US in middle of constitutional crisis: Hillary Clinton on 'The View'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: ABC News

The United States is in the midst of a constitutional crisis, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton said Monday on "The View."

"That gives me absolutely no satisfaction in saying this, because I think we're at a very dangerous, continuing high-level attack on the legitimacy of our government and the election of our president. Obviously, our former president is not only behind it, he incited it, he encouraged it and he continues to do so," Clinton said in reference to the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Clinton recently said new and often restrictive voting legislation enacted in Republican-led states is "like the frog dropped into the water. It's boiling."

"People are still arguing about stuff that is important, but not as fundamental as whether or not our democracy will be broken and then taken over and minority rule will be what we live under," she added onstage at the Atlantic Festival.

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[Budi]

1. Hillary Clinton on regulation of tech and social media companies: The View. 1min 37sec snippet

Link to tweet

Former Secretary of State HillaryClinton on regulation of tech and social media companies: “I’m hoping... we can come up with appropriate regulations and changes that will rein in this overwhelming power that a company like Facebook has.” https://abcn.ws/3uYnsBW

I want to hear much more from this brilliant woman, Former Secretary of State HillaryClinton

👍💙 To The View

[doc03]

7. She is right but dream on about getting bi-partisan support

to fix it. The Republicans are the beneficiaries of the misinformation.

[Budi]

8. Pity we're in this mess at all.

We had a choice.

[riversedge]

18. Yes. If only.

[AnnetteChaffee]

19. Our loss...

She would have made an outstanding President. and Damn It - she WON the popular vote - the PEOPLE wanted her as President! I'll always remember that day as one of the darkest in my adult life. To see the Presidency handed to a madman in exact opposite of the one-person-one-vote outcome seemed criminal to me. And to look at these insane cult worshipers now stating that the election was stolen from him - it just really boggles the mind. How can such a large number of people be so blind and ignorant to facts?

I'm not getting enough calls and emails from Democrats asking for my help - that is frustrating. They have all three branches right now - for God's sake, USE THE POWER. And begin organizing in every county, city, state. It is time for community organizing.

We are in a race against a force that is evil and well funded, and completely without empathy or ethics. If you are going to fight with pigs, you MUST step in to the mud. It's time for Democrats to get touch and if nothing else - just get out there and find a message of truth and start to blast it out, in unity. Take a lesson from them - they do have one thing they do well, when they have a message, they are coordinated in getting it on every media outlet. This is what got us into this mess. It's time to play their game and we can do it ethically - we just have to Blast The Truth. But it is going to take a coordinated effort on those we elected into power.

The President cannot do it alone.

Annette

[Martin68]

2. Clinton is right, as usual.

[Lonestarblue]

3. She's right, but is anyone in Washington listening?

Madam Speaker has done everything she can to move legislation forward. The Senate has become just one big obstruction for everything we need to protect our democracy.

[hamsterjill]

9. +1000

n/t

[Marthe48]

4. Believe her

n/t

[Champp]

5. HILLARY'S EMAILs SPARK U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

This will be how Fox News, Inc. (R) spins the story to foul the airwaves further.

[ancianita]

6. Aren't we believing the hype about the influence of the 10% who are trumpcult?

I love Hillary, and she's right about the fundamental problem, and she predicted much of what happened with Trump.

But in this post-trump year, no one, and not even Hillary's "frog in the water" image, really explains who is behind the minority and media pushing this narrative about the ending of democracy.

I say it's corporate. Are those dark donors behind the minority party transnational? domestic? Look at the transnational campaign donations like AT&T's, Big Fossil's, Big Pharma's.

Media are pumping up the horse race to fearmonger across the political divide. They amplify, gaslight, but never focus on the structures that both OWN them and also pay Republicans to demolish the majority rule of democratic governance.

Is this about how voters will be shut out? or about the players we can see? or about the more stealth dark money corporate takeover of the minority party? I think Sheldon Whitehouse is right. And Sheldon Whitehouse gets little to no airtime.

My hope for a bold Schumer move:
Add to the Manchin voting rights bill a retroactive clause that blocks recent statehouse changes, and popular vote nullification can be stopped in 2022.

[dlk]

10. As usual, Clinton gets it right, yet pervasive gender bias prevents many from believing her

Our democracy is under an existential threat that too many aren’t taking seriously, or even paying any attention.

[ChazInAz]

13. It's truly frustrating.

There are time I think of her as "Cassandra", whose prophecies were always right...and never believed.

[dlk]

14. Frustrating is an understatement!

[doc03]

11. She said Trump was psychologically unfit to be president, she was sure right about

that.

[NurseJackie]

12. All the wonderful things that could have been. (Fuck you, Susan Sarandon!)

[RobinA]

25. You Give

an awful lot of power to Sarandon.

[NurseJackie]

26. Not just Sarandon. It's she and one other.

You Give
an awful lot of power to Sarandon.

I appreciate the concern. I'll be fine, thanks.

[oasis]

28. Sarandon, "Prof" C. West, Nina Turner, among other so-called Dems. nt

[Pepsidog]

15. Dems may need to fund a mass migration of Dems from solid blue states to

move and live in sparsely populated red states to avoid the tyranny of the electoral college. What else can we do to prevent minority rule for the next 30-40 years? I know Demographics suggests that Dems are making gains in some red states but the fact is that republicans control so many more counties than Dems that we may be doomed to minority rule for a long time. Silly suggestion I know but I am sick and tired of a voter from the Dakotas vote counting substantially more than my vote from a heavily populated blue state. All votes are not equal and that’s wrong

[Tumbulu]

21. It is not a silly suggestion at all, my sister has been advocating this for quite sometime.

Think about how retired democrats could simply rent apartments in rent states and vote there. Not that many people would need to do this either. Maybe 17k in North Dakota? How many would be needed in Wyoming?

I think it is the only way to turn things around.

In fact, what I cannot understand is why this is not being talked about more regularly.

[former9thward]

22. Are you suggesting massive voter fraud?

What do you mean by "simply rent apartments and vote there"?

[Tumbulu]

30. You rent an apartment and move there

Long enough to register to vote and vote.

If you like it, you stay. If you don’t you try another red state/county.

Maybe form little blue oases in red zones. If enough liberals move in, it could be nice. Especially for those of us who are among the very few liberals in rural red areas

How do you get the idea there is anything fraudulent about moving to an area out of your comfort zone?

[Pepsidog]

23. Yes that's my thinking.NJ where I live is losing people retirees to low cost states down south. My

property taxes are $18,000 a year but I raised 4 kids here. In fact, our Governor Murphy is getting slammed because he admitted that NJ is a high tax state and maybe not right for everyone. Retirees, who don’t consume municipal services like a young family does are taking their pensions and leaving for N Carolina, Ga. De. Etc.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Democrats need to find and exploit Constitutional holes as much as Republicans do

Mitch didn't bring up the Garland vote. We didn't know what to do. Maybe a twice-impeached president can't run for office again, are they explicitly allowed to run again? That kind of thing.

[Justice matters.]

17. And Andrew Yang wants to split the Dems voters...

If he succeeds to attract the youth vote with his progressive agenda, how will that turn out?



Where's the Grand-Jury Materials about the TEN counts of Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller probe, DOJ?

[Hekate]

20. One might also say: there's a vast right-wing conspiracy. And they would be right. nt

[CousinIT]

24. According to some DUers here, she and the rest of us are all just exaggerating.

"Oh these people are addicted to doom. Didn't they predict doom when Bush was Selected?"

(it's as if we got here overnight. We didn't. Since 2001 when DU came online we've been doomed and our Republic has been under attack this entire time...all those years led to Trump which led to the death spiral we're in now - but - you know - we're all just hysterical for no reason. Just like last time....)

[lagomorph777]

27. We are in very serious trouble, and there is apparently no way to undo the voter suppression.

Thanks to SineManchin, who will go down in history as the people who enabled the collapse of America.

[myohmy2]

29. she's right, you know...

...maybe if the big-money interests would stop funding the Republican party it would whither on the vine...

...they have too much money and too much power...save our democracy, tax the hell out of 'em ...

...use the money for needed social programs and infrastructure...

...the less money the rich and powerful have, the less they can fuck up and destroy our country...

...we need to do a complete rethink...