9mo ago

US campus protests: Hillary Clinton fails to grasp the moral power of this turning tide

www.middleeasteye.net Why Hillary Clinton fails to grasp the moral power of US campus protests

The former secretary of state accuses today's youth of not understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict. This is a symptom of her limited imperial imagination

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She frequently demonstrates exactly why she didn't get elected.
- 2016 was awful...it was like choosing between breaking some ribs or a breaking a femur. It was going to suck no matter what. Turns out the femur break was a compound fracture that had gangrene set in.
  In retrospect do I wish she had won? Yes. Definitely. On the other hand, that might have meant a 2020 Trump victory.
  Unless she really embraced the progressive wing of the party and really moved the country forward in terms of resolving home ownership, income stagnation, or health care in an impactful way, I can't imagine her getting a second term.
  
  I voted for her, but i seriously held my nose while doing it. I volunteered for Obama, but i didn't for Hilary. I was demotivated by the polls saying she was a sure thing, and by me seriously not liking her as a person and many of her political positions. She was obviously way better than Trump, but man was she a crappy candidate.
  
  I complained for Bernie and was big mad about the contested convention and how it’s screwed him. If we got Bernie we would not be in this situation

seems her understanding can be bought with 2.6 million US dollars.
she should probably go gaslight somebody else. We're tired of boomers gaslighting us. "Whah you don't understand!!!"
no. we do.

The amount this woman fails to grasp, morally or otherwise, is truly astounding. I still blame her for Trump's win, and wished they'd both just fuck off already.
- Don't place the blame on her. Blame the dumb fuck primary voters. Or the dumb fucks who couldn't be bothered to vote in the primary and then bitched about their shitty choice.
  EDIT: Amazing the twists people will go through to excuse dumb ass voters.
  
  Hillary bought the primary
  Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance

Yeah, we don't need the take of the one who elevated Trump in the primaries and then sucked enough in the general to let him within cheating distance of the white house.

"They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East"
You're right, it's actually WORSE than what they understand.

Go away Hillary.

Pokemon Go commit genocide

Fucking stop posting her.

Does anyone else feel like she's ramping up her media attention for a 2028 presidential run?
It just seems odd since she went silent after 2016 and now it seems like she's trying to get in the headlines again.
God I hope she doesn't run.
- I mean the reason she lost last time is apparently because she wasn't 80 yet.
- Either that or she thinks she can be a Broadway producer
  Clinton was on the US network to promote a new musical she has produced, Suffs, about American suffragists and their fight for voting rights.
- Chelsea 2028

"We must allow children to be massacred with our money because of ✨HISTORY✨"

It really is astonishing how bad her political instincts are. A large majority of her party disapproves of what Israel is doing to Gaza, but she chooses now to call the protesters ignorant? A group of young progressives Biden will probably need in order to win? Who is this for?
Honestly, I'm not even mad about the stupid shit she says anymore, I'm fascinated. Does she know she's politically irrelevant going forward, so she's just on some sort of bitter, scorched-Earth tirade? Is the party encouraging her to say crap like this as some sort of testing ground for unpopular messaging? Or does she really just this detached from public opinion?
- If she didn't decide to dedicate her life to shitting on progressives then Bernie probably would be finishing up his second term and the country would be 19% less stupid

Democrats trying to pull a Clinton2.0
Watch them blame leftists again when they lose and proceed to shift the entire party even more right. Because if more people voted Republican that must mean people wanted the Democrats to be more right wing!