(November 12, 2016 at 5:07 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 12, 2016 at 5:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Um, so they spend a year and a half crisscrossing the whole country and letting the whole country vote on who the nominees of the parties should be and then you come along and say "that's not good enough."
Hopefully you are aware of all the reports on how the DNC showed Bernie the cold shoulder and refused support whenever they could get away with it. They had their candidate from day 1. The primaries were just a formality as far as they were concerned.
Abs, I suggest you read this....very carefully. And pay particular attention to the discussion of Sanders.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/democrat...-election/
Quote:Democrats swallowed these two giant myths — and it cost them the election
Quote:On Friday, I almost assaulted a fan of my work. I was in the Philadelphia International Airport, and a man who recognized me from one of my appearances on a television news show approached. He thanked me for the investigative reporting I had done about Donald Trump before the election, expressed his outrage that the Republican nominee had won, and then told me quite gruffly, “Get back to work.” Something about his arrogance struck me, so I asked, “Who did you vote for?”
He replied, “Well, Stein, but…” I interrupted him, and said, “You’re lucky it’s illegal for me to punch you in the face.” Then, after telling him to have sex with himself—but with a much cruder term—I turned and walked away.
A certain kind of liberal makes me sick. They traffic in false equivalencies, always pretending that both nominees are the same, justifying their apathy and not voting or preening about their narcissistic purity as they cast their ballot for a person they know cannot win. I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump, because they wanted a Trump presidency. I have an enormous problem with anyone who voted for Trump or Stein or Johnson—or who didn’t vote at all—and who now expresses horror about the outcome of this election. If you don’t like the consequences of your own actions, shut the hell up.
Kurt Eichenwald of the Washington Post was actually out there doing his job...unlike the talking heads on television who pretend to be "journalists."