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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!

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

sheryl jeffries's avatar

These are awful people.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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!

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.

Pam Waterworth's avatar

Trump's debauchery appears to be bottomless.

Anna Kingry's avatar

A long life of practice...

Cookie's avatar

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

Teri's avatar

Thanks, Mike. Apparently, it's true that "birds of a feather flock together". Of course, I have another term in mind I can't put in writing!

Barb Tourjie's avatar

Vote blue and get this piece of crap out along with his administration

Lorene Cangiano's avatar

Every podcaster keeps saying that we, the public, are numb to it. Everyweek I sit on the freeway overpass with a few of my friends and drop signs and banners decrying everything trump and maga. All over the country people stand on corners, on bridges, in front of ICE and say We Are Not Numb. Follow Indivisible, 50501, National Visibility Brigade, Womens' March, and many workers groups. We are not numb, we are giving up large portions of our lives to scream.