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Hillary Clinton unloading: (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2 OP
YEP!!!!! BurnDoubt Jul 2 #1
So True and perfectly said, Hillary. 💙 Cha Jul 2 #2
👍👍 true TommieMommy Jul 2 #3
That is what I've been saying when I call. 1WorldHope Jul 2 #4
Billionaires are a crime against humanity angrychair Jul 2 #5
Billionaires have tax accountants and will probably never even know about their cuts. They don't care. It's Vinca Jul 2 #6
Billionaires' Crimes Against Humanity. Cha Jul 2 #7
EAT the RICH. multigraincracker Jul 2 #8
Don't "Eat The Rich". EAT THEIR CHILDREN. DinahMoeHum Jul 2 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2 #9
What flavour pizza do you like? niyad Jul 2 #11
That's right. ShazzieB Jul 2 #23
Good Afternoon, welcome to du. Emile Jul 2 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2 #16
Seriously, what's your favorite pizza? How about one of those TACO pizzas? marble falls Jul 2 #19
Supercilious: Disaffected Jul 2 #18
Big game first, small fry after. Like Willie Sutton said, "that's where the money is." ... marble falls Jul 2 #21
That's our girl. William769 Jul 2 #10
She's starting to sound like Bernie Sanders Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2 #13
No. she sounds like herself. Sanders doesn't speak or write this well JI7 Jul 2 #22
Thank you. Sparkly Jul 2 #26
No, Bernie is starting to sound a bit like Hillary when he blames Republicans for terrible Republican policies betsuni Jul 2 #32
I bet Hillary remembers her husband, an actual president instead of Nixie Jul 3 #44
Is this her way of showing her support to Democratic Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani? MakeThemCry Jul 2 #15
Post removed Post removed Jul 2 #24
Simply deplorable. Nt BootinUp Jul 2 #17
Reminds us that they've never stopped being deplorable Picaro Jul 2 #20
Reminding the fact that stupid gullible magats will never vote for: Justice matters. Jul 2 #29
I will never forgive those who punitively sabotaged her campaign Oopsie Daisy Jul 2 #25
I know what you mean. Sparkly Jul 2 #27
Some even admitted it wasn't about the presidency, but to weaken and damage the Democratic Party betsuni Jul 2 #36
Precisely. Some fantasy of a socialist revolution (variation) for the low-low price of $27 * Oopsie Daisy Jul 3 #42
As long as you know who the targets are AZProgressive Jul 3 #41
No. The saboteurs were busy working long before election day. Oopsie Daisy Jul 3 #43
She always knows. SheltieLover Jul 2 #28
Smartest person in the room Sparkly Jul 2 #30
Always! SheltieLover Jul 2 #31
If they vote for tax cuts The Wizard Jul 2 #33
Truth! Unfortunately! electric_blue68 Jul 2 #34
She would have made an awesome president but red state voter suppression, FBI & russia interference ImNotGod Jul 2 #35
Oh man, YES!! I think she would have been an absolutely stellar President. calimary Jul 3 #37
To get campaign funding that is then mahina Jul 3 #38
ImWithHer oasis Jul 3 #39
They want the poor and the less-rich to STARVE so that they won't VOTE!!!! Jack Valentino Jul 3 #40
Rethuglicans are essentially Calvinists -- OMGWTF Jul 3 #45
Anyone happen to have? Fl_life Jul 3 #46
Word! mahina Jul 3 #47

1WorldHope

(1,452 posts)
4. That is what I've been saying when I call.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:50 PM
Jul 2

Millionaires and billionaires won't even notice the money that they don't have to pay out. They already spent half their time trying to hide the money they do have so they don't have to pay taxes.

angrychair

(10,897 posts)
5. Billionaires are a crime against humanity
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:51 PM
Jul 2

The mire existence of a billionaire is a destabilizing influence on that country.
Billionaires are truly pure evil. They steal the prosperity and potential of others,
be it people or organizations or whole societies.
Anyone defending them is either a billionaire, their thrall or someone that does not actually understand the scope of wealth and its power

Vinca

(52,405 posts)
6. Billionaires have tax accountants and will probably never even know about their cuts. They don't care. It's
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:10 PM
Jul 2

pocket change to them. As Hillary said, they've got more loot than they can spend in many lifetimes.

multigraincracker

(36,000 posts)
8. EAT the RICH.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jul 2

If everyone would put the same sticker on their bumper, they might give it some thought.

DinahMoeHum

(23,083 posts)
12. Don't "Eat The Rich". EAT THEIR CHILDREN.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:30 PM
Jul 2

. . .and grandchildren.

You destroy the generational transfer of ill-gotten wealth that way.

Response to applegrove (Original post)

niyad

(125,311 posts)
11. What flavour pizza do you like?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:25 PM
Jul 2

Last edited Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:46 PM - Edit history (1)

By the way, 90 and 120 million, all of which they earned, is nowhere near a billion. Math counts.

ShazzieB

(21,179 posts)
23. That's right.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:06 PM
Jul 2

1 billion = ONE THOUSAND million. (I just looked it up to be sure I got it right.

I can remember a million bucks was an an almost unimaginable amount of wealth, but times have definitely changed.

Response to Emile (Reply #14)

Disaffected

(5,765 posts)
18. Supercilious:
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:47 PM
Jul 2

/ˌso͞opərˈsilēəs/

adjective

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

marble falls

(67,049 posts)
21. Big game first, small fry after. Like Willie Sutton said, "that's where the money is." ...
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jul 2

... which would you prefer a penny or a dollar? A hundred million or a thousand million?

betsuni

(28,109 posts)
32. No, Bernie is starting to sound a bit like Hillary when he blames Republicans for terrible Republican policies
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:41 PM
Jul 2

and dysfunction in government that only Republicans are responsible for. There is no both sides.

Nixie

(17,754 posts)
44. I bet Hillary remembers her husband, an actual president instead of
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jul 3

podium warrior, actually raised taxes on high income earners. Actually.

MakeThemCry

(11 posts)
15. Is this her way of showing her support to Democratic Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jul 2

If so, nice!

Response to MakeThemCry (Reply #15)

Picaro

(2,114 posts)
20. Reminds us that they've never stopped being deplorable
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jul 2

While I’ve always hated that she used the term to describe Trump’s voters and that this honesty played a part in her loss—she was absolutely right.

They are deplorable and despicable.

Justice matters.

(8,654 posts)
29. Reminding the fact that stupid gullible magats will never vote for:
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:13 PM
Jul 2

1. A woman.

2. A woman of color.

3. Any woman of anything.

Reality shocks.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,183 posts)
25. I will never forgive those who punitively sabotaged her campaign
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:37 PM
Jul 2

Last edited Thu Jul 3, 2025, 08:02 AM - Edit history (1)

... They know who they are, I know who they are, and so do you.

Sparkly

(24,701 posts)
27. I know what you mean.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:48 PM
Jul 2

We all have had to live with it, suffer from it, and I keep hoping, LEARN FROM it!!

betsuni

(28,109 posts)
36. Some even admitted it wasn't about the presidency, but to weaken and damage the Democratic Party
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:03 PM
Jul 2

for the narcissistic phony revolution to come that never came. Their motto: "It's not a lie if you believe it."

Oopsie Daisy

(6,183 posts)
42. Precisely. Some fantasy of a socialist revolution (variation) for the low-low price of $27 *
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 05:19 AM
Jul 3

* has ended up being much more costly and destructive than any of us could have imagined. But... hey... (1-2-3-4!)

You say you want a revolution, well, you know
We all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution, well, you know
We all wanna change the world

But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out?

AZProgressive

(29,699 posts)
41. As long as you know who the targets are
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 03:18 AM
Jul 3

About 12% of Bernie Sanders primary voters voted for Trump but those disproportionately were self described moderates & conservatives. Most of the liberal voters for Sanders silently voted for Sanders in the primary and later silently voted for Hillary Clinton in the general election -- I was one of those 74% (a similar rate of Hillary Clinton voters that voted for Obama in the general election in 2008)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-was-helped-by-the-neverhillary-vote-what-does-that-mean-for-his-chances-now/

Then there are the Obama-Trump voters who made up between 6.7 million and 9.2 million of the 2016 electorate.

Vox

A new study reveals the real reason Obama voters switched to Trump

(snip)

“Clinton suffered her biggest losses in the places where Obama was strongest among white voters. It’s not a simple racism story,” the New York Times’s Nate Cohn wrote on the night of the election. This typically segues into an argument that Trump won by tapping into economic, rather than racial, anxiety — anger about trade and the decline of manufacturing, or the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession.

A new study shows that this response isn’t as powerful as it may seem. The study, from three political scientists from around the country, takes a statistical look at a large sample of Obama-Trump switchers. It finds that these voters tended to score highly on measures of racial hostility and xenophobia — and were not especially likely to be suffering economically.

“White voters with racially conservative or anti-immigrant attitudes switched votes to Trump at a higher rate than those with more liberal views on these issues,” the paper’s authors write. “We find little evidence that economic dislocation and marginality were significantly related to vote switching in 2016.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm

Oopsie Daisy

(6,183 posts)
43. No. The saboteurs were busy working long before election day.
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 05:48 AM
Jul 3

It appears that someone is defending (explaining?) the results, and/or the people who were influenced by the lies and liars. I'm talking about the cause, and the intentionality of it all... the lies and liars themselves... those high-profile individuals who knew what they were doing (for revenge, for punishment, for their own glory and satisfaction) thank you very much. I thought I was being clear. People are free, I realize, to interject irrelevant cut-and-paste essays if that's what floats their boat... I'm confident that my main points will eventually rise above the background noise and clutter.

The Wizard

(13,275 posts)
33. If they vote for tax cuts
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:45 PM
Jul 2

they get "contributions" from the bribing class. Bribery doesn't cost, it pays. Think offshore money laundries.

electric_blue68

(22,450 posts)
34. Truth! Unfortunately!
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:56 PM
Jul 2

Somewhere on a Parallel Earth there's a Mdme President Hillary, and later a
Mdme President Kamala.

ImNotGod

(879 posts)
35. She would have made an awesome president but red state voter suppression, FBI & russia interference
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:00 PM
Jul 2

robbed US.

calimary

(87,116 posts)
37. Oh man, YES!! I think she would have been an absolutely stellar President.
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:07 AM
Jul 3

AND a brilliant first woman president. It would have seriously set back any naysayers’ arguments that women aren’t up to that job. Woulda really screwed their position - with a big fat exclamation point!

We were ROBBED.

Our country was ROBBED.

The world was ROBBED.

Our future was ROBBED and TAMPERED WITH.

We CANNOT give up on that goal, but this certainly was a setback.




DAMMIT.

Jack Valentino

(2,838 posts)
40. They want the poor and the less-rich to STARVE so that they won't VOTE!!!!
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:55 AM
Jul 3

and keep those survivors in the middle so worried about 'not starving' that they have no
time or energy or MONEY to worry about 'politics'--- that's been their strategy since REAGAN took office!

OMGWTF

(4,849 posts)
45. Rethuglicans are essentially Calvinists --
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jul 3

If you're rich and powerful it's because God thinks you are awesome and deserve it.
If you're poor and weak it's because God thinks you suck and should suffer.

Rethuglicans are a$$h0les, all of 'em, Katie!

Fl_life

(7 posts)
46. Anyone happen to have?
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 03:15 PM
Jul 3

The exact bills giving the breaks to these filthy rich?? 900 pages? Too long to trudge thru the muck..

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