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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:16 PM Oct 2021

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

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.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-in-middle-of-constitutional-crisis-hillary-clinton-on-the-view/ar-AAPnN2w?li=BBnb7Kz

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Hillary Clinton on regulation of tech and social media companies: The View. 1min 37sec snippet Budi Oct 2021 #1
She is right but dream on about getting bi-partisan support doc03 Oct 2021 #7
Pity we're in this mess at all. Budi Oct 2021 #8
Yes. If only. riversedge Oct 2021 #18
Our loss... AnnetteChaffee Oct 2021 #19
Clinton is right, as usual. Martin68 Oct 2021 #2
She's right, but is anyone in Washington listening? Lonestarblue Oct 2021 #3
+1000 hamsterjill Oct 2021 #9
Believe her Marthe48 Oct 2021 #4
HILLARY'S EMAILs SPARK U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS Champp Oct 2021 #5
Aren't we believing the hype about the influence of the 10% who are trumpcult? ancianita Oct 2021 #6
As usual, Clinton gets it right, yet pervasive gender bias prevents many from believing her dlk Oct 2021 #10
It's truly frustrating. ChazInAz Oct 2021 #13
Frustrating is an understatement! dlk Oct 2021 #14
She said Trump was psychologically unfit to be president, she was sure right about doc03 Oct 2021 #11
All the wonderful things that could have been. (Fuck you, Susan Sarandon!) NurseJackie Oct 2021 #12
You Give RobinA Oct 2021 #25
Not just Sarandon. It's she and one other. NurseJackie Oct 2021 #26
Sarandon, "Prof" C. West, Nina Turner, among other so-called Dems. nt oasis Oct 2021 #28
Dems may need to fund a mass migration of Dems from solid blue states to Pepsidog Oct 2021 #15
It is not a silly suggestion at all, my sister has been advocating this for quite sometime. Tumbulu Oct 2021 #21
Are you suggesting massive voter fraud? former9thward Oct 2021 #22
You rent an apartment and move there Tumbulu Oct 2021 #30
Yes that's my thinking.NJ where I live is losing people retirees to low cost states down south. My Pepsidog Oct 2021 #23
Democrats need to find and exploit Constitutional holes as much as Republicans do bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #16
And Andrew Yang wants to split the Dems voters... Justice matters. Oct 2021 #17
One might also say: there's a vast right-wing conspiracy. And they would be right. nt Hekate Oct 2021 #20
According to some DUers here, she and the rest of us are all just exaggerating. CousinIT Oct 2021 #24
We are in very serious trouble, and there is apparently no way to undo the voter suppression. lagomorph777 Oct 2021 #27
she's right, you know... myohmy2 Oct 2021 #29
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