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Irony... (Original Post)
ProfessionalLeftist
Oct 2012
OP
It's part of their habit of projecting whatever's wrong with them onto their victims
We People
Oct 2012
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Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)1. Damn, that's spot-on.
We People
(619 posts)2. It's part of their habit of projecting whatever's wrong with them onto their victims
If they blame or trash the victims, they think it absolves themselves of guilt.
The word "Cruel" should come before the word "Irony."
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)5. The ultimate in diabolical evil
. . . is destroying lives, then blaming the victims of your actions for the predicament you put them in and removing any possibility or source of help for them. It's why I call them the Grand Old Psychopath party.
We People
(619 posts)6. Thanks, I've been looking for a word to match the "P" in "GOP"
Maybe Greedy Oligarch Psychopaths is too much of a mouthful, but it's still fitting.
pampango
(24,692 posts)3. Most republicans are irony-impaired which is why their candidates keep using that line of attack.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)4. Needs to add a phrase something like
and "then having your party block bills designed to create new jobs."