Dear Thom Hartmann Caller
First of all, I am sorry I don’t remember your name. I only had a few minutes to catch Thom today, when I usually listen to pretty much a full hour every day if not more. The reason why I am addressing...
View ArticleAs A Bernie Supporter, No More F*cking Violence
Really?Fucking really?Violence and shit. Throwing chairs (disputed, see comments)? Death threats? Doxxing? Is this what it has come down to? This gnarly fucking bullshit and division is turning into in...
View ArticleMy god, if you are any kind of progressive why would you not vote for Democrats?
Sick of hearing this from people — both parties are the same, they all act the same, they are all bought and sold, they all got their piece of the pie now they are fucking the little guy. I have often...
View ArticleRepublican Party Waters Their Fields With Trump's Brawndo.
Good fucking god. Donald Trump is the republican nominee for President. Is this some sort of nightmare? A bad trip, perhaps? Did we fall down a rabbit hole to a parallel universe? Get written into an...
View ArticleThis has probably already been said
Trump isn’t crazy. He is an an amoral asshole would be fascist who is turning America’s latent racism into rabid fascistic gold like some sort of Hitlerstilskin. It doesn’t take someone “crazy” or...
View ArticleSee you all on the flip
its clear I am trapped in a bubble.its clear I no longer understand presidential politics.Its clear that my belief system, that we are better than this, was completely and totally wrong.I am done with...
View ArticleOf Empty Barrels and Empty Men
So this bullshit with John Kelly really burns my biscuits. Tans my hide. Pisses me off. Makes me see the brightest shade of red imaginable. That press conference yesterday was ridiculousness of the...
View ArticleIt starts with us
The culture of sexual assault, rape, and general disrespect starts with us, males. Not only are the vast majority of rapists and general sexual pigs male they are also complicit in reproducing the...
View ArticleLouis CK's Apology is Bullsh*t and a lot of people here are buying it
In fact there is a diary on the rec list right now that gives the man mad props for a “well written” apology. And sure, it is well written. The man is a comedian for god’s sake, he knows how to play to...
View ArticleI never want to hear the words "Traditional Republican" again.
I’ll keep this short. The whole “republican traditionalist” nonsense can friggin stop now. Y’all asshole republicans have built this unearned reputation as some sort of constitution defenders, talking...
View ArticleAdjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depression - A foray into mental...
(this is a long a very personal diary I am writing and publishing on advice from my counselor. It doesn’t have much to do with politics but I feel dailykos is a safe space for me to publish. If this is...
View ArticleAn Apology
I...uh, just wanted to apologize for my behavior in this Thread. To the person who wrote the diary — I am sorry that my behavior lead to a comment chain that went straight to margins right at the top....
View ArticleOh, life...
As very few people here know, I have been struggling with mental illness. Extreme anxiety and depression connected to a phobia. I blogged about it a few days ago, its in blog history I don’t really...
View ArticleSo that open carry rally in Salem OR today...
Resident of Keizer OR here. Saw that diary yesterday about some bullshit going down at the Capitol today so we decided to drive down and see what was up. I didnt really understand the nuance of why...
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We can't afford to slow roll impeachment any more.
First of all let me just preface this entry by saying this first: I am a huge fan of Speaker Pelosi. She shepherded through so much essential legislation in the Obama era, she is a political and...
View ArticleLets get this out of the way
I will vote for whoever the democratic nominee is in 2020. If Hot Barf/Herpes had a (D) after their name, I would crawl over broken glass just to vote for that ticket. A lot of the more progressive...
View ArticleSo...what happened?
WARNING: Meta, skip if its not your thing.A day or two ago a name popped up that I hadn’t seen in ages after a major public figure committed suicide in jail. She wrote a diary that many people rec’d...
View ArticleMy god, I am so f*cking tired of the simpering equivocation of DC pundits.
www.cnn.com/…Just...read this piece by Chris Cillizza of CNN. It is just, the most garbage take on the World Series booing I have seen as of late. Just read that garbage for yourself if you want to, I...
View ArticleEasy
I will vote for any candidate with a (D) after their name if they are running against Trump.I’ll vote for BernieI’ll vote for JoeI’ll vote for LizI’ll vote for AmyI’ll vote for TomI’ll vote for...
View ArticleHey! Stop dumping on voters!
I support Bernie Sanders, whole heartedly. His M4A program speaks to me as someone who nearly died in the hospital in 8th grade due to flesh eating virus, only to recover and watch my entire family...
View ArticleUsing dementia as a political weapon is a bullsh*t move, plain and simple.
Stop it. Just stop.You haven’t examined Joe Biden. You haven’t seen his medical history. You are, most likely, not a neurologist, and if you are a neurologist, you are most likely not Joe Biden’s...
View ArticleI am voting for Joe Biden in Oregon's primary
I have thought a really, really long time about this. It has taken me some time to come around to it, I have had to examine some of my own beliefs in the last few weeks about the trajectory of American...
View ArticleI am f*cking stressed out. I need to vent.
This is a personal diary, if thats not what you are looking for, go ahead and click away now.I am fucking stressed to all fuck and I need to vent. I dont even know where or how to begin. I guess with...
View ArticleBody Shaming and Dkos
I am fat.262 lbs and 5’9”. I have struggled with my weight my entire life. It has been a source of great shame for me. I wear shirts at the swimming pool. I don’t like posting my picture online,...
View ArticleI was wrong about Joe Biden
I don’t think its a secret that I was a Warren/Sanders/Harris supporter during the primaries. I bought into the crap that Joe Biden was old, that he was just another white guy, that he was going no...
View ArticleObama is KILLING this speech
Kind of a quick diary, but I am watching Obama hold a drive in rally in Philadelphia and he is just fucking on fire. He is killing Trump. Mixed justified outrage and humor, I seriously miss Obama and...
View ArticleQuick impeachment/pardon question
Nobody has to rec this diary, its only for discussion. I would like to hear from dkos constitutional legal beagles please. Here is my question:Say Trump, tomorrow, gets a hair up his ass and pardons...
View ArticleI am so F*CKING SICK of the enablers
The anonymous sources, the ones fluffing Trump to his dumb, traitorous face, while talking shit to the press under the guise of anonymity.I am sick of the Republicans rushing to grab capes, as if the...
View ArticleThis sh*t really burns my biscuits
I see you republicans. I see your bullshit call for unity. 2 fucking weeks ago. Just two weeks. YOUR PRESIDENT AND YOUR SENATORS sent a bloodthirsty mob of white supremacist seditionists to behead our...
View ArticleThey are amoral, nihilistic bastards to the last person.
So much for fucking unity, huh? Every single one of these people were there on 1/6/21. Every single one of these senate republicans. So much for Moscow Mitch’s “anger” and “openness” to actually doing...
View ArticleThoughts
Something has been bugging me for a couple of days and I really want to get it off my chestI am still very angry about the Seinfeld and Friends crap that happened over the past couple of days. Seeing...
View ArticleSome thoughts on my time here
I have been thinking about my time here at dailykos and about how much this website really means to me. I joined dkos at the age of 22. So much has changed since then, so much has happened, and I have...
View ArticleWhat I have been wondering about holding TFG to account
We all want Donald Trump to go to prison, preferably for the rest of his life, for various crimes he, his family and various organizations of his have perpetrated against the United States. Fact is, we...
View ArticleJust need a space to vent
Nowhere else really to turn with this. I have been suffering with a mysterious digestive ailment nearly my entire life. My mom distinctly remembers me not being able to keep down really any type of...
View ArticleWell, I'm a long-hauler
Last week I wrote a diary about a mystery ailment that I have had for weeks following COVID. I don’t even know where to begin, but I ended up getting fired from Oregon State Hospital the day after I...
View ArticleI hate to admit it, but I need some help
I have put off writing this diary for as long as I could, its been about a month since I got fired from my job because I am suffering from post-COVID syndrome, and finally our finances have hit a brick...
View ArticleWishing the Queen pain in death makes us look like a bunch of hypocritical...
Just gonna say it, the diary on the rec list currently makes us look like a bunch of fucking assholes. I understand that it was a professor who originally tweeted the sentiment, a professor who was...
View ArticleDear political media: Don’t be fooled by DeSantis’“hero of the hurricane”...
This will probably be short, I am on my phone. I am sitting here watching DeSantis sounding actually quite normal as a politician talking about Hurricane Ian. I have also heard speculation in the...
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Whiteness is the reason why I never learned about my ancestors
I recently did a DNA test with ancestry.com. I have always wondered what my ancestry was, what my ancestors were like. Who my great-great-great-great-great grandpappy was and what he did for a living....
View ArticleDailykos user and groups appreciation thread!
Its been a while since we had one of these, and I am getting that dkos is feeling a bit down today, so its time for a dailykos users and groups appreciation thread. THIS IS A CALLOUT DIARY! Calling...
View ArticleStruggling a bit emotionally
I am just going to preface this by saying this diary is going to be personal. Intimately personal. I tried journaling, at my counselors suggestion, but I felt myself writing and not really connecting...
View ArticleThe transphobia not only here but everywhere in progressive spaces really...
Acceptance. It’s an easy word to spell, even easier to say. Its a simple concept to understand, at least simple enough. Finding belonging. Finding understanding. Finding your people. Its so simple, yet...
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🌟 Sushi took his place among the stars today 🌟
He had a heart murmur. We knew his time was limited. He started losing weight a few weeks ago. Started refusing food. Hanging out in random spots in the house where he usually didn’t explore. Started...
View ArticleMy counselor put me on a cable news diet
I had an appointment today with my counselor and I was talking about my fears for the country slowly sinking into fascism, and how out of control and anxious about it all I feel. She definitely...
View ArticleWhat the actual F*CK Katy Tur, Steve Kornacki and MSNBC?
So I haven’t been watching a lot of cable news lately on the advice from my counselor. She said to go slow and not completely cut myself off, but I did anyway. The exhaustion from watching nothing but...
View ArticleTonight's biggest loser -- The f*cking Load More button
I love dkos on election night. Seriously, I watch this website like a hawk every election, but I have to say, the newest update to the mobile site is making it nigh on impossible to enjoy tonight as...
View ArticleOregon elects first openly gay governor
Well, that’s all folks! KGW has called the race for Kotek, the Oregonian has followed suit. For some reason MSNBC has yet to call the race, but for people who live here, its over. Our flirtation with...
View ArticleHey Donald, if they don't like you, form a new party
The knives are out. They are coming for blood. They know you’ve lost, even if you don’t acknowledge responsibility, Don. They blame you for disrupting their beautiful red wave, and now they are...
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Once again, I come to dailykos for help
As many of you know, I have been struggling with Post-Covid syndrome and a number of other ailments that have put me out of work. I have diaried about it numerous times over the past couple of...
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