Hill IS running out the clock
So that's what this "pneumonia thing" is all about! Just read a Chris Cillizza post in today's Washington Post about how Hillary Clinton's sudden (but not too serious, although it is mildly contagious) case of "pneumonia" may have her out of commission for six or more weeks, perhaps through October. What an absolutely convenient way for her to run out the clock and avoid pesky debates and press conferences (yet free her schedule up for fundraisers). Plus, it puts to rest all the rumors about her health. Plus-plus, having pneumonia but paying her respects during the 9/11 memorial ceremony makes her into a brave hero, sacrificing her own needs for the departed. Clever and Clintonesque, no?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/13/it-could-take-...
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Still a bad idea, 'cuz you still feel like crap
Speaking from personal experience with shingles here.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
She's not working at all,
She's not working at all, though, or holding any 'job' at the moment. In this instance, she was attending a ceremony with which she was unable to deal, as she's been unable to deal with actual, unscripted press conferences, actual rallies, actual campaigning as opposed to 1% fundraisers or whatever else. I'm guessing that relaying the various demands of her donors to be enforced by others as President, with Bill as The Officially Appointed Spousal Shadow President, will be less stressful for her than pretending to campaign for a bit here and there and not very often? In fact, I'll bet her insider staff can deal with all of that while she plays the enormously wealthy figurehead from the privacy of her nap-room? If this was a novel or play intended as a farce, it would be hilariously unbelievable - but it's life-or-death reality for the rest of us, waiting for the nukes to drop and the corporations to start freely poisoning us and everything else to death maybe first, maybe not.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Well, she can't deal with the rallies--
because, erm, there ain't much "rally" in her rallies.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Experience without judgement is worthless
And those "ordinary Americans"
Who vote for her, who are older, have a good deal of experience one way or another with pneumonia & know how sick you are and how long it takes to recover.
Terrible PR.
God damn it, she could hire ME and I'd do a better job as a fucking amateur!
Or, well, more like a novice professional, I supposed, since I did successfully run one campaign.
Why Can't Mookie Trope?--21st-century DC version of Why Can't Johnny Read?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I don't think someone can win the presidency by sympathy vote
Please don't let Americans go down that road. But binary choice sucks, too.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
But she's so badass!
And besides, Where's Trump's Records, Huh? Huh??
It confounds.
Hey, crying almost won her
Hey, crying almost won her the sympathy vote last time she tried, right? (Crocodile?) tears (of self-pity?) are so macho and suited to a murdering warhawk.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Hide-Away Hillary
She cannot win by sending her minions and trolls out into the cruel world, campaigning in her place! But her head is in such a bubble, even pre-concussion-dural sinus thrombosis) that she has no common touch. Common cough? Maybe. She was planning to hide-out this campaign, safely in her many room cave but her dirty hands have been forced. She is now, against her own poor judgement been ejected from the cave to appear in public. After the 911 demonstration of frailty, she will be DONE is she does not appear for the debate. Not doing so will be political suicide, even if all she had was "pneumonia"--or was it heat exhaustion?
I just don't see this as a
I just don't see this as a possibility if the goal is to win.
What's an ordinary American?
I thought this site was supposed to not be partisan or pol fan clubs. So instead we turn into a hate The Mad Bomber site? Jeez isn't all of this boring to anyone but me. I knew she was unfit to be pres. or govern years ago and she seems to have doubled down on the bad ass crazy. Wall to wall HRC's is more then I can take. It may not be partisan but it still revolves around the circus that passes for news or politics. The woman is sick in mind body and spirit. No need to go into the gory details of her bodily malfunctions.
It's bad enough that I'm going to watch and listen to her for 4 years unless I become a hermit but I sure don't like having this blog become the alternate universe of dkos without kos or the hillbots. Sorry but if people think this endless internet diagnosis about her repulsive symptoms and cynical medical condition is going to save us all from having either Trump or Hillary they are delusional.
If she drops dead in or out of office how is that going to make any difference at all. They will just bring out another psycho Michael from the barn and wipe the smile off his face. (a boy and his dog) How can you all be worried about what people will think when they come here and read sexist insults or slurs and yet post essay after essay about her phlegm, bladder, brain and weight or even Bush2's hurling.
Is this an issue that's in any way relevant to the 99% or this community? There must be something wrong with me as I do not care anymore about this insane phony election then I care about what hateful shit has been said by who and who has been Hr'ed on dkos or the kossack's on Reddit. I guess like a car wreck rubbernecker I'm guilty too just by reading and commenting.
It falls for me under the category
of "keep your eye on that snake in the room, I think it's venomous."
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Plus we act as a mutual
Plus we act as a mutual support group against the million-dollar (corporate/insider, etc.) Hillary Troll brigade in expressing our outrage and venting a smidge of the stress of watching the corporate theft and destruction of the world of life being enacted because there's just never enough for some people, even those already having more than enough to buy government - they must have everyone else's share of wealth, rights and freedoms as well.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Yes, a mutual support group
Really, until this election (which is an incorrect term for the 2016 circus of psychopaths) has been completed, that any meaningful discussion of issues can occur. Whoever wins the WH will either win true control (if same party wins congress), no control (if party winning WH loses Congress) or a chance at partial control. Only in the third option does there seem to be any occasion for compromise (remember compromise anyone?). Discussing Green Party and Our Revolution (whether pro or con) is about the only productive issue-oriented approach we can take NOW. Until then, it's bread and circuses--do we feed the lions or the Emperor? I know what my choice would be, but I ain't telling.
There are more essays on it & more comments than
I would have expected, so interest on the site probably higher than mine is--but it's not utterly irrelevant.
Just my view--YMMV
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I know! She totally HATES campaigning...
...every time her elbow itches, it will be all "Hey, cancel all that shit!"
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