"Are You People Still OK with This Shit? Really?"

[babylonsister]

Are You People Still OK with This Shit? Really?
by Jaime O’Neill | July 28, 2025 - 5:13am


How do young parents explain Republicans to their children? How go people come home from church and still turn on Fox “News”? How do people pretend they have decency and still circle the wagons to protect pedophiles?

Really? Lots of us just don’t get it. We haven’t gotten it since that “pussy grabbing” tape before the son of a bitch got elected the first time, with obvious help from Russians and who knows who else.

Most of us didn’t even have to adjust our moral compass and/or turn it to “off” in order to figure it out. When we saw clips of him mocking a reporter with a disability, we didn’t have to ask ourselves if that was ever ok? Didn't you see those clips, too?

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Who could continue to get their info about the world from Fox, or Breitbart, or Newsmax, or Sinclair Broadcasting after so many serial tsunamis of lies, distortions, and excuses for all this mayhem? How could anyone be persuaded to believe that everything critical of Trump has been just “fake news”? How much willful mindlessness is required to still be doing that?

Who in hell can watch Republicans take a vacation to avoid having to vote on the release of the Epstein files? Who in hell could be so corrupted or so naive as to deny what is utterly obvious? Major obstruction of justice going on here.

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Honest to God, how could you continuously renew your support for such a man, and what does that say about you if you did? Were you raised by wolves, or does it malign actual wolves to even make such a comparison?

How can you say you give a damn about this country or about your children's futures and still remain blind to the threats posed to democracy and to the future of this planet by this man and his fellow billionaires?

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[cayugafalls]

1. Moral Authority Given Away...

If anyone says they are maga, I simply respond that they have no moral authority as they gave it away when they embraced the convicted felon.

[spike jones]

23. MAGA- Molesting Adolescent Girls Always

[Lovie777]

2. How?.....................

there is no reality to this. Fake Christians comes to mind, although they think they are doing their gawd's business. Kinda fucked up.

The 7 deadly sins comes to mind, which these fake Christians do every single day.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

25. It comes down to envy and revenge.

Nothing drives people to hate as much as envy and feeling inferior. As someone who had to deal with jealous co-workers when I was getting promoted over them I have experienced the hate first hand. The knives were out for me. Instead of them realizing that I worked my ass off, came in early, stayed late, brought work home they chose to believe I was just the bosses”pet” or that I was having an affair with him.

[Bev54]

34. They are the very "Christians" that themselves are sexual deviants and hiding it behind religion.

Often those who are the most pious are the worst offenders.

[displacedvermoter]

3. Yes, I am afraid they are very good with it!

The cruelty is the policy goal

[twodogsbarking]

4. Not ok with this shit and I am a people.

Actually anything that starts with "you people" gives me pause.

[Gimpyknee]

6. Me too.

[Whiskeytide]

10. Interesting. "You people" is an othering phrase. It means ...

… you’re different from me, and you are not my people. It frequently has racial implications. It’s a good phrase to avoid in most contexts.

But context is important. I think it was used here appropriately. The writer was intentionally drawing a stark distinction between us and them.

[babylonsister]

14. To me, the writer is addressing rethugs,

which I'm sure you are not, so don't take it personally.

[twodogsbarking]

24. Nothing personal or offensive to me just not the phrase I would use.

Have a great day and thanks for your DU contributions.

[Blues Heron]

27. They just mean "you pukes" obviously

[dedl67]

5. To try to understand this, it is worth reading or re-reading 'The True Believer'

To try to understand this, it is worth reading or re-reading 'The True Believer' by Eric Hoffer. Hoffer explores the factors that can cause people, especially those who are fearful and uncertain about their status in a changing world, to abandon reason and decency to and follow some cult that provides easy answers and assurance that the people they fear and hate will be punished.

[Permanut]

57. One of the most important books ever written..

about group dynamics.

[dedl67]

63. And it is available free online

[Hieronymus Phact]

7. Watch fox, it all makes sense.

[Dave Id]

13. Watch FOX?

No thanks, not a KKKult member.

[Hieronymus Phact]

21. The diary asked questions

The answers are right there.
Able to be understood by anyone.
Pure Weapons-Grade Propaganda.

If you REALLY want understand why they see/don't see these things, you have to watch.

[Mr.Bee]

29. Problem Is-

We are looking at an entire generation being brought up watching FoxNews while their parents are watching FoxNews.

[Meadowoak]

8. Anything for a win, they think it's a football game, and so long as their team wins, they don't care.

[chicoescuela]

18. They hate those of us on the left more than they hate pedophiles

Pretty simple

[travelingthrulife]

19. Sports indoctrination has done a lot to foster this authoritarian mindset for some.

My MAGA brother treats the GOP like the Packers or the Wisconsin Badgers. My team until death, no matter if they hate the players or the team.

[Justice matters.]

44. Or a fake WWE show of millionaire goons acting violently for their money.

It's all fun and games for them all the time until their bank accounts will start suffering a LOT.

[spanone]

9. K&R

[Maine Abu El Banat]

11. Well said

[Ray Bruns]

12. It's called "hypocrisy"

[allegorical oracle]

15. Was hit by this same point this morning. It was when a tape replayed djt's promise

to help with sending food to Gaza. And then he says something like "It's real -- they're not faking starvation." I was dumbfounded. Whoever faked starvation? Infants and toddlers? Who even thinks like that?

He is so ignorant, phony and criminal that he's sub-human. So are his supporters. Believe they're hopeless.

[Orrex]

17. They can't be forcibly awakened from their self-imposed stupor

They’ve made it their identity

[txwhitedove]

38. Yes, heard him say that yesterday. Had he actually thought they had been "faking" starvation

just to run for food and get shot? Or is that an excuse for why he burned up the emergency food that was there?

[Justice matters.]

45. Crooked pedofelon was never shown the consequences of cutting USAID money

They don't televise his tens of thousands hunger victims in sharp black colors on Faux.

[allegorical oracle]

64. He doesn't really care about anyone but himself. In this second stab at power, he appears

to be trying hard to convince the world that he's compassionate. It's a transitory phase, perhaps still hoping to get the Peace Prize. He does nothing for the sake of doing good. He only does something helpful if he has a reward coming. Problem is, his reward appetite is insatiable.

[Orrex]

16. They're a cult of ignorant racist fuckheads

They’ll worship him until the last of them has died, leaving the world much better for their absence.

[travelingthrulife]

20. Unfortunately, so many of them are young. They won't just die off.

[modrepub]

22. But, "Tan Suit"

“too old”, “high prices”, “government giveaways”, “corrupt cities”…

[Abstractartist]

26. How?

How can ANYONE who claims to be a Christian agree or support trump or anyone in his administration. Sorry to tell you “Christians”, but Jesus really hates you.

[malaise]

28. Must read

Rec

[CrispyQ]

30. Yes it maligns wolves to make that comparison.

So many of us shaking our damned heads thinking about people we thought we knew well. WTF?

on edit: When he got away with mocking the disabled reporter, I knew Access Hollywood tape wouldn't take him down.

[usonian]

31. Cults brainwash people to accept their lies and hypocrisy as truth and loyalty.

[AllaN01Bear]

32. and yet they calll us lbgtq pedios.

hem.

[LymphocyteLover]

33. I'm not, but damn if I don't want to scream this at every Republican!!!

[Justice matters.]

46. Well, Democratic candidates should memorize it and speak it

LOUDLY in microphones and on color teevees across the nation.

Risking to lose their election but taking a chance to win them to save Democracy.

[LymphocyteLover]

52. yes, some do-- my faves like Jasmine Crockett

[Grumpy Old Guy]

35. Republicans love their country.

They just hate most of the people who live in it.

[Beachnutt]

36. Article left out one thing when talking about covid

The son of a bitch had them eating HORSE WORMER, (Ivermectin).
They were literally eating worming paste for livestock....
My brother in law was one of them and I thought he was a smart guy being a retired police captain.
Eating livestock horse worming paste...

[markie]

37. K&R

really, seriously... how can anyone be ok with what is going on????

[wiggs]

39. This has been the thing since 2016...how friends, colleagues, family...people

we know...could have a hidden mental or emotional aspect that leads them to see good where there is evil...bad where there is good...see godly behavior where there is greed/grift/dishonesty/narcissism on a galactic scale.

Still astonishing and chilling. Yes...how can they still do this??

[Escape]

40. Have you ever done something that you shouldn't have....

...and then had to wrestle with the guilt and those sick feelings of regret? Have you ever said to yourself "Never again! That's just not me. I'm better than that?"

Apparently, MAGATS and Fundamentalist Christians just don't have those remorse genes.

Every day they synchronize their mendacious talking points, defend immorality and proudly applaud their insidious ways and means.

We can only hope that their next generation will rebel against the unprincipled and hypocritical example of their parents.

[BlueTsunami2018]

41. They don't care. It doesn't matter.

Are liberals mad? That’s all that matters.

And that goes for anything.

[SheltieLover]

42. Kick

[Jean Genie]

43. Dead yet?

I'm not by nature a hater, and I generally want to think the best of all people. BUT I absolutely HATE DJT and his suck-up minions!

[Joinfortmill]

47. Yup. A lot of people just plain suck. I avoid them.

[progressoid]

48. How? The answer was in the post

A constant diet of Fox, Breitbart, Newsmax, Sinclair will do it.

[underpants]

51. Yes. They've brainwashed themselves

[mercuryblues]

49. My hair dresser is a huge trumper

I asked her how she could she support him...he speaks the truth, she said.

I replied then she needs to go home and explain to her tween daughter how grabbing women by the * is perfectly acceptable behavior from men. It' just what they do, she needs to get used to it.

She hasn't spoken to me since.

I sometimes wonder what she thinks of him this time around.

[B.See]

50. My take: It all boils down to a struggle between

good (relatively speaking, as in those MORE inclined to or trying to embrace nobler sentiment, empathy, compassion) vs. evil (as in those rejecting those sentiments as 'woke'... formerly known as 'bleeding hearts' - a mocking reference to imagery associated with the Person who they're supposedly followers of, but have come to mock Him too as too 'woke.')

So instead, they've embraced cruelty, hate, gluttony and avarice, they've fallen under sway of their Antichrist, and they are his disciples and followers. Cult of the Antichrist, as it were.

Anyway, just my two cents on the subject.

[calimary]

61. Your two-cents estimate sounds an awful lot like my two-cents estimate.

[Kid Berwyn]

54. GOP DNA: "An organized hypocrisy."

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy." -- Benjamin Disraeli

[maxsolomon]

55. It's simple: they believe Democrats are worse.

That is the constant drumbeat of Right Wing media. Repetition makes it true.

[Kablooie]

56. But this is what we are dealing with:

A San Diego Trump supporter said he’s proud of what Trump is doing. Prices are going down and everything is improving. Not here in San Diego, prices are going up, but that is our Democratic governor’s fault. Everywhere else is doing great.

[Evolve Dammit]

58. Spot on

[rickyhall]

59. I didn't understand why everybody didn't see what he was in 2015. My dad taught what Con Men were. I listened, he forgot

[mjvpi]

60. On moral issues, all that they do is to project.

Dems are groomers and pedophiles.
Dems weaponized the DOJ
Joe Biden’s kids made millions by pedaling influence.
And on and on…..

[SleeplessinSoCal]

62. Three words