2016 Postmortem

bettyellen

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40. I keep thinking of that great movie w Charlize Theron about her trying to get a labor job ...

Reply to duffyduff (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 10:08 PM

Dec 2016

And all those assholes giving her the worst time when she needed that salary every bit as much.

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Van Jones on The View yesterday- Interesting discussion [View all] PatsFan87 Dec 2016 OP

Interesting yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #1

I'd support Van Jones as DNC chair. He gets it Dems to Win Dec 2016 #2

If only we could get him to run. nt geek tragedy Dec 2016 #3

absolutely, he's almost always the smartest guy in the room of talking heads BREMPRO Dec 2016 #5

I kinda like him metroins Dec 2016 #29

When is someone going to mention to those people that the owners who closed those plants and . . . brush Dec 2016 #4

I think this is the biggest POS story ever pushed, poor poor white people...boo hoo adigal Dec 2016 #7

Fuck him. Really. These white people, privileged by the color of their skin since birth, say adigal Dec 2016 #6

More specifically, it is white DUDES. duffyduff Dec 2016 #8

Yes, I'm sorry. We white women have also had to fight many battles also nt adigal Dec 2016 #9

Yet we have to make the white males front and center of concern. duffyduff Dec 2016 #11

I keep thinking of that great movie w Charlize Theron about her trying to get a labor job ... bettyellen Dec 2016 #40

"North Country" dflprincess Dec 2016 #48

Not a winning attitude. BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #10

It is the correct attitude of somebody who has been around a long time duffyduff Dec 2016 #12

Yeah BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #13

HRC didn't win the EC but won the popular vote, but keep playing that fantasy card. duffyduff Dec 2016 #14

Not an explanation BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #16

Racists, sexists, and I didn't say that this family was racist. I said they were entitled white male adigal Dec 2016 #18

Here's one explanation: "Make America great again". That's nothing but code for "make America . . . brush Dec 2016 #23

Interesting. BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #27

Trump's whole campaign was dog whistle racism. Stevie Wonder can see what "Make American great brush Dec 2016 #35

Thank You for the above Kathy M Dec 2016 #37

"We didn't lose the election but for the EC." EL34x4 Dec 2016 #15

Oh, yeah, kissing up to get racists is a real winnable attitude adigal Dec 2016 #17

Then keep losing BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #19

Exactly! This family voted for Obama TWICE NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #24

Here you go: "Make America white again . . . oops, sorry, "make America great again". brush Dec 2016 #25

See above post. BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #28

To hell with that bullshit Tarc Dec 2016 #30

I agree BlindTiresias Dec 2016 #31

I hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of poor white people who struggle too NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #20

Are you a white male?? Cause if you are, you don't have the struggles women and people of color have adigal Dec 2016 #21

If you have to ask that then you didn't read my full post...and race is only one part of struggling NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #22

Agreed, but you do know that the repug party is the one continually cutting the safety net whenever brush Dec 2016 #26

Yes, I'm well aware of that NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #32

We have to agree to disagee brush Dec 2016 #33

You're missing a crucial point about dog whistles NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #34

That's your opinion about dog whistles brush Dec 2016 #36

Thanks for sharing your story NoGoodNamesLeft! PatsFan87 Dec 2016 #42

I know- you just don't get that there was racism/sexism in this vote adigal Dec 2016 #44

Clearly you did not read what I said since I acknowledged there was. Helen Keller could see PatsFan87 Dec 2016 #47

You're wasting your breathe with some of the people here...they don't want to hear the truth NoGoodNamesLeft Dec 2016 #49

Yes .... agree Kathy M Dec 2016 #39

We aren't talking about mentslly ill people adigal Dec 2016 #45

Of course white males have struggles. virgogal Dec 2016 #41

Seriously? Tell that to all the young black men killed, shot in back adigal Dec 2016 #43

Thank You Kathy M Dec 2016 #38

Agreed samir.g Dec 2016 #46