Excuses, Excuses

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails

All the polls showed Hillary winning in a walk.  When she didn’t, her original claim was the Russians must have hacked into electronic voting machines to change vote totals.  When that was disproved, it changed to collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign to steal Hillary’s emails and thereby persuade Americans she was a crook.  When that didn’t pan out, it changed to Russian “meddling” in the election by placing Facebook ads and fake news stories to mislead voters.  If the Democrats lose in the midterms, they’ll insist it wasn’t their fault, it was the Russians.
When Liberals lose, they have three arguments:  we must not have gotten our message out because if we had, sensible voters would have agreed with us [see also “What’s The Matter with Kansas” by Thomas Franks – Ed.] ; we did get our message out but the voters are stupid, racist, haters bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles; or we got our message out and persuaded the voters but due to some outside force like weather or confusing ballots, we wuz robbed.
The Russian hack and Russian collusion claims are variations on We Wuz Robbed.  The Russian Meddling claim is Voters Are Stupid (because they fell for fake news).  Frankly, it’s all a bit insulting.  I got their message, I understood it, and I rejected it because their policies are bat-s**t crazy and their candidate was an evil witch.  And that’s the real problem – Liberals can’t acknowledge those as valid reasons to vote against them because doing so would mean Liberals themselves are crazy.  Nope, can’t be that.  Must be the Russians.
Now, about the recent fiasco in Texas, where Democrats were predicting a Blue Wave and had a record turn-out only to find Cruz had an even bigger turnout . . . which excuse will Liberals use?
Joe Doakes

Russians.  If only because the shelf date on Serbs passed 15 years ago.

5 thoughts on “Excuses, Excuses

  1. Don’t those three arguments basically boil down to the immaturity of the left? Their inability, their refusal to deal with reality? I mean, aren’t they basically just children?

  2. Foolish people respond more strongly to false information and are too lazy to check reputable sources for themselves. I would also suggest it’s about people wanting to believe that which reinforces their personal biases because it validates them and makes them feel good.

    Pretty sad commentary on millions of folks out there and all of us probably know at least some of them.

  3. When Liberals lose, they have three arguments: we must not have gotten our message out because if we had, sensible voters would have agreed with us [see also “What’s The Matter with Kansas” by Thomas Franks – Ed.] ; we did get our message out but the voters are stupid, racist, haters bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles; or we got our message out and persuaded the voters but due to some outside force like weather or confusing ballots, we wuz robbed.

    Just added the appropriate link for Joe’s commentary. It’s just Hillary bitterly complaining about the backward non-coastal types who cost her the election. (And as you said, Emery, it’s just more one example that “Foolish people respond more strongly to false information and are too lazy to check reputable sources for themselves.”)

  4. Regarding HIlliary, who are the reputable sources? Let’s be blunt here; wasn’t it the “reputable” MSM that completely dropped the ball on the fact that anyone besides Hilliary would have been arrested the day the server was discovered, and anyone but Hilliary would have had that server taken by the FBI that very day.

    Sorry, I worked a couple of defense jobs where they took data security SERIOUSLY, and HR made this very clear. If I had as much as shown my face in the classified areas of Space Park, I and any person who let me in would have been fired, no other questions asked. Classified documents in my possession? I’d have quickly learned how it felt to have a gun pointed at me as the FBI came to visit.

    Fact of the matter here is that Hilliary is playing the media like a fiddle, but it’s not working since most of the nation no longer trusts them. And it’s deserved.

  5. I just heard Hillary’s remarks from her India trip. The deep hatred she feels for half the country (Trump voters) is shocking.
    Watch out, red states. If the Dems take congress in 2018 or the presidency in 2020, the Dems are going to go after you with both barrels. At the rate that the rhetoric of hate is accellerating on the Left, they’ll invade y’all and begin a second Reconstruction. At this point it goes without saying that if Trump loses in 2020, the Dems will attempt to try him for treason.

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