Clinton is our best choice against Trump.

So, if you've been paying any attention whatsoever, you know that there's a big push under way by the Democratic Party.

Time to rally behind the one person who hasn't done anything but talk about how she was screwed over by misogynists. Only now it's not about her... It's about all the people who put in time and effort to her campaign. Yes, They ALL put in such hard hours and time, why don't you understand that by continuing to claim the DNC selected Clinton, you are disrespecting their efforts?

Because those deportations and separations of families would have NEVER happened under Clinton, Right?

Well, I mean it's different, those were CRIMINALS. Funny thing, that's also Trump's excuse.

Clinton, Chelsea, and all the standard mouthpieces are out, attacking Trump for actions they themselves perpetrated and collaborated in. Color me shocked. All in nice synchronized timing with the DNC going hardcore establishment. Somebody call Casey Kasem. The DNC just requested their number one, all time TOP 40 Hit....

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYK2H0ldbo]
(Yes, I know he's dead.)

Look, I get it. And I also get that you've found the one topic that people can still CARE about. Funny that you don't give a shit when it's just Poor Americans... (Rednecks/Welfare Moms/insert Poor Stereotype Here) You tried that shit already to push Gun Control... Oh wait, was that the topic we were supposed to still be pissed off about?

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PpUrv60lGA]

I get it, Democrats... But your "Completely Foolproof" plan has one major flaw in it. You have completely failed to take into account the ingenuity of complete fools. (H/T To Douglas Adams.)
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It's time to respect the many DNCers and dK-dwelling wannabes who put in so much effort to tip the scales in 2016. Corruption is hard work, dammit!

Seriously, though, it's extraordinary how much arrogance fills the air for people to keep insisting that all those voters who didn't vote for Clinton were merely momentarily deluded, that next time they'll see the error of their ways, choose another delusion to embrace, and get with the New Dem program at long last. Entitlement, it's what's for supper.

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@dance you monster That read something like...
"Tell YOUR story. People connect more with that. Be sure to mention how betrayed YOU feel that people don't like Clinton..."

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@TheOtherMaven Use to much of it, too obviously, and it's clear you're just trying to disguise the flavour of bad argument.

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@gjohnsit It is by the flower of Ganja that thoughts acquire speed, the snark becomes a blade, the blade becomes an essay. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

-Stoner Mentat Mantra

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@gjohnsit in between tokes will my mastery be complete... Smile

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Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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@The Aspie Corner I for one prefer discussing cheese to their highly sophisticated tactics.

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1) Destroy the Dems midterm chances.

2) Blame progressives, especially Sanders.

3) Threaten to release all her oppo research on Biden, Harris, Booker, Warren, etc. to get them to drop out.

4) Buy the DNC again.

5) Replay 2016 using her media buddies to slam the only legit contender left (Sanders), while using purged voter rolls and electronic voter fraud to steal primary wins.

6) Steal nomination and this time refuse to allow any Sanders' delegates to even be seated in the Hall.

7) Lose to Trump.

8) Blame #Russia, and anybody to the left of Dubya for her loss.

9) Start the run-up to Chelsea 2024.

10) Repeat steps 1-9.

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@Steven D if Clinton ran again.

Because you KNOW that the only candidate she could possibly win against... is currently President, because we all knew that she couldn't lose to...

Yeah... I imagine the planning session went something like this...

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@Steven D

4) Buy the DNC again.

She won't need to do that. The DNC are honest politicians, after all.

(They stay bought.)

6) Steal nomination and this time refuse to allow any Sanders' delegates to even be seated in the Hall.

7) Lose to Trump.

8) Blame #Russia, and anybody to the left of Dubya for her loss.

9) Start the run-up to Chelsea 2024.

10) Repeat steps 1-9.

You forgot one step:

9.5) Rinse.

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@Steven D

A year or two before she declared that she was running for president which shows that she was going to run. After she did that she gave her speeches to the banks which was against election law, but so is having one's husband interfere with people being able to vote at the 4 Massachusetts voting places that Bill went to.

His security detail took up many parking spaces, messed with people getting inside the building to vote because Bill was also inside them which was a huge no-no, but hey, it's a Clinton doing that so it's all good, right?

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@Steven D Can't she just cheat, or have her advisors not figured out how to out-cheat Trump yet?

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--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

The bankster, pharmaceutical, MIC oligarchs that is. Joe Biden? He's something like 0 and 2 in his previous Presidential campaigns. Tim Kaine has already shown himself to be useless. Nope, it's got to be Hillary again. The Clintons aren't ready to just give away the DNC either. On the other side, the MIC, oil, prison industry and bankster oligarchs just can't seem to find the next Paul Ryan or Ted Cruz. I noticed this morning that they're having to trot out Rick Santorum now, probably for lack of anybody else. From where are the next stars of the oligarchy / sycophancy being trained coming?

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@Timmethy2.0 And we can all smile and wave at their coronations while dreaming of being selected to join the rich and famous.

Am I describing Monarchy or Democracy?

The Answer to this question is yes.

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Just because he can't win doesn't mean they won't try to shove him down our throats

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Why is Amazon running a full page of “Michelle Obama for President” T-Shirts? What does Bezos know that we don’t know?

And why did Michelle decide to launch her new book on November 13th, 2018, just a week after the midterm elections? Was that merely a coincidence or was the date chosen by her political advisors for some other reason?

And what about those rumors that Oprah might run for president in 2020? Were they really triggered by off-the-cuff comments by Seth Meyers at the Golden Globes or was Oprah really just a stalking horse for Candidate Michelle?...

Like her husband, Michelle is a thoroughly-reliable political marionette who will play the ‘liberal card’ to maximum effect while quashing the unions, kowtowing to Wall Street, perpetuating the wars, and ensuring that the bulk of the nation’s wealth continues to flow upwards to our glorious 1 percent overlords. It’s worth noting, that Barack’s eight year stint as Prez represented the greatest shift of wealth from middle-to-upper class in the nation’s 240 year history. I fully expect Michelle to break that record during her upcoming tenure as chief executive.

- Mike Whitney, Why Is Amazon Running a Full Page of "Michelle Obama for President" T-Shirts?

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when you initially liked and admired a betrayer, doesn't it? Especially when you (meaning me) continued making excuses for them (as with the Obamas,) for so long out of ignorance and a failure to change the dirty diaper of hope...)

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@Ellen North push they had during the first year of their presidency?

I certainly do. Oh wait, no I don't I remember being thrown out of my housing on base with less than 24 hours notice, thanks a fucking lot... I remember being told "There is help available, why aren't you going?" when the slightest misstep would... you know what, fuck it.

The guy just was a liar who preyed on what we needed and gave us the finger when we asked him to pay up.

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Although I suppose that cannon-fodder doesn't merit notice...

I do remember that it turned out to be impossible for Michelle to have, or even speak publicly of having, an organic garden in the White House grounds, because Monsanto... jeez, what a 'democracy'... easy to tell who the masters of unreality are.

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@Ellen North When you leave the service, even with the minimal amount of notice I got, you are expected to leave government housing.

Even if that housing is a "Contractor". Even if you have kids. Even if they've taken the entirety of your last paycheck. (Which they did. Had to repay that "Bonus" I got to enlist. Yes, they were graciously generous and allowed me to keep the bonus for the years I actually served, but the rest of it... )

If people wonder why I don't feel guilty any more about getting my disability pension...

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And can you imagine
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Hillary's rage at first losing to the first black prez, and Then losing out to the first woman prez?
Her head just might explode.

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@arendt Oh, Christ.

I guess Oprah told them to shove their stupid politics. She's doing fine where she is.

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And he seemed like such a nice guy, too

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@Anja Geitz But his costar Frank Welker is still alive, kicking and playing the world's oldest teenager. (He's been doing Fred on Scooby Doo for over 50 years now...)

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@Anja Geitz

Casey Kasem died on June 15, 2014. He was 82.

And the video we saw reminds us all that on-air personalities are only human, and lose it just like the rest of us do.

And Casey's slip was still nothing compared with:

[video:https://youtu.be/ppum72Zqxq8]

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that Clinton has figured out how that whole Electoral College thing works, and nothing can stop her now? She'll barnstorm flyover country and wag her finger at the deplorables and shame them into voting for an empty pantsuit?
((goes to make popcorn))

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@WoodsDweller The next two years will be spend explaining why his policies are non-starters and possibly influenced by Russia. Which Bernie will sadly agree is indeed the case, and that he was secretly working for Trump and Putin the whole time. Pay no attention to the bruises.

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@detroitmechworks You are mighty. I salute you.

Bringing up the bruises is like talking about the chemical residue after the towers fell.

You have balls of steel, sir.

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another run at the Oval Office. And I see her picking someone like that sleazeball Warner. Or maybe Booker or Harris.

It will be someone that TPTB thinks we’ll fall for as being a ‘progressive’ (something they know we’ll never believe The Clinton Creature is) and who will be a good corporate Dim who will toe the party line and be a worthy ‘successor’.

We need a Third Party or the Greens to run someone who’s an electable candidate.

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@Amanda Matthews
to run in 2020.
Have you seen this: What is Hillary Clinton hiding?

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello in fact, just secured his sainthood in the American mythos.

The poor beleagured president who was only following the advice of bad advisors, and psychics... because he was sick!

Deserves our pity and praise... (Wish I could claim I hadn't ever heard this argument...)

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should be no bar to the Presidency. Not as long as he can hold a pen and sign things, anyway.

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@detroitmechworks

Never stopped Reagan. in fact, just secured his sainthood in the American mythos.

The poor beleagured president who was only following the advice of bad advisors, and psychics... because he was sick!

The poor beleagured president who was only following the advice of bad psychos?

Oh, waitaminit, that was just his wife, Nancy!

[Emily Litella voice:] "Never mind!"

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@Azazello

They do make back braces which do not stick out which even non-millionaires/billionaires can get, and have done so for freaking ever, so I rather doubt that's it.

Could be a combination programming/realistic-operation and infant blood-supply pack, which would be bulky. Unless she's wired for explosives?

No, I have no sympathy to waste on Her; it all got used up on her victims.

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@Ellen North
maybe it's a backup circulatory system.

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@Amanda Matthews after all, a candidate has to pass a huge number of hurdles to even be mentioned by the msm... And if you aren't polling at a certain level... (Yes, I think this will be going into effect fairly soon. )

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Her across the finish
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line this time?

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brain-fart HisOrangness produces, especially now that he is actually the president.

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to deal with those brain-farts.

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@Wink A rematch would quite probably be the LOWEST turnout election of all time. Of course, if Hillary wins, that will not be brought up. Ever. On the other hand, if Trump wins, it'll be the top story for the next 4 years when Chelsea Runs.

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@Amanda Matthews Unless she actually picks Bernie. How horrible would that be?

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@dkmich

...The base of our party are African-American, Latino & women ...

Sure, such claims as that pointing out that Black lives matter is traitorous and unAmerican, that the impunity of US police routinely murdering people of darker skin/lack of off-shored funds need to be specially extra-protected and that women are going to hell for wanting a decent life in a civilized country with a government of, by and for the people puts them all in a floor-level heap all ready to be stood on and further trampled underfoot. Who wouldn't vote for that?

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The base of our party are African-American, Latino & women…

The base of the Democratic Party is the White Professional Class.
Yeah, they'll welcome token minority professionals into their ranks but for the most part they are educated, self-satisfied, white professionals; the upper 10% for whom "America is already great". They live in lily-white neighborhoods while spewing fake concern for marginalized "communities". The Democratic Party has a class problem.

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@Azazello

...The base of our party are African-American, Latino & women ...

Yeah, it is true the real base is basically the top 5%; however, let's examine this anyway.

African-Americans are roughly 13% of the population.
Latinos are roughly 16% of the population?
And women roughly 50% of the population.

Problem with saying a gender (like women) is that it makes stating any other group kind of irrelevant because women would be within that category (African-American and Latino). Of course, they like to throw in women so white women can feel all warm and fuzzy. Problem there though is white women rejected the Dems so...

So basically every single AA and Latino would get you....29% of the population. 29% is your base?

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fuzzy at all. They love my genitals but hate my skin? I have three white male grandsons. I have a white husband and three white male grandchildren so fck them? My family including the men are me. As long as they divide and play the race and gender card, they'll never get my vote. This by itself, let alone adding in the PC card, will piss off enough voters to make them lose again.

Azello is right. Their base is the top 5% regardless of gender and color.

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@Azazello Back in the primary days of 2016 on TOP a guy responded to me with a critical fact. He looked at the numbers in 2008 and found that Obama got nationally 30% of the white male voted. He did some comparisions to census figures and found that the absolute number of voters represented by the 30% of white males was greater than the number of all African American voters regardless of who they voted for and whether male or female.

What I read on TOP and other staunch pro-establishment websites at the time was a growing belief that democrats did not need much of white vote except for women and upper middle class white professional males and gay white males. What I said to no avail was that for democrats to win, they had to build coalitions across many boundaries. Instead they were fracturing those previous coalitions. I think in most part because the Hillary camp came to hate white male Bernie supporters--she alluded to them as unshaven white supremists once.

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Emphasis on the 'donors'...

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@Azazello

The base of the Democratic Party is the White Professional Class.
Yeah, they'll welcome token minority professionals into their ranks but for the most part they are educated, self-satisfied, white professionals; the upper 10% for whom "America is already great". They live in lily-white neighborhoods while spewing fake concern for marginalized "communities". The Democratic Party has a class problem.

And the genuinely educated -- usually numbering among the poors because they're too moral and compassionate to do what it takes to get into the 0.1% Club -- are very much not part of the Dems' so-called "base".

The "White Professional Class" may have the pretty (and expensive) wall decorations (degrees), but that doesn't mean they're actually educated human beings. Example: Henry David Thoreau was one of the best eduated men of his day, yet still one of the poors. And the support of the "White Professional Class" for Hillary Clinton is strong evidence of their general cherished stupidity.

Moreover, today's Thoreaus (Thoreaux?), again, are no part of the Dems' so-called "base", regardless of their color or gender. They aren't buying into the Clinton crapola.

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@thanatokephaloides Socrates worked for a living, was a war vet, hung out with people half his age, and pissed off the intellectuals by challenging their dogma.

Philosophy, like languages, Music, and Martial arts, is most interesting and vibrant when it is alive, and not a fossilized record of old arguments. Yes, the old arguments are interesting, but to quote them as dogma without reflection or personal input is to perform embalming rites on a long dead corpse.

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As I often Point out, Socrates worked for a living, was a war vet, hung out with people half his age, and pissed off the intellectuals by challenging their dogma.

I like Socrates. Always have. He should have gotten the pension, not the poison. Wink

Ranks right up there with the worst pisser-off of the "professional intellectuals" of the Hellenist Age, Diogenes of Sinope, famous for running around with a lighted lamp looking for an honest man.

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with more money than brains and no moral sense? Other than big donors?

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@Ellen North

What's a short term for those with more money than brains and no moral sense? Other than big donors?

Right-wingers!

Smile

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@Ellen North [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNiq7jrdYXY]

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May have been an aristocratic idiot, but I never got the impression he was either mean spirited or amoral. He did like to toss back the cocktails though. Smile

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@Anja Geitz which is a strict public NO NO among the current upper classes. (Because when one of them goes down politically, it always seems to be for going down... elsewhere)

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Bertie's "romances" we're essentially pre-pubescent in that they were completely sexless.

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Had no idea there was a BBC series, (although I find that the books are always better) although I really should have.

For the time, he was tolerable - and merely an amiable idiot, rather than a psychopathic one; we might survive a government of Berties, with an army of Jeeves running them all, but not what we have to deal with now.

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@Ellen North But the army of Jeeves has been carefully pruned to remove every one with even a shred of Moral fiber.

sigh...

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@detroitmechworks

What we have is a government full of psychopaths and sociopaths. P.G. Wodehouse, otoh, depicted Bertie Wooster's character as merely the amusing but blathering child to Jeeves elegant and precisely spoken parent figure.

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@Anja Geitz two people can read it and come away with completely different impressions and lessons. But it does give us something great to talk about. Smile

Thanks for the polite and fun disagreement.

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@detroitmechworks

And as "silly" as the series may strike some (Wodehouse himself even described writing them as banging away at the typewriter and cursing), this 1930's series has elicited literary critiques over the years from a wide range of Wodehouse enthusiasts. So I can't really take credit for the child/parent figure dichotomy. That is something that has already been written about in a few of the Bertie and Jeeves character analyses.

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@Anja Geitz

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@Ellen North

Do you remember the story where Bertie overhears Jeeves tell the new man servant that was to replace Jeeves that Bertie's mental faculties were insufficient? Egads! How terrible I felt for Bertie at the time to hear Jeeves disparage him. Of course in the end Jeeves came back, and I don't quite remember why he left in that story either. But it was, as they say in Wodehouse speak, a good wheeze for the reader!

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@Anja Geitz

as many have been boxed up for years and, when internet's working, I'm only reading through the contents of various boxes at night, which slows me down considerably. At least, I hope there's a full Wodehouse supply of what we had accessible here. There are still boxes of books and other things stored elsewhere, as far as I know.

Light reading when hoping to sleep helps, doesn't it?

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@Azazello They have a base?

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said during the 2016
@dkmich
run. "Dims need to look to the future, and the future is made up of Latinos."
Or some similar bull$h!t.
yeah, kos, maybe, but the future hadn't yet arrived in 2016.
And likely won't be here, either, in 2020. 2024 maybe.
So all that pandering to Latinos in 2016 cost Dims the election.
And pretty much scuttled ToP.

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@Wink

LoL. That's what Markos said during the 2016
run. "Dims need to look to the future, and the future is made up of Latinos."
Or some similar bull$h!t.
yeah, kos, maybe, but the future hadn't yet arrived in 2016.
And likely won't be here, either, in 2020. 2024 maybe.
So all that pandering to Latinos in 2016 cost Dims the election.
And pretty much scuttled ToP.

Latinos didn't just buckle under and vote for Her Heinous, among other considerations.....

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

So the question, what does her endorsment of Cuomo mean? Is Hillary coming back? One indication she is coming back.

However, if she runs this time it will be to get payback. Her self identity as the agrieved victim has infected her conscious, unconscious, id, memory, heart, liver, speen, etc. Much of her agreived state she blames people who failed her: the DNC, Bernie, white male Obama voters, unions, FB execs, Twitter execs, the party base, etc.

If she loses and brings down the democrats, she will be satiated and happy as everything around the party failed her, and now they have their comeuppance.

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@MrWebster

they were unworthy and deserved whatever the Russians did to them.

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@MrWebster And we will hear that... 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Unless of course she is "Stabbed in the back" by the treacherous left whose support is totally not necessary, but at the same time it's all their fault, probably because they were working for Russians all the time, and in the spirit of Bi-partisanship if she loses, she will of course turn over their names and addresses to the proper authorities...

Who don't need a warrant... Just keep that in mind.
/snark

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was not only an
@MrWebster
election loss. It killed everything that is Her.
So she is running again to get that back. And some payback too.
She will not go away quietly.
The Dim party is so crippled with this baggage it can't possibly win.

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@MrWebster How much downer can they get than they already are?

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dfarrah

@dfarrah

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@dfarrah

Is cranking out the ludes for them.

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described Jeeves as Bertie's nanny.

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@Emmet

Coming from Bertie's Aunt Agatha. Although the best creative license Wodehouse employed in that series was when he wrote a story purely from Jeeves' POV. Hilarious.

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