's lots of lies that can be featured..with the last frame..the clinking of iron bars with
a feminine hand throwing away the key..

HEY,I can dream,can't I??

[dchill]

36. Personally, I love it!

Edited to add: Welcome to DU!

[BattleRow]

45. Thank you for the welcome!

I had posted here many years ago..but life intervened..and it was only until quite recently I have had the luxury to indulge myself in "me" time.

[calimary]

47. Well, definitely Welcome to DU anyway, BattleRow!

Enjoy exercising your newfound “me” time. The rest of us undoubtedly will, too!

[BattleRow]

50. Aw ,shucks..(blushing)

[barbtries]

17. 15 years old but more relevant than ever

?si=N92zNfXgQ6s-W_Jb
(fuck you very very much)

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Duuuuude, let those fuckbags do the crazy. . .

. . .while we do the work of getting out the vote via the ground game.

Because if we Keep. On. Pushing., the vote will NOT be close at the end.
The facade of closeness will hold until the last week of October (when early voting is in full swing), then, as Stuart Stevens (Lincoln Project) has predicted, the bottom is going to crater beneath Trump and the GOP. Big. Time.

[TBF]

19. Trump gets rid of regulations and lowers taxes for billionaires -

It is in the interest of these billionaires - both personally and in all of their holdings/companies - to elect the felon. They will do anything they can to divide the rest of us so they can have what they want. The media companies they happen to own are very useful for that purpose.

[Oneironaut]

21. This country is infested with fucking morons.

That’s the hard truth.

[4catsmom]

23. Media totally enables Trump

Treating these people like they are actually thinking, reasoning beings.

[malaise]

26. Great OP

Rec

[slightlv]

27. Logically, my head tells me Harris/Walz

will win this election with a huge margin... we've got too many (usually opposing) groups coming to vote for Harris... or at least, to vote against trump. This may bode a coalition government for us during the new administration. Something I don't think we've had before?

But my heart is afraid to listen to my head. 2016 was just too devastating for me, and it's been one battle after another since then. Hard choices will have to be made if trump gets back in office, and I'm in no position to make them this time around. It's all too scary to think of him back in the oval office.

And then again, my head takes over and round and round I go between head and heart, head and heart, head and heart. I'll just be so damned glad when this election is over!!!!

[Joinfortmill]

32. She's gonna whip his ass, but he's gonna try to cheat.

[SidneyR]

28. Idiocracy

It's a documentary, not a comedy.

[Laxman]

29. I Had Something Of A Similar Reaction...

this morning reading an article in The NY Times. Interviews with members of a focus group. One didn’t trust Harris on the economy (but you trust the failed business man?) Another didn’t trust Harris on security ( but you trust the guy who stole classified documents?) One said Harris was a phony. (I don’t know where to begin with that one). What rock did you turn over to find these people and what little journalistic integrity do you have to publish this nonsense unchallenged?

[Joinfortmill]

30. Yup. We're all fucking fed up

[Turbineguy]

31. Auto insurance will skyrocket

If we put a felon in the White House will anybody stop for red lights or stop signs?

[hadEnuf]

33. "I also heard that the Jews are denying FEMA benefits to the God fearing good people of Appalachia"

"Instead we’re giving away all of our money to pet eating immigrants"

"the normalization of bigotry, xenophobia, racism, misogyny"

"But we’ll see poll after poll, rally after rally, idiot after idiot interviewed, all trying to tell us that Trump and his knuckle dragging flying monkeys represent a legitimate political point of view."

"It’s all not so hard to believe once you’ve accepted that illegal immigrants are flooding over the border to vote for democrats who are really global socialists who want to replace white Americans"

"child molesters in the basement of a pizzeria in DC"



MAGATs are basically pushing full on Nazism. There is no other way to describe it. And there is no way to sane wash it.

[Initech]

37. The billionaire fuckheads that be are forcing fascism on us whether we want it or not.

And the answer is NO!!!! We do not want it! Our Consitution and Bill Of Rights are setup so we don't have to deal with that shit! Authoritarianism is *NOT* a good thing. Dictators are *NOT* a good thing. In a dictatorship, nobody and I mean NOBODY is safe.

And they, fucking Fox News and all the other shitty right wing sources, the fucking Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society, and all of the MAGAlodytes infecting Congress and the Senate can all go get royally fucked. If there is a hell, may they rot in the hottest circle of it.

[valleyrogue]

60. The country will break up before that ever happens. Putin might like this.

Anything to distract this country from his shenanigans.

[Initech]

65. Yeah and if this country breaks up, game over. Putin wins.

I want to scream at people like Leonardo DiCaprio in Don't Look Up. There is a mad man in Moscow, in the Kremlin, who is trying to take over the world, and y'all are just letting him! We should be rising up as one and bombing his sorry, worthless ass and his minions back to the stone ages. But half of this country is so addicted to propaganda coming from Fox and other bullshit sources that they're actually cheering him on.

This isn't the America I grew up in. And if Putin takes over Europe, guess what? There won't be an America left to protect.

[Botany]

38. "They" are selling the horse race, the republicans have more money than God to polish that ...

… turd into what they say is a diamond, fossil fuel money is very powerful, much of the main
stream media is owned by republicans, and sadly @ least 30% of Americans are racist, sexist,
anti intellectual, anti science, and the influence of the Christo Facsist Evangelical Christian Taliban
is very strong. Jesus was a Northern European looking guy and not really an African. Also we have
many Americans who enjoy the fact that Trump is a rude asshole.

But fear not this Presidential race should be a blow out when it comes to the overall vote
but the electoral college keeps it closer than it should be. I would guess that Harris/Walz’s
margin of victory in the popular vote will be @ least something like 20 million.


A blue wave is coming count on that. I am giving a little to Mary Peltola in Alaska and
Kiley Adolph in Eastern Indiana along with Comma-Law and the Coach.

[Initech]

40. I've been saying for years that the billionaires have us perpetually fighting a culture war...

To keep us from discovering who the real bad guys are. Because if we were truly united, the billionaire criminals and their ill gotten gains would be totally fucked.

[Jrose]

39. Whenever I feel a tinge pessimistic about the 2024 election...

I remind myself that:
1. During his 2020 campaign, which he certainly lost, Djt had not yet incited and allowed his violent
followers to trash the Capitol for hours and take lives and threaten the lives of officials.
2. After repeated denials of the legitimacy of the 2020 election, multiple court cases disproved him.
3. During most of Djt's rerun for office, he was indicted in both criminal and civil cases and found guilty of felony.
4. The switch last summer from Biden to Harris has strongly reignited more and more confidence, enthusiasm and focus in the Democratic campaign. It's also bringing on board many more prominent anti-Djt-ers

[Wednesdays]

41. "The fact that this election will even be close is a testament to dumphuckery."

No, it's a testament to the power of propaganda. Fox News, AM radio, Facebook, "X," and a multitude of pulpits.

[johnnyfins]

48. AM radio number one.

[calimary]

46. "The fact that this election will even be close is a testament to dumphuckery."

Honestly, it just boggles the mind.

I DO NOT understand how it’s supposedly as close as we keep being told it is. REALLY hard to take delivery on that one, gotta say.

[Metro135]

51. BRAVO!

My feelings EXACTLY.

Every day I ask myself, am I living in the Twilight Zone? Will I wake up from this nightmare?

[usonian]

55. Here are some facts/comparisons to share and some encouragement.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219539535

https://democraticunderground.com/100219477450

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/republicans-voting-for-kamala-harris-share-why
How sampled republicans switched.

[LilElf70]

57. The last paragraph says it all

I love it. F** em all.

[paulkienitz]

58. Trump didn't give these faschy asswipes ideas, he just gave them permission.

In Bob Altemeyer's study of authoritarian followers, one thing he identified is that they are generally nonagressive and nonviolent, but often all that stops them from cutting loose with violence or oppression is that they need to hear some kind of authority granting them permission to unleash their evil side.

[Figarosmom]

59. Worse yet are the ones that know better

The students that say they don't know if they will vote at all. They really think thst if trump wins they can just protest. How stupid is that?
There will be no protesting allowed in Trump 2. The", uncomimted" protesting Israel who know Trump will help Israel flatten Gaza so he can build resorts. What is wrong with THESE people.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

66. Rant addendum

I just had someone come in to my office to vent about the state of our media and the relationship of it’s decline to the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation that has resulted in this morass of stupidity where we pick our news sources based upon what we want to hear rather than a quest for factual information. Every idiot’s opinion counts just as much as an expert’s-particularly if it confirms what you believe. Bad information hygiene. Combine that with rampant ignorance and you begin to see why so many are willing to believe in hordes of pet eating murderers coming to a town you. That’s a rant for another day.

[Moostache]

67. I get a lot of flack for what follows...but it MUST be said.

These problems (and they are artfully and fully described above by Dread Pirate Roberts - kudos!) have a more sinister and common root and it runs DEEP - deeper than any state ever could. What is this malign force? How could such a malignant presence go undetected? Did you hit your head on something today?

The root cause of all of this misinformation, disinformation and preying on the gullible and the desperate has its roots in religion and the movement of revival preachers. Once you convince people (borrowing from the master, George Carlin now) that:

When it comes to bullshit though, you have to stand in AWE of religion. No contest. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man, living in the sky, who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”

Put another way, many professing Christians believe more in the words and lies of Donald Trump than the supposed revealed truth of existence from Jesus Christ and the Gospels themselves.

When people are willing to first suspend disbelief to the point that: a bloody torture, and self-sacrifice of the godhead to itself by killing itself in the name of redeeming its own known 'plan'; via the mechanism of first impregnating a virgin woman (can't have any used wombs or experiences vaginas in this equation, no-no, won't do at all), to then bring it forth onto its creation as a full man (but also remaining full god simultaneously and avoiding ALL offenses to itself or in contradiction of its old rule book given to the chosen people of the same scrub land some few thousand years previously) during its lifespan of some 33-35 years on Earth - (while running around the 1st century wastelands in the company of 12 men, a bunch of 'oldest professionals' and with no source of income or sustenance during a 3 year period of pastoral meadows and grazing herds of sheep and goats), in order to "redeem" his created image for the disobedience of the rib-woman who ate an apple at the urging of a talking snake and convinced her 'husband' (master?) to do the same.

Once you raise generations of people to allow even passing credulity to such patent nonsense, and then brain wash them with mass media obsessed with getting them to envy, covet and steal, adulter, and kill in the name of buying stuff or possessing things to make their lives less hideous and empty, its not hard to see the how, what, why and who that brought us to this nadir. Hypocrisy is the coin of the realm now, but its origin and the rot of society runs far deeper.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

68. My imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend

The basis for death, destruction, racism, misogyny, bigotry and so many other things that religion allegedly eschews. So hard to argue with God said so.

[SpankMe]

69. Mega-rec. Very well stated - and expertly ranted! n/t