Anybody else detecting a note of palpable euphoria among right-wingers right now?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

They seem to be swarming the message/comment boards for news sites, blog sites, etc. with some of the most vile, hateful, racist, anti-Obama rhetoric, gleefully declaring that the end is nigh for President Obama and Democrats. I know that in some corners there's always been a similar segment of people constantly trolling the internet with their rabid bile but they seemed to have multiplied exponentially in response to the recent furor over Benghazi, the IRS, AP, etc. Anybody else notice? I'd caution everybody away particularly from sites like Politico. It's just.......bad out there right now, pretty much anyplace but DU.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I wouldn't call it euphoria as much as unmitigated, salivating hatred.

And it seems to me that it began the moment Obama was declared the victor in 2008. It actually drove me off Facebook - and if it has accelerated in intensity, it is nothing new.

double

[Dawson Leery]

2. +1,000,000,000,000

The GOP base has been riled up.

[defacto7]

9. or Paid.

Trolls who are good at what they do get paid to post bogus info. Some who are not good at it get paid as well. We know who the money bags are who pay for misinformation and these are relatively small amounts that can pack a slow wallop of sludge if your audience is stupid enough and are looking for the kind of affirmation this stuff supplies. The propaganda becomes exponential.

[giftedgirl77]

11. They creep me out (1st timer) hi lo all

What is wrong with these people? They are like a bunch of rabid dogs. Would you believe I had someone tell me today that Obamacare is going to exclude all Republicans from getting healthcare? So of course I asked him if it was a plot to they make him sick so they could confiscate his guns then lock him up in a FEMA Camp & he said only if "they" let it get that far.

So of course I told him he should use his healthcare to see a shrink ASAP because chronic paranoia is very dangerous, which somehow led me to having my head in the sand, stocking up on granola, & playing with unicorns.

This craziness is really going beyond haha funny they are all batshit crazy to holy shit they have all lost their damn minds.

[truebluegreen]

13. Welcome to DU.

And yes they have all lost their damn minds, or whatever passes for them.

[Aristus]

14. Well said.

And welcome to DU!

[Rozlee]

20. Welcome to DU!

[leftynyc]

23. Ooooh - Can I play with your unicorn?

It's gotten to where I don't even try and reason with wingers. I just laugh at them - I have found that to be really effective if I'm trying to piss them off. Point and laugh.....like it's the circus. Welcome to DU.

[hrmjustin]

24. Welcome to DU my friend!

[freshwest]

3. They have more media than then and have intensified. I don't get that much relief here, either.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. With these "scandals" many of them are acting like dogs whom have finally got their bone

A lot of these delusional souls believe that the media has finally unmasked President Obama for the liar, crook, elitist, murderer (he let those people die in Benghazi don't you know?) etc. that THEY *know* that he is and that it is only a matter of time before he is impeached and sent packing ignominiously and disgraced. It is, of course, wrong and hopelessly deluded but the "fever" that President Obama previously spoke of prior to his second inauguration has not only NOT broken but actually seems to be spiking. It's horrifying the way some of these people talk and think.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. believe me, my Faux news all the time neighbors have been spewing garbage since that first election.

horrifying indeed - and somehow they mix their hatred with their so-called "religion".

sick.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. "Love thy neighbor" indeed

I don't believe that racism is the be all end all of right-wing opposition to President Obama but I also believe that it is part of it to some degree

[giftedgirl77]

15. I don't think they know why

The last explanation involved Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, & communism. I'm a crim law person so picking the brains of weirdos is kinda what I do. But for the most part I think most of them have been so packed full of hate & fear by the media & their congressional reps that their brains have been turned into rotten, stagnant, old diapers.

If you actually read some of these Senators twitters they literally lie all day long. At some point you would think a line would be drawn but sadly no.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Some asshole mental-defective customer came up to my coworkers and I today and told us

that Joe Biden is going to be President because the "Teflon President" is going to be removed from office. I am not allowed to make political statements at work (government job), and I wasn't about to get sucked in to a Limbaugh/Fox/Beck swirling vortex of baseless nonsense anyway, but they really are overjoyed. It's weird--I never hated anyone that much, not even Boosh who killed 4000+ American soldiers and wrecked America for at least a decade. But it's going to be satisfying when Obama is still President, because he didn't really do anything wrong.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Absolutely

I will relish watching that stick in their craw for the next 3+ years and drive them even more insane. Part of me hopes that they decide to go for the full monty and launch a full-force impeachment effort sometime before the midterms next year.

[Cha]

19. It must fucking Burn to be that brainwashed and stupid.

[Anansi1171]

6. Perhaps just staying away from those news sites in general and not giving them click-thrus will...

...will send a message we will not consume their scandal. Let them have the piggish bigoted zoo. It really is too hurtful, those comment boards, brings me down.

[defacto7]

12. Good point.

If people do go to these sites they should at least turn off their Java, block ads and disallow data miners in their browser.

[still_one]

17. I don't frequent those places, however, that racist hate has being going on for the last 5 years.

The repuke party is nothing but a bunch of brown shirts

[Cha]

18. They're fucking lapping up fake blood. They get Fake "news" from fucking fake fox..

and the idiots are happy.

[Rozlee]

21. Be careful what you wish for.

That's the advice I'd give to wingers. I've been on a few sites myself and it's the counsel I've been handing out to them. They don't like hearing it, but it's true. The day after Clinton's impeachment, his popularity rating went over 80%. At a poll taken last year during the Democratic Convention, his popularity was at 66%. Impeaching a president backfired on Republicans badly before. Right now, this crew of idiots has a favorability rating lower than head lice. If they go ahead and force the country into a sham of an impeachment proceeding, it won't be pretty for them.

[blkmusclmachine]

22. Meh.

I'll just wait to see who Mr. Bipartisanship turns to after the impeachment trial. That should be fun...

[Generic Brad]

25. It's clearly manufactured outrage

Everywhere I go I hear noting but contempt and disgust for Republicans. But every mainstream site is filled with bile and venom aimed at the President. I am not swayed by the bullshit hate campaign the Heritage Foundation is trying to force on us.

[babylonsister]

26. Nope. The DU monitors are here and doing a great job.

I know the msg is out there, on FB, etc., but I usually find them when they're being trashed.

[Mopar151]

27. They still think Watergate was a setup, and they want to "Watergate" a Democrat BAD

The mavens of the RW echo chamber have been fantasizing about "getting" a Democratic President for so long that they are no longer within shouting distance of sanity or rationality. And they are in league with some of the worst smear merchants in American history.

[DonCoquixote]

28. They are happy the media

is throwing them red meat. They will starve soon enough, especially as they do not realize they are giving us the time to get past this by 2014 and 2016.

[kairos12]

29. All this noise will only mean something if a Special Persecutor gets appointed

That would be extremely bad news.

[Zoeisright]

30. No. Not at all.

They're fucking stupid, and that is being proven by the minute.

[Addison]

31. It's just a spectator sport to them

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and they think their team just scored a few goals.

[Jamaal510]

32. They hate on Obama and the Left all the time.

There's not much new here aside from what's going on in D.C. with Benghazi and the IRS. I just ignore them because they're basically like parrots; they repeat the same anti-Obama and anti-progressive BS over and over, regardless of how widely-debunked it is.