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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton has been arranging charter flights out of Afghanistan for at-risk women, reports say
With NO fanfare, Hillary Clinton has been organising flights, for endangered women & kids, out of Afghanistan
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-afghanistan-flights-women-b1908161.html
Link to tweet
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https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/hillary-clinton-arranging-charter-flights-211241848.html
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)I hope we can rescue as many women as possible.
The Taliban doesn't deserve to have any women in their country.
The men can bully and control each other.
Trueblue1968
(17,203 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)A leader to be proud of...
PS
I like your tag line.
I am a liberal too! A real one.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)A worthless asshole along with his followers. All dying for him. They are all fucking worthless.
Ray Bruns
(4,092 posts)dianaredwing
(406 posts)We dishonor both Clinton's and Biden's name by including him in the same sentence, paragraph, or thought.
LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)brer cat
(24,555 posts)Thank you, Hillary.
onetexan
(13,035 posts)They don't make a big ado about it but the foundation has done so much good since it was established many years ago after President Clinton was out of office.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)niyad
(113,232 posts)Thank you Hillary ~
"With NO fanfare, Hillary Clinton has been organising flights, for endangered women & kids, out of Afghanistan"
George II
(67,782 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,587 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,963 posts)As president, Hillary would not have ignored the pandemic and we would have hundreds of thousands of people still living. It would also most likely be under control now because she would not have politicized it, and the Trump would not have had three years to turn his stupid followers into people believing they have the right to do anything they want no matter who gets hurt of dies.
Hillary would not have started stupid trade wars, nor would she have damaged trust in the US with our allies. Hillary would not have ordered the release of Taliban terrorists, nor negotiated with them alone for the US withdrawal. With Hillary as president, Afghanistan might still be in the hands of the legitimate government instead of terrorists.
We all have rehashed the reasons why Trump became president, but that election is one that has had the most severe negative consequences of any election I can remember. And the very thought that Trump could run again and be elected through Republican cheating with their new voting laws makes me ill.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)robbob
(3,524 posts)when choosing the worst consequences for an election result. Environmental damage, MORE tax cuts for the wealthy, 9/11 warnings ignored*, and of course the multi trillion dollar money pit that was Afghanistan, which we are only now getting out of. One thing we can be thankful for about TFG, he was too spectacularly incompetent to get a 2nd term.
*could a Gore administration have stopped 9/11? Debatable, but Im sure he wouldnt have gone on vacation with Bin Laden determined to strike in USA warnings on his desk.
BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)literally broke my heart. I will never be the same. Ever.
Two other elections that left me weeping occurred in 1968 and 2000.
The results of the latter two have taken longer to be felt.
ShazzieB
(16,357 posts)Are you thinking of 1980, maybe?
BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)typo.
I was indeed thinking of 1980.
Thank for the catch!
Deminpenn
(15,273 posts)Had Hillary won, it would have been non-stop investigations, negative press and a continuation of the relentless rw attacks of the last 40 years. She would not have been able to govern.
With Trump, while he was awful, the backlash gave us the trifecta of Biden and a Dem House and Senate. This led to the most sweeping progressive agenda since FDR's New Deal.
Think about it.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,086 posts)Hillary would have been a truly great POTUS
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,086 posts)IronLionZion
(45,411 posts)and toss rolls of paper towels to the 5000 hardened killers he had released from prison.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,086 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts)Botany
(70,483 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Thank you!!!
Botany
(70,483 posts)... installed by Russia. Although many Trumpers would see that as being a "good thing."
BTW the Russians were so brazen in their hacking of voter d-bases in Wisconsin they left their
Russian email addresses behind as a big F.U..
I will never forget that he stole the election with the help of the Russians. NEVER.
radical noodle
(8,000 posts)how much I despise those who helped depress the vote for HIllary and encouraged people to vote for Jill Stein. They gave us the disaster that was trump, the current attacks on voting rights, helped destroy the world around us and democracy itself, and gave us a freaking right-wing Supreme Court. And those are only the worst things I can think of at the moment. I will never forgive them. They can look around at this mess and think proudly "I helped do this."
Hillary would have been a great president because she just quietly gets things done without craving the attention that most politicians do.
Moebym
(989 posts)Years later, the dominant emotion I feel when I think about 2016 is not sadness, but the bitterness Angela mentioned.
The right-wing conspiracy that Hillary suspected but which everyone else sneered at turned out to be real, and it helped poison public opinion against her over the years. I hold that the right-wing knew even decades ago how effective of a politician she would be, and feared what she would accomplish in a higher office than First Lady.
Because many people already "didn't trust her" or "just didn't like her" for some reason they couldn't put a finger on, they were easy targets for the lies fed to them on social media ads bought by Russian accounts, some of which (IIRC) encouraged people to vote for Sanders in the primary and Jill Stein or Donald Trump in the general.
And I won't get into what the traditional media did to sink her candidacy because I don't want this comment to be even longer.
Botany
(70,483 posts)betsuni
(25,455 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Hekate
(90,633 posts)orangecrush
(19,512 posts)malthaussen
(17,184 posts)Response to kpete (Original post)
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iemanja
(53,029 posts)The news article says she has been trying to charter flights, plural.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)that Hillary's team had arranged.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)and have her win in 2026...the 'the but her email' crowd has much to answer for...namely Trump and thousands of dead Americans.
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Niagara
(7,595 posts)FakeNoose
(32,620 posts)(DU link) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215781157
Hillary has always had a heart of gold.
Erik Prince is looking for ways to make MORE gold than he already owns.
AllaN01Bear
(18,119 posts)but nooooo. we got lard lips for four years and the sops lied about her emails and bengazzi. bleh.
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)Therefore giving us the majority and it is posted and Applauded here at du?
nolabear
(41,959 posts)questionseverything
(9,646 posts)Du seems to purposely run off Bernie voters so they can blame them when democratic candidates lose
betsuni
(25,455 posts)where he said the "Democratic elite" doesn't fully appreciate the struggles of the white working class, that he intends to "start going out into Trumpland and start talking to people." He's going to Indiana on the 27th and Iowa on the 29th to hold town halls: "Democrats, Independents, and working class Republicans all over the country support our plan to finally invest in the long-neglected needs of working families."
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)Wether they know it or not
. I am glad someone is trying to bring repub voters into our tent but evidently democratic outreach is cause for belittling unless it is towards the black community?
betsuni
(25,455 posts)The problem is that he still thinks white people vote for Republicans because of economic insecurity. Right after the 2016 election he said Trump's win was because Democrats are elites who don't pay enough attention to the white working class:
"It is not good enough to have a liberal elite. I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to where I come from. ... What he [Trump] did is tap into the angst and anger and hurt and pain that millions of working class people are feeling."
"But I think the vast majority of Trump's supporters are people who are in pain, who are struggling economically ... and they turned to Trump because Trump said things that made sense."
Trump's high number of votes in the last election:
"This is a reflection of the Democratic Party. I think if you talk to many of these working class people who voted for Trump, they'll say, 'Look, of course we know he's a liar. We know he's full of shit. But at least he does this, he does that.' Something the Democrats don't do. The Democratic Party is going to have to do an enormous amount of work, really transform itself, and talk about ways to bring working class people on board, and what that means is you've got to represent honestly their interests."
Sanders thinks that if he just explains to white working class Trump voters that they're voting against their economic interest they will stop doing that. Naturally, a lot of people think this is not going to work.
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)Its another thing to belittle him for
Trying
And to lump Bernie, our teammate in with tfg
Is a jerk thing to do
But obviously here at du I am in the minority
betsuni
(25,455 posts)a Democrat evil, as in "lesser of two evils" compared with Trump. In my opinion.
Interview with George Stephanopoulos: "I don't want to see the American people voting for the lesser of two evils."
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)Go cry about your racist white messiah being called out
Is that what you meant to defend?
betsuni
(25,455 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,274 posts)is banging his head against the wall at not being able to grift anything from this massive government project.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)I'll never truly get over the 2016 election. It was the election where Mencken's quote became true.
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
KS Toronado
(17,189 posts)T Fisher King said " Meanwhile, Sanders, Qrump & their stans" Which Sanders is he referring to?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, just came inside after working outside (95 degrees) last 4 hours
and my mind is kinda foggy. Cannot think of which Sanders he's talking about.
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)Huckabee
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)The tweet is bashing independent senator Bernie sanders (who helps give us the majority in the senate)
Because( heaven forbid) he talked about talking to people in repub states
KS Toronado
(17,189 posts)Lots of discussion here that it is our beloved Bernie Sanders that is mentioned.
Response to KS Toronado (Reply #62)
questionseverything This message was self-deleted by its author.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)God DAMN tfg.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,587 posts)This is who she is not the carcacture the Wrong-wing made up.
COL Mustard
(5,896 posts)Seriously, good for her. Women's lives will suck from here on.
meadowlander
(4,394 posts)Hekate
(90,633 posts)DFW
(54,335 posts)She was never comfortable with the "lookit me" style of presidential campaigning (nor was Joe Biden, but that was another time). For years now, she and Howard Dean have been actively recruiting young Democrats to run for positions at the entry level to work their way up to greater things, acquiring the necessary skills along the way. Notice how much has been written about that? Like nothing, or close to it. Why? Because they are not looking for their own names to be in the headlines. They are both in their seventies. They are doing it for US, our children and our grandchildren.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,086 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 26, 2021, 01:28 AM - Edit history (1)
Link to tweet
Ms Clinton and her team have been trying to aid potential Taliban targets in leaving the country, which swiftly fell to the militant group in mid August following the withdrawal of US troops, The New York Times reported.
As the Taliban took over the countrys major cities, dramatic scenes saw thousands of people surrounding Kabul airport in an attempt to escape life under the groups rule.
And as it soon became clear that evacuating people would be a gargantuan task, some private individuals decided to donate money to charter flights out of the country.
Last week, the evacuation options to get womens rights activists out came largely from an informal network of powerful, connected, some very wealthy people, some trying to literally charter private jets to evacuate women thought to be Taliban targets, Marie Clarke, the vice-president of global programmes at Women for Women International, told The Guardian.
oasis
(49,370 posts)"Do all the good you can in all the ways you can, in all the places you can".
--John Wesley
ecstatic
(32,679 posts)she got. She's not a self-centered narcissist like many others. Thank you, SOS Hillary Clinton.