dagblog - Comments for "Now We Know: Hillary Was A Great Candidate"

Pretty impressive - beat out

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:23:23 +0000

Pretty impressive - beat out Son of Sam and the Antichrist this year

Paul Ryan also too:

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:25:12 +0000

Paul Ryan also too:

Today the best House Speaker of modern times reclaims the gavel from the worst. Paul Ryan leaves office with 12%, that's right, 12% favorability -- and 75% unfavorable 1/ pic.twitter.com/FZuIlejGNM
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 3, 2019

Mitch McConnell is less

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:59:23 +0000

In reply to Now We Know: Hillary Was A Great Candidate

Mitch McConnell is less popular than hemorrhoids but for some reason we never see articles about him being “unlikable” and how that could limit his political future.

Adam Best‏ @adamcbest

Somewhere it's prolly in NLP

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:11:25 +0000

In reply to I was immediately reminded of

Somewhere it's prolly in NLP lit. It'd be interesting to know his targets and success rates.

I was immediately reminded of

artappraiser — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:55:20 +0000

In reply to This Masha Gessen piece from

I was immediately reminded of the above Masha Gessen piece on Russian/Orwellian propaganda by this Greg Sargent tweet today on "a core truth about Trump":

1) As Trump ends the year with a flood of lies about his wall, we need to recapture a core truth about this presidency.

Trump isn't “twisting the truth” or “stubbornly refusing to admit error.”

Trump is engaged in *disinformation.*

This is a different thing entirely.

*THREAD*
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 30, 2018

It hit me spot on like this: when Trump really really wants something, as opposed to just his usual looking for narcissistic strokes, he ventures above just lies, "stories" and hyperbole into the land of purposeful disinformation, purposefully confusing people about the truth. It is intentional rather than knee-jerk, at the same time it is yet another childlike trait, it's: torture you until you cry uncle.

Oh please, more horseshit to

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:34:00 +0000

In reply to Want to share this twitter

Oh please, more horseshit to flush down? 1 commenter says, "universal healthcare...[is] only issue because Bernie pushes them" - as if Hillary wasn't pushing universal healthcare when this guy was sucking on his mommy's titty. I mean, since when did college students give a shit about healthcare to start with, especially guys? I can name 3 doctors' visits over 20 years, including 1 for girardia from India, 1 from a broken collarbone where they just handed me some pills, and a round of vaccines for the Balkans. How put all these young dudes up to a sudden craving for health care they don't use, yet they never figured out that affordable housing was a much more pressing need for their demographic?

How did these "popular Democratic policies folks decide that it was ok to label a rare female contender "voting your vagina/uterus" and dismiss about 10 states carried by the party's important black votes because they were in the South? [let's fathom the irony of that one - Bernie said the South wouldn't matter in the general election, but crowed about his wins in 15 of the 16 least populated states - 9 as caucuses - while Hillary won the 7 most populated states and 13 of the top 15 (with Bernie's Washington win being in a tiny caucus, while Hillary won the non-binding primary with 52% of the vote).

In short, I don't see why when a candidate wins decisively she has to hear this kind of magical revisionist crap for the next few years.

Read Bernie's non-concession concession speech - http://time.com/4372673/bernie-sanders-speech-text-read-transcript/ - he's as Trumpian as Donald - he took on the whole Democratic "establishment", and only a few of them had the "courage" to stand with him. Not preference - "courage". Kinda like those standing with Donald and his wall. And his paradoxes "we started out w no organization, no money, no name recognition, & the media decided we were fringe" - like duh, you just described yourself as fringe.

Now read Hillary's magnanimous speech the day of the last primary ("late" according to many critics) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jun/07/hillaryclinton.use...

Yes, I and many others were fine with pressure pushing Democrats to be more liberal. I'm not fine with this niche just being dicks and ruining chances of success, and tired of the constant magical thinking that defies gravity. We won the midterms both through organizing and through a reaction to just how bad everyone screwed up in 2016 (including letting fake social media screw up their voting decisions).

Yeah, after 2000 and 2016, I am tired of the portion of the left wing - in and outside the party - playing its games of chicken to not only not get their way, but kneecap the chances of the party as a whole. Sure, they hate us - there has to be a better driving force than hate?

[PS - looks like not participating in TPP is having its negative effects too... https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c282203e4b0407e90834340

CNN has more: https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics/tpp-trade-trump/index.html

Of course democratic policies

ocean-kat — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:48:10 +0000

In reply to Want to share this twitter

Of course democratic policies are more popular than the party. If 60% of democrats favor policy x and 60% of democrats favor policy y it doesn't mean it's the same 60% that favor both policies. If the party passes policy x some of the people who favor policy y don't support it and are going to be pissed at the party for passing it. The party is a diverse coalition with divergent interests and priorities. Everything it does will piss off some members of the party.

People aren't criticizing Sanders for not being a proud democrat. They're criticizing him for not being a democrat at all. Because of that and his purist stance on his policy issues he has never led on any policy accomplishment in his time in the senate.

Hillary got more votes than

Iphonermrd — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:28:37 +0000

In reply to Want to share this twitter

Hillary got more votes than Bernie or Trump

Democrats won 40 House seats

Democrats flipped state legislatures

The 2020 Senate race is more favorable for Democratic Party members

Oh those poor Democratic Party members

Want to share this twitter

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:26:12 +0000

In reply to Now We Know: Hillary Was A Great Candidate

Want to share this twitter thread and don't know where to plop it except here. Unemployed Jewish guy explains the Bernie vs. establishment Democratic party problem exceptionally well, mho. I especially like the summary Democratic policies are way more popular than Democrats are. If you have to be a proud “Democrat” to lead the country, you’re at a disadvantage. If everyone you know is a proud Democrat, you’re in a bubble.

Yes, 40ish-year-old male,

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:01:41 +0000

In reply to Lots of people don't like me

Yes, 40ish-year-old male, good-looking, athletic, comes from wealthy well-connected family, Ivy League - I like him already.

Then there's my daughter vs the son of the headmaster - people make up stories about her, but they believe him no matter what. He seems to be more "likeable" - a coincidence? Objective?

(ps - under 1- child policy they'll drown a female born. Having a boy's pretty special, dontcha think?)

Now let's try paid lies. Let's try lies paid by foreign governments. Let's try illegally tunneled cash payments from foreign banks andgovernments to tell even more lies...

Whatever...