Also, cdwag14 is wrong, Hilary received fewer votes than Obama did in 2012.

You know that’s not true right? Hilary received fewer popular votes than Obama did in 2012.  She also did not get the majority of the popular vote.

I rarely sign in anymore but this deserved more stars.

I’m trying to tell you dipshits how to pick a candidate more likely to win next time.

You’re entitled to your own opinion. Not your own facts. I have seen him on numerous shows. I have not seen him bring up the 2016 election once.

Maybe next time choosing a nominee try to remember that personality and popularity matter, and that except in instances of a sitting president running for re-election, the ‘most qualified’ candidates have shitty odds of winning.

The election is over man. Why blame Clinton and all her flaws and her truly horrendous campaign when you have a scapegoat to beat. Why not try to figure out why so many Democrats were de-energized in 2016?

Um, yep.

Stop playing game theory, the time has come and passed for that. Our country is traveling at an alarming velocity towards fascism, and all aspects of our system that were intended to safeguard from that, have now not only failed, but enabled, and in some instances (like Kennedy) encouraged that descent towards…

The short answer is: because if they don’t at least pay lip service to playing dirty, they’ll look they’re rolling over in the face of Republican fuckery.

We can force every single Republican to be present in chamber to clear the 51 needed for quorum. McCain isn’t exactly spry at the moment. Not that the Democrats have the political will to fight.

Once you get people voting for them, THEN you shift left if that’s what you actually want to do.

and I’m loving every bit of it.

There’s that old Gawker feeling.

Leading the opposition to Trump and his policies is the last thing Obama should be doing.

Regular people don’t get paid to or swear to protect and serve their community. Regular people can’t shoot people in the fucking back and be acquitted on self-defense almost every fucking time. Regular people don’t get a paid fucking vacation when they murder unarmed people. Cops are not regular people. They’re…

Id answer seriously, but 1) Dicey has given you WAY better replies than I could have. and 2) It would be a waste of my time judging from your shitshow.

Wait, what? A poem wasn’t legal doctrine?!! Has anyone told Emmerson!?!

Damn right. Testify!

For the most part, yes. Closeable when necessary, but otherwise as wide open and acccepting as possible.