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Swede

(38,493 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 09:02 PM 10 hrs ago

We were warned.



Hilary Clinton in 2016 - “Americans aren’t just electing a president in November, we’re choosing our next commander in chief, the person we count on to decide questions of war and peace, life and death,” Clinton said. “And like many across our country and around the world, I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job.”
“The stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and complex than the world of luxury hotels. We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table: bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. I’m willing to bet he’s writing a few right now,” the former secretary of state said. “But those tools won’t do the trick. Rather than solving global crises, he would create new ones.”
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BeneteauBum

(346 posts)
5. Remember Mary Trump's warning
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 10:01 PM
9 hrs ago

The more the orange menace is backed into a corner, the more unhinged he becomes.
Peace ☮️

haele

(15,128 posts)
10. They view their ignorance like a security blanket...
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 10:36 PM
9 hrs ago

It makes their world soft, warm, manageable, and happy.
And they will do anything, make any bargain, to be able to be assured "Don't worry about responsibility - just keep playing with your toys and Daddy will take care of all those problems for you..."
They fight waking up.
They don't want to share resources, to live in a complex real world with real problems along with other real people who have their real problems to deal with, too.

red dog 1

(32,584 posts)
9. K&R
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 10:20 PM
9 hrs ago

HRC & Kamala were absolutely right!

Especially this Kamala Harris" quote from the OP:
"This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power."

It's true; "we were warned."

Tree Lady

(13,037 posts)
12. Americans have become so used to fake news
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 11:14 PM
8 hrs ago

And lies and Trump saying just kidding a lot of people don’t believe or want to believe what is really happening. It’s like millions are in a state of denial.

Especially true for those who voted for Trump but are not crazy zealots for him, people who voted because they wanted immigration fixed or maybe hated abortion, they are trying vainly to come up with reasons why this isn’t really bad. So they listen to rightwing news or podcasts or people online explaining why it’s ok and even though they have a thought deep inside saying it’s not right they fight that thought like a person staying in a marriage when they know it’s bad.

calimary

(89,188 posts)
14. ...like Pox Noise.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 11:49 PM
8 hrs ago

And what really stinks is how, by now, too many of our fellow citizens take it all for granted. And remain in denial about 1) how bad things are and 2) how many people are adversely affected.

betsuni

(28,790 posts)
13. The magic insult-label ESTABLISHMENT stamped on great Democrats like Harris and Clinton just keeps on giving.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 11:47 PM
8 hrs ago

Giving us Republicans, selling a phony revolution whose leaders despise Democrats to the common sense and knowledge challenged authoritarian-curious.

Cha

(317,294 posts)
18. Right? I hate that word "Establishment" like it's
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 01:31 AM
6 hrs ago

suppose to be some kind of Insult to Well Accomplished, Qualified, Brilliant Leaders. like VP Kamala Harris and SOS Hillary Clinton were.

Any candidate that throws that buzz word out there to Divide us is automatically Not getting my vote or donations.

TY

EllieBC

(3,635 posts)
15. Most of us here heeded that warning. And voted.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 11:53 PM
8 hrs ago

The ones who chose to not vote? Just as bad as those who voted for Trump.

Cha

(317,294 posts)
17. VP Kamala Harris was SO Dead On.. she
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 01:18 AM
6 hrs ago

knew Things and communicated them So Well.

And SO DID Hillary!

But No Too Many Got SUCKED IN BY LIES.

I bet there are many Traitor Suckers who Wished they Had listened to Both of them NOW!

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