I remember the last hand of poker I ever played. It was in Las Vegas. After a long session of getting bad cards, I found myself in a hand of seven card stud with four 7s down and a table full of players betting the limit. The odds of losing with four of a kind is 0.031%, which means that “when you got it, you bet it,” which I did. Ultimately it came down to me and little old guy sitting next to me who was showing queens and tens. I figured him for a full house, probably queens, and kept betting until he called me.

He had four tens. The whole room rushed over to see our hands. Nobody had ever witnessed anyone losing in a non-wild card game with four of a kind. The dealer announced that he had been dealing poker at that casino for eight years and had never seen it. Then a a player at the table said to me with a sneer, “You should have known he had you beat!” I didn’t have to tell off the jerk myself because everyone around me, including the dealer, did it for me.

There are few things in the world more obnoxious than the pompous, presumptuous ass who who reacts to a bad result by saying that everything would have turned out fine if another course had been adopted based on his or her keen analysis after the fact. Hindsight predictions are, as everyone knows, spot on, and the wonderful thing about them is that they can’t be proven false.

Hillary blew her own shot at the White House a dozen different ways. She has never accepted responsibility for her defeat, and reacted to it by launching a false conspiracy theory against President Trump that smeared his victory and hobbled his first term. Listening to Hillary Clinton give retrospective criticism of how a Presidential campaign could have been won is as silly as paying attention to Jill Biden’s efforts at revising history.

Hillary is defaulting to the lame excuse that three months wasn’t enough time for poor, giggling, incoherent Kamala to convince the public that she was capable of being a better President than a candidate who had already been one. That is arguably a better explanation than the Democrats’ earlier claim that Kamala lost because American is bigoted and sexist, but maybe not. Harris’s best poll numbers were right after her nomination, and it was downhill from there. Kamala already had four years to convince the conscious that she couldn’t be an effective vice-president. The longer she campaigned for the top job, the more she cackled and talked in circles, the less electable she became. Why would more time campaigning help her? She said she would do nothing differently from Biden, whose disastrous Presidency was hanging there for all to see.

It’s obvious what Hillary really means, isn’t it? She believes that she would have won in 2024 if only she had been given a chance. After Clinton lost in 2016, Biden, who had more functioning brain cells then, said that he was kicking himself for not running instead of Hillary because HE would have beaten Trump.

But at least Joe didn’t wait two years to make his claim. The classic pathetic lament of a failure blaming someone else for the wreckage of a his own life is Marlon Brando’s simple-minded ex-boxer in “On the Waterfront.” He only makes the excuse in a private conversation with his brother in the back seat of a cab. Hillary Clinton keeps telling anyone who will listen that everything would have definitely turned out better if Democrats only had done something other than what they did. It is amazing that they keep giving her opportunities to do this, and that anyone does anything but point and laugh when she does.