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iluvtennis

(19,757 posts)
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 07:53 PM Sep 2017

Excellent Twitter thread regarding response to Hillary's book...



2/ Every last thing we're experiencing now was predicted by Hillary during the campaign. And like Cassandra, we refused to believe her.

3/ I shouldn't use the word "we" because I was a member of her coalition. I believed her and I believed in her.

4/ She represented her coalition ably, if not perfectly. She talked about issues that mattered to us. She made sure to express empathy.

5/ For that, she was heckled, harassed, attacked, dismissed, ignored and mocked by the very people who were supposed to inform us.

6/ And every time someone wrote about how unlikeable she was, or how she didn't talk about what really mattered, or how it's her fault...

7/ They were really saying it about our coalition. *We* were unlikeable. *We* didn't really matter. It's *our* fault that Trump won.

8/ This backlash is really about the idea that neither Hillary as a person nor the coalition she represented has any right to public life.

9/ She was supposed to stan for white supremacy and patriarchy. She was supposed to put the priorities of white rural voters above all.

10/ She was supposed to back down when shouted at. She was supposed to mold herself into something likeable.

11/ It goes without saying that white men determine what is likeable. They say it's voters, but they mean white male voters.

12/ And we are seeing the backlash of not placating those who want our silence, our submission, our obeisance in their presence.

13/ Y'all get distracted when a GOP presidential candidate retweets white supremacists, but you can find all the time to harass Hillary.

14/ Trump is out here weaponizing the ICE into the goddamn Gestapo, but you can find time to tell Hillary her voice isn't wanted.

15/ You ignored Cassandra as she begged and pleaded with you to listen, but she carries all the blame for your closed hearts and minds.

16/ And us, those who shared in her warnings and now feel the brunt of the brutality, we're told that we had our shot and we wasted it.

17/ White men can make a president from a treasonous sexual predator who dreams of being a half-wit, and we ask what they want and need.

18/ But POC, women, urban voters who are responsible for 2/3 of the American economy? We should shut up and go home. No one wants us here.

19/ It's very clear that the storytellers of this age are interested in protecting the narrative of white-dominated Americana.

20/ That it's a myth, a cruel one devised to obscure crimes of blood and death that cannot be absolved, is precisely why it's so beloved.

21/ And anything that would puncture that myth, or their gutless, cretinous protection of it, must be assaulted and destroyed.

22/ Hillary is speaking about what it felt to be on the ramming end of that myth. She's speaking *our* truth, the one of her coalition.

23/ She's taking on the very narratives that people are using to shield themselves from their ignorance and poor judgment.

24/ And she's reminding us that likeability is a damn lie. You never would have liked her no matter what she did because she challenged you.

25/ Just as we, the coalition, challenge what priorities should be at the forefront of politics and what America looks and sounds like.

26/ You want us to go away. You want us to internalize her loss as our inferiority. You want our silence, our return to the back.

27/ We will not return. Neither will she. We deserved to win that election; we deserve her Presidency; we deserve *your* silence.

28/ You, who downplayed white supremacists. You, who accepted Trump's lies and stupidity. You, who would accept our debasement.

....continued on Twitter

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Excellent Twitter thread regarding response to Hillary's book... (Original Post) iluvtennis Sep 2017 OP
Yep, the impossible to meet standards for her are staggaring. Lil Missy Sep 2017 #1
K&R MrsCoffee Sep 2017 #2
Wow. So true. bettyellen Sep 2017 #3
Lots of truthtelling there. Couldn't agree more with what she said. LonePirate Sep 2017 #4
+1 MLAA Sep 2017 #5
kick barbtries Sep 2017 #6
Self Censored Response Ccarmona Sep 2017 #7
These tweets and many of the replies are every damn thing JHan Sep 2017 #8
Getting tired of hearing she was the only person who "warned us about Trump" Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2017 #9
This jab at this person only proves her point. murielm99 Sep 2017 #10
There was no such claim of "only." spooky3 Sep 2017 #11
I recall a great deal of mocking of her warnings BainsBane Sep 2017 #14
you still have delusional morons saying "I'm not sure Hillary would have been better than Trump"... JHan Sep 2017 #16
Ditto to that BainsBane Sep 2017 #18
that says more about what their priorities are and how much they care about certain issues/people JI7 Sep 2017 #19
THIS: tblue37 Sep 2017 #12
And those who have been proven wrong time and time again BainsBane Sep 2017 #13
Coulda, woulda, shoulda Kajun Gal Sep 2017 #15
Geebus! Plucketeer Sep 2017 #17
k and r and bookmarking for more leisured reading. niyad Sep 2017 #20
bookmarking this! spicysista Sep 2017 #21

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
6. kick
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 08:45 PM
Sep 2017

i read and shared on twitter yesterday and hope she can publish this elsewhere. needed to be said and she said it well imo

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,272 posts)
9. Getting tired of hearing she was the only person who "warned us about Trump"
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 09:13 PM
Sep 2017

I don't think this twitter person knows what a Cassandra is.

Anyone with half a functioning brain knew trump would be an unmitigated fucking disaster.

spooky3

(34,302 posts)
11. There was no such claim of "only."
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 09:28 PM
Sep 2017

And, re: your last sentence, apparently you are saying that millions of people in the US have less than half a functioning brain.

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
14. I recall a great deal of mocking of her warnings
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 09:59 PM
Sep 2017

Last edited Sun Sep 10, 2017, 11:08 PM - Edit history (2)

By those who pledged not to vote for her. JPR was full of it. Even now we see announcements to protest her book with the caption "Hillary Clinton is worse than Trump."

Of course she wasn't the only one who warned people about Trump. There were editorials by Holocaust survivors talking about how Trump reminded them of Hitler, one in Haaretz that was particularly compelling. But Hillary was the one thing that stood between the US and fascism, and too many chose fascism instead. Whether they did so through overt hatred for non-white-men or a narcissistic refusal to think about anything but their own egos, they chose racist, sexual predation and narcissism. Trump is a president who perfectly reflects their values, their souls.

JHan

(10,173 posts)
16. you still have delusional morons saying "I'm not sure Hillary would have been better than Trump"...
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 10:34 PM
Sep 2017

Idiotic fuckers.

For more emphasis::::::

JI7

(89,174 posts)
19. that says more about what their priorities are and how much they care about certain issues/people
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 11:43 PM
Sep 2017

BainsBane

(53,001 posts)
13. And those who have been proven wrong time and time again
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 09:50 PM
Sep 2017

Only despise Clinton more for being right.

So many polinted, excellent comments in that thread.

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