Has anyone read the novel?
It's written by a writer who has written numerous quite successful novels and is often said to be quite good.
So until I read it I'll assume that it might be, in some ways, quite good.
And on a subject that I find interesting. (I started this thread in 2001 after all.)
― the pinefox, Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
I think people here are judging the excerpts, which are not quite good
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
plunge into the entire book wins
― mark s, Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
Wow, imagine looking at the life of Hillary Clinton and thinking "if only she were free of Bill she could really have made something of herself"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
I think that. not necessarily something good, but perhaps less terrible to some extent
― no (Left), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
But I don't think she'd have had a path to president.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
She would have been a Mayor of Chicago covering up police black sites.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
too believable
― no (Left), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
She does have a lot of ambition. But I think "poor battered woman who made the mistake of hitching her wagon to that loser" is a very bizarre projection onto a person who very deliberately hitched her wagon to someone who was the definition of a winner and benefited greatly from it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
She’d be President now if she had divorced Bill after winning her Senate seat.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 23 May 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
"winning" her senate seat
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
what did she lose the popular vote
― j., Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
she moved to a state that hasn't had a republican senator since the 1970s for the sole purpose of running for a senate seat where the primary was cleared for her in advance
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
actually sorry that's not true, I forgot about D'Amato
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
I like Sittenfeld’s short stories - they’re unambtious, sort of Tom Perotta, Cat Person-type stories, but usually funny and absorbing. I don’t think she’s written a single novel I’d want to pick up though - I think the last one was a modernised Pride & Prejudice.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
No thanks, I have to inject some bleach at that time. pic.twitter.com/yTMsb6sER5— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 21, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
great revive
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
when you’ve lost Doug Henwood...
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
i just love how simpatico L-MM is with her in perpetrating a con, and making me equally thirst for hemlock
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
:/
MLK Jr. said: “I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." This is a subtweet.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 14, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
She literally wrote her thesis on how being the white moderate was the better way
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
who was she subtweeting?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
Sinema
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
Somehow when MLK spoke of breaking down the dams of law and order I don't think he was referring to changing senate procedure so an infrastructure bill can pass.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
I respect that she’s still doing this even though the response ranges from “oh, she’s still alive?!” to “fuck off and die.”
At least she’s not doing promoted tweets for hot sauce.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
xpost I think she's talking about the Voting rights bill not BBB
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
ohhhhhh, ok. Well that makes it more on point I guess, but still
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
Love her or loathe her, I'll give you three reasons she should have been president: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
It's amazing how even at 74, she manages to come off like the student council president trying to sound cool while saying "marijuana is for losers."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
If only someone had told her that Michigan and Wisconsin had electoral votes.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
I think u mean why BERNIE should have been president, xp
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
That may be, but she was the party's nominee. The Bernie voters who stayed home in the general can go fuck themselves, since they fucked the rest of us.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
I still see that meme a bunch where they ask during the Dem debate "should the candidate with the most votes be the nominee?" and everyone says No except for Bernie, as some sort of gotcha re: the Dems trying to "protect democracy". But Biden was almost certainly going to get the most votes in the primary anyway, right?
― frogbs, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
― jimbeaux, Friday, January 14, 2022 1:34 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Keep up the good work, you're doing great
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
I'm still upset LOL
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
thinking about her makes me very upset
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
Clearing the runway for an unpopular candidate who had never won a contested election might have been the real blunder. Although just one among many by the democrats that set the stage for 2016. But keep blaming things on the imaginary "Bernie voter who stayed home."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
Against Trump, she seemed a better bet than Bernie, who might have gone the way of George McGovern.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
Serious question what should the Democrats have done in 2016? Only three people ran and one of them was a guy no one had heard of. I get that all of us wanted Bernie but he got a lot less votes! And 2020 wasn’t particularly close either! Do we really think Mayor Pete and Klob and whoever else dropping out and endorsing Biden tipped the scales that much?
― frogbs, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
ok i now regret posting her shitty tweet
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
Serious question what should the Democrats have done in 2016?
Anything?
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
It was so hard to take Trump seriously
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
she should have peeled off her face and revealed her real reptilian skin
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, January 14, 2022 1:54 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
Oh come on, you don't want to do this again?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
i did it for the lols, i forgot there are people everywhere itching to do berniebro stuff
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
#stillwithher
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
#pantsuitbackfromthecleaners
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGFyxAP0QE
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
This thread in a nutshell:
― jimbeaux
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
how is this woman still alive? i could have sworn she was on her death bed! remember at the 9/11 anniversary she passed out because her handler didn't give her the injection in her neck that was keeping her alive. pretty sure she was clinically dead there for a few minutes until they could get the baby blood she has to drink to function.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link