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kleinbl00  ·  2969 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 2, 2016

I think the "everyone is eager to be pro-Hillary" because at least our #2 choice isn't fuckin' Ted Cruz, you know? And because some of us sat through the 2000 election and listened without breathing as NPR announced (on our commute home, with a Florida minivan driving like shit in front of us) that Scalia et. al. had given away our democracy. Maybe this won't break your heart; it broke many of ours:

There's definitely a seething vein of anti-establishment discontent running through the country. It comes from 30 years of bush clinton bush bush clinton bush clinton bush clinton. Amazing thing is, I remember when the Clintons were outsiders. Governor of Arkansas? Who are you kidding? '91 was a miasma of "bubba" jokes and the constantly repeated fact that the redneck used to own an El Camino with astroturf in the bed (the Rhodes scholar part, not so much). You know how you go from outsider to insider?

Don't suck at your job.

You need to understand that the Clintons have been the subject of more than 25 years of constant character assassination. Kennedy fucked Marylin Monroe, failed to invade Cuba and damn near started a nuclear war and a crazy redneck capped his ass after three years and he's a fuckin' saint. Clinton? Drew down the Yugoslav civil war, gave us 8 years of peace and boosted the economy higher than it had been in a generation. But we had to spend 3 fuckin' years finding out that he wasn't so good at land deals back in the '70s, we had to suffer through Rush Limbaugh claiming constantly (on TV!) that the Clintons had VInce Foster killed because he was going to give away their secret drug runways in Arkansas, and then we had to spend a year and a fuckin' half finding out that the president got a blowjob from a kind-of chunky intern, and now here you are, losing your shit because clearly clintons are HORRIBLE PEOPLE.

Look. I'd love to live in a world where Bernie Sanders has a hope in hell of running the country. Fuckin' A I'll bet Hilary Clinton would, too. But those of us who live out here? In this world?

People "don't trust" Hilary Clinton. Why? "something something emails." Okay - this is a woman who Congress spent $40m fishing around for something to bust her husband for. She was a senator on the intelligence committee and the Secretary of State. And all that filthy Snowden shit we all found out about? Yer damn skippy she knew about it. And here we are, condemning the woman for running her own server.

This is a Citizens United world. Big Money is going to influence politics.

This is the 24-hour news cycle. There will be dynasties.

Fuckin' A. It's amazing that we're now holding it against Hillary Clinton that she's done this shit before.

Bernie Sanders assumed national office one year BEFORE Bill Clinton. Up until last year, he was "that crank from Vermont that everybody loves." In the interim, Hillary Clinton has been the first lady, a Senator (who introduced 417 bills) and the Secretary of State. And yeah - it's hard to get something done when you're the lone wolf howling in the woods. But you know what? It's hard to get something done when you're the lone wolf howling in the woods.

I watched Carter get crushed in 1980. I even remember the October Surprise. It SUCKS when you're guy can't do shit because the other team is cheating.

By the way, here's Hillary, helping out Roslyn Carter on the campaign.

So okay. You'd rather vote for somebody else. That's fine. But when you compare number two to donald fucking trump you're basically calling the rest of us jackasses.

We're not. We just have more perspective than you.