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  • Even in that example, he literally said he did not know why. He saw a thing that happened, he recognized a trend, and he thought he could ask about it. It wasn’t a racially motivated ATTACK, and he wasn’t denigrating black people.

    He explained after he asked on Reddit, he had a black bartender explain to him the history of their feelings about it. His quote from the Pod Save America interview:

    “Amusingly enough, I remember this time when I first started bartending and then I had a conversation with a friend of mine who was Black, who was a bartender, who did a great job of walking me through structural injustice and feelings of lack of agency. There were a whole bunch of reasons and after that, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that makes absolutely perfect sense.’ It was certainly not meant as a malicious thing. I was asking the question because that was kind of the point of the thread, actually.”

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  • Again, I’m not sure you even know what he said, because he didn’t say that. You’re throwing a quote in there, but I actually read the comments, and he didn’t say that.

    Second, I’m not defending, because even HE said some of his comments were indefensible, and posted by a person who was going through all kinds of horrible shit and had no wisdom around the subject.

    Third, as every other talking points person has said, we need get past this bullshit where people are taken to the mat for somehow being different at an earlier point and place in time. We can’t keep moving forward with this divided political shit and not believing in change, learning, improvement, or remorse from people in the party. That will only get you the same corporate candidates who have a “clean” chat for their entire lives because they’ve been preparing this moment. Those people are sociopaths or psychopaths who have carried this goal for decades to ensure they are clean as a whistle.

    Lastly, yeah, people want an enthusiastic candidate, and I don’t even mind her, but I think she seems like a nice person. She DOES NOT speak off the cuff about her thoughts about issues in any way that seems knowledgeable about issues, or having a connection to the issues her constituents are going through. I can’t even find the videos I saw of her interviewing now to reference this, but she was asked directly about being a military contractor and working for the “industrial complex”, and her answer was something like “Well that’s how things work, and people need to get over it”, which is like a “fuck you” to people who are against that.

    I just don’t think she’s a very elective candidate because of her flat affect. It has nothing to with her being a woman. If she matched the same charisma of other female candidates in the party, then she should have stayed in the race, but she knows she doesn’t, and she backed out. She just can’t contend.



  • Okay…the first bit you’re taking so far out of context that I don’t even know if you know what he said. It was a glib statement for sure, and maybe borderline insensitive. His clarifying statement (even 12 years ago) was that you have a bunch of fucked men being thrown through war, and not behaving like “gentlemen”, so it’s best to remove yourself from bad situations within those ranks. I’m paraphrasing, but his comments clarified what he was saying.

    Second, I did watch some clips of Rodriguez. She’s not a good candidate because she can’t speak to ideas on the fly, future plans and thoughts, and just lacks charismatic ideation. She’s just kind flat when speaking, like a standard do nothing candidate. I don’t think that takes her to the finish line.