Writes Hillary Clinton, in an excerpt from her new book, presented as a column in The Washington Post, under the headline "To err is human, to empathize is superhuman/Is there any way to drain the fever swamps so we can stand together on firmer, higher ground?"
In 2016... I was largely mocked or dismissed by many in the mainstream media stuck in a “both sides” straitjacket.... I do wish that back in 2016, people had heard the rest of my comments and not just the word “deplorables.” I also talked about the other half of Trump supporters... And, I emphasized, “those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”...
As a Christian, I aspire to... radical empathy but often fall short. Talking about the “deplorables” in 2016, I said, “Some of those folks, they are irredeemable.” Part of me would still say this is objectively true... But another part of me wants to believe something else. I’d like to believe there’s goodness in everyone and a chance at redemption, no matter how remote.
I must say I laughed when I read "no matter how remote." It was intended as a laugh line, of course. So was "basket of deplorables" (and it got a laugh). And her original line — "Some of those folks, they are irredeemable" — was radically inconsistent with Christianity.
But somehow she could not say, As a Christian, I know that, with Christ, no one is irredeemable. She couldn't do it. She had to kick the deplorables one last time: Everyone has a chance at redemption, but for deplorables, it's remote.
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Ah - Butt hurt corrupt loser - still a butt hurt corrupt loser.
Hillary will never be president. We all sigh a collective exhale of relief.
That Hillary Rodham Clinton Library will never be built.
But - good news for her daughter- if Kamala wins - Chelsea will be rolling in the dough - with some sort of tax payer funded BS job.
What a lying sack of excrement.
I have never, in my entire life, said that I was glad that someone had died. I will, I'm sure, not hold to that when I hear that Hillary Clinton has 'shuffled off this mortal coil'. In fact, health and age permitting, I will most likely get up and dance a jig around the room.
How can we miss her if she won't go away?
I don't think she has ever recovered full brain function after her 2012 stroke. It shows.
John Henry
A vile human being and terrible politician. The world will be better off when she steps off the stage. At the least, consider the grift and graft money that frees up…
I'm throwing a celebration party.
Her candor is refreshing. I hate her guts, too.
Coulter has said Trump's brain was cracked by winning. He wasn't expecting it, he really wanted to found a media company, etc. I think it"s actually always the same old Trump, good and bad. But Hillary's brain was cracked by losing. She was very impressive in 2008.
The honored queen scumbag of the despicable collection of traitors, degenerates, pedophiles, criminals, liars, and illegals known as The Democrat Party. They're The Good Guys!111!!1!!!
Hillary Clinton is em-pathetic, and cannot, at this point, develop a difference in her character.
NorthOfTheOneOhOne - You are better than me. I am happy a lot of historical people were killed. Glad Hitler was killed. Glad Osama was killed. Glad we have the death penalty. That may be wrong on my part, but I readily admit I am not perfect.
Abe set the standard — With malice towards none, and charity for all. The “deplorables” speech was, itself, a deplorable turning point in American politics. Sadly, not a single elected Democrat deplored the speech in 2016, nor since.
Just as the-issue-is-never-the-issue, unity is never their goal.
G-Pub
She's doing the same thing Trump does: saying absurd things to generate some attention. The rebuttals are intentionally obvious to goad as many people as possible into giving her attention by rebutting her. Negative publicity is better than no publicity. She has been doing this since 2017.
She's gonna earn a lot of money by throwing out this much red meat to the hard left. ABS.
Coulter's brain cracked a long time ago, looking for perfection, now after what they stole in 2020, which she won't acknowlege,
BLM and Antifa are DNC Brownshirt militias. They torched and looted every major city during the Summer of George. The DNC/Intel cartel openly employs and endorses violence on a huge, paramilitary scale. Hillary is, of course, the greatest of all feminist icons, always introduced as such. Althouse keeps positing a virtuous, intellectual feminism, but the great icon of feminism is a demonic liar who put the world at risk of nuclear war with her Russia collusion hoax, and she’s an outspoken advocate of censorship and persecution of those she sees peddling “disinformation.” I keep wondering when Althouse will notice that this is the reality of feminism.
There's something interesting that happens when college-educated people join the Army and have to lead and mix and associate with tons of other people from humbler means and sub-cultures you know nothing about. You might come from a wealthier, more educated background with a mandate to lead and make decisions, but you never ever and under no circumstances insult them.
That's what Hitlery and her kind are all about. They are 'to the manor born', and being manor-born means thumbing your nose at hard-working hoi-polloi when a person like Clinton has never done an honest day's work in her life.
The only deplorables are Hillary Flick and her entire fucking caste. They produce nothing but consternation and animosity. She is neither ethical nor a leader.
Heard shambling put in an appearance at the scam event the one that gathers Russian oligarch Arab magnates and the like,
I wouldn't look to HIllary Clinton to explain the doctrine on redemption and certainly I'm no theologian myself but I do think she's well wide of the mark when it's come to that topic. As if anyone is ever worthy or likely to obtain redemption, I think the doctrine is otherwise.
I've always wondered if she really believes it was worth it, all the compromises she made on her path to fame and fortune. She's another big laugher, like Kamala Harris. But they don't really seem all that happy, there's always a certain vacancy there, the dead eye look when they think no one's watching.
kui
"It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics," but I'm going to say it again.
She is SOOOOO right. I am so sick of all the burnings and killings from the riots from Trumpians. I am angry at the assassination attempts the Trumpians keep doing. And it saddens me how many times the Trumpians have harassed and attacked the Jewish population.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hillary-clintons-sordid-history-secrecy-censorship
@Political Junkie: Just to clarify; I don't mourn Hitler or Bin Laden or Pol Pot, but their deaths, while deserved, don't really brighten my day. Hillary's will though.
Queen Hillary rages on the blasted heath:
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
"I do wish that back in 2016, people had heard the rest of my comments "
Yeah? Let's talk about Charlottesville.
I've never cared for Hillary Clinton, a Goldwater Girl in the open wayback when and still a Republican at heart, but...when she's right, she's right. And, on this, she's right!
"@Political Junkie: Just to clarify; I don't mourn Hitler or Bin Laden or Pol Pot, but their deaths, while deserved, don't really brighten my day. Hillary's will though."
Kind of way fucked up priorities!
"I wish death upon no man, but I have read more than one obituary with grim satisfaction."
So everyone not on the corrupt left is a racist?
I suppose to a commie like you, Clinton does seem GOP. Each time I read these disgusting posts in which you accuse Americans, easily the fairest minded and least bigoted people in human history, I have to refrain from calling you ugly names. You’re evil and rotten. Maybe you have redeeming qualities on a personal level, but man you’re a fucking mess.
It's like someone who filled your local pond with shit, showing up in a contractor's outfit, telling you they know how to clean all the shit out of your pond.
Hillary is pulling a Miss Havisham move here. The wedding cake remains on the table and she’s not about to let Kamala have the prize.
"and still a Republican at heart,"
Oh, for Christ's sake, Robert. Everyone you don't like is a Republican. They may be a double-secret, in the closet, Republican, but they're a Republican, by God!
"As a Christian," says Hillary the Grifter, in the midst of bearing false witness against her fellow Americans. I pray for her soul and the souls of her fellow Christian-hating Democrats. Yet, I am hard pressed to understand why the Almighty would want the company of these assholes in the hereafter even though I know they will be transformed.
..." It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth....."
Yes, it did, Hillary - and you've never recovered from the impact that rancid truth had on the American people - although they already had a pretty good idea of your toxic personal character from your days in the White House, the Whitewater affair, the Travelgate affair, the Benghazi affair, and a myriad of others. We really dodged a bullet there, and you're still just as bitter & twisted about it.
"Candor" doesn't mean what you think it means.
They had coitus, he empathized, a Chelsea was born, but Bill never paid for his extramarital tabs. Deplorable, Deplorables, one and all.
Cook likes to play on the fence as some kind of impartial, rationalist arbiter when he is anything but. What a phony.
Former employees will breathe a sigh of relief.
"Antifa" searched for in the WaPo article, not found. Hmmmmmmm.
Remember that she's only 14 in Demon years.
(joke borrowed from 30 Rock)
She is deplorable.
Tolerance is a great American virtue-- let's not waste it on a bunch of subhuman yahoos.
Her grift is the controversial, easy when Jeb Bush is President, less so when you have a Trump…
Pelosi, Biden, and tons of other dems have all pulled the "as a Christian" schtick. These people worship one thing, and it isn't God. What complete horseshit.
Of course there are some bad people on the right just as there are bad people on the left and bad people in the center. What's offensive is the suggestion that Trump's policies are evil, racist, etc. They're not.
then she had a phase with SDSer Carl Oglesby, defended the Panthers who murdered Kimball in New Haven, that was her early adult years ok fair point
in her later years her foundation protected all the looters or nigeria, the mark rich gang, (who were nicely kept out of trouble by judge chutkin) the haiti crew, which looted whatever remained bolted down, so springfield starts in chappaqua
Soaked in chardonnay and bile the Hildebeest will eventually pass from the American scene. And I say that like it's a good thing. But at least she didn't stay at home baking chocolate chip cookies--and she had a pretty good ride through the American political landscape, so there is that. I for one sure won't miss her when she's gone.
THAT...is one bitter old woman.
Who has rioted worse in DC and the rest of the US since 2016, Antifa and leftists or Trump supporters? Note the beam in your own eye, Hillary, we'll tend to the motes in ours.
For some reason it reminds me of,
"What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?"
A new book? The Democrat money laundering ploy. I wonder if the Soros traitors will buy a million or so. She's only relevant because the cackler would fill her cabinet with female losers.
Local news always more emotionally received than that from distant lands. Doesn't say one is more important than the other, just more emotionally satisfactory in this country, in this day and age, to the PoliticalJunkie. I, for one, like to repeat in every Hillary comment threat that Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States. Always brightens MY day.
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"
has anyone asked billyjeff opionon
Starting around a generation ago, public opinion becomes less and less appeasable. About the same time the Internet 'escaped from' the uni/large businesses, and then the social media were invented?
The fun of echo chambers, and everyone can have a say (even if it is selective, cherry picking or outright incorrect.) 😉
At least she's clear. The working class can have one of two things from the Democrat Party:
1. Spittle flecked hatred
2. Pity and condescension
Choose wisely deplorables.
ELO summed her up perfectly with "Evil woman".
Inga is in love
I always thought that "basket of deplorables" was an adorable turn of phrase for her. It reminded me of the phrase "Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket??"
Her "feature, not a bug" language, quoted today, is overused, and just plain stupid in this instance. She probably doesn't even grok its meaning. What a truly deplorable bitch.
Had she not used the phrase, she might have won that election. That's what gets me about some of the political class. It's not enough to just win the election. They won't be happy until you agree with their self-proclaimed brilliance. My some Democratic contacts agreed that even if they agreed it was a stupid thing for her to do and say. Never insult your customer.
Cook is living proof of hillary and the left’s malignancy.
Minneapolis is seeing the results of the Floyd riots. Big buildings selling at 91% discounts.
She keeps trying to redeem herself, but keeps coming up short.
ST certainly has Cook pegged.
"I do wish that back in 2016, people had heard the rest of my comments..."
Back at you on Charlottesville "fine people on both sides" and J6 demonstrate "peacefully."
like all of these self proclaimed mandarins she wants you to suffer the inflation the crime the wars that her looting party cause as part of their m.o, a stable nigeria would not have given us boko haram, and she was a party to that in her private capacity, she took credit for the ceasefire that allowed hamas to restock for '21, she destroyed Libya for spite, Qaddafi had foolishly trusted us,
Except that AntiFA, in particular, are the Marxist (Leninist then, now Maoists) Black Shirts, who battled the Nazi Brown Shirts for control of socialism, on the. Streets of Germany, in the 1930s. Remember - Fascism/Naziism was a direct response to the dangers of communism. By at least 2021, and maybe earlier, AntiFA was making this explicit with the ChiCom red Hammer and Sickle on many of their helmets and ballistic shields, often along with their historical AntiFA symbol. They are Anti Fascists, because the Fascists were traditionally the communists mortal enemies for control of socialism.
The early Bolsheviks considered themselves to be people of principle and conscience. They went to the villages and confiscated the grain and livestock of peasants. The peasants subsequently starved to death. This did not trouble them, nor of the many principled people in the West who sympathized with their cause Those early Bolsheviks were later purged, ie. killed or gulaged. This troubled the conscience of many principled people in the West. The deliberate starvation of millions passed unnoticed, but Stalin's purge of the early Bolsheviks caused dismay.......The burning and looting of our cities during the Floyd protests did not trouble people of conscience in the USA. The whatever you call it on 1/6 was one of the great crimes of the new century. Hillary Clinton is the Beatrice Webb of our time.
Good image: Miss Havisham. Very succinct.
Good Lord, when will this woman go away already?
As per my last comment Anne has scientifically proven that Trump supporters are not a basket of deplorables.
Please let her death be painful
Has there ever been a less self-aware person in American politics? Nearly every accusation or characterization out of her mouth about her perceived enemies applies to her in spades. Truly classic projection. My favorite was her recent statement on the need to arrest people for disinformation.
These Progressive fuckers want us all dead. Listen to the Commerce secretary today wanting someone to EXTERMINATE Trump. What ELSE would she mean after 2 assassination attempts??
"Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told MSNBC, “He says, he’s the opposite. It’s just another lie. Like, how did we get here? Let’s extinguish him for good. We have an answer. We have a remarkably talented candidate who is sincere, who’s pragmatic, who’s open. Let’s just get it done.”"
https://twitter.com/i/status/1838933085427011624
pantsuited pantload
big fat deplorable ewe
full of excrement
Why aren't I 50 points ahead, you might ask! Yes, you might ask that, Hillary.
Clinton should be tahred (ha!) and feathered and made to bugger off.
Says the woman who has been photographed, over and over, leeching the big bucks off of and rubbing elbows with people like Harvey Weinstein & P Diddy? Hasn't her name come up in the Epstein docs? Wasn't his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, a guest at her daughter's wedding? Yeah, I think I'll take a pass on advice about "deplorables" from this tattered, old ratbag, at least until she comes clean about where all that charity money for Haiti went.
We see you, Hillary...
The word that Clinton wanted to use in that essay and is unable to do so as of right now is "Gulag". That will eventually be the answer the Left tries to use on pretty much all the political opposition.
Cook is the sort of petulant sod the pantsuited pantload attracts. IOW, a loser.
Clinton “impressive”? 😆
Sparing the Rod, they spoiled the ham.
there's no where enough tar, it would take all of Labrea
“has anyone asked billyjeff opionon?”
Cain’t git to him. He been buried in beaver. Indisposed is what the city folk call it, I think.
Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC based their 2016 campaign on the promotion of Donald Trump as a credible candidate:
https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
If you don't like Donald Trump, then Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC are your primary enemies.
Her original line — "Some of those folks, they are irredeemable" — was radically inconsistent with Christianity. But somehow she could not say, As a Christian, I know that, with Christ, no one is irredeemable. She couldn't do it.
Exactly. I read the first part of your post and came here to say this, then read the second part and realized you said it better than I would have.
So let me say this: Fuck you, Hillary Clinton. May the sting and humiliation of your 2016 defeat never subside.
Hey ! Turd creature. G.F.Y.
I’m doing my best to hold her accountable for starting the Russia collusion lie by never voting for a Democrat again.
Unlike the Professor I do not give HRC any presumption of good-faith when it makes statements like that. Secondly, there's a 99% chance that this book was ghost written and HRC only signed off on the text and cashed the check rather than actually writing it. I don't expect this book will change any minds but was actually published for reasons best described by Dr. Samuel Johnson, as reported by Boswell, in 1791. (tl:dr , "[E]xcept for money.")
She needs a fresh influx of cash from communists and democrats. Are they selling for 10,000 a copy?
She should take her Christianity and put it where the sun don't shine.
F*ck Hillary Clinton.. no.. not really but... I guess her DEI assassins didn't work so well.. and the DEI hires in the SS didn't do so hot either. Maybe she will hire Alec Baldwin.. I hear he has time on his hands.
Half of Trump's supporters - a quarter of the electorate - were then and remain a "basket of deplorables."
Shouldn't things be a lot worse in this country?
Nearly everyone would do better in life after a spell after an enlisted period in the military. Jimmy Stewart joined as a private and retired as a General.
A generation ago there was less manipulation of public opinion, Bich.
Nope. They thought he had no chance so it was safe. They had no idea how much they were hated.
billyjeff, would-be merry widower
She can’t say no one is irredeemable because she flatly equates redemption with inner goodness. Not how it works. Romans 3:23-26.
I wish I could miss her, but she won't go away so that I can.
"Say goodnight Gracie"
Thank God that Obama wouldn't wait for his turn. Can you imagine 8 years of her followed by 8 years of him? We, in retrospect, dodged a huge bullet.
Book on sale at K-Mart, better hurry
Lloyd, sometimes I think you're an AI who's still training to repackage the most idiotic Beltway takes into something usable. After 2008, Hillary ran for President, lost to a no-name minority, became SecState, parachuted out to make a ton of money before 2016, and lost to Donald Trump. Maybe you think she was becoming more "impressive" during that time, but shameless obsequiousness and total media control didn't win globalists the 2016 election. Vote fraud was needed in 2020, but the margin now is so big even that will not be sufficient.
Thanks for the reply Cookie! My list has now officially grown to two!
I don't understand the maintenance of the Hillary Clinton hate. Yes, it was understandable during the 90s as an outlet on FreeRepublic. But I am so over it! She's humiliated herself over eight years to the point most of her own side (excepting the rabid partisans) devoutly wishes she would shut her cakehole. For that reason, I encourage major outlets continuing to give her coverage.
Actually, the Epsteinites are the ones who need to swing, well ahead of the Clintons. At this point I would be happy with Hillary continuing to live as the failure she is.
The witch referred to Trump voters as "a basket of deplorables." Her disdain was palpable, and she meant what she said.
Best was the next night in Miami, Trump took of the stage with music from Les Miserable playing, and behind him a meme which said "Les Deplorables." Trump and his supporters embraced the insult as a badge of honor.
Is shitty witches like Hillary think you're deplorable, you're doing something right.
There are plenty of photos of Trump rubbing elbows with Epstein and PDiddy. Trumps name has come up in the Epstein documents as well as he referring to Epstein and PDiddy as “good friends” of his. To G Maxwell, Trump said “I wish her well” after she was arrested. I suspect that Diddy may end up hanging himself in prison too. He knows too much about powerful people, Trump included.
Hillary flunked the bar, like Kamala and Michelle. Although they aren’t bright they are all cunning.
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