Even in Defeat, Hillary Wins

Submitted by terriertribe on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 7:28am

Yesterday's Counterpunch has a Paul Street article on Hillary''s record of replacing left-leaning democratically elected governments in the Americas.

What is it with Hillary Clinton and the installation of authoritarian right-wing regimes in the Americas? Seven and half years ago, she used her position as Barack Obama’s first Secretary of State to help the right-wing Honduran military and business class overthrow the democratically elected government of Honduras’s then president Manuel Zelaya. Mrs. Clinton did this because she was (and remains) a right-wing neoliberal who naturally opposed Zelaya’s shift to the populist left.

Street includes preventing left-leaning democratically-elected governments in her record, which brings us to the 2016 election. Street argues that she (and her real backers in the Oligarchy) found the threat of Bernie bringing his lefty ideas to the Whte House far worse than the possibility of Trump getting into the office.

Seven years after the Hillary-backed Honduran coup, Mrs. Clinton and the capitalist-imperial U.S. Deep State she has long served helped place the thin-skinned megalomaniac and right-wing quasi-fascist Donald Trump atop the executive branch of the world’s most powerful state.

I think this ignores to some extent her personal lust for power, but the end result was the same: we got to choose between <snark>Hitler and Mussolini</snark>.

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Submitted by ZimInSeattle on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 8:04am

I sent a link to that article to a few friends. It's spot on.

I've been saying for more than a year that DNC/DWS/Wall Street cabal would much rather have Trump than Bernie. He was the only real danger.

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Submitted by duckpin on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 8:05am

Clinton was not kidding when she posed with Kissinger.

Trump has the potential of being our worst president. Clinton had the probability of being our worst president, in my view.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 1:44pm

That business with Madeline Albright was like

…a punch in the stomach. When they appeared together to show who supported Hillary? Her fellow wimmins? For wimmin voters?

Really, I can only do one "She-Monster of the Neocons" at a time.

Submitted by LoneStarMike on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 6:56am

She's downright creepy

Submitted by Sunspots on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 6:32pm

She probably would have been our last president,

given her lust for war with another nuclear power.

Submitted by terriertribe on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 7:15pm

Kissinger

I mentioned this a few weeks ago in another reply, but it bears repeating: I was in Chile on election day, and the people there were watching the results closely. One of my hosts asked "how can people vote for Trump?" I replied that Hillary claimed Kissinger as a friend and mentor. After a pause the gentleman said "maybe Mr. Trump won't be as bad as we think."

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Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 10:14am

Better not plan on an Eternal Flame...

They'll have trouble keeping it lit...

piss on grave sm.jpg

*resized ridiculously large picture

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Submitted by dkmich on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 10:40am

Money must rule.....

I agree that Bernie was enemy #1. If he had won, they might have had to pay taxes and get real jobs.

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 1:29pm

We destroy left wing regimes--and they don't have to be

all that left wing, either--because we don't want to risk that they will succeed and Americans will get ideas that neocons don't want them to get.

Submitted by terriertribe on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 7:18pm

Scandinavia

I'm surprised every morning when I wake up and we haven't started bombing yet.

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Submitted by CB on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 2:11pm

And if we can't destroy them utterly, we keep a boot on their

neck to ensure they cannot rise.

Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 11:19pm

Bring Them To Heel...

That works too...

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Submitted by dervish on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 2:21pm

Her ideology lives on

in the neocon attempts at control of the DNC and other institutions, and her actual political career lives on, in the bizarre trial balloons of her as NYC mayor. I suppose if you're in the influence-peddling business, any sort of influence is better than none.

How many acres of garlic does it take to fend off this threat?

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Submitted by FuturePassed on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 3:48pm

Details matter.

Garlic alone is about as effective as deet on mosquitoes. It helps, but you wouldn't bet your life on it.

You need a stake carved out of hard wood. White oak works well. Live oak is the gold standard. The point of the stake should be hardened over a hot charcoal fire. (For some reason a lot of people neglect this step.) The stake is driven through the heart with a hammer. Do not remove the stake! The head should be entirely severed from the body. The mouth is filled with garlic bulbs. There should be space between the body and the severed head. Some argue that the space between the head and the body should be filled with garlic. Others insist that holy water should be poured on both sides of the incision. (Nothing stops you from doing both.) Sometimes the hands are bound with a rosary, although I think that may be for the benefit of the family. As the coffin is sealed the edges should be moistened with holy water. A crucifix (not just a cross) should be screwed into the lid of the coffin. The body can then be buried in hallowed ground.

It's not for the squeamish. Remember that the creature involved is not alive. It's undead. You are liberating a soul as well as protecting a community.

Submitted by CB on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 4:14pm

Ahhhh. The voice of experience

Submitted by lotlizard on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 4:48pm

There must be a "TEDx Transylvania" talk elucidating this… n/t

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 7:08pm

I did a quick search at Home Depot

…to see if it was sold as a kit — with the hardened stake, holy water, and rosary. (I've got the garlic.) But, alas….

Submitted by Bisbonian on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 8:10pm

Try the Rockler catalog.

I think I saw it in there once.

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Submitted by Writerinres on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 3:02pm

Don't know how DeBlasio feels about this mayor run against him.

Wouldn't it be cute if Hillary and Chelsea ran in concurrent races, Hill for mayor and Chelsea for U.S. Representative? Then Bill could run the Clinton Foundation, while Chelsea shilled in the House and Hill continued her shilling of Wall Street. But, killing both Nita Lowey (who won't give up her seat to another Clinton) and DeBlasio (who semi-supported Hill in 2016) may be a bit complex and definitely bad optics, considering that a lot of bodies turned up in 2016, including Seth Rich. The Hillbots will ignore the messy parts and shill for the women's parts.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 01/07/2017 - 4:10pm

How true can this be? I am constantly told that Hillary

is the world's protector of women and children. And if anyone says it otherwise then they are just being sexist and misogynistic..

The results were not pretty: murderous paramilitary repression of peasants, workers, trade unionists, feminists, and intellectuals; a deepening of mass poverty; assassinations of opposition candidates; expanded corruption and gang violence; “social cleansing” of poor children; a massive flight of unaccompanied minors to Mexico and the U.S. in 2014. The great “Children Advocate Hillary Clinton made sure to encourage the closing of U.S. borders to the thousands of children fleeing the vicious regime she helped impose on Honduras,

She also said that all children should be sent back to their country to send a message to their parents.

We told people about this before the March decree and were called the names above and that we were spreading right wing talking points.
And she isn't a warmonger.
She is both a warmonger and a sociopath because it's obvious from her actions that she doesn't give a shit about women and children.
If she did care about them, she would have spoken out against the Iraqi sanctions her husband placed on Iraq.