You “felt” she was dishonest, you said she lied, (about what exactly, you never actually specified…but I get it..)
Setting aside the fact that she was the most investigated Presidential candidate in American history, by both the Media, and her political opponents.
Setting aside Millions of Dollars and hours of government resources were spent repeatedly investigating her and found no crimes, ever. Setting aside that she sat and testified for 11 hours about a tragedy that happened on her watch, and yet the men whose lies took America into the war that created the terrorists responsible for that tragedy, have never even been questioned under oath.
Setting all that aside… I get it, you just didn’t like her.
Setting aside the fact that there has been an entire cable news network that for over twenty years was near singularly dedicated to accusing her (with no evidence or proof whatsoever) of everything from bad fashion sense, to first degree murder. Setting aside the fact that she was the most experienced and qualified candidate to seek the Presidency in a generation.
Setting aside the fact that she was held to a standard of public transparency and critique that NO male candidate for the same office, has ever been held to.
Setting aside Millions of Dollars and hours of government resources were spent repeatedly investigating her and found no crimes, ever. Setting aside that she sat and testified for 11 hours about a tragedy that happened on her watch, and yet the men whose lies took America into the war that created the terrorists responsible for that tragedy, have never even been questioned under oath.
Setting all that aside… I get it, you just didn’t like her.
Setting aside the fact that she was held to a standard of public transparency and critique that NO male candidate for the same office, has ever been held to.
Settling all that aside… I get it, you didn’t like her.
I know you felt Bernie was robbed, and you know what? He wasn’t. I have a news flash for you. The majority of American voters don’t do what the DNC subliminally tells them to. Hillary Clinton won more votes.
It’s not a rigged system it was math. Even without “Super-delegates” (Which we all agree were stupid are now reformed, thanks to Sen. Sanders…). she still would have been the nominee, because (again.. math,) she won the most delegates.
Setting aside all the other issues we could talk about, like an immigration, policy that kidnapped children and put then in cages, an EPA that denied climate change, a commerce department t that gutted consumer protection, or the fact we now are left with a Trump Supreme court that is issuing rulings that make Citizen’s United look like childs play.
Or lots of your fellow Americans... apparently,
It’s not a rigged system it was math. Even without “Super-delegates” (Which we all agree were stupid are now reformed, thanks to Sen. Sanders…). she still would have been the nominee, because (again.. math,) she won the most delegates.
Setting ALL that aside, I get it, You just didn’t Like Hillary Clinton
I know you feel both parties are part of a rigged system that deliberately excludes third and more parties. You are right. It does, and you are correct in saying it is wrong. But guess what? There was no way whatsoever that this system was going to change in time for the 2016 election.
So, the reality was neither Gary Johnson or Jill Stein had a snowballs chance in hell of winning the election, assuming even they were on the ballot in all 50 states. So like it or not the choice was between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (Who, I get it… You didn’t like. )
I know you feel both parties are part of a rigged system that deliberately excludes third and more parties. You are right. It does, and you are correct in saying it is wrong. But guess what? There was no way whatsoever that this system was going to change in time for the 2016 election.
But it doesn’t change the fact that, these were your choices. And thanks to your "protest vote" we got Trump and he ended up getting three , count em! THREE appointments the United States Supreme Court.
I know you tend to tune out when people talk about the Supreme Court, because it is very abstract. But as you apparently were willing to accept those 4 years of a Trump/Pence administration, you should at least be intellectually honest about that meant in real life terms.
Your “protest vote” against Hillary (who I get it, you didn’t like…) was in very real terms a VOTE FOR the following:
(Taken directly from the 2016 Republican Party Platform)
Appoint anti-choice Supreme Court justices:
"Only a Republican president will appoint judges who respect the rule of law expressed within the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including the inalienable right to life and the laws of nature and nature’s God, as did the late Justice Antonin Scalia.”
Appoint anti-LGBT and anti-Obamacare justices:
“Only such appointments will enable courts to begin to reverse the long line of activist decisions — including Roe, Obergefell, and the Obamacare cases — that have usurped Congress’s and states’ law-making authority.”
Legalize anti-LGBT discrimination:
"We endorse the First Amendment Defense Act, Republican legislation in the House and Senate which will bar government discrimination against individuals and businesses for acting on the belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman."
Make Christianity a national religion:
"We support the public display of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of our history and our country's Judeo-Christian heritage and further affirm the rights of religious students to engage in voluntary prayer at public school events and to have equal access to school facilities."
Privatize Medicare, the health plan for seniors:
“Impose no changes for persons 55 years of older. Give others the option of traditional Medicare or transition to a premium-support model designed to strengthen patient choice, promote cost-saving competition among providers."
Support traditional marriage but no other families:
"Children raised in a two-parent household tend to be physically and emotionally healthier, more likely to do well in school, less likely to use drugs and alcohol, engage in crime or become pregnant outside of marriage. We oppose policies and laws that create a financial incentive for or encourage cohabitation."
I could go on and on. This stuff was just the tip of the right wing fundamentalist iceberg. But I hear you cry that at the time you didn’t think Trump, really believed in all that far right claptrap, so you didn’t worry about it!
(Taken directly from the 2016 Republican Party Platform)
Appoint anti-choice Supreme Court justices:
"Only a Republican president will appoint judges who respect the rule of law expressed within the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including the inalienable right to life and the laws of nature and nature’s God, as did the late Justice Antonin Scalia.”
Appoint anti-LGBT and anti-Obamacare justices:
“Only such appointments will enable courts to begin to reverse the long line of activist decisions — including Roe, Obergefell, and the Obamacare cases — that have usurped Congress’s and states’ law-making authority.”
Legalize anti-LGBT discrimination:
"We endorse the First Amendment Defense Act, Republican legislation in the House and Senate which will bar government discrimination against individuals and businesses for acting on the belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman."
Make Christianity a national religion:
"We support the public display of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of our history and our country's Judeo-Christian heritage and further affirm the rights of religious students to engage in voluntary prayer at public school events and to have equal access to school facilities."
Privatize Medicare, the health plan for seniors:
“Impose no changes for persons 55 years of older. Give others the option of traditional Medicare or transition to a premium-support model designed to strengthen patient choice, promote cost-saving competition among providers."
Support traditional marriage but no other families:
"Children raised in a two-parent household tend to be physically and emotionally healthier, more likely to do well in school, less likely to use drugs and alcohol, engage in crime or become pregnant outside of marriage. We oppose policies and laws that create a financial incentive for or encourage cohabitation."
So…. To be clear, at the time you thought Trump was lying when he said he supported the GOP platform “100 Percent” and were cool with that. Funny, I thought it was because “she lied” you didn’t like Hillary?
And I won’t even get into how your “Protest Vote” played a direct role in the death of over half a million Americans thanks to Trump’s catastrophic failure to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic before it was too late.
And I won’t even get into how your “Protest Vote” played a direct role in the death of over half a million Americans thanks to Trump’s catastrophic failure to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic before it was too late.
Oh yeah, and your prediction that the Supreme Court “would never overturn Roe” so it wasn’t a factor in your vote…. Gee, that aged well. So as much as you like to pretend otherwise, your protest against Hillary Clinton, was a vote FOR Trump and the entire GOP platform.
But I get it, the fact you “felt” you couldn’t trust Hillary was way more important than a woman’s right to control her own body. I get it, the fact that it was clear that a Trump Presidency would damage our nation’s economy, global standing, national security, and environment, was just the price we need to pay to give the Libertarian Party a serious shot at 2028… or may maybe 2032!
I get it, the lives of over 1 million Americans who died from Covid, were not as important as you being able to say you didn’t “Sell out the Revolution!” and weren’t co-opted by the party machine!
I get it, the lives of over 1 million Americans who died from Covid, were not as important as you being able to say you didn’t “Sell out the Revolution!” and weren’t co-opted by the party machine!
So by all means, “be unsure” of whether or not you can “bring yourself to vote in the 2022 midterms this November. Or vote for Joe Biden in 2024, because hey, I get it… you probably just don’t like him either.
Or lots of your fellow Americans... apparently,
