Pierce: Hillary Clinton Is More Than Qualified to Judge the Effectiveness of Foreign-Influenced Stra

[mcar]

Hillary Clinton Is More Than Qualified to Judge the Effectiveness of Foreign-Influenced Straw Candidates

Clinton, who finally, after long years, has discovered that she has no fcks left to give, warned the country to beware that the Russians seem to be "grooming" Tusli Gabbard.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
OCT 18, 2019

...On Friday, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who finally, after long years, has discovered that she has no fcks left to give, warned the country to beware that the Russians seem to be "grooming" a Democratic candidate—cough Tulsi Gabbard cough—for the purposes of ratfcking the 2020 election. She also stated flatly her belief that Jill Stein had been a Russian asset in 2016, a position reinforced by the now-famous photo of Stein's sharing a table with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Gabbard, however, leapt to the electric Twitter machine to wax wroth.
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Gabbard's continued presence in the Democratic field is preposterous. She's polling in the lowest of the low single digits. Her positions on a number of issues have no constituency within the Democratic Party, and very little of one in the general electorate. HRC, on the other hand, no matter what you may think of her, got more votes for president than any Democratic candidate in American history. If she wants to continue to step out on issues within in the party, she's more than entitled to do so. In any case, if there's one person qualified to judge the effectiveness of foreign-influenced straw candidates, it's Hillary Rodham Clinton.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29520250/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-accusation/

[Cha]

1. Hot Damn, Pierce is absolutely dead on!

Mahalo, mcar!

[mcar]

3. Yes. And he wasn't a big HRC fan in 2016, IIRC

Love the guy. Don't always agree with him. But he's spot on here.

[Cha]

8. And Hillary both outed Gabbard and innoculated the Democrats against her. Hillary never gets enough

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[mcar]

9. She has been right every step of the way, Cha

She never gets enough credit, indeed.

[BigmanPigman]

2. And Van Jones is on CNN defending Tulsi

while putting Hillary down. Remember this is the same ass who said, "He is finally becoming presidential" after the fucking moron's first State of the Union Address.

I said "Fuck You" and changed the channel fast.

[mcar]

5. Oh for sweet Jeebus sake

[Cha]

10. Because of Course, he is! I forget what the last stupid

thing he did but there was a whole thread about it a bit ago.. if I run across it I'll post it for relevancy.

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Mahalo, BP!

[BigmanPigman]

12. Mahalo Cha!

[LenaBaby61]

11. The world's hair is on fire ...

Yet the clown went after Hillary and Nancy

Even though he signed that pos crime bill with his "buddies" Kim Kardashian and tRumputin, trumputin went after him @ TPUSA's Black Leadership Forum saying no one watches his show and he then called him a 3rd rate con-guy. Yet this clown capes for tRump at the expense of Nancy Pelosi and Hillary.

Comments like those are WHY on some African-American media websites et al, he's called OUT for being a foo in general (Trump became president at thi moment Van Jones on Trump: 'He became President of the United States in that moment, period' https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/politics/van-jones-trump-congress-speech-became-the-president-in-that-moment-cnntv/index.html 🙄 ), and this picture is a representation of him 👇🏻👇🏻

[2naSalit]

4. K&R!!!

[Iliyah]

6. HRC didn't even

mention a name . . .

[mcar]

7. Someone got a wee bit defensive

[paleotn]

16. Didn't have to.

We all knew who she meant.

What I don't understand is how she ended up in the house from Hawaii of all places? I didn't think Hawaii had that many closet Rethug, blue dogs.

[Cha]

24. TG refused to debate her last two

primary opponents.

We'll see if she'll refuse to debate state senator Kai Kehele in 2020..

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[paleotn]

25. Thanks, Cha! I've read a little about him.

Damn strong candidate.

[Cha]

26. I know.. I'm so happy Kai Kehele has emerged with

such an excellent resume!

I voted for her last two opponents but they didn't get very far.

TG won't debate but she floods the areas with signs.. that every time I saw one I'd cover one eye and quickly move past.

[herding cats]

17. She didn't have to.

The guilty always knee jerk and expose themselves.

[PatrickforO]

13. Interesting editorial from Pierce. I have to disagree. I am sorry. But I must, and

I'll tell you why.

Pierce seems to have bought into the notion that 'seems to' is strong enough to believe the accusation.

How many times have we watched our candidates get nailed by innuendo like this?

Now are we going to allow it internally, or should we ask Secretary Clinton to produce evidence?

We're the good guys here, or we like to think we are. We've all watched the GOP degenerate into the worst kind of corruption. We've all watched the GOP and right-wing media foster the idea that 'truth is not truth,' and that 'alternative truth' is somehow OK.

Well, it's not. And you all know it is not. I'm not saying Clinton isn't right, either, because Gabbard isn't really a Democrat, or seems to be one in name only. But I AM saying there needs to be some evidence beyond innuendo supporting this type of accusation.

Maybe, as Pierce says, she 'doesn't have any fucks left to give,' but she IS still one of the leaders in our party.

Well, big controversy for sure. We'll see how it plays out.

[StarfishSaver]

15. Hillary Clinton isn't a party leader. She's a retired Democratic politician

She's spent the majority of her life having to carefully measure every word she said, often being able to get attacked for being too guarded and not "authentic."

Now that she's a private citizen, she can say whatever the fork she wants to say.

[pnwmom]

18. The evidence is already out there. You're not paying attention.

Just listen to Gabbard and her own statements, and watch her actions -- like going on a secret visit to see Assad, and then coming back here to speak out on his behalf.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

19. And she has the audacity to call HRC a "warmonger,"

While Assad has murdered his own people.

Does she actually think this shit is going to find favor with Americans ?

And yes, I'm shocked that she even got elected to ANYTHING in Hawaii.

[pnwmom]

21. I hope her opponent in Hawaii defeats her and knocks her out of the House.

But with the backing she appears to have from unknown sources, we probably won't have seen the last of her.

[Skittles]

14. one correction

Obama had more votes in 2008 than Hillary got in 2016

[pnwmom]

22. Jill Stein wasn't in the 2008 race, siphoning off progressive votes. n/t

[Hekate]

20. Charles Pierce, calling the win! Bookmarking!

[PunkinPi]

23. K&R

[Ligyron]

27. I hereby nominate Hillary Clinton for Special Prosecutor.

It would be sweet justice to watch her kick Trump out of of office & into prison.

Yeah, yeah, I know, it's just not how it works but I can still fantasize.

[dalton99a]

28. Hillary knows Putin well, and she knows he is a dangerous and aggressive enemy

[Cha]

29. Kicking!

[mcar]

30. Thanks Cha!