We Have To Quit Being Civil & Respectful To These GOP Pricks. They Won't Listen.

[TheMastersNemesis]

If we have to be publicly mean to them to get their their attention so be it. Resistance is not enough. Defiance and political combat will be necessary in the end. Their true agenda is now boldly out in the open. Unless we become combative and challenge them personally they will run over us.

And we have to go after the press to do their job.

Standing by will no longer be possible because they will dismantle the country.

[samnsara]

1. i agree.. i have even posted on my FB page that anyone who voted for trump is..

..a traitor in my book and to please unfriend me or I will block them. I have NO mercy for anyone who brought this monster into power.

[Johnny Noshoes]

31. I didn't say that outright....

But after a man who had been a friend for nearly 60 years made a crack about liberal tears I responded "that's it we're done." The thing is he never phoned me or emailed so I guess he just doesn't care. When I look back I know that he was always an arrogant prick.

[mikeysnot]

2. thank you

I have been screaming this for 35 years now!

[BigmanPigman]

16. You, me and Bill Maher!

Take the gloves off! When will they learn???????? This is one main reason we keep losing. We need to fight fire with fire and play their game with their rules from now on.

[Plucketeer]

36. It's REALLY disheartening

clinging to the Namby-Pamby Party.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. I Would Start Addressing Them With Racist Or Bigot. Like Hello Racist McConnel Fuck You.

[world wide wally]

4. I have to admit that you are absolutely right

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Do Not Like Confrontation/We Are Going To Have To Take Out Verbal Brass Knuckles-----

and insult them and challenge them to their faces over these cuts. And we are going to have to force them to answer somehow. We are going to have to harass them with loud ugly peaceful demonstrations. And protesters will have to go to their homes and gated communities. We are going to have to flood their offices with calls letters and protests even if it stops their operations.

Of course they will sic the white supremacist police on the protesters. Be honest many police forces are infiltrated with white supremacists.

We can see the writing on the wall. They are going to proceed with viciousness.

[world wide wally]

8. We have to do something that WORKS!

[TheMastersNemesis]

9. Sadly We Are Now In A State Of War. The GOP Has Declared Total War On US.

The Trump budget is a declaration of war on the country as we have known it since FDR. The plan to pillage everything. Look at the cuts and these cuts are just the beginning. We will have no functioning federal government as we know it. Every agency will be underfunded and undermanned and not be able to do business.

[charliea]

18. We have a Vichy government

A client government of a foreign (Russia) state.


#RESIST

[LonePirate]

5. We need to start showing at Repub town halls and asking why they support treason and racism.

Most of them have opened themselves up to being treasonous racists themselves.

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. We May Have To Shut Down Their Town Halls Unless They Answer.

[sharedvalues]

22. We know why: bought by billionaires

[Paladin]

10. Couldn't agree with you more.

Good manners are wasted on the current crowd of trump worshippers---time and again, they use our decent behavior against us. The only thing that registers with that bunch is ugly behavior, shoved right back in their faces. If you don't have the stomach to confront these assholes in a forceful and effective manner, make way for those of us who do.

[TheMastersNemesis]

12. I Do Not Like To Be That Way. But I Do Not Know What You Do -------

about the vicious resistance GOP legislators are showing.

[Paladin]

13. I hope and pray that good behavior won't be such a hindrance in the future.

For now, I don't think we have any choice but to get down in the gutter with the trump scum, fight them, and prevail over them.

[notdarkyet]

24. Remember what the tp did. They were a small but vocal group who got a bunch

Of thir party elected. Be loud and proud. Stand up for those who are getting pummeled by a corrupt administration and heartless congress.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. No. Good manners are not wasted because other people observe. Lead by example.

Civil, yes.

Respectful, no.

They do not deserve respect. They have spent any and all respect capital they ever had.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. Easy to be forceful & effective & civil. Let them do the screaming, the profanities, the slurs, . nt

[Paladin]

38. You're giving our political enemies way too much credit.

The "forceful & effective & civil" thing gets us absolutely nowhere with these swine. Things have gotten way too dangerous for genteel behavior.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Forceful & effective & civil does not equate with genteel.

Genteel is "turn the other cheek" or walking away.

[Paladin]

45. Way too many Democrats fail to make that distinction, and revert to Full Wimp mode.

I've had a bellyful of it.

[johnmont]

46. manners

It,s difficult to be polite to believe that as a Democrat, you worship Satan and want to destroy America.

[johnmont]

47. manners

It,s difficult to be polite to people that believe that as a Democrat, you worship Satan and want to destroy America.

[mythology]

11. Nope. All that does is further harden opinions

Name calling is petulant and counter productive. How is it any different than Republicans calling us the "Democrat" party?

[Atticus]

17. Yeah, we should continue being the folks who show up at a gunfight with a casserole. nt

[Paladin]

39. Well said, Atticus. (nt)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. No. If it is a gunfight bring a gun. If it is a slanging match, leave slurs & profanities at home.

Leave the slurs at home or post them on DU. I call them Trumpanzees but I would not call one such to their face because it only makes things worse; hardens the shells over their ears.

[sharedvalues]

21. Deplorables (10%) and Propagandized (20%) - there are two groups

Two groups of trump voters and we should treat them differently.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. Yes, and yes treat them differently, but always be civil. The propagandized can be reached.

The propagandized can be reached. But you gotta stop their clocks first, and being rude just throws up barriers.

Trumpanzee: Isn't Trump great? Making America Great Again!

Us: Nope.

Tee: He's doing everything he promised!

Us: Nope.

Tee: What do you mean? He got us tax cuts!

Us: Only for this year. You'll pay more tax down the road to fund the billionaires tax cut. It's already baked into the legislation. And your children will pay and pay for the Trump deficit.

Tee: He's booming the economy!

Us: Nope. Stock market and jobs are both growing at a slower rate than during the Obama years.

Tee: Really?

-- now we're getting through, by being civil --

[Atticus]

44. Been there. Done that. Where your suggested exchange between Us and the

Trumpanzee goes astray is right at the end. No Trumpster I 've ever dealt with---and I live in a nest of them---would ever admit to any doubt whatsoever that Trump had kept "100%" of his promises, is the victim of an unprecedented "witch hunt" regarding the "fake news" Russia investigation and is the very very best president in the history of the world.

Where your Trumpanzee asks "Really?"the ones I've encountered would say "That's just like a Libtard to repeat fake news to smear our President! Why don't you and Obama go back to Kenya where he was born? You voted for that Clinton b__ch, too, didn't you? Get out of here with your education and your communist filth!"

Your options, at this point, include 1.) walk away, 2.) stand there and continue to get verbally abused and sprayed with spit, or, 3.) knock them on there ass WHEN, not if, they start to move in, interpreting your silence (civility) for weakness.

So far, I've managed to walk away.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Correct. Other people (wobby middle) observe. Lead by example. . . . . . nt

[onecaliberal]

14. Hear, hear.

[jalan48]

15. I agree. Joy Behar did a great job of this the other day on the view.

[sharedvalues]

19. Go after press and politicians. But all voters are Americans

We have to be careful to distinguish between the 10% of America that are deplorable racists,
And the 20% of America that still support Trump because they have been brainwashed by GOP billionaire-funded propaganda.

We need to convert that 20%. And we’ll only do it by remembering that they’re Americans too.

[CaptainTruth]

20. I hear you, I hear you.

This is the problem I had with saying "when they go low we go high."

They can go low & lie & commit election fraud ... & if we just "go high?" If we DON'T counter their lies & attacks with the truth, we will lose.

I didn't sign up to as a Democrat to lose.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Don't engage in election fraud to fight fraud. That is going low. Prosecuting is going high.

Prosecuting is winning, not losing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Civil, yes. Respectful, no. . . . nt

[mgardener]

27. I agree to a certain point....

Www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

I email them every single day, even if it just says RESIGN!

I email my Republican. Rep. Every week.

I am polite because that is the way I want to be treated. You can be just as devastating with the truth. Personally, I think using really offensive language and name calling is ineffective and rarely give in to it. I have found it never changes anybody's mind and gives that person an excuse to dismiss the criticism.

I will use "shithole" with an asterisk and attribute it to Trump!

[pangaia]

29. Their true agenda has been out in the open since at least 1980.

Just too many ignorant blind americans.

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. NO trump supporter should be able to get through a single day without

hearing that trump is a traitor and has sold the country.

[elmac]

32. I've been saying this for months, years

but all I get in return is the same old tired "we are taking the high road." Fight them at every turn, play just as dirty as them. Do what ever it takes to destroy the fascist GOP.

[pwb]

34. Even republicans in both blue and red states are pissed.

Lots of republicans in the blue states are mad their state is being singled out as part of trumps revenge and hate. Republicans always overstep and they are doing it again. A blue tsunami is coming in 18.

[bdamomma]

35. they won't listen

because they are ignorant to the facts, traitors all.

[jimmil]

40. No... and Yes

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Will this do anything? No. Will it get Dems more votes? No. Will it change anyone's mind? No.

Will you feel better calling a Trumpee a turd flavored fart dung licking toilet headed wank stain ass piece numpty? Well, I don't know about you but I surely do!

[bluestarone]

42. I'M as tired of it all, as everyone is BUT

We gotta let Mueller do his job! If he comes up with nothing (which i cannot believe) THEN decisions have to be made as to our options!