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Hillary Clinton unloading: (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2025 OP
YEP!!!!! BurnDoubt Jul 2025 #1
So True and perfectly said, Hillary. 💙 Cha Jul 2025 #2
👍👍 true TommieMommy Jul 2025 #3
That is what I've been saying when I call. 1WorldHope Jul 2025 #4
Billionaires are a crime against humanity angrychair Jul 2025 #5
Billionaires have tax accountants and will probably never even know about their cuts. They don't care. It's Vinca Jul 2025 #6
Billionaires' Crimes Against Humanity. Cha Jul 2025 #7
EAT the RICH. multigraincracker Jul 2025 #8
Don't "Eat The Rich". EAT THEIR CHILDREN. DinahMoeHum Jul 2025 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2025 #9
What flavour pizza do you like? niyad Jul 2025 #11
That's right. ShazzieB Jul 2025 #23
Good Afternoon, welcome to du. Emile Jul 2025 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2025 #16
Seriously, what's your favorite pizza? How about one of those TACO pizzas? marble falls Jul 2025 #19
Supercilious: Disaffected Jul 2025 #18
Big game first, small fry after. Like Willie Sutton said, "that's where the money is." ... marble falls Jul 2025 #21
That's our girl. William769 Jul 2025 #10
She's starting to sound like Bernie Sanders Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2025 #13
No. she sounds like herself. Sanders doesn't speak or write this well JI7 Jul 2025 #22
Thank you. Sparkly Jul 2025 #26
No, Bernie is starting to sound a bit like Hillary when he blames Republicans for terrible Republican policies betsuni Jul 2025 #32
I bet Hillary remembers her husband, an actual president instead of Nixie Jul 2025 #44
Is this her way of showing her support to Democratic Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani? MakeThemCry Jul 2025 #15
Post removed Post removed Jul 2025 #24
Simply deplorable. Nt BootinUp Jul 2025 #17
Reminds us that they've never stopped being deplorable Picaro Jul 2025 #20
Reminding the fact that stupid gullible magats will never vote for: Justice matters. Jul 2025 #29
I will never forgive those who punitively sabotaged her campaign Oopsie Daisy Jul 2025 #25
I know what you mean. Sparkly Jul 2025 #27
Some even admitted it wasn't about the presidency, but to weaken and damage the Democratic Party betsuni Jul 2025 #36
Precisely. Some fantasy of a socialist revolution (variation) for the low-low price of $27 * Oopsie Daisy Jul 2025 #42
As long as you know who the targets are AZProgressive Jul 2025 #41
No. The saboteurs were busy working long before election day. Oopsie Daisy Jul 2025 #43
She always knows. SheltieLover Jul 2025 #28
Smartest person in the room Sparkly Jul 2025 #30
Always! SheltieLover Jul 2025 #31
If they vote for tax cuts The Wizard Jul 2025 #33
Truth! Unfortunately! electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #34
She would have made an awesome president but red state voter suppression, FBI & russia interference ImNotGod Jul 2025 #35
Oh man, YES!! I think she would have been an absolutely stellar President. calimary Jul 2025 #37
To get campaign funding that is then mahina Jul 2025 #38
ImWithHer oasis Jul 2025 #39
They want the poor and the less-rich to STARVE so that they won't VOTE!!!! Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #40
Rethuglicans are essentially Calvinists -- OMGWTF Jul 2025 #45
Anyone happen to have? Fl_life Jul 2025 #46
Word! mahina Jul 2025 #47

1WorldHope

(2,158 posts)
4. That is what I've been saying when I call.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:50 PM
Jul 2025

Millionaires and billionaires won't even notice the money that they don't have to pay out. They already spent half their time trying to hide the money they do have so they don't have to pay taxes.

angrychair

(12,540 posts)
5. Billionaires are a crime against humanity
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:51 PM
Jul 2025

The mire existence of a billionaire is a destabilizing influence on that country.
Billionaires are truly pure evil. They steal the prosperity and potential of others,
be it people or organizations or whole societies.
Anyone defending them is either a billionaire, their thrall or someone that does not actually understand the scope of wealth and its power

Vinca

(54,343 posts)
6. Billionaires have tax accountants and will probably never even know about their cuts. They don't care. It's
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:10 PM
Jul 2025

pocket change to them. As Hillary said, they've got more loot than they can spend in many lifetimes.

multigraincracker

(38,058 posts)
8. EAT the RICH.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jul 2025

If everyone would put the same sticker on their bumper, they might give it some thought.

DinahMoeHum

(23,687 posts)
12. Don't "Eat The Rich". EAT THEIR CHILDREN.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:30 PM
Jul 2025

. . .and grandchildren.

You destroy the generational transfer of ill-gotten wealth that way.

Response to applegrove (Original post)

niyad

(134,050 posts)
11. What flavour pizza do you like?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:25 PM
Jul 2025

Last edited Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:46 PM - Edit history (1)

By the way, 90 and 120 million, all of which they earned, is nowhere near a billion. Math counts.

ShazzieB

(22,883 posts)
23. That's right.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:06 PM
Jul 2025

1 billion = ONE THOUSAND million. (I just looked it up to be sure I got it right.

I can remember a million bucks was an an almost unimaginable amount of wealth, but times have definitely changed.

Response to Emile (Reply #14)

Disaffected

(6,579 posts)
18. Supercilious:
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:47 PM
Jul 2025

/ˌso͞opərˈsilēəs/

adjective

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

marble falls

(72,544 posts)
21. Big game first, small fry after. Like Willie Sutton said, "that's where the money is." ...
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jul 2025

... which would you prefer a penny or a dollar? A hundred million or a thousand million?

betsuni

(29,300 posts)
32. No, Bernie is starting to sound a bit like Hillary when he blames Republicans for terrible Republican policies
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:41 PM
Jul 2025

and dysfunction in government that only Republicans are responsible for. There is no both sides.

Nixie

(18,111 posts)
44. I bet Hillary remembers her husband, an actual president instead of
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jul 2025

podium warrior, actually raised taxes on high income earners. Actually.

MakeThemCry

(39 posts)
15. Is this her way of showing her support to Democratic Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jul 2025

If so, nice!

Response to MakeThemCry (Reply #15)

Picaro

(2,440 posts)
20. Reminds us that they've never stopped being deplorable
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jul 2025

While I’ve always hated that she used the term to describe Trump’s voters and that this honesty played a part in her loss—she was absolutely right.

They are deplorable and despicable.

Justice matters.

(10,090 posts)
29. Reminding the fact that stupid gullible magats will never vote for:
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:13 PM
Jul 2025

1. A woman.

2. A woman of color.

3. Any woman of anything.

Reality shocks.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
25. I will never forgive those who punitively sabotaged her campaign
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:37 PM
Jul 2025

Last edited Thu Jul 3, 2025, 08:02 AM - Edit history (1)

... They know who they are, I know who they are, and so do you.

Sparkly

(24,938 posts)
27. I know what you mean.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:48 PM
Jul 2025

We all have had to live with it, suffer from it, and I keep hoping, LEARN FROM it!!

betsuni

(29,300 posts)
36. Some even admitted it wasn't about the presidency, but to weaken and damage the Democratic Party
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:03 PM
Jul 2025

for the narcissistic phony revolution to come that never came. Their motto: "It's not a lie if you believe it."

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
42. Precisely. Some fantasy of a socialist revolution (variation) for the low-low price of $27 *
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 05:19 AM
Jul 2025

* has ended up being much more costly and destructive than any of us could have imagined. But... hey... (1-2-3-4!)

You say you want a revolution, well, you know
We all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution, well, you know
We all wanna change the world

But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out?

AZProgressive

(29,986 posts)
41. As long as you know who the targets are
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 03:18 AM
Jul 2025

About 12% of Bernie Sanders primary voters voted for Trump but those disproportionately were self described moderates & conservatives. Most of the liberal voters for Sanders silently voted for Sanders in the primary and later silently voted for Hillary Clinton in the general election -- I was one of those 74% (a similar rate of Hillary Clinton voters that voted for Obama in the general election in 2008)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-was-helped-by-the-neverhillary-vote-what-does-that-mean-for-his-chances-now/

Then there are the Obama-Trump voters who made up between 6.7 million and 9.2 million of the 2016 electorate.

Vox

A new study reveals the real reason Obama voters switched to Trump

(snip)

“Clinton suffered her biggest losses in the places where Obama was strongest among white voters. It’s not a simple racism story,” the New York Times’s Nate Cohn wrote on the night of the election. This typically segues into an argument that Trump won by tapping into economic, rather than racial, anxiety — anger about trade and the decline of manufacturing, or the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession.

A new study shows that this response isn’t as powerful as it may seem. The study, from three political scientists from around the country, takes a statistical look at a large sample of Obama-Trump switchers. It finds that these voters tended to score highly on measures of racial hostility and xenophobia — and were not especially likely to be suffering economically.

“White voters with racially conservative or anti-immigrant attitudes switched votes to Trump at a higher rate than those with more liberal views on these issues,” the paper’s authors write. “We find little evidence that economic dislocation and marginality were significantly related to vote switching in 2016.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
43. No. The saboteurs were busy working long before election day.
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 05:48 AM
Jul 2025

It appears that someone is defending (explaining?) the results, and/or the people who were influenced by the lies and liars. I'm talking about the cause, and the intentionality of it all... the lies and liars themselves... those high-profile individuals who knew what they were doing (for revenge, for punishment, for their own glory and satisfaction) thank you very much. I thought I was being clear. People are free, I realize, to interject irrelevant cut-and-paste essays if that's what floats their boat... I'm confident that my main points will eventually rise above the background noise and clutter.

The Wizard

(13,861 posts)
33. If they vote for tax cuts
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:45 PM
Jul 2025

they get "contributions" from the bribing class. Bribery doesn't cost, it pays. Think offshore money laundries.

electric_blue68

(27,348 posts)
34. Truth! Unfortunately!
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:56 PM
Jul 2025

Somewhere on a Parallel Earth there's a Mdme President Hillary, and later a
Mdme President Kamala.

ImNotGod

(1,217 posts)
35. She would have made an awesome president but red state voter suppression, FBI & russia interference
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:00 PM
Jul 2025

robbed US.

calimary

(90,830 posts)
37. Oh man, YES!! I think she would have been an absolutely stellar President.
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:07 AM
Jul 2025

AND a brilliant first woman president. It would have seriously set back any naysayers’ arguments that women aren’t up to that job. Woulda really screwed their position - with a big fat exclamation point!

We were ROBBED.

Our country was ROBBED.

The world was ROBBED.

Our future was ROBBED and TAMPERED WITH.

We CANNOT give up on that goal, but this certainly was a setback.




DAMMIT.

Jack Valentino

(5,252 posts)
40. They want the poor and the less-rich to STARVE so that they won't VOTE!!!!
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:55 AM
Jul 2025

and keep those survivors in the middle so worried about 'not starving' that they have no
time or energy or MONEY to worry about 'politics'--- that's been their strategy since REAGAN took office!

OMGWTF

(5,221 posts)
45. Rethuglicans are essentially Calvinists --
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jul 2025

If you're rich and powerful it's because God thinks you are awesome and deserve it.
If you're poor and weak it's because God thinks you suck and should suffer.

Rethuglicans are a$$h0les, all of 'em, Katie!

Fl_life

(7 posts)
46. Anyone happen to have?
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 03:15 PM
Jul 2025

The exact bills giving the breaks to these filthy rich?? 900 pages? Too long to trudge thru the muck..

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