what did Hillary say that was so unfortunate...the talking heads today were saying she shouldn't

[CTyankee]

have said.

Can somebody fill me in???

[kennetha]

1. The sky is blue

[czarjak]

2. Something about deplorables being...

Well, deplorable?

[ScubaSteve]

3. Hillary Clinton takes her deplorables argument for another spin

Clinton offered some rather unvarnished remarks in India this weekend that sound a lot like her “deplorables” commentary from September 2016. She played up the states that supported her as more economically advanced than the states that voted for Trump, calling them “dynamic” and “moving forward.” Then she again suggested Trump supporters were motivated by animosity toward women and people of color.

“If you look at the map of the United States, there's all that red in the middle where Trump won,” Clinton said. “I win the coast. I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota — places like that.”

She went on: “But what the map doesn't show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward.”

Then she turned to Trump's voters: “And his whole campaign — 'Make America Great Again' — was looking backward. You know, you didn't like black people getting rights; you don't like women, you know, getting jobs; you don't want to, you know, see that Indian American succeeding more than you are — you know, whatever your problem is, I'm gonna solve it.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/12/hillary-clinton-takes-her-deplorables-argument-for-another-spin/?utm_term=.18822962263b

[yardwork]

9. I agree with what she said. I'm glad she said it.

I grew up in a rural community that has been dying since the 1950s. The dwindling number of inhabitants of that little town stubbornly resist anything that might drag them into modern times. They are anti-intellectual, xenophobic, afraid of cities, terrified of black people, homophobic, etc. They are in economic dire straits due to their own choices and their communities' choices over 70 years. They vote Republican, always.

Fuck em. Seriously. Tired of their whining.

[mercuryblues]

13. That was 2 weeks ago

and they are still trying to malign her with it. I am pretty sure trump has done something since then they could report on.

[LanternWaste]

4. A scandal as odious and weighted as Obama using Dijon mustard.

A scandal as odious and weighted as Obama using Dijon mustard on a hamburger, thus illustrating his deep elitism and true disdain for the very people we should be reaching out to so that we may better embrace and understand the sub-literate demographic of our fellow Americans. Or something like that...

[happy feet]

5. Her Truth

about those who supported her vs. Trump.

[Ninga]

7. I agree. I would add "The" Nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. "Basket of Deplorables" was a blunder.

Only Trump can get away with insulting voters.

She's fairly disciplined, I can believe someone actually vetted that phrase.

[yardwork]

10. The word deplorable is too abstract.

She should have said assholes.

[0rganism]

12. ikr? you need a bucket to hold something as slimy as a Trump-style deplorable

a basket is just gonna leak all over the place, spreading disgust and disappointment everywhere.
gotta have something solid, preferably metal, and properly labeled for biohazard risks

[CTyankee]

14. Jan Palmieri (her former press secretary) said she wouldn't have advised HRC saying that...

so not everyone on her team agreed with what she said.

[MFM008]

8. Was she

Wearing a tan suit??

[Hekate]

16. She was eating a vegetarian hot dog with Grey Poupon mustard

The horror, the horror

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. No Heinz ketchup? I'd vote for her.

No, wait, I DID vote for her. And I'd do it again.

Even if she ate Cornflake-crusted deep fried chicken.

Or ate pizza with a knife and fork.

[NCTraveler]

11. I'm guessing they are having a tan suit moment.

Probably something about the patriarchy. It burns the shit out of them.

[struggle4progress]

15. And don't forget she was sending child pornography to Soros by email

from that pizza parlor in Benghazi!

[gratuitous]

17. Something she said two weeks ago

And it's really weird; if you check the WaPo article posted above in the thread, it appears that Clinton was telling it like it is and pulling no punches. If I recall correctly, that's precisely why all those Trump voters voted for Trump, and the popular media just can't stop themselves from going back to those voters, and hearing them say that Trump tells it like it is and doesn't pull his punches.

When Clinton does the exact same thing, those same media talking chuckleheads just hate, hate, hate it. Since we know the reason can't possibly be sexism, there must be another reason for this baffling double standard.