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Queen of Bithynia
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Blanta.

Depends on how smart the prosecutors are at playing the media.

You’re a bad person. You’re a bad person.

Boy, I . . . uh . . . feel . . . uh . . .

Fail.

Okay. I care about actually winning elections. I guess you don’t have to care about that kind of thing.

Okay. Nice shift from trying to claim some kind of moral high ground to trying to blame other people for being ridiculous enough to have principles.

You know, you can just be honest and admit that you can’t defend what you said.

What did I say that wasn’t positive?

I did vote for her, you moron. That doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend she wasn’t an awful candidate who ran an embarrassingly bad campaign. And we’re going to keep having awful candidates if we blame the electorate rather than the candidate and the leadership every time we lose.

Fail.

Okay, you like the candidate who advocated for the Iraq War and for dismantling the welfare system. Gotcha.

Okay, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true.

You can’t tell people that the only identity that matters is white working class men without a degree

I get that you think sarcasm is a winning strategy, but it’s not.

Let go of the notion that it’s all about where someone is on some ideological spectrum. It’s about a leader who is popular and has the strategic skills and leadership to appeal to a broad swath of the public.

I mean, our terrible candidate ran a terrible campaign and lost to someone too dumb to find his own asshole with a mirror and a miner’s helmet. It might be time for you to stop telling yourself how right you were when reality has said otherwise.

I guess in order for you to figure that out, you’ll have to start by identifying the person who expressed all those preferences you view as contradictory.

No, he won’t. Neither will Hillary, though, either, will she? So what exactly did we get in exchange for compromising our principles?

Even in the 90s it wasn’t a great strategy. Bill Clinton won in large part because Perot ran a third party campaign that pulled a ton of votes, and that was the same era when the lasting Dem majority in the house and senate ended. Everything their leadership ever got us came at tremendous cost to the party and liberal