10. Finally, we love all of our commenters, and we’re proud of the great discussions that readers have on our articles. But we especially loved one comment in particular on Thursday.

“Zero optimism that the Democrats can ever regain hello hi oh you’re there are you outside oh well let me come to the door I’m icing my knee and I’m hard boiling some eggs I’ll turn them off and then will do our meeting,” it began, and went on for quite a while.

Huh? The commenter, ChristineMcM, later clarified that she had mistakenly posted it using a voice recognition feature on her phone. But we agree with New York magazine that it may have been the “single best comment of the year.”

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