Hang in there.

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.

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.

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.

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........

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

Black

Female

Queer

Atheist

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

You said it better than I ever could.

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" .

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

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

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.

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

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.

maga house

maga senate

maga governor....

I’m so sorry. I wish they’d all been raptured on Monday.

It was delicious.

I adore him! Thank you for reminding me. He's a breath of fresh air here.

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)

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.

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

Link to tweet

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.

This shit horrifies me.

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

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

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.

Republicans are assclowns.

Somehow they are devolving almost daily.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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,

Didn’t she says she could see Russia from her house?

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.

With that crowd, any outrageous comment could be true.

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

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.

I vote even though it seems pointless.

Those are some heavy duty fuckwads! Keep up the good fight!

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

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.

…because we have Ted Cruz. Hopefully, not much longer.

. . . 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

and if anything, things are worse now than 20 years ago.

I hadn’t seen that before. They were just warming up!

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!!!!!

I can't believe I never heard it before, but if I did, I forgot.

I feel you!

I came here in 2001.

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.

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

Hugs all around!

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?

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!!!).

I understand; I live in Iowa. We'll all get through this.

And I won't apologize for it.

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?

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!!!

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

Sanity Save, too

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

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.

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, !!!!!

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

sanity part!

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.

I actually do talk that way with people I trust.

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.

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

Are LIARS!!!!!

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


:::hugs::::

and getting worse by the day

here too!

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

Hugs to you.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

We have them out numbered we just have to show up.

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

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.

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.

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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:

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.

for trump a little slack.

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

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.

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

Sometimes I wish west TN could be it's own state.

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.

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.

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.

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.