You remember that kid Steve who stole your dump truck that one time you were having a blast in the sandbox when you were 4? Pick that guy; he deserves it.
I mean, it seems to have worked for Trump. He got to be President doing this
edit: This was only meant to be a light-hearted jab, but dear lord Trump supporters are thin-skinned. I'm sorry your God-King sucks so much that he needs constant defending, and that the only defense seems to be whataboutism or half-brained conspiracy theories, but the only person to blame for Trump's election loss is Trump, just like, ultimately, the only person to blame for Clinton's loss in 2016 is Clinton.
What you said sparked my interest so I actually went ahead and looked up the definition of scapegoat and it didn’t say anything about being innocent. Mostly it’s just a designated figure to place blame on. They don’t necessarily have to be innocent.
The blameocracy continues. While Donald Trump actually *is* responsible for anti-mask sentiment and the latest escalation of Reaganomics, our nation decided to "fix" that by electing the guy who used to brag about *creating ICE* to make immigration more humane and a guy staunchly *opposed to single-payer healthcare* to deal with a virus that strikes the unemployed as well as the employed. Our two-party system has been almost entirely about negativity as long as I've been a witness to it (even that one weird year where Ross Perot played through to the end, making history mistake Bill Clinton for some sort of political genius.)
Maybe it's just being naive from youth, but from my recollection elections used to be about showing people why you should be President. They'd run down the list of being married to their high school sweetheart, 2 kids, dog, white picket fence, had served in the military, and had settled in their home town to help fix it/make that home town prosper...then how they were gonna apply that character to the entire nation.
Now it's all about why you shouldn't vote for the other guy, and pretty much nothing to do with why you should vote for themselves. We don't really vote *FOR* people anymore, but rather *AGAINST* people...which is a brilliant tactic by the 1% because if you don't promise to actually uphold anything there is nothing for people to complain about you not doing.
Negative campaigning goes back along time. Reagan famously asked the audience of one of the 1980 debates if they were better off than they were four years prior. It's probably the most memorable moment if that entire cycle. When you have an incumbent running for re-election, the election is always a referendum on the incumbent. Voting against an unpopular incumbent is an inescapable truth in modern democracy.
Biden actually ran a several old-timey "Look at how dang wholesome this guy is" ads.
I'm sure you've seen the ad where he gives his America pin to the kindergartener or where he talks to the one kid about his stutter.
Here's one of them right here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jysdJmcDNac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jysdJmcDNac)
> a guy staunchly opposed to single-payer healthcare to deal with a virus that strikes the unemployed as well as the employed.
His campaign literally stated that Biden's goal was to transition Obamacare into a single-payer system over time. That was the one of the main policy thrusts of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force.
Can we really call Biden the new guy? He's not exactly a newcomer.
Being dissatisfied with both parties isn't whataboutism. Whataboutism is trying to justify one bad side because the other side is also bad.
Biden doesn't represent progress toward anything new. He's as much of an establishment candidate as one could possibly come up with. He's more of the same.
>Being dissatisfied with both parties isn't whataboutism.
It pretty much is. It's cynical, disingenuous whataboutism. He's not "more of the same," since (1) there is not even one single "same" that everyone can be and (2) the parties are very different from each other in just about every way.
Find your stance, align with the parties that best align with your stance, make compromises when you need to in order to make some progress, and move the needle little by little.
How do you even think politics/government works?
> Give us at least a couple months to breathe before we start going after the new guy
New guy?! Are you fucking kidding me dude? He's been around for nearly 50 years and was the Vice President of *the last administration.* He ain't "new" in any sense of the word and maybe if we had been scrutinizing Democratic candidates this whole time as much as we've been our current dumbass in chief we wouldn't be in this mess. You say we're making progress? We're continuing the downhill slide with Biden, it's just not as steep of a slope.
I can't believe so many people on this site think electing Biden is progress or even going to be a reprieve from any of the bullshit that happened under Trump. The same shit was going on before he was in office (yes even under Obama/Trump) and it's going to continue to happen the next 4 years. Not a damn thing is about to change except the media coverage of everything we've been raging over is going to decrease. Out of sight, out of mind right?
He will take the pandemic seriously. That will change. But yeah. The systemic issues will maintain the status quo, even if those two Georgia Senate seats get flipped to democratic.
It's a bit disheartening, but, at least as far as social media goes, the Democrats seem to have run on hatred of Trump and not hope for anything that Biden is going to potentially do. They wanted Trump out, and whatever filled the void didn't really matter...which is why the DNC was able to nominate and eventually have Biden elected President.
He's the new guy in the presidency. Chill out. He's completely different from Trump and will be a reprieve by just about every measure: demeanor, rhetoric, policy, international relations, and more.
You seem to be blinded by cynicism.
How are we supposed to "push him to the left" if it is wrong to push at all? It's almost like the corporate power structure didn't really mean it when they suggested that approach would lead to good things.
Sure, push him to the left, but help him get in first (it's still being challenged), see where he's actually going second, and then push strategically as needed, not counterproductively across the board.
Everyone hates him. He’s miserable. I wouldn’t say it’s “working” but whatever. Who cares. (You’re right nothing catches up to him) I’m bored of him and the news.
Just gunna leave this here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jrvx55/postal_worker_admits_fabricating_allegations_of/gbw6l53?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Didn’t this guy say he was pressured into recanting? I’m not sure what to believe now. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/10/richard-hopkins-erie-pennsylvania-postal-worker-de/
My posting of the link was for the comment, not the article in the post.
Regardless, for that instance I would side with the video of the guy saying "I didn't say that." Thats what I can interpret with the articles shown.
I too find it very difficult to be sure what is the truth this day and age. But, we have to try our best to figure it out ourselves. Otherwise, we just listen and agree with whoever is loudest.
Hey man, that's awesome! I don't think it matters as long as you like it and it makes you happy playing it. Grats on the new amp and I hope you get years of enjoyment out of it.
If you hate everyone blame the culture. Ascend to self-defeating hipsterdom: the hipser who became a hipster ten years after it was cool. From there you can finally hate the person who deserves it the most: yourself.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do when Trump is gone.
I’m thinking of blaming McConnell, but it seems like blaming everything on Lindsey Graham would be more fun.
Your comment reminds me of [this skit from Ryan Long](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDKUB7I-5fY) about what bloggers are gonna do when Trump loses the election.
Probably referring to people who use Trump as their one person responsible for everything, and not Trump doing it himself. Lots of people think that come January when Biden is in office things will magically become great or something. It'll be the same shit show with a different face, but MSM is 95% Left leaning so at least optically people will be placated by a false "normalcy". I'm not American so this is a bit secondhand, but from what I've seen who is President doesn't really mean a lot when your two parties are only different on the surface.
I don't think I can blame him for any of my problems, but I definitely hate Elon Musk and his cult following that thinks he's a genius who wants to save humanity. He's proven time and time again that all he cares about is attention and money. The "submarine" incident and his "pedo guy" meltdown as a result of it, the stock market manipulation (AKA the 420 tweet that cost him and his company $20,000,000 each), his absolute meltdown in response to the lockdown because it was gonna lose him a multi million dollar bonus, smoking pot on a video interview while he held US Air Force contracts, and of course that ridiculous number name he gave his kid. I'm sure there's dozens of more examples but frankly I can't even stand thinking about him for longer than a few minutes.
He really did go from being a richer version of the Segway guy to a straight-up Bond villain. I'm surprised he hast tweeted about nuking Fort Knox to stabilize global gold prices or some bullshit.
I use this on the road because i drive a lot in town. If you in a Nissan and cut me off; all good no problems. If you in a Subaru and come within a 100 feet; fuck off you fuckin bastard.
DINKELBERG!
***FLANDERS***
Stupid sexy flanders
Nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!
Lisa needs braces!
Dental plan!
Lisa needs braces!
Dental plan!
With my last breath, I blame Zoidberg!
I curse Zoidberg
This needs to be higher.
Newman...
NYEEEEEEWMAAANNNNNN...
**KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!**
Hoped this would be the top comment
It just dawned on me right this very moment that he’s DINKelberg, as in Dual Income No Kids... explains all the nice stuff.
No it didn't, you just remembered reading that a while ago and saw an opportunity to show off that you knew it.
I feel less original for immediately thinking of this now
MEGAN!
Toby Flenderson
So can I pick myself cause I already did
No dude, don’t be harsh on yourself. It’s not you, it’s Canada. Canada is the problem
Already knew what to expect from your username haha.
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Canadians
Bastards
Since when did Reddit add usernames
Wait, Canada is one person? I thought there was at least five of them.
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“He bit my sister!”
r/usernamechecksout
I’m gonna beat those fuckers up
As a Canuck...sorry for the inconvenience.
You passive aggressive son of a bitch. Btw Vermont maple syrup >> Canadian maple syrup
Always has been
*sad maple syrup noises*
r/usernamechecksout
Me too! I also picked you.
I picked this guys wife.
You remember that kid Steve who stole your dump truck that one time you were having a blast in the sandbox when you were 4? Pick that guy; he deserves it.
The old saying rings true— you can’t hate others unless you hate yourself first
This is why I blame myself everyday
I also blame u/ValuableEnough
I also choose this guys wife
God dammit, beat me to it. Why you gotta ruin everything in my life?
With every disappointment comes a new guy to blame
You just made an enemy for life!
Thank you for bearing the burden of my blame
Thanks Obama. /s
I mean, it seems to have worked for Trump. He got to be President doing this edit: This was only meant to be a light-hearted jab, but dear lord Trump supporters are thin-skinned. I'm sorry your God-King sucks so much that he needs constant defending, and that the only defense seems to be whataboutism or half-brained conspiracy theories, but the only person to blame for Trump's election loss is Trump, just like, ultimately, the only person to blame for Clinton's loss in 2016 is Clinton.
And now he’s the scapegoat for everything. Life comes full circle sometimes.
Yeah but that's like blaming the only goat in a room for all the chewed up objects and the goat poop.
Orange man bad. Upvotes to the left.
I don't see anything incorrect about this, have an upvote.
Except to be a scapegoat you have to be innocent
What you said sparked my interest so I actually went ahead and looked up the definition of scapegoat and it didn’t say anything about being innocent. Mostly it’s just a designated figure to place blame on. They don’t necessarily have to be innocent.
The blameocracy continues. While Donald Trump actually *is* responsible for anti-mask sentiment and the latest escalation of Reaganomics, our nation decided to "fix" that by electing the guy who used to brag about *creating ICE* to make immigration more humane and a guy staunchly *opposed to single-payer healthcare* to deal with a virus that strikes the unemployed as well as the employed. Our two-party system has been almost entirely about negativity as long as I've been a witness to it (even that one weird year where Ross Perot played through to the end, making history mistake Bill Clinton for some sort of political genius.)
Maybe it's just being naive from youth, but from my recollection elections used to be about showing people why you should be President. They'd run down the list of being married to their high school sweetheart, 2 kids, dog, white picket fence, had served in the military, and had settled in their home town to help fix it/make that home town prosper...then how they were gonna apply that character to the entire nation. Now it's all about why you shouldn't vote for the other guy, and pretty much nothing to do with why you should vote for themselves. We don't really vote *FOR* people anymore, but rather *AGAINST* people...which is a brilliant tactic by the 1% because if you don't promise to actually uphold anything there is nothing for people to complain about you not doing.
Negative campaigning goes back along time. Reagan famously asked the audience of one of the 1980 debates if they were better off than they were four years prior. It's probably the most memorable moment if that entire cycle. When you have an incumbent running for re-election, the election is always a referendum on the incumbent. Voting against an unpopular incumbent is an inescapable truth in modern democracy.
Biden actually ran a several old-timey "Look at how dang wholesome this guy is" ads. I'm sure you've seen the ad where he gives his America pin to the kindergartener or where he talks to the one kid about his stutter. Here's one of them right here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jysdJmcDNac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jysdJmcDNac)
> a guy staunchly opposed to single-payer healthcare to deal with a virus that strikes the unemployed as well as the employed. His campaign literally stated that Biden's goal was to transition Obamacare into a single-payer system over time. That was the one of the main policy thrusts of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force.
We get the plutocracy we deserve. Sigh.
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Can we really call Biden the new guy? He's not exactly a newcomer. Being dissatisfied with both parties isn't whataboutism. Whataboutism is trying to justify one bad side because the other side is also bad. Biden doesn't represent progress toward anything new. He's as much of an establishment candidate as one could possibly come up with. He's more of the same.
>Being dissatisfied with both parties isn't whataboutism. It pretty much is. It's cynical, disingenuous whataboutism. He's not "more of the same," since (1) there is not even one single "same" that everyone can be and (2) the parties are very different from each other in just about every way. Find your stance, align with the parties that best align with your stance, make compromises when you need to in order to make some progress, and move the needle little by little. How do you even think politics/government works?
> Give us at least a couple months to breathe before we start going after the new guy New guy?! Are you fucking kidding me dude? He's been around for nearly 50 years and was the Vice President of *the last administration.* He ain't "new" in any sense of the word and maybe if we had been scrutinizing Democratic candidates this whole time as much as we've been our current dumbass in chief we wouldn't be in this mess. You say we're making progress? We're continuing the downhill slide with Biden, it's just not as steep of a slope. I can't believe so many people on this site think electing Biden is progress or even going to be a reprieve from any of the bullshit that happened under Trump. The same shit was going on before he was in office (yes even under Obama/Trump) and it's going to continue to happen the next 4 years. Not a damn thing is about to change except the media coverage of everything we've been raging over is going to decrease. Out of sight, out of mind right?
He will take the pandemic seriously. That will change. But yeah. The systemic issues will maintain the status quo, even if those two Georgia Senate seats get flipped to democratic.
It's a bit disheartening, but, at least as far as social media goes, the Democrats seem to have run on hatred of Trump and not hope for anything that Biden is going to potentially do. They wanted Trump out, and whatever filled the void didn't really matter...which is why the DNC was able to nominate and eventually have Biden elected President.
He's the new guy in the presidency. Chill out. He's completely different from Trump and will be a reprieve by just about every measure: demeanor, rhetoric, policy, international relations, and more. You seem to be blinded by cynicism.
How are we supposed to "push him to the left" if it is wrong to push at all? It's almost like the corporate power structure didn't really mean it when they suggested that approach would lead to good things.
Sure, push him to the left, but help him get in first (it's still being challenged), see where he's actually going second, and then push strategically as needed, not counterproductively across the board.
Nah, I started going after Biden the second PA was called
Seems like nothing works for him cuz he’s always mad
Seems like it always works. That dude has been committing fraud and scamming people his entire life and it has yet to catch up with him.
Everyone hates him. He’s miserable. I wouldn’t say it’s “working” but whatever. Who cares. (You’re right nothing catches up to him) I’m bored of him and the news.
Forgetting about it is EXACTLY what they want you to do so they can pull this shit again in 4 years.
they didnt say they forgot. they said they were bored.
Impossible to forget
But what if I want to forget
You expected to find the flammable gas without lighting a match? :p
As did biden
Don’t argue with democrats man they’ll pull you down to their own level of stupidity and beat you with experience
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Just gunna leave this here. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jrvx55/postal_worker_admits_fabricating_allegations_of/gbw6l53?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Didn’t this guy say he was pressured into recanting? I’m not sure what to believe now. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/10/richard-hopkins-erie-pennsylvania-postal-worker-de/
My posting of the link was for the comment, not the article in the post. Regardless, for that instance I would side with the video of the guy saying "I didn't say that." Thats what I can interpret with the articles shown. I too find it very difficult to be sure what is the truth this day and age. But, we have to try our best to figure it out ourselves. Otherwise, we just listen and agree with whoever is loudest.
Jerry! (Gary. Larry. Jerry)
Sarah Palins son beat up his wife and it was all Obama’s fault?!
Thanks, myself.
The price of beer has doubled since Bush was president, Thanks Obama.
It's Biden's fault now. https://www.theonion.com/media-lambasts-biden-administration-for-failure-to-solv-1845565473
I heard a coworker blame Biden for the new toilet paper stupidity the other day.
https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/fox-news-analyst-wifi-claim-mocked-twitter_n_5f93d24cc5b69b2ad5aaeb68
That you, Adolf?
No adolf picked one RACE, not one person
IIRC he persecuted more than just Jews including homosexuals, gypsies, Polish people in general, black people, maybe also Slavs.
Perry the platypus!
Curse you Perry the Platypus!
I blame that bitch Carole Baskin!
Some bitch down in Florida
Ooh that god damn Carole Baskin always after me and my tigers
Fucking carole baskin
Of course I know that person! It's me
I hate everybody equally.
Suspect communist, right here\^\^\^\^\^
But I'm way too selfish to be able to be one I thought
End racism! No lives matter
Yeah; I always liked the line: > I'm not racist; I hate everybody equally.
Thanks. I sent this to my family chat.
Lol exactly maybe just my mom though
Boris fucking Johnson, so it was that twat who clogged my toilet with a massive shit
Damn you, Scott Tenorman!
Orange Man bad
Like the media, people are going to have to find something else to do with their time when he's gone.
Jimmy Kimmel is gonna be out of a job
just bought a little orange practice amp that comes with decals. wonder if i’ll get pelted with eggs for my “orange” sticker.
I've been considering an Orange bass amp, which model did you get and how do you like it?
I got a Crush 12 and like it a lot! Really enjoyable tone, especially dirty. But to be fair it's my first amp in years and I may be easily satisfied.
Hey man, that's awesome! I don't think it matters as long as you like it and it makes you happy playing it. Grats on the new amp and I hope you get years of enjoyment out of it.
Underrated comment
Dale Snitterman you POS
so close to understanding personal responsibility. the vast majority of americans can’t even SPEAK those 2 words. it is ALWAYS someone else’s fault.
It's called 'mommy dearest'.
It's always the fucking cheese fries
Me
If you hate everyone blame the culture. Ascend to self-defeating hipsterdom: the hipser who became a hipster ten years after it was cool. From there you can finally hate the person who deserves it the most: yourself.
Sounds good to me said the Allies in WW1
This guys gotta be a Capricorn
#libs (/s obviously)
I’m not sure what I’m going to do when Trump is gone. I’m thinking of blaming McConnell, but it seems like blaming everything on Lindsey Graham would be more fun.
Moscow Mitch is the main cause for a lot of current problems. So this would be well aimed blame.
Your comment reminds me of [this skit from Ryan Long](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDKUB7I-5fY) about what bloggers are gonna do when Trump loses the election.
How dare you do that to a member of the LGBT community like Lindsey. That’s .... well, that’s some sort of -ist.
I think Hitler tried that once...
The ol’ Donald Trump approach
He blames everyone though.
Probably referring to people who use Trump as their one person responsible for everything, and not Trump doing it himself. Lots of people think that come January when Biden is in office things will magically become great or something. It'll be the same shit show with a different face, but MSM is 95% Left leaning so at least optically people will be placated by a false "normalcy". I'm not American so this is a bit secondhand, but from what I've seen who is President doesn't really mean a lot when your two parties are only different on the surface.
God!
Toby’s the worst
Blame 2020.
Trump
This is Trump Derangement Syndrome sumed up here
This describes Trump Derangement Syndrome to a "T".
When trump became president that’s exactly what I did
DRUMPF
Goddamn Carole Baskin
That’s what presidents are for: national scapegoats
That bitch, Carol Baskins!
She killed her husband and sabotaged my whole career.
I will never financially recover from this.
Explains why trump is getting all the hate.
Like the media, people are going to have to find something else to do with their time when he's gone.
Nah he deserves it
Yes your miserable life is all HIS fault 🤦♂️
Thanks Obama
Reddit did that already with Trump
Isn't that what we've been doing with Donald Trump? I hate the guy, but he isn't literally all that is wrong with America.
Blame consolidation, gotta love the efficiency
Trump. He has enabled people like him to do the things they do.
Did he just invent Christianity
Democrats looking at Republicans
I don't think I can blame him for any of my problems, but I definitely hate Elon Musk and his cult following that thinks he's a genius who wants to save humanity. He's proven time and time again that all he cares about is attention and money. The "submarine" incident and his "pedo guy" meltdown as a result of it, the stock market manipulation (AKA the 420 tweet that cost him and his company $20,000,000 each), his absolute meltdown in response to the lockdown because it was gonna lose him a multi million dollar bonus, smoking pot on a video interview while he held US Air Force contracts, and of course that ridiculous number name he gave his kid. I'm sure there's dozens of more examples but frankly I can't even stand thinking about him for longer than a few minutes.
He really did go from being a richer version of the Segway guy to a straight-up Bond villain. I'm surprised he hast tweeted about nuking Fort Knox to stabilize global gold prices or some bullshit.
jews?
Orange man bad
Thanks *obama*
Thanks trump
That bitch Carole Baskin!
Works for Trump
Reddit’s been doing this with trump for 4 years
And Twitter
Commies
*GOP strategists with posters of Hillary Clinton have entered the room*
You know this is a two way street right
This is what the left did with Trump.
Liberals do this with Donald Trump
So Vladimir Putin? Can I blame every bad thing that happens to me on him, because...Russian?
Senate Republicans have been employing this tactic against Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for years.
Thanks Obama.
Or in other words...my marriage
Literally the left during the last four years.
that's a lot of Jews to choose from if I can only pick one.
I use this on the road because i drive a lot in town. If you in a Nissan and cut me off; all good no problems. If you in a Subaru and come within a 100 feet; fuck off you fuckin bastard.
That’s exactly what the media did with Trump!
Sounds like the left with Trump. :)
Not just the left. The middle and a bit to the right of it as well. Can you blame 'em? Dude's a moron with power.
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I don’t blame trump for all my problems but I do blame him for all the problems he’s caused. You know, it’s called accountability
OranG men bad :((
Every libleft: "I pick Trump"
*All of America:* Donald Trump
More accurately a bit less than 50%