Prescience

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/Ivegotabadname]

SHE WAS RIGHT

Stop awarding me. Go vote.

Edit 2: I don't know what these awards are or for. Don't care. Did you vote?

Edit 3: one question challenge. Respond to everyone "vote"

Edit 4: I wanna see stickers!

[u/RideTheGradient → u/Ivegotabadname]

Voted and awarded, deal with it haha

[u/RideTheGradient → u/RideTheGradient]

No now theyre awarding me!!! Go vote, seriously!

[u/Ivegotabadname → u/RideTheGradient]

If yall aren't voting I'm gonna be pissed. Seriously angry

[u/Ivegotabadname → u/RideTheGradient]

Make sure others vote then. Do your part vote!

[u/Alternative-Web-3545 → u/Ivegotabadname]

Yep. From the start

[u/foo_mar_t → u/Ivegotabadname]

I voted today, in my municipal elections, in Canada. Does that count?

[u/No_Grapefruit5640 → u/Ivegotabadname]

Ballot’s filled out, early voting opens here on Tuesday. So take my upvote.

[u/Ivegotabadname → u/No_Grapefruit5640]

Voting friend! Good on you!

[u/GoddessHealer → u/Ivegotabadname]

[u/Ivegotabadname → u/GoddessHealer]

Beautiful

[u/Positronic_Matrix → u/Ivegotabadname]

Zoomers, you best show up this time.

[u/Ivegotabadname → u/Ivegotabadname]

Make sure everyone you know votes!

[u/Ivegotabadname → u/Ivegotabadname]

Make sure everyone you know votes!

[u/WhompBiscuits]

It wasn't politically smart to say that during her campaign IMO, I think even Bill allegedly said something to her about it, but she was nevertheless dead-nuts correct. Only thing I quibble with her over is the percentages.

[u/Alternative-Web-3545 → u/WhompBiscuits]

The things the other party uttered was far more disturbing and despicable imho. But that didn’t get really noticed for some stupid reason

[u/Ol_Turd_Fergy → u/Alternative-Web-3545]

“Basket of deplorables” is apparently worse than “grab them by the p*ssy”

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Ol_Turd_Fergy]

and worse than "Killary" and "Lock Her Up" and mocking the notion of it being a woman's turn (after 2+ centuries of men leading the country), somehow.

[u/SpockShotFirst → u/Alternative-Web-3545]

Because tho only job of the oligarch controlled media is "Manufacturing Consent."  

We need to reverse Bellotti (the 5-4 Supreme Court case from 1978 that led directly to Citizens United) and criminalize election interference by for-profit corporations (maybe with an exception for employee-journalist owned news outlets).

[u/bewitch1n → u/Alternative-Web-3545]

The stupid reason being selfishness and probably also stupidity of people within that party. 🫠

[u/npsimons → u/WhompBiscuits]

So many of us found her relatable. For every 100 people that called her "elitist", there were at least a handful of us that watched her, the educated, sharp as a razor political operative, being stuck in the same hell we were, only broadcast on live TV.

And I'm not even a woman. It's only because of empathy that I have the barest inkling of this being the lived daily experience of pretty much every intelligent woman in the USA.

But then we have had this archetype since the tale of Cassandra.

[u/bewitch1n → u/WhompBiscuits]

Idk if the pedophile party needs their hands held through their pedophilia that feels pretty silly to give into.

[u/Coneskater → u/WhompBiscuits]

The sentiment and the statement was correct and the issue was that no one ever listened to the whole quote:

“
But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

[u/FFBEryoshi → u/WhompBiscuits]

It can be painful to hear the truth, especially when the truth directly destroys someones self perception.

[u/Imaginary-List-972 → u/WhompBiscuits]

I never buy that reasoning. She was talking about Maga, Trump supporters. They're voting for Trump no matter what. "I'm a Maga Trump supporter, but I was going to vote for Hlllary until she said that". And she said that about the racist/sexist/homophobic section of Trump supporters. So "She said racism is bad, so I'm not voting for her". So you gotta act like you're for racism to get the racist vote and act like you are against racism to get the non racist vote. I always love that she said SOME trump supporters are racist and we call them deplorables, and they said "Hey she just called me deplorable". But again I don't buy "they were racist trump supporters but they would have voted for her until she said that about them". If so, why don't we now get "Trump called them Dumbocrats, they would have voted for his maga candidates until he called Dems dumb".

[u/WhompBiscuits → u/Imaginary-List-972]

Yep. Because if you were Maga then and heard what she said and immediately identified with the latter part of what she said, then you're guilty of it.

And it's not like she didn't know what she was talking about. Although she is originally from the Chicago area, she lived in Arkansas for a large portion of her adult life. She saw more than enough.

[u/ManufacturedOlympus → u/WhompBiscuits]

The facts over feelings crowd got really upset over this. 

[u/AskPizza]

She knew because they had been turning their ire at her all her career, ever since she suggested universal single payer healthcare until Bill Clinton, which never got implemented.

But the far right lost their shit and invented lies about her ad infinitum ever since.

Because she wanted people to not die from treatable ailments nor go bankrupt, and all it would have cost was people like Elon musk a few fewer billions than he has, which are already too many billions to ever need.

She knew because they went after her before they went after the rest of us.

But she was never wrong about them. She was right to call them out, but not enough of us had her back on that.

[u/kobrakai1034 → u/AskPizza]

She worked on Nixon’s impeachment for Watergate so it goes waaaay back

[u/USSMarauder → u/AskPizza]

over 30 years of the right saying that she'll be arrested for murder any day now

still nothing...

[u/Temporary_Heron6944 → u/AskPizza]

Thank you!! I’ve been saying this for years and people think I’m crazy. Hillary is brilliant and would have made an incredible president. The right and the rich have been smearing her forever.

[u/Select-Government-69 → u/AskPizza]

She underestimated how many deplorable there are. We cannot wish them away. And if, for some reason, the deplorable made up 51% of society then the rest of us are mere trespassers in a world defined by the deplorable.

[u/PepperNormal]

She was right about everything that's why they vilified her so much, they feared her, so they had to destroy her.

[u/Mach5Driver → u/PepperNormal]

They had her pre-demonized by the time she ran, so it was easy for them when the time came.

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/PepperNormal]

Kamala too.

[u/successfullynumb]

Nest of Nazis, rack of rascists, flock of fascists

[u/JoltyKorit → u/successfullynumb]

Pod of pedos.

[u/BoulevardNoir10]

Let's be clear. Two million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than the monstrous rapist felon violent insurrectionist. She was right about everything. The national media was enthralled by the rapist felon. While Hillary Clinton was giving important campaign speeches in 2016, CNN was filming an empty stage of his campaign podium.

[u/Original-Rush139 → u/BoulevardNoir10]

Let’s not forget Jim Comey playing political pundit. 

[u/chinmakes5]

10 years ago, people were appalled to hear they might be in a basket of deplorables. Today, their leader regularly says things like Dumocrats and they cheer.

[u/No_Grand7184]

Hillary warned us and so many blew it off as the ravings of a “hormonal woman”. Now we have a dictator that is going through terminal “Manopause”

[u/mrflash818]

[u/Odd-Neighborhood4214 → u/mrflash818]

I have already voted and I voted BLUE and if there was a Republican running for a seat by himself I didn’t even vote for them and 2 of them I knew and I had told them that I was not voting for them

[u/dawa43]

And at the time I thought she was crazy for saying this out loud... Now it is obviously so true and not even a harsh statement.

[u/SnooMacaroons4212]

Hillary was right, about everything.

[u/goofbot]

She said "half".

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Gang of Pedophiles

[u/LoraxDog]

She just “told it like it is”…

[u/movezig123]

She should have leaned i to it, we had no idea how evil and stupid they really are, Republican voters are beyond redemption. Its not a difference of opinion.

[u/MrMrDJB]

More like bathroom plastic trashcan bag (reused from a grocery store bag) full of used toilet paper after eating bad Mexican food.

[u/Citizen_Rat]

I always considered that was a euphemism for 'bucket of shit', but I'm an Australian and we tend to swear a lot.

[u/JustoTJ]

The media treated Hillary as if she had killed somebody! She simply pointed out that Trump’s base was filled with extremely cruel and bigoted people! Nothing she said was wrong, conservatives have been able to manipulate the masses with the idea that they are benevolent and the people on the other side are the unholy heathens! When in reality it’s the exact opposite! That’s why they use terminology like “real America” and “God’s country” when referring to their base! Those are just pretty words that mean absolutely nothing!

[u/Ok_Pop_3285]

Yuh and 40% of americans didnt vote for her bc of her shrill laugh in 2016. You gonna fuck us up more ? USE YOUR GOD GIVEN BRAINS!!

[u/Kaliking247 → u/Ok_Pop_3285]

No there was a bunch of people still mad about Benghazi. Also at the time there was a lot of talk about what was going on behind the scenes and why everyone near the Clinton's were just randomly dying. Let's also not forget that Bernie was the more favorable option for most people and then she and the entire democrat part cut him off at the knees and forced him out.

[u/Original-Rush139 → u/Kaliking247]

 forced him out  

… of a party he’s not in. 

[u/VintageK-Po]

Also turns out the deplorables are the biggest snowflakes of all.

[u/Puck68]

She was objectively, absolutely correct about so much… damn near everything, in fact.

[u/KazeNilrem → u/Puck68]

For better or worse, she is a politician. Which also riles people up for sure, and she made some dumb mistakes (like thinking PA was a sure win and not focusing there as much). But she was 100% right about a lot of things, especially trump.

[u/dealingwithhookers]

she wasn't wrong, it was just that she was an oligarch who is literally in kahoots with the very machine that she is speaking up against.

[u/Kat_Schrodinger1]

Look, I'm not saying Hillary or Kamala were perfect. I'm just saying things would have been better if they had won.

[u/Longjumping-Fan-989]

Sucks that supposedly more than half of America is into pedophilia

[u/RideTheGradient]

Hillary was right about everything, go back and watch her debates with trump. Its insane how she predicted the future and tried to warn us off him

[u/Old_Protection_8778]

I think she mispoke and meant a basket so big its hard to its hard to imagine the size of it

[u/meplad]

Caldrun of Corruption

[u/Outlaw31120]

I’d say it’s more like 3 C-5 loads of deplorables “working” in the Trump administration. Not in the country, just in his administration.

[u/dumbboyhappydude44]

Most of us knew she was spot on

[u/Reasonable_Menu_7701]

Everyone knew it. She was the one brave enough to call it out publicly.

[u/Dry-Olive4621]

Trump is what you get when youre the side that supposedly has their shit together and yet you get nothing positive done to keep power and you greenlight truly crazy shit when its your turn to make positive change. 

[u/Short_Ad8080]

Deplorable example: Paxton in Texas.

[u/Head_Professor_2577]

Didn’t they rip off Haiti?

[u/Zestyclose_Lake_1146]

I’d have liked her as president, because she’d have been awful in the way that all presidents are. Not the kind that makes me long for the void

[u/icnoevil]

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the US public. Mark Twain.

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[u/Emotional_Brain3219]

I know I'm getting downvoted for this

Why are we pathetically nostalgic for the single most damaging campaign to the DNC ever, even more than 2024? They had to back pivot to Biden to barely take the presidency back. Its this groveling for a "we didn't win this one but we should of" past that really brings home how screwed we are. You guys do realize this popularized party in-fighting to the point that people had to say vote blue no matter who to essentially beg people to vote them in? This is not how people win political campaigns. Republicans do not have this problem, and they vote in lockstep....even considering how bad is Trump is polling. In the end this is just a picture of a war criminal you're using to karma farm op

[u/Fragrant-Concert2848]

THATS FOR SURE

[u/Revolutionary-Oil996]

[u/Any_Strain1288]

The way the people look that he surrounds himself with it's more like a basket of horribly mutated aliens.

[u/Original-Rush139]

  I know there are only 60 days left to make our case – and don't get complacent; don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, "Well, he's done this time". We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the  basket of deplorables.  (Laughter/applause) Right?  (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic   –  you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people   –  now have 11  million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks   –  they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America. But the "other" basket   –  the other basket   –  and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and   –  as well as, you know, New York and California   –  but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

— Hillary Clinton

[u/yadaredyadadit]

She and her husband are no different. Find a third party to vote... go socialist or libertarian. Anything but Repubs or Dems

[u/jacobe7]

Cesspool of racist pedophiles?

[u/locomocotive]

And most of the stuff Harris said during her debate with Trump came true as well. This is hilarious.

[u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek]

It was obvious at the time. The real issue was giving ground to those people when they cried about it. Toughen up left. Maga voters don't matter, anyone in the cult is a lost cause.

[u/RevolutionaryRow2960]

Tangent: Clinton may have ran a lacking campaign for the Democratic nomination against Obama and the other candidates (maybe her team arrogantly believed that Clinton winning the nomination was set in stone), and Obama (while being an underdog candidate) had everything else going for him (a young, handsome, and charismatic black senator with no political baggage, who was also a great public speaker), but I feel like sexism played a huge role (media coverage really nitpicked on Clinton that they didn’t against Obama)

Too bad we didn’t get the “16-Year Democratic Ideal” (Clinton in her prime followed by a more experienced, popular Obama)

Maybe 24 years if Gore’s victory had not been stolen

[u/Honest-University476]

I wish she was running. :(

[u/Just_lookin_4242]

Anyone who pretends the one badass thing Hilary said during her campaign is the reason she lost is the exact problem in society. Trump supporters have been subhuman detestable animals for over a decade. Fuck them and fuck anyone who condemns harsh statements towards republicans. They knew what they voted for they aren’t noble savages and they deserve hate and vitriol until they die.

[u/longjumpnudiesuit]

Disgusting, no-good, racist, misogynistic losers
Deplorable saves time

[u/longjumpnudiesuit]

We all knew she was right, if you just figured it out, please stop publicly commenting. You have failed the test and are only embarrassing yourself and others.
Idiot.

[u/Chratthew47150]

Hillary was right. About everything.

[u/Active-Tutor8496]

That’s damn right!!

[u/clarelucy]

Intelligent observant people knew she was right at the time.

[u/1111joey1111]

I'm not really a fan of Hillary. But, she was absolutely right about the DEPLORABLES.

I also like the fact that she tried to introduce nationalized healthcare during Bill Clinton's term. Sad that they backed down.

[u/Serious_Nectarine_23]

Yes. She was right. I would still today vote for Trump if she and he were running. That is saying a lot.

[u/pdx80]

Hillary was right about absolutely everything!

[u/Str-Engr0275]

She was just a deeply unlikable candidate that used connections rather than appealing to voters to get her nomination. It’s no surprise she lost.

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/Str-Engr0275]

It absolutely was a surprise. It seemed incredibly unlikely that the guy from The Apprentice who won't stop tweeting about Obama's birth certificate would become PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

[u/SlowlyDrown → u/Str-Engr0275]

But Trump was the likeable one.

A guy that just a walking personification of the seven deadly sins, who puts on clown makeup everyday, shits his pants, rapes women and children, treats everyone like shit all the time, and has an IQ of like 85 tops.

That’s the likeable one. To the deplorables.

[u/HeadGuy-RedEyeJedi → u/Str-Engr0275]

It was less how unpopular she was and more how popular her opponent was among white supremacists and the poorly educated. People giving out an important job based not on merit but feels is exactly why america is cooked.

[u/DaKingaDaNorth → u/Str-Engr0275]

People need to pump the breaks on internet narratives. She was one of the most famous politicians in the country and a good chunk of Democrats had very fond memories of the Clinton era and wanted her.

In 2008 she ran a primary vs Obama and she lost 48.1% to 48.0%. and had only 50k less votes countrywide than him. She got nearly 17 million votes in the 2016 primary and crossed 55%.

This idea that she wasn't a heavy favorite and someone the majority of Democrats liked at the time is just revisionist. Bernie moved the overton window and now Clinton and Obama style politics are out of vogue (which ultimately hurt Biden's admin as well), but she was popular and a favorite and most Dems were afraid to run against her in that primary. Bernie didn't even want to run against her. He was lobbying Warren to.

[u/NeverHere762]

Personally, I won't be listening to a woman who couldn't be reached during the Benghazi attack and conducted official State Department business from her personal email address.

[u/TheGrayGhost805]

Secretary Clinton was being polite.
MAGAts are far worse than deplorable. They are raw sewage life forms.

[u/etork90]

Should have said “Basket of deplorable pedophilic Nazis”

[u/Magnum-PI-reruns]

She’s an arrogant bitch.

[u/kingdumbest]

Are we going to over look that we had to vote for someone who went to the island vs someone married to someone who went to the island?

[u/Gloomy-Classroom4497]

Gee. I wish i could be like those great liberals and not be a deplorable.

[u/2013orBust → u/Gloomy-Classroom4497]

At the time, I thought she was wrong. Boy did y’all show us.

[u/getthehelloffmylawn → u/Gloomy-Classroom4497]

You guys just wanted free pizza in the basement. it was never about the kids

[u/chickenpattputz]

It cost her the election

[u/thomasrat1 → u/chickenpattputz]

Honestly she was a bad candidate to run. She had decades of smear campaigns against her.

[u/Acrobatic-Yam6882 → u/thomasrat1]

Half right. Should have stopped at "...run." She has a habit of insulting people, even her own husband. Bob Woodward even mentioned it in his book about Bill Clinton's first administration. She went behind his (Bill's) back to the press/media criticizing his lack of leadership skills. Called him "the mechanic-in-chief." His own partner.

[u/chickenpattputz → u/thomasrat1]

I think most people didn’t trust her. But they really had no backup candidate in mind. Except Bernie but he was a socialist parasite.

[u/Gullible_Ingenuity_ → u/chickenpattputz]

I guess some people never learn

[u/Acrobatic-Yam6882 → u/chickenpattputz]

Wow, insulting a broad swath of voters doesn't inspire people to your cause? Wait, it DOES energize the wacko Repubs. Hence the defeat. Brilliant!

[u/jfkrfk123]

[u/manniesalado]

Depraved more like it.

[u/psycho_not_training]

I think any faction that only votes one way is a basket is deplorable. Vote for the person. Democrats are no better than republicans. Trump republicanism is exceptionally bad though. It’s like all the worst republicans got his ear. The Thomas Massies got replaced instead. Sad.

[u/ReservePutrid9668]

Cornucopia of corruption

[u/GodKingofNothing]

And yet it was a politically terrible move

[u/Loud-Hat-175]

And Epstein island bill isn’t?!?!

[u/PA2SK]

I think this was one of the turning points where the left started to truly lose the working class because Hillary was saying openly what a lot of democrats believe. It's not just that they think they're right and the other side is wrong, it's that they think they are morally superior to the other side and that gives them license to insult, demean and denigrate anyone who disagrees with them even a little bit.

[u/Zealousideal-Win5576]

She sure got that vote

[u/sirjohnmasters86]

😂😂😂

[u/Candid-Difference-98]

Two things…
FIRST If the left could offer a viable candidate it would help.
SECOND. Not all of the right supports what .Trump is doing we as a COUNTRY were sold a bill of goods.

[u/frankspliff]

You would think the super smart progressives would have shown up in droves to cast their vote. Amazing all the uneducated lazy losers made it to the polls.

[u/Killerkurto]

The sentiment was always spot on, but the word choice was awkward and cringey.

[u/No_Ad_1501]

Just a reminder, people dislike corporate uniparty hacks like Hillary so much, they’re willing to hand the country to Donald Trump.

[u/Last-Translator7180]

Still with Her !

[u/MajorJoseUSAF]

No kidding.

[u/Euphoric_Affect_2629]

MAGAts*

[u/admire_clodsire]

You do not in fact have to hand it to them

[u/MiOWNd]

She's still one of the reasons we are in this mess.

[u/Particular_Ticket_20]

It was a GIANT basket, she understated that part

[u/jpmeyer12751]

And much too polite.

[u/Advanced_Sell9707]

Maybe but a stupid thing to say at the time

[u/SnooGiraffes8275]

you can hate trump without dickriding hillary

[u/FunOwl2026]

I’ll be happy just to have a non-geriatric in the White House.

[u/Invertedwhy]

Turns out saying in on the national stage can destroy the world.

[u/Informal-Pop7901]

The correct term is degenerates.

[u/Cyrano_Knows]

And along with stupidity and willful ignorance the most common shared trait amongst these people is probably their collective martyr complexes.

[u/frankenmaus]

You'd need a big ass basket.

[u/jonnydrangus]

Frazzledrip

[u/cutmetal1]

Oh no we all have control over Trump, he listens and respects everyone...

[u/None_Required]

Everyone should read the book Unlikable. It does a pretty good job of explaining Hillary Clinton, and why more Americans hated her than Trump.

[u/ScatterSenboneZakura]

The only thing grotesque about any of this is trying to dehumanize conservatives so liberals can feel vindicated treating us less than. Too bad we don't give a fuck what you think

[u/Mammoth-Question-528]

A basket of WASTE OF HUMAN LIFEEE!!!!!

[u/homerbailey]

And she’s a scum bag. Let’s not forget.

[u/FancyGuest7606]

[u/ChiefCheese-1]

[u/WorldsGreatestActor]

Boom.

[u/Low-Buddy1853]

[u/Fuzzy_Connection4971 → u/Low-Buddy1853]

Can't imagine why people didn't want to vote her.

[u/irish_faithful]

Turns out you were still never the President.