You’re right that it isn’t a surprise — it was obvious in 2015 that the DNC was clearing the decks of all serious challengers against HRC. But no one wanted to talk about it then — people who brought it up were accused of whining or exaggerating. And by the time most people noticed, it was a fait accompli.

So...there are heels, and there are heels.

So...I am married to an alcoholic. It sucks, for all the reasons you’ve talked about. And more. My wife has gone to rehab five times. We’re going to court next week to find the results of her first DWI (it’s amazing she’d never gotten one before, honestly) where she blew .22 at the scene, and has no memory of the…

Y’all is the only remaining vestige of my Southern accent, because it is far too useful to discard. (And “you guys” sets my teeth on edge.)

A bunch of gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns have been coined over the years — I’m personally partial to zie/hir. But they never gain any traction.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the sport I was really good at — soccer — was one that nobody in my hometown already knew how to play. (This was the 70s/80s in Texas.) So the coaches *had* to teach the fundamentals to everyone.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance is always super-depressing...but this year is going to be especially bad.

Do you have a link for that? That’s not what I’ve seen reported. What I saw Brazile say is that the two campaigns signed similar agreements with regards to fundraising, but that the agreement which gave HRCs campaign staffing approval was a different one, and was related to the transfer of money to help pay off the…

Totally fair point, but also fairly normal. (Not preventing donors from over-donating is different than constructing a mechanism to encourage them to over-donate.)

So...you asked me where the corruption was. I told you, and I notice you didn’t defend or disagree with any of my actual points.

He did, but the way the agreement was structured it helped Hillary (because she had big donors who wanted to give more than the legal limit) and didn’t help Bernie (because he had small donors). So he never used his.

They were corrupt because the purpose of the joint fundraising agreement was to circumvent candidate contribution limits. Once donors hit the hard caps, they donated to the DNC/state parties, which through these agreements gave the money right back to the campaigns. (To the real detriment of the state parties, which…

I don’t know if Bernie would have won the general. But there is no doubt in my mind that he would have won my state. (Michigan.)

This isn’t about Bernie. This is about corrupt arrangements at the DNC. The arrangements were morally and ethically wrong, and should be condemned no matter who you supported for the nomination.

I would like to hear more about your cunning plan...

But here’s the thing about that fundraising agreement. It is only useful to a campaign where a significant number of their contributors want to give more than the legal limit to the campaign. This agreement allowed those donors to give additional money to the DNC/State parties, and then have that money “laundered”…

She couldn’t have raised all the money herself, because there is a legal limit to how much an individual can contribute to a campaign. Funneling the money through the state parties to the DNC and back to HRCs campaign was a way to “legally” avoid those limits.

No, the money wouldn’t have gone to her anyway, because these were contributions above the legal contribution limits. This was a way of circumventing those limits.

Which is worse? Bernie not raising money for the state partiesin the first place? Or Hillary *claiming* to raise money for the state parties, but having this agreement require that those state parties send the money back to the DNC, which sent the money back to her campaign?

The problem is that the agreement gave the Clinton campain the right to make all staffing decisions at the DNC *before* the primary. Because of that, there is no reason to believe that they would be neutral during the primary.