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Erik Charles Nielsen
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Mayor of Baltimore?

It worked for Anna Chlumsky!

I was mocking your inability to see beyond your personal condition, and/or your willingness to let feelings outweigh data — not your wealth or lack thereof. Saying "well, I'm _personally_ not doing better than I was eight years ago" is the equivalent of James Inhofe throwing that snowball. I'm not mocking you because

You said the primary was "shady," not me. I agree that Sanders engaged in specious argument after specious argument, made all kinds of winking accusations about perfectly innocent things, and so forth. He ran an ultra-shady campaign. And guess what, he still didn't win.

The Tebow/CFL thing was literally one of my favorite fictional works of the past few years.

"Everything you're saying would happen if Bernie were President IS happening…"

Jesus Christ, your response proves exactly what I was saying about you in the first place.

I don't imagine that Sanders and his supporters aimed vitriol at anyone who tried to point these things out. Why would I have to imagine it?

"People (believe right-wing and conspiracy-theorist lies about) the way our government (on both sides) ignores the needs and the pain of the citizens of this country."

I figured that anyone making claims about jobs was familiar with, at a bare minimum, the monthly job growth statistics, average household income stats, etc.

Let's start from the beginning here, because I think you might have expanded on some of your arguments a little more.

"Uninformed people aren't paying attention! Therefore, they jump to unsupported conclusions! Your job isn't to inform them, or to figure out practical ways to help them! It's to pander to their barely-examined surmises about why things aren't going better for them! Jesus Christ, do I have to do everything for you?"

If that's what you're hearing, that says more about your ears than it does about anyone else's.

Oh. I thought you were talking about the real world. An understandable mistake.

If being qualified for the job, and carrying on policies that have worked over and over again, isn't "a relatable message for voters" — and it was a "relatable" message for more than half of them, whatever that means — the problem is not with the message. The problem is with the voters.

I must have missed out on the "nightmare we're living now." (Or at least before January.)

Would have done so, yes, if Sanders and Trump hadn't screwed things up. According to her plans (note that Hillary had, you know, actual detailed plans), she would have moved most of Obama's policies forward. I know that's not "exciting" or whatever, which is apparently a negative now? But "exciting" isn't the same

Even if he had won the primaries, and THEN the general election… what then? He was clearly out of his depth on most issues, and his "budget" was a Paul Ryan-level joke. The guy had a very good idea of what buzzwords would excite low- to medium-information voters. He had either no commitment, or no intent, to draft a

Roof Dog is just a bland, sanitized reboot of Roof Goat.

It mostly just sounds like a Smashing Pumpkins album track. I don't know that it would've massively changed anything if it had been on the album.