Remember when Hillary said Trump would create a white supremacist resurgence and the pundits tsk tsked her for going off message
Remember when Hillary said Trump was working either for or with the Russian government and the pundits said “both sides have their conspiracy theories.”
Remember when Hillary gave a speech talking about economic concerns unique to women of color and no one outside her dedicated press pool reported on it because Trump tweeted something stupid that day.
Remember when Hillary said Trump presented a threat to the free press that rvialed any third world dictator and pundits yelled at her for not holding more press conferences.
Remember when Hillary gave a big speech about her economic policy and NBC ran a chyron that said “Hillary tries to move past her email troubles.”
Remember when Hillary wasn’t an orange fascist dictator-to-be surrounding herself with white supremacists and yes-men and people said she was no different from Trump
everyone who said “they’re both the same” owes me a personal apology
Remember when Hillary participated in a roundtable discussion of Islamophobia and the Muslim experience in America and the media accused her of courting the Muslim Brotherhood?
Tag: hillary clinton
Just to be clear, Hillary Clinton could straight up die and relay her orders to the oval office every morning via a fuckin ouija board and she’d STILL be a better president than Trump
“Hillary is so good at delivering the good that when she was in the Senate Karl Rove literately sent out a memo forbidding republican senators from talking to her because she kept getting them to support progressive causes.
She’d get to know each individual senator as a person, find some area where they weren’t shitty human beings, and talk them across party lines.
Her partnerships were deemed so successful … that Karl Rove, according to a source close to him, sent word last year to halt Republican cooperation with her—an edict that has been ignored.
As the atmosphere in Washington has deteriorated, Clinton has emerged within the Senate as the unlikeliest of figures: she, not George W. Bush, has turned out to be a uniter, not a divider.
She walks softly but carries the biggest sticks. This is going to be great”
Why I would pull my hair in frustration every time a Bernie voter pointed out that she was friendly with or supported by a bigot or republican. You do realize that Republicans are basically your -coworkers- when you’re in the senate, right?
That leaders of bigoted special interest groups have an impact on our country whether someone meets with them & tries to reel them in or just leaves them to their own hateful devices.
Hillary Clinton would AT LEAST meet up with these people to let them know she had her eye on them, and at most to get them to do the most progressive thing they were capable of.
Produced by Shonda Rhimes and narrated by Morgan Freeman, this short film introduced Hillary tonight before her address on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
If you don’t know her record or history well, please take a look. It’s worth it.
Hillary Spoke About Reproductive Justice In A Truly Intersectional Way
“For too long, issues like these have been dismissed by many as ‘women’s issues’ – as though that somehow makes them less worthy, secondary,” Clinton said. “Well, yes, these are women’s issues. They’re also family issues. They’re economic issues. They’re justice issues. They’re fundamental to our country and our future.”
Then, she noted that reproductive rights are inextricable from other progressive priorities, like raising the minimum wage, passing comprehensive immigration reform and equal pay laws, preventing gun violence and challenging systemic racism.
“All the issues we’re talking about today are connected,” she said. “They intersect. And that’s why I’m grateful to the reproductive justice leaders in this room and across America. Because you know that all those issues go straight to that fundamental question: whether we believe women and families of all races and backgrounds and income levels deserve an equal shot in life.”
Clinton’s speech was a powerful reminder that the concept of “choice” is hollow for low-income people who may not actually have a choice when it comes to terminating their pregnancies because they can’t afford an abortion.
“Let’s repeal laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it nearly impossible for low-income women — disproportionately women of color — to exercise their full reproductive rights,” she said.
People will say she’s pandering or playing the woman card, BUT this is the most feminist and intersectional feminist – speech ever given by a presidential nominee, and the first by a presidential nominee to mention abortion not just once but 16 times in her speech.
Now that she’s the presumptive nominee and secured endorsement from the POTUS and every high ranking democrat, people were now expecting her to pivot back to the center again to appeal to more than just the democratic base – and perhaps she still will – but on this issue of women’s rights, she did not back down but instead doubled down.
And people will argue this is politics of convenience or a soft progressive issue that HRC doesn’t deserve a pat on the back on, BUT let’s not forget republicans were and still are willing to shut down the federal government over women’s reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood, that some key swing states lean more pro-life than pro-choice, but this is a fight she’s willing to take on and one of the big risks she’s taking in this election.
This isn’t simply about identity politics when we say we want a woman in the White House in our lifetime, it’s about finally getting a woman in the White House who have fought for women’s rights her entire life.
Hillary Spoke About Reproductive Justice In A Truly Intersectional Way
Why exactly are the Republicans so obsessed with Hillary Clinton? Is it just the whole powerful woman thing?
That’s a complicated question. Yeah, sexism is a big part of it, but it’s not the whole part. You might want to grab a snack, this is gonna take a bit.
Watch: Bernie Sanders says what we’re all thinking about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
On a related note, earlier in the evening Sanders and Clinton had a heated exchange over gun control.
Too many young women I think are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. They are too often selling themselves short. They too often take criticism personally instead of seriously. You should take criticism seriously because you might learn something, but you can’t let it crush you. You have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward, whatever the personal setbacks and even insults that come your way might be. That takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. Believe me, this is hard-won advice I’m putting forth. It’s not like you wake up and understand this. It’s a process.
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