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11/10/2016

DNC Staffer Blows Up At Donna Brazile And It’s Pretty Funny

Filed under: General — Dana @ 8:36 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Too bad there isn’t video of this. I bet it was pure awesomeness to see.

When Donna Brazile gave 150 DNC employees a post-election pep talk, a young, emotional Democrat got up and (rightfully) threw the election loss in her face. It’s pretty funny, especially the dying part:

“Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?” he asked, according to two people in the room. “You backed a flawed candidate, and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself.”

Some DNC staffers started to boo and some told him to sit down. Brazile began to answer, but Zach had more to say.

“You are part of the problem,” he continued, blaming Brazile for clearing the path for Trump’s victory by siding with Clinton early on. “You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy.”

Later, when asked for comment, Brazile mumbled something about not wanting to talk about it.

Heh. I bet not.

–Dana

51 Responses to “DNC Staffer Blows Up At Donna Brazile And It’s Pretty Funny”

  1. The left starts eating its own. Awesome!

    Dana (d17a61)

  2. 40 years?
    Is he planning to Occupy a Chinese smokestack?

    steveg (5508fb)

  3. ‘if it wasn’t for that crazy aussie (said in the voice of the guest villain on scooby do) we would have gotten away with it,

    narciso (d1f714)

  4. At least 45 years.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  5. Dana or Patrick — one of you should google up Andrew Sullivan’s column in New York Magazine.

    It makes Patrick’s POV look like a Trump sympathizer.

    Its so overwrought you’ll laugh out loud reading it.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  6. You know what I’m looking forward to? Everything wrong because of Trump. Here’s a list so you can keep up at home:

    The homeless. The wrecked economy and unemployed. Endless wars in the Mideast. The plight of whatever problem PBS and NPR can dig up. Right-wing corruption. Racism. The evil of guns. Climate change. The rise of the KKK. Starving children in the U.S. Starving children in Africa. Starving children in France. Closing borders. Paying for the wall. The struggle of small business. No affordable health care. Israel. Racism. Unclean water. Torture. Guantanamo Bay. Racism. Politicization of the Executive Branch. Government secrecy. Trump University. Naked Melania pictures. Racism. Sexism. Patriarchy. Fat kids. Skinny kids. Kids who like lollipops. Racism. Even kids with chickenpox. Cronyism. Foreign policy. The plight of undocumented workers. Women. Education. Student loans. Big oil. Big banks. Big pharma. That useless school crossing guard. War. The FBI. Rush Limbaugh. And racism.

    Did I mention racism? That too.

    It’s going to be a great four years of ignoring the media.

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  7. oh that’s so overtop, it recalls that frank miller comic, he wrote in his nihilistic youth phase,

    narciso (d1f714)

  8. Oh good Lord, shipwrecked crew, I just read the Sullivan piece. Wow.

    This is priceless:

    And, impossible though it may be, we will have to resist partisanship. The only way back to a free society, to a country where no one need fear the president’s wrath or impulses, is to unwind the factionalism that has helped destroy this country. We have to forge a new coalition on right and left to resist fascism’s reach and cultic power. In a country which just elected and re-elected a black president — whose grace feels now almost painful to recall — it is surely possible.

    Dana (d17a61)

  9. Ag80 — what has Obama been doing for 8 years? Surely those were all on his punch-list.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  10. that is a rich vein of delusion, with electrolytes,

    narciso (d1f714)

  11. I’m going to live by the Iowahawk rule. Don’t go by who is leading in the polls,
    go by who is losing their s**t.

    88

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  12. The 88 was an artifact no hidden meaning.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  13. @Steve57:The 88 was an artifact no hidden meaning.

    To me it will always mean the Flak 36.

    Wish Patterico could get an edit button.

    Gabriel Hanna (c791b9)

  14. this was the remnick (remember he wrote that treekilling hagiography of obama) in excerpted form,

    http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/10/new-yorker-trump-crushing-blow-spirit/

    narciso (d1f714)

  15. Oh what a tangled web.

    Jack (e5af45)

  16. Just for the record:
    2008 – 58.2% turnout
    Obama – 69,498,516 votes
    McCain – 59,948,323 votes

    2012 – 54.9% turnout
    Obama – 65,915,795 votes
    Romney – 60,933,504 votes

    2016 – 55.6% turnout
    Clinton – 60,523, 087 votes
    Trump – 60,086,008 votes

    It wasn’t White racists or haters who elected Trump….the Republican vote has been consistent over the last three elections. The 9 million missing Democratic voters elected Trump.

    gahrie (12cc0f)

  17. Thanks, gahrie,
    But it was pointed out on the other thread that eventually the final count will be higher,
    But the take home point is the same.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  18. After looking at some conservative articles as well as liberal,
    I am having a hard time understanding why the simple and obvious is being overlooked

    There has been no great change in the American psyche or electorate,
    More people came out to vote for Obama than Clinton,
    Non-whites who felt a kinship,
    and whites who wanted to make a point of not being racist.

    Clinton was an atrocious candidate and on election day not enough people wanted to be bothered voting for her.
    Trump may have drawn some people out who didn’t before,
    But if so there were nearly as many who had voted for Romney who were unwilling.

    I guess people will try to make the narrative whatever they want,
    But that looks pretty clear to me and at least some others of us.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  19. Sorry to disagree, MD. I see it as a mass lowering of standards that so many people went out and voted for either of these “choices”. The American psyche descended into the sewer and groped for the less disgusting flotsam.

    nk (dbc370)

  20. They, the “they”, really have beaten the American people down that we would accept something like this and not tar, feather and hang the whole bunch.

    nk (dbc370)

  21. Luke Skywalker lives in the Kansas statehouse for the moment, the only significant victory of the night for the other side apart from the loss of neverTrump senators.

    An aside, Trump supporters of a certain age and older have remained calm and not gloated. I do worry about the overreach of the alt.right as seen in many high school incidents. It’s over the top and a bit misapplied considering rust belt blacks may have defacto Trump voters by not showing up and a 2 point uptick was reported amongst Asians. The 22nd amendment fired Obama, not Donald Trump.

    urbanleftbehind (efac08)

  22. Well, nk,
    I know you sometimes say things a little contentious to make a point;
    I’m not so sure we disagree all that much.

    The vast majority of people,
    including you and me,
    didn’t see tar and feather as a realistic option.

    That is why I have said before that we need our Ceausescu moment,
    Where in a moment of stillness a voice cries out,
    “You lie!”
    And people agree.

    I was looking at Proverbs 1 a little while ago,
    Wisdom cries out in the streets,
    But most are not interested.

    It has been saddening,
    Unfortunately even discouraging,
    To see people who say they follow Jesus to be eager to follow either Obama or Trump (and even Clinton)
    Discernment is lacking

    I think we agree on that as you said,
    People are dumbed down not only intellectually
    But morally as well.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  23. Sorry, who is Luke Skywalker?

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  24. I meant tar, feathers and hanging figuratively, MD. But I could go for actual stocks, pillories and large quantities of ripe tomatoes. 😉

    nk (dbc370)

  25. It refers to no one in particular (12 seats turned Dem there)…in the metaphorical sense, the only hope, the only blue print available to a dead party. On the other hand, that victory came in the response to a much more idealogical than pragmatic governorship (Brownback). Kansas kicked off the 2006.2008 booklet as well.

    urbanleftbehind (efac08)

  26. nk,
    if “None of the above” was actually on the ballot, it might have come in at least second
    but it wasn’t
    whether or not it was a binary choice can be debated forever,
    but it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that it would be one of a binary result

    given the polarization of the choices, the relatively weak turnout suggests to me that at least 5-8 million picked “none of the above”

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  27. Sometimes we get two candidates who really leave us cold. Okay, or completely repulsed.

    The magnificent element is that we have mandatory elections every four years, and four years is not enough time to truly ruin a nation ala Chavez or Lenin. We know our false political gods have feet of clay even if at the outset, framed by styrofoam columns and swooning partisans, they look, at a distance, a little like Caesars.

    So now that I’ve gathered my wits after a frustrating few days, I choose to celebrate our founders who were wise enough to foresee a Trump or multiple Clintons and to protect us from them and our own fallible human natures.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  28. MD in Philly,

    This site provides very accurate information regarding turnout. The difference in the actual VEP needs to be identified before any other comparison is made. The difference between 2012 and 2016 is +9 million, which should have resulted in an additional 5.2 million votes (at the 2012 turnout rate), making the total expected vote 135 million. The actual total vote for 2016 won’t be completely tabulated until early December but when it is, remember 135 million rather than the 130 million counted in 2012 in determining how many declined to participate.

    Rick Ballard (bca473)

  29. So now that I’ve gathered my wits after a frustrating few days, I choose to celebrate our founders who were wise enough to foresee a Trump or multiple Clintons and to protect us from them and our own fallible human natures.

    This.

    Dana (d17a61)

  30. I think Age80’s point @7 is that, while these problems exist right now and they have throughout Obamas presidency, the LHMFMSM has been silent. Heck, if 37 million people didn’t have “healthcare” (meaning health insurance) in 2010, that number is surely still in the high 20 million range. And we have “homeless” people trying to homestead city parks in Seattle, but they are never the fault of Obama or Democrat policies. They are said to be caused by “capitalism”, if the media narrative needs a fall guy. No mention of personal choice, drug addiction, or simply responding to the misplaced generosity of public authorities.

    I’m bracing for the onslaught of 24×7-tearful coverage of these issues for the next four, and hopefully eight, years.

    And I won’t give a darn about the reports, nor will I feel compelled to support an act of “compassionate conservativism”. Let Bush 43 be a warning to anyone who thinks Republican’s can make progressive folly function. They can’t.

    BobStewartatHome (b2bab4)

  31. The young democratic started of strong but when he/she started talking about climate change? My only thought was “hopeless”.

    KGG (c46bfc)

  32. BTW – somewhere around 5 million voters from 2012 did not participate in 2016 due to no longer being involved in earthly matters.

    Rick Ballard (bca473)

  33. Trump will never eliminate Obama’s biggest program: Riots.

    AZ Bob (f7a491)

  34. Among the worst homeless problems in the nation is downtown San Francisco.

    A city under ultra-liberal democrat control for 50+ years.

    Tells you all you need to know about the solutions the left offers for such problems.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  35. 34. Why? Because he need them as bogeyman a la Putin/Chechens or because he sees them as the road to 500 EVs in 2020

    urbanleftbehind (efac08)

  36. Climate Change might have been a savvy way of self-editing, instead of saying “at the hands of a militia”. Maybe he gets a mail room job at P. Veritas with all he may know.

    urbanleftbehind (efac08)

  37. Thanks, Rick

    Do you think my numbers are so off at this point that my general conclusions are not valid?
    Or do you think the info I now have will generally hold up? My main point was to see if data actually suggested that millions of white racists came out of the wood work to destroy civilization, as some would have it.

    many places talked about percentage of votes, but not absolute numbers. Both are important depending on what one is looking at.

    Yes, I guess it is an inaccurate assumption at this point in time to think that new voters since 2012 are equal to lost voters from 2012

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  38. Todd Purdum has a piece up at Vanity Fair on the “Fall of House Clinton”.

    Factoid from first paragraph:

    On every election day since 1976, with the exception of 2014, a Clinton has either been in office or on the ballot for an office somewhere.

    They went from pretty much dead broke coming out of the Governor’s mansion in Little Rock, to being worth more than $100 million.

    Now that’s “vision”.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  39. MD in Philly,

    I don’t object to your conclusion but it may be premature. There may well have been a level of revulsion towards Clinton on the part of Democrats higher than that exhibited by Republicans towards Trump and the level of revulsion may have manifested more strongly among Independents, who favored Trump than was captured in polling. The polling failure is interesting to me because of the unwarranted confidence it appears to have elicited with the propagandists charge with manipulating public opinion.

    The young staffer who is the subject of this piece appears to be very well indoctrinated and as blinded by indoctrination as the geriarch he is addressing. He’s not going to be particularly effective in sustaining the oligarchy. Trump’s victory may just be a reaction to a sclerotic oligarchy which never accepted or completely co-opted him any more than it has accepted its own coming demise and replacement with a slightly different oligarchy.

    Rick Ballard (bca473)

  40. “who favored Trump more than was captured in polling.”

    Rick Ballard (bca473)

  41. shipwreckedcrew,

    See new post up about that “vision” thing… which includes yet another Clinton.

    Dana (d17a61)

  42. @BobStewart@home:And we have “homeless” people trying to homestead city parks in Seattle, but they are never the fault of Obama or Democrat policies. They are said to be caused by “capitalism”, if the media narrative needs a fall guy. No mention of personal choice, drug addiction, or simply responding to the misplaced generosity of public authorities.

    Was listening to the radio last year, and a spokesman for King County was expressing puzzlement: King County has spent so much on homelessness in the last ten years, while cities like Dallas didn’t, but Dallas’s homeless population decreased and King County’s increased…so clearly King County needs to spend even more…

    I laughed and laughed and laughed, but I should have been crying.

    Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1)

  43. See news about assassination threats on Twitter.

    The point will soon be made that publicly threatening the life of a Pres is a federal crime, and most Twitter pages are easily traced to the actual user.

    The Secret Service and FBI take this stuff seriously.

    Shipwreckedcrew (dd411e)

  44. Something about which to think …

    Not only did a slew of Obama voters choose to stay home or not vote for Clinton, I have to suspect that another factor was the number of women who decided to vote for Hillary, yet didn’t care enough about *anything* else to vote for anyone else when they voted …

    At a precinct near where I live, a surprising number of young ladies asked if it was OK just to vote for one person … and, on being assured that they could vote for as many or as few as they wished, as long as a maximum of one vote was cast per electoral race, they went and voted, returning *very* quickly to have their ballot put through the machine … (OK, I found it very surprising, it being my first election as a citizen of the US – and, I will also admit, it was my first election as a poll-worker (entertaining story – and fascinating, keeping my interactions rigorously *strictly* non-partisan while working at the device which swallowed the ballot, returning it only for obvious things like overvotes)) … in California, for whom would women wish to vote, such that they only wanted to cast a vote for one person on the entire ballot ?

    When that potential plus for Hillary is taken into account, I suspect that it was more than countered by the increased numbers of African-American voters who *didn’t* vote Democrat but instead voted for Trump, as well as the increased number of Hispanic voters who didn’t vote Democrat but instead voted for Trump …

    Just my observations and ,thoughts …

    (You, well, actually now, *we* sure have a fascinating election process ! (grin))

    alastor (2e7f9f)

  45. Was that article about Brooks for real???

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  46. Alastor, I hear those Cali ballots with those propositions are tomes. Filling out the mail-in ballot is the equivalent in terms of time to a single-no dependent but with an owned home necessitating a schedule A doing their 1040 by paper/pencil. Based on the type of women you saw, were those additional Harris or additional Sanchez votes that were foresaken?

    urbanleftbehind (847a06)

  47. I think Brooks needs to learn how to write satire, as opposed to thinking he is writing satire.
    Unless he has truly jumped the shark.

    kishnevi (f594bb)

  48. Urbanleftbehind – about the only common characteristic apart from them asking if it’s OK to just vote for one person on the ballot was that they were each alone … there were a bunch of couples that came into the polling station to vote – but none of the women in the couples asked about it … as for Harris vs Sanchez – how does one tell which is which ?

    alastor (2e7f9f)


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