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Old 11-09-2016, 11:09 AM
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But he didn't.

It really does not matter now does it?
Lessons learned matter.
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Old 11-09-2016, 11:32 AM
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Lessons learned matter.

The lesson: this was a change election. Trump was in effect a third party candidate. He was nearly as critical of the Republicans as he was the Democrats. His whole message was that the system was rigged against the people and only an outsider like him could fix things. (He even said that very thing.)

The Democrats needed to field a strong change candidate of their own and they has an ideal one in Bernie but, because they had been planning on nominating the first female candidate from a major party since 2008, the party sabotaged the candidacy of a true change candidate who would have appealed to many of the people who voted for Trump, the non-deplorables, and nominated Hillary, a poster child for the American political aristocracy.

What the fuck did they think would happen?

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Old 11-09-2016, 11:35 AM
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The lesson: this was a change election. Trump was in effect a third party candidate. He was nearly as critical of the Republicans as he was the Democrats. His whole message was that the system was rugged against the people and only an outsider like him could fix things. (He even said that very thing.)

The Democrats needed to field a strong change candidate of their own and they has an ideal one in Bernie but, because they had been planning on nominating the first female candidate from a major party since 2008, the party sabotaged the candidacy of a true change candidate who would have appealed to many of the people who voted for Trump, the non-deplorables, and nominated Hillary, a poster child for the American political aristocracy.

What the fuck did they think would happen?
That they could fool enough of the people.
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Old 11-09-2016, 11:45 AM
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The lesson: this was a change election. Trump was in effect a third party candidate. He was nearly as critical of the Republicans as he was the Democrats. His whole message was that the system was rugged against the people and only an outsider like him could fix things. (He even said that very thing.)

The Democrats needed to field a strong change candidate of their own and they has an ideal one in Bernie but, because they had been planning on nominating the first female candidate from a major party since 2008, the party sabotaged the candidacy of a true change candidate who would have appealed to many of the people who voted for Trump, the non-deplorables, and nominated Hillary, a poster child for the American political aristocracy.

What the fuck did they think would happen?
To make matters worse Wikileaks confirmed the suspicions of the independent voters who went heavily for Bernie.
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Old 11-11-2016, 01:37 PM
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To make matters worse Wikileaks confirmed the suspicions of the independent voters who went heavily for Bernie.
Only a naive cretin would believe a thing ASSange puts out.
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Old 11-11-2016, 01:42 PM
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Only a naive cretin would believe a thing ASSange puts out.
I disagree with him having hacked and released the material (and the likely Russian connection thereto) as well as the press releasing it, but I have little doubt as to the veracity of the contents.
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