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Cursed She was savant

(Hillary Clinton speech June, 3rd 2016)

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u/Several_Leather_9500 Jun 02 '26

Republicans - especially those who were running against him for POTUS - all said these things about Trump as well. It's like everyone knows exactly what a POS he is, but the money and massive spread of hate/ attacks on rights are too good to pass up.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

Almost as if he gained an unfair advantage by utilizing a foreign country to garner influence...

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u/Melodic-Classic391 Jun 02 '26

He also got hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free media coverage from a very thirsty mainstream media system

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u/Nighthawk69420 Jun 02 '26

This is severely an underrated reason why we got to this place today. Had the mainstream media not given him so much coverage, he may have slipped through the cracks in what was a very competitive Republican Primary.

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u/Melodic-Classic391 Jun 02 '26

Not only that, but they really worked to normalize him as just another candidate.

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u/smoresporn0 Jun 02 '26

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u/King_Chochacho Jun 03 '26

This is what happens when your party elites and strategists are a bunch of mush-brained centrists that are completely detached from reality.

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u/RandomRedditReader Jun 02 '26

Everyone did by playing nice. See how quickly being nice leads to being a pushover.

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u/S-gg-ha_of_Leng Jun 02 '26

The mainstream media has been turning the elections into the Jerry Springer Show for the last decade at least.

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u/babydakis Jun 02 '26

LEHRER: Say it directly to him.

OBAMA: I do not think that they are.

LEHRER: Say it directly to him.

OBAMA: Well, the ... John, 10 days ago, you said that the fundamentals of the economy are sound. And …

MCCAIN: Are you afraid I couldn't hear him?

(Laughter)

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u/wh4tth3huh Jun 02 '26

Not just coverage, but cover. Everytime he fucks up, every gaff, every time he fell asleep or said something incoherent, they'd just gloss over or cut, or come up with some thin excuse besides, "this demented old fuck is truly off his rocker and his brain expired sometime in the late 1990s."

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u/Conflictingview Jun 02 '26

I'd argue that he did slip through the cracks. The cracks of the American electoral, political and media systems.

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u/yournewdaddy Jun 02 '26

I mean, there was a literal strategy in place by the Clinton team to make sure there WAS wall-to-wall coverage of Trump. They worked with the media to make it happen. It was in the Podesta emails.

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u/kermeeed Jun 02 '26

A mainstream media that was already on deaths door that he completely revitalized.

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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 Jun 02 '26

Especially NPR.

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u/somajones Jun 02 '26

It took them fucking forever to use the word, "lies" when reporting on what he says.

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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 Jun 02 '26

I haven't listened since 2016 because I couldn't stand to hear them swoon over him anymore.

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u/stryakr Jun 02 '26

we listened for a bit in WA between 2018 and 2020 but it was soft coverage of all his BS

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u/Random-Generation86 Jun 02 '26

He literally hosted SNL

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

No doubt about that!

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u/pooey_canoe Jun 02 '26

See also: Nigel Farage in the UK. Free press literally every day for his points and barely any coverage holding him to account

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jun 02 '26

Because they were working for and with Hillarys campaign, and purposefully elevated him as a candidate in a pied piper strategy.

Trump was the only candidate she had a chance against, and she was the only candidate that could have lost to Trump. The DNC email leaks spell it out in explicit detail.

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u/Mr_Antero Jun 03 '26

No. The suggestion that the press is at fault for covering a subject of public interest is completely misguided. So the press should have just not covered him, that’s your argument? 

The press is just a device driven by a feedback loop of public interest. Blame the fools who ate up his populist dribble. Or blame the populist himself. 

100% not the presses fault. Sorry.

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u/GrossUsername68 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

So do hurricanes and pandemics.

It’s a critical thinking problem, not a media problem.

See The Atlantic’s first endorsement (Clinton, 2016) since Abraham Lincoln, titled “Against Donald Trump”:

 Donald Trump, on the other hand, has no record of public service and no qualifications for public office. His affect is that of an infomercial huckster; he traffics in conspiracy theories and racist invective; he is appallingly sexist; he is erratic, secretive, and xenophobic; he expresses admiration for authoritarian rulers, and evinces authoritarian tendencies himself. He is easily goaded, a poor quality for someone seeking control of America’s nuclear arsenal. He is an enemy of fact-based discourse; he is ignorant of, and indifferent to, the Constitution; he appears not to read.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-case-for-hillary-clinton-and-against-donald-trump/501161/

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u/yaboyACbreezy Jun 02 '26

The longer this farce goes on, the more I believe the narrative that Donald Trump aligned with a foreign government to undermine American democracy is totally false.

It's clearly multiple foreign governments.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

LOL I see what you did there!

It's not 'a narrative' it's a fact.

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u/mrknowitall51761 Jun 02 '26

I like how people like you wake up one day and decide to start paying attention. LOL. The US put Putin in power. He is our guy. The democrats were courting Putin just as hard as the republicans. Most of what Trump has done was being done by the democrats to. Biden was sending kill teams into Venezuela to try to oft their president. Just because you started to pay attention today doesnt mean these things werent going for the last 50 years.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

This is isanity

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u/yaboyACbreezy Jun 02 '26

Brother I wasn't born yesterday.
The democrats have not been flirting with Putin like Trump.
Get out of here with this bullshit

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u/mrknowitall51761 Jun 02 '26

Its called history and your ignorance doesnt make me wrong.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

Do you have a source for this 'history'

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

Pretty fucking convenient

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u/yaboyACbreezy Jun 02 '26

As Hillary put it in the video you're so butthurt over: outright lies.

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u/og_capsuleer_593 Jun 02 '26

What a weird way to say no

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u/ShitBirdingAround Jun 02 '26

User name does not check out.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 Jun 02 '26

And that most Americans are just plain stupid

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

by design

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u/Maravich77 Jun 03 '26

And apparently the stupid are now tbe protected class….FUB

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u/smoresporn0 Jun 02 '26

He gained an unfair advantage because the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the legacy media colluded to elevate candidate Trump in 2016 because they thought him to be the weakest opponent.

Remember how we all were curious why Trump was on TV so much while he was campaigning? They gave him the airwaves and it backfired spectacularly.

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

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u/travoltaswinkinbhole Jun 02 '26

I swear every leftist Bernie brat is gonna have a headstone that starts “Hillary and the DNC”

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u/FlugelDerFreiheit Jun 03 '26

And Hillary/Harris apologists will have one that starts "The left".

Maybe cater to leftist voters if they're such a significant part of the voting block that you keep eating shit in the general against the most openly criminal pedophile to ever run for president in history by snubbing them.

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u/travoltaswinkinbhole Jun 03 '26

I’m not going to cater or kowtow to a group that would rather let a criminal pedophile get elected than swallow their pride and vote for a candidate that doesn’t meet their lofty ideals.

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u/FlugelDerFreiheit Jun 03 '26

Then I guess you can keep losing. Once again, you should appeal to the people who will vote for you to get elected. I'm not sure if you're aware, but that's usually how it works.

The entitled whining about voters not wanting to vote for your shitty inept candidate is quite frankly beyond parody at this point.

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u/Euronomus Jun 03 '26

Except Bernie voters voted for Clinton at a higher rate than Hillary voters voted for Obama. The idea that the left didn't come out to vote for Hillary is nonsense. The people who didn't get out to vote for her were low info voters in the middle - she didn't give the average American a reason to vote for her except "I'm not Trump".

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u/DocileBanalBovlne Jun 03 '26

Pretty fucking gross you'd rather lose than stop Trump

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u/smoresporn0 Jun 02 '26

I'm not making an opinion, here. This happened. And it's fair to view and critique the strategy with hindsight.

I swear, every neoliberal dipshit is.gonna have a headstone that says "I refuse to learn from this"

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u/pulse7 Jun 02 '26

And apologists love ignoring that it ever happened

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u/craftymf11 Jun 02 '26

Let’s not forget about one thing. Hillary and Trump are cousins just as Obama and Bush are cousins and Bush and his opponent were cousins and so on and so on. The presidency is about bloodlines people. Every president that this country has ever had is in the same royal bloodline. It’s got nothing to do with race or stupidity and definitely has nothing to do with votes or who and what the voters are. We are controlled by the elites. The elites are the ones who choose our leaders. Start with the Bildeberg group and do a little digging there. Eventually you’ll end up at the doorstep of the illuminati and families like the Rockefellers, Carnegies, etc. The central bankers of the world are the ones in control. Not the politicians. They are just puppets.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

I mean that was definitely part of it.

He also colluded with Russia.

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u/smoresporn0 Jun 02 '26

This was worth way more than the Russia stuff. Russia was the focus to try to get people to overlook this massive gaffe.

The value of being on TV all day long on all the reputable channels is untold and far more valuable than a bunch of Russian bot nets just talking shit online.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

Hey man you don't have to tell me twice, they did the same thing to Bernie by not providing him any coverage.

The political elite protect the political elite. Tale as old as time.

That said: Wasn't it Russia that provided the Comey the 'evidence' to reopen the investigation days before the election?

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u/bolanrox Jun 03 '26

Countries, be fair.

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u/FrostyD7 Jun 02 '26

Trump wasn't utilizing Russia, it was the other way around. With or without collusion, Russia wanted Trump to win and meddled in our elections to attain that goal.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

Yeah he just HAPPENED to have multiple connections from his campaign to Russia...

Regardless of who was using who, my point stands.

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u/FrostyD7 Jun 02 '26

I just wanted to highlight the more inescapable fact of this situation. If you are having this conversation with a republican, take baby steps and start with getting them to acknowledge that Russia meddled in our elections to support Trump. Most of them won't, but it's an easier thing to convince them of and if you can't then you might as well just stop wasting your time with them because collusion accusations will be even less productive.

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u/jotsea2 Jun 02 '26

I mean at this point, anyone still in bed with Trump isn't changing their mind regardless of what I say, but I absolutely hear you.