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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary was right, these pro-virus rallies prove it
https://rustbeltvoice.blogspot.com/2020/04/virus-deplorables.html
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Hillary was right, these pro-virus rallies prove it (Original Post)
rustbeltvoice
Apr 2020
OP
If she'd called them "a bunch of racist assholes," I think she would have won...
regnaD kciN
Apr 2020
#3
Where are the tests? Same place where the money that Mexico was gonna send us
tulipsandroses
Apr 2020
#4
Cha
(297,378 posts)1. Yes, Hillary was/is right about so much!
riversedge
(70,259 posts)8. Thanks Cha. Yes. Hillary. was. and is. correct.
Cha
(297,378 posts)9. You're Welcome, rivers.. and Thank you!
StaySafe~
Orrex
(63,216 posts)2. Incidentally, the term "idiot racist fuckhead" is also still accurate.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)3. If she'd called them "a bunch of racist assholes," I think she would have won...
That artificial, stilted, Miss Manners-like phrase only came off sounding upper-crust elitist. There were several events during the Clinton campaign that had me cringing, and that was one of the worst.
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)4. Where are the tests? Same place where the money that Mexico was gonna send us
to pay for a wall.
Lulu KC
(2,569 posts)5. Deplorable was such an understatement n/t
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)6. Yes, Hillary was right.
It's just unfortunate that she chose to use the word "deplorables," instead of a more base, common usage word.
Unfortunately, class gets you nowhere in Trumpistan.
brer cat
(24,580 posts)7. K&R