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.
Ethics Alarms 
One of the most evil, conniving, soulless wicked witches on the planet, and we should listen to her, vote for her, support her because she’s a woman?
Morons
Harsh, but true. Despite the claim that she was the most qualified candidate ever, a lot of people saw right through her for what she was, a would be tyrant with few accomplishments of her own. We had a chance to see her as first lady as senator and as Secretary of State and that was plenty of time to decide she was not what we wanted in a president’. All the same, we were supposed to vote for her because she would have been historic and because she was Hillary.
The fact is that she was not outstanding in any of those roles. She was simply someone who rode the coattails of a powerful man even though in some ways she really couldn’t stand him, enabled his behavior that probably damaged the presidency, acted entitled, and either lied or looked down her nose at everyone who was not her. She was one of those women who everyone is afraid of and no one knows why. She was one of those people that if you asked what the consequences of not catering to her would be, everyone just said don’t do it.
Now she lost the Big race, almost a decade has gone by, and really there is nothing for her to offer at this point. Her failure meant The Fall of the House of Clinton. You don’t hear about the Clinton foundation anymore and no one donates to whatever she might be working on. There was briefly talk of running Chelsea as soon as a congress slot opened up in New York, but it doesn’t seem like Chelsea wants to go that route. Why should she? She’s already got recognition and riches from doing very little, she doesn’t need the headache.
I once compared Biden in part to a Punch-Drunk boxer who sits in the bar saying he can take anybody on. I guess Hillary is like that too, although from bitterness rather than dementia. It sucks to know that history is moving on without you.
I’ve met Chelsea. She’s nice enough, but has the charisma of a Pet Rock, and isn’t even as attractive as her mother was in her youth.
Then there’s this from Newsweek:
According to a poll conducted by Focaldata, Harris is the early favorite to win the Democratic nomination if she runs in 2028. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they would support her candidacy. Newsom followed with 21 percent support, while 10 percent backed Ocasio-Cortez, a favorite among progressives.
Both former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro received 7 percent of respondents’ support, and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly received 6 percent.
Harris at 39 percent! What are Democrats thinking? Didn’t they see her?
1. They know who she is.
2. She’s still sort of black and a woman.
3. Look at the competition!
And they’ll all march off the cliff together again. It’s a political death cult.
Leitfoot Newsom 2028
Race and Looks holding hands.
Truth be told, Clinton wasn’t actually wrong. Biden did make a big mistake and the Democrats paid dearly for it. As well they should.
jvb
Well yeah. And I wouldn’t be wrong if I said “The Boston Red Sox lost the 1975 World Series to the Reds.” But everybody already knows that, just as everybody knows it was incompetent and foolish for Biden to run again.
I know. It is kinda like Clinton telling us the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Any fool knows that. It is not like she is granting the world some new, insightful pearl of wisdom. She is, though, showing us that she is still bitter, and hatefully so, about losing the nomination to Obama and then getting pasted by Trump in 2016.
jvb
Or his handlers. I’m not saying Biden in his lucid moments didn’t support running again but it seems unlikely that the decision was entirely his. And, as we’ve discussed many times, Dr. Jill and the inner circle were most certainly involved in that decision which is tantamount to elder abuse.
They cannot possibly be as incompetent as this to believe that Kamala Harris had a chance. I’ve believed all along that the plan was to get Biden in office and have him step down (or force him out) after a dignified period of time in order to install Harris as the – historic! – President. That plan derailed when Harris turned out to be ridiculously out of her league. They decided to circle wagons around the President instead and install an unelected cabal to run the country instead.
Then, unwilling to hand over the reigns to a qualified Democrat – or even any Democrat – they forced out all of the contenders in their own party so that Biden could be the primary candidate and hoped it would work. Unfortunately, there were too many glaring problems with Biden that tanked his candidacy. Not having an open primary to install an alternate was the final nail in the coffin.
People were tired of the Biden Cabal’s far-left politicking and, maybe, starting to get wise to the Democratic Party’s lack of transparancy.
Agreed. And how on earth could anyone spend any amount of time around Harris and not conclude she is a ditz? To me, a mystery.
But she was part of the cabal that let all of Biden happen, John.
She was and she is a horrible individual. All agreed. It is also true that allwoing Biden to run again (hell, even the first time) was a monumentally awful idea with disasterous results, all of which were duly earned.
jvb