Ah, sorry, I replied before your edit!

And as another consolation prize, I will say this.... It is nice to see how many people have become actively involved in politics since the election. Divisions in the Left aside, I do appreciate how many more people are showing up in the streets and running for office in areas we couldn’t find candidates for in the…

And I’m not saying that you can’t be irritated at Messing - just that replying to someone aggravated with Sarandon’s continued more-progressive-than-thou antics by pointing out that Messing did something stupid last year too ends up feeling like it mitigates what Sarandon has and continues to do.

True, but... She wanted to. After Clinton won the nomination, Sarandon wanted Clinton to lose, and wasn’t afraid to going around saying as much. And it really is impossible to say how her antics may have affected voter enthusiasm - it probably didn’t change anything, but who can say?

Oh, but how will she ever find the time to make that money, what with her grabbing a rifle and being on the front lines of this “revolution” she promises Trump will lead to, that was so much better than a boring incrementalist?

You can say that Sarandon didn’t contribute to Trump’s election, and I think a strong case can be made that nobody listens to her.

I mean, that was stupid and all, but she didn’t contribute to the rapid erosions of civil rights in America, the next major economic crash, the (possible) start of any wars, or an environmental catastrophe of unimaginable scale.

Probably Russian, honestly. They’re going to keep meddling with our politics until we actually do something to stop them, so that when they decide to advance an actual policy, the people speaking will have “legitimacy” from having been involved for years, and the groups opposing them will be weaker.

Well, it’s also important to recognize how much influence it had so as to avoid over-correction.

The media all ready told the story in this book, the one where it’s always Hillary’s fault about everything. Hell, she’s even been accused of being too smart, too informed and that somehow these are bad things and made her unrelatable. In which case, maybe the problem isn’t her as much as the general electorate and…

Just in case anyone needed a reminder that American archbishops still have more values in common with American evangelicals than the church they supposedly represent.

And, of course, to the vast bulk of voters who don’t watch the news on even a daily basis... They kept getting those “Is Trump turning things around?” and “Is Hillary dying?” headlines, which were meant to be a break from the presumed norm as the actual norm, because there were far fewer consistent “Hillary is…

*Never mind, I spent too many paragraphs going off on a tangent.

Susan Bordo’s “The Destruction of Hillary Clinton” is a pretty good take on that.

This is why I don’t particularly care for the book. They worked closely with the campaign, so that’s what they speak about, but... For once, the story of the election isn’t actually the story of the campaign. Ultimately, what the staff was trying to do had little discernable effect on the election, and most of the…

And her “lack of a message” is inseparable from the issue of Russia and misogyny.

“...including the false claim that hormonal contraceptives cause abortions, miscarriages, and reduced fertility.”

“Its [contraception’s] efficacy is very low,” she said, “especially when you consider over years – which, a lot of contraception health advocates want to start women in their adolescent years, when they’re extremely fertile, incidentally, and continue for 10, 20, 30 years. The prospect that contraception would always…

His real propaganda arm probably consists more of deceptive facebook memes, honestly. A lot of his voters didn’t seem to read or watch news of any sort, just watching what their friends were sharing.

It’s rather horrifying that he went from being a peddler of scam juices to being in the White House press room by riding the coattails of GamerGate. What does that say about our progress as a society, that associating oneself with a hate group can still be a good career move?