that's what is deplorable.

n/t

nt

fact Duke was running an ad in Louisiana asking people to go out and vote for Duke and Trump.

his children knew more about the Klan than we will ever know.

This feigned indignation crap - now the wheels are turning quickly - let's have this discussion - and NO , those of you in the BASKET of DEPLORABLES - there will be no apology - IF THE SHOE FIT'S - WEAR IT!

Thank you Madam Secretary....

the fact that she is female is just too much for them to overcome, regardless of how deplorable they find Trumpenstein and his followers.

trump can be the biggest asshole in the world but this election is really about the people who support him and their hideous belief in white supremacy. They are racists.

... Instead of apologizing Hillary had said:

"Looks like Don the Con can dish it out but not take it"

But then, I'd just be stooping to the worm's own level.

How can you insult American citizens?! But in the same breath they say things like

Trayvon Martin = a deplorable.

The purge begins in January! Clean these anti-American progressive rats out of DC and then get them out of the colleges and universities.

On the contrary, Hillary is the one supported by the "baskets of deplorables" consisting mostly of LGBT and EBT card holders; she wants to keep them dependent on Govt. handouts forever to ensure they keep voting for slimy Democratic candidates like her! She as well as Bill Clinton had insulted the blacks but they keep voting for these crooks: why? Because the DNC cannot find a decent candidate with ethics, integrity and morals!

by insulting us Republicans , Hillary just won the foodstamp vote

2nd metaphor: It was a scab that needed picking.

The gamblers don't seem to think it will have any negative impact on clinton. She is sitting pretty at 75%, just like she has been for the past week or two.

Brings all the David Dukes etc out into the open again. My guess is a stage 2 has already been planned and the appropriate TV ads booked.

Besides Trump, who's entire strategy is to talk and hope the combination of words makes sense, a campaign like Clinton's is filled with people who do nothing but plot out ways to fuck with the opponent. A presidential candidate doesn't just go on stage and start talking. This wasn't a comment that someone overheard her say or meant to never see the light of day, like Romneys 47% comment. It was added to a speech, by people that agonize over every detail of every day of the campaign. Its not a "gaffe" or a "mistake" or "a poor choice of words" it was deliberately said and is likely part of a larger plan.

Clinton and her team aren't just winging it as they go. They almost certainly are up to something. We will just have to see what the next move is.

for diverse supporters and challenging conservatives to examine their positions. And of course the unusual phrase "basket of deplorables" was chosen to be memorable, though appropriate for a woman (women "do" baskets), knowing that it would be quoted again and again out of context.

Her subsequent "regret" statement included the term "deplorable" twice and only "corrected the numbers," i.e., for suggesting a full half were deplorable. Oh, here I go too.

The deplorables think it's Hell.

Team Trump has been attempting to 'pivot' and appear less racist in an attempt to attract white moderate swing voters.

Hillary is kicking the hornets nest, to try to force the deplorables into the open, and force the media to focus on it.

And it wasn't the first time she used the phrase, so clearly intentional.

As someone noted below, the phrase is a feminine phrase, evokes the image of a woman walking with a basket of flowers etc.

This phrase IMO is targeted for moderate suburban white women, who are often the swing vote in presidential elections.

It's about time the racists are called out and put under a spotlight. Bravo Hillary!

the guilty dog (tRumps deplorable supporters) barks first.

Trump gets a pass because the people he insults are not straight white Christian males.

Seems like a theme that has been bubbling under the surface for the last week, especially after the Matt Lauer shitstorm, is that the media treats Clinton far more harshly than Trump. Trump can talk about using a foreign government to spy on his political opponents, killing Clinton, and calling most mexicans rapists and murders and the media just says "meh". Clinton can literally cough during a speech and they treat it like breaking news. Same thing here. Trump can attack anyone who isn't a white male and the media shrugs and walks away. Clinton attacks racist elements in Trumps base and "oh that is so mean. SCANDAL! SCANDAL! EVERYONE ITS A SCANDAL!".

We will see how the dems follow up on this one but it is likely part of something bigger.

Nothing can otherwise explain the level of support for that slime.

Look around next time you go to work or out to dinner or shopping. You'll see a lot of people who are planning to vote for Trump, or considering it. They'll be nicely and respectably dressed and groomed--one of the most reliable clues for guessing someone could be conservative before they open their mouths, smiling and chatting pleasantly with each other, attentive parents or grandparents if children are along, and none of them will have their fingers up their noses.

Hillary was smart to drive a wedge between tRump's base and his leaners.

irredeemable bigots toward OTHERS are good, nicely dressed and behaved people toward THEIR OWN.

That said, whenever I happen to see a Trump rally on TV I'm always checking the crowd for the quiet people who may be getting an interesting lesson in what they are part of...

she should have said this sooner.

She called a lot of people ion my family deplorable. That was indeed wrong even though it is deplorable to me that they have become conservatives when we were raised as progressive liberal social Democrats who considered Nixon a corrupt asshole.

And I'm sorry that they are in your family and mine, too, but they ARE deplorable.

Man, I hope this is the beginning of a turnaround. We need to stay on it.

it was a flap but didn't really hurt him. And this time, the same people have been emboldened. As someone said up thread, time to tell them to go back to their caves. If being politically correct means you can't incite violence and be racist, count me in.

These people DO need to be shut up, shut down, AND shamed back into the closet. A lot of the trouble began when their shitty behavior found support and sustenance, and validation. Trump and Comp have made this shit OKAY!

They got their widdle feewings hurt because somebody finally said what needs to be said about them, and called them WHAT THEY ARE? They'd prefer "basket cases" instead?

Just for starters, that Mexico sends up their criminals and rapists. If I said that as a teacher, I would have been rightly fired.

But his Deplorables cheered him.

That gives his surrogates an opening.

"deplorable" twice as she repeated her charges and only "corrected the numbers," i.e., pretended she should have said "some" instead of "half." I wouldn't be surprised at all if her regret statement was written with the initial statement as it was obviously intended to continue the conversation she started.

My only concern is that all her opponents will push is that she "regretted" it.

They only want to push 2 second sound bites their faithful can comprehend. Their base doesn't do nuance.

Her campaign knows what it's doing. The more her opponents push this, the better.

I sure hope so.

and deliberately, with certain goals to be achieved in mind, most definitely among them to create conversation about more deplorable Trump's supporters.

Maybe it will keep the MSM off those freaking e-mails for a while.

Not holding my breath, but the editorial board of the WaPo, a major email waver, published an article the day after 1/3 of the "commander in chief" forum was devoted to using it to attack her, "The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control. The attention paid to it has far surpassed the boundaries of the facts.

Choke-and-spit-coffee hypocritical, and not exactly a confession before God, but still...the WaPo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hillary-clinton-email-story-is-out-of-control/2016/09/08/692947d0-75fc-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html?utm_term=.d32af71fd78d

I am a borderline HRC supporter. Her comments are correct. Trump has refused to respond for his Birtherism. Seventy percent of repubs agree with the premise. Regardless if they believe it or thought it was cute. FUCK THEM. It is a well deserved punch in the mouth. In case I'm not clear, FUCK THEM. The only way to take them down is to hit them.

I think it's like 2/3.

Quite the double standard Trump has going there.

gently restrained. When you just think of all the others words that would fit, it could even be considered "gracious," as so many critics seem to want from her.

I think her camp was careful to keep her gender correct in any case. Can you imagine Trump accusing her voters of being a basket of deplorables?

I'm an atheist but if I believed in an antichrist.. this is exactly what I would imagine it looking like

..... oh wait.....



To quote the song "The Truth" from "Handsome Boy Modeling School":

"And the truth hurts
Because the truth is all there is.
You can't hide from the truth
Because the truth is all there is."

I plan to use it where ever possible

with quotes of polls that measure just how full the "basket of deplorables" is.

Here's a Forbes article on just that. Clinton's Got Data Supporting That Basket Of Deplorables http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/09/10/clintons-got-data-supporting-that-basket-of-deplorables/#788997633914

doesn’t bother Team Hillary one bit." Boston Globe: "With "Basket of Deplorables" Quip, Clinton Just Made a Meme."

Yes, she did.

Half my many cousins are Republicans and it is deplorable given their roots. But, they are stellar people who love each other and their children. They are not deplorable people, but it is deplorable that pop propaganda culture has converted them into conservative voters.

There is a huge swath of disgusting individuals out there.

but not particularly surprising, is the fact that the main point of her entire statement, which was not really about the deplorables, has been completely missed and is actually an indictment of the recent Democratic Party. As well as being absolutely correct. I'm sorry this part is getting buried, because it is something that can be remedied, while the deplorables are not.

Referring to some Trump supporters, and to their behaviors...that's cool. Broad-brushing voters, not so much.

No matter that she was essentially correct. This was a misstep, but only because it makes her look less than classy.