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She couldn’t beat Donald Trump.

All that excess was in one state.

When someone buys her lies and posts to that affect, I’m happy to provide facts.

You’re welcome.

It often appears that Hillary can't get over her loss or, equally important, recognize or accept her failures and the political forces that caused the loss.

Czech President holds up machine gun marked ‘for journalists’ during press conference
It comes as a billionaire right-wing populist becomes the country's prime minister.

...Zeman’s stunt on Friday aren’t the first time he’s made incendiary remarks towards the press. He has previously referred to journalists as “manure” and “hyenas.” In May, he shared a joke with Vladimir Putin that some of the journalists at an event he was at needed to be “liquidated”

The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency scientists who were scheduled to discuss climate change at a conference on Monday in Rhode Island, according to the agency and several people involved.

Pruitt coordinated with major oil and gas producers, electric utilities, and conservative political advocacy groups, including groups funded by billionaire brothers Charles Koch and David Koch, to oppose environmental regulations.[35][36][30][37] The oil and gas industry contributed over $300,000 to Pruitt's political campaigns over the years.[32][38] Pruitt used his office's stationary to send letters written by energy industry lobbyists to President Obama and to federal agencies during public comment

Once again, Goys and Birls, the topic here is President Plump, not Mrs. Clinton.

If there is or was an authoritarian regime anywhere which did not move to derogate, suppress and even crush independent news media, I don't know what regime that might be.

Trey Gowdy has been running point for the House Republican investigation into the Russia scandal, at times going so far as to act like Jared Kushner’s personal defense lawyer. Gowdy’s response to the New York Times about the Russia probe is a world-weary pose of realism. “Congressional investigations unfortunately are usually overtly political investigations, where it is to one side’s advantage to drag things out,” says Gowdy. “The notion that one side is playing the part of defense attorney and that the other side is just these white-hat defenders of the truth is laughable … This is politics.”

That explanation might not sound outrageous on its face. It is certainly true, after all, that both parties in Congress tend to follow their partisan self-interest in conducting (or impeding) investigations. But we have crossed a new threshold when the leader of such an investigation no longer even pretends otherwise.

When Gowdy was running his endless hearings into Benghazi — a 2012 guerrilla attack that conservative conspiracy theorists had endlessly attempted to use as evidence of an imagined treasonous plot by the Obama administration — he piously insisted the proceedings were designed solely to discover the truth. “As I have said countless times before, this is not about politics,” said Gowdy last year, in one of many such comments. “This is not even about any one individual or a single investigation.”

Yes, and he's not alone. A day or two ago I quoted the Republican politician who said she would have shot the body-checked reporter.

The deeply worrisome element in this is the growing tendencies towards authoritarianism. If there is or was an authoritarian regime anywhere which did not move to derogate, suppress and even crush independent news media, I don't know what regime that might be.