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I'm salty as a stadium pretzel today, so I might as well channel it into a biting snarkifesto about my whole pot of primary peeves.
Affix thy seatbelt. Some turbulence may occur in flight.
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Affix thy seatbelt. Some turbulence may occur in flight.
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1) If someone fancies themselves a 2020 contender, they shouldn't have to be asked if they'd consider diversity on their ticket.
And, sweet fancy Moses, if they're asked and the answer ain't an easy yes, they're a no. They can lose fast or lose slow. They'll lose. Deservedly.
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And, sweet fancy Moses, if they're asked and the answer ain't an easy yes, they're a no. They can lose fast or lose slow. They'll lose. Deservedly.
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If someone doesn't get why a party that has been carried for years by the hard work of women - and women of color in particular - is far, far past the point when their representation was an optional add-on, they have no business wasting our time. Thank you, next.
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2) If you're a candidate and are even vaguely considering taking a gratuitous backwards-looking swipe by saying you're gonna do better because you'll campaign everywhere, stick a damn sock in it.
That ain't a stroke of genius.
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That ain't a stroke of genius.
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Hitting up a few more county fairs doesn't win elections.
If all a candidate had to do was point the plane towards Kalamazoo a few more times to carry Michigan, Hillary would have won Pennsylvania and Beto would be a Senator right now.
This reductive trope needs to die.
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If all a candidate had to do was point the plane towards Kalamazoo a few more times to carry Michigan, Hillary would have won Pennsylvania and Beto would be a Senator right now.
This reductive trope needs to die.
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3) It ain't an accident that the only candidates deemed by both the media and the public to be "cool" and "interesting" and "dynamic" are men.
A dude rides a skateboard and the world claps like it was some kind of sexy voodoo magic. A woman hotpots some ramen and it's "fake".
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A dude rides a skateboard and the world claps like it was some kind of sexy voodoo magic. A woman hotpots some ramen and it's "fake".
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Men candidates have the chance to earn public love like they're political heartthrobs.
Women candidates have to labor and toil to merely beat back attacks over how they eat their chicken.
Less celebretizing of men for being generally nice and interesting while male, please.
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Women candidates have to labor and toil to merely beat back attacks over how they eat their chicken.
Less celebretizing of men for being generally nice and interesting while male, please.
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4) Politics is a gritty business. Campaigns are rugged affairs. We're allowed to bump and scrape and bicker and disagree.
Mom and dad aren't getting a divorce because one of them said something critical on Twitter about a candidate. Frightened gentility ain't unity.
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Mom and dad aren't getting a divorce because one of them said something critical on Twitter about a candidate. Frightened gentility ain't unity.
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No one needs to chide or correct anyone else for having a less than glowing thought about a candidate.
If you've gotten this far, you're IN IT. You're in the fight. And so am I. And so is everyone else here. We ain't quitting, staying home or voting third party.
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If you've gotten this far, you're IN IT. You're in the fight. And so am I. And so is everyone else here. We ain't quitting, staying home or voting third party.
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We're gonna snark and be critical of things deserving criticism and fight sometimes.
That's what families do.
And then we're going to show up in Nov. 2020 and vote for our nominee and end this damned madness.
We're gonna show up for each other. That's what families do.
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That's what families do.
And then we're going to show up in Nov. 2020 and vote for our nominee and end this damned madness.
We're gonna show up for each other. That's what families do.
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