That is just an inaccurate reading of what she said. The coal mines are going out of business because coal is no longer competitive as an energy source, and that's largely due to fracking, not government regulation. And if you're going to intentionally misread it, you should at least have the basic honesty to say "a…

When's "used to be"? When was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate campaigned against a major trade agreement?

I think you pasted the wrong link, because that article neither proves "the DNC was working for Clinton" nor that anyone "[said] that the party officials should be able to choose whoever they want".

People just started criticizing Democratic leadership after Trump became President? News to me.

Remember when making fun of how the president talked involved talking slowly and precisely and occasionally saying "now let me be clear"?

What policy should the Democrats offer to suffering mining communities instead? Other than "stand up for them" and other such abstract positions?

If every coal miner in the US had voted for Clinton, she still wouldn't have flipped any of the necessary states.

She promised to shut down all the coal mines.

Brain-washed Dems who put party over every consideration used to insist that the system wasn't rigged, but when evidence that the DNC was working for Clinton came to light, they switched to saying that the party officials should be able to choose whoever they want, and anyone who didn't like it could form their own…

I mean, one candidate in 2016 ran on increasing the minimum wage and the other ran on cutting it. One candidate ran on raising taxes on the rich to pay for social programs and the other ran on a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for the rich. The degree to which Trump ran to the left on economic issues is generally…

Putin isn't a communist. Russia is not communist. Is this serious?

Chuck Schumer just became Senate minority leader this year.

The difference between Trump winning and losing the electoral college came down to about 100,000 votes distributed across three states. That's what "narrowly" means.

I still don't think this is as funny as the time he made up a racist story about seeing illegal immigrants waiting in line to vote and then decided to ascribe it to a specific pro golfer who never told him such a story, isn't friends with Trump at all, and is not a US citizen and thus would not be in the voting line…

The DNC emails showed, primarily, that DNC staffers disliked someone who had sued them and accused them of corruption.

They're rich. Everything they do is legal.

Hi, what is your source for claiming the Clinton campaign paid $1 million for the Steele dossier?

People pushing the Seth Rich conspiracy theory is a total dealbreaker for me. It's a loathsome thing.

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O'Neal at his best runs circles around even the best all-time Gawker writers, and I'm a big fan of several of them. He's also a superb, insightful writer on pop culture when the AV Club deigns to cover it.