Reposted from my Substack
If you haven’t noticed, Hillary Clinton still exists. She still has thoughts. She even has opinions. She even speaks. Apparently, that really freaks the right wing out. This week they claim that she said this:
'What Trump really wants' is to 'kill his opposition'
Which is kinda funny if you know anything about Trump, because I think he’d be just fine with that.
What with his trying to get the Military to “crack skulls” and “just shoot” protestors during the Floyd Riots. His suggestion that we use alligator moats and “shoot migrants legs” and also an “electrified wall” with “spikes to pierce human flesh” at the border. He famously took out a $Million ad calling for using the Death Penalty against children. He also wants death against “drug traffickers” and “human traffickers” using firings squads and group executions. His call to imprison reporters and his lawyer’s suggestion he could legally use “Seal Team 6 to assassinate his rivals.”
Fight like hell or you’re not gonna have a country anymore.
And of course, “Bloodbath.”
You’d think the Right-wing would dutifully nod in acknowledgment that Clinton has simply stated the obvious.
But yeah, they don’t.
Instead, they have repeatedly claimed that Trump was “taken out of context” in all those statements. He said the words, but he really didn’t mean it. He may have said the words “death penalty” and “alligators” and “pierce flesh” and “shoot them” and “group execution” but he didn’t literally mean what he was saying. He was using a metaphor. He was being ironic. He was just joking. He wasn’t serious.
Yeah, but according to them - Hillary Clinton is the one who is using dangerous hyperbolic rhetoric.
Just for the record, the people who regularly suggest death and violence against their opponents - are the Right Wing.
We all know that Trump posted a thumbs-up picture of himself next to a truck wrap that showed Joe Biden tied up and bound.
Please note that this version of the image features an apparent bullet hole at the center of Biden’s forehead.
I happened to have found several websites that sell this wrap — all of whom have put them back up for sale after briefly taking them down — and the gunshot wound is not normally part of the image. So that’s special.
They also sell lots of other wraps, like the following:
Netanyahu tied up
Threatening a “Bloodbath” if Trump isn’t elected.
And showing Biden as a desiccated Alien/Mexican corpse.
These are all considered “jokes” on this website. Ha ha. That’s really funny, if you’re a sociopath.
This is not a thing on the Left. We make plenty of memes, but it’s not common to suggest that Trump should die. It simply isn’t. On the right, it’s pretty common for them to call for “Civil War.” It’s like constant.
When Trump or his supporters make a threatening statement - or post a threatening image - we’re supposed to laugh it off. He can call people “Vermin” and it doesn’t matter. But that’s not the case when Biden says “MAGA Republicans are a threat to Democracy.” Oh no.
Jim Jordan: He came across as a sad angry bitter old man. Kinda like Darth Vader. Understand that in the last 4 days he has called half the country “Facists” and “Extremists.”
Or when someone like Clinton says “Deplorables” or that Trump wants to “Kill his opposition.”
I mean, we can all trust what Russia Today has to say about it right?
Failed US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Donald Trump, who defeated her in 2016, is a 'wannabe' strongman who aims to murder his political enemies.
Speaking on Democrat activist Mark Elias' podcast posted on Friday, Clinton said American voters had underestimated how “dangerous” Trump would be as president. She likened Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s US presidential election, to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin does what [Trump] would like to do – kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance,” Clinton said. “That’s what Trump wants.”
Ironically, Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have themselves long been accused by some conservatives of eliminating people who pose a threat to their power or wealth. Investigative journalist Danny Casolaro coined the conspiracist term “Clinton Body Count” in the late 1980s, in reference to the allegedly mysterious deaths of people with connections to the Clintons. Casolaro was found dead in a West Virginia hotel room in 1991 with his wrists slashed 10-12 times. His death was ruled a suicide.
See what they did there? It’s funny that she accuses Trump of wanting to kill people because she’s been accused of killing people too. Ha ha. Ho ho. Ah, they kill me.
Here’s how the Washington Examiner reports it.
Clinton appeared on the podcast Defending Democracy in an episode that aired Friday, where she spent the majority of the nearly 45-minute interview discussing Trump, who beat her in the 2016 presidential election, and his supporters. During the interview, Clinton suggested Trump might take a page out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s book should he retake the office.
“Trump was like, you know, just gaga over Putin because Putin does what Trump would like to do: Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance,” Clinton said. “That’s what Trump really wants.”
The former Secretary of State didn’t stop her comparison there, going as far as to say that Trump “is modeling himself after” Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China and Kim Jong-un of North Korea. She suggested his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden, was similar to that of Putin’s strategy.
These comments come months after Putin’s opponent, Alexei Navalny, was announced to have died while in a Russian prison. Navalny was missing for 11 weeks before his death was confirmed by the Kremlin.
Let me point out something here that the Wing-nuts have glossed over - in case you didn’t notice it.
Clinton didn’t say that Trump “wants to kill his opposition”. She said he wants to be like Putin — and Putin, among other things, does “Kill his opposition.”
Putin did put Alexei Navalny in jail for criticizing him and he eventually died there, after several attempts on his life. And there was that guy Prigozhin who led a mini-revolution against Putin over the Ukraine War who suddenly died in a mysterious plane crash. And there’s a few guys who suddenly fell out of some windows.
In 2016, defecting KGB agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a Russian nerve agent and nearly died. Back in 2015, Putin opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot to death in the shadow of the Kremlin. Opposition leader Vladamir Kara-Murza was also poisoned like Navalny and Skripal, then jailed. And in 2006 former KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with Polononium-210 and died in London.
So a few of Putin’s rivals just sort of tend to end up dead. Yep.
Putin has also banned independent media in Russia, all the press there is state-sponsored.
It’s not like Trump has specifically said he’d like to do stuff like that. I mean except for in his Agenda 47 that is, where he has said a few things. For example, he’s said that he opposes supporting Ukraine and would essentially give Russia anything they want.
One of the reasons I was the only president in generations who didn’t start a war is that I was the only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of Washington’s Generals, bureaucrats, and the so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflict, but they don’t know how to get us out.
For decades, we’ve had the very same people, such as Victoria Nuland and many others just like her, obsessed with pushing Ukraine toward NATO, not to mention the State Department’s support for uprisings in Ukraine. These people have been seeking confrontation for a long time, much like the case in Iraq and other parts of the world, and now, we’re teetering on the brink of World War III. And a lot of people don’t see it, but I see it, and I’ve been right about a lot of things. They all say, “Trump’s been right about everything.”
None of this excuses in any way the outrageous and horrible invasion of Ukraine one year ago, which would have NEVER happened if I was your president—not even a little chance. But it does mean that here in America, we need to get rid of the corrupt globalist establishment that has botched every major foreign policy decision for decades, and that includes President Biden, whose own people said he’s never made a good decision when it comes to looking at other countries and looking at wars. We have to replace them with people who support American interests.
So America’s interest is not to support and protect Ukraine — or NATO — against Russian aggression. Got it.
And then there’s the fact that Trump - like Putin - has promised that he would implement a campaign of retribution and retaliation against his political opposition if he’s elected again.
Donald Trump’s talk of punishing his critics and seeking to “weaponize” the US justice department against his political opponents has experts and former DoJ officials warning he poses a direct threat to the rule of law and democracy in the US.
Trump’s talk of seeking “retribution” against foes, including some he has branded “vermin”, has coincided with plans that Maga loyalists at rightwing thinktanks are assembling to expand the president’s power and curb the DoJ, the FBI and other federal agencies. All of it has fueled critics’ fears that in a second term Trump would govern as an unprecedentedly authoritarian American leader.
Trump is currently the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination for 2024 and has long maintained hefty polling leads over his party rivals. At the same time a slew of recent polls has also shown him ahead of President Joe Biden, including in key battleground states.
But scholars and ex-justice officials see increasing evidence that if they achieved power again Trump and his Maga allies plan to tighten his control at key agencies and install trusted loyalists in top posts at the DoJ and the FBI, permitting Trump more leeway to exact revenge on foes, and shrinking agencies Trump sees as harboring “deep state” critics.
Ominously, Trump has threatened to tap a special prosecutor to “go after” Biden and his family.
Trump’s angry mindset was revealed on Veterans Day when he denigrated foes as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out”, echoing fascist rhetoric from Italy and Germany in the 1930s.
“I’m hard-pressed to find any candidates anywhere who are so open that they would use the power of the state to go after critics and enemies,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard government professor and co-author of How Democracies Die.
“This is one of the most openly authoritarian campaigns I’ve ever seen. You have to go back to the far-right authoritarians in the 1930s in Europe or in 1970s Latin America to find the kind of dehumanizing and violent language that Trump is starting to consistently use.”
Yeah.
It’s not like Trump has repeatedly called for “Retribution.”
I am your warrior. I am your Justice. For those who have been wronged and betrayed I am your retribution. I am your retribution. Not gonna let this happen.
Before I even arrive at the oval office I will have the disastrous war in Ukraine settled. It will be settled quickly. I will get the problem solved and I will get it solved in rapid order.
The way he “solved” the problem of peace in the Middle East?
And it will take me no longer than one day. I know exactly what to say to each of them. I get along very well with both of them. […]
This is the most dangerous time in the history of our country, and Joe Biden is leading us into oblivion.
Worse than the Cold War? Worse than World War II?
With you at my side we will demolish the deep state. We will expell the War mongers.
We are not at war.
We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. We will liberate America from these villians and scoundrels.
“Villains and scoundrels” yeah, that’s bringing the country together.
We have to understand the false equivalence here. We have to recognize the fake outrage and the gaslighting. Both Biden and Clinton agree that Trump and his followers are a direct violent threat to Democracy and the Country.
That’s the truth.
They have falsely demonized Democrats and given license to the use of extra-judicial measures to get their way. That’s their strategy and it has been for some time.
I understand that they think Trump has been falsely accused and falsely persecuted - but he hasn’t been. They think that Trump will prevail against the charges against him. He won’t.
He’s lost the Trump University case, the Trump Foundation case, the Trump Business Tax case, the Trump Business Fraud case, and both E. Jean Caroll cases. He’s going to lose the criminal cases - probably all of them.
On top of that, he lost the popular vote in 2016 by 3 million and in 2020 by 7 million. He also has lost over half of the voters who supported Nikki Haley, and he’s not even trying to get them or independents back on his side. He’s not likely to honestly win in 2024 even without a criminal conviction.
His only chance is if enough votes get diverted in the swing states by a spoiler - like RFK jr - the way they were diverted by Russia and Jill Stein in 2016. Also, there’s voter suppression and legislative capture of the electoral vote. If they cheat with that bullshit maybe they can “win.” Maybe.
Rabid Trump supporters have already committed multiple mass murders killing over 100 people. They’ve sent pipe bombs to the media and Democrats. They smashed in Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s skull. They’ve attacked FBI offices multiple times. They attacked the Capitol in order to overturn the last election.
When Trump loses - how bad will the “bloodbath” be then? What kind of “Retribution” will they demand?
And if he wins — it’ll be even worse. Yet again, Hillary is right.
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Meanwhile, in the deep irony zone, Kari Lake in a claim that exactly echoes Russia Today says that Hillary Clinton is out to assassinate her. Yes, really.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake is promoting a conspiracy theory suggesting Hillary Clinton wants to assassinate her. Her remarks came just one day before she lost her attempt to have the Supreme Court review what some have called her conspiracy-theory fueled lawsuit about electronic voting machines.
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Lake, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has yet to concede the 2020 election, which she lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs, has a history of pushing exaggerated and baseless claims.
On Sunday, as MeidasTouch Network reported, Lake promoted an old, anti-Clinton conspiracy theory but twisted it to try to make it appear she was in danger from former U.S. Secretary of State and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Lake on Newsmax listened to a clip of Secretary Clinton calling Trump's fondness for Russian President Vladimir Putin a "bromance," and saying the ex-president is "just gaga over Putin, because Putin does what he would like to do: kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive, you know, journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance."
Then Lake promoted a thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory by responding, "Oh, boy. Oh, that's really rich coming from a woman like Hillary Clinton, who's, how many of her friends have just like, mysteriously died or committed suicide?"
"I mean, honestly, that's rich of her. What President Trump wants is to root out the corruption and deliver our government back to We The People and she looks very nervous. She talked about her friend Mark Elias, Mark Elias has meddled in in his and his cohorts have meddled in the elections."
She called Democratic policies, "destructive, deadly and frankly, in some ways, diabolical,"and added, "it's almost comical that Hillary Clinton is talking about Trump wanting to kill his opponents."
"I just want to say as I'm as I'm speaking about this topic, I want everyone out there to know that my brakes on my car have recently been checked and they work. I'm not suicidal. And Hillary, I don't mean any harm to you. Please don't send your henchmen out to me. We understand what you're about. "
She’s a straight up lunatic.