Re: The Mueller Report and the Media Report Card
davidm is constantly lying about what he said in the past, and about what I say. But, Trumpian in projection, he claims that I'm the one who's lying.
Look, I understand you don't like it being pointed out that you said you "[didn't] think Trump would appoint Scalias" or attack LGBT rights, and instead he appointed people exactly in that vein and did attack LGBT rights, but it's not a lie for me to say so, and it is a lie for you to claim you were merely claiming it was plausible when your wording is very clearly not that.
Meanwhile, you must constantly straw man as if saying that Jill Stein, James Comey, Russia and the media that perpetuated the narratives around Comey and Russia's actions all bear blame for actions in 2016 (which they do) means that nobody else is to blame, or they all share blame equally (they don't) and that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton didn't make any mistakes (they did). A crucial difference, of course, is that Hillary Clinton was actually trying to defeat Trump, and Jill Stein wasn't.
You are obsessed with saying only Hillary is to blame because you can't accept that 1. America does not agree with you and/or the reasons why your (for example) foreign policy views have little influence in government are much more systematic and intractable than simply getting rid of the Clintons or Obama or Biden and/or electing Sanders 2. you're a media hack yourself and (Trumpian again) you must evade blame for any contribution to the problem and 3. this isn't your fault, but it seems like you're statistically innumerate based on your statements in the past about Nader in Florida, Bernie Sanders's delegate math, etc. which perhaps contributes to you just picking the explanations you prefer to be true (alternatively, you could just be dishonest, which I certainly don't rule out)
If/when Russia and/or other foreign powers try to ratfuck Democratic Party nominee Bernie Sanders and the media goes along with it, because after all, his policies also aren't great for Russia, Saudi Arabia or other authoritarian petro-states, or for the massive corporations that own most media or the rich people who control them, you'll likely be screaming about how this is somehow the DNC and Hillary Clinton's fault.
Also I enjoy the stupidity of an argument like "3rd-parties can't be to blame, because 3rd-party supporters have been doing stupid shit for years!" That's an obvious non sequitur, dumbass. But it fits with your general "only Democrats have agency" view. Just because dumbasses supported Nader doesn't mean it's now a law of nature that people do so every election, and they are not responsible for voting the way they do - they have agency. In fact, note how low the third-party vote was in 2004 compared to 2000 or 2016 - almost like some dumbasses were at least smart enough to learn from how awful Bush was! They can choose to do different, and there's nothing illogical about blaming them for their behavior (particularly in the case of wealthy and/or educated supporters who do not have the excuse of not knowing better).
Also, you're off the Michael Bennet train? What happened? You realized that supporting Bennet because he was "electable" and "could beat Trump" wouldn't provide you with that warm fuzzy leftier-than-thou feeling?
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