Hillary Clinton has been arranging charter flights out of Afghanistan for at-risk women, reports say

[kpete]

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

?s=20
https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/hillary-clinton-arranging-charter-flights-211241848.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Thank you Hillary! World class leadership on display.

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]

48. FIRST LADY, SENATOR & SECRETARY OF STATE Hillary R. Clinton IS MY HERO !!!

[Irish_Dem]

50. Yep, she is the real deal.

A leader to be proud of...

PS
I like your tag line.
I am a liberal too! A real one.

[vercetti2021]

2. Trump is and always will be

A worthless asshole along with his followers. All dying for him. They are all fucking worthless.

[Ray Bruns]

15. It's not about him, so you know he could care less.

[dianaredwing]

41. why do we even care?

We dishonor both Clinton's and Biden's name by including him in the same sentence, paragraph, or thought.

[LakeArenal]

46. Yes.

[brer cat]

3. Still working for us.

Thank you, Hillary.

[onetexan]

7. As she & Bill are always, esp'ly through their Clinton Foundation

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]

4. Donald Trump is actually doing something and its called breathing, unfortunately.

[niyad]

5. Of course she is. Thank you, Madam Secretary.

[Budi]

6. K & R

Thank you Hillary ~

"With NO fanfare, Hillary Clinton has been organising flights, for endangered women & kids, out of Afghanistan"

[George II]

8. An amazing woman.

[MustLoveBeagles]

53. +1

[Lonestarblue]

9. I literally feel sick when I think of what might have been.

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]

10. O don't feel sick. I am sick about it. nt

[robbob]

11. Bush vs. Gore would give you a run for your money

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 I’m sure he wouldn’t have gone on vacation with “Bin Laden determined to strike in USA” warnings on his desk.

[BlueMTexpat]

32. The results of those two elections

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]

57. Bush v. Gore was in 2000.

Are you thinking of 1980, maybe?

[BlueMTexpat]

61. Sorry, I made a

typo.

I was indeed thinking of 1980.

Thank for the catch!

[Deminpenn]

31. Things happen for a reason

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]

73. Same here

Hillary would have been a truly great POTUS

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Thank you Hillary Clinton

[IronLionZion]

13. Trump would run into Afghanistan unarmed by himself

and toss rolls of paper towels to the 5000 hardened killers he had released from prison.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

74. How would TFG get there?

Link to tweet

[Botany]

14. "I will die mad."

Link to tweet

[betsuni]

16. +1

[Botany]

18. Russia installed Trump ... end of story

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/

[ElementaryPenguin]

28. THAT'S CORRECT!!!

Thank you!!!

[Botany]

30. I wish Biden would release the full Muller report so all of America could see that Trump was ...

... 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..

[betsuni]

51. +1

[llmart]

59. +1000

I will never forget that he stole the election with the help of the Russians. NEVER.

[radical noodle]

19. Words can't really describe

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]

24. I feel the same way.

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]

29. "And I won't get into what the traditional media did to sink her candidacy ...

[betsuni]

40. +1

[betsuni]

17. K&R

[sarge43]

20. Hand salute, ma'am. Thank you. n/t

[Hekate]

21. Stunning. Kick. Rec. Bookmark.

[orangecrush]

22. God bless her

[malthaussen]

23. Well done. Don't talk, do. n/t

[iemanja]

26. Your source is a single tweet

The news article says she has been trying to charter flights, plural.

[pnwmom]

37. Why did you cut out the rest of that tweet? The seats were on a charter flight

that Hillary's team had arranged.

[Demsrule86]

39. Still feel the need to bash Sec. Clinton...well I would give my left arm to go back in time

and have her win in 2026...the 'the but her email' crowd has much to answer for...namely Trump and thousands of dead Americans.
'

[Niagara]

27. Thank you, Hillary.

[FakeNoose]

33. Erik Prince is doing the same - and charging $6.5K per person

(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]

34. eggscllent. i still say that she wound have made an eggscllent prez.

but nooooo. we got lard lips for four years and the sops lied about her emails and bengazzi. bleh.

[questionseverything]

35. A tweet damning a sitting senator that caucuses with democrats

Therefore giving us the majority and it is posted and Applauded here at du?

[nolabear]

44. He's not the point.

[questionseverything]

47. Then why would the op include a tweet bashing him?

Du seems to purposely run off Bernie voters so they can blame them when democratic candidates lose

[betsuni]

49. What Fisher King is likely referring to is Sanders' interview with Maureen Down last month

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]

55. I tell my kids anyone making under a million bucks a year is a democrat

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]

60. It's great he's going to try.

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]

63. It's one thing to think it won't work

It’s 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]

65. Saying both are "focusing their efforts on white (working class) men" isn't as bad as calling

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]

67. Actually your fisher king says, about Bernie

Go cry about your racist white messiah being called out


Is that what you meant to defend?

[betsuni]

72. Tweet was in the linked article. If you have any questions, maybe you should ask the author.

[Mr.Bill]

36. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner

is banging his head against the wall at not being able to grift anything from this massive government project.

[Beacool]

38. One of the best presidents we never had.

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]

42. I'm having a brain fart here.......

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]

45. Must be that Sarah Sanders freak

Huckabee

[questionseverything]

52. Not according to post 49

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]

62. Thanks, forgot about that no good Sanders.

Lots of discussion here that it is our beloved Bernie Sanders that is mentioned.

[nolabear]

43. She's doing this utterly w/o publicity. That's presidential.

God DAMN tfg.

[MustLoveBeagles]

54. This doesn't surprise me

This is who she is not the carcacture the Wrong-wing made up.

[COL Mustard]

56. Good For Her!

Seriously, good for her. Women's lives will suck from here on.

[meadowlander]

58. Over to you, Space Billionnaires.

[Hekate]

64. KnR again. Hillary just blows me away.

[DFW]

68. This has been her style for a long time. She does NOT toot her own horn.

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.

[DesertRat]

69. K&r

[LetMyPeopleVote]

70. Thank you Hillary Clinton

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Link to tweet

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who previously warned of the “huge consequences” of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan, has now reportedly attempted to charter flights out of the country for the country’s at-risk women.

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 country’s major cities, dramatic scenes saw thousands of people surrounding Kabul airport in an attempt to escape life under the group’s 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 women’s 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]

71. ShesWithThem&ImWithHer

"Do all the good you can in all the ways you can, in all the places you can".

--John Wesley

[betsuni]

75. +1

[ecstatic]

76. She truly is a good person and didn't deserve all the hatred

she got. She's not a self-centered narcissist like many others. Thank you, SOS Hillary Clinton.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

77. Hillary Clinton confirms that she's been chartering planes to help rescue women and children in Afgh

Link to tweet

[betsuni]

78. +1

[Niagara]

79. Thank you for sharing this!