IF she wins today I will ask a Mod to add "Official" to the title so we can have one more "official" thread.............Shameless bump...say wot?
Quit Picking on Hillary...........
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Poor old Hill having to stand on the sidelines whilst her nemesis assumes the office that she believed was her god-given right. How sweet it is.
‘We’re voting with our middle finger,” a Trump supporter in South Carolina told a reporter last fall.
The WWC is plagued by crisis within and without — household income in this group has been all but stagnant for 40 years. The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high-school education has increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014. Opioids arrived and factories left. Democrats at best didn’t seem to notice; at worst they seemed to be causing misery by supporting NAFTA and mass immigration that drives down wages while imposing environmental policies meant to crush carbon-intensive industries. Then they mocked their victims as rednecks on the wrong side of history.
Donald Trump epitomizes this idea, having made his fortune “in garish casinos that sold a working-class brand of luxury.” Gold-covered everything is exactly how you’d decorate if you were from Appalachia and struck it rich with no intervening period of finishing school at Stanford or Yale.
To the rootless global elites, though, tradition is subordinated to transgression. What society considers edgy, elites deem worthy of their praise. It isn’t acceptable merely to accept gay life, for example — it must be celebrated. Recalling moving to San Francisco and observing a fully naked man walking down the street, Williams recalls feeling proud of herself for being tolerant of such norm-shattering. Among the elites, she says, “It’s a point of pride not to be one of those petty bourgeois who’s shocked by sexual transgression.”
This attitude not only stuns the WWC but strikes them as a kind of attack on everything they hold dear. To them, bicoastal urban America is a joke to which they don’t get the punchline. They feel excluded, marginalized, left out. Worse than any of this, they feel condescended to, and it infuriates them, Williams writes.
Hillary Clinton did a marvelous job of confirming their suspicions when she said — in New York City, at an LGBT event — that “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Being called names such as these is exactly what gets the white working class fired up. She might as well have told everyone from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, “Don’t vote for me.” Outside of Chicagoland, they didn’t.
Hillary Clinton reminds them of the prissy know-it-alls who have been bossing them around their whole lives — she’s the lady who tells you there’s no eating in the library, as columnist Jonah Goldberg once put it. They don’t resent Trump, though: They imagine being him and firing her.
Clinton’s rhetoric about helping the poor also turned off the WWC: The have-a-littles disdain the have-nots. Working people in the middle are proud of their discipline and resent the spongers they perceive as being rewarded for having none. They don’t romanticize welfare recipients as being hapless victims of circumstance because they see them at the grocery store every week.
Even when they qualify for aid, they sometimes make a point of rejecting it: “I don’t want a government handout,” they say. “I can do this on my own.” Accepting welfare is seen as a character flaw and leads to a serious loss of social standing in the community, according to a study of rural voters in California. Without such standing, you don’t get considered when there’s a job opening.
Bill Clinton understood this kind of thinking, which is why he signed welfare reform in 1996, when he carried such states as West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana. No Democratic presidential candidate since has won any of those states, and they’re no longer even trying.
Bill famously advised his wife’s campaign to do more to reach out to the WWC, but in what will surely be recalled as one of the defining moments of hubris on Team Hillary, campaign manager Robby Mook replied, “the data run counter to your anecdotes.”
It’s just too perfect that Clinton lost the election in part because she relied on a gay, 36-year-old Ivy League data nerd rather than a two-time winner of a presidential election to show her the path to the White House. If she wants to learn some anecdotes about how to repel people you’re supposed to be wooing, this book is an excellent place to start.
Why working class Americans voted with their middle finger | New York Post
The WWC is plagued by crisis within and without — household income in this group has been all but stagnant for 40 years. The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high-school education has increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014. Opioids arrived and factories left. Democrats at best didn’t seem to notice; at worst they seemed to be causing misery by supporting NAFTA and mass immigration that drives down wages while imposing environmental policies meant to crush carbon-intensive industries. Then they mocked their victims as rednecks on the wrong side of history.
Donald Trump epitomizes this idea, having made his fortune “in garish casinos that sold a working-class brand of luxury.” Gold-covered everything is exactly how you’d decorate if you were from Appalachia and struck it rich with no intervening period of finishing school at Stanford or Yale.
To the rootless global elites, though, tradition is subordinated to transgression. What society considers edgy, elites deem worthy of their praise. It isn’t acceptable merely to accept gay life, for example — it must be celebrated. Recalling moving to San Francisco and observing a fully naked man walking down the street, Williams recalls feeling proud of herself for being tolerant of such norm-shattering. Among the elites, she says, “It’s a point of pride not to be one of those petty bourgeois who’s shocked by sexual transgression.”
This attitude not only stuns the WWC but strikes them as a kind of attack on everything they hold dear. To them, bicoastal urban America is a joke to which they don’t get the punchline. They feel excluded, marginalized, left out. Worse than any of this, they feel condescended to, and it infuriates them, Williams writes.
Hillary Clinton did a marvelous job of confirming their suspicions when she said — in New York City, at an LGBT event — that “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Being called names such as these is exactly what gets the white working class fired up. She might as well have told everyone from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, “Don’t vote for me.” Outside of Chicagoland, they didn’t.
Hillary Clinton reminds them of the prissy know-it-alls who have been bossing them around their whole lives — she’s the lady who tells you there’s no eating in the library, as columnist Jonah Goldberg once put it. They don’t resent Trump, though: They imagine being him and firing her.
Clinton’s rhetoric about helping the poor also turned off the WWC: The have-a-littles disdain the have-nots. Working people in the middle are proud of their discipline and resent the spongers they perceive as being rewarded for having none. They don’t romanticize welfare recipients as being hapless victims of circumstance because they see them at the grocery store every week.
Even when they qualify for aid, they sometimes make a point of rejecting it: “I don’t want a government handout,” they say. “I can do this on my own.” Accepting welfare is seen as a character flaw and leads to a serious loss of social standing in the community, according to a study of rural voters in California. Without such standing, you don’t get considered when there’s a job opening.
Bill Clinton understood this kind of thinking, which is why he signed welfare reform in 1996, when he carried such states as West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana. No Democratic presidential candidate since has won any of those states, and they’re no longer even trying.
Bill famously advised his wife’s campaign to do more to reach out to the WWC, but in what will surely be recalled as one of the defining moments of hubris on Team Hillary, campaign manager Robby Mook replied, “the data run counter to your anecdotes.”
It’s just too perfect that Clinton lost the election in part because she relied on a gay, 36-year-old Ivy League data nerd rather than a two-time winner of a presidential election to show her the path to the White House. If she wants to learn some anecdotes about how to repel people you’re supposed to be wooing, this book is an excellent place to start.
Why working class Americans voted with their middle finger | New York Post
Onward Together : to oppose Trumps agenda.
Hillary Clinton launches 'Onward Together,' a political group designed to resist Trump's agenda - Chicago Tribune
and let's not get into sour grapes ........as she is above all that. Far too smart. She didn't handle some things as well as she could have........but Washington would not be in the mess it is in if she had won.
Trump's win is still highly questionable....... even though many want to "get past it " and ignore the reality of influenced elections.
Trump kept calling her Crooked Hillary..... but that is called projection ........ as he projects his character flaws onto others. A pathological defense mechanism .(psychological )
at least she was qualified and experienced. And the US would have finally broken the gender barrier for their POTUSS demonstrating they were progressive. Instead they chose to regress by voting in a crooked b "businessman"........ who knows NOTHING about politics,
a tragic moment in history.( American)
Hillary Clinton launches 'Onward Together,' a political group designed to resist Trump's agenda - Chicago Tribune
and let's not get into sour grapes ........as she is above all that. Far too smart. She didn't handle some things as well as she could have........but Washington would not be in the mess it is in if she had won.
Trump's win is still highly questionable....... even though many want to "get past it " and ignore the reality of influenced elections.
Trump kept calling her Crooked Hillary..... but that is called projection ........ as he projects his character flaws onto others. A pathological defense mechanism .(psychological )
at least she was qualified and experienced. And the US would have finally broken the gender barrier for their POTUSS demonstrating they were progressive. Instead they chose to regress by voting in a crooked b "businessman"........ who knows NOTHING about politics,
a tragic moment in history.( American)
Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton once refused to fly together with former First Lady Michelle Obama and instead asked for a separate plane.
According to government watchdog Judicial Watch, which obtained the email exchange from 2011 through a Freedom of Information Act request, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explored the possibility of flying separately from Mrs. Obama to the funeral of former First Lady Betty Ford.
Back in 2015, Democratic donor Jeffrey Leeds wrote to former Secretary of State Colin Powell saying Clinton “HATES that the president (‘that man,’ as the Clintons call him) kicked her ass in 2008,” adding “She can’t believe it or accept it.”
The Democratic megadonor also claimed President Obama wouldn’t care if Clinton got into trouble over her use of a private email server during her time as the Secretary of State.
“I don’t think the president would weep if she found herself in real legal trouble. She’ll pummel his legacy if she gets a chance and he knows it,” he said.
https://heatst.com/politics/hillary...-in-2011-to-avoid-flying-with-michelle-obama/
According to government watchdog Judicial Watch, which obtained the email exchange from 2011 through a Freedom of Information Act request, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explored the possibility of flying separately from Mrs. Obama to the funeral of former First Lady Betty Ford.
Back in 2015, Democratic donor Jeffrey Leeds wrote to former Secretary of State Colin Powell saying Clinton “HATES that the president (‘that man,’ as the Clintons call him) kicked her ass in 2008,” adding “She can’t believe it or accept it.”
The Democratic megadonor also claimed President Obama wouldn’t care if Clinton got into trouble over her use of a private email server during her time as the Secretary of State.
“I don’t think the president would weep if she found herself in real legal trouble. She’ll pummel his legacy if she gets a chance and he knows it,” he said.
https://heatst.com/politics/hillary...-in-2011-to-avoid-flying-with-michelle-obama/
So what's not relevant about that post, in this thread?.
And what does Jill Stein have to do with it.....?
It's very relevant.
Bernie lost....you bailed...
Trump wins.
Trump won because of the left....do you get it....ever?
Blame the Russians, blame Comey, blame wikileaks....etc etc.
Dumbocrats are just that.....dumb.
What's the strategy to take back the house and Senate?
Moan, groan and whine?
Good luck.
Hillary Clinton is set to travel across North America this fall to promote What Happened, the former secretary of state's new book about running for president against Donald Trump.
Those who wish to attend Clinton's book tour appearances will apparently have to dish out a fair amount of money.
The "platinum VIP ticket" to Clinton's talks in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal costs $2,375.95 (or 2,967 Canadian dollars), Fox News reports.
For those who can afford it, the ticket brings two front-row seats, a photo with Clinton backstage and a signed book.
Those who wish to attend Clinton's book tour appearances will apparently have to dish out a fair amount of money.
The "platinum VIP ticket" to Clinton's talks in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal costs $2,375.95 (or 2,967 Canadian dollars), Fox News reports.
For those who can afford it, the ticket brings two front-row seats, a photo with Clinton backstage and a signed book.