Hillary Clinton's Five Stages of Grief

American Thinker ^ | November 23, 2016 | Tiberiu Dianu

[Kaslin]

See how Hillary Clinton has totally changed in appearance since the election

A Psycho-Political Model

Almost 50 years ago, the famous psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first discussed, in her 1969 book On Death and Dying, the theory of the five stages of grief. The model was first introduced in connection to terminally ill patients but later on was applied to grieving in divorce, lost love, and substance abuse. The stages, not necessarily linear and not always occurring in the same particular order, include denial (and isolation), anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

The 2016 post-election period has marked some similar phenomena, and particularly for:

- Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, who has been seeing her political career in clinical death;

- the left (individuals and groups alike, including the mainstream media/MSM), who are seeing their wonderful utopian ideals going down in flames; and, finally, for

- Barack Obama, the 44th U.S. (radical-left Democrat) president, who will be seeing his political legacy (built mostly on executive orders) collapsing soon after Trump replaces him.

Let us recap.

Denial

During this first reaction, the individual believes that the result is somehow mistaken, and he clings to a false preferable reality.

[Doogle]

Booze,Booze,Booze,Booze....then blame someone

[Kaslin]

Boozers always do.

[SkyPilot]

[SkyPilot]

[SamAdams76]

Frankly I was surprised to see her concede to Trump that night. I figured she'd have her lawyers swarming all over the country, contesting every close state, dragging this out days or weeks. When she refused to speak to her supporters at the Javits Center and sent Podesta out there to send them home so that we could "count every vote" - that was the direction we were heading in.

Something dramatic happened during that hour between when Podesta was sent out to the Javits stage and when Huma Weiner made that phone call to Donald Trump. Some kind of deal was made between the Trump and Clinton camps in my opinion. Trump himself may have tipped us off when he started his victory speech by saying "Sorry to keep you waiting - complicated business".

Maybe we'll find out someday or maybe we will never know.

[Oratam]

Perhaps the revelation that Trump does not intend to prosecute Hillary is the deal. The 2 week delay was to not give the impression of a quid pro quo.

It was posted yesterday Here

I suspect Hillary's punishment will come from those who dumped MILLIONS into that bogus foundation and got nothing in return. Scenes from "No Country For Old Men" keep coming to mind.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

“Maybe we’ll find out some day” came yesterday. She concedes on the promise of no prosecution.

Having lived through the nightmare of 2000, I’ll take this deal. Hillary’s career is finished. Save the nation the circus act of prosecuting her.

Now CGI is another matter entirely. Justice needs to tear that place apart and frog march the entire lot of them into the dock.

[LoveUSA]

I don't think that's Hillary in the bookstore. Nor was it Hillary in the park. Nor was it Hillary waving on the sidewalk after her 9/11 meltdown.

The shape of the eyes isn't right. The mouth could be different because of lipstick, but she has more wrinkles with makeup than she does without.

More specifically, when have you ever, ever, seen Hillary give a warm relaxed smile.

[Samurai_Jack]

[Flick Lives]

Something dramatic happened during that hour between when Podesta was sent out to the Javits stage and when Huma Weiner made that phone call to Donald Trump. Some kind of deal was made between the Trump and Clinton camps in my opinion. Trump himself may have tipped us off when he started his victory speech by saying "Sorry to keep you waiting - complicated business".

It is amazing how the media filled weeks and months of the campaign reporting trivialities (poll number 175,042), but election night itself there were no on-site reports of Hillary. None. Zero.

One of the two key players in this drama is MIA election night and the media is fine with keeping us in the dark. We know they had reporters on the inside. We also know they chose not to print a word or were ordered to do so.

[Alberta's Child]

The scenario you presented probably would have been played out if it came down to one state, but with Pennsylvania and all of those Midwestern states turning red late in the evening it was obvious that Clinton was being repudiated even among a lot of Democrats.

I don't think there was any bargaining going on between the Trump and Clinton camps. Podesta was sent out there because Hillary was a disaster by that time.

She finally conceded when there was an almost unanimous outpouring of embarrassment and criticism of her in the media after that bizarre appearance by Podesta.

I also have this suspicion that Trump and Clinton never spoke with each other that night ... and that Huma Abedin (or someone else) actually did the deed herself.

[GizzyGirl]

I still have election night recorded on my DVR... all channels, all hours! I think I’ll watch again today starting around 10:00 pm eastern when you can see the media melting, and that awesome Hillary acceptance speech stage with an entirely blue nation, glass ceiling and people crying! I’m not a hateful person, just THANKFUL and it will be a perfect Thanksgiving eve evening reliving their melt!

[justlurking]

I also have this suspicion that Trump and Clinton never spoke with each other that night ... and that Huma Abedin (or someone else) actually did the deed herself.

That's very perceptive.

As I remember, Trump made an appearance shortly after the alleged phone call. What did he say? Something like: "Sorry for the delay... complicated business".

At the time, I wondered what was going on behind the scenes. It makes sense that someone with a rational demeanor -- perhaps even Bill Clinton himself -- called Trump and said: "Hillary is indisposed at the moment, but she offers her congratulations, and she will speak tomorrow."

[Ditter]

Long periods of crying, lots of alcohol and mostly, no make up. That explains her changed looks.

Even a small amount of make up can make a huge difference.

[Alberta's Child]

What tipped me off to the whole thing was the report that the phone call only lasted about a minute. Trump would have carried on for far longer than that -- even in a gracious, magnanimous way -- if he had been talking to Hillary Clinton.

That suggested to me that the call was abrupt and reflected a lot of embarrassment on the other end from someone who wasn't expecting to ever be in a position to make a call like that.

[Excellence]

The stages, not necessarily linear and not always occurring in the same particular order, include denial (and isolation), anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

From experience I can tell you it’s possible to be in all five stages at the same time.

[Terry Mross]

Some kind of deal was made between the Trump and Clinton camps in my opinion.

I agree on hundred per cent. He went from “lock her up”, “Crooked Hillary” to “The Clintons are good people” to announcing he won’t pursue her email treason.

These people always say it would be bad for the country. I say what’s bad for the country is having laws for the rich and laws for the poor. And laws for a sailor who snaps a photo aboard ship to send to his mother.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

I thought the SAME THING!

[shhrubbery!]

The way I see it is that during the campaign, Hillary wore war-paint and had helmet hair.

Now without the war-paint and helmet hair, she is conspicuously de-militarizing herself, in a sense. The signal she is trying to send is that she is peaceful and non-threatening.

This may be be a guise, because it appears Team Hillary is scheming to challenge Trump's election. And the murine John Podesta is readying his war room to make trouble for President Trump.