I'm harboring a seething, white-hot burning hatred of republicans right now...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

Am I alone in this degree of loathing? How do I deal with it?

[Hepburn]

1. Same here...

...anyone else watching the House hearing on PP?

Fuck those RW assholes....

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

27. I liked the guy who said something like

'Don't you think it's unfair that many Americans have to support something they find utterly abhorrent?'

Cause obviously he's going to take on military defunding and the defunding of all wars next, since so many Americans find spending money on killing actual born human beings abhorrent, right?

[Takket]

43. my reply:

I think its unfair that americans have to represented by a clueless ignorant fool with no idea what he's talking about and no tool other than hyperbole to make an argument.

Drop the mic.

[Duval]

72. Yes! eom

[Snotcicles]

55. I forgot which Air America radio host said it but it went something like,

" When I'm on my death bed in the very last moments, I wish to change my party affiliation to Republican. Because when I die I want a republican to die".

[louis-t]

57. "Come closer, Klingon, and let me die with my

hand on your throat."

[roguevalley]

61. think about all the improbable things going on in the world today and know that a new

paradigm is blowing in. It is almost as if they are cooperating, acting as stupid and evil as they can to allow people to truly get it. They are dinosaurs and their time is short. A meteor called revolution will land and them and they won't know what hit them. Have faith and good cheer. 2017 will be the beginning of the renewal of this world.

[Duval]

70. Such disrespect, but I've come to expect

that from the RW turds. PP helps women and men around the US. The abounding ignorance of far right Republicans is incredible!

[mnhtnbb]

2. I've been feeling that way for some time. I have stopped reading newspapers or watching cable

and I try to limit my exposure to politics here on DU--just enough to keep up.

I expect nothing but lies, misogyny, bigotry, greed and hate out of Republicans. I am rarely
surprised by the crap they do and say anymore. It's a very sad state of affairs.

[Hepburn]

3. I watched the Repuke debate and literally SCREAMED at the screen...

...I hate them, really hate them...and I thought I hated the Scrub...

[mnhtnbb]

6. See, that's why I wouldn't watch. My BP can't take it anymore.

[smirkymonkey]

49. Same here. It's really affecting both my physical and mental health

in very negative ways.

[sorefeet]

100. I tried to watch it

but I couldn't take the lies and they never got called out for them.

[fredamae]

4. CSPAN is carrying it

but, to control my BP this am..I'm choosing to follow comments. I too no longer watch CorpoMedia. They've rendered themselves totally Useless.

[oswaldactedalone]

65. My feelings exactly

Last edited Tue Sep 29, 2015, 02:41 PM - Edit history (1)

OTOH, when election season begins in '16, I'm going to campaign for Democrats just as hard as usual. We can't allow these abhorrent idiots to take over our country.

[haikugal]

5. Fight back!

Channel the anger into action!

Anger is useful. It energizes!

Use it!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. It's not just anger, I literally HATE them. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. They're easy to hate, but hate is bad for you.

If we hate we become like those we hate. Best to turn off the TV and the computer and go for a walk; then sign up to work against them. But not hatefully. "Love your enemies; it will drive them crazy."

[SleeplessinSoCal]

79. Verg wise. Excellent advice. But show strength.

Identify the root cause of the anger. Is it the way they attack women's rights in the most underhanded way? Is it because they say they are God fearing, when in fact they fear people? Is it because they refuse to acknowledge the harm they have done to this nation via their economic goals?

Or is there another root cause to hate the SOB's?

[haikugal]

15. Well they really are disgusting and hateful.

They are rude and intentionally cruel in their display of self righteous dismissal of women and families and their needs.

That makes me angry.

I looked up the definition of hate..

hate
hāt/
verb
1.
feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone).
"the boys hate each other"
synonyms: loathe, detest, despise, dislike, abhor, execrate; More
antonyms: love
have a strong aversion to (something).
"he hates flying"
used politely to express one's regret or embarrassment at doing something.
"I hate to bother you"
synonyms: be sorry, be reluctant, be loath, be unwilling, be disinclined; More
informal
express strong dislike for; criticize or abuse.
"I can't hate on them for trying something new"
noun
noun: hate
1.
intense or passionate dislike.
"feelings of hate and revenge"
synonyms: hatred, loathing, detestation, dislike, distaste, abhorrence, abomination, execration, aversion; More

I don't feel it as hate, I feel it as anger....guess I'm different.

[PassingFair]

92. You can sing this:

An oldie but a goodie...

[rbrnmw]

7. Dirty filthy lying assholes

All this over fake videos. My anger at them seems to be ever present these days,

[MoonRiver]

9. Me too. I always feel it on some level, but today is worse than usual.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Revenge is a dish best served cold... With fava beans and a nice chianti. nt

[backscatter712]

35. It is very cold, in space... n/t

[Volaris]

64. And in the Republican Political Wilderness of a Sanders Administration.

Oh Donnn-ald...I'm LAUGHING at the Superior Intellect.

Doesn't take much to bait a Narcissist into their own demise, does it lol?

[oldandhappy]

11. Yard work!

Turn off the TV. Your health is more important than knowing every detail.

[mindwalker_i]

13. There was an interview on The Nightly Show with the drug-price-hike dude

The other day, Larry showed part of an interview with the guy who raised the drug prices of the AIDS drug from 13.50 to 750.00. That guy commented that it was only $1000 for a run of the drug that saved one's life. The implication was that saving your life was worth a lot more, so he should charge more. There was no connection as to whether it was right or wrong to make a huge profit off of people who were dying, and in a capitalist society he's absolutely right: the only value is money, so you do everything you can to make money.

The republicans seem to be in a similar state: their only goal is to keep themselves employed. They do that by getting rich people to support their campaigns, so they can run more ads, etc. Therefore they do whatever the rich want. Making the country run well doesn't have any place in the equation. Fairness or morality don't have any place in the equation. I should clarify that: actually doing anything to further fairness or morality doesn't have any place, although talking about it to get the votes of suckers does have a place.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

18. "Fairness or morality don't have any place in the equation." ... true words, mindwalker_i. SMH. nt

[el_bryanto]

14. Send it out to sea.

I don't know - it's totally normal to be full of hatred for people who are doing some pretty awful things. And they certainly earn it with their terrible programs and general nastiness.

That said, being full of hatred all the time isn't good for your mental health. Do what you can to decompress. What inspires in the long run isn't hatred and despair but hope for a better world. If you can keep your focus on that, you can slam into the republicans as necessary without being angry all the time.

Easier said than done though; as our republican friends go out of their way to slam into us.

Bryant

[oldandhappy]

16. Try this

Posted by Omaha Steve -- might be a good break from the hearings.

http://www.omaha.com/news/goodnews/pet-parade-photos-your-weekly-dose-of-furry-goodness/article_66a0d340-62eb-11e5-a209-dbf2fef2dda5.html

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. My wife and I took a page from the Professional Left Podcast

It's okay to be crazy, but only one of us is allowed to be crazy at a time. It works out pretty well. We manage to get the rage out without forgetting the important stuff... like paying the bills, and eating every now and then.

[joeybee12]

19. Join the club...knr

[Turbineguy]

20. I prefer to take the

"There, but for the grace of God go I" position. I don't hate people for being stupid and brainwashed.

[Lee-Lee]

21. Register voters. Phone bank for candidates. Go door to door

And do anything else to drive them from any position of power.

[justhanginon]

22. When the hatred gets too bad, I just google

guillotine plans, read them and sit here and dream of what could be.

[Duval]

74. LOL! Visualization helps! eom

[Zorra]

23. I've watched Republicans continuously harm me, my people,

my country, and my planet since the day I was born.

Their entire gig is negative and destructive.

I deal with it by doing whatever I can to stop them from harming everything, and I am thoroughly sick of having to deal with them, they are like spoiled, selfish children who never grow up, and who force us to continuously pick up after they make their deadly messes.

[Rainngirl]

87. Zorra, you have beautifully articulated my exact feelings.

It would be so much easier to just let these assholes (or do I need to say "a-holes" here?) be mean, greedy narcissistic, fake Christian lot and their stupid, brainwashed followers be how they are IF they only hurt themselves. But the truth is that they do so much damage!! They're policies and their sick, twisted way of thinking have the potential to hurt EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. I know being angry and hating them back doesn't do me any good, but it's so hard to stay informed AND stay calm. I haven't managed to find a balance yet. And then I get mad at the people who say, "Oh, I just don't care about politics." I want to yell at them and say, "Well, you'd better start caring, buddy, because if anyone of these boneheaded clowns gets into office, you will find out exactly how awful they are!" Sigh. (Thanks for letting me vent. I can't do it on FB).

[cpompilo]

24. Do everything you can to help get Bernie and progressive candidates elected.

Channel that energy to good!

[SalviaBlue]

25. I am totally disgusted by them.

It is very hard to even deal with business/family/friends who are Cons... how can they be so stupid? They are ignorant; plain and simple. I try to pity them instead of blame. Trying to change their minds does not work.

[dembotoz]

26. this past sunday i skipped a town hall meeting with the local gop congress clown

he always has the local state assembly and senate congress clowns in tow

i was too angry and did not think i could be civil.

but quite frankly we need to go to these events and argue with them. but i could not this time.

what to do?
local party is trying to hire an organizer...i am contributing more than i can really afford.....
not a huge amount....under 5 hundo.....but more than i have ever given before to anything.

do stuff like that.

i am also offering to take in for a short time a soon to be homeless fellow dem. she is in between checks....

i am trying to live the politics i preach...rubber hits the road...pope and his golden rule thing--although i knew i was going to do this prior to his visit and am not catholic.

[Ilsa]

28. Let it energize you, not make you cynical or anything.

Unfortunately, these are still our neighbors (unbelievable as it is) and we have to try to remember to love one another, which comes more easily to us anyway.

But yes, there are days when I go to bed LOATHING Repubs.

[DrBulldog]

29. Me, too. But I relieve the feeling by . . .

. . . taking an extra shower each day.

[BlueJazz]

30. I lost my temper big-time about 2 weeks ago. Was talking to a republican acquaintance and the ..

...conversation got more and more heated. Finally I lost it (My bad) and said "I pray every night that every fucking one of the sons-a-bitches would fall to the center of the earth because 2 things would happen...the planet's IQ would increase 30 percent and the happiness factor would go off the scale...the pieces of human garbage have caused more deaths, misery and torture than all the wars in history combined"

He wasn't pleased.

[SunSeeker]

44. Good for you.

I wish more people did that. Us reasonable folks are always biting our lip while our right wing relatives and acquaintances go off on their bigoted right wing nut tirades. It is about time that shit was no longer socially acceptable, like saying the N word, and should receive similar and immediate rebuke.

[DrBulldog]

31. I just google "New Zealand" and pretend for a few minutes that I am a citizen living there . . .

[Jester Messiah]

51. I've heard they've got a bad case of religious derpitude there, as well.

There's no running from it, we've got to cut the cancer out.

[abakan]

32. I have had a loathing of republicans since Nixon.

You are not alone. I have learned to deal by never paying much attention to the crap they say. I watch what I have to, to be informed but not enough to have a stroke. It will get better, I hope.

[hifiguy]

90. Same here.

The only national repig figure I have been able to look at without gagging in the last forty-plus years is Jerry Ford.

[abakan]

91. He managed to not make things worse.

Then again he had a shorter time to mess up, unless you consider stumbling up and down things.

I agree, he tickle my gag reflexes, either.

[DrBulldog]

33. I continually dread finding out whether any of my good friends is a Republican because . . .

. . . I will immediately end that friendship FOREVER.

[gregcrawford]

34. Wait a minute...

... you mean true patriots who love Gawd and the Konstitooshun even though they've never read it, and who want to protect the unconceived by banning birth control so there will be even more abortions to rage about, and who screech about freedom even as they pass the most invasive, restrictive and draconian laws in living memory, and who crave dominion over the lives of others, and who are walking, talking justifications for mandatory sterilization, and who lie to their dying mothers for idle amusement?

What's not to love?

For the benefit of the terminally obtuse:

[Doctor_J]

36. Been there pretty much since Limpballs came on the air

Enjoy it!

[backscatter712]

37. Laugh at them.

Most of them are so buffoonish, that you can't help but laugh.

[mountain grammy]

38. I hate them too, liars that they are.. can't help myself

and I only listened to the "hearing" for a little while..

headed out to the lake with my kayak and a joint to restore some inner peace.

[apnu]

39. for me, that's like every day (nt)

[KamaAina]

40. Right now?

I've been harboring one since Selection 2000.

[SpankMe]

68. I second this. n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

84. You Must Have Missed The 80's!

Just kiddin'. I've been on a rant since Carter lost.

[KamaAina]

85. That was merely a seething hatred.

Bush v. Gore ramped it up to white-hot burning.

[ProfessorGAC]

99. Ah! Makes Sense!

Great answer

[kairos12]

41. I hate them and it motivates me to oppose them

everyday.

[yuiyoshida]

42. I don't know if you have noticed, but

They have a white-hot loathing for us as well. There is no reconciliation with Republicans, and if they had their way this would be an All White Christian based Country, with the Constitution and Bill of Rights replaced by some kind of 16th century style law, based on the Bible, where witch trials could happen again, and unloyality paid with violence. If there were any minorities left, we would all be apart of the Slave labor they would want to have.

[SunSeeker]

46. Yep. They want to go back to the days of the antebellum South. nt

[yuiyoshida]

52. As the dumb ass in

Idaho said, on the Radio; "what's wrong with slavery?" The Republicans really are the fascists of our day and age.

[kairos12]

59. Agreed. They hate us. My response is get your retaliation in first.

[Jester Messiah]

45. Similar.

May they all get stabbed.

[PearliePoo2]

47. I'm right there with you only my hatred has now escalated.

Not only do I hate the Rethugs, I now also loathe the willfully ignorant populace who vote these assholes into office.
I am at a loss to understand how people can be so fucking stupid. People who vote time and time again against their own interests.
Ted Cruz is an example. Uneducated morons have unleashed this evil, Dominionist "bagger" on the entire Nation.
What he is doing effects ME, my well-being, my sanity and my quality of life.
So, yeah...now I'm taking it personally. I truly hate them.

[SunSeeker]

48. You've got plenty of company.

Your rage is good, and normal. It gives you energy to fight these bastards.

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

50. Took ya long enough

Maybe this incident with PP will make folks start treating ALL Pubs like the enemies of freedom they are and yes that includes you old asses kindly grandmother who always votes GOP

They are All the Enemy no exceptions!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

94. My record of hatred for republican'ts is long documented on this site and beyond. Please dont

cherry-pick my words, delivered during an especially white-hot moment of loathing during the PP hearing today. Thank you.

[Joey Liberal]

53. Yoga helps a lot

That and watching Bill Maher.

[Logical]

54. How does anyone support that party? Nt

[Enthusiast]

71. They watch all the propaganda on TV and they listen to the garbage from the radio.

They think they are doing the right thing by supporting their party.

They think we are crazy for being Democrats.

It is a result of the terrible media we are saddled with.

[MynameisBlarney]

56. Hey! Welcome to the club!

As for how to deal with it....my method tends to be a bit hard on the liver, lol.

[EEO]

58. Anger is a strong motivator.

It motivated me to support this project: http://www.theniladmirari.com/

[Facility Inspector]

60. Hatred accomplishes nothing

be like water.

[tomm2thumbs]

62. love this

[oberliner]

63. Help them understand why they are wrong

And maybe you can bring one or two of them over to the light.

[Jack Rabbit]

66. Are we talking about today's Inquisition against PP?

I saw the Grand Inquisitor's opening remarks and just shook my head in my coffee.

These guys are too pathetic to hate. They just aren't worth the bile. Voting them out of office won't change them, but it will make them irrelevant and that's really the best we can do. They'll still be spewing their silly little rants against the 21st century, but there will be no CSPAN cameras around to broadcast the nonsense. At best, a few of the better known racists and misogynists might get a gig filling in for Limbaugh or Beck while they go on vacation or even become a contributor to FoxNews and provide his viewers steer manure in response to a question from Megyn Kelly, but only the morbidly curious and terminally bored among us will pay any attention (and then claim they watch FoxNews so the rest of us won't have to).

I'll just let it go today. I expect the Tea Party Fascists to repeat the lies provided by the Center for Medical Progress and for Ms Richards to refute it with actual, verifiable facts and for the Inquisitors ask more questions like they didn't hear the answer to the previous one.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

It's time to take this bit of reality television off the air.

[ErikJ]

67. I get an outlet by educating the RW base online

It is amazing how little they know and propagate online. So I get an outlet by giving them the facts. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

[Duval]

69. NO! I'm beyond tired of seeing

and hearing them! I utterly loath them AND our media! I deal with it by coming here and also watching Thom Hartmann on Free Speech TV. However, today I'm turning the TV off and reading a book that has nothing to do with politics.

[m-lekktor]

73. I have that feeling toward rightwingers no matter what party they belong to! nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

75. Listen to these....

http://server4.whiterosesociety.org/content/malloy/MalloyMemories/How_deep_is_my_hate.mp3

http://server4.whiterosesociety.org/content/malloy/MalloyMemories/How_long_will_my_hate_last.mp3

[Dont call me Shirley]

76. You are not alone, ChisholmTrailDem. I deal with it by accepting myself as I am. :-)

[ileus]

77. My hate runs deep.

It drives my life and keeps me steady.

[randome]

78. So long as you keep it on its leash, good luck to you.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Generic Other]

80. So Angry I was yelling

I curse the GOP men and women to suffer for their idiotic stance. Let their daughters and granddaughters get pregnant, suffer STDs, face the life dilemmas PP could help them deal with. Let them skip getting needed care such as exams because they can't pay. Let their daughters suffer the fate they condemned all young and poor women to. Let their daughters face the world as unwed mothers because they had no access to birth control or because they were sexually assaulted. Let them get pregnant by the kind of pigs Republicans attract. Let their nieces suffer genital warts, chlamydia, menstrual problems. Seriously, I am sick of their behavior.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

95. Me too. Indeed, I dare not say what I think should be done about them. nt

[Generic Other]

96. I wanted women

To wait for the bullies in the parking lot and beat them with the bald-headed end of a broom.

[Kelvin Mace]

81. They are not worth the stomach lining

As easy as they make it, we must resist the inclination to hate.

Pity them, they are fools who will be destroyed by their own folly. We can't change their minds, we can only hope to educate those not completely lost to foolishness.

[byronius]

82. Some historical perspective always helps.

Today's conservatives would be considered pathetic and liberal by their forerunners, who bombed, beat, tortured and burned as their initial conversation opener. I'm reading 'The Great Migration' by Isabel Wilkerson, and the descriptions of conservative terrorism are chilling.

Willis McCall, sheriff in Alabama, for instance. 'Big Hat', as they called him, routinely murdered black men as entertainment. His primary job was to invent fines for local black people so they could be assigned to work 16 hour days seven days a week for local planters -- slavery by any other name.

A local white woman claimed that she had been raped by three black men (she recanted later, it was a white neighbor), and so McCall rounded up three random black men, handcuffed them, took them out into the woods and shot them. One survived and crawled back to town still in handcuffs to tell the story -- a judge sentenced him to life in prison for the rape, even though he was able to prove that he had been in court when the rape was committed. McCall was never charged, the matter was never investigated. The falsely-accused survivor served life in prison.

My point is -- they've been around a long time, these monsters, and now they're fading out faster than ever before. Slowly but surely, conservative memes are disappearing from the earth. These current clowns have a mere shadow of the power they used to wield. A few generations and they'll be historical smoke.

I do understand, very much. I struggle with the same rage, every day. I can't talk politics with any conservative or libertarian, period, ever. Words like 'murderer', 'genocidal psychopath', and 'treasonous traitor' immediately come out of my mouth, and I mean them.

History says they're soon to be isolated and dying out. Not soon enough, but it's happening.

[Flying Squirrel]

83. These are sick people.

Perhaps some day some of them will recover. Most likely not. Be comforted in knowing that many others are fighting against them, and don't let it get personal.

[KauaiK]

86. You are NOT alone...

I have been harboring this Reagan and which skyrocketed when Newt Gingrich ascending to the Speaker of House. From that point forward all matter of civility, courtesy and dignity has diminished from the US Gov't. The GOP is now an overt (vs formerly covert) mass of nasty hatred and bigotry.

I just keep pressing the peeps I know to register and VOTE. IF they don't vote they don't have the right to complain.

[shenmue]

88. I hug my dog

[Person 2713]

89. In my case they started with the hate on me first so.....yea fuck them all

Yes I loathe them

[libodem]

93. Breathe

And let it go. Send love to the universe.

[Scuba]

97. You're alone in the "right now" part.

[LiberalElite]

98. i've been seething against them for a loooong time. eom

[Faux pas]

101. They

are evil. That is all.