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20th April 2018, 11:22 AM | #81 |
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Hillary Clinton said on election night ‘They were never going to let me be president’
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And last but not least, "they" were the 62,979,879 American voters who didn't like or trust the annoying old hag and joyfully kicked her pantsuit clad rear end to the curb. |
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"I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me, I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman." -- Bill Clinton |
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As others have pointed out, the cartoonist a noted bigot and is confused about Hillary's involvement in the latest Democrat lawsuit against the Republicans/Russia/WikiLeaks (hint: She's not involve).
Plus, if you look at some of the background details, they also talk about "suing Alex Jones", another lawsuit that Clinton is not involved in. (The parents of some of the deceased in the Sandy Hook shooting are suing Jones for claiming it was a fake attack; if the artist is criticizing that lawsuit, its suggesting they believe the conspiracy nonsense.) |
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Surely, this is a strategic move. Subtlety doesn't do well with his intended audience.
He should add laugh tracks. As you mouse over the image, the track changes from chuckles to guffaws to gasps and eventually chants of "lock her up". Or just the chants. Just to be sure. Whatever. |
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Trump supporters have nothing to juxtapose against Trump turpitude except a Hillary mockup they started building a long time ago.
Trump has been accurately described as "less a person than a collection of terrible traits." That's why Trump proppers need that Hillary mockup like a hog needs slop. Trump is literally such a repellent collection of terrible traits that there aren't any politikers of any stature who don't look good beside him. Not even in DC. So they keep dragging the mockup out of their foldarol bag, like a flock of talking magpies. Ironically, the crazed rat wing of the GOP originally constructed the mockup because they were afraid the GOP could not beat the old bat fair and square, so they went for the kneecaps. Which was cowardly and pathetic, and only got them Obama, and now Trump, who will almost certainly drag them down to hell with him. But now they think they need Trump, which leads to them thinking they need the Hillary mockup to make Trump look good by comparison. But it's not working. They still can't make Trump look good, even by comparison to an evil mockup Hillary doll thing. |
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I will not post in this thread again, I swear it. Hillary does not bother me now. I am done with her. It's so - freeing!
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After doing a little research on Ben Garrison, it seems that some of his friends on the alt-right have been "improving" some of his cartoons by making them more racists and anti-Semitic, but leaving his name on them. In fairness, my accusations that he is a racist neo-Nazi were based on those altered images, and I have to retract them. Now I'm back to thinking that he's just an unfunny reactionary ******* playing to the same fearful and resentful audience as Trump's demagoguery, many of whom happen to be racists and neo-Nazis.
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I think it's a common error. Anti-Semitic alterations of Garrison works are very common on racist channels. As far as I can tell, Garrison hasn't published anything racist. It's just conspiratorial and reactionary, which aren't exactly admirable qualities either. It doesn't take much to change globalist conspiracy to Jewish conspiracy.
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Enh. You go to the polls with the candidates you have, not the candidates you wish to have plan to have at a later date.
It's not like the Democrats have anything better than "but Trump!". Which, when you think about it, is even more pathetic, right? I mean, a true-believing Democrat might unironically think, of course the GOP doesn't have anyone of Hillary's caliber, so of course all they can do is harp on her unpopularity and hope that's enough. But at some point, don't those same Democrats have to start asking themselves when they're going to have something better to offer than "but Trump!"? |
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Trump is the President of the United States doing real harm right now. How is it more pathetic to run in opposition to the actual damage being done by Trump right now, than the hypothetical damage that is literally not possible? How is it more pathetic to be agreeing with the majority of the electorate?
This also leaves aside the specific measures Dems do advocate. |
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Hillary was right...
Turns out many Trump supporters really are in a 'basket of deplorables'.
Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds
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Swing voters in a handful of of key states were taken for granted, and ended up swinging the wrong way. These are the deplorable Trump supporters you're talking about?
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It seems a little hard to blame it all on men, much less just Christian white men, when women supported Trump as much as previous Republican candidates.
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First Lady Melania Trump always looks stunning and rarely comments on politics, making her the exact opposite of disheveled never-shut-up Hillary. |
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Which of course is completely wrong.
During the last election, the Clinton campaign had a lot of very well thought out policies. You could go to their web site and actually see what their plans were on a wide range of subjects. Compare that to Trump, who made promises which were incredibly vague (e.g. promise "great health care" without saying how it would be done), or completely contradictory (e.g. the cost of the wall, which seemed to change from speech to speech, or his immigration ban which turned into "extreme vetting", although he was vague on.)
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