October 6, 2023

Comedy, right? Creepy comedy, but comedy... right??

139 comments:

Mr Wibble said...

Nope. It's what they actually think.

Original Mike said...

And she's just the gal to do do it. We're going to need camps and trains. The left loves trains.

Saint Croix said...

If she's arrested under a future Republican administration

and people are applauding

and nobody gives a shit if it's true or not true

if it's a crime or not a crime

they're just laughing at her like she's a member of the circus

and everybody is talking about what a funny mug shot it's going to be

I will not approve

but also

I will have zero sympathy

Mountain Maven said...

Why are people still giving her airtime?? She's been irrelavent since Trump beat her.

Mikey NTH said...

I think this is a new type of "charm offensive" in that the offensiveness is the charm.

Dave Begley said...

No, she really believes it. Just like Mao, Stalin and other commies.

For the past 50 years, the Dems have been used incrementalism and the capture of the institutions to get their agenda in order. We are now in the final phase. Much of the population is now conditioned to accept authoritarian rule after covid. The radical transformation will be complete when the Dems steal the 2024 election.

We have well over 20 million illegal aliens in this country. Many will vote in swing states.

With the net zero policy, inflation and our climbing $33T debt, the end of the Republic is in sight. And as someone else noted, we will all get free train tickets to those re-education camps.

Scott Patton said...

I've met one or two that are seriously over the edge. Trump flag flying Q types that do need some kind of help, or at the very least, need to be avoided. Them thinking that Hillary wants them deprogrammed isn't helping.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

The angry gay/trans thug going after the Colorado Christian Cake baker... says "His thinking must be corrected."

The left are full-on Neo-Maoist and Neo-Stalinist. They only claim to hate Putin - the left really want to be Putin.

Hillary made money off of the Russian regime.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Too bad Trump broke his promise to go after Hillary's illegal Private Server and her destruction of documents and devices. Not to mention her hidden collaboration with Russian Big Uranium for Clinton Foundation funding.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Holy hell did we dodge a bullet. Now if only America's ex-wife would shut up and fuck off forevermore...

Dave Begley said...

I saw a chart today. US home sales are at the same low level as in 2007; right at the time of the financial crisis. That's a giant problem.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Q people might be nutty - but so what? Is nutty illegal? If so, why?
Why are the collective left so obsessed with "Correct thinking" - which is of course - is creepy forced One Party Rule - by Democrats. AND -Corruption excusing/ignoring of all crimes committed by democrats - for the greater good.

Leland said...

I guess it is funny. If you don't know the real history of re-education camps. I mean, I'm sure someone could joke it would be easier to concentrate Trump supporters into contained areas and then maybe give them a shower. To be fair, we can either have a good laugh at it. Or we could take it as a serious threat.

What was the Democrat response when a couple of people took selfies in the Capitol? Did they laugh?

Saint Croix said...

When Seinfeld loses his shit it's funny as hell.

He really does not like Bobcat.

Is this comedy?

Yes!

J Melcher said...

Has everybody noticed, and agreed not to mention,
that "Net-Zero" policies can be labeled:

"NetZe" ?

Al Gore is of course the father of the NetZe movement. But he has devoted henchmen. And henchwomen.

If NetZe factories are going to run, without coal or oil, human labor must be fully employed. Of course we mean LABOR-labor, not the sort of thing where workers think and choose and react. NetZe Labor camps, where the laborers wake up and do the same thing every day, over and over, include training staff. Managers. Overseers. Special Supervisors. A NetZe "SS".

Laborers who will be busy 12 or 16 hours a day will, as a side benefit, gain new perspective on the advantages and benefits of cooperation with the NetZe regime.

Yancey Ward said...

No- this is what she believes. It is what the January 6 persecutions were all about, or have you not been paying attention, Althouse?

Aggie said...

Well.... I haven't met any Trump-Flag-flying Q types yet, but I would not hesitate to point out that here we have a well-known, polarizing public figure advocating on the record, in front of millions, for confinement and re-education of her political enemies - this is what I take 'formal de-programming' to mean in a literal sense, since I don't think she means 'voluntary'. I happen to think this is a bigger problem than unidentified people showing political support for their preferred candidate by flying a flag.

We've all heard of Tom Wolfe's 'Mau-Mauing' description, I guess this is maybe what we should call, 'Mao-Maoing'. A new term!

Laughing Fox said...

Maybe she doesn't mean it as a "tomorrow" thing. But she is paving the road for others to travel.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

where will re-programming occur? Some sort of gulag?

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

I don't know why anyone would be shocked by this. I've known most of my adult life that the American Left views me as the reason they haven't reached Utopia and want me dead. They just have this kind of funny thing about not wanting to get their souls besmirched by actually having to do the job, even though they'll all tell you what good atheists they are.

Enigma said...

Hillary, do you still have the "failure" stage from 2026 shaped like a USA map? Do you spend your weekends sleepwalking around that stage all alone?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2016-11-09/Getty/AFP_HX0PW.jpg?t=20170517

Maybe you should borrow a gun to hunt down members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy from the FBI, CIA, DOJ, ATF, IRS or another armed government agency.

https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/elmer_fudd_jpg

RNB said...

HRC: "At some point, maybe there needs to be a formal culling of -- I mean, 'a formal deprogramming of the cult members.' Ha-ha! I keed, I keed!"

Gusty Winds said...

HRC is evil and psychotic. She is not kidding. She meant it when she labeled Trump supporters a "basket of deplorables".

I take comfort in the fact that she seethes with anger and bitterness every day since she lost to Trump in 2016.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Fen's Law again. The very existence of the Democrat party has become dependent on keeping the susceptible in a state of near-hysteria. Which means constantly manufacturing reasons to get hysterical.

Those of us in late middle-age or older have lived through an interesting societal arc. Watching the Class of '68 become self-absorbed authoritarian reactionaries has been fascinating.

rightguy said...

You tend to to joke about what you are thinking.

cfs said...

No. She means it literally. The left tells you who they are. The danger is when you just dismiss it as comedy. They truly believe conservatives and especially Trump-supporting conservatives should be either jailed or sent to a "safe place" for reeducation. It is the official position of our government that Trump supporters should be monitored as domestic terrorists. Is that amusing and comical?

Iman said...

pantsuited pantload
rug munching malingerer
hildebeast clinton

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Sadly - Dave Begley is correct.

Lloyd W. Robertson said...

Work with the cartels: less meth and booze, more cannabis and fentanyl. It's docility we're after, and if that doesn't work, sudden death.

Indicting and convicting Trump and a few key followers isn't enough. You have to reach the whole basket of deplorables.

Hillary: Igor, throw the master switch.
Igor: Not the master er mistress switch, mistress!
HRC: Yes, it has to be done. I was the most qualified person ever to run for President. Fuck Bush Senior! Fuck Woodrow Wilson!
Igor: TR?
HRC: Charge!

OLC said...

Fringes on the right AND the left are both nuts, however, that's their right (to be nuts). But why would anyone listen to her after HER comments about a stolen election, defense of a serial (accused) rapist, Russian collusion lies, and let's not forget the shortened life expectancy of people that were once close to her and her husband...

And she thinks others need to be deprogrammed for faulty thinking?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

One of the perks of being First Lady was for her was elevation to the "most admired women" list, although it seems to have faded from the wide exposure it used to have. (I'm sure there's an explanation.) Any, way Hillary used to make the list when she was playing a prominent role in public life.

What I'd like to ask the Althouse community is, "Do you still hold this woman in admiration?" If so, why?

Rabel said...

There's no comedy there, Althouse. It may just be wishful thinking, but it's not a joke.

In a longer version she goes on to tell Amanpour that "we" must be smarter in how we "empower the right people inside the Republican party."

Defeating Trump and his supporters is the goal. The means is manipulation and control of the Republican Party using a compliant media and agents of influence inside the Party.

Fortunately her plans often fail. But it's something to watch out for.

n.n said...

Creepy or creeping... progressive corruption. What difference, at this point, does it now make? #HateLovesAbortion

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

So much for the brave journalist fight for "our norms." Amanpour just nods along as if in agreement with her! Sure, "formally reprogram" the people who refused to vote for you. That's what Democracy! is for, right? That'll show 'em!

(In the unlikely case they need more evidence this country has entered banana republic territory already, after the DOJ declared anyone in possession of MAGA gear domestic terrorists.)

Big Mike said...

I agree with Mr. Wibble, Dave Begley, and Original Mike. She means it. Moreover I think Althouse would concoct an excuse to agree with it, if it really happened.

JaimeRoberto said...

I don't want to hear a damn thing about cult-like behavior from the "Russia, Russia, Russia", double masked, Ukrainian flag in bio crowd.

Jupiter said...

Something needs to happen!. Interesting way to put it. You mean, like, with Vince Foster?

Bob Boyd said...

Hillary Clinton - Calls for "formal deprogramming" of political opponents.

Narges Mohammadi - Fights for "democracy and freedom and nothing less"

Compare and contrast.


Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

I've met one or two that are seriously over the edge. Trump flag flying Q types that do need some kind of help, or at the very least, need to be avoided. Them thinking that Hillary wants them deprogrammed isn't helping.

Thinking she wants it? She declared she wants it. Maybe she's giving voice to that thing that your flag flying neighbors have already noticed that you seem to fail to grasp. Hillary's statement id not an outlier. It is consistent to what the President said a year ago (Dark Brandon speech) and just this last weekend, and consistent with the DOJ announcing they consider any MAGA display an act of domestic terrorism. Maybe YOU are "the help" they need. Maybe you should speak with them and ask what exactly puts them on edge instead of displaying the attitude you have here, as if Mrs. Clinton is mouthing meaningless niceties that could be interpreted negatively. There is nothing benign in wishing to perform fascists procedures on people against their will, even if YOU think they "need help."

WTF is wrong with you?

Not Sure said...

I found it interesting that she used the phrase "wag the dog" so familiarly. That movie must have really resonated with her.

MadisonMan said...

Struggling to maintain "relevance". Why do Democrats hate freedom?

MadisonMan said...

Projection, thy name is Hillary!!!

Bob Boyd said...

Hillary hates humanity and humanity returns the sentiment.
But Hillary started it.

Mary Beth said...

How many decades has it been since someone has told her that what she's saying sounds a bit crazy? I guess there's no point since someone is always willing to buy what she's selling.

Skeptical Voter said...

Hillary is channeling her inner Reinhard Heydrich. To the ovens with the Deplorables!

We will make America Deplorable Free---just as 21st century version of Judenrein. She'll have Trump hanging on a meathook or garroted with piano wire in the basement of her Chappaqua lair.

Dave Begley said...

Commie Dems like Hillary assert that conservatives are extreme on gun control and CAGW.

The progressives are the extreme ones. The Second Amendment is very clear. As to so-called climate change, they've been wrong for over 50 years. Wind and solar will triple rates and lead to blackouts. The whole point of the energy "transition" (of which there hasn't been a vote) is to switch the entire grid over to the friends of the Dem party. As her husband said at The Waiting Room in Omaha about putting wind turbines on Indian reservations, "We'll all get rich."

With the Left, it is always 2 + 2 = 5.

The one thing that will save this country is the Second Amendment.

Anthony said...

As they say, the dark night of fascism is always landing on the Left.

Pianoman said...

Ha Ha Ha. Hilarious.

Temujin said...

She thought she should be President. And so did millions of Americans. Not to mention hundreds of Europeans, Asians, South Americans, and Africans who paid her millions over the years for access to her future presidency.

She is now, and always has been a hideous human being. If not for Bill, no one would have ever heard of her.

Robert Cook said...

"Hillary Clinton calls for Trump Supporters to be reeducated: 'At some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.'"

One reason I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016: her obvious authoritarian streak, a still-extant aspect of her early years as a "Goldwater Girl" and later, (also apparent in her gleeful comment about Gaddafi's brutal murder, "We came, we saw, he died!").

Rusty said...

She's about as funny as crotch rot.

hawkeyedjb said...

That crapulent two-bit unaccomplished talentless execrable bag lady needs to crawl back into her box of chardonnay.

Narr said...

The Regrooving notices will arrive all at once, on all your devices.

Big Mike said...

And she isn’t alone. From the New York Post:

The [FBI] has created “a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers”; it’s targeting strident Republicans with some of the same counterterrorism methods honed to fight al Qaeda.

MartyH said...

Hillary Clinton doesn’t do comedy.

boatbuilder said...

Whoa. Major flashbacks.

I am now experiencing a (presumably short-lived) appreciation for the Joe Biden Presidency. Hard to imagine, but it could be worse!

What a hag. One mercifully supresses the absolute awfulnesss of Hilary.

JAORE said...

Sounds like a credible threat....

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Actually, it was no joke in Australia.

Walter and Matt were speculating on their podcast today, how in a few short years, all traces of what they tried to do during the covid histeria will be memory-holed.

Kevin said...

“Them knowing that Hillary wants them deprogrammed isn't helping.”

First they came for the Trump supporters….

Robert Cook said...

"We have well over 20 million illegal aliens in this country. Many will vote in swing states."

Where is your support for that number? The highest recent figure I can find is 11 million. Or are you simply including all non-citizens residing in the US? There are approximately 25 non-citizens in the US, composed of 12 million permanent residents, 2 million temporary citizens, and 11 million with no legal permission to be here.

Moreover, how do you think many--or any--illegal aliens "will vote in swing states" in Presidential elections? Just making the assertion doesn't make it so, or feasible.

Jersey Fled said...

It would be interesting to see how many Democrats agree with Hillary completely. I’m willing to bet it is not an insignificant number.

Rit said...

No Ann, not comedy. These people are deadly serious. They mean it and the people they mean it for ranges from those who would vote for Trump to those who would dare to question their local school board.

Kevin said...

Hillary isn’t the only one.

Shouting Thomas said...

I've been trying to tell you for some time, prof, that your feminism and gay worship are inimical to free speech and a free society. Hillary Clinton is the acknowledged leader of your apostate movement. Every school girl is taught that.

I'm not making an intellectual argument, nor do I intend to. You've been trying to talk and read yourself into believing that free speech and a free society can co-exist with the destruction of orthodox Christianity. You're about to find out you've been wrong.

Incidentally, I've read every word of Henry Miller's writing, including his writings as an old man that nobody reads.

You're like a snake eating its own tail. On the one hand, you're a fierce and admirable intellectual proponent of free speech and a free society. On the other hand, you're eagerly demolishing both.

The Catholic Church will be the last opponent standing. I'm proud to be a member and a church musician. They'll be coming at us with a vengeance soon. Your Episcopalian Church has already been thoroughly ransacked and looted by your ideology. I can see you've already taking aim at the Catholic Church. Some small part of it will survive your attack. We'll be the last opponent standing, as always.

ndspinelli said...

Mrs. Pol Pot.

BillieBob Thorton said...

Will no one save us from this wretched women?

Crazy World said...

How dare you want to make America Great Again! Horrid Hillary

William50 said...

What a joke that will never happen. Next thing you'll be telling me is that the FBI will label MAGA as a domestic terrorist group and start identifying and tracking them. Oh wait....

Dave Begley said...

The most pernicious thing about the Dems is the 10m plus illegal aliens that Biden has let into the country. That's the real chaos.

Gunner said...

Does Trump know his "friend" is dissing him? Because he thinks the real bad guy is Ron DeSantis or something.

Maynard said...

One reason I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016: her obvious authoritarian streak, a still-extant aspect of her early years as a "Goldwater Girl".

Goldwater was more libertarian than authoritarian.

That's the problem with depending on leftist rags for your impressions of a man, Cookie.

Static Ping said...

It's progress. We haven't killed ourselves. Yet.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...


This is the Modern Democrat Party.

Another old lawyer said...

Yes, in the same way that guy with the funny mustache didn't mean what he wrote, either.

wendybar said...


"Where is your support for that number? The highest recent figure I can find is 11 million. "

It's been 11 million for the last 25 years. Joe Biden just added another 6-8 million, and if you have been paying attention, we added more every year in those 25 or so years. You believe the propaganda they have been spewing for years. Wake up.

Christopher B said...

If you have to phrase it as a question the answer is always NO.

Jim at said...

Them thinking that Hillary wants them deprogrammed isn't helping.

They're not 'thinking' it if the fucking bitch actually said it.

JK Brown said...

The deprogramming is needed for the Woke college edumedicated

Here's the story of a young woman who got sucked in a Mt Holy Oak

https://youtu.be/6FQWOgKwmxs

Smilin' Jack said...

"Comedy, right? Creepy comedy, but comedy... right??"

Of course--you'll be laughing all the way to the camp.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Narr said...

The Regrooving notices will arrive all at once, on all your devices.

Narr, you magnificent bastard! I haven't thought about that album in years!

Patrick Henry was right! said...

No, she is serious, just like Pol Pot was serious. And you voted for her.

Patrick Henry was right! said...

No, she is serious. Just like Pol Pot was serious. And you voted FOR her for PRESIDENT of the United States. And would do so again. Proudly.

Hassayamper said...

I don't think this was meant as comedy, even of the sardonic variety. To me it shows exactly why gun control laws must be opposed at all costs, and if passed, ignored.

This diabolical heap of filth would put half of us in a gulag or in the grave if she had that power, I am certain of it. She and those like her are a greater threat to our liberty than Putin and Xi and terrorists and drug cartels put together and squared.

From about 6 years old, I carefully taught my children to hate Hillary Clinton and all who share her views. I explained in simple terms how leftist political and economic principles always lead to ruin and misery and slavery and death. I told them to ignore cynical calls for unity and Christian brotherhood from the likes of Clinton, but rather, to treat them as enemies rather than fellow Americans. This was long before Donald Trump was anything more than a name on the society pages of the New York Times.

I don't make any apology for teaching hatred to my children. Righteous hatred of ontologic evil is a positive good.

Hassayamper said...

As they say, the dark night of fascism is always landing on the Left.


You are missing half that quote. Fascism is always FALLING on the Right and LANDING on the Left. It was first spoken of Europe, but is also true of the US, Canada, and Australia.

planetgeo said...

Doesn't sound like her proposed program is going to be voluntary, does it?

robother said...

How can we pretend it's comedy if Hillary's not cackling? But it's not like anyone in positions of power takes seriously stuff like that weird Steele Dossier she put out in 2016.....

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

This is what pure evil actually looks like.

Hillary, Bride of Satan.

Steven said...

I have been commenting to sympathetic family members and friends for some time now about which of my relatives, friends, and acquaintances would be among the first to denounce me so that I could be sent off to reeducation camp. Although I often laugh when I make these comments, I have always been absolutely serious about the likelihood of it happening. I always avoid making these comments to any whom I suspect of being likely to do so, i.e. I never talk about this to any relatives, friends, and acquaintances who are Democrats. I don't want to give them ideas. Hilary's comment simply puts into words what the progressives' plan is. As a Catholic, I hope that Shouting Thomas's confidence that the Catholic Church will be the last opponent standing will prove true. Unfortunately, Pope Frankie's recent apostolic letter regarding climate change illustrates how deep the rot is even in the Catholic Church. I am sure that many of my potential denouncers will soon be quoting him when they urge me to get with the program.

Rocco said...

Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
where will re-programming occur? Some sort of gulag?

Don’t be silly. We’ll just concentrate them together in a few camps. Arbeit Macht Wach.

rcocean said...

Hillary is a crook, a liar, and a corrupt power mad freak, who hates all those who oppose her. That she's somehow considered "Normal" and TRump is considered "Weird" - tells you all you need to know about our ruling elite.

We need to be quite honest about her. She would never have gotten nominated for POTUS if she wasn't Bill Clinton's wife. And if she hadn't had her path to power smoothed by the Democrat Party Elite. She was given a NY Senatorship, then made Secretary of State, and then given the nomination in 2016 against a fake, controlled primary opposition. This despite large numbers of D's disliked her.

But 2016 was her Turn. She was supposed to win in a landslide against that Crazy, strange Trump. And she....lost.

She's never gotten over it. She had all that power/fame within her grasp. And Trump came out of nowhere and against all odds took it from her. So, she immediately started to call him a Russian agent, and saying the Russians "rigged the election".

Almost 7 years later, and she's STILL crying over it. She'll cry and rage all the way to her grave. She's a souless freak deprived of power. How very, very,...sad.

Wilbur said...

Interesting that the only Leftist who dares appear on this post is Robert Cook.

The others know their agreement with their idol, Hillary, would only reveal their unwitting love of authoritarianism. Redeucation camps sound great to them, I'm sure.

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

"With the Left, it is always 2 + 2 = 5."

That's because one of those twos identifies as a three.

rcocean said...

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though Hillary at her end knows dark is right,
She rages and rages against Trump and fate,
She does not go gentle into that good night.

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

"Rusty said...
She's about as funny as crotch rot."

I'm told she uses a cream for that now.

MadTownGuy said...

Robert Reich Calls For ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Erase Trump’s Lies,’ Expose Enablers

By Jon Brown
Oct 18, 2020 DailyWire.com

"Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Saturday called for the creation of a truth and reconciliation commission to “erase Trump’s lies” and expose those who “enabled” them.

“When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Reich tweeted. “It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.”

After he took flak from those accusing him of promoting totalitarianism, Reich appended a link to an article from The Conversation explaining the history of truth and reconciliation commissions and how they are supposedly intended to rectify historical injustices and heal the wounds of division.

The article said in part, “The goal of a truth commission — in some forms also called a truth and reconciliation commission, as it is in Canada — is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice, typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond the painful past.”

Going on to list examples in more than 40 countries
*cough South Africa* where truth and reconciliation commissions were used, the article said, “The hope has been that restorative justice would provide greater healing than the retributive justice modelled most memorably by the Nuremberg Trials after the Second World War.” It concluded by claiming the United States needs a truth and reconciliation commission because of its “centuries of enslavement, state-sponsored racism, denial of civil rights and ongoing economic and social disparity.

More at the link.

Jerry said...

Why would you think that this is... comedy?

Hillary's an exceedingly toxic example of what happens when a narcissist gets power. SHE thinks this should happen, so OBVIOUSLY it should happen, and it'd be good for the country because SHE thinks so.

That she's one step away from concentration camps and extermination centers doesn't register. This is a Good Idea she's had, nothing BAD could happen from it, and she'd be getting even with all those assholes who didn't vote for her in '16.

Petty? Vindictive? Oh, hell yes. Did you think she was in it for the good of the country?

tim in vermont said...

Hillary once suggested that the government should run "fun camps," in 1984, they were called "JoyCamps."

https://reason.com/2015/03/19/hillary-clinton-wants-to-send-citizens-t/

Quaestor said...

Lawfare the bitch.

~ Gordon Pasha said...

If she became President, Kristal Nacht would be a warm up act for what would happen

H said...

It’s these kinds of comments (from HRC) that are strengthening my resolve to vote for Trump in 2024, even though I’m not a Trump supporter. The Democrats have to be taught a lesson that their authoritarian policies are unacceptable.

Jason said...

Wenn ich <> höre, entsichere ich mein Browning.

Jason said...

"Your Episcopalian Church has already been thoroughly ransacked and looted by your ideology. I can see you've already taking aim at the Catholic Church. Some small part of it will survive your attack. We'll be the last opponent standing, as always."

And Garland's Stasi FBI will target and infiltrate it.

Ann Althouse said...

The part that is comedy/"comedy" is that there should be "formal deprogramming."

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party are fascists. The very core concept of fascism is "STFU and do what the State/Party tells you to do." That's Hillary to a T.

Democrats have indoctrinated the colleges with this philosophy. Any one who objects to the progressive theology is shouted down and often assaulted.

Ann Althouse said...

I think she was using comedy when she said "basket of deplorables," so she needs to be more careful. I think she has people around her who think she's a hoot. She should be more aware of how this sort of thing doesn't work on those who actually fear that she'd do something oppressive.

Indigo Red said...

Lobotomy. She needs a lobotomy. Soon.

Dave64 said...

She would make a fine Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (IKL)

Dave64 said...

She would make a fine Inspektion der Konzentrationslager (IKL)

BUMBLE BEE said...

Hey Cookie, remember the twenty teens? We already had more than eleven million then, add the current seven million, plus got aways. That total far exceeds the Teddy Kennedy promise of 1965.
The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants,” lead supporter Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) told the Senate during debate. “It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
Now go back to sleep, moron.

Rusty said...

"The one thing that will save this country is the Second Amendment."
It's the only thing saving us now. Why do you think they want to ban them so bad. Illinois' sweeping new gun law is second only to Canadas.

BUMBLE BEE said...

That 'joke' was almost as funny as the Steele Dossier. She spent too much time with Alinski to be considered to have a sense of humor.

Yancey Ward said...

That Hillary is as funny as ass cancer.

Lilly, a dog said...

You'll love this one.
Hillary Clinton staggers into an abattoir.

Several months pass.

WHO WANTS SOME SAUSAGE?

Original Mike said...

"I think she was using comedy when she said "basket of deplorables," so she needs to be more careful. "

She thinks she's funny, and smiles slightly at the crowd's reaction, but listen as she goes on to claim that half of Trump's supporters are "racist, sexist, homophobic, zenophobic, islamaphobic, you name it."

She was serious.




Clyde said...

Comedy? She was serious as a heart attack. She would gladly put any of us who opposed her on trains to the reeducation camps. We'd be lucky to not get gassed in the showers.

Political Junkie said...

While I was disappointed when Joe Biden became president, if I had to choose between Hillary as Pres and Joe as Pres, I go with the male SOB.

Mason G said...

"Robert Reich Calls For ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Erase Trump’s Lies,’ Expose Enablers"

Takes a big man to go Full Nazi.

Narr said...

North, thanks. I think Firesign nailed so much. ("I'm always right, and I never lie," has won many any argument for me.)

I keep thinking about . . . The Really Big Disease.

Rocco said...

Ann Althouse said...
"The part that is comedy/'comedy' is that there should be 'formal deprogramming'."

Fine. I promise to wear a tie to the gulag.

Mr Wibble said...

We need to be quite honest about her. She would never have gotten nominated for POTUS if she wasn't Bill Clinton's wife. And if she hadn't had her path to power smoothed by the Democrat Party Elite. She was given a NY Senatorship, then made Secretary of State, and then given the nomination in 2016 against a fake, controlled primary opposition. This despite large numbers of D's disliked her.

It's not just her. Hillary is the platonic ideal of the global managerial class: overcredentialed, endlessly praised, but always advancing based on connections rather than actual accomplishments, and often failing when actually called upon to perform.

Trump's victory wasn't simply a repudiation of her, but of all of them, which is why they hate him so much.

Rusty said...

I din't think Hillary does comedy. Oh, sure. She'll laugh like hell if you fall down a manhole. But then she'll replace the lid.

Big Mike said...

I think she was using comedy when she said "basket of deplorables," so she needs to be more careful. I think she has people around her who think she's a hoot.

@Althouse, you have a very sick sense of humor.

Kirk Parker said...

Althouse,

"those who actually fear that she'd do something oppressive."

This is not just silly fearmongering. Don't you remember her first attempt at running things, her pathetic (and illegal) health care task force and the proposed legislation they were producing? Chock full of "health care crimes" that had never before existed.

Totalitarianism is in her very soul; it's her middle name.

Oligonicella said...

Ann Althouse said...

The part that is comedy/"comedy" is that there should be "formal deprogramming."

That's gonna take more 'splaining. "Formal" when associated with "government" always means "serious", so -> "serious deprogramming", which most certainly implies she sees the MAGA people as seriously flawed. I fail to see the humor.

I think she was using comedy when she said "basket of deplorables," 

Frankly, I think there was more humor in "How come I don't have more than 50%?"

phantommut said...

Every time she tries to tell a joke, do a schtick, it's pure cringe (remember her gift of a "Reset" button to her then-pal Vladimir?)

This didn't make me cringe the same way. She said exactly what she believed at the moment she said it. She may have tried walking it back later (she's a fool but not an idiot) and I'm sure Democrats are having an all-hands-on-deck this Friday evening.

All the chaos that has been unleashed in Versailles-on-the-Potomac was worth keeping that person out of the White House. At least the masks have come off.

walter said...

Further deranged Hilary of today says to Hilary of "deplorables" comment era: "Hold my Chardonnay".

Big Mike said...

I want to expand on my comment at 12:04. First of all, I believe that Hillary's idea about the need for "reeducation" of Trump "cult" members is not an attempt to be funny; it represents what seems to be the consensus among sufficiently extreme lefty extremists. Some of the lefties that comment frequently on this very blog are open about viewing Trump supporters as cultists, as though people are supposed to to enjoy paying more for food and gasoline, and supposed to enjoy learning that the government is not just coming for their gas stoves (which "no one" was actually going to do, remember?) but our air conditioners, ceiling fans, and gas furnaces as well. The people who believe that are stuck in a very small bubble, but they're going to try to enlarge it.

I think we will see this idea of Trump supporters as cultists in need of reeducation expanded first by people thought to be "reasonable," and then in a coordinated campaign pushed by the talking heads on TV and in op-eds and editorials in news media. Along the way the various speakers and writers will push the bingo buttons for various identity groups that are components of the Democrats' coalition, e.g., something for the feminists to convince them to join in, something for blacks, something for Hispanics, something for gays and lesbians, etc. Definitely something for the Christian haters.

Will it work? Lord, I hope not.

Rit said...

Althouse said: I think she was using comedy when she said "basket of deplorables," so she needs to be more careful. I think she has people around her who think she's a hoot. She should be more aware of how this sort of thing doesn't work on those who actually fear that she'd do something oppressive.

I wonder how many of the people who watched their neighbors and friends being stuffed into boxcars and shipped across Europe during WWII thought as Althouse thinks? Nothing to oppressive going on here, they are being taken to a better life.

I wonder how many of the people actually being stuffed into those boxcars thought the same? Nothing to oppressive going on here, we are being taken to a better life.

At least those people were being lied to. Here, Clinton is telling you exactly what she'd like to do. When people tell you what they want to do it's best to take them at their word.

Quaestor said...

Althouse writes, "The part that is comedy/'comedy' is that there should be 'formal deprogramming.'"

What is comedy/"comedy"? Is it anything like rape/"rape"?

Christopher B said...

You think the real problem was that she said the quiet part out loud?

Robert Cook said...

"It's been 11 million for the last 25 years. Joe Biden just added another 6-8 million, and if you have been paying attention, we added more every year in those 25 or so years. You believe the propaganda they have been spewing for years. Wake up."

Where are your citations for your claim?

Oligonicella said...

I have to believe that Althouse's consistent refusal to back up her claims with logic is a tell that she's just spouting to rile things up.

At least, in this case I hope so.

Tina Trent said...

Larry Grathwohl the only FBI informant to infiltrate the Weather Underground, had the following conversation with Bill Ayers:

"I [Larry] asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious."

Larry risked, then dedicated his life to warning us. Ayers dedicated his middle years to grooming Obama for office, 8 years, several nights a week. Then Obama and the media lied about it.

Tim said...

It is Hillary Clinton. What specifically in her past would lead you to believe that she is anything but deadly serious about reeducation camps?

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Robert Cook:

FAIR Analysis: 4.9 Million Illegal Aliens Have Crossed our Borders Since President Biden Took Office

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Robert Cook:

Politico:

BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS IS THE WORST IN AMERICAN HISTORY, HIS POLICIES CONTINUE TO MAKE IT WORSE

Saint Croix said...

I think she was using comedy when she said "basket of deplorables," so she needs to be more careful.

What's notable is not that she's mocking Trump.

Everybody on the left mocks Trump.

What's notable is that she's mocking everybody who voted for Trump.

She's attacking half the country.

That's highly unusual. Trump doesn't attack half the country. Biden doesn't do that, either. Obama didn't do that, Bush didn't do that, Bill Clinton never did that.

To single out half the country and hate on them is fucked up. Even if it's humor, it's fucked up and angry to be mad at so many Americans, and to make a joke about "deprogramming" them shows she's learned nothing and if anything she's meaner and angrier now.

We dodged a bullet.

Kirk Parker said...

Saint Croix,

More like, we dodged a MOAB.

Oligonicella said...

Saint Croix said...
She's attacking half the country. ... Biden doesn't do that, either.

Really?
Biden:

"Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic."