100 X This:

[kpete]

[Ohio Joe]

1. K&R - nt

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Not to sidetrack, but this applies to your whole country.

"Don't say you love your country, then vote for people who will ruin it".

[KS Toronado]

7. +100

"Don't say you love your country, then vote for people who will ruin it".

This is an excellent thing to point out to repugs!

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. This is why I no longer have Republican friends

...If they were ever friends in the first place.

I put up with it for decades - trying to be the bigger person, trying to be good and mature, trying to "reach across the aisle." Despite being a trans lesbian, I would have to listen to these people hype up anti-LGBTQ bigots every two years. "Bush is keeping us safe!" "Obama has to be stopped - we need Romney." "Wouldn't Drumpf be great for America?" "Ted Cruz seems like a great guy..." "Drumpf is great and doing an amazing job. Why do you hate him?! Quit listening to Hillary so much!"

All the while, they'd whine about taxes, or immigration, or whatever their favorite issue was... During the Obama years, of course, barely hiding the real issue was seeing a black man being called "Mr. President." So I'd get lectured on what the hell am I doing voting for Barbara Boxer, or Gavin Newsom, or especially the Democratic candidate for president.

I'd try to explain "Look, your party and your candidate hate people like me. They want to deny us rights. They want us to be second-class citizens. They use us as punching bags during their campaigns, then punch down on us if elected." And you know what I'd hear? "Well, you can't always get what you want" and "Sacrifices need to be made" and "Compromise" and "No. They don't hate you. They just disagree with your lifestyle and feel the rights of the majority are more important" and "There are more important things to worry about."

This is my life, people. Along with the lives of others like me. We should not be told to "compromise" on human rights. We should not be treated like lesser people so you can pay a little less at the pump or so that you can look at a white (or orange?) president.

Drumpf was the final straw. I tried to keep an open mind after the fat fuck was sworn in. When he immediately got to "work" targeting and discriminating against the others, I said "That's it." I'll tolerate someone coming along in 2020, regretting their 2016 vote and saying "I've changed my mind and I want Drumpf out." But anyone who wants more of that shit? We're done. Because you cannot say "I'm your friend" while gleefully voting for people trying to destroy me and others like me. Because, no. If you're voting for the QOP in this day and age, you at "best" tolerate me, at worst hate me deep down inside. You are not my friend, and you do not "love" me.

What the hell is going on goes beyond "agree to disagree" and "both sides" and "debate." One party stands for human rights, the other stands for bigotry and hate. And post-2020, that party has put people like me in the cross-hairs... Hard.

Anyone who can continue to support the QOP at this time is no friend to L's, G's, B's, T's, Q's or any combination of the above. If you can sit back and watch your beloved party terrorize people like me, you are not a friend.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. Well said!

[LittleGirl]

23. Absolutely true indeed

I have done the same. I'm just a short white senior citizen now but I stand with you and by you and will defend your rights like I would your speech! Well said Little Angel. Well said.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

24. Thank you

I imagine all of us appreciate that, and you

[Maraya1969]

5. It's not just gays. What about all the children who ingest the toxins that the GOP allow because

they put corporations first? TFG blocked about 95 EPA regulations. My brother and his wife voted for him twice and they had 7 little grandkids. WFT is that about?

[ShazzieB]

20. Stupidity. Abject stupidity.

[relayerbob]

6. SOP for abusers of all kinds

Sadly enough

[onecaliberal]

8. republicans are evil. They have zero redeeming qualities. They are garbage people.

[peppertree]

10. Well - some

But one thing I've noticed they all seem to have in common, is a deep-seated self-righteousness.

Something they always like to accuse Democrats of, not surprisingly.

[onecaliberal]

12. They project. They literally have nothing. They're empty soulless garbage people.

They are okay with killing anyone they want dead.

[peppertree]

15. That does describe a lot of them, that's true.

But to be fair, I've met some that are fine people - at least as far as I knew. They just seemed overly attached to what their Repug parents thought, that's all.

Conversely, I've met a few Democrats over the years whom I would never want to see again - nor would recommend anyone else do so.

But yes - these were largely exceptions.

Many if not most Republicans I've met are of the bigoted, self-righteous, chest-thumping, kill-'em-all type. Fascists, you might say.

[secondwind]

9. Short and to the point! Thank you!

[Upthevibe]

13. Kick. N/T

[Upthevibe]

14. kpete.....

I sooooooooooo hear you. I'm a lesbian.....

[kpete]

16. sweet

if only EVERYONE voted.

peace,
kp

[Skittles]

17. CORRECT

this is why you cannot be a good person and vote for people who INTENTIONALLY HURT OTHER PEOPLE

[IngridsLittleAngel]

19. Exactly..

Yet they do just that, then either say "I didn't do it, *insert politician here* did!" - even though they voted for them.

Or just blame the victims, tell us we "can't have ponies", etc...

But, no. Good people do not vote for blatantly evil people.

[liberalla]

18. Damn right!

K & R!

[CousinIT]

21. My dumbass relatives do this all the time.

They also vote to hurt themselves.

Pfft.

[Stuart G]

22. Very Special and Wonderful Post..and Totally True.. K and R...Thank You for Posting This..