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2016 Postmortem

Orsino

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15. The favoritism expressed by certain party bigwigs was probably unavoidable...

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 02:01 PM

Dec 2016

...and I don't have a problem with it. Am sure Sanders knew what he, an outsider, was getting into.

If he'd wanted the inside lane, he could have become a Democrat a year or twenty earlier, and networked the was Clinton does.

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An important point that is getting lost amid the Russian Hacking scandal . . . [View all] markpkessinger Dec 2016 OP

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! Laurian Dec 2016 #1

Part of working against the Trump agenda is learning the lessons of the 2016 election n/t markpkessinger Dec 2016 #2

We're not going to learn anything by starting with false premises n/t emulatorloo Dec 2016 #18

Also, last time i checked . . . markpkessinger Dec 2016 #5

DNC emails are childs play compared to anything and everything a similar rigorous Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #3

That is most certainly the case . . . markpkessinger Dec 2016 #4

Whatever is revealed blue cat Dec 2016 #7

Several good articles in today's NYTimes on Russian hacking. Also, here is a link to a white paper SickAndTiredOfRepubs Dec 2016 #12

Perhaps a lesson to be learned is that cyber security needs to be a much higher priority n/t etherealtruth Dec 2016 #16

What utter bullshit. But please proceed. eom BlueCaliDem Dec 2016 #6

You said what I wanted to say but you managed to do it much more succinctly. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #9

Crap argument. BSdetect Dec 2016 #8

Okay . . . markpkessinger Dec 2016 #11

Oh good Lord etherealtruth Dec 2016 #10

Jesus Fucking Christ. LexVegas Dec 2016 #13

I thought the Russian hacking was more than just the leaked emails. jalan48 Dec 2016 #14

The favoritism expressed by certain party bigwigs was probably unavoidable... Orsino Dec 2016 #15

Bullshit on the "very corrupt DNC" meme. emulatorloo Dec 2016 #17