I think maybe we have developed something like "outrage fatigue" with respect to

[Atticus]

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Republican political figures. Any one of them could be a poster boy or girl for outrageous, but there are so damn many of them that it's hard not to react to each in turn with "whatever". I ask that you actually think about each of the following and realize "this person IS the GOP" today.

Taylor-Greene
Gaetz
Gosar
Boebert
Cawthorn
Paul
Graham
Cotton
Nunes
Blackburn
Trump
Giuliani
Thomas ( Clarence AND Ginni )
Jordan
Gohmert
McConnell
McCarthy

Yeah, I know--- I've left out at least dozens who fit this list, but I have probably already spiked too many blood pressures.

Just--- remember how bad The Dark Side is, ok?

[Nevilledog]

1. Shit.....I don't wanna know what a "Gosar Boebert" looks like

[Atticus]

6. Don't blame you! Fixed it. Thanks. nt

[dalton99a]

2. "What else is new?" is a necessary part of normalization

But there will be new depths of depravity

[LakeArenal]

3. You left out so many.

Johnson
Cruz
Rubio
The idiot that claimed Jackson was fab but wouldn’t vote for her

[ymetca]

4. Outrage fatigue as a political tool

to facilitate moving the Overton Window further right in the acceptance of the lesser of two evils.

Like Liz Cheney, and Mitt Romney, for instance. They just want to privatize Medicare and Social Security slowly, rather than immediately, like Rick Scott wants to do.

[2 Meow Momma]

7. I know I'm outrage fatigued. I think I would feel renewed if

there was accountability for these loathsome slime creatures. Also, it makes things worse when these creatures actually make money from political donations from many other repub slime creatures ...the more loathsome the action, the more money they get.

I’m still stunned that Hillary lost and so many idiots voted R.

[Pobeka]

8. Here's the insane thing:

I hear some voters saying well, Biden hasn't done enough, so maybe won't vote in 2022.

In the first place, that's a strategy to impale yourself with more GOP power.

In the second place, this is the media repeating that message in order to make it seem like a reasonable thing to do, when clearly it's insane if you believe in democracy, and a civilized society.

[Bev54]

9. I am tired of the press posting their every word and stupid tweets

I no longer open any stories about what they have said etc. I have no interest.

[KentuckyWoman]

10. That is by design.

I have read people living in autocracy more or less stopped paying much attention generations ago.

They started working that playbook a very long time ago here. I would go back to the commie witch hunts in the 50s.

[Samrob]

11. That's exactly what the GQP want us to feel. They beat us down all the time. I have just begun to

fight. I am only fatigued by my fellow Democrats complaining about being tired and fatigued.

Talk like that when you are in the same position as Ukrainians Until the Trumpians are soundly defeated and punished for what they have done to this country, I refuse to become fatigued, tired, apathetic, disheartened.

I will persist. I will persevere, I will press on and in the end, we will prevail if we do not weary.