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I give the fuck up (Original Post) demtenjeep Dec 2017 OP
It's looking bleak SHRED Dec 2017 #1
That's just what they want. PatrickforO Dec 2017 #2
No Demtexan Dec 2017 #3
We building a more perfect union. delisen Dec 2017 #4
Think of it this way: sofa king Dec 2017 #5
I am not giving up. n/t murielm99 Dec 2017 #6
America is stronger than Donald Fucking Trump and his brain-dead fans Skittles Dec 2017 #7
I am not giving up but, how could anyone thing trump was a populist candidate? chelsea0011 Dec 2017 #8
There are more of us than there are of them. GreenEyedLefty Dec 2017 #9
It's not over until Sarah Huckabee sings. Tanuki Dec 2017 #10
Goddamned if I let Russia select my president! VOX Dec 2017 #11
Did Rosa Parks give up? MGKrebs Dec 2017 #12
Not me, I have only begun to fight. deminks Dec 2017 #13
There will be nothing left to elect NCTraveler Dec 2017 #14
It's the solstice--remember Maeve Dec 2017 #15
The answer is in the pushback peggysue2 Dec 2017 #16
I figure I get a few days to feel demoralized Bettie Dec 2017 #17
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! " DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2017 #18
Fuck That Sh*t Tom Rinaldo Dec 2017 #19
I have those same feelings rownesheck Dec 2017 #20

PatrickforO

(14,574 posts)
2. That's just what they want.
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 01:45 AM
Dec 2017

I can't speak for you, but I can speak for me, and I'm not giving up until I drink from that proverbial silver cup.

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
3. No
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 02:04 AM
Dec 2017

I am not giving up.

That is the republicans goal.

We can and will take this country back.

Get angry.

I went to my local Democratic office and will be registering voters.

I will work elections again.

This is our country.

We can repair the damage.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
5. Think of it this way:
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 02:22 AM
Dec 2017

When drought comes to the grasslands, it ain't the stupid sheep who survive. But the sheepdogs do. By eating the sheep.

Don't give up. Mutton's on your menu!

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
8. I am not giving up but, how could anyone thing trump was a populist candidate?
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 06:28 AM
Dec 2017

He is a corporate shill through and through who just lined his pockets with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

GreenEyedLefty

(2,073 posts)
9. There are more of us than there are of them.
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 07:31 AM
Dec 2017

They want you to give up. Don't do it!

They won this battle but they won't win the war.

Remember November 7 - a huge night for Democrats, especially in Viriginia.
Remember December 12 - a huge night for Democrats in Alabama.

Momentum is on our side. They think they are winning - let them. They are in for a big surprise in November of 2018.

The Mueller investigation continues, which means there is something there. Trump's crimes and wrong doing will catch up with him. It may not look the way you want it to, but the wheels of justice are turning.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
11. Goddamned if I let Russia select my president!
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 07:59 AM
Dec 2017

That Orange Pig who watches 8 hours of TV each day, plays some golf, then pretends to be some jumped-up version of a quasi-dictator— that THING doesn’t deserve to be in the White House. The shit he’s pulled has been incredibly risky to the security and stability of the U.S. Government.

I’ll stay and fight, along with every other Democrat/progressive/sentient-human who wants to go the full 15 rounds with these bums. Without their sugar daddies (Kochs, Mercers, et al) they are just empty suits—ghosts, haunting themselves.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous quote gives me a toehold in the chaos:
“The arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice.”

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
12. Did Rosa Parks give up?
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 08:25 AM
Dec 2017

Has John Lewis given up?
The fight never ends.
Perseverence, tenacity, endurance wins.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
14. There will be nothing left to elect
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 08:28 AM
Dec 2017


The hyperbole is killing me. As we work to get progressives elected, have fun taking no part.

Elections have consequences. Your whole thought here is about self.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
15. It's the solstice--remember
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 08:33 AM
Dec 2017

The longest night is when the light begins to return. Hang on to hope a bit longer and know that as long as there are people ready to help each other, he hasn't ruined us.

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
16. The answer is in the pushback
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:29 AM
Dec 2017

We won't lose unless we throw our hands up in utter despair or apathy. That's exactly what the Trumpsters and their Russian propaganda machine want--to exhaust the will to fight back, keep going and/or march to the polls for each and every election.

We stand together. We vote. We win.

The damage these traitors have exacted is real but not irreversible. Think Virginia, NJ, Alabama, etc.

We stand together. We never forget. We never forgive.

Ever!

Bettie

(16,109 posts)
17. I figure I get a few days to feel demoralized
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:32 AM
Dec 2017

and at the end of that, my rage will keep me warm at night.

In the end, we NEED to win the 2018.

But we also get to feel awful about this horrible thing.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
18. "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! "
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:40 AM
Dec 2017

-Emiliano Zapata

Stand up straight.
Take the Kick me sign off your ass
And Be proud you're a Democrat.

Tom Rinaldo

(22,912 posts)
19. Fuck That Sh*t
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:43 AM
Dec 2017

I've been depressed all year (and that depression only deepens) over what is happening to our nation under Trump and the Republican regime. But that has absolutely nothing to do with giving up. Nations recover from devastation. Do you think our people are worse off now than the German public was in 1946 - or even the Brits then for that matter?

The midterms are less than a year away. Republicans are mostly getting killed this year in the elections have taken place - when they have won it is only because they started out with over a 25 point advantage. We need 2018 to be a blue tsunami, and to make that happen there is no time left to remain idle. Work spent building that blue wave is therapeutic - much better than sitting around depressed.

If 2018 is a big blue year on the state level we can start undoing the damage caused nationally by Republican gerrymandering. By 2020 the Senate electoral races shift back to strongly supporting Democratic candidates during a year when Trump will face the voters (if he is still in office). By January 2021 we can have strong Democratic control of the entire federal government.

This is no time to give up.

rownesheck

(2,343 posts)
20. I have those same feelings
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:46 AM
Dec 2017

So I've been re-watching the "Mad Max" movies to prepare. Bring on the mother grabbin' Thunderdome!

Damn 35% bastards! F putin too!

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