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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Calling it hindsight is a bit disingenuous, but that's an olive branch. We need to care more about winning than pride.
"Hindsight is 2020" tells people, "I get you, man. No one could have predicted how hard that sucked. And man, did that suck. But at least we can make a better call this time, right?"
Any variant on "I told you so" tells people, "Hey, dumbf*ck, you going to do what I tell you this time and not be such a dumbf*ck?" That might be emotionally satisfying in the moment, but people tend to drift towards whichever side isn't calling them a dumbf*ck. That's part of how the GOP regularly hooks the poorly educated: playing up the idea of an intelligence-based class war.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Sanders might not even run in four years, hell he could be dead by then. And that's a bad thing (other than him dying, which is bad on its own) because either his movement implodes without him, or they go totally off the leash and the Unicorn Brigade dominates them.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.In another daily dose of trumpenfreude Trump is having white house visitor logs classified until at least 5 years after he leaves the office.
The part that Ambar is referring to? Poisoning the well among (would be) democratic voters by floating conspiracies about Hillary Clinton originated by right wing rags and radio talk from the time of the Bill Clinton presidency.
This is a good article on how to combat fake news by people that have done it for ages, Doctors.

Honestly, that doesn't count as Hindsight. Hindsight is if something happens which you couldn't really predict or had unintended consequences. But what is currently happening in the US is exactly what I said would happen. Everyone with two brain cells should be able to look through Trump quite easily. Saying that this is hindsight is like saying that nobody could foresee that the kleptomaniac might steal something.