Love your diagnosis.

If I might add....they lack a spine as well.

I've just learned Lackofa is incurable, but unfortunately not terminal 😳

I'd renounce my party affiliation immediately and would not support democrats again until that president was replaced. Their blind party loyalty is nauseating.

Perfectly expresses the frustration that so many of us are feeling.

They've poisoned their voters minds to the point this is what they've become. They're literally willing to turn a blind eye to any and all atrocities, no matter the cost to our nation, just to try and push their agenda and retain their seats. Problem is those two events just might be mutually exclusive.

Not only unnecessary here but distracting and diminishing.

I haven't read one of these tire inflator threads in years.

Nothing has changed.

The 2018 midterm is 17 months away. There's a reason they call that a future book in betting terms. It's so far removed you receive a bonus price while speculating. Only a fool would believe it's obvious or cemented enough to take a sucker rate.

But we have lost most of them. They are the same people we never liked. We need to focus on grabbing the people in the middle even if there are only a few. They matter. They aren't passionate about world affairs like us and they are turned off by politicians and corruption of all kinds but we need to bring them on board.

Don't forget that RNC got hacked also. Putin has likely enough compromising material on a lot of republicans so they have to continue to defend trump or risk losing their careers after wikileaks releases their emails.

It's not as though Trump won the popular vote, and he certainly wouldn't now. It makes no sense for them to be so acquiescent and blindly obedient unless a lot of them were scared of being blackmailed.

Please please please please let it happen!!! We need to make sure our voting machines are ready!

The pity is that precious few Repukes will read it, or if they do, they will disregard it out of hand. I know these people, as I served with them for 29 years, biting my tongue and looking away. They are not only stupid, they are arrogantly so. Typically they are also bible thumpers, and use God and their religion to justify their political beliefs. And they are getting even angrier as their numbers shrink. When this giant orange turd is finally flushed, we can only hope that enough will see the light. The thought of a 2018 wave election is what keeps me hopeful in this insanity that has been fomented upon us. Resist and stay strong! Contribute, speak out, and VOTE!

JoJo

I agree that the majority seem to be fundamentalist Bible thumpers. There is no reasoning with these people - they are completely brainwashed and terrified that gawd will strike them down if they don't believe everything they hear spewed from the pulpit by some deranged Jim Jones type on Sundays. They celebrate communion with kool-aide, and they seem to adore Dumpf even more than they fear their irreligous leaders. Sadly, there is little to no hope for them.

Then there's the reptilican Congress - high on the Koch brothers money and covfefe. They'll do anything to stay in power and the damage to our country and its democratic institutions be damned. I HATE them all!

Budget deficits are evil, and undermine our economic stability--unless they are Republican-caused. Then they "don't matter."

The same goes for "our nation’s loss of standing in the world has suddenly become unimportant." It WAS important--except that while Obama was president, our standing in the world was just fine: right on top where it had been for most of the post-World-War-II era.

If our standing in the world has slipped to somewhere between that of Sierra Leone and South Sudan, the Republicans have only to ask the face in the mirror as to how such a thing could have occurred.

good OP, thanks!

Thank you.

Everything stated herein has been on the tip of my tongue waiting to explode. But let me add this. When they start with the yeah buts or Pox News talking points I'm ready to dismiss them with a brief but powerful comment. Normal people don't care what Trump / Republicans have to say unless it's under oath, and even then we don't believe them. And then followed by a pointed question / suggestion "Why don't you shut the fuck up?"
I worked for a trial lawyer who always said, "Everything changes once the lying starts." But with the Trump / Republican cult the lying never stops. Neither he nor his sycophants can tell the truth.
So how will it end: resignation? impeachment / indictment? pitchforks torches and rope? blindfolds and cigarettes? the Romanov solution? hemlock.........? Either he's removed, or we will be paying for this slide into fascism and the Dark Ages for generations to come.

We forced them to accept.. *gasp*.. a black man in the white house for 8 years. We had the additional audacity to try to foist on them a woman after the black man *double gasp and grab the pearls*.

This whole Fuhrer Rumpus I fiasco has absolutely NOTHING to do with them thinking.. has NOTHING to do with "making America great again".. has NOTHING to do with what he will do for the country.

His election is ALL about their revenge. All of the outrage you and I and everyone else here has? THAT's what they wanted, THAT's what they are getting, and as long as that jackass in the White House continues to piss us off, he's doing every fucking thing that they elected him to do. It doesn't even matter to them if it does hurt them along with us.. as long as we are angry and we are hurt.. THAT's all that matters.

Damn them all.

never own up to or admit their mistakes or that they're wrong, ever. Instead the deflect, lie, and blame their enemies.

"The 2018 midterms are almost upon us, and your Idiot Boy is about to lead your party into oblivion. "

Yeah, we're all going to be waiting you-know-whats before people wake up and stop falling head over heels for Republicans. "Republican" is America's default and we have to work ridiculously hard to convince them otherwise.

they are all being very quiet aren't they? McConnell and the rest of them can KISS OFF.

How dare they do this to our country? Sitting back and watching while our country sinks into column B.
They have no respect for the citizenry who at least care about the Constitution and their country.

If I were blind, it would be hard to tell my Trumpster brother apart from the Trump himself.
BTW, my brother has had traumatic brain injury which somewhat explains his undying loyalty to Trump.

they have a very different idea of what makes America great again. Many of those idiots still think Reagan made America great by causing most of our current middle eastern problems. Yeah, he was such a strong leader by spending more money on weapons.

They don't care if Trump burns every bridge with allies and wipes himself with every treaty. They think he's showing leadership by having a travel ban and promoting the myth that brown people are coming to kill us and white supremacists are not.

their fellow citizens -- whether gay, brown, college educated, atheist -- to anger their base voters. They are willing to set up huge media enterprises to deceive and anger their base voters.

They are willing to stand up and deny facts, knowledge, and education in order to keep their base in the dark.

They are willing to kill people by the thousands/millions in order to cut taxes for their donor base.

They are willing to make the planet less habitable for millions in order for their donor corporations to show a better quarterly profit in the coming election cycle

They are willing to let dozens of people die every week in order not to upset the NRA

They are willing to force women to struggle to control their own bodies in order to keep fundamentalists going to the polls and donating. (And to keep the social household order they are used to in place)

....so to them it's nothing new to stay silent in the face of malignant ignorance, incompetence, self-aggrandizement, uncertain world dynamics, clear criminal activity, clear impeachable offenses, lies, deceptions, and personal weirdness like has never been seen in the WH. it's an opportunity they can't pass up.

Charlie Pierce says that the Republicans became infected with prion disease in the early days of Ronnie Raygun, and it's all been downhill since then.

They are f*ckin' mole people.

I have nothing to add but my Resistance. Thanks, Nance. Great rant as always.

is not from the "lefts", or liberals, this mess belongs to all those insecure hate mongers, and the filthy Repig party.

And keeping power.
That is all.

I am surrounded by these people, Trump people, and have been my entire life. School, work, the grocery store, bars, church, everywhere.

I'll tell you. (Ironically, I just had this same discussion with someone else about a week ago)

They fall in to two categories.

Stupid or evil. Sometimes both. That's about all it boils down to.

" The 2018 midterms are almost upon us, and your Idiot Boy is about to lead your party into oblivion."
We must get out elections straightened out if that is to happen. Whatever the Russians and Repubs did in 2016 has not yet been corrected.
Hacking, Interstate Crosscheck, voting machine issues....There have been plenty of threads on this. I think one reasons the Rs aren't responsive to constituents is they know that the thieving operation is still in place.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029164897

I
DON'T
GET
IT.

Why are they so willfully hateful, stupid, and BLIND to reality? I can't understand what has happened to this country. And I'm afraid I don't have any hopes for 2018 and beyond whatsoever. As long as there are rampantly gerrymandered districts and the idiotic Electoral College, we are fucked. FUCKED. And they will do everything in their power - which they hold - to change a thing.

I would only add to this sentence: "spends the majority of his time tweeting fact-free bullshit between golf games", something about watching a *lot* of Fox News, which to me is one of the scariest things that he does...