Clinton tweaks Trump with her own 3 a.m. tweet storm

[TomCADem]

Source: CNET

Instead, on Friday morning she asked, "What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?"

And then, in the wee hours Saturday, her Twitter account offered its take on appropriate late-night topics. It posted this: "It's 3:20am. As good a time as any to tweet about national service."

Another predawn tweet followed: "There are hundreds of thousands more @AmeriCorps applications than spots. Horrible! Let's expand it from 75,000 annual members to 250,000."

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She wasn't done: "Remember, don't believe the haters who describe America as hopeless and broken. We should lift each other up, not tear each other down."

Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-tweets-tweetstorm-3am-miss-universe-alicia-machado/

[Stonepounder]

1. By the time the Election rolls around, Hillary is going to have driven him barking mad!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Just have to make sure his meltdown tweets get screen capped

for posterity 'cause he will delete them and then claim he never tweeted that!

[Kennah]

3. How will we know? (n/t)

[christx30]

4. And losing the election is going to

break his mind. I know I wouldn't want to be near Donald Trump on a good day. But after losing the election? Especially to someone he considers beneath him? Forget about it.
She needs to keep it up. She needs to be without mercy and apology. We needs more stuff like the "deplorables" line. She will never convince them, but there are still undecideds out there. Let the contempt for Trump fly!

[ancianita]

5. Really. Seriously. Why, and what good does it do, for a stateswoman stoop to such a level.

OR is this some misguided campaign subgroup.

Not cool. At all.

[TomCADem]

6. What is wrong with denouncing hate?

I know Trump totally things this is a terrible thing, but I think it is a positive to oppose such hateful rhetoric: "Remember, don't believe the haters who describe America as hopeless and broken. We should lift each other up, not tear each other down."

[ancianita]

7. For US to denounce his hate at 3 a.m. is one thing. For HER to stoop to do the same? NO.

When you entertain Trump tactics and enter into the opponents' reportoire of campaigning, you open us ALL up to the stupid right wing argument that "Both sides do it!" which gives no frustrated, low-participation voter any reason to care to change their non-voting ways and engage in voting.

The Clinton campaign must stop this. WE must not doggedly go along with a Trump campaign tactic!

It is NOT "positive" for the Clinton campaign OR its surrogates to tweet at 3 a.m. -- no matter what the "positive" message is! No!

We are out to win this election by "going high when they go low." Do you remember that advice from Michelle Obama?

I can't believe I have to remind Democratic Underground members about how to distinguish themselves from their shitty opponents.

Good lord.

[6000eliot]

10. Stop taking everything so seriously.

This was just a cute joke at Trump's expense.

[ancianita]

12. Tit-for-tat jokes in a presidential campaign for the third largest country on the planet?

You think this cheap downturn in a presidential campaign is just a cute joke? Politics as entertainment now? "Look! I can tweet at 3 a.m., too!"

"Now they both do it!" is what media will say. Happy now?

People's lives here and around the world depend on sober leadership, and the unserious people had better act like the adult voters who understand the geopolitical world.

To not take cheap presidential politics seriously is an indefensible high school mentality.

Indefensible.

[ancianita]

8. The Clinton campaign hasn't "tweaked" Trump. She has TAKEN HIS BAIT. That's the low road.

Not appropriate for a statewoman or her surrogates to do. AT ALL.

[TomCADem]

11. Advocating the Expansion of Americorps Is The Same As Promoting a Sex Tape?

That is some serious false equivalency. It is not the time of the tweets. It is the subject matter that has everyone riled up. If Trump was simply tweeting about cutting taxes or regulations, standard right wing fare, I am pretty sure there would be little outrage. The issue is the fact that he is doubling down on his mysogynistic attacks. Now, if you think expanding Americorps is the "low road" and equivalent to attacking a woman as "Miss Piggy" and falsely suggesting that she did porn, then I guess we just disagree.

[ancianita]

13. At 3 a.m?? Serious content deserves a serious public forum, not tit-for-tat behavior.

This antic was not presidential.

[ancianita]

9. Clinton's only way out is to reject these tweets as Russian hacks on her campaign account.

That should be her story and we should stick with it.

[MissB]

14. Thank you for your concern