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The obsession with Hillary's emails makes a little more sense to me now. (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Apr 2021 OP
Such projection EYESORE 9001 Apr 2021 #1
+1 peppertree Apr 2021 #9
Right, cilla4progress Apr 2021 #2
The new senseless obsession is Hunter Biden, who is not a government officical and never has been. everyonematters Apr 2021 #3
Two reasons they do it: Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #4
I remember a plaintive JackpineRadicals request for help going through leaked emails with betsuni Apr 2021 #5
It was stupid and obvious to sane Americans in 2015. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2021 #6
Re-Publicans are so bad at their projecting that multigraincracker Apr 2021 #7
I've always said it was projection by the party movers and shakers. halfulglas Apr 2021 #8

EYESORE 9001

(26,034 posts)
1. Such projection
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 12:34 AM
Apr 2021

They should be called the Bell & Howell party. For projection. Call them by nastier names as well.

peppertree

(21,720 posts)
9. +1
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 02:31 AM
Apr 2021

Goebbels 101: Project your own misdeeds on your opponent, and accuse them of those every chance you get.

Epstein, Dersh, Trump, Gaetz...

Irish_Dem

(48,097 posts)
4. Two reasons they do it:
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 12:45 AM
Apr 2021

1. Sociopaths assume every one else is amoral and criminals like they are.
2. Sociopaths weaponize projection against their victims as a way to create confusion and chaos. So no one knows who the real criminal happens to be.

betsuni

(25,816 posts)
5. I remember a plaintive JackpineRadicals request for help going through leaked emails with
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 12:55 AM
Apr 2021

a fine-toothed comb for all the heinous conspiracy crimes of Democrats that MUST be there, THEY MUST. Otherwise, why would anyone calling themselves "progressives" hate Democrats more than Republicans with such passion and venom? Idiots.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,786 posts)
6. It was stupid and obvious to sane Americans in 2015.
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 12:56 AM
Apr 2021

Under the guise of a House Congressional "investigation", Republicans spent millions of taxpayer dollars chase nothing. But they did knock off a couple of % points off of the popular vote that tiled the college to Trump. Thanks for nothing, again, Trumpublican Party.

multigraincracker

(32,756 posts)
7. Re-Publicans are so bad at their projecting that
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 01:59 AM
Apr 2021

there has to be a pizza parlor, some where that they are eating, drinking blood and raping small children some where.

halfulglas

(1,654 posts)
8. I've always said it was projection by the party movers and shakers.
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 02:30 AM
Apr 2021

I've just never been able to understand the obsession of the ordinary Jane Republican from Upstate New York or Ohio and others you know vaguely who still don't understand how she "got away with it" and who even at the mention of her name get angry or say they hate her or say even worse.

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