Can Hillary Clinton just take a walk in the woods in peace? Damn. Can she just chill? Apparently not. Sexism, it turns out, isn’t just in play before the election, it’s now a staple of everyday life if you’re a woman named Hillary Clinton and you lost.

You want to see clickbait journalism and the outrage media machine in full swing? Look no further than Shaun King’s latest. As most try and enjoy what remains of their Christmas break King was busy writing, “Will Hillary Clinton join the long line of Democrats who bail on their promises after a presidential election?” As you have possibly come to expect from King, it begins with a sort of fake kindness toward Clinton, disguised as fear about Donald Trump which quickly pivots to a BERNIE SANDERS praise piece. Bernie Sanders, the 30-year Beltway insider, is infallible of course.

I’m not joking. It’s the folks like King who continue to stoke the rift in the Democratic Party that only further divides it. The primary was ages ago. Hell, Clinton lost well over a month ago, yet here we are: pitting Sanders against Clinton. I can only speculate as to why and it’s probably that Bernie Sanders would have won and we could have avoided all of this! How long before King writes that piece? Maybe after Trump starts a war or takes freedoms away, King will write about how Trump’s actions are a direct result of a failed Democratic Party who nominated a DEEPLY flawed candidate instead of a 30-year largely unknown, albeit, establishment candidate. Wake up, man. The World is moving on, maybe it’s time you did too.

Look, Shaun King (and people who think like Shaun King), by all means — start a new progressive party. If you don’t like the way Democrats coalesced around Clinton, go green or start the OurRevolution.com political party. Develop your own platform! Create your own coalition from scratch. Go out there and actually DO THE WORK. I imagine, it’s much easier to write about the work you’d like to see done in the democratic party though. How many times has King or others professed to be DONE WITH THE DEMOCRATS? Well, in May of 2016, King rather loudly claimed he was “leaving the Democratic Party after the Presidential Election” and urged others to do so too. Tick-tock Shaun, tick-motherfucking-tock.

It’s rather incredible really. People like Shaun King are part of the problem because they can’t seem to see they themselves are part of the problem. I’ve written about Shaun before. What journalistic purpose does this serve, other than to incite rage in a base of people who already hate her? Hillary Clinton solicits emotions and clicks, especially when you consider King’s target audience (Give me Bernie or give me death by nuclear hell fire!). My question is: What the hell is your problem? I get that Clinton was a punching bag for Republicans but I just don’t see what goal King is accomplishing by leveraging the same tactics. Some select rebuttals:

Uh, yeah. That’s what happens when you run for President. You develop a platform, you campaign heavily on it and then sometimes, you lose. As a private citizen, it’s not like Clinton can just waltz into Congress and start making demands. Ironically, Bernie Sanders has more power than Clinton to get things done in that sense because he’s a sitting senator.

This. Is. Dangerous. “Journalism.” So, what does King want? That instead of going on walks in the woods, thinking privately or catching her granddaughter’s recital, Hillary Clinton should be hammering out an agenda to stop Trump? Negative think pieces? Solving the world’s problems? What about that whole thing about accepting the results of the election? What would it look like if Hillary Clinton slayed Trump in the media all day, every day? A private citizen and a woman (!!!) weighing in on domestic and foreign policy?? Would someone like King perhaps, not be forced to write a “Clinton: you lost, stop whining” piece? That’s the problem, the rules are still different for Clinton, even in defeat she’s held to an unattainable standard.

Side note: Since Hillary Clinton ISN’T President, she didn’t have to shut down the Clinton Foundation. I expect then, in the new year, we might learn about how she plans to “fight for all americans”? Because that’s what most LOSERS do. They regroup and then plot a way forward.

Side SIDE note: If Clinton honestly wanted to disappear into those woods and never return, that’s her goddamn right. She lost an election which people can’t seem to decide if she should have won handily or lost the moment she declared she would run. So yeah, the loser doesn’t suddenly get to handle cleanup on aisle Trump. That’s not how it works.

Did Bernie get right back to fighting the dangers of Trump though? I seem to remember this particular quote from him, on NOVEMBER 9th nonetheless:

“Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media…To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him.”

Daily he is fighting for and speaking about the dangers of Donald Trump and the injustices in our country? Is that so? Because I seem to hear a lot about how Bernie Sanders thinks class is more important than race and that identity politics are the death toll of the Democratic Party. I think it’s nice to perceive Bernie as going to work daily to oppose Trump but that’s really not the reality. Bernie tweeting about Trump and nuclear power, isn’t the same as actually taking any steps to prevent Trump from using nuclear power.

And that’s the problem. King is so blinded in the angelic light of Bernie “can do no wrong” Sanders, that he fails to see — Bernie Sanders isn’t actually fighting for people of color, Bernie’s fighting for all people, regardless of color, unless you’re #whiteworkingclass of course. So maybe, just maybe, let’s wait and see how Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party move forward before demanding it’s Bernie’s way or the highway. Remember, if you don’t like it: The exit’s behind you.