If only the popular vote mattered...

Hillary wasn't focused on the electoral college, she cared about beating Obama's vote totals to "prove" she should have beat him. So she prioritized the popular vote when campaigning, causing idiots to think she was going to win. Because normally if popular is that high. It's implied battlegrounds are safe too. Because that's the metric that matters and what campaigns should be focusing on.

Hillary just skipped caring about battlegrounds, went straight to popular, and declared that made her winner...

Like, statistically the NFL team that wins the Super Bowl is the one that scores the most touchdowns. But if one team scores 1 TD and the other gets 17 field goals, the team with the most TDs lost.

She focused on correlation, not causation.

Because of that trump became president.

Blame anyone dumb enough to give a shit about a national poll a week out from an election. Then realize a lot of Clinton's 2016 campaign people are inexplicably now running Kamala's campaign and the DNC.

We need to get rid of all those people who haven't understood American politics for decades, they're just the only other option besides trump so it still works despite them sometimes.

But they clearly have no idea what the fuck they're doing.
- That was apparent to my unqualified eyes. You could see it where she was campaigning. Trump was all over contested states. She stuck to the sure things.
  
  Yep.
  
  Anyone that mentioned it got called a trumpet...
  
  Same thing was happening with Biden this time, but luckily they listened this time
- Hillary wasn’t focused on the electoral college, she cared about beating Obama’s vote totals to “prove” she should have beat him.
  
  She came up about 8M votes short from Obama's big 2008 win. If she'd been aiming for that high bar, she missed it by miles.
  
  Ironically, it was Biden who cleared it handily (with Trump coming in at historic-high second place) in 2020 thanks to mail-in voting boosting turnout nationally by nearly 20M votes. Of course, both parties immediately shut that shit down, lest Americans get used to the idea of convenient, accessible popular voting. The Trump/Biden Post Office under DeJoy has been dismantling the very idea of mail-in voting for the last four years.
  
  I suspect 2024 turnout will be significantly lower across the board.
  
  We need to get rid of all those people who haven’t understood American politics for decades
  
  I totally disagree. We could use a lot of new blood, with people who aren't resigned to the cynicism of the bi-annual election cycle. The folks who don't simply submit to the psychic pressure of this heavily propagandized and chronically demoralized election waves are exactly the kinds of people who could break it.
  
  Trump's biggest triumph in 2016 was bringing out conservatives who had otherwise never voted. People who were too depressed by the duopoly to show up came out in droves during the GOP Primary to support their Big Wet Boy. That kept Ted Cruz out of the White House (which I'd argue would have been far worse for the country in the long run) in 2016.
  
  Sander almost replicated the feat against Hillary that same year, but got kneecapped by a media that was hostile to the very idea of Socialism. But if you want any kind of progressive change in America in your lifetime, you need to see Democrats undergo the kind of change that the GOP has undergone, but from the left.
  
  You need more people who aren't consigned to voting Joe Biden mechanically every four years, even as he's falling apart in front of your very eyes. You need more people who want to shake up the party establishment and vote out the rotten incumbents. You need people who actually believe what these candidates are saying, rather than accepting a basket of lies at face value and shrugging when the candidates fail to deliver.
  
  But we can't go into 2030 with a population of voters who just accept the status quo as the best they'll ever do.
  
  Of course, both parties immediately shut that shit down, lest Americans get used to the idea of convenient, accessible popular voting.
  
  [citation needed]
  
  The Trump/Biden Post Office under DeJoy
  
  That's the claim being made.
  
  Could Biden have ousted DeJoy by now? Honest question, I really don't know the specifics.
  
  No, the president does not have that authority.
  
  I looked it up in the meantime, apparently it's standard Republican Senate fuckery if someone else is reading this.
  
  The Postmaster General gets elected by the nine-member Board of Governors, that the President selects and the Senate confirms the members of. Obama nominated at least five people, the Senate confirmed none of them, and since terms were for seven years, the Board lost quorum, and delegated its powers to a Temporary Emergency Committee.
  
  After Trump got elected, he nominated and the Senate confirmed eight people over his term. This gave the board a 5 member Republican majority, the legal maximum, but the Dem minority was also somewhat made up of Trump appointees.
  
  Biden so far could appoint two people with Senate confirmation. Replacing DeJoy needs five.
  
  That kept Ted Cruz out of the White House in 2016.
  
  Don't forget about forgettable no-rizz Jeb! Bush
  
  ...please clap
  
  I kinda don't think it was ever going to happen for ¡Jeb!
  
  But I'd have enjoyed watching Bush v Clinton from some alternate timeline, just for the laughs.
  
  Yeah there were some people who were so certain he would sweep the floor of that crowded primary, but then he was just so rizzless. He didn't even seem to want to be there
- "Hilary/she..."
  
  She was the candidate and made the final call but a lot of people work on a presidential campaign. There was plenty of blame to go around but she didn't personally make all those decisions. Certainly not alone...

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