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It seems like it’s gonna be tough for Frisch to beat moronic asshole Boebert in Colorado. Not over but unlikely. Hopefully she’s gone in 2 years if she survives.

Frisch labeled her “angertainment” which is my new favorite.

Angertainment perfectly sums up the last seven-plus years of the trumplican party.

 

TFG clearly has an ion the election results:

 

Remember when Peter cried “wolf” one too many times?

 

Was the Democratic primary rigged?

 

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."--Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger."--John F. Kennedy

"They stole the Electron."--Donald J. Trump

 

Definitely missing more than a few nuclei.

And I had no idea until last night that "Make America Great Again" was a slogan from Octavia Butler's science fiction novel, "Parable of the Sower," published in 1993. She died in 2006, blissfully unaware that white racists would one day co-opt that phrase.

 

How are Senators chosen when a vacancy occurs? If Hobbs is elected governor does she choose? Is it time for Sinema to become an Ambassador?

 

I remember that Hillary conceded early on the Wednesday morning after the election. In any case she did concede that day.

Hillary Clinton's concession speech (full text) | CNN Politics

 

"I never bought a man who wasn't for sale."--copper baron William A. Clark on whether or not he bribed state legislators to get a U.S. Senate seat.

 

That's all true, but she wouldn't shut up about "The Russians gave it to Trump" for the next four years.

On a scale 1-10 of accepting a loss gracefully, with Trump being the low bar at 0.1 (he gets a tenth of a point
only because he did leave the premises), Hillary is about a 1.5.

 

Wouldn't shut up? How many times did we actually see her after she lost? Not a lot. And I don't believe she ever said the Russians flipped a switch and handed Trump the election. It was about disinformation. There actually was evidence of Russian interference on Facebook and other social media with a barrage of actual "fake news" -- this is before Trump and Fox co-op'ed the term, made it their own and used it over and over to portray CNN and the New York Times with the label. The ability to control any kind of narrative amid that wave of disinformation was difficult because we had never seen the likes of it before. That's what she and others were talking about. Not votes. Not voting machines.

 

This is bullshit. First, see Kato's post. Second, there is a hell of a lot bigger difference between what she did and what Trump did. He refused to concede. He filed lawsuit after lawsuit. He attacked the entire system and instigated an assault on Congress. He did what may be permanent damage to the system. What she did wasn't even close to that.