Off my chest! People who spend 18 hours a day obsessing over and ranting about Trump are losers. Sorry, but you are.

Oh great, another Trump thread

You bitch and complain about people talking incessantly about Trump, yet here you are posting about Trump.

Do you see the irony?

Doubtful.

You sound charming OP. Quite the catch.

Meta irony thread. Nah but I feel you OP and you’re lowkey right.

Poor you.

Some people actually care about the future of this country. The nerve of them! Another Trump presidency will be catastrophic. People fear even if they vote against him Trump will squeak through with electoral college cheating. They feel helpless. That is why they obsess.

OP creates a thread to use his mother as an example of a loser.

R7 I thought that too. What a jackass.

You’re going to get an army of people with OCD and no hobbies or interests other than politics coming after you, OP.

Please take a writing class, loser.

It was MUCH worse here last time. Boris, blah blah.

Yeah. Their ilk pretty much ruined Datalounge. Though I agree with you I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't type: Oh look. Another Trump thread.

R6/R7 it has more to do with people not having anything going on in their lives than “worrying about the country.”

R9 I already am.

The funny thing is, the average Democratic voter isn’t necessarily any smarter than the average Republican voter. There are still extremely tribal, it’s just that they happen to be on the right side of history this time. If the situation were reversed, and the Democratic candidate were a demagogue, do you really think these people would vote Republican to save the country? I doubt it.

R13 Aite now OP I’m starting to think you lowkey a Maga. Is this a stealth “just asking questions” thread.

If just he just kicked the bucket already, we’d move on.

Your mom simply remembers the 45 years of Regan Republican Rule and is secretly excited about burying his ultimate incarnation before he kills more American women.

You and your mother have suffered in different ways.

R14 Not at all. I’m a democrat. I’m just pointing out some observations. I am well educated with a master’s degree. The democrats I know who obsess over Trump endlessly and post about him are more like lower level workers with no college degree who are less likely to think outside the box.

Here’s the thing. I don’t want to be the kind of person who dislikes people because of their politics. I understand that the situation with Trump is different, and I don’t think I could ever be friends with a Trump supporter, but I don’t want to automatically hate someone just becausethey’re Republican. That is not a sign of mature thinking, and is not healthy for the country.

This is is a very white person thing to say.

R18 So obsessing over and ranting about Trump all day long is going to help people of color? How is that? Everyone only gets one vote.

No, dipshit, it helps white racists go into the booth and pull the Kamala lever (Chicago machine metaphor).

Some people are fighting for their lives. Their rights, their freedom, their health... The price of gas and eggs is not a priority.

R21 Ironically, most of the people ranting on Facebook are white, so………..

Well OP tell us do you feel better now that you have gotten it off your chest?

OP, we’ve been ranting over what an asshole Trump is since 1987.

R23 I’ve stated my opinion. I expected a ton of backlash because politics is basically a religion and questioning the way anyone goes about it is basically like questioning Jesus to these people. Is what it is.

I loathe Trump but I understand what OP is saying. It's the constant inserting of Trump into topics that have nothing to do with him or politics. You could be talking about Colombian basket weaving and somebody will find a way to slip Trump into the conversation. Ok, I get it. We all hate him. But can we talk about something else?

I have a nice social life and a bunch of interests that have nothing to do with politics and I don't need to hear about Trump 24/7 when I'm trying to live my life and enjoy it.

R19, you’re a fucking narrow minded it.

It’s a white thing to say because white people have no say in the outcome.

For you to castigate everyone who has strong feelings about this man is so fucking white privilege it’s disgusting. Trump makes non whites actually question whether they have a place in this country.

What the fuck do you expect those people to do?

Fuck off, pig.

See a therapist, OP. Unless you can Venmo $200 to me for reading that garbage and having to process it.

There are unlimited places for political junkies to post.

There was only one Datalounge, and the way the vehement political junkies spam it with endless, repetitive, frankly tedious chatter is destroying what remained of the DL.

I'm positive it's mostly elderly fanatics who have no one else to accost with their, em, brilliant, incisive analysis about our political system. They likely have no one else to share it with.

But it's as bad as the loons dissecting Heartbreakers or Supernatural.

R27 I didn’t say having strong feelings about Trump is wrong. I said incessantly ranting about him is pointless. Besides, it’s mostly privileged white people who rant about him anyway so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

My pussy stinks!

R29 I kinda agree with you. I been on DL close to ten years now. After the election in 2016 it seems like the Trump threads died down but then again a lot of people were grieving. But since 2020 they have been in overdrive. For one the potential of him becoming president again is very very serious and dangerous. But also the media won’t stop fucking talking about him. Obviously now they have to— he’s the Republican nominee. But I’ve never seen a losing candidate still garner so much press after their defeat. Like I get it—January 6, but they treated Biden and Trump like equals while Biden is president. It’s just sickening.

OP really woke up today and decided to go after his own mama for loving her country too much.

It’s completely pathetic, R33

I've sent money to ACT BLUE and I've already early voted. From my red state I've done all I can do to keep DJT out of the White House.

So I have resolved to pay absolutely NO ATTENTION to any political coverage from now until November 5. None!

I'll wear out my TV's remote avoiding any coverage. Also, I don't listen to radio either in my home or my car. I read the local paper digitally and can easily skip the election coverage.

For me -- it's over!

Do you all really think that thinking about Trump all day long somehow makes you morally superior? Does voting for Kamala and then having the audacity to enjoy my life make me an asshole as opposed to voting for Kamala and then ranting about Trump on social media all day?

"and I've already early voted." -R35

Oh dear...

r37 we're all smart enough to understand what he meant. You don't need to have your Hall Monitor ass patrolling Datalounge for spelling and grammatical errors. This isn't third grade and you're not our bitter cunt of a teacher. XOXO.

OP the irony of this is

The people MOST obsessed with Trump on here were the hardcore Bidenists

You could tell them again and again that the Democrats needed to replace him, they wouldn’t hear of it. They accused you of being a Russian or MAGAT spy.

Deep down, these people actually wanted the Democrats to lose the election. They wanted a Trump victory. He gave their life purpose.

And I include Biden himself among them.

Amen, R38. I am so tired of these little people finding comfort in hall monitoring - oh, dear or MF or use this as the next thread. Are their lives really as empty as that?

OP, your mother wants to know if you’re picking up your laundry today.

[quote]After the election in 2016 it seems like the Trump threads died down

Are you on Earth1 or Earth2?

R38 Unclench, you'll live longer.

I know what you mean. Being aware and engaged is important, but. There are some people who give Donald Trump way way WAY too much of their head space. They tend to be age 55-70 and addicted to Facebook.

I think it's reasonable for people to get over worked up about Trump because it is not just Trump. It is the stone cold dismal fact that maybe 1/2 the electorate support him and the media is so cynical the normalize him as legitimate, for their own benefit. It's appalling on a daily basis. Merrick Garland for example, let this cretin walk. Supreme Court justices in his pocket. It's very very grim.

I was just going to let my subscription lapse, and I did for a few days, then did the 2$ thing. I want to be on DL when Trump wins. It's going to be glorious.

R39 I think some of them still lowkey want a Trump victory just to say I told you so. Maybe I am being too cynical. That’s the most polarizing I have ever seen DL btw. The post Biden debate. 50/50. Because people weren’t trolling. They actually thought Biden was ok and that Trump’s sins would be more of a liability than Biden’s obvious mental decline . We see that even with people eating cats in Ohio and the current polling how flawed that thinking truly was. And they also thought no democrat could market themselves as a viable candidate this late in the game. It’s very much a generational thing. We need to be like England and have our campaign season lessened to like 3 months before the election.

Not sure what world you live in, but republicans today bear little to no resemblance to the party my grandparents belonged to. So no, I won't be friends with people who support a lying, racist, fascist, dictator-wanna-be, and I won't apologize for it. But you, however, can pat yourself on the back for how open-minded and evolved you are.

I'm obsessing over my democratic rights being infringed upon along with the preservation and expansion of American democracy.

You can't understand this because you are a fascistic shitbag from a shithole kkkuntry no one gives a fuck about.

IT is a symptom of a large rot in the American political system.

If IT lost in 2016 and lost by a wider margin in 2020, how do you conclude IT will win in 2024?

[quote] The funny thing is, the average Democratic voter isn’t necessarily any smarter than the average Republican voter. There are still extremely tribal, it’s just that they happen to be on the right side of history this time.

OP is a fucking moron who thinks that people oppose Trump and his scary agenda because they are "tribal."

There are dozens of threads about Prince Harry and his American wife, I see these threads and scroll past. I am not interested in the topic.

You say orange is an obsession and over discussed, yet you created another thread?

About 'other people's" obsessions?

PS. Where IS Mike Pence?

r51 it's all Trump all the time on here. Threads that have nothing to do with Trump have posters talking about him. It's pathological. I still think it's mostly elderly shut-ins.

I think people who express their dislike for Trump in virulent and scornful ways have done a lot to help him.

People don’t like to change their minds. Specific, factual information is helpful. Calling people deplorables or nazis doesn’t encourage them to reconsider their beliefs. You can think Trump is evil and hate him with the intensity of 10,000 suns. You can say that in a calm way. But if you rant about it and suggest that people who support him are also evil and can’t acknowledge that people have different priorities and concerns (which may be causing them to overlook some things about Trump that could be dealbreakers for them), then you are just helping him.

People who rant about Trump are more eager to feel superior than they are to get someone else elected. It’s selfish.

FUCK YOU NAZIS SKKUM

Also politics is one thing on DL which seems to unite every demographic that comes to the site. It’s not that people are obsessing all day long. You have your diva worship threads, your classic Hollywood threads, your soap opera threads, your sci-fi/nerd threads, your Condi troll threads lol. But politics unites us all hence more comments, more threads.

You just called your mom, a loser?

I am unaffected by a constitutional crisis that is the worst since the Civil War that has been growing since Nixon's first election and now is poised to destroy the standards and vision of the nation.

SHUT UP, MOM. I CAN HEAR YOU FROM THE BASEMENT AND I'M GAMING WITH OTIS!!!!

I learned my lesson with Bush junior. I was very opposed to his wars and got very depressed. Plus my friends spent 24/7 talking about him. I realized my mental health was being affected and my depression wouldn’t change anything. Since then I limit my political concern. Yes, I’m happy to bitch about Trump one hour a day but not more than that.

People who can’t talk about anything else just seem like obsessed losers.

Thank you R53. I’ve tried in the past to explain to people like this that you can’t change peoples’ minds my screaming at them and calling them losers, and they just don’t want to hear it. It’s sad.

And for the record to all of you, no, I’m not calling my mom a loser. I’m simply pointing out the fact that she’s wasting her life by watching cable news all day instead of having a life. She has an excellent retirement and she could be traveling and having fun, but she’d rather watch MSNBC all day and think about Trump.

Op tell your mom to call me. I’m looking for wife #3.

And then when she marries him you kill 2 birds in one stone. No Trump talk and no annoying mom.

If the Trump talk bothers you so much OP, just block and move on. Yet you started an entire thread about it. You too are obsessed with Trump. Just admit it.

I am thinking about my democratic rights, not your orange Jesus who wants to remove American democracy and replace it with bullshit.

Thou shalt not speak against my orange

I'm retired and have nothing else to talk about!

We make fun of MAGA seniors who spend all day in front of the TV watching FOX, OAN and MyPillow infomercials but there are plenty of anti-MAGA folks who sit mindlessly watching MSNBC all day which is obsessed with all things anti-Trump.

My mother is exactly the same as OP’s, except instead of MSNBC it’s 8+ hours a day of Fox and every conversation is about how bad Biden is and how crime-ridden the librul cities are. Everything bad is Biden or Schumer’s fault — rainy day? Blame Biden. Flat tire? Biden’s fault too.

Count your blessings if you’re sick of your elderly parents complaining about Trump.

The chief difference between the Faux News and MSNBC, R66, is that Faux News is fake news, as exemplified by the $750 million lawsuit Faux News lost for broadcasting deliberately deceptive and false news "stories." Also, MSNBC is not championing a pathological liar/dirtball scumbag/treasonous insurrectionist like Faux News is.

But you already knew that, didn't you, asshole.

R68 That doesn’t change the fact that people who watch MSNBC all day have no life and need to go outside and touch grass.

R68 please turn off MSNBC and take a deep breath. Watching it (or any TV) all day is not good for you.

R69, R70: Kindly fuck off.

I'm retired and if I want to watch MSNBC 24/7 it's neither one of you Gladys Kravitz queens business.

R65/R71 Is that you mom?

OP, you are as animated by the orange turd as the people you are directing your criticism toward. Obviously, it isn't health to become obsessive about anything, especially as something as volatile as our current politics.

Yet somehow, the people who really get what a danger Dump is to the Republic and how important it is that we meet this moment seem far healthier and on point than your whiney trollish post that seeks to reduce their concern to cartoonish proportions

Trolls are the truly strange obsessives.

Stopped reading OP after the lie of "We all are" Doesn't sound like it got any better or made any more sense after that

R73/R74 the person I know on Facebook who rants the most about Trump (multiple times a day) is a high school classmate who barely graduated and is now a lesbian UPS driver. She was always very nice, but not the sharpest tool in the shed. I can guarantee you that she is not thinking deeply about the upcoming election, but rather is following the tribe. I’ve also had enough therapy for my fucked up childhood to realize that obsessing about the upcoming election isn’t going to change the outcome. That’s why I’m working on my golden visa application to eventually get EU citizenship. My master’s degree got me a good job in a company that gives me stock options, and I’m using that money to invest. See how I’m using my education to figure out a solution?

r75, whatever inner demons possessed you to concoct this ridiculous attention getting non problem ensconced in a fantasy of Lesbian UPS drivers are your real problem.

"That’s why I’m working on my golden visa application to eventually get EU citizenship..."

Better learn Russian.

I know OP is voting Trump!

R78 You’re an idiot. Get a life. Go travel. Go suck a dick. Or better yet, go travel and suck a dick there. Touch grass.

NOT ON OUR WATCH. LOL my favorite nutty trump gal is the one who calls herself "trump's worst nightmare". LOL

Only I can bring back those lesbian UPS driver jobs!!!

R59 the fact your mother has an excellent retirement explains it. It is the people who are not affected by the affordability crisis and wage theft that are ranting. The privileged ones. They don't care about younger people not being able to pay their rent, about people not being able to retire because they have no money, about homeless, constant foreign wars, they want to enjoy in their moral superiority that their privileged position gives them. Those who are busy surviving don't care about this fake media induced crisis, they know what real crisis is.

[quote]Some people actually care about the future of this country.

It's great to care about the future of the country. Set aside 15 minutes every day to go all out caring about the country. Let it all out on social media. However, after the 15 minutes are over, you should be focused on everything else in life that's not politics.

R79 I'm not sure how a glib six letter reply on a silly internet forum topic is evidence I need to travel and get a life, but you're the expert!

There are only a few decent hosts on MSNBC and none of them are on during the day.

Anyone who even thinks about supporting Trump is mentally defective and morally degraded OP. If you don't want to hear it, it's the truth.

Trump is an objective evil, and not in a 'lesser of two evils way' but in a "class by himself" and ANYONE who supports him is objectively evil, no matter how "good" they pretend to be in their non-voting life.

OP, the one who is spending waaay too much time interacting with social media is 𝑦𝑜𝑢. You cannot change what other people spend their time online "obsessing over," but you can limit your own exposure to it. If you don't like the current predominant topic, get offline and go do something else.

r13 / OP. I vehemently disagree with your statement that Democrats are just as tribal as Republicans. Just look at what happened to Al Franken. When there was a whiff of impropriety, he was tossed out quickly (I believe unjustly.) Democrats have less hesitancy to impeach their own. Just look at what Trump is allowed to say without any repercussions from his party.

I love what Barack said about Democrats. “They are a feisty bunch.” Those who vote democratic are less likely to blindly follow and not be ditto heads. It does make it a lot harder to be a Democratic leader, as coalition building is much more difficult. Think about how easy it is to be a Republican leader. You just have to spill some verbal vomit about Jewish space lasers and people still follow you because you are in their tribe.

OP you think that low class uneducated people are the ones watching MSNBC and posting about Trump. Seriously? You’ve picked the one demographic that Democrats lose in a landslide to justify your BS. You may have a Master’s degree and stock options but you’re not very sharp.

R86/R87 Can you read? I never said that Trump isn’t evil. I never said that the people who support him are sane. But that doesn’t mean I have to think about him all day long. And the people who do really need to get a life.

"But that doesn’t mean I have to think about him all day long."

And yet here you are, once again, thinking about Trump and telling other people who think about Trump to get a fucking god damned life.

What does that say about you, OP/R91?

[quote] enough therapy for my fucked up childhood

And end thread. This is about you. Not your mother. Not politics.

Being highly educated and capable of thinking outside the box is a strange experience as it makes you realize how limited and tribal most people are. Just look at R92 and R93, and most of the people on this thread. To most of you, me saying “people who spend all day thinking about Trump need to get a life” equates to saying “I love Trump.” It’s ludicrous, as if you have to obsess over Trump 18 hours a day to virtue signal how much you hate him. I’m voting for Kamala. That’s all that matters.

Okay, I’m done. I’m working from home today but I have to review various state regulations before drafting a proposal. The rest of you can get ready for your Amazon shift.

[quote] Being highly educated and capable of thinking outside the box is a strange experience as it makes you realize how limited and tribal most people are.

🙄

[quote] That’s why I’m working on my golden visa application to eventually get EU citizenship. My master’s degree got me a good job in a company that gives me stock options, and I’m using that money to invest. See how I’m using my education to figure out a solution?

Bye, Felicia.

I've got a JD. That credential doesn't make me better than anybody else. I'm not morally superior to anybody else.

On Jan 6th, I watched Trump and people like you, Troll OP, try to loot my duly cast, non-fraudulent vote for Joseph Robinette Biden.

Unlike you, I'm using my education and money to stay here. Speaking of "tribal", I'm Native American. My ancestry in North America goes back centuries. I have no desire to want to leave.

My heart and land are here.

Here's how I figured out a solution to stop Donald Trump from raising his right hand, placing the other on a Bible, and falsely uttering another oath:

Knocking on doors, joining the cause with my feet, not just my mouth and keyboard, and otherwise working my ass off to get Democrats elected.

Now, off to Europe you go.

And may the Statue of Liberty shove her lamp up your ass while you fly over her.

OP has very important and relevant matters to attend to. No time except to insult the concerned working class voters or anyone who spends however many fucking hours they want each day expressing their disgust of Dump.

[quote]My master’s degree got me a good job in a company that gives me stock options, and I’m using that money to invest.

Nobody believes your master's degree got you jack shit, if you even have a master's degree to begin with. Unless it's an MBA (which it's not) then your master's ain't shit.

The lesbian UPS driver you are making fun of is probably out earning your stupid ass.

Nice try though, MAGAt.

^ Yeah, not buying the master's degree either.

You sound like fun, Yuri...I mean, OP.

No on can stand to be around narcissistic, friendless OP. That’s why he vents to strangers on an anonymous gay message board and gets angry at his only companionship- his mommy - for not giving undivided attention to him as she tries to drown out his childless, self-centered words with television news, hoping it will drive him away.

Once he leaves, she and the girls get together to have lunch and shop as she fantasizes about the abortion she never had.

R38 -

You must be new to DL

No, he's just one of our usual trolls (or their socks)