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MFM008

(19,816 posts)
3. i dont know about laughing
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 02:06 AM
Mar 2017

She knew this was coming
WE knew this was coming.
There's much more to come out .

Maru Kitteh

(28,341 posts)
5. Whatever she may be doing, I wish her well. I feel like we failed her, and in so ourselves.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 02:57 AM
Mar 2017

We underestimated the scope, power and intensity of the racism roiling and boiling amongst our own neighbors, family and friends.

We believed the hot, white hate of misogyny had been driven far enough into the shadows, we believed it was a relic of our grandmothers' time, we trusted that progress and enlightenment had turned the tide.

We overestimated the discernment, intelligence, integrity and propriety of the white American voter.

We should have fought harder, made more calls, knocked on more doors.





Skittles

(153,169 posts)
6. I doubt she finds any of this amusing
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 03:15 AM
Mar 2017

she already knew the fix was in, but no one would listen

it must absolutely sicken her to know the gullibility of so many American voters

 

agenasolva

(87 posts)
7. She is an amazing woman
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 03:43 AM
Mar 2017

It brings me to tears to think how she must feel being cheated out of an election that she was supposed to win

PinkTiger

(2,590 posts)
8. Hillary is fine. The loss is more ours than hers.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 03:55 AM
Mar 2017

She always said she would be fine, whether she won or lost. She wanted to help us, lead us, and help fix us. Now we will never have that.
I'm angry at those who voted for Jill Stein, and those who stayed home and would have voted Democrat, had they gone.
The Trump voters, most of them, they were a lost cause anyway.

calimary

(81,322 posts)
12. Welcome to DU, agenasolva!
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 08:53 AM
Mar 2017

No kidding. I feel the same way most of the time. I feel cheated, too. I wanted those brains in the Oval Office. Brilliant and resilient. Creative and resourceful - willing to get down into the weeds on any issue to understand it fully, all the better for realistic, practical problem-solving. SHIT do we ever need that. Instead, we have a tower of orange turds in there.

I STILL can't believe that fucking pervert is in OUR White House - a puppet installed there by a hostile foreign power. Let's never forget that. I wake up every morning feeling like a hostage. Literally a stranger in a strange land.

DFW

(54,408 posts)
9. I doubt she find Republican immunity from prosecution amusing
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 03:57 AM
Mar 2017

IOKIYAR is not funny if you are NOT a Republican.

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
10. What bothers me most...
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 07:45 AM
Mar 2017

The extreme hypocrisy by the republicans and tRump....To hold Hillary to such an inflated professional standard, submit her to an abusive gauntlet of male dominate harassment via emails hype, Benghazi etc.. all along, practicing treasonous acts against their constituents...

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
13. She certainly deserves to have the "last laugh" ... but I think her heart is breaking.
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 08:56 AM
Mar 2017

Given everything we know about her, she's taking no joy in any of this.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
15. I give HRC credit enough to think that she is not laughing, but extremely concerned for the country
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 12:07 PM
Mar 2017

that she loves. I would bet that she is concerned that years of hard won gains could be blown up -- causing pain for those most vulnerable. Not to mention, the personal. Think of all the years, all the work, all the slings and arrows she exposed herself to to become President - the first woman to become so. I doubt anyone who became the nominee of either party ever gets completely past having come that close - and not winning. I suspect that - even as some speak of 2020 - she likely knows that that dream .. a dream that was close enough she likely could taste it -- is over.

I would bet that there are campaign operatives doing exactly what you suggest. Many of them, maybe even some of those who are most talented, might be doing exactly what you describe. To them, politics, though very serious, is also party a game which they know they excel at. They also know that everything happening now is something they could use to potentially win in the next challenge - in 2017 for a few governor races, 2018 for Congress and the Senate and then the Presidency. Many of them - especially the younger ones - likely know that there will be many races they work on and they could still be a top operative on a Presidential campaign that wins.

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