What the F&#k Happened

On the WikiLeaks scandal: "In a series of emails between Hillary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal, ways to influence the Georgian elections were discussed, planned and put into action. Proof of U.S. taxpayer money used to prop up an anti-Russia candidate for their upcoming election had been floating around the internet for years. For reference, their puppet eventually lost.
The irony that another scandal arose from Clinton and her friends' inability to secure their cyber activities couldn't be missed. Her Benghazi disgrace wasn't even behind her yet, so honestly, a lot of reactions were a dull stupor; again?
There was an important lesson to learn here, but Hillary Clinton and her camp refused to see it. In the Aesop fable, The Eagle and the Arrow, an eagle is soaring through the air when it hears the whizz of an arrow. Feeling a fatal wound, the eagle begins its descent towards the ground and death. Looking down at the arrow that pierced it, the eagle notices that the shaft of the arrow is adorned with its own feathers. "Alas " it cries as it dies.
The moral of the story is that we too often give our enemies the means it takes for our own destruction. Guccifer 2.0, Russia, WikiLeaks and the press that covered the leak couldn't have harmed Clinton if the emails hadn't contained the means to harm her."

On the Presidential debates: "Watching Hillary during these debates in addition to the Democratic ones, I could tell she was being tutored on a better image that seemed less condescending, as focus groups had noted her to be. But tonight, as she unraveled, it became clear that the egotistical traits could not be coached out of her. When she thought she finally had a snobby reply to one of Trump's attacks, she showed it with a supercilious smile. And when it seemed nothing would stop him, she tried waving him off and rolling her eyes or turning to the moderators with a shrug of insolence.
Whether Clinton realized it or not, she exhibited a side of herself she had long thought hidden. She was unlikable and no amount of celebrity endorsements or stories of children saved from despair thanks to her good graces could change that.
But a lot of people disliked Donald Trump, too, right? The difference was Trump never cared, never tried to transform himself into an easily digestible character. He didn't need to and he even embraced it. Clinton on the other hand, had a perceivable need to be liked and her attempts to come off as charming were obviously contrived.
Donald Trump's indifference to being liked was the very thing that fueled his charisma."