The Blame Game
What's with all the "Liberal" bashing I've been seeing on internet comments? I know it's been there before but it seems lately like it's ramping up.
View ArticleSearching for "guilt""innocence" and "blame" within the Gibson Dunn Memos --...
In my prior two posts, I was searching for 'lone occurrences' of specific phrases found within the just released "Memos" for the interviews conducted by the law-firm of Gibson Dunn, in the production...
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I Look Like an Ass, So I’ll Blame the Media or Obama
A recent story got me thinking about politicians who obviously make a mistake and instead of apologizing for it, they blame the media or Obama. Here’s the event that started me thinking about this....
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Let The Blaming Commence.
Which is worse after an election like this, the gloating from tea bag trolls, or the hand-wringing and incestuous scalp-hunting from the left? The president is going to be impeached over [reasons],...
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Can we please stop blaming the victims of violence?The tragic death of Tamir Rice is ripping my guts out and I see people ready to offer "advice" like"He shouldn't have reached into his...
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Cartoon - Lucky Bastards
I figure some of my clients wouldn’t be afraid of the word “bastards” while others wouldn’t touch it. So I made the cartoon a little safer. Yesterday the internet was knocked out in North Korea. Many...
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Top Comments - Time for Call Out
I guess we all tend to get into thematic patterns in our writing. We are drawn to things that interest us, that ‘capture’ us, after a fashion. We can learn a great deal about ourselves by analyzing...
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Republicans: Shootings are a Mental Health Problem. Suprise: They Gutted...
Donald Trump becomes the latest Republican to declare he knows the solution for mass shootings in America. The problem, Trump tells us, is not one of guns but mental illness. This common Republican...
View ArticleHe Kept Us Safe
I just want to make a couple of quick points here.When President Bush was told that the FBI was tracking about 70 suspected terrorists, he told his briefer that he had covered his ass. He did not say...
View ArticleMillennials Aren't Entirely at Fault for Today's Problems!
This might seem like it’s coming out of nowhere today but what I’ve heard and read over time is burning me right up, so I’ve got to vent. This entry is not directed towards those who have and...
View ArticleTrump's 2007 'Trump 101: The Way to Success' tells you to not blame others...
If you can believe one thing about what Donald Trump says it’s that you cannot believe a single thing Donald Trump ever says, whenever he says it. CNN has leafed through a copy of the 2007 POS “Trump...
View ArticleMathews ties up false equivalency with a bow, and delivers it to a nation...
Ok, I told myself. Breathe deeply. Write Clearly. I don’t want this to be a typical Chris Mathews bashing diary, although that may be what it turns into, I have no control over that. I would like it to...
View ArticleI blame the people who voted for Trump
I’ve seen a lot of blame diaries the morning. So I’m going to sum it upThis is not Hillary fault: She ran a solid campaign that pretty much everyone thought would have her in the White HouseThis is not...
View ArticleUpdated: Who I Blame
Grief. It is a horrible thing. My grief today is unlike anything I’ve ever felt. It wasn’t this bad in 2000 when Bush stole the election from Al Gore, one of the politicians I have admired most in my...
View ArticleGreatest Lesson From Last Night
Well, it’s over. The most vile, despicable campaign in recent memory has finished, and we must begin to pick up the pieces and figure out where we went wrong. What lessons do we learn from the 2016...
View ArticleWho is the enemy?
I’m looking at all these comments and I see a bunch of what can be characterized as evidence of divide and conquer. All these causal statements, who did what, who didn’t do what, what we should have...
View ArticleThe Civil War is coming, to the Dems...
There was a lot of talk about a GOP civil war brought about by the schism caused by Trump’s candidacy.That war appears to have been cancelled.Instead it looks as though the civil war will happen in the...
View ArticleAnd here it goes...
The blaming. The backstabbing. The ‘I told you so’s’. The gloating. The “only my opinion counts’ posts.Fuck all that. Didn’t any of you read (and understand) Franklin? “If we do not hang together...
View ArticleWe All Lost This Election: All of Us
I am disappointed in America right now. It is frightening that this man is President of the United States starting in the new year. It is understandable for us all to be angry with people that would...
View ArticleIT WAS MY FAULT
Trump won because of me. Not because of Comey, not because of racism, sexism, not xenophobia, not lies, not Russia. Not Wikileaks. Not because too many people sat out the election. Not because Hillary...
View ArticleA Scientific Approach To Placing Blame
I’ve seen a lot of stories here recently trying to come to grips with our recent tragedy by placing blame. While many do an admirable job, they do not possess any logical or scientific rigor, and so...
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If you want to lay blame, lay it on the Party's leaders.
This article is part of a continuing series promoting honest self-examination among Democrats.Bill Clinton, in his successful 1992 campaign, had to remind his staffers: "It's the economy, stupid!"He...
View ArticleOur part in this American disaster.
I am more interested in apologies and hearing that those around me who can recognize OUR mistakes than I am in blame. This isn't a morally motivated desire, nor is it about virtue. It is about if each...
View ArticleSome thoughts after reading Bernie's book, Our Revolution
I got Bernie's book from the library titled Our Revolution. It is an amazing and inspiring book, makes me honor and love him all the more. He is such a decent and truly good person who works for the...
View ArticleWe didn't mean it; it was an accident; and we won't do it again
More than 180,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in California after an emergency was declared at Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in the United States.Of course, local Republicans know...
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Let's place the blame for the Republican baseball shooting where it belongs
Yes I mean the guy in this picture, the lowlife who complains about “sick, pathetic, self-serving, corrupt, intolerant, selfish, bizarre, cheating,” liberals. After all he is the very person who...
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Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity:...
Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity PART THREE OF THREE PARTSWhatever is finally determined by scientists as the exact combination of factors that forms these...
View ArticleHow Sanders Helped, Not Hurt, Clinton
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George SantayanaWe've all heard this quote (or it's several misquoted variations) many times. And yet, despite it's ubiquity, the vast...
View ArticleEverywhere, it's all about Trump. He totally sucks the air out of every room....
And this is something I think many Democrats are still missing. We have a full on, totally talented demagogue in action here, and we don’t know quite what to do with that. We HAVE made good efforts....
View ArticleBlame America First
The nazi don proves yet again that he is a lying coward. He goes to China and blames the US for our trade imbalance.I don't blame China, I blame the incompetence of past Admins for allowing China to...
View ArticleToday’s Rant
Today’s RantI cannot listen to a radio station, or read an opinion piece, or scan a blog, or swing a dead cat, without hitting the STORY OF THE MOMENT, that Democrats need to worry about, they need to...
View ArticleGuns, Kids, and Media
First, full disclosure: I am not a parent, nor am I a psychologist or psychiatrist. What I am is an adult who once was a child and who is now an avid consumer of all types and genres of media. As I...
View ArticleThe Blame Game
It wasn't the drunk driverThe car was faultyIt wasn't the drunk driverThe road was windyIt wasn't the drunk driverThe weather was badIt wasn't the drunk driverThe intersection was not well litIt wasn't...
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Blaming the Hammer
One of the first insults I ever garnered on Daily Kos was “corporatist”. Not that I, or the diarist, was speaking about corporations — I was disagreeing with him, and thus became a target for the...
View ArticleJust Like the Scalise Attack? Trump, the MAGAbomber, and Addressing Blame
A friend of mine from back when I lived in Darkest Iowa posted the following commentary about remarks President Trump made trying to distance himself from the MAGA-bomber. In his statement, Trump...
View ArticleIncome inequality buzzards coming home to roost
We here are all aware that income inequality has been growing by leaps and bounds in the US and its effects on individuals’ personal finances. I have long thought that there is a broader issue too:...
View ArticleJust Because you have the Power ...
How many of us can go a month without a paycheck? I know I couldn't, and my expenses are minimal compared to the average person in this country. So, seriously, do you think you could go a month or...
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Blame – Propaganda Principle #4
Never waver, acknowledge no doubt; always blame, never credit the other side; debase, defame, dehumanize.Introduction to Propaganda"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that...
View ArticlePicks of the Week from the Daily Kos Community, Aug. 31 (and a Community...
Greetings, dearest ones, and welcome to this week’s celebration of writing by the Daily Kos Community! We’ve got a baker’s dozen of diaries this week, the maximum allowed, but let me tell you, we could...
View ArticleTrump's attempt to blame WHO for America's coronavirus outbreak backfires as...
Tuesday morning—with the number of Americans contracting COVID-19 continuing to rise along with a rising U.S. death count due to complications of the novel coronavirus—grand orange white supremacist...
View ArticleWhiner's Blues
Just a straight 12-bar blues with a IV-I-IV-V-I bridge:All that stuff I stoleAll them lies I toleMan, that was China’s fault.That big tariff warStocks goin through the floorOh yean, that was China’s...
View ArticleThe Depth of Trump's Incompetence
The Depth of Trump’s Incompetence Denial became the unofficial policy of the administration. Throughout the pandemic, he had one priority. It was to protect Donald John Trump.On...
View ArticleBiden Shows He Recognizes Which is the Path to Political Benefit: Biden At...
It is reported that the Biden team is pushing the Congressional Democrats to strike a deal with the Republicans on an aid package, even if it is far from the package the Democrats want. The idea would...
View ArticleWhich Goat Will They Scape?
Tis the season to make scapegoats. The Republicans don't need no stinkin' lessons, they seldom learn from them anyway. But don't worry. They have something better; they have each other to blame. All...
View ArticleRepublican tries to blame Democrats for speaker fiasco. It goes terribly wrong
Since a hard-right faction of the Republican Party ousted Kevin McCarthy from his role as speaker of the House, the abject dysfunction in the GOP has become that much more transparent. Rep. Austin...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene asks if Republicans are 'being bribed' to oppose...
Marjorie Taylor Greene gave a doozy of an interview with right-wing podcast host Charlie Kirk on Wednesday to commiserate about House Republicans’failed impeachment vote Tuesday of Homeland Security...
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Here is what the MAGA Kowtowing to Putin gets US
——Hot off the presses as they used say ...Ukraine war latest updates: Russia’s intelligence chief claims U.S., U.K. and Ukraine were behind Moscow terrorist attackby Holly Ellyatt, cnbc.com— Mar 26,...
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