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Adele Riffe's avatar

Mike, you are NOT alone! And yes, anger IS the right response. November is coming - let this spur us on to ACTION! EVERY SINGLE GOP ENABLER MUST BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE!

Merry's avatar

I sense an emergence of a rapidly expanding “herd mentality” lead and protected by #1.

Absolutely despicable and unacceptable!

Survivors Story's avatar

Many in the President Trump admin - Hegseth, Gaetz, Max Miller, fake preachers , Tates, Epstein etc... are DV 💜 and/ or SA sadist predatory abusers

John Escher's avatar

What is DV? What is SA? Sadistic abuser?

Survivors Story's avatar

Domestic Violence 💜 and Sexual abuse.. Sadists get pleasure from seeing people hurt and prey on them

Darlene Racine's avatar

Mike, every single thing you said is true! I want to scream it out at everyone or anyone who will listen! I want to know how do we put the "fear of God" in Trump and all his crazies? I don't EVER want to feel numb to all this crap going on. I want to stay angry and fight for our democracy and our country. But like many others, I just don't know what to do. I feel very small and unimportant in this country that now praises the bad guys and puts the good guys in jail or detention centers. What are we supposed to do other than voting and contacting our senators and congressmen?

Terry's avatar

Have faith my friend. God will put his own fear into them. It talks about the heavens cracking and opening so the legions of demons can be unleashed on the corrupt and will kick their ASSES. Just keep your hearts pure and truthful and you will be okay, as will we all.

Anna Kingry's avatar

That's what they and their supporters will face on the day of judgment, which begins the day of their death, and sooner if only America would wake up. It's imperative to actively remove people like Trump from society, but America can go down with him if we choose.

Cherie's avatar

Why doesn't this god help people in the here and now? Funny how the Old Testament has God interfering with people ALL the time, but in the real world, in situations like WW2 and the Holocaust, he won't lift a finger to help. How does that make sense?

Mary Ellen's avatar

I know exactly what you are saying. I feel the same way! What can I do? I am so angry and so frustrated! The most frustrating thing in all of this chaos and corruption is that there are people (some of them friends and relatives) who still support this heinous person! What will it take? As a true Christian I am praying for huge Democratic turnout and a huge win for the people who want to make changes!! Thank you Mike for all that you report and all of the encouragement that you are able to share.

Rebecca McPhillips's avatar

I love your reporting, Mike. I follow you on here and on YouTube, and I appreciate your complete candor in your willingness always to call Trump a lying, thieving, prolific pedophile; or to call any deserving Republican a violent, closeted, ass-kissing, serial sex offender. I like people who speak their minds without holding back, as that’s what I do. America — hell, the world — needs more unvarnished trust tellers. Thank you for being one of them.

Bensnewlogin's avatar

I have been writing about this for years.

Misogyny has been baked into humanity for the entirety of its existence. It has been baked into conservative religion for the past 2500 years. It, and its evil and ugly pitbull, homohatred, have been an essential feature in conservative christianity— and islam, and judaism— for 1400-2000 years. The Southern Baptists just decided—AGAIN!!!— that wimmens aren’t really suitable to deliver the word-o-god.

And abuse? Also part and parcel of the entire world view. it used to be impossible—legally— for a man to rape his wife. Kids get sexually abused, and the religious world rushes in to protect the abusers. And worse— they want to make sure that OTHER people are blamed. Childhood beauty pageants, where little girls are tarted up with fake breasts and Melanoma-style swimsuits, paraded in front of righteous heterosexual men for their righteous heterosexual delectation—AIN’T IT ADORABLE???- and it’s considered wholesome. Yet a man in a dress reading to children with their parents present is considered to be sexualizing children. And the party of personal freedom that brings you this is now telling adults what they may wear in public.

I’ve written about this more times than I can count, and on these very pages.

None of this should be surprising, because this is what an obsession with sex, repression, purity, shame, fear, conformity, and ignorance will bring you. This is what happens when the church fornicates with the state in its never ending quest for power, money, religious dominion, and in the age of trump…REVENGE.

Reactionary religion supports the republicans, and vice versa.

Bensnewlogin's avatar

And right on cue, this shows up in my newsfeed this morning.

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/johnson-backed-candidate-babies-are-cum-trophies/

This is whom professional christian MIke Johnson backs.

Anna Kingry's avatar

Seemingly, hypocrisy--the more blatant, the better--is the new Republican motto.

Bensnewlogin's avatar

You’re not being fair here. They also like talking dirty.

Cherie's avatar

Southern Baptists exist primarily to keep women down and children abused, it seems.

Bensnewlogin's avatar

You are not being fair here. They also exist to put lots of money into the whited sepulchers of the men who run who run the show, while excusing every sin they commit

sheryl jeffries's avatar

These are awful people.

Joan MacLeod's avatar

You are 100% correct Mike. The Republicans are the party of pedophiles and abusers of women plus they're all spineless cowards and liars.

Elizabeth Fenlon's avatar

Yes, Mike, thank you. You are exactly right. I don’t understand people who aren’t angry about this. WTH.

Robyn E's avatar

You are right. And yet. MAGA supports Max Miller, the Tate Brothers and by extension, the rapists in the Epstein files. These fake Christians want the rest of us to believe that DEI and immigrants are destroying this country. But it's actually the misogynistic and racist GOP who have conspired with the oligarchs to pillage the treasury while stealing our healthcare, public lands, historical buildings, food safety, public safety, etc. The Senate GOP wants to jail Dr Fauci for a global epidemic that Trump allowed to kill 700,000+ Americans. The GOP's whole brand is projection. Like Trump, they blame everyone else for the consequences of their moral failings and greed for money and power.

Ruth's avatar

Mike I am angry and frustrated everyday. However everyone just seems to say wait until November then. . . Why is there nothing we can do until then? It is so hard to wait. Stay angry!

Betsy Groth's avatar

Trump slapped 14 year old sex trafficked girls and pulled his first wife’s hair out in a rage.

So it is clear- he is an abuser himself.

Hope Crescione's avatar

Per your comment that every Repub candidate should be asked about Max Miller...my guess is that they'll all give similar answers to the ones given to the question, "Who won the 2020 election?"

Pam Waterworth's avatar

Trump's debauchery appears to be bottomless.

Anna Kingry's avatar

A long life of practice...

Vanessa's avatar

We have been desensitized to male violence against women for thousands of years. It’s the water we drink and the air we breathe.

More men could stand up against other men doing this. It isn’t about protecting women, so much as stopping bad men. Educating them about what is and is not acceptable.

Let’s put the focus squarely where the responsibility lies. Curious why so few men stand up…

Cookie's avatar

So will the voters back an abuser? This could be good for Dems, right?

Cherrie's avatar

anger is the appropriate reaction for sure