I really miss those skits. He was perfect, I laughed at every one of those.

Drakkar Noir and cheetos.

The sound of quiet disappointment is one that middle children know instantly.

what do you think Sean smells like? Cinnamon and flop-sweat?

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when your VP candidate is somehow more low-energy than you are it’s a real problem.

At the convention, you’re supposed to move to unite the factions of the party. Not basically go “Fuck You” to a huge swath of energized voters and pick random-ass white dude from a northeastern purple state who shares most of your policy views.

From the beginning. I was a huge pessimist. Most of my age cohort, including me, voted for Bernie in the primaries (except my husband, who is a Libertarian and therefore doesn’t get a say) and a lot of them weren’t as gung-ho for Hillary. My very liberal best friend (white dude, Bernie voter, late 20s) recently told…

Because that pro-labor person would have beaten Trump about the head and face with the idea that he outsources his own jobs, proudly celebrates people getting fired, and really doesn’t give a damn about working-class americans. In an election where people are anxious about not having as good a life as their parents…

When did I get the feeling? When Obama made her Secretary of State in 2009.

To be entirely honest, not until the point in election night when I realized that Florida was gone. Even though I was cognizant of many of things you and others are pointing out (especially the part about basically none of us being particularly excited about her), but I think even with all of that, I just couldn’t…

I got nervous when I never heard from her campaign. I live in a swing state, have been active in politics (including running a canvassing operation for Obama), and actually was a statewide delegate for Bernie. And yet I never got a single call from her campaign asking me to volunteer or even vote.

I was shocked that she lost, but upon reflection, two things stuck out to me:

I got worried when the DNC went through with their plan to run Hillary unopposed. And no, O’Malley doesn’t count.

Also, when the Cubs won the world series. that was a warning that things were happening that normally would be impossible.

This goes hand in hand with the “didn’t have a clear message problem.” Dems in general have spent years campaigning to the center with the attitude that their base has nowhere else to go, and it finally caught up to them in a huge way.

I got the feeling when she announced Tim Kaine as her VP. This was the time to pick a firebrand pro-labor, anti-free trade person and she didn’t. At that moment, my “Oh Shit” alarm went off.