Exactly. “I can’t punch down anymore!”; “I can’t rely on the bigotry of my audience to compensate for my weak material anymore!”; “I can’t trade in easy stereotypes for cheap laughs anymore!”

When comedians complain that they can’t do comedy now that “everyone gets offended” what they’re really saying is “our job is too hard now that we can’t pressure women and minorities into awkwardly chuckling when we blatantly insult them.”

I find the whole “we can’t joke about what’s happening in the world with people getting offended!” line so disingenuous because there are countless comedians making a living joking about what happening in the world in a thoughtful way. What they really mean is “no one find ME and MY casual bigotry funny anymore, and…

Bill Clinton has a long history of being a sexual predator and Hillary was complicit in silencing his victims every step of the way. I think that she gets a kind of perverse pleasure when the woman in her circle (i.e. Huma Abedin) are victimized by men.

It’s almost as if this was a craven political calculation meant to hide scandal and was made without principle or standard. Geez, you would think that the average voter might pick up on that kind of insincerity which could catch up with her in the long run, even maybe setting back the slow march of progress in this…

To be fair, Ashes of Reality never said that Trump deserved to win... Both deserved to lose in my eye...But the 2016 election’s candidates are probably best described: “Everyone Sucks 2016".

Same. I voted HRC but didn’t feel or quite understand the insane love fest all my friends seemed to be having over her. I was originally a Bernie supporter because he seemed more honest and transparent (of course still human and had his errors...I think ANYONE who wants to be president has some unchecked ego issues)…

Hillary’s problem is that she is ride or die...I recognize the behavioral pattern because I have the same problem. Once you’re in her inner circle she is not interested in hearing anything negative about you and she will come for anyone who comes for you. That’s a double-edged sword. I’m glad she stood by Huma even…

I get what you’re saying. I don’t think the country deserves the Trump administration, but I’m hard pressed to think of a Democrat who deserved to lose to Donald Trump more than Hillary. The cultural forces that defeated her are the same ones she spent her career placating and prioritizing. She’s like Joe Pesci being…

Juanita Broaddrick wasn’t on the GOP payroll when she told loved ones about the assault contemporaneously. I’ve long figured Broaddrick is the person who basically taught Bill not to rape. Like he didn’t quite appreciate in the moment how much he fucked up and adjusted his behavior to avoid crossing that line in the…

Right?

Took the words right out of my mouth. I am utterly amazed at the responses here.

“I can’t count the number of times I and others were taken to task for not liking her”

“How does she still not get that her playing to both sides is part of why she was such a shit candidate”

Madam super-predator got my vote because she was the lesser of two klan devils. Malcolm and Biko have warned me enough. I don’t cast naive votes. It’s just that I’m currently powerless and don’t have a better choice.

She didn’t just stand by him, she went into full attack mode publically blaming and shaming the women as “bimbos” and “loony narcissists”. I was a young adult when it happened and I remember not just being shocked by how tawdry it all was, cum stained dresses and cigars up the vag but I also remember being blown away…

Remember, it takes people in power to protect sexual predators. That includes women like Clinton who are willing to due so to benefit themselves. Not only did she turn a blind eye but she totally undermined the woman who came forward. Clinton is complicit.

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh.

Lol this is the Hillary stans take. Not that their fave allowed a woman to be sexual assaulted but oh no, this gives the Bernie faction ammo :(

Love how you just make that leap. The awfulness of Clinton is its own subject that has nothing to do with Sanders.