Hillary Clinton Just Trolled the GOP Debate So Good

[liberal N proud]

In Donald Trump's America, everyone speaks English.

When asked by CNN's Dana Bash during Wednesday night's GOP debate about his criticism of Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail, the Republican front-runner and real estate mogul responded:


We have to have assimilation to have a country. We have to have assimilation. I'm not the first one to say this, Dana. We have had many people over the years for many, many years saying the same thing. This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.

In true troll fashion, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton tweeted some insight.


Hillary Clinton
✔ ‎@HillaryClinton
La libertad incluye el derecho de hablar en cualquier idioma. Eso nos hace fuerte como país y es algo que debemos celebrar—no denigrar.


9:22 PM - 16 Sep 2015

For those who didn't understand her, Clinton said: "Freedom includes the right to speak in any language. That makes us strong as a country, and it is something that we should celebrate—not denigrate."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/hillary-clinton-just-trolled-gop-presidential-candidates

[NewJeffCT]

7. speaking Spanish

would kill the speaker with the mouth breathing Freeper/Tea Party crowd.

[stonecutter357]

2. K&R!

[jaxind]

3. Bush

Someone needs to troll on jeb bush every time he says his brother kept us safe! Excuse me...but 9/11 happened on his brother's watch! More and more people need to say that!

[DetlefK]

4. Wait, is Hillary pandering to rapists and criminals?

[retrowire]

5. see this is why everyone on DU throws the troll insult at each other

because most don't know the difference between a simple counterpoint and actual trolling.

in this example, Hillary had given a crafty counterpoint.

this is not trolling.

to troll is to bully and to harass. neither of which Hillary has done here.

/end rant

[handmade34]

6. ^ n/t

[morningfog]

8. Actually trolling is pretending to be something you are not

in order to get a rise or reaction out of the target. And it is actually "trawling" as in trawling the waters with chub trying to get bites.

See, I think that Trump may actually be trolling the GOP with his run. Of course his ego is so inflated that he may not even understand his role and what he is doing.

[PoliticAverse]

11. You mean like pretending to speak spanish when you don't?

And it is "trolling" not the different "trawling", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_%28fishing%29

[morningfog]

16. Oh, thanks for the correction.

Would that I had spent time on the seas.

[retrowire]

17. you just defined a bully

being something you're not to get a rise out of others? bully = troll

again, I think she was just making a counterpoint.

[morningfog]

18. I agree it was just a counterpoint.

But there is a difference, imo, between a bully and a troll. Trolls are out to get people personally. They just want to blend in and dirupt the discussion and get a rise.

Bullies target people personally and seek to cause emotional distress and harm.

[alfredo]

19. Of course the "persecuted" right would see it as tolling or bullying.

[SonderWoman]

9. K&R!

[mnhtnbb]

10. C'mon, gotta' get your facts straight: Sarah Palin says everyone should speak American

in the US!

What the Republicans don't want is freedom for everyone. They only want freedom
to tell everybody else what to do and how to do it--and make the laws to enforce
doing things their way. That's what freedom means to them.

[PoliticAverse]

12. Give Palin a break she's making an effort to speak American and I occassionally understand her. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

15. Palin speaks goobledegook.

[Enthusiast]

13. Dipshit Republicans.

[Overseas]

14. K&R. Well said.

[Betty Karlson]

20. Mrs. Clinton has a good sense of perspective.

And the humour to match it. I wouldn't call her trolling though: she's standing up for others here.

[liberal N proud]

21. Yeah, I didn't write the headline

[salib]

22. Excellent response.

[jmondine]

23. Assimilation!?

New slogan:

Trump: Resistance is Futile