Hillary needs to stop talking! Why isnt Hillary SAYING anything?!

Sheesh!

I really wish more white players had knelt today

I appreciate their solidarity and standing next to and behind the kneeling players. But those players are shouldering a very heavy burden by kneeling and shouldn't have to do it alone and, unfortunately, in this America, people don't really take things seriously if they think it's a "black thing." If more white players took it to the ground with their black brothers, it would be a powerful statement.

Has Bernie Sanders said anything about Trump's attacks on black athletes?

Serious question. I assume he's commented but can't find anything.

Scaramucci gives me the willies

He seems sleazy.

On election night, when it still looked like Hillary was going to win, commentators said she must

reach out to Republicans in her victory speech.

The next morning, as they blathered on and on - as if they were experts who had not been proven completely incapable of predicting anything the night before - they all agreed that the first thing Hillary must do in her concession speech was reach out to Republican voters.

Of course, not one of them even suggested that Trump reach out to anyone, either when it looked like he was losing or when he had won.

This is one of the several reasons I call bullshit on the "we must reach out to Trump voters" crap.

It doesn't matter if they win by one point or 20 points

If they're winning, they're winning. And our taunting and gloating that "ha ha, they won with a much narrower margin than they won last time" is just silly.

We need to stop making excuses for losing elections and start putting some wins on the board or nothing else will matter.

When Obama was POTUS, media obsessed over his opposition. Now they obsess over Trump's supporters.

And they're the same people.

Enough with these "forgotten" voters already. Please give us a chance to actually forget them for a few minutes.

"Why are people still losing their minds over Hillary?"

"What is different about Hillary Clinton is the rampant misogyny still being directed at her, even now; the palpable disgust at her re-emergence; the demand that she get out of the way; the call for her to accept total responsibility for her loss without even acknowledging outside factors like the Russian disinformation campaign, the Comey letter, or GOP voter ID laws that cost her Wisconsin.
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"Gore, who managed to lose (okay, sort of lose) an election despite being the sitting vice president in an administration with 65 percent approval, blamed a hostile media, the Supreme Court's absurd one-off decision to halt the proceedings in Florida, and the butterfly ballots ... This is the man whose campaign mistakes inflicted eight years of calamitous misrule on the country. If he ever apologized, I must have missed it ... Kerry never accepted one iota of responsibility for becoming the second consecutive Democrat to lose an election to George W. Bush. ... He blamed his campaign manager, Bob Shrum. He blamed the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, that pack of lying opportunists who slimed Kerry's war record ... What he did not do was cop to any of his own mistakes. He went back to the Senate, where no one demanded that he give up his seat for a younger politician ... In October 2009, just one year after his crushing loss to Obama, McCain was regarded favorably by 54 percent of respondents, remained a press darling, and never disavowed his choice to make the wilderness wastrel Sarah Palin his running mate, a decision that by one estimate cost him 2 million votes ...

"In an interview days after the election, McCain blamed the national political climate and stood by Palin. He failed to list a single mistake his campaign had made. He said he 'slept like a baby.' Today he remains a curmudgeonly favorite despite not lifting a finger to hold President Trump accountable ... In a Washington Post interview four months after the 2012 election, Romney blamed (you guessed it!) the media, and, incomprehensibly, the black and Hispanic voters who went overwhelmingly for Obama ... Yet when he re-emerged last year during the 2016 campaign, Romney was greeted with relief and hosannas by GOP elites for criticizing Trump. After Trump won, the entire country was hanging on every detail of Romney's sad little candlelight dinner with Trump, hoping against hope that he would be appointed secretary of state.
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"In contrast to many past losers, she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour, 'I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot.' Her boiling anger at the press and at various out-of-nowhere campaign developments doesn't make her worse than Gore, Kerry, Romney, and McCain — it makes her one of them.

"And that really only leaves one thing that is just so very different about Hillary Clinton. Let's see if you can guess what it is."

When minority voters don't flock to a candidate, we're told we just don't know enough about them and

then we're told again and again the same thing, only louder. And if we STILL don't support them, it's OUR fault for not "getting it.""

But when white voters don't support a candidate, it's because the candidate is "out of touch with average Americans."

I'm sick and tired of being treated as an afterthought by people in my own party. Minority voters aren't a "nice to do" while white voters are a "must do." And I'm really sick of hearing people on our side tell me over and over that addressing the interests of minority voters - you know, the most loyal and reliable members of the party - is "identity politics" while chasing around after fickle white voters is the only way we can win.

For example, countless Democrats - minority and otherwise - revere Barack Obama, largely because we feel very connected to him in many ways and feel that he reached and touched us in many more. Calling him "out of touch" is not only insulting, it's grossly inaccurate. And it certainly doesn't help build the party - you don't build a party by spitting on a hero of its base in hopes of attracting people who will only join you if you spit on the hero of its base.

Whether it's coming from party leaders, allies or from rank and file members, it's insulting and off-putting. And it's counter-productive since it runs the risk of losing solid supporters in hopes of attracting people who will turn on you on a dime.