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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 133 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can she like... stop being a public figure?

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wish. She gave us Trump. Irony.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

The DNC screwing Bernie and voter abstention gave us Trump.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago (19 children)

Bill Clinton encouraged Donald Trump to run for President during a phone call before he decided to run for president

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/clinton-encouraged-trump-to-run-for-president_washington-dc/100233/

How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately "elevated" Donald Trump with its "pied piper" strategy

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

They Always Wanted Trump. Inside Team Clinton’s year-long struggle to find a strategy against the opponent they were most eager to face.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/

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[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The Clinton's gave us Trump, no one else

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[–] no_comment@lemmy.world 99 points 5 months ago
[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This chuckle headed twat is the reason we have Trump.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The more despicable Trump is proven to be, the more pathetic she looks for losing to him.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

She will go down as being the only person to ever lose a federal election to a carnival barker

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

looks at Biden's poll numbers in states he can't afford to lose and stubborn insistence on not changing the unpopular course of action that caused them

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hope she's the only one. But dammit, Biden's tryin'.

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[–] eighty@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's almost impressive the levels and varieties of tone-deaf a single person is capable of.

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago (4 children)

No one asked to hear from the person that lost a presidential election to Donald Fucking Trump.

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I can't hear you over all the "He's probably not that bad." and "Haha he'll never win, I'll vote for him as a joke!"

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[–] halferect@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, just no, you were not right Hillary. Just go away please

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago

Read the room Hill-dawg: no one likes you or is buying this horribly designed shit. You are the reason the United States is at 50/50 odds of going full fascism because you bet on yourself. Bad bet. Go away now

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Would Hillary have been a better president than Trump?
Yes, absolutely, without question. 100,000% better.
Is Hillary more likable than Trump?
That's up for debate.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Rich old white woman so self-absorbed that she's less likable than an incoherent, ugly, selfish, geriatric, Nazi. More at 11."

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Trump is charismatic and funny, thats why he was on tv. If only people didnt take him seriously or give him actual power. Let me remind you that /r/the_donald was a joke subreddit.

Hillary has no charisma. Also her campaign literally promoted Trump, because she thought he would have been an easier opponent. She is smart and capable(or was, she is kinda getting older nowadays) but her political positions are abhorrent. She could have been the perfect "reasonable republican" candidate.

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 59 points 5 months ago (7 children)

She created trump, the self-righteous fucker

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[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.cafe 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

She has never been right, SHE alone is the reason we have to contend with Trump.

"Everything she touches she screws up with hubris"

  Colin Powell
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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ugggh....

Hillary, come on. I swear she is lab grown to be smug and unlikeable.

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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

She's really out here telling us she loves smelling her own farts.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

she should just endorse Trump to end him.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

Oh, look... Kissinger Jnr. has shared her 2-cents.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (28 children)

She is the reason Trump won and Bernie simultaneously got axed.

The voter turnout was poor and I'm convinced it's gonna be even more atrocious this year.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

The only reason Bernie was axed was because the DNC axed him. Bernie is too progressive for democrats.

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[–] xerazal@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Crawls back out from under her stuffy old bridge to make a buck and stroke her own ego.

And yet she still can't fathom that she lost in 2016 to a reality TV host because of her unlikability. Nope, couldn't be that. Must be sexism, the Russians, Bernie bros, hell throw bigfoot in there somewhere.

[–] Reptorian@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Bernie bros thing is funny because more Bernie voters voted for Hillary than moderates voted for Hillary. And it was moderates the reason Hillary lost.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Shut the fuck up Hillary.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Oh just fucking go away Hillary. You're time in the shade is done when you ignored everyone telling you to stop taking the battle ground states for granted and were losing ground there while you quixotically attempted to win southern states you had no fucking chance in hell of winning, giving us Trump.

Fuck off and fuck you Hillary.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was she right to spend campaign money in Texas instead of swing states?

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[–] 3volver@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

She is a part of the reason we got Trump in the first place. Could have had Sanders. The Democrat party is not all "good" in reality, and a growing part of me is starting to think they play into the Republican party's hands.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Trumps conviction is the best news we've had in months, if not years, and she ruined it in 48 hours.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

I remember my father commenting to my mother when she was on the cover of Time or Newsweek during Billy's time in office. He remarked about how smug she looked. That's the word that came to mind reading this headline. Oh, wait, the thumbnail too. I wish she'd go away.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That thing’s a travesty of graphic design.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

She needs to fuck off permanently.

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