Letâs indulge in some nostalgia for a moment. Itâs Nineties America and âpolitical apathyâ is the complaint on every politicianâs lips. The end of the Soviet Union is a recent memory and Western democracy has emerged triumphant, though the average voter is annoyed and bored with the whole charade. Academics write articles about the lack of vibrant public debate. The Times Mirror, a major newspaper publisher, releases a study referring to Americaâs âAge of Indifferenceâ.
These were the good old days, especially if you were Hillary Clinton. By 1997, the First Lady of the United States had published It Takes a Village â âa textbook for caringâ for Americaâs children â and followed it up with a conference on âWhat New Research on the Brain Tells Us About Our Youngest Childrenâ, at which only one neuroscientist spoke and didnât say anything new. There, she gushed about how experiences during the first three years âcan determine whether children will grow up to be peaceful or violent citizensâ. Rob Reiner, who had devised a recent national public education campaign (also not a neuroscientist), claimed that what we know about brain development during the first three years of life was “the key to problem-solving at every level of societyâ.
If only that were the case; if only healing Americaâs broken electorate had simply been a matter of socially engineering a new one. Instead, in the three decades since, the countryâs atomisation continued to fester, compelling Clinton to once again return to the frontline. Eight years (and another book) since Trump ruined her presidential party, this time her weapon of choice is a 3,500-word essay for The Atlantic, in which she laments the rise of âlonelinessâ and its manipulation âby dark forces that are threatening American democracyâ.
Once again showing a stubborn penchant for reducing social problems to biology, Clinton believes that an âepidemicâ of âloneliness and isolationâ not only explains the rise of the âalt-Rightâ, but is also infecting American society to its core, threatening citizensâ âpersonal health and also the health of our democracyâ. Turning her âbasket of deplorablesâ into a âbasket of the debilitatedâ, she confirms that Americaâs political elite is inclined to view the politically dispossessed in two ways: risky or at-risk; swarming or sick; dangerous or disordered.
What this forgets, though, is that treating voters as vulnerable, malign loners rather than disenfranchised political agents is part of the problem. Just as in the Nineties, Clinton seems incapable of reckoning with people as conscious actors. For her, problems are not solved by negotiating with the affected, but by prescribing expensive social programmes that seek to alter their behaviour. Yet being treated as passive recipients of âbehaviour change programmesâ will backfire unless the political class that Clinton represents addresses the political vacuum once filled by representation and contestation.
No one needs to be reminded of Clintonâs âdeplorablesâ comment, or her warning about the risks posed by âlow-information votersâ. But few seem to recall the brief stunned moment following Trumpâs election win when political pundits and social-media experts were bursting with performative self-reflection (though admittedly not a little emotional incontinence). Maybe we needed to reflect; maybe we needed to listen a little more to the âleft behindâ. It didnât take long for soul-searching to be replaced by waves of condemnation towards those âignorantâ voters who were duped by Facebook, Google and Vladimir Putin into allowing the âdarkest impulsesâ of the human psyche out into the light of day.
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SubscribeSome mornings, when I open my eyes into the blank gray slate of the early light, it’s really hard to get out of bed, to rise and, in some way, shine, to engage with the rest of the world. I think of all our problems, and how insurmountable they seem, and I just want to roll over and go back to sleep.
Then I remind myself that I live in a world where Hillary Clinton will never be president. Thus fortified, I can face the day.
What a sad little existence you lead….
Go back to sleep, sport, you won’t be missed.
Don’t know irony when we see it, eh sport?
Someone doesnât know what irony is, eh laddie?!?!
Neither do you.
Totally over his head.
I like how stupid you guys are
They do such a great job of representing their side.
Vidal and Buckley would have been jealous of this rapier sharp exchange between political opponents at their rhetorical heights.
Fair enough but let’s not forget that Vidal called Buckley a crypto-Nazi and Buckley referred to Vidal as ‘you fag’.
Fair enough but let’s not forget that Vidal called Buckley a crypto-Nazi and Buckley referred to Vidal as ‘you fag’.
Vidal and Buckley would have been jealous of this rapier sharp exchange between political opponents at their rhetorical heights.
They do such a great job of representing their side.
I like how stupid you guys are
Irony is impossible nowadays. As is satire. Today’s reality would make even Jonathan Swift concede defeat, were he to attempt to write something scathingly shocking to jolt people awake.
Although I think that Swift would have recognised his confederacy of dunces readily enough.
Although I think that Swift would have recognised his confederacy of dunces readily enough.
Someone doesnât know what irony is, eh laddie?!?!
Neither do you.
Totally over his head.
Irony is impossible nowadays. As is satire. Today’s reality would make even Jonathan Swift concede defeat, were he to attempt to write something scathingly shocking to jolt people awake.
Have another glass of champagne on socialism and relax.
A Hillary fanboi, who’d have guessed
What a sad little existence YOU leadâŠ.
Go back to sleep, chittering cicada, you wonât be missed …
Iâm thinking Hillary has you in mind. Sport.
Don’t know irony when we see it, eh sport?
Have another glass of champagne on socialism and relax.
A Hillary fanboi, who’d have guessed
What a sad little existence YOU leadâŠ.
Go back to sleep, chittering cicada, you wonât be missed …
Iâm thinking Hillary has you in mind. Sport.
No but Jo Biden can ( and is)
Hillary proposed a no-fly zone to shoot Russian planes down over Syria and start nuclear World War III. To that extent, key actors of the American federal state prevented her from becoming POTUS.
Presumably this time around, the same administrative actors trust Biden’s State Department – the old Ukraine nationalist neocons – to rein back on the proxy war to prevent a Russian nuclear retaliation.
Politicians’ every nuance get pored over by a media keen to explore the personality of a political heavyweight. Interestingly in Hilary’s case I don’t recall a single media pundit dare suggest that Syria/no-fly-zones and risking WW3 would be a turn-off for the voters.
Just one short step from that to going full Kenny Everett and Hilary shouting “Let’s Bomb Russia!”.
Politicians’ every nuance get pored over by a media keen to explore the personality of a political heavyweight. Interestingly in Hilary’s case I don’t recall a single media pundit dare suggest that Syria/no-fly-zones and risking WW3 would be a turn-off for the voters.
Just one short step from that to going full Kenny Everett and Hilary shouting “Let’s Bomb Russia!”.
Hillary proposed a no-fly zone to shoot Russian planes down over Syria and start nuclear World War III. To that extent, key actors of the American federal state prevented her from becoming POTUS.
Presumably this time around, the same administrative actors trust Biden’s State Department – the old Ukraine nationalist neocons – to rein back on the proxy war to prevent a Russian nuclear retaliation.
Never mind. In Hillary’s brave new world all the deplorables will have their daily ration of soma to look forward to.
Or Victory Gin, depending on their status.
I think the plan is no longer to incarcerate us – but to forcibly sedate us. Mental health camps for the recalcitrant.
Or Victory Gin, depending on their status.
I think the plan is no longer to incarcerate us – but to forcibly sedate us. Mental health camps for the recalcitrant.
I love how this response has over 200 upvotes already. Nothing rouses the ire of the people like Hillary, the Marie Antoinette of our modern age. The Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves for what happened in 2016. They could have picked anybody else and that person would have beaten Trump, and rather than reflect on why the standard bearer of their condescending social engineering template couldn’t beat a womanizing, foul mouthed, reality TV con-artist, they dumped the blame on Russia, sexism, and the untimely FBI probe into Hillary’s laptops.
Marie Antoinette would never have occured to me. Livia, perhaps.
Perfect!
Hillary Clinton is Richard Nixon without the charm.
I had a good chuckle at that. Hillary has all the charm and grace of blind and deaf whale in the middle of the desert.
Thank you for the laugh, I needed it.
It is undeniable that she has put on weight.
Her weight varies depending on the state of her relationship with her best friend Chardonnay.
Her weight varies depending on the state of her relationship with her best friend Chardonnay.
Thank you for the laugh, I needed it.
It is undeniable that she has put on weight.
I had a good chuckle at that. Hillary has all the charm and grace of blind and deaf whale in the middle of the desert.
You’re probably right. I was comparing the amount of hatred they generated, but comparing the two probably does the real Marie Antoinette a great disservice. After all, the real Marie was excoriated mostly for a single comment that might have been a result of her poor command of the French language and for just being another pompous noblewoman. Hillary, on the other hand, has displayed a consistently condescending attitude through her behavior, policies, and written several books filled with more and worse paternalistic condescension than Marie likely could conceive.
Perfect!
Hillary Clinton is Richard Nixon without the charm.
You’re probably right. I was comparing the amount of hatred they generated, but comparing the two probably does the real Marie Antoinette a great disservice. After all, the real Marie was excoriated mostly for a single comment that might have been a result of her poor command of the French language and for just being another pompous noblewoman. Hillary, on the other hand, has displayed a consistently condescending attitude through her behavior, policies, and written several books filled with more and worse paternalistic condescension than Marie likely could conceive.
If we’re going to reach for modern cultural comparisons, then this article positions Hilary as Nurse Ratched and the deplorables Randle McMurphy.
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”. Seems Hilary would have all wrongthinkers lobotomised.
Marie Antoinette would never have occured to me. Livia, perhaps.
If we’re going to reach for modern cultural comparisons, then this article positions Hilary as Nurse Ratched and the deplorables Randle McMurphy.
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”. Seems Hilary would have all wrongthinkers lobotomised.
The best bit of television I’ve seen in the last 20 years was CBC on election night. They had lined up the usual suspects to triumph a Clinton victory. Instead they had to stumble through hours of “how can this be happening”.
It was golden. I have asked CBC a couple of times to make it available for streaming, but they dont seem to want to.
Wasnât that night stunning!?! It was a will-she or wonât-she give a conciliation speechâŠthe crying aidesâŠthe stunned looks of hangers-onâŠthe fancy smash-the-glass-ceiling-setâŠit was all so presumptuous, arrogantâŠ.and incredibly yummy. And equally stunning is how she set the Deep State after Trump and took the country through 3 years and $50 million worth of inquiry – blaming the Russians! (Guess that red reset button didnât work?)âŠTrump was and is correct: Lock Her Up.
Id forgotten about speechgate, thanks for the reminder:)
Id forgotten about speechgate, thanks for the reminder:)
The Brexit referendum result on the BBC takes the honours for me, but I get where you’re coming from.
I agree. Brexit was wonderful. Even better then the Hillary show.
I agree. Brexit was wonderful. Even better then the Hillary show.
Wasnât that night stunning!?! It was a will-she or wonât-she give a conciliation speechâŠthe crying aidesâŠthe stunned looks of hangers-onâŠthe fancy smash-the-glass-ceiling-setâŠit was all so presumptuous, arrogantâŠ.and incredibly yummy. And equally stunning is how she set the Deep State after Trump and took the country through 3 years and $50 million worth of inquiry – blaming the Russians! (Guess that red reset button didnât work?)âŠTrump was and is correct: Lock Her Up.
The Brexit referendum result on the BBC takes the honours for me, but I get where you’re coming from.
You can still get odds on her…
What a sad little existence you lead….
Go back to sleep, sport, you won’t be missed.
No but Jo Biden can ( and is)
Never mind. In Hillary’s brave new world all the deplorables will have their daily ration of soma to look forward to.
I love how this response has over 200 upvotes already. Nothing rouses the ire of the people like Hillary, the Marie Antoinette of our modern age. The Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves for what happened in 2016. They could have picked anybody else and that person would have beaten Trump, and rather than reflect on why the standard bearer of their condescending social engineering template couldn’t beat a womanizing, foul mouthed, reality TV con-artist, they dumped the blame on Russia, sexism, and the untimely FBI probe into Hillary’s laptops.
The best bit of television I’ve seen in the last 20 years was CBC on election night. They had lined up the usual suspects to triumph a Clinton victory. Instead they had to stumble through hours of “how can this be happening”.
It was golden. I have asked CBC a couple of times to make it available for streaming, but they dont seem to want to.
You can still get odds on her…
Some mornings, when I open my eyes into the blank gray slate of the early light, it’s really hard to get out of bed, to rise and, in some way, shine, to engage with the rest of the world. I think of all our problems, and how insurmountable they seem, and I just want to roll over and go back to sleep.
Then I remind myself that I live in a world where Hillary Clinton will never be president. Thus fortified, I can face the day.
Clinton epitomizes both the insufferably condescending and authoritarian attitude of The People Who Know What Is Best For You and their staggeringly absolute lack of self-awareness. That anybody would give a platform to this two time loser is sad, almost as sad as her reading what would have been her 2016 victory speech in December 2021. Give us a real woman like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, not this corrupt, lying, soulless hack.
Pity politics is such a dirty business, it is highly unlikely that someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali will have the stomach to run for office – not until after some apocalyptic event anyway, like a cyber-tsunami.
Actually, she was a member of the Dutch parliament until being forced to resign over questions over her citizenship. Though I was thinking of her more in terms of a woman who has been brave, smart and strong and who unfortunately has had to pay a steep price for it.
Actually, she was a member of the Dutch parliament until being forced to resign over questions over her citizenship. Though I was thinking of her more in terms of a woman who has been brave, smart and strong and who unfortunately has had to pay a steep price for it.
Pity politics is such a dirty business, it is highly unlikely that someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali will have the stomach to run for office – not until after some apocalyptic event anyway, like a cyber-tsunami.
Clinton epitomizes both the insufferably condescending and authoritarian attitude of The People Who Know What Is Best For You and their staggeringly absolute lack of self-awareness. That anybody would give a platform to this two time loser is sad, almost as sad as her reading what would have been her 2016 victory speech in December 2021. Give us a real woman like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, not this corrupt, lying, soulless hack.
Dreadful, dreadful person. Should anybody be inclined to accuse me of misogyny on the basis of that comment, let me say that her husband is almost certainly worse (although, as Gore Vidal waspishly observed of US politics, âone does not bring a measuring rod to Lilliputâ.) For further details, see Christopher Hitchensâs small but entertaining book âNobody Left To Lie Toâ.
The fact that one might be accused of misogyny to point out what an awful person she was, is a huge indictment of the women’s right industry.
She, along with Victoria Nuland, were one of the key proponents of the aggressive, militaristic foreign strategy followed by the US. And yes, that group also includes men, I should add hastily before anyone accuses me of misogyny.
I know the men who died in Libya, Iraq, or the cartel wars caused by the Colombia policy, don’t matter to those nobly fighting against the horrible patriarchy. But what about thr women, who died, got trafficked, lost their husbands and children. Do they count, for those who are so bothered by “misogyny.”
But as Hillary tells us, “Women have always been the primary victims of war, they lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat”
That’s my favourite Clinton quote – even more than the basket of deplorables one. It so succinctly sums up her lack of self-awareness.
A rock lacks self-awareness. An insect almost as much.
Clinton is far worse than that. She is a narcissistic sociopath who preys on all around her, which as a national politician in the US means much of the world.
A rock lacks self-awareness. An insect almost as much.
Clinton is far worse than that. She is a narcissistic sociopath who preys on all around her, which as a national politician in the US means much of the world.
Classic Clinton!
Right up there with the ACLU declaring: “Abortion bans disproportionately harm: . . . the LGBTQ community”
I remember the days when the ACLU could actually be relied upon to actually defend civil liberties, like free speech. They would defend civil rights activists’ right to speak and disseminate their views but also defend the KKK’s right to do the same. They were an organization that often found themselves defending unpopular views and even less popular individuals. Some loved them, some hated them, but they were an organization that served an important purpose as a watchdog against censorship and ideological discrimination both public and private. Sadly, they have devolved into just another partisan activist group centered around victimization.
I remember the days when the ACLU could actually be relied upon to actually defend civil liberties, like free speech. They would defend civil rights activists’ right to speak and disseminate their views but also defend the KKK’s right to do the same. They were an organization that often found themselves defending unpopular views and even less popular individuals. Some loved them, some hated them, but they were an organization that served an important purpose as a watchdog against censorship and ideological discrimination both public and private. Sadly, they have devolved into just another partisan activist group centered around victimization.
That’s my favourite Clinton quote – even more than the basket of deplorables one. It so succinctly sums up her lack of self-awareness.
Classic Clinton!
Right up there with the ACLU declaring: “Abortion bans disproportionately harm: . . . the LGBTQ community”
Not that I wish to stand up for Hillary but didn’t she stand up for Bill when he was accused of sexual impropriety and publicly rubbish his accusers
Am I correct that she failed the NY bar and that is how she ended up in Arkansas?
Political expediency to keep the Billary bandwagon going…
Yes. She failed the Bar in DC and then passed it in Arkansas.
After which she successfully defended a dirt bag who raped a 12 year girl.
And bragged about it.
And bragged about it.
After which she successfully defended a dirt bag who raped a 12 year girl.
Stand up for Bill against his accusers? You mean protecting Bill, who used his position of power as governor and president to take advantage of countless women?
A lot of people around the Clintons died one way or another including Jeffrey Epstein, who didn’t commit suicide in that cell while the guards were asleep and the CCTV cameras weren’t working. A small bone in his neck was broken, a mark of strangulation but not death by hanging.
A lot of people around the Clintons died one way or another including Jeffrey Epstein, who didn’t commit suicide in that cell while the guards were asleep and the CCTV cameras weren’t working. A small bone in his neck was broken, a mark of strangulation but not death by hanging.
She failed the Washington DC exam for sure and didnât retake it.
Political expediency to keep the Billary bandwagon going…
Yes. She failed the Bar in DC and then passed it in Arkansas.
Stand up for Bill against his accusers? You mean protecting Bill, who used his position of power as governor and president to take advantage of countless women?
She failed the Washington DC exam for sure and didnât retake it.
Excellent comment!
But as Hillary tells us, “Women have always been the primary victims of war, they lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat”
Not that I wish to stand up for Hillary but didn’t she stand up for Bill when he was accused of sexual impropriety and publicly rubbish his accusers
Am I correct that she failed the NY bar and that is how she ended up in Arkansas?
Excellent comment!
Good God, Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens? Please. Talk about ‘dreadful’ people.
The fact that one might be accused of misogyny to point out what an awful person she was, is a huge indictment of the women’s right industry.
She, along with Victoria Nuland, were one of the key proponents of the aggressive, militaristic foreign strategy followed by the US. And yes, that group also includes men, I should add hastily before anyone accuses me of misogyny.
I know the men who died in Libya, Iraq, or the cartel wars caused by the Colombia policy, don’t matter to those nobly fighting against the horrible patriarchy. But what about thr women, who died, got trafficked, lost their husbands and children. Do they count, for those who are so bothered by “misogyny.”
Good God, Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens? Please. Talk about ‘dreadful’ people.
Dreadful, dreadful person. Should anybody be inclined to accuse me of misogyny on the basis of that comment, let me say that her husband is almost certainly worse (although, as Gore Vidal waspishly observed of US politics, âone does not bring a measuring rod to Lilliputâ.) For further details, see Christopher Hitchensâs small but entertaining book âNobody Left To Lie Toâ.
Amazing that anyone can be so blinkered. For thirty years America has been living through the largest upward transfer of wealth in its history – and she thinks the pauperised victims of her husband’s policies are unhappy because they’re lonely?!?
I bet she thinks that the traumatized victims of her corrupt policies in Libya and elsewhere would be fine if someone would only give them a hug.
And don’t forget Haiti. Bill and Hillary pocketed millions from that earthquake disaster in the guise of helping to rebuild the shattered country.
I thought it was her brother who got all the money in that fiasco.
I thought it was her brother who got all the money in that fiasco.
And don’t forget Haiti. Bill and Hillary pocketed millions from that earthquake disaster in the guise of helping to rebuild the shattered country.
Amazing that anyone can be so blinkered. For thirty years America has been living through the largest upward transfer of wealth in its history – and she thinks the pauperised victims of her husband’s policies are unhappy because they’re lonely?!?
I bet she thinks that the traumatized victims of her corrupt policies in Libya and elsewhere would be fine if someone would only give them a hug.
I read the opinion piece in The Atlantic. She states that “ The âvast right-wing conspiracyâ has been of compelling interest to me for many years.” – yet typically the family and community values she wants to see restored are the conservative values she deplores.
She claimed the âvast right-wing conspiracyâ was responsible for creating the âmythâ about Monica Lewinsky – and then there was the blue dress DNA sample. Did she become more circumspect? Of course not. She is utterly soulless.
This odious creature hired a has-been spook to conjure up the thoroughly bogus Steele âdossierâ used by others of her ilk to plague Donald Trumpâs entire presidency. Her loss in 2016 so shocked the Swamp that they made certain to rig the election in 2020 so they could install a crooked, pliable, senile pervert who would do as he is told.
And, typical of her vile species, she claims crisis status for nearly everything, and the solution is government. The corporate media that colludes with Washington sic themselves on anyone not mutely nodding their heads.
I wonât commit to words what I wish for these . . . people.
Salem perhaps?
Soulless? No, just a classic bona fide sociopath! The woman that was the brains behind Bill – she was the only wife to ever have an office in the West Wing and ran everything! I actually beleive he was responsible for sabotaging her campaigns – eventually having more power – relegating him to obscurity!
People keep saying the steele dossier is bogus. If that is true why is Reality Winner in jail?
Salem perhaps?
Soulless? No, just a classic bona fide sociopath! The woman that was the brains behind Bill – she was the only wife to ever have an office in the West Wing and ran everything! I actually beleive he was responsible for sabotaging her campaigns – eventually having more power – relegating him to obscurity!
People keep saying the steele dossier is bogus. If that is true why is Reality Winner in jail?
â The âvast right-wing conspiracyâ
Now that IS a conspiracy THEORY!
Oh, it’s real. It consists of everyone who doesn’t like Hillary. That’s why it’s vast.
Oh, it’s real. It consists of everyone who doesn’t like Hillary. That’s why it’s vast.
Yet, only right-wingers are conspiracy theorists.
Assuming this isn’t sarcasm, you clearly have never been in a Marxist bookshop
Or any other.
Or any other.
Assuming this isn’t sarcasm, you clearly have never been in a Marxist bookshop
You can draw a direct line from the Clintons to the Obama administration, through Joe’s first term and to drag queens reading and cavorting obscenely before young children at libraries.
She claimed the âvast right-wing conspiracyâ was responsible for creating the âmythâ about Monica Lewinsky – and then there was the blue dress DNA sample. Did she become more circumspect? Of course not. She is utterly soulless.
This odious creature hired a has-been spook to conjure up the thoroughly bogus Steele âdossierâ used by others of her ilk to plague Donald Trumpâs entire presidency. Her loss in 2016 so shocked the Swamp that they made certain to rig the election in 2020 so they could install a crooked, pliable, senile pervert who would do as he is told.
And, typical of her vile species, she claims crisis status for nearly everything, and the solution is government. The corporate media that colludes with Washington sic themselves on anyone not mutely nodding their heads.
I wonât commit to words what I wish for these . . . people.
â The âvast right-wing conspiracyâ
Now that IS a conspiracy THEORY!
Yet, only right-wingers are conspiracy theorists.
You can draw a direct line from the Clintons to the Obama administration, through Joe’s first term and to drag queens reading and cavorting obscenely before young children at libraries.
I read the opinion piece in The Atlantic. She states that “ The âvast right-wing conspiracyâ has been of compelling interest to me for many years.” – yet typically the family and community values she wants to see restored are the conservative values she deplores.
When Hillary embarked on her pre-emptive Triumph, with her personal slaves drawn from the smuggest sewers of the Entitled Class drooling in her ear “Remember you are a Shoe-in,” it needed someone to warn her of the omen that Triumph contains Trump, but she was too full of herself to spot the wood for the woodchips of her presidential prospects.
“shoo-in” mate
The Clinton’s do nothing without motive – clearly there’s an “ulterior” motive in play here. The sudden “accidental” death of Obama’s personal chef (coincidently) the subsequent exposure of his homosexual fantasies has the Clintons fingerprints all over it!
Lets not forget the money the Clinton Foundation hauled in during her “SOS” stunt with the guarantee being the next POTUS and the massive political debt she occurred which explains her behavior! Not only has she been reduced to irrelevant but imagine the magnitude of her burden of debt.
I would love someone who understands these things to explain why the press is turning on Obama right now. Is it random or is it some Game of Thrones business.
With very limited knowledge of the situation, I’d say it’s because he has the audacity to question the movement. Note that he doesn’t even criticize the goals of the establishment left, just their approach, yet perhaps even that is perhaps enough for them to declare him a heretic and excommunicate him
I’m waiting for our compromised and dishonest press to shake off the ideological imperatives now dominating it and look into Obama’s African birth and dodgy Hawaiian birth certificate.
Liberals are slow – itâs dawning on them that he was one of the worst Presidents ever.
He’s got some unbeatable competition in Biden.
He’s got some unbeatable competition in Biden.
With very limited knowledge of the situation, I’d say it’s because he has the audacity to question the movement. Note that he doesn’t even criticize the goals of the establishment left, just their approach, yet perhaps even that is perhaps enough for them to declare him a heretic and excommunicate him
I’m waiting for our compromised and dishonest press to shake off the ideological imperatives now dominating it and look into Obama’s African birth and dodgy Hawaiian birth certificate.
Liberals are slow – itâs dawning on them that he was one of the worst Presidents ever.
I would love someone who understands these things to explain why the press is turning on Obama right now. Is it random or is it some Game of Thrones business.
“shoo-in” mate
The Clinton’s do nothing without motive – clearly there’s an “ulterior” motive in play here. The sudden “accidental” death of Obama’s personal chef (coincidently) the subsequent exposure of his homosexual fantasies has the Clintons fingerprints all over it!
Lets not forget the money the Clinton Foundation hauled in during her “SOS” stunt with the guarantee being the next POTUS and the massive political debt she occurred which explains her behavior! Not only has she been reduced to irrelevant but imagine the magnitude of her burden of debt.
When Hillary embarked on her pre-emptive Triumph, with her personal slaves drawn from the smuggest sewers of the Entitled Class drooling in her ear “Remember you are a Shoe-in,” it needed someone to warn her of the omen that Triumph contains Trump, but she was too full of herself to spot the wood for the woodchips of her presidential prospects.
Hillary and her email scandal is the reason I woke up in respect of US politics. I was just a super busy person who identified as liberal and I guess would have voted Democrat if I lived in the US. How could a career politician, married to a former president not have known how to handle something as basic as her emails. Thanks Hills for the red pill.
She knew how to handle her email and was apprised of the security protocols; she simply chose to ignore any precautions.
She knew how to handle her email and was apprised of the security protocols; she simply chose to ignore any precautions.
Hillary and her email scandal is the reason I woke up in respect of US politics. I was just a super busy person who identified as liberal and I guess would have voted Democrat if I lived in the US. How could a career politician, married to a former president not have known how to handle something as basic as her emails. Thanks Hills for the red pill.
Yeah, loneliness is terrible so when the next illness breaks out we must remember to prevent anyone from meeting anyone or having an education.
I confess I havenât researched Mrs Clintonâs public utterances throughout the pandemic but Iâm willing to put it out there that she heartily endorsed every controlling action, and more.
Appalling person. Her condescension knows no limits.
Loneliness is a terrible thing – where was her advocacy for the thousands of people who were forced to die alone in nursing homes and hospitals during covid?
Loneliness is a terrible thing – where was her advocacy for the thousands of people who were forced to die alone in nursing homes and hospitals during covid?
Yeah, loneliness is terrible so when the next illness breaks out we must remember to prevent anyone from meeting anyone or having an education.
I confess I havenât researched Mrs Clintonâs public utterances throughout the pandemic but Iâm willing to put it out there that she heartily endorsed every controlling action, and more.
Appalling person. Her condescension knows no limits.
“Comrade, you are unhappy with the Soviet state. It means you are unwell. We must help you with that. Step into the van, if you please. Yes, you must. No, you won’t need your luggage.”
“Comrade, you are unhappy with the Soviet state. It means you are unwell. We must help you with that. Step into the van, if you please. Yes, you must. No, you won’t need your luggage.”
Bullseye. Finally a journalist who actually gets what populism is. She properly diagnoses the problems of American politics as a problem of the attitudes inherent to the ruling class, of whom Hillary Clinton is a perfect template. Even during her husband’s administration during those carefree 90’s the author revisits, she was wildly unpopular because of her condescending, superior, dismissive, clinical attitude. Even back then, she seemed pathologically unable or unwilling to suppress her condescending attitude to further her political ambitions and as a result, her greatest chance at the presidency in 2008 was taken by a newcomer who was a master of the art. Whether or not he truly felt empathy for the people, Obama was a master of conveying empathy, which dulled the edge on his equally condescending elitist attitude, even for people who should have known better, like myself. The elites seem to believe that they can defeat populism by defeating Trump, either through criminal proceedings or through a decisive defeat at the ballot box in 2024, neither of which seems like a sure bet at the moment. Once again, their attitudes fail them. They see Trump as the manipulating carnival barker he actually is, but their attitudes then lead them to the faulty conclusion that Trump’s supporters are, by and large, idiots who are being misled. They ascribe to Trump some Svengali like power of manipulation despite the fact that nothing he had done in the previous thirty years before 2016 as a quasi-celebrity suggesting he possesses any such power beyond the average daytime talk show host. This is their error. Most Trump supporters, especially the ones who don’t attend rallies and quietly go about their business in the ballot box, are well aware of the man’s many failings and don’t particularly like him, but they like the alternative even less. The elites have yet to truly comprehend the reality, that people are not voting FOR Trump, but AGAINST the condescending, elitist, globally focused ruling class that grew up after the fall of the Soviet Union during those carefree 90s. As the author so brilliantly points out, if they can defeat Trump, and that’s a big if at this point, they’re in for a rude awakening, because populism will not go away. It will simply find a new vehicle to vent its fury upon the political elite class, maybe DeSantis, maybe Ramaswamy, maybe somebody we haven’t heard of yet. Regardless, populism is moored not to Trump, but to them, to the Hillary Clintons of the world. Thus, it cannot be defeated by defeating Trump or any external opponent, but through conscious self-reform, a shift in attitudes that moves away from unconstrained globalism, away from social engineering, away from technocratic solutions that attempt to alter human behavior, and towards more democratic solutions that respect human beings as conscious actors and seek to negotiate with them rather than manipulate, educate, or ‘cure’ them. Moreover, to the extent that America has dominated the world, so too has it exported its politics, and we see similar dynamics in Europe and elsewhere. Populism is everywhere rising, and defeating Trump, or Meloni, or Farage, or Le Pen, or the AfD, will barely slow down its inevitable march.
Frankenstein destroyed by the monster he created.
Watch “Uniparty” come into increasing usage. Mitch McConnell is cut from the same cloth as the Clintons.
Frankenstein destroyed by the monster he created.
Watch “Uniparty” come into increasing usage. Mitch McConnell is cut from the same cloth as the Clintons.
Bullseye. Finally a journalist who actually gets what populism is. She properly diagnoses the problems of American politics as a problem of the attitudes inherent to the ruling class, of whom Hillary Clinton is a perfect template. Even during her husband’s administration during those carefree 90’s the author revisits, she was wildly unpopular because of her condescending, superior, dismissive, clinical attitude. Even back then, she seemed pathologically unable or unwilling to suppress her condescending attitude to further her political ambitions and as a result, her greatest chance at the presidency in 2008 was taken by a newcomer who was a master of the art. Whether or not he truly felt empathy for the people, Obama was a master of conveying empathy, which dulled the edge on his equally condescending elitist attitude, even for people who should have known better, like myself. The elites seem to believe that they can defeat populism by defeating Trump, either through criminal proceedings or through a decisive defeat at the ballot box in 2024, neither of which seems like a sure bet at the moment. Once again, their attitudes fail them. They see Trump as the manipulating carnival barker he actually is, but their attitudes then lead them to the faulty conclusion that Trump’s supporters are, by and large, idiots who are being misled. They ascribe to Trump some Svengali like power of manipulation despite the fact that nothing he had done in the previous thirty years before 2016 as a quasi-celebrity suggesting he possesses any such power beyond the average daytime talk show host. This is their error. Most Trump supporters, especially the ones who don’t attend rallies and quietly go about their business in the ballot box, are well aware of the man’s many failings and don’t particularly like him, but they like the alternative even less. The elites have yet to truly comprehend the reality, that people are not voting FOR Trump, but AGAINST the condescending, elitist, globally focused ruling class that grew up after the fall of the Soviet Union during those carefree 90s. As the author so brilliantly points out, if they can defeat Trump, and that’s a big if at this point, they’re in for a rude awakening, because populism will not go away. It will simply find a new vehicle to vent its fury upon the political elite class, maybe DeSantis, maybe Ramaswamy, maybe somebody we haven’t heard of yet. Regardless, populism is moored not to Trump, but to them, to the Hillary Clintons of the world. Thus, it cannot be defeated by defeating Trump or any external opponent, but through conscious self-reform, a shift in attitudes that moves away from unconstrained globalism, away from social engineering, away from technocratic solutions that attempt to alter human behavior, and towards more democratic solutions that respect human beings as conscious actors and seek to negotiate with them rather than manipulate, educate, or ‘cure’ them. Moreover, to the extent that America has dominated the world, so too has it exported its politics, and we see similar dynamics in Europe and elsewhere. Populism is everywhere rising, and defeating Trump, or Meloni, or Farage, or Le Pen, or the AfD, will barely slow down its inevitable march.
C.S.Lewis understood the arrogant liberal lite when he wrote ” but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.â He wrote this in 1949, just how bad has it become since then? From one of her “deplorablesâ
C.S.Lewis understood the arrogant liberal lite when he wrote ” but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.â He wrote this in 1949, just how bad has it become since then? From one of her “deplorablesâ
What is the treatment? She suggests that governments bring opportunities back to hard-hit areas, stem the need to leave communities to find work, and put the family firstâŠâ
I suspect if they did this in the first place, there wouldnât be such contempt for the anointed ones like Clinton.
What is the treatment? She suggests that governments bring opportunities back to hard-hit areas, stem the need to leave communities to find work, and put the family firstâŠâ
I suspect if they did this in the first place, there wouldnât be such contempt for the anointed ones like Clinton.
Poor Hillary. Anybody would be lonely when 72 of their closest friends and associates have committed suicide.
I met this nice couple last month and they tragically committed suicide by hanging themselves, shooting themselves in the chest four times each, and then getting in a car and lighting it on fire.
Definitely the worst case of suicide I’ve ever heard of.
Definitely the worst case of suicide I’ve ever heard of.
72? Please name names.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide.
It was an assisted suicide.
It was an assisted suicide.
I met this nice couple last month and they tragically committed suicide by hanging themselves, shooting themselves in the chest four times each, and then getting in a car and lighting it on fire.
72? Please name names.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide.
Poor Hillary. Anybody would be lonely when 72 of their closest friends and associates have committed suicide.
Hills got what she deserved, cubed. A nasty, vindictive harridan who couldn’t beat the Orange dude after all of those years of scheming, spying, manipulating, and having the propaganda sites, er media, go all out to destroy Trump. The voters chose and the “loneliest person” is Clinton who cannot move on but desperately tries to stay relevant. Sad and pathetic.
The voters actually chose Clinton, which you would know if you knew what you were talking about. The Electoral College elected Trump. Facts are hard.
The fact is the Electoral College wisely chose Trump.
Presidential candidates who are intelligent know how the Electoral College works and target resources at swing states accordingly. Trump did that, Clinton didn’t and if the election were decided on the popular vote the Trump campaign would have put more effort in to Texas or rural areas of Blue states. Clinton would have still lost.
Repeat after me: We live in a Republic not a democracy. Now, write it out a hundred times. You’ll get it yet.
The fact is the Electoral College wisely chose Trump.
Presidential candidates who are intelligent know how the Electoral College works and target resources at swing states accordingly. Trump did that, Clinton didn’t and if the election were decided on the popular vote the Trump campaign would have put more effort in to Texas or rural areas of Blue states. Clinton would have still lost.
Repeat after me: We live in a Republic not a democracy. Now, write it out a hundred times. You’ll get it yet.
The voters actually chose Clinton, which you would know if you knew what you were talking about. The Electoral College elected Trump. Facts are hard.
Hills got what she deserved, cubed. A nasty, vindictive harridan who couldn’t beat the Orange dude after all of those years of scheming, spying, manipulating, and having the propaganda sites, er media, go all out to destroy Trump. The voters chose and the “loneliest person” is Clinton who cannot move on but desperately tries to stay relevant. Sad and pathetic.
Loneliness is a personal tragedy and, like all others like bereavement, the breakdown of a relationship or whatever, cannot be helped by the state.
My guess is the best cure is an unexpected moment of kindness, some random life event that helps lonely people find friendship.
Loneliness is a personal tragedy and, like all others like bereavement, the breakdown of a relationship or whatever, cannot be helped by the state.
My guess is the best cure is an unexpected moment of kindness, some random life event that helps lonely people find friendship.
Hillary Clinton looms large in her own imagination. But she couldnât even pass the Washington DC barâŠ.
Hillary Clinton looms large in her own imagination. But she couldnât even pass the Washington DC barâŠ.
Years of loneliness being married to Mr President, is my diagnosis of her obsession. But, then again, Iâm no psychologist.
Years of loneliness being married to Mr President, is my diagnosis of her obsession. But, then again, Iâm no psychologist.
Dear Killary: Well, shut your mouth – you, hateful, horrible excuse for a person (let alone a woman). Your wah wah talk was on almost at midnight on Rachel Mad Cow’s show.
Let’s talk about Benghazi, shall we? Or… “What difference does it make?”
Someone forgot to take their meds this morning!
Didn’t they talk about Benghazi for 11 hours at the house hearings where the swivel eyed loons of the GOP were thoroughly humiliated by Mrs Clinton? Yes, I seem to remember that.
âWe came, we saw, he diedâ. Killary doing her best job as Foreign Secretary.
Toady.
âWe came, we saw, he diedâ. Killary doing her best job as Foreign Secretary.
Toady.
Someone forgot to take their meds this morning!
Didn’t they talk about Benghazi for 11 hours at the house hearings where the swivel eyed loons of the GOP were thoroughly humiliated by Mrs Clinton? Yes, I seem to remember that.
Dear Killary: Well, shut your mouth – you, hateful, horrible excuse for a person (let alone a woman). Your wah wah talk was on almost at midnight on Rachel Mad Cow’s show.
Let’s talk about Benghazi, shall we? Or… “What difference does it make?”
The race to âmedicaliseâ the Right is ongoing. Hereâs an article about how scientists have managed to identify âConservativeâ brains. How do you think they manage to do that? (Spoiler Alert: They just look for the broken ones that donât work correctly and label them Conservative.) https://open.substack.com/pub/lowstatus/p/cere-bedlam?r=evzeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
They’ve already medicalised the Left, now terminal cases.
They’ve already medicalised the Left, now terminal cases.
The race to âmedicaliseâ the Right is ongoing. Hereâs an article about how scientists have managed to identify âConservativeâ brains. How do you think they manage to do that? (Spoiler Alert: They just look for the broken ones that donât work correctly and label them Conservative.) https://open.substack.com/pub/lowstatus/p/cere-bedlam?r=evzeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
First of the ‘wife ofs’ who everybody sensible ignores and didn’t elect. The foolish Mrs Obama is another. I used to be married to a teacher, do I walk into a school and start taking classes?
That’s incoherent and misogynistic. Also, the American voters DID in fact choose Hillary Clinton over Trump. Facts matter.
How come? A successful footballer’s wife doesn’t get picked for the team. I don’t get to use my wife’s qualifications to apply for a job. If you think Clinton and Obama are fit for purpose you are the incoherent one if you can’t see the damage Democrats have done.
Why is that misogynistic?
How come? A successful footballer’s wife doesn’t get picked for the team. I don’t get to use my wife’s qualifications to apply for a job. If you think Clinton and Obama are fit for purpose you are the incoherent one if you can’t see the damage Democrats have done.
Why is that misogynistic?