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MIButterfly

(2,139 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 11:17 AM Thursday

Ever since DJT ran for president the first time, I have seen the absolute worst of people [View all]

and everyday it just gets worse. It's as if they strive to be just as evil and soulless and selfish and twisted as he is. It's shocking to me.

Whatever happened to kindness, compassion and basic human decency? Those used to be admirable traits; now I don't know what they are. Or where they are.

I remember when Bill Clinton was impeached for a consensual sex act and the right-wingers were collectively clutching their pearls and crying "what do we tell the children?" Well, what do you tell the children now? Go out and be the biggest asshole you can possibly be and you'll be rewarded? Scream racial slurs at customers at your job and set up a gofundme and reap in the dough when you're rightfully fired? Participate in an insurrection and get pardoned? Cross state lines and shoot peaceful protesters, get acquitted at trial and be hailed a hero? Join a pack of lawless armed goons in masks and shoot an innocent woman in the face and people will lie and cover for you? I could go on and on with examples but there are far too many.

I don’t have any answers, but I do know that it's not okay. None of it is okay and shame on the people who think it is. Shame on people who celebrate the very worst of humanity. Shame on the people who support DJT and his synchophants. Shame on them all.

Rant over. MIButterly out (for now).

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Well said! Playingmantis Thursday #1
Thank you, Playingmantis! MIButterfly Thursday #7
Monkey see, monkey do. But with lower IQs. Dave Bowman Thursday #2
I say "FUCK" a lot more. ProudMNDemocrat Thursday #3
They seem to have "burned the boats" and are going to take this hell ride to the bitter end. Blues Heron Thursday #4
He's continuing the tradition of no_hypocrisy Thursday #5
If this behavior you've described continues to spread around the country and the world, it will be the end of Fil1957 Thursday #6
You nailed it - KT2000 Thursday #8
Thank you, KT2000! MIButterfly Thursday #9
You couldn't be more correct, MiButterfly. Buddyzbuddy Thursday #10
Thank you, Buddyzbuddy! MIButterfly Thursday #13
Hope that the MAGA cult winds up dying alone in their later years and abandoned by their families. Crowman2009 Thursday #11
"Go out and be the biggest asshole you can possibly be and you'll be rewarded?" OldBaldy1701E Thursday #12
I'm afraid you may be right, OldBaldy1701E. MIButterfly Thursday #14
True, it was always the practice to kind of act like they were not behaving in that manner, but... OldBaldy1701E Thursday #23
In my life I have seldom wanted anything more than news of him stroking out Orrex Thursday #15
I hate to say it but that may be the only way we'll finally be rid of him MIButterfly Thursday #19
Barbarians. moondust Thursday #16
I'm right there with you. yardwork Thursday #17
I've been reading a history of the "dark ages" in Europe jmbar2 Thursday #24
Yes. I've thought about the plague years a lot. yardwork Thursday #26
I think of lot of current anti-immigrant hysteria is related to climate change migrations jmbar2 Thursday #30
That's it. yardwork Thursday #33
Couldn't agree more popsdenver Thursday #18
It's true here in Michigan too. MIButterfly Thursday #20
Texas is probably absolutely the worst. mwmisses4289 Thursday #25
brand car popsdenver Thursday #32
K&R canetoad Thursday #21
Thank you, canetoad! MIButterfly Thursday #22
Malignant Aggression 2na fisherman Thursday #27
Thank you, 2na fisherman, for this possible explanation. MIButterfly Thursday #31
Wow - that really rings true jmbar2 Thursday #36
I cried when I went to bed last night Jilly_in_VA Thursday #28
I've cried a bit lately, too. MIButterfly Thursday #34
The need to hurt, demean, & dominate others is the way of the world now SunImp Thursday #29
And isn't that a sad state of affairs? That the worst of humanity has the most influence. MIButterfly Thursday #35
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