Hillary, Radiant.

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106. Wonder if you saw this -

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http://www.shakesville.com/2017/01/i-write-letters.html

The blogger of the above, Melissa McEwan, put it SO well.

More of us voted for her, of course, but there is a reason she is not our president. And it's not just because of Russian interference and James Comey being a colossal wanker. It's also because enough votes for Jill Stein threw key states to Donald Trump, and because millions and millions of people voted for Trump despite his reprehensible platform.

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She did do something, you ungrateful wrecks. She campaigned for 18 months, the last of them against Trump himself, day after exhausting day, keeping up a ruthless schedule that would drive most people half her age to collapse after three weeks, no less a year and a half. She gave up time with her family, her grandchildren; gave up anything resembling free time; gave up her privacy. She made countless sacrifices on behalf of this country in order to prevent this exact outcome.

You took a hard pass, and now you have the unmitigated temerity to want more from her? Fuck you.

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I note with all the mirthless laughter in the universe that one of the incessant criticisms of Hillary Clinton was that she was entitled.

She gave it everything she had already. You don't get to ask for even more.

Gotta say, my sentiments EXACTLY. I think we should cut Hillary some slack.

Dammit, she's been almost literally brutalized for a year and a half. If she wants, or needs, this time to recover from that kind of emotional battery - on a national/world scale, and that level of public persecution - at that level of repetition and obsession, then let her be. Far from the madding crowd, as it were. I think she's MORE THAN earned it. And you know the persecution would amp back up the instant she'd step up to weigh in. Haven't heard much from that Utah pipsqueak, Jason Chaffetz, who up til recently was squawking about all his plans to continue persecuting her. MORE investigations. MORE hearings. Seems as though he's kinda quiet lately. Probably has his hands full, moreso than he expected.

I suspect all these monsters simply presumed that some gold-paved road would be laid out before them once they had it all. That somehow trump was loved-loved-loved. That it was gonna be easy force-feeding all their poisonous plans down our throats because the public was with them. Well, SURPRISE! How many of us here, myself included, have stated flat-out that we've never seen this kind of colossal, epic, even historic protest response, this pushback, this #Resistance before? Well, you know who else has never seen it before? The bad guys. The CONS. That's who. They thought making "Obamacare" disappear would be a walk in the park. Well, SURPRISE! So they're too busy to bother persecuting Hillary, thank goodness. Saving their own necks is more important.

But I digress. I think we should cut Hillary some slack. As MUCH as we can. Come on. Hasn't she earned it? I expect she'll be back when-and-if she believes she can make a difference for the greater good, or some issue/cause really pulls at her, while at the same time NOT becoming a ridiculous, incomprehensible distraction all over again, herself.

If I remember correctly, she just recently earned her 21st "Most Admired Woman in the World" honors. I suspect that few will remember how horrid and corrupt she supposedly was after we've had to stomach trump for awhile. There will come a time when some of those who never had anything good to say about her will start finding themselves biting their tongues. We're already hearing confessionals from voters. I saw one while reading three or four comments to a New York Times op/ed. I think we'll be hearing from her again. And I still think she'll be on our money someday.