Hillary gave a speech on Friday in NYC at some LGBT fundraiser where she called Trump voters pretty much every kind of "phobic" she could think of and much to gleeful delight of her audience. However, once the video of her speech went viral, it did not go over so well with pretty much the rest of country. It was even being compared to the campaign-killing "47% of the people who vote for Obama are welfare dependent" statement made by Mitt Romney in September of 2012. Well, let's hear it from her...
You can watch the whole Fox News spin, but let's discuss the crux of her statement:
"I know there are only 60 days left to make our case -- and don't get complacent, don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, well, he's done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people -- now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks -- they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
Yeah, nothing wins votes like better than calling who may not be voting for you "deplorable". But the good news is that the media is taking Hillary's obvious health problems seriously now! Why, just last week, those basket of deplorables were waging a sexist war on Hillary's undisclosed health issues because she had a coughing fit after telling the FBI that the reason she didn't know what classified information looked like was because she had amnesia from a concussion after a fall from fainting for an unknown reason. There is no need to pursue the whole "basket of deplorables" gaffe, because she may really have real health issues, right?
Or this is just one more example of how Hillary Clinton and Co.'s first line of defense is to lie...discuss.
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The deplorable and 47% comments are strikingly similar, but I don't buy into the theory that Hillary staged a collapse to distract people from them.
That would be like distracting a cop from the fact you just rolled through a stop sign by plowing your car into a group of nuns.
Bev....You can't make this stuff up! From the sidebar headlines: "Bill Clinton: Hillary Is Doing Fine, Got Dehydrated After Working Like A Demon"
First - Working like a demon?! She hasn't been around the whole month of August! Second..like a 'demon?' Bad choice of words Bubba.
When I first saw the video, I thought.."She's done." The deplorables remark would just be spun and apologized away and I really don't think anyone outside of Fox would care about it. We know that's how the Left thinks of Trump supporters...heck, about everyone who has NOT drunk the Kool-Aid.
Bot hers and Romney's statements are true as to how each side views the other. The Right thinks they'll never get the votes of people dependent on the government and the Left would just as soon round us up and put us in re-education camps to get us right with social justice.
Man I love politics!! [scsm]
Bob
...I was referring to the video of the collapse BTW....
I agree with Anthony, if this is a distraction, it's a terrible one. The video of Hillary fritzing out is downright disturbing.
Can't you get a basket of deplorables at KFC for $5?
Obviously, I am not a doctor, but I am left to wonder how long Hillary will last if she's collapsing like this. All politics aside, it wouldn't surprise me if she died before the election.
Anthony - Just for the record, I don't really think this is some big switcheroo to cover a huge gaffe. Actually what it does speak to, and what is really hurting Clinton is that she and her team really do use lying as a first line of defense.
They don't really seem to get that saying nothing is much better than lying. They have turned what could may not have been an issue and one that was easily used against the Trumpkins as a "sexist/see how weak that woman is" issue into a full blown DNC/we may have to seriously consider that she is not healthy enough to be President, not Roosevelt/Kennedy "not healthy", but Paul Tsongas serious illness.
All that, I have to admit that Trump has handled her health issues beautifully and one can say even graciously. Wishing her a speedy recovery and hoped to see her back on the campaign trail as soon as possible. He did jump on the "basket of deplorables" thing though. And even at that, he sounded almost like a real candidate for President! He really has turned this on Clinton by going reasonable/gracious on the right issue (her health) and using his bombast to ultimately cause Clinton to match that bombast with such a unforced deplorable error/statement...that his team could use in campaign ads.
Andrew - I don't Hillary has a disease that puts her at death's door. I think she has something more chronic that they don't want the general public to know. Not something like Roosevelt's paralysis or Kennedy's issues -neither had anything to do the ability to think. I think she may have something that is really mentally debilitating. That concussion that caused amnesia could also be causing seizures/fainting and chronic loss of memory. But I'm no doctor...I just played one as a chi...wait, nevermind.
Patriot - when I watched that video, my very first thought was not fainting, but seizure.
Bev, I'm not a doctor either, but this looks to me like her body is failing. It looks to me like the pretty advanced stages of something where her nerves or brain are losing control. I would suggest Parkisons, except that she doesn't seem to shake. That's what makes me think this will kill her suddenly and soon, because it's not coming on slowly, it's expanding rapidly.
Andrew - I don't think it has "come on suddenly". It may very well be the reason why she hasn't allowed the MSM around or allowed herself to be interviewed under oath and taped by the FBI just in case something happened.
Just last week, she allowed her press gaggle to travel on the same plane. And she hasn't done an unscripted press conference in over 383 days (not counting the one with Matt Lauer). Except for those back of the plane "Howdy"'s with coughing fits...
Bev, I mean "suddenly" more in this sense: The people I've known with Parkinsons or Alzheimers have started with smaller, yet visible symptoms -- shaking, change in attitudes (anger, frustration), and growing mental absence. This gets worse little by little until it debilitates them. You see it getting worse and you can almost tell when the next phase will come and when it will all be over.
I don't see that here. What it looks like to me (again, untrained non-medical eye) is like she's experiencing seizures and periodic total nervous system failures. It's like her brain suddenly shorts out.
Even worse, it seems to have gotten worse fast. It's gone from just a twitch and reports of dizziness to total collapse in seemingly less than a year. At the same time though, she's normal when it isn't happening.
When I look at all of that, I would worry that this means something is broken in her brain (not disease, but injury) and it's getting to a critical point because it now affects her whole nervous system and it can put her in shutdown mode. It's not just a spasm anymore. So when I say, "sudden," I mean that this isn't an advancing injury, it's a nuisance that in the past few months has jumped to the phase of being a danger. And I suspect that we will wake up one day to hear that she died in her sleep from a massive heart attack or brain hemorrhage.
Hmmm, about the DNC floating the possibility of Hillary dropping out (yeah, right) Guess who has become very active in social media in the last few days...Joe Biden!
>>And I suspect that we will wake up one day to hear that she died in her sleep from a massive heart attack or brain hemorrhage.>>
I think you mean "massive heart attach" or "brain hemorrhage." Those conditions wouldn't kill Hillary 'cause Clintons kill that which deigns to thwart them.
I guess she'll have me deplorted if she wins..
"Deplorted"...nice!
Honestly, I think Trump and Hillary are two utterly deplorable candidates.
Critch, can I use that one? LOL
Bev, Honestly, I have to say that Trump is impressing me at the moment. His toned down the stupid, improved his zingers, tamed his worst instincts, and is now coming across as presidential and full of ideas. It's been a dramatic shift away from his winging it.
His latest day care thing is genius. (1) target working women, (2) lead with his super well-liked daughter, and (3) be gracious to Hillary as he unleashes the new plan. Very nicely done.
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