#hillary 2016

[nopickls]

Seven. Lucky number. 

Hillary (2016)

#hillary #hillary 2016 #determined to wrest the hillary tag back to where it should be #edmund hillary #tenzing norgay #my: gif #* #hillary pbs

[transgenderbasketballplayer]

#me #my pics #hilfiger #jorts #denim #hillary 2016 #hillary #hillary clinton #politics #marxism #leninism #ML

[sheisraging]

#politics #scotus #if you voted for anyone other than hillary clinton in the 2016 election i hope you stub your toe every day for the rest of your life

[c-rowlesdraws]

(Note: I’m writing this in good faith and not trying to come across confrontational)

Have u forgotten u can vote 3rd party? I know there will likely not be enough people voting independant party for a non red or blue president to be elected THIS voting cycle. But. If enough people vote independent maybe america will wake up and realize there are more than 2 shitty options. (It takes time to change, and change for the better)

Look the problem with the blue no matter who mindset is that these people know you are going to vote for them no matter what. Not because you necessarily like them but because at least they aren’t the other guy. Which gives dems absolutely no incentive to not be a piece of shit. Like do you get it? They will be awful and endorse genocides and all other terror because they know you will let them get away with it. Maybe biden isn’t as bad as a republican would have been but he is still pretty fucking bad. Personally, morally, I cannot in any way justify voting for him again.

voting for someone as damage control in an election does not mean you can't heckle the shit out of them once they are in office. You elect the officials you think you and groups you belong to have the better chance of pressuring into better policies, and who will do the least amount of damage in the meantime.

Democrats are relentless towards their elected officials-- at least the ones I know who are actually politically active are. They call, they protest, they campaign. Plus, as you're demonstrating, people on the left do not blindly vote (that's the other guys). It's totally unrealistic to say that elected Democratic officials just think they have an easy ride.

people can and should vote for whoever they want to in local elections, primaries, etc. But in the big one, the president one, the one in the fall, voting third party is like drawing up plans for a nice new extension on a house that is actively being set on fire. Voting for president is damage control. Voting is your hard-fucking-won civil right. Voting in smaller elections can also be damage control; when there is no-one to feel "good" about voting for, you vote for the less-worse one, because maybe that one is more receptive to the idea of climate change being real than the other one, and you can work with that.

Sometimes you get to vote for the option you align with the most. But sometimes voting is about picking the option with the cracks that you can dig your fingers into and pull open. Or at least the one who won't start taking a sledgehammer to civil rights and environmental protections (and, and) with all his buddies while you work to build support behind a candidate you can feel good about voting for in four years.

Biden has shown he can change his policies over time, with pressure. Democrats can be swayed in ways Republicans cannot. One major party can be pushed more left. The other one will drag us into a darkness that I don't even want to think about. The presidency is about so much more than just the individual sitting in the Oval Office.

Voting is strategic. It is strategic. It is not negative moral karma to vote strategically. It is one action amidst all the other actions you can take to fight for the future you want.

#please read my original post again if you're still unclear on my political stance #us politics #ask #catie talks #i don't want to publish more of these asks but I feel compelled to reply to at least some #this website was a fucking waking nightmare in 2016 and I'd feel sick scrolling through tag after tag on a political post #of people saying that hillary was a warhawk and a monster and just as bad as trump and they couldn't #morally justify voting for her #and seeing that attitude showing up again makes me want to throw plates

[alwaysbewoke]

#hillary clinton #donald trump #maga #elections have consequences #political opinion #2016 election #democratic party #voter engagement #political consequences #current events #genocide #authoritarianism #political polarization #israel #gaza #gaza strip #palestine #free palestine #anti-semitic #islamophobia #zionism #alwaysbewoke

[qqueenofhades]

BOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAME!!!, SCOTUS edition:

Clarence Thomas: appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)

Samuel Alito and John Roberts: appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)

Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett: appointed by Donald Trump (Republican)

Conservative total: 6

Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan: appointed by Barack Obama (Democrat)

Ketanji Brown Jackson: appointed by Joe Biden (Democrat) replacing Stephen Breyer, appointed by Bill Clinton (Democrat), who also appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg;

Liberal total: 3

Most common split on all these bad decisions: 6-3

Gee, it's almost like SCOTUS actually is incredibly important, Hillary Clinton and the entire mainstream Democratic electorate knew that in 2016, Democratic presidents consistently appoint the justices who are on the side of the rulings that you agree with, it was maybe a bad idea to let a man charged with 71 felony counts including criminal espionage appoint one-third of the current court, and yet BUH BUH BERNIE AND HER EMAILS.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #hillary clinton was right about everything: the redux redux redux #i will never not once ever not be salty about this #and how the purity brigade and decades of GOP bile aimed at hillary #have gotten us to exactly this point that all of us with brains in our heads saw coming back in 2016 #urrrrrrgh

[batboyblog]

I'm thinking about this tweet today.

#hillary clinton #Supreme Court #2016 election #she told you #Hillary was right about everything

[laurfilijames]

Masterlist

Charlie Hunnam Characters:

Will 'Ironhead' Miller (Triple Frontier)

Jax Teller (Sons of Anarchy)

Jay Mills (Deadfall)

Pete Dunham (Green Street Hooligans)

Raymond Smith (The Gentlemen)

Dr. Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Lin Ford (Shantaram)

Dean O'Gorman Characters:

Fili (The Hobbit)

Anders Johnson (The Almighty Johnson's)

Will Johnson (Wanted)

Ford Lampton (The Bad Seed)

Evan Lace (Westside)

George Lowe (Hillary)

Ryder Harrison (Vegas)

#masterlist #laursmasterlist #charlie hunnam #dean o'gorman #will miller #triple frontier #fili #the hobbit #anders johnson #the almighty johnsons #will johnson #wanted #evan lace #westside #ford lampton #the bad seed #ryder harrison #vegas nz tv series #george lowe #hillary (2016)

[2bpoliticallycurious]

Great article by Philip Bump (using a metaphor about Egyptian🐪📜papyrus no less) about how Trump took his conspiracy theories to court and had them soundly rebuked. [BTW, based on a different article by Bump, Trump had hoped that the notorious Judge Aileen Cannon would hear his complaint. 😱 Thank goodness the case was assigned to Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks instead.]   

Conspiratorial political rhetoric exists as though it is written on ancient Egyptian papyrus. Within controlled environments — the right temperature, the proper humidity — it can inspire and persuade indefinitely. But remove it from those protections, expose it to harsh light or less gentle handling, and it crumbles.

Donald Trump has helped to build one of the world’s largest repositories of false political rhetoric and misleading claims, assertions that exist within the capacious, controlled confines of right-wing news outlets and social media. And the centerpiece of his collection has long been his delicately structured rebuttal to Russia’s efforts to swing the 2016 presidential election on his behalf. He and his friends have taken bits of papyrus from various places and carefully assembled a document that they purport depicts the real history of the past seven years. They’re quite proud of it.

But then Trump went and took it out of its protective case and brought it to a courthouse. It crumbled — or, really, was picked apart, fiber by fiber. And, this week, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks levied a fine of nearly $1 million against Trump and his attorney, Alina Habba, for bringing it to him in the first place. [...] “A continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers,” Middlebrooks wrote as he issued those sanctions, “undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm.”

“Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” he adds later. “Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.”

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Middlebrooks described the nature of the lawsuit — a “shotgun pleading” loosely aimed at a number of targets — as “amount[ing] to obstruction of justice.” He described having sifted “through the thread of allegations against each defendant only to find they added up to no cognizable claim. And the pleadings were drafted in a way to disguise that fact.” He noted that Trump and his attorneys “consistently misrepresented and cherry-picked portions of public reports and filings to support a false factual narrative” — something very familiar even to nonlegal observers. [...] Each of Trump’s favorite allegations about the unfairness of the Russia probe is dispatched with Trump’s assessment that the conclusions of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III exonerated him, Middlebrooks wrote, is “perhaps acceptable as a cable news talking point,” but “neither an accurate nor fair reading of the Mueller Report.” A similar conclusion is reached for the dossier of allegations against Trump, for the Durham indictments (which failed to obtain guilty verdicts) and for Trump’s looping in his suspension from Twitter.

“The assertion that the Twitter ban was caused by misinformation by Ms. Clinton five years earlier is plainly false,” Middlebrooks writes, with understatement.

None of this alone would necessarily have led to Trump and Habba being sanctioned. But Middlebrooks noted that this suit was one of several with similar aims: bolstering Trump’s arguments, whipping up attention and spurring contributions. Lawsuits against CNN, against Twitter, against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), even against the board that presents the Pulitzer Prize — in these, Middlebrooks saw the same pattern.

“• Provocative and boastful rhetoric; “• A political narrative carried over from rallies; “• Attacks on political opponents and the news media; “• Disregard for legal principles and precedent; and “• Fundraising and payments to lawyers from political action committees."

“[T]his widespread and persistent conduct points to the need for deterrence,” he concluded. And the form that deterrence would take was a penalty of $937,989.39 applied to both Trump and Habba.

Should have kept that theory in the protective case. Or, you know, not cobbled it together in the first place.

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#trump #gop #us politics #russian interference in 2016 election #donald middlebrooks #hillary clinton #philip bump #the washington post

[zvaigzdelasas]

Material Analysis of History Is My Passion

#welcome to 2016 part 3 #the leftist cabal that has hegemonic control over political discourse in this country lead hillary to not campaign in wisconsin #bc of our intransigence & inflexibility #so she couldnt campaign. obv

[deadpresidents]

Are there any notable Presidential speeches you know of that were fully written or prepared but never delivered for some reason? (Such as Nixon’s failed moon landing speech for Apollo 11)

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any specific speeches similar to the undelivered speech prepared in case of a disaster on Apollo 11 (which is still haunting to read even with the knowledge that everybody made it home safely).

Obviously, most Presidents and Presidential candidates prepare victory and concession speeches, but we don't usually see the speech that wasn't needed. Once some time had passed, Hillary Clinton did read the victory speech that she would have given had she not lost the 2016 election to Trump. It was before he was President, but General Dwight D. Eisenhower had prepared a short statement in 1944 to deliver in case the Allied landings on D-Day had failed.

It's not quite the same thing, but I have a fascinating book called Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters That Harry Truman Never Mailed that is a collection of letters and notes that President Truman wrote while angry or annoyed but gave into his better judgment and held back on actually mailing. They are pretty entertaining.

#Speeches #Presidential Speeches #Presidents #History #Presidency #Politics #Undelivered Speeches #Richard Nixon #President Nixon #Apollo 11 #Hillary Clinton #2016 Election #Dwight D. Eisenhower #President Eisenhower #D-Day #World War II #Normandy Invasion #General Eisenhower #President Truman #Harry S. Truman #Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters That Harry Truman Never Mailed #Presidential Correspondence #Presidential Writing

[bijoumikhawal]

"no one reblogs anything nice about biden" that's because none of you post about the good things the decrepit sack of flesh has done without jerking yourselves off about it. You can't let the good thing speak for itself, which alienates others from spreading that information because they dont agree with the unnecessary shit you added on. You're doing the electoral politics equivalent of "reblog this or you're a bad person" additions (which we have all agreed are incredibly annoying) on posts that are otherwise good and have a point.

#cipher talk #A few times I have wanted to reblog such posts but again! Could not with the masturbatory nonsense #And maybe this sounds like bitching but some of you are two degrees from 'anarchists get the wall' with your DERANGED #Conspiracies about us costing you the 2016 election (1- there aren't enough anarchists 2- Hillary won the popular vote) #So when I don't want to associate with shit that's often related to that it's because you REALLY don't like people like me #And a smart anarchist knows when most Americans get like that they start executing anarchists for crimes they didn't commit #You may not directly support that. But you will easily be swayed to make apologia for it as it happens #(Cough look at Cop city and remember that Biden has in fact called anarchists and enviro activists extremists at risk for terrorism)

[orthopoogle]

Surely there are more important and effective things Trump could say to convince people to vote for him besides randomly starting shit with Taylor Swift online.

#he’s campaigning on the energy that he’s entitled to the Presidency #and anyone who doesn’t support him is The Enemy and Part Of The Problem #which is the exact attitude that lost Hillary the election in 2016 #I’m throwing in the towel hopefully 2028 will be better lol

[hamelinsnightmare]

“Hillary gonna Snatch that Presidency so Watch out!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸She’s A GIRL GONE WILD!💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎉🎉🎉” -Madonna

💙 💅 💙 💅 💙 💅 💙 💅 💙

#hillary clinton #madonna #meme #2016 #meme stim #bad stim #anti stim #unsatisfactory #cursed #cursed stim #stimboard #moodboard #my stims #america #usa #flags #lipstick #destruction #among us #twerking #hair #blonde #slime #hands #money #kpop #and no i dont take constructive criticism

[taiwantalk]

#democracy means anyone could win an election #all these articles speculating on the threat of 3rd party are just stupid #of course there’s real possibility of trump getting elected. #the problem is always squarely on the voters and supporters #it’s as simply as people of any demographic willing to float the opposition’s propaganda #and clearly we have a very short memory how trump won 2016 with fakenews on Facebook about how Hillary was sick #trump’s path to victory in 2016 was about Bernie sander being sandbagged by democrats #trump’s path to victory in 2016 is being used again on biden #if any of you remember trump in 2016 was bashing hillary on her health and then spread rumors about pizzagate #and spreading falsehood on hillary killing one of her staff #if you don’t remember any of such fake news well america deserves to have trump elected #taiwantalk

[furryprovocateur]

honestly though if you voted for hillary in 2016 and you're still out here talking about how voting is important and matters then like. i don't have a nice way to put this but the DNC owes you a big hoodie with the word "SUCKER" printed on it because god damn

#for the record i voted for hillary in 2016 and regret it because i only did it as a vote against trump #and i now realize a. the invalidity of voting for one candidate just to spite another and b. that logic did not comfort me from her vilenes #ik it didn't matter in the long run but it is something i do unironically wish i could undo