Anyone else feel that wave of rage over them when listening to Repubs?

[AmericaIsGreat]

I'm talking about that very real, physical response that makes you feel a little like you're about to pass out for a second?

Anyone else affected by those fucking scumbags as much as me?

Because I'm starting to feel I'm a little abnormal in that sense.

I just can't take their incessantly dishonest, intellectually vapid, poor-people-hating, Bible-thumping fucking bullshit anymore.

[charmay]

1. Yes,

For at least the past 30 years.

[Demobrat]

2. Yes. I've stopped listening for the most part.

I can't live my life that way.

[FarLeftFist]

3. Yes. And not just when they speak but...

When an interviewer or media outlet lets them spew off lies without debunking them. They just give them a platform to lie and distort without any fact checking. I'm having a physical response just thinking about it.

[craigmatic]

4. Yeah but when I feel it I don't want to pass out.

It just makes me want to get aggressive.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. It's my daily bread and butter

[Ineeda]

6. Yes, a whole range of negative emotion.

I feel sick and powerless. I live in Florida and every day there's a new obscenity being committed or proposed. Mostly I feel enraged.

[patrice]

7. Not going to pass out, but they do REALLY darken my heart. All of the blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's horrifying. I haven't listened much at all since 2008, but less and less as I'm kind of vulnerable lately.

[Capitalocracy]

8. They never cease to amaze me

Always coming up with something new

[Blue Owl]

9. Scott Walker should be publicly shamed and quarantined safely away from democracy

n/t

[1monster]

10. Life is too short to have constant bouts of flaming rage all the time. I

don't listen to them any more.

Because after a while, that flaming rage drains me to the point of debilitation. I get so physically tired. Not sleepy. Exhausted to the point I can't rest.

A mindless game of Zuma or Super Collapse helps some..............

But not listening to them is better. (And that is just for the Dems. Listening to the Repubs would proably kill me.

[dkf]

11. Lately I have been feeling that way listening to both sides.

Both extremes scare me.

I wouldn't say I feel rage, more incredulous at how unrealistic people can be.

[Fumesucker]

19. Yeah, extreme leftists have so much power in the USA..

:eyes:

[badtoworse]

38. Extreme anything should not have power - nt

[Fumesucker]

41. But the extreme right does have power in the USA.

When you balance extreme right with centrism you end up on the right end of the scale, not the left.

And then since what was right has now become center, the right take off even further to the right, the "split-the-difference" crowd will then move further to the right and the process continues apace.

Either disempower the right, which isn't going to happen, or you have to empower the left in equal measure if you wish to remain anywhere near the center and not constantly dragged to the right.

It's puzzling to me why some people find this hard to understand.

[lunatica]

12. Not as much as I used to feel it with Bush and Cheney

But Yeah, it can get very intense and painful. Like a very tight knot in the pit of your stomach all the time.

Best thing to do is take a break and center yourself in some way. This too shall pass.

[gordianot]

13. More and more I feel real anger manage to keep it under control.

I think of them as domestic enemies much the same as dictatorial despots wanna be. It pays to remain rational in the presence of the irrational that as my Republican brother in law found out has its limits when I and my family are pushed and threatened!

[XanaDUer]

14. yes

nt.

[pipi_k]

15. No. I spent eight long years...

feeling that rage whenever I saw or heard W.

My body can't take any more rage.

Seriously.

[sasha031]

16. yes, I get nauseas and dizzy

[silverweb]

17. Yup.

I avoid seeing/hearing them as much as possible.

Fortunately, DUers (love ya!) manage to distill reTHUG bullshit enough that I can stay in touch with what's going on without the direct exposure that is so very, very bad for my blood pressure and digestion.

[mulsh]

18. I just tell them "hold that thought" and walk away.

I don't waste any more time listening to talking points and defense of proven conservative failures. If I encounter them after telling them to "hold that thought" I tell them it again and walk away. It has worked very well at family gatherings and parties.

[Fire1]

20. I feel it mostly when I see or hear Trump, Palin or McConnell. n/t

[jillan]

21. It makes my heart race, and that scares me. i have to deal with a wacko on a regular basis.

[PassingFair]

22. This is for you, babydoll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzPka0Wk1Q

Just as good today as it was in '04

:hi:

[hifiguy]

23. Completely

I mute the television when a Repig, ANY Repig, starts to bleat. Otherwise I would throw something through the TV, which I cannot afford to replace right now.

[onethatcares]

24. yes, especially when I hear them on the radio

talking about how bad it's become due to the election of President Obama.

I need to take a break, seriously. These knuckle dragging assholes are starting to make me see red and nothing they say makes any gauddammmm sense.

[niyad]

25. no, because I immediately hit the mute button

[JuniperLea]

26. Yes, oh yes indeed...

I feel the blood rush to my face as if I'm in some primal life and death situation, and I yell at the TV and radio... just like Grandpa... I used to tease him about that... wish I could tell him I'm sorry for being so short sighted at the time, and that I feel his frustration now!

The only thing more infuriating than their blatant and despicable lies, is to her said lies parroted by the hordes of idiot followers.

:banghead:

[Martin Eden]

27. Rage would boil up in me whenever I saw or heard GW Bush when he was president.

The fact that a WAR CRIMINAL who misled us into a war BASED ON LIES was still the POTUS instead of behind bars was just too much for me.

Today's Repukes induce disgust and derision, but my reaction isn't quite as visceral.

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[Shagbark Hickory]

29. Your experiencing symptoms of watching too much MSNBS.

[Mojo_electro]

30. Yes....

Rick Scott please pick up the white courtesy phone

[Dj13Francis]

31. I can't

I can't do it without screaming obscenities. Seriously... Sometimes on NPR I'll hear a clip of some rediculous thing one of those assclowns had to say, and I just can't control myself from screaming obsceneties at them. It is a good thing I'm not elected to congress, because I really couldn't sit quietly and let them speak their nonsense on the floor without calling them on it. And I'm not talking like that "You lie!" comment that moron made during Obama's state of the union speech... No I'm talking like a straight up verbal thrashing that would make children's ears bleed. I have zero tolerance for it anymore.

www.davidjamesfrancis.com

[butterfly77]

50. Join the club...

some of my family members who use to say I need to cool down now to a certain extent can see why I can't control myself.

After I have just told myself I won't curse then another one shows up with some more nonsense and they are called every name in the book.

[femmocrat]

32. It hits me lower.... in the gut.

They make me feel like :puke:

[donheld]

33. totally

[clyrc]

34. Yes

I can read about the things they say, and they make me angry, but watching them talk is worse. My husband likes watching the news, but mostly I don't. He apparently doesn't have the same kind of physical reaction I have.

[whathappened]

35. use to

but i'm not going to beable to change them anymore then they could change me , the gov. likes it this way , being we have been divided into red and blue states they can run more end plays around us , cause we are not 1 with this nation ,

[raccoon]

36. I'm lucky in that I don't run into that much in RL, not because of where I live, but because

I don't get out much.

I can't stand to listen to that crap either.

[LibGranny]

37. even if I'm watching something I usually enjoy (i.e., Rachel or

Jon Stewart), I have to change the channel because I can't stand to listen to lil bush or any of the other rethugs!

[slackmaster]

39. No

They're just people with opinions that differ from mine.

[SDuderstadt]

40. I shout at the TV...

nearly everytime one of them is on TV.

They are liars extraordinaire.

[whathehell]

51. Glad to hear I'm not alone...n/t

[barbtries]

42. yep.

i mean i don't feel like i'll pass out, but i get really, really pissed off. i yell at the computer, or at the radio, and quite often i switch it off because i do not feel as if i can stand to listen to that bullshit coming out of that asshole for one second more!!! :nuke:

[Zorra]

43. I don't listen. I already know what they will say, because

what they say and do never changes.

Rule #1: Never trust a republican. Never.

Rule #2: Everything republicans say and do is geared toward ending democracy, instituting complete privatization of government, and establishing a plutarchy.

Rule #3: (see rule #1)

[opihimoimoi]

44. They give DEMENTED a new meaning

[librechik]

45. Welcome to DU

we've all got it here (more or less)

[defendandprotect]

46. Absolutely -- !!!

When you understand what they are saying, they are too repulsive to watch --

[Wounded Bear]

47. I don't know how Thom Hartman can do it...

to have a steady stream of RWers on his show like he does, and still maintain his class and demeanor.

It's pretty impressive. Me, I want to chew nails when I hear that RW crap all the time.

[IDemo]

48. Abnormal? I'm sure that's not the case at all

Pretty much anyone who pays attention and cares must be experiencing anger as well.

[butterfly77]

49. Yes,but...

I don't feel like passing out. I feel like kicking their asses and some of the people who act as though they can see most of their shit is nonsense,especially those who know it is and think that if we follow their plans they will be on top after the outcome as though we are all puppets who will keep letting them get away with it.

They don't seem to realize that the pot is starting to boil over and many of them will be suffering the consequences of their bullshit...