It's an extreme emotion & is an easy rush to get when moral superiority, hate, & conflict are what fuel it.

... and tells them where to direct it.

They are addicted to the adrenaline rush of their rage. The US could turn into lily white Scandinavia, and they would still find something to rage about, because they ENJOY their rage. It's one of many reasons that women live longer than men.

"a ni***r B***h" or a "old dead re***d", we would not be stuck with Trump.

They are already blaming everything again on the Democrats and not even put Trump in office.

I still think that the Democrats in congress should never vote "Yea" for any bill, but vote "present". Let the Republicans own everything single thing in this congress.

responsibility for their own actions...

Let them own the destruction.

It would be 100% Republican Trump Congress without rigged elections.

Just wait for it.

And now that their dear leader is going to be in charge, they are more emboldened and free to express their anger. We are in for a rough ride. Glad I live in California, but I see it here too.

I was in Quebec this past October and I noticed that they aren't filled with anger, fear, and resentment. There was a noticeable difference. As soon as I landed at Newark the bad attitudes and anger became very apparent.

I need to get out of the country more.

Judging by the way they've been scrambling to do things, like changing the rules to protect Mike Johnson's speakership, and rushing to try to certify Trump's election, I have a feeling they're rushing to beat bad news. I'm going to bet that we're about to find out who really stole this election. And, how they did it. Among other things. Things are going to be getting really ugly really soon. And, I'm thinking most of the ugly is going to be aimed at them. Stuff is going to be coming out. Pass the popcorn.

Makes me think something big is coming. This woman has to preside over the electoral count. That won't be easy.

Dollars to Donuts that Garland has been sitting on something since September that would have been completely shattering for Trump. It probably has something to do with evidence his team was involved in some type of shenanigans(that weren't actually illegal but completely unethical) like staging the Mar-a-lago "shooter" event or that they were in constant contact with Putin, Bibi, Ogeron and other criminal foreign leaders. He waited until after the election in order to "not unfairly interfere" by telling the American people what Trump's team was up to(you know, like how the Republicans in 2016 refused to support Obama holding a press conference and telling Americans that Russia was interfering on Trump's behalf because it would have been "unfair" to Trump). I've gotten this feeling out of them for a while now. Too many Republicans don't seem "satisfied" with their win.

Does Garland have it in him?

And I have wondered about that shooting in Butler PA. Was that not just a little too convenient? That was a turning point in the campaign, according to some observers.

it was an actual assassination attempt. A bullet doesn't just ding off an ear and cause a little scratch that needs a band-aid, and that area was way too open for an attempted shooter to be ambling around setting up his shot. I never believed that story at all. Whether the truth will come out IDK ...

He's a LOT more conservative than his parent's are. I'd planned to do my best to present evidence to him and then realized that would have no effect because he truly believe Trump is anointed by God.

No arguing with blind faith.

By Garland, Jack Smith, somebody else. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's some new revelations, perhaps something out of te Matt Gaetz /Jeffery Epstein realm. Or, video or photographic evidence of those GOP cocaine orgies, perhaps?

America is full of shitty, racist people that are going to do shitty racist things with the backing of legislatures, judges, and police.

Civil society has taken a pass, as have the "moderates" according to their proximity to whiteness and money.

I believe there are serious questions around tabulations.

I hope somebody has it.

Greg Palast told of how the 2024 election was stolen by means of voter disenfranchisement before the election results came in. See his documentary called Vigilantes, Inc.

Not sure why more attention hasn't been paid to that. Thousands of people got kicked off the voter rolls, among other things.

In a sense, the Confederacy has won, and they are not happy campers.

They're doing what works for them. The flamethrower media and sites are on board with it.

it's easier to manipulate people using hate and fear and ignorance

somebody is inspiring the dude in Virginia with the largest cache of bombs the FBI has ever found and the special forces dude in Las Vegas. The New Orleans dude was likely inspired by ISIS since he converted to Islam.

They then can be in their natural state being non stop whiny bitches. Accusing any and all but themselves of everything. They’ve yet to master and are unconcerned with mastering leadership, governance and money management.

Trump and the minds powering him know this about the maga fools. They know what red meat to toss to keep the rage and feelings of being persecuted going. They employ think tanks to study the psy-ops options.

Bullies see themselves as protectors of their "people", and enforcers of social norms, AS THEY SEE THEM! And someone is always " doing them wrong", somehow....

Bullies see themselves as protectors of their "people", and enforcers of social norms, AS THEY SEE THEM! And someone is always " doing them wrong", somehow....

I'm sure they're quite angry that they may be forced to accept responsibility, which is anathema for repukes.

Traditionally they are sore losers, but they are also sore winners.

They must love being perpetually sore.

I've been saying these are the sorest bunch of winners I've ever seen.

They support Trump because he hates the same people they do.
They can't rejoice in Trump's victory because they're essentially unhappy people. A "win" just gives them a chance to inflict punishment on all their enemies. They don't know what it is to be satisfied with victory, and move on.
They have a long list of grievances to work through; just look at Kash Patel. His hate is all consuming, and he can't wait to weaponize the FBI, so he can start working through his "enemies" list.
Trump is the same way, as are most of the people he is surrounding himself with.

Yes, they carry a special kind of psychopathy; and, no matter how much pain and suffering they inflict on the ones they hate, they can never be truly happy. It's not something they relate to.
What they haven't figured out is that hate consumes a person from the inside out. The longer they carry their hate, the deeper it embeds itself in their souls. It becomes them.

He hates all things that even hint at control over him and drives away any relationship that has a hint of love. ( though he desperately wants it)

He chases windmills and becomes angry when he attains them because they hold no substance.

He has shallow superficial relationships because he’s incapable of love, because he was never given any and feels unfulfilled

That he is the sorest winner, ever. When he lost re-election, I was not surprised by his reaction to losing after his reaction to winning. Just wait until he is termed out. Fun times.

My personal best guess(hope).

for 8 years. Melany is divorcing him. Putin is dying. Same with Netanyahu. Those asswipes have better healthcare than us peons and will live forever. At least it will seem like it.

If only the good die young, Trump will live forever. I can see him living long enough to challenge his term limitation in four years. President Biden got in by the skin of his teeth four years ago. But ever since Trump came down that escalator, this country has experienced astoundingly shitty luck. We’re in the Justinian-plague era of imperial collapse. And I don’t think we have the juice to stumble through the next thousand years, the way the Eastern Empire did.

miserable to the core

who said that due to a surprise, neither candidate would be the president. She didn’t see anything involving death, so apparently some last minute surprise. I chuckled at this “malarkey”… stil do… but with the sudden invasion of the billionaires, I’m starting to wonder if she wasn’t on to something.

and be sore a few days.

Envy is a very dangerous thing. I look at it as being similar to the Ohio State/the rest of the Big Tens hatred towards University of Michigan - where I went. With the exception of Northwestern and a few other big ten schools, most of them have hated Michigan with a passion forever. Ohio State played Tennessee in a bowl game and all the Ohio State people could talk about was how much they hated Michigan while they were playing Tennessee. Michigan’s attitude is more of a “rah-rah let’s beat Ohio States football team.” Not that “we hate the entire school for just existing.” We were getting beaten by them in football for quite a few years in a row but they still had chips on their shoulders and were threatened by us. Michigan State is very similar to Ohio State and their dislike of U of M.

One explanation is the academic record- Michigan is harder to get into, has a reputation for being one of the most liberal Universities out there. I read somewhere that Michigan is thought of by a lot of Ohio State fans as a “smarty-pants elitist” liberal school. And Michigan State is thought of as Michigan’s “little brother” despite them being quite a bit larger - probably because U of M has been around a lot longer.

I think it’s very similar to the red state/Republican attitude vs. the blue state/Democratic thing. (Ironically, our main color is blue and their’s is red).

Nick Saban:
“You know, we’ve kind of gotten on their, sort of, fans a little bit. But, you know, these Ohio State fans? You know, they’ve got a psychotic obsession with Michigan and they need to go get therapy or something to try to get it fixed,” Saban said.

“They have a chance to win the national championship and here you are, you know, and nobody’s excited about their opportunity to play because they, you know, lost to Michigan, which was a tough game and they lost the game, probably, by some of the mistakes that they made. Those are correctable things.”

That definitely burns him up the flaming POS.

They won the battle (uncertain of what the battle was) and NOW want the spoils of war (but unsure of what those are).

The answer stems from the lack of understanding of those two things.

But the 'now' doesn't seem to be happening.

Where are the rewards, the new jobs, the streets paved with gold, the mass export of 'THEM OTHERS', those that held you back all your life?

Life is hard when anger is all you have to motivate you.

and storming the bastille to wreck everything in sight and claim everything was stolen from them.

I think Trump already knows that more than 50% think he's a con-criminal. He'll never get that back. He's stuck with the same losers that showed up at his clown show telling us how stupid they were.

MAGA morons gave him $$$ hand over fist, $10's of millions. And then he used like 5% of that to actually pay for court cases. He was expecting to lose closely and then bilk his supporters again, then ride off as a martyr into the sunset. Now he actually has to do the job. I imagine he's pissed about that.

They are nothing without it.

Then, they could have continued to be ultra angry with the dems. Now they have nothing but the felon to be angry with. Sucks to be them.

History has proven this.

From Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself...and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea—he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility …

the audience would be getting twitchy at this stage, and the script writers would pull out all stops to get them back on the edge of their seats.

"But this ain't no movie!!" cries all of DU.

No, but it does feel like a low point where something dramatic and out of left field needs to happen.

The anger is the personal characteristic that worries me the most, and second to remaining out of prison, I truly think it is the second driving factor in him even running. This is all about settling scores.

And it's particularly sickening to see so much resentment in a man who has been given everything at every stage of his life, and has been permitted absolute impunity from his teen years to do anything he wants with no consequences whatsoever.

On the spectrum of Strongmen, it's preferable to have one who is not propelled by anger. I haven't studied it, but I bet if you compared autocracies across time, the most violent and unhinged ones were under the purview of an angry strongman.

Worse, Trump has surrounded himself with angry people like Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel. It's going to be an orgy of viciousness.

is designed to keep them angry.