LGD posted:

I swear to god no one actually bothered to read that article, it does not remotely demonstrate what the URL implies it does

rezatahs posted:

quote:

Hillary was so mad she couldn’t think straight. She was supposed to be focused on the prep session for that night’s Univision debate in Miami, but a potent mix of exhaustion and exasperation bubbled up inside.

She’d been humiliated in the Michigan primary the night before, a loss that not only robbed her of a prime opportunity to put Bernie Sanders down for good but also exposed several of her weaknesses. How could she have been left so vulnerable? She knew — or at least she thought she did. The blame belonged to her campaign team, she believed, for failing to hone her message, energize important constituencies and take care of business in getting voters to the polls. And now, Jake Sullivan, her de facto chief strategist, was giving her lip about the last answer she’d delivered in the prep session.

“That’s not very good,” Sullivan corrected.

“Really?” Hillary snapped back.

The room fell silent.

“Why don’t you do it?”

The comment was pointed and sarcastic, but she meant it. So for the next 30 minutes, there he was, pretending to be Hillary while she critiqued his performance.

Every time the Yale lawyer and former high school debate champ opened his mouth, Hillary cut him off. “That isn’t very good,” she’d say. “You can do better.” Then she’d hammer him with a Bernie line.

It wasn’t just Sullivan in her crosshairs. She let everyone on her team have it that day. “We haven’t made our case,” she fumed. “We haven’t framed the choice. We haven’t done the politics.”

“She was visibly, unflinchingly pissed off at us as a group,” said one aide who was in the room for the humiliating scene. “And she let us know she felt that way.”

Panzeh posted:

Mook had more money than his opponent and his response was to pinch pennies as much as possible.

quote:

But there also were millions approved for transfer from Clinton’s campaign for use by the DNC — which, under a plan devised by Brazile to drum up urban turnout out of fear that Trump would win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote, got dumped into Chicago and New Orleans, far from anywhere that would have made a difference in the election.

Sebastien Lenorman posted:

Its worse than that actually. Newspapers now have whole staffs of people who find offensive poo poo, call up buisiness partners and higher ups and say "We're printing this story which is basically slander tomarrow, care to comment slash fire the person"? Watergate broke journalism, journalists no longer even pretend to report the facts, they are ***watchdogs*** out to improve society. Make america better, spend a quarter or two at the newspaper machine, take them all out, and whip them in the trash.

NomChompsky posted:

In much the same way that the New deal/Roosevelt political order that drove the US through to the Carter administration failed and fell apart, Trump might just be the final defender of that Reagan order that replaced it. People were frustrated at the end of the 70s because neither party was offering up anything different or something they thought would benefit them any longer, Reagan changed that. Whoever won this election was going to find themselves quickly becoming unpopular and facing a problem that really transcends what either party can offer given their current wisdom.

Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:

since the definition of the political right seems to be isolationist/nationalist nowadays, and the definition of the left is cosmopolitan/globalist, does it, then, follow that a capital globalist, who opposes any and all restrictions on the movement of capital and people (i.e. workforce), is in fact a leftist?

spacetoaster posted:

quote:

Why won’t the DCCC release its autopsy report?

Good news: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has prepared a thorough autopsy report about its flaws. Bad news: You can’t read it. According to Politico, the report is the long-awaited result of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s investigation into the DCCC’s weaknesses, which were evident in the disaster that was the 2016 election. Those weaknesses allegedly revolve around the ways the DCCC raises and spends money but, again, who really knows:

"Only about two-dozen lawmakers showed up for the presentation, which sources described as “dense but thorough.” But members were not allowed to have copies of the report and may view it only under the watchful eyes of DCCC staff."

nigga crab pollock posted:

*jerks massive, turgid dick*

*cums massive, huge loads all over my keyboard, repeatedly*

*the tremendous weight of my jism slapping against the keys begins typing words*

In this framework, taking money from an investment bank in the form of a speaking fee is not immoral, it is eminently reasonable. Investment bankers are smart. They allocate resources. That’s why they have power. That’s who elites should be associating with.

firebeats posted:

Yes, the power to set nuclear policy poses as much threat as the power to run a webcrawler on a computer.

firebeats posted:

quote:

As a policy leader, Obama’s Presidency was largely defined by the financial crisis. The government’s response, organized first by Bush and then Obama, had a moral core. This moral core framed concentrations of financial power not as threats to liberty and democracy, but as vehicles to deliver efficiency and social justice. You don’t, for instance, want random protesters setting nuclear policy, you want generals and experts doing that. You don’t want anyone to be able to organize a search engine, you want the best technologists in the business doing that, doing it well, and doing it for everyone. That’s not just power, it’s the right way to run a society.

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

I've said it before but the biggest shock I've ever received from Something Awful was the realization that more posters supported Hillary than Bernie.

That moment was when I realized America is hosed for the long haul.

Blue Train posted:

Presidency should be determined by a fight to the death between the two candidates

FisheyStix posted:

When the gay flag is reversed, it represents the taking on of a burden, rather than being freed from one as the upright flag suggests. Of course, it's place in the drawing provides context for this burden, and so the prediction in this picture is rather hard to determine without knowing what other major/minor arcana might have come up for Trump.

spacetoaster posted:

I'd say trump's long standing comments (including a lot of written blogs) about his support for gays would stand up better than Obama/Clinton's fast reversal from hating gays just a few years ago.

FisheyStix posted:

Thanks! A friend on these very forums helped me out with it, and she did a great job!

spacetoaster posted:

I'm gonna need some evidence of this (not being a douche, I honestly want to know). I've heard it said a lot, but I haven't found anything that puts him up above the noise level.

Toadvine posted:

God dammit. For someone who supposedly prepared day and night for debates she still has to let loose a petty retort when she absolutely needed to keep that kind of behavior bottled up.

nigga crab pollock posted:

all the way down the line, it's like a fractal of insane incredible fuckups where sheer hubris allowed democrats to keep acting directly in the best interests of their opponent because they have completely and wholeheartedly lost every aspect of direction and sense of purpose beyond the thin vaneer of identity machined out of what their sponsors want them to say.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

don't know what you're talking about clearly that taco bowl bit was just a risky gambit that paid off

phasmid posted:

I didn't keep a list. IIRC anybody could join and get paid for going around and toeing the line. There was always a signature aggression, a certain kind of tack. Maybe I'm wrong and they were just more angry posters spilling over fron D&D. But considering that it was going on on other forums in a near identical fashion, I think it possible there was direct action from the propaganda arm (which is basically what correct the record was) of the Clinton campaign. Lots of people got called out for being from ctr right here in GBS and in CSPAM.

fruit on the bottom posted:

Some things are universal across political lines.

These are usually the worst, most embarrassing things.

quote:

For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin

Accretionist posted:

Yeah. There's a lot of HIll Folk on another message board I use. The personality cult is real and it's vaguely totalitarian.

new phone who dis posted:

Twitter is fun to watch but heaven help you if you post there.

pushpins posted:

You should only follow Da Share z0ne and nothing else

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

'virtue signaling' is what you say when you can't spell 'sanctimony', p sure

Il Federale posted:

wtf why

didnt he go out of his way to defend bain capital in 2012?

Groovelord Neato posted:

lol i still can't imagine how she thought that was a valid defense.

Maya Fey posted:

https://twitter.com/rtyson82/status/873017109592387584