Randahl FinkMay 11, 2023

Imagine a country on the way to a presidential election.

Presidential candidate A is criticized for lying constantly, trying to overturn the last election, stealing top secret documents from government, being involved in financial fraud, and having sexually abused a woman.

Presidential candidate B is criticized for being 4 years older than candidate A.

Then imagine, that this presidential election is a toss-up, because candidate A is really entertaining to watch on tv.

This is where we are.

Show threadCosetteMay 11, 2023
@randahl We saw this in 2016. Hillary Clinton was one of the most experienced Presidential candidates in US history, and the bar was incredibly high for her while there was none for Trump.
Show threadJorge StolfiMay 11, 2023

@cosettepaneque @randahl

Was she? I remember her only for the huge blunder of letting the embassy cables be distributed to junior analysts like Manning all over the world, and then trying to shift the blame to Assange.

The Dem Party chose her because of internal party politics. Not because of her qualifications as future President, or her appeal to voters.

Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteMay 12, 2023
@JorgeStolfi @cosettepaneque @randahl She won the popular vote by millions and only lost by 84k ish votes over 3 states. Stop lying about her. Also pre announcement her approval ratings were thru the roof. She lost and even then just barely because of 3 factors. The Media, the Progs & Ru propaganda. Comey didn’t help but she would have survived even his 11th hour sabotage if the MSM had done it’s job.
Show threadJorge Stolfi

@Pineywoozle @cosettepaneque @randahl

Yes, yes, sure -- but she lost!

By "Progs" you mean the progressive voters? Or the (few) progressive members of Congress?

May 12, 2023 at 9:01pmWeb
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteMay 12, 2023
@JorgeStolfi @cosettepaneque @randahl Congress doesn’t decide who wins the election. So yes the more than 1 in 10 of those who voted in the primaries for the very “gets nothing done but talk” cough cough “progressive” Sanders that then ended up voting for the Republican in the general election had an affect. Egged on by Sanders surrogates who publically urged non voting or voting for anyone but Hill, while Sanders did nothing to stop that effort to discourage votes