The Twelve Days of Election Excuses. Ho Ho Ho!

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 5:53am

A friend directed me to a blog that purports to explain how Hillary Clinton, the most unpopular candidate in recent American history, managed to lose the presidential election to Donald Trump, the only candidate who may actually surpass her in unfavorable regard.

That was quite a feat and everyone involved deserves a measure of credit.

However, if there is "fault" or "blame" to be levied over this hot mess of an election outcome, it belongs to neither the candidates nor the voters. Make no mistake: The blame belongs entirely to the Parties that put these two candidates into nomination. The Party Leaders possess the authority — an established authority that can legally eclipse even your primary votes — to select the very finest candidate the Party has to offer to stand for the highest elected office in the Nation.

The Parties built this system. They exist solely to draft the next President and shepherd the flock. The people expect their leaders to help them develop a stronger, healthier, and more enlightened civilization over time. Each new generation should do better that the prior one, for it falls to them to care for the generations passing on. The empowerment of each new generation is the most important investment a society must make if it is to thrive and endure. A Party platform is not meant to rehabilitate a present that has failed, its purpose is to set the course for a better future for everyone. Is your Party doing its job? Or is it a self-serving bubble of corruption that diminishes your dreams?

The blog explaining Hillary's surprise defeat described a litanty of Donald Trump's disrespectful behaviors and political shenanigans. His supporters were dismissed as uncouth and politically naieve; focused on money and willing to cast any blame that will stick. These complaints and excuses did not really elucidate the winning strategy, they had a low-calorie sloganeering tone that I found entertaining. Amazingly, these excuses seemed to fit the similarly-named Christmas tune. So, in the spirit of this season of harmony….

::::Blows a note on the pitch pipe::::

The Twelve Days of Election Excuses

On the first day of excuses my Party sent to me:
A Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the second day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the third day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the fourth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the fifth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the sixth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the seventh day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Seven Jobs Outsourcing
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the eighth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Eight Shills a Shilling
Seven Jobs Outsourcing
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the ninth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Nine Letters Leaking
Eight Shills a Shilling
Seven Jobs Outsourcing
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the tenth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Ten Pollsters Polling
Nine Letters Leaking
Eight Shills a Shilling
Seven Jobs Outsourcing
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the eleventh day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Eleven Ballots Missing
Ten Pollsters Polling
Nine Letters Leaking
Eight Shills a Shilling
Seven Jobs Outsourcing
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

On the twelfth day of excuses my Party sent to me:
Twelve Voter No-Shows
Eleven Ballots Missing
Ten Pollsters Polling
Nine Letters Leaking
Eight Shills a Shilling
Seven Jobs Outsourcing
Six Rust Belt Losers
Five Mis.o.gy.nists….
Four Racist Pigs
Three Privileged Whites
Two Bernie Bros
And a Donald Trump Vic.tory

A Politically Correct Holiday to all, and to all a Goodnight.

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Comments

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 8:17am

Very creative, Pluto!

Nice job!

edited because tech challenged!

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Submitted by dance you monster on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 8:38am

Nice!

But sip that eggnog gently, 'cuz the two parties this year made the nutmeg extra nutty.

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 8:43am

heh...

there are not enough days for all of the excuses.

on the thirteenth day of excuses, my party sent to me:

james comey intervening...

very nicely done, pluto!

Submitted by dance you monster on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 8:55am

A fortnight and counting.

on the fourteenth day of excuses, my party sent to me:

EC needs disbanding...

Submitted by dance you monster on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 9:01am

and . . .

on the fifteenth day of excuses, my party sent to me:

Fifteen Russians hacking...

Submitted by Jazzenterprises on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:35am

and...

on the sixteenth day of excuses, my party sent to me:

Sixteen media outlets lying & faking & giving too much air time...

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Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 12:36pm

and...

on the seventeenth day of excuses, my party sent to me:

Seventeen Wikis leaking.

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Submitted by Phoebe Loosinhouse on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 9:42am

You're right about the two Parties being ultimately to blame

I kept waiting for the Republicans to uninvite Trump from any further debates and to tell him he would no longer be considered a potential nominee and yet it never happened. They established that they have no standards to violate. And.Then.He.Won.

I have to believe that any normal candidate without HRC's overload of baggage and history would have prevailed over Trump. The more I read the more it seems that her campaign and the Party honestly and deludedly thought she had a lock on the election and had the shock of their lives when she didn't prevail on election night. I guess since all the prognosticators also believed she was on the verge of a landslide and a wave election, that no one seriously ever sounded the alarm, except of course for all the Berners who took their denigration at the hands of her campaign personally.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I've never seen a campaign before that went after the voters of the other candidate with an insult campaign, which Hillary's did twice, in the primary with the Bros smear and in the general with the deplorables. The only explanation has to be that they believed themselves to be so far ahead that they wanted to alienate and anger any segment of the electorate they perceived to not be in her corral and tell them openly, don't bother, we don't want you and we don't need you. Who can explain a strategy like that?

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:32am

What I wouldn't have paid

To be a fly on the wall that night.

The more I read the more it seems that her campaign and the Party honestly and deludedly thought she had a lock on the election and had the shock of their lives when she didn't prevail on election night

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Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:52am

Given rumors, zoebear, a ceiling attachment might be better.

Or did she not even appear before her frightened serfs and yeomen on election evening?

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:56am

Did I miss a story about a fly?

I'm not familiar with that rumor. Please, tell me why I wouldn't want to be a fly near Hillary? I thought Obama was the fly killer.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by riverlover on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:09am

I heard she was physically striking out at items/people

so flies better be fast!

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:16am

Ceiling lamp

it is then. Lol

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Submitted by 2andfro on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 1:28pm

apparently the alarm was sounded in places like WV and MI

and ignored. Completely. The Clinton campaign, full of "savvy" inside-the-Beltway types, knew better than people on the ground.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/11/13/michigan-democrat-i-wa...

From Garbage In, Garbage Out: Turns out Clinton's ground game sucked:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/clinton-campaign-gotv-unions-voters-r...

Excerpts:

...A union staffer in Pittsburgh reports a similar pattern, saying that Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters failed to invest in a locally generated plan to reach out to African Americans who lived in parts of Pennsylvania other than Pittsburgh and Philly...

The same geographical tone deafness was seen in the campaign’s decision to place its Pittsburgh headquarters in an upscale part of town. At one point this fall, a group of immigration rights activists even staged a sit-in at the campaign office to protest their community’s marginalization within the effort.

The Clinton campaign’s assumption seems to have been that actual people living on the ground in actual places knew less about the population around them than did the data-savvy professionals at campaign headquarters in Brooklyn.

Another labor organizer lamented in an email about the awful campaign Hillary ran in the northern Midwest. When local leaders started to panic at the apparent traction Trump was gaining in these regions and urged the Clinton campaign to send the candidate into the Rust Belt, the geographic ulcer of corporate globalization, nothing happened. Clinton largely stayed away from the counties she lost; but Trump was all over them. Counties that Obama had carried four years ago experienced fifteen- to twenty-five-point swings in Trump’s favor....

Similarly, G. K. Butterfield, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, worried out loud about the lack of campaign investment in African-American communities in his home state of North Carolina, which Obama lost by fourteen thousand votes in 2012.

Instead, the Clinton campaign went all in on TV ads. Meanwhile, field offices suffered. In 2012 the Obama campaign had 789 field offices; this time around, Clinton only had 489 nationwide.

...It gets worse. With too few people on the ground and the local knowledge of grassroots activists being shunned, the campaign apparently started feeding garbage to its computers and thus got garbage in return.

The computer-obsessed Clinton campaign — having lost touch with people but not big data — seems to have inadvertently turned out Trump voters!

...As one union staffer told me: “What they seem to have missed is that the way to reach blacks, Latinos, and women is the same way you reach the white working class: progressive economics, and knock on their doors. And guess what? The allegedly ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ white working class is cool with a multicultural coalition as long as you give them the progressive economics. On the other hand, it turns out that downplaying the progressive economics loses everyone except the skilled professionals.”

Another interesting Jacobin piece: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/clinton-election-polls-white-workers-...

Excerpt:

Many assumed that the fear of Trump would make nonwhite Democrats — who were at the heart of Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 — rush to the polls in huge numbers. Despite various warning signs, from Ohio to Florida, the Clinton campaign seems to have shared the same assumption.

But they were disastrously wrong. Exit polls report that Trump did even better with Latino voters than Mitt Romney in 2012. While some experts have disputed those findings, county-level results suggest that at the very least, the Clinton campaign did not generate anything like the wave of Latino voters that Democrats were expecting.

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Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:36pm

How about: they cheated in

How about: they cheated in the nomination, had cheating planned for the election - and then TPTB changed their minds because she couldn't be trusted to do their bidding if offered more money by a competitor and is too wildly egotistical and far too far out of touch with reality and would have caused global riots even before actually taking the oath she had no intention of honoring. Pretty much the same goes for Trump, but in need, they have Pence for a fill-in.

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Submitted by dkmich on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:17am

Good job Pluto

If I'm this depressed and disgusted by PEOTUS, POTUS ought to destroy what little optimism is left no matter how myopic it may be.

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Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:25am

Millions of millennials a'thinking!

Oh, the champagne that'll be flowing at the Christmas Parties inside the beltway this year. I hear Hillary & Co. Is polishing up another PR angle for her return to the Beltway scene after another one of her defeats.

http://bostonjournal.org/whats-next-for-hillary-latest-moves-indicate-cl...

Clearly that stake thru the heart the electorate gave her failed to destroy the both of them. I think we are dealing with a pair of dead eyed zombies. Does anyone know the protocol for killing them? I've forgotten my zombie rule book.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by lizzyh7 on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 4:25pm

Only a stake through the brain would do it

from what I remember about zombie killing protocol.

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Submitted by Jazzenterprises on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 10:32am

In the spirit of this diary

and I promise I will not spam this here, but it belongs, so probably its final appearance...

The Democratic Party

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:18am

Or you could do this each time you use it.

This (↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑) is me being an ass. But I think it is funny.

RIP

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 1:37pm

in that small one it looks like the ostrich is pooping

rainbows, which is just that much more appropriate, given one particular common purity slur.

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Submitted by Caerus on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:01am

Laughing and Crying

Proof of need for the above logo to be made official.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/how-the-democratic-party-...

Submitted by Azazello on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 12:27pm

Brilliant P ...

Jimmy Dore is not quite so poetic.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jl-Low0KLU width:500 height:300]

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 8:45pm

I am so enamored of Jimmy Dore

…that I want to move into his studio full time. It's my sane zone.

Thanks for posting this. It's a more serious discussion that usual, and packed with informed perspective.

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 12:47pm

another christmas comes and goes, and yet again

i find my stocking is bereft of deplorables!

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Submitted by LoneStarMike on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 3:07pm

In keeping with the Christmas snark theme . . .

I'm sure you've all heard about the big push the Clinton supporters are making to try and convince enough faithless electors to switch their votes from Trump to Clinton - thus giving her the presidency.

In a stunning bit of FAKE NEWS, the Democratic Party has come out with a last-ditch, pull-out-the-stops marketing effort to achieve this - complete with a graphic and a new song played by an orchestra. The whole theme ties into Christmas. The song is to the tune of "O Come All Ye Faithful". The instrumental version is posted below with the "new" lyrics posted beneath the graphic.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oiU2iOG-OU width:320]

(Short Instrumental Bridge to first verse)

O Come All Ye Faithless
Angry and Indignant
O Come Ye and Cast Your Votes For
Hillary, Our Queen.
Come and Behold Her
Born the Queen of Hubris
Although You May Abhor Her
We Won't Let You Ignore Her
So Come Let Us Adore Her
Hillary, Our Queen

People of Color
Millennials and Women
O come Ye and Cast Your Votes For
Hillary, Our Queen
Please End Our Nightmare
(She Was More Electable)
Progressives Do Not Faze Her
Forget About Who Pays Her
Lift Up Your Hands And Praise Her
Hillary, Our Queen

O Come Ye Electors
You Must Now Obey Us
O Come Ye and Cast Your Votes For
Hillary, Our Queen
She Must Defeat Him
Trump - The King of Arrogance
We Will Not Ever Waiver
Despite Her Bad Behavior
We Need Her As Our Savior
Hillary, Our Queen
(Hil-lar-y, Our Q-u-e-e-n)

During the hymm, the offering plate will be passed around. Give generously.

Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:42pm

Another new Christmas classic

Another new Christmas classic? I'm not usually into Christmas music, but this is instantly another new favorite, and one for which you have my gratitude.

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A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Linda Wood on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 6:49pm

Brilliant, ye lyric writers.

Laughter really helps. Peace.

Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 11:29pm

A new Christmas classic and a

A new Christmas classic and a new favorite. Thanks!

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.