Ok let's get one thing straight: Bernie Sanders was my kind of candidate, but if he had really wanted to win in 2016 he would have challenged the primary election results ten ways to Sunday. In Massachusetts, Bill Clinton illegally campaigned inside the polling wire, glad-handing and back-slapping as Secretary of State William J. Galvin looked the other way, merely issuing a "reminder" later to everyone that electioneering inside the wire was illegal.

Later in Massachusetts, it was discovered that Sanders had won by an average of 18% in towns where the paper ballots are counted by hand, but lost by about 1.4% in towns where the ballots were counted by machine. Sanders supporters filed a lawsuit demanding to look at the paper ballots, but a Massachusetts court struck it down on procedural grounds.

In California, election officials in San Diego got caught red-handed using white-out - yes, white-out - on Sanders votes. It doesn't matter what the department gave for a reason. There should never be white-out in a vote-counting room. Never. Not once.

And in Arizona, thousands of voters waited in the hot sun and into the night to vote, in Maricopa County, the state's most populous county, and many quit because they had to go back to work or mind kids. Maricopa County is where Phoenix is.

All of this is summarized in "Yes, Hillary Did Steal the Democratic Primary in 2016."

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad Bernie entered the race. But why run if you don't have the belly-fire for the big fight when it starts? Bernie certainly had it early in his career, when he got dragged off by cops as he sat next to a Black woman demonstrating for her civil rights. In those days, Bernie was really "with her" when someone needed to be.

But what about now?

Bernie managed to say some of these episodes of cheating were disgraceful, but that isn't enough when the $27 you just gave him was the last you had that didn't go to bills or food. Announcing that you have "observers" and "legal teams" on stand-by, and ready to rock, is all well and good, but what good are observers if they never do anything with their observations?

Hard-ball politics means going to court in a heartbeat, hold up, do not pass go, just what the hell is going on here, your honor? Bernie had every grounds to ask a Massachusetts judge to invalidate the precincts where old Bill illegally crossed the polling wire, 150 feet from the entrance of the polling station in Massachusetts. He had every grounds to ask a New York judge to hold the primary all over again in Brooklyn, where at least 125,000 voters inexplicably got wiped off the rolls, or had their registrations otherwise f*&ked with.