Someone I know who just couldn't vote for Hillary has the virus.

[Texaswitchy]

She might not if she had voted for her.

She only had one shot and never went back for the second.

I had stopped talking to her after the election.

She is sick but at home.

Elections have consequences.

[roamer65]

1. Every war has casualties.

Every war has death.

We are at war with a virus.

Too bad she didn’t prepare for it correctly.

It is what it is.

[Texaswitchy]

2. Yes.

The one shot was not enough.

The hospitals are full.

She just didn't like Hillary.

Couldn't not tell you why.

To many like her.

[betsuni]

12. I was going to ask which stupid reason she had.

"There's just something about her I don't like" was a frequent one. I think it was Oprah who scolded people by saying something like, it doesn't matter if you like her, she's not coming over to your house! Anything positive about Hillary was always qualified by negatives, only 10% of press coverage mentioned any policy, the internet was flooded with disinformation. Then afterwards everyone blamed Hillary for being "flawed."

[Texaswitchy]

13. She couldn't give a reason.

I asked her what was it about Hillary that you do not like.

She couldn't say.

I don't get it myself.

[XanaDUer2]

14. my stupid, unvaxxed sister said the same thing.

she's in Florida on ssdi. I refuse to visit her

[Texaswitchy]

15. Good for you.

I am in Texas and staying home.

[Danmel]

19. I would love to have Hillary at my house

[yardwork]

33. I know, really?! What is wrong with people?

[SoCalDavidS]

3. We're Not At War With The Virus

We're at war with the Piece Of Shit repubs who refuse to get vaccinated.

We've already figured out how to defeat the virus. We're engaged in an active battle with an opponent who is siding with the virus.

[roamer65]

8. Both.

The virus will not stop trying to evade antibodies. There are still too many unvaccinated worldwide.

[hatrack]

20. We're at war with a virus . .. .

She's at war with reality.

Spoiler alert: reality wins. Always.

[Brother Mythos]

4. One of my next-door neighbors hates tfg, but didn't vote because she couldn't vote for Hillary eithe

Then, last year, she still hated tfg, but didn't vote because she couldn't vote for Joe.

People like that are a lost cause.

[Texaswitchy]

6. Yes.

I stopped talking to her.

Her husband has to take care of her.

I am staying home to stay healthy as possible.

She should have got that second shot.

[yardwork]

34. Totally aside from her vote, yeah, her crucial mistake was not bothering to get the shot.

[bullwinkle428]

35. Overgrown toddlers, who don't understand the binary concept of elections.

[thenelm1]

39. Once again showing how the Repub campaign, which started in the early 90's, was so...

successful in poisoning the well when it comes to Hillary. And have no doubt that this was a years long campaign to discredit a Dem woman they thought might might eventually be a challenger in the national sphere. Years of BS based on lies, innuendo and guilt by association. It's tragic that there is no legal remedy for their rat-fuckery.

But then the question is, did anyone from the Dem side learn the lesson? Is the right still trying to play that game? Think AOC, and the constant attacks on her by the right. There may be others (Katie Porter being one, but so far I haven't seen the same assholishness against her). She is the one current Dem woman that comes immediately to mind as a target for this type of campaign. I have no idea if she has thoughts of higher office, but given her age, her smarts and how articulate she is, she has a future and would be a natural target for their skullduggery. Smart women scare the bejesus out of them for some reason.

[betsuni]

40. If AOC stays in politics, something similar to what happened to Hillary could happen to her.

Right now AOC's in a similar position to Hillary's in the 90s when she was seen as radical. In 2016 Trump was calling Hillary "establishment" and corrupt. Hillary didn't change, the attacks did.

"It's hard to think of another politician whose career has been as challenged by the quakes and shakes of social change ... . In this past election, they came full circle with cruel irony. In 1992, when being a First Lady with her own prominent career and independent view was seen as revolutionary threat to the image of the First Family, Clinton caught fire from traditionalists. Skip to 2016, and for a generation of white, middle-class women used to seeing their mothers with briefcases and business suits, Clinton's hard-won accomplishments could be made to appear as an alliance with the 'establishment.' To be branded as a threat to the established order in one decade and its friend in another -- while her own basic political commitments had changed very little -- was a whiplash that neither Clinton nor her supporters were prepared for. This kind of crude, historically uninformed branding -- based less on fact than on cultural story-telling and tribal lore -- has become an increasingly potent force in contemporary politics." (Susan Bordo)

In a couple of decades, AOC might be called the future version of "establishment," without changing her political opinions. Elizabeth Warren also went from being a progressive many other progressives said they'd vote for, but when she actually ran for president, I saw some of those same people turn on her. Suddenly she was a former Republican and said she was capitalist and that was disqualifying. She hadn't changed. Never know what's going to happen with branding.

[thenelm1]

41. My point exactly. They pick their targets and start early.

I know the pubbies make it a hobby to a attack any Dem, but their attacks on AOC, a still young, low-level time-served rep in the house seem particularly focused and nasty. After Hillary and the long-term campaign against her, it should be a cautionary tale for the party to be looking at counter measures to the pubbie attempts at sabotage.

[Budi]

5. Well. HRC would not have fired the entire Pandemic Response Team

So your right about that!

I'll never get the reason for not choosing Hillary.

It was a selfish wasted vote

[Texaswitchy]

7. Hillary would have controlled the situation.

We could be back to.normal.

[Budi]

10. Definately. Managing situations on such a critical scale, preventing chaos is innate to Her.

What a damn shame.
It's pretty unforgiveable when one looks at the extreme blatant damage to every part of American society.

[Hortensis]

9. Many, many others have paid far, far bigger prices

for her dreadfully irresponsible choice and many more will for years. Under HRC the federal government would have moved competently to containment and control everywhere cases were discovered, and chances that the virus would have made its way to her would have been very low. And the trumpism epidemic would not have developed and spread as it has either.

Hope she recovers completely of course.

[Texaswitchy]

11. I do to.

Maybe the one shot will save her.

She is really sick.

I am ready for a booster when it come along.

[Hortensis]

16. Oh, I didn't realize. Thank goodness for that one dose.

Boy, me too for the booster! I'm immunocompromised, on immunosuppressant medication, etc, and wasn't happy to hear Dr. Fauci say that group needed to be prioritized for a booster.

Some are going to pharmacies or wherever and getting a third shot. We've been back to hiding after maybe 10 days of feeling free two months ago and will wait.

[Texaswitchy]

18. Her husband called.

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She is really ill.

She sounded terrible over the phone.

My Granddaughter is due for her second shot next week.


Her little sister is only 11.

My Granddaughter is only 12 and stepped up on her birthday and got her shot.

She wants to protect her sister.

I am proud of her.


I have two pictures of her getting her shot and showing off her arm and shot record.

[Hortensis]

31. Your little granddaughter sounds wonderful. And her parents.

I hope your sorta friend has had the antibody treatment to lessen symptoms.

[Texaswitchy]

32. I didn't go into to much detail with her husband.

She has a Dr.

So time will tell.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Yes elections have consequences

[monkeyman1]

21. republican's call it collateral damage!!

[rsdsharp]

22. I do not understand people who get ONE shot.

I can understand those who don’t get the vaccine. I think they are idiotic and selfish, but for some reason they don’t want it. Having made the decision to get vaccinated why only get half of the required dose?

[Texaswitchy]

23. Her husband has both shots.

She just didn't go CVS for the second one.

I got my second from CVS.

The stores are everywhere here, that and Walgreens.

We had a mass drive in place close my house.

The places to go were numerous.

[LisaL]

25. A pity.

For people who didn't get the second shot on time, they can still go and get it.
It seems to work just fine, maybe even better with longer time periods between the shots.

[Texaswitchy]

28. She has a Dr.

Might be to late for her but not others.

I will keep in contact with her husband.

We were once good friends.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. arrested development?

[Texaswitchy]

26. A lot of that.

Stupidity also.

She paying the price now.

I think she wanted to talk because she might die.

Glad I picked up the call.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Glad you did too. Hard to admit you f'd up. Even in your decline.

[Texaswitchy]

29. I am sure she regretting her decision now.

I had walking pneumonia once and it was bad.

Young and healthy and then in hospital.

I know how she must be feeling.

[iemanja]

30. I doubt it

I've never met one who would acknowledge any culpability in brining Trump to power. It's always someone else's fault.

ETA: If you meant not getting the second shot, I'm sure you're right.

[Evolve Dammit]

38. A point none of us want to ever be at. At that point all we can do is try to be there for them.

[ecstatic]

36. Exactly. This nightmare we're in is 100% due to tfg's reckless incompetence

Many of us who wanted him impeached from day one (regardless of it meant pence would be president) imagined a fascist dictatorship or nuclear holocaust scenario, but this neverending pandemic is close enough. He broke the world. Smfh. 🤬

[Texaswitchy]

37. He did.

We never be the same.

We parted company because of this.