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The Gift Hillary Clinton Needs for Her 75th Birthday [Please do chime in with your own idea, Freepers]
National Review ^ | 10/26/2022 | Jack Butler

Posted on 10/26/2022 5:24:05 PM PDT by simpson96

Today is Hillary Clinton’s 75th birthday, as Luther noted. Earlier this week, the former first lady, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and current not-president celebrated with “about 100 of her top donors and longtime supporters at the St. Regis in New York to talk about her future,” Teddy Schleifer of Puck reported. No, she won’t be running for anything. But she is thinking about her legacy. So “she has been pitching donors on a new philanthropic entity called the Hillary Rodham Clinton Leadership Project,” according to Schleifer. He continues:

The new Clinton initiative will both highlight what Clinton has already done, particularly for women around the world, and serve as a new home for Clinton to talk about her own philanthropic work going forward—on democracy, global health and leadership development.

So Hillary spent her birthday figuring out how to profit from the same brand-driven, elite-level arbitrage that she and her husband have depended on ever since the end of his presidency. (And before that presidency’s end.) Points for consistency, I guess. What certain people and institutions see in Hillary, so much so that they continue to pointlessly reward and elevate her — as a paragon of “leadership!” — well after her political utility has expired, is beyond me.

When it seemed likely that she would become president, all those donations to the “Clinton Global Initiative” — since dried up — at least made a crude political sense, even as they were the quintessence of modern elite corruption. A President Hillary — just typing the words suffices to make one shudder, especially this close to Halloween — would be someone you’d want to have exchanged favors with. But failed-candidate Hillary? The one who spends her days stewing about the past and engaging in the same kind of election denialism she condemns when it comes from the other side? What’s the point?

Indeed, the best present Hilary Clinton could give herself on her 75th birthday would be to remove herself from public life. She should spend her remaining years in pleasant quietude, being with her grandchildren, going on walks, and tinkering with powered-exoskeleton builds. Her retirement would double as a welcome gift for the rest of us.


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1 posted on 10/26/2022 5:24:05 PM PDT by simpson96
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2 posted on 10/26/2022 5:28:59 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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A soul?


3 posted on 10/26/2022 5:29:51 PM PDT by moovova
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She keeps popping up every so often.

Most recently, she is warning us that the Republicans will steal the 2024 presidential election, somehow through actions of “evil” Republican state legislatures.

Anyone else get the idea, that the Democrats are into the politics of fear? They want to scare people to death, about the “evil” Republicans, who are racist/sexist/homophobic, etc. They want to scare us to make us think, that only if we vote for good Democrats, then and only then, will our lives be complete.

And we should vote Democrat to block the “evil” Republicans. We aren’t to vote Democrat based on any positive Democrat view of the future, we are to vote Democrat because we are scared witless by Republicans, who are so mean they won’t let women get abortions, or something.


4 posted on 10/26/2022 5:30:01 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I vote for Bullwinkle’s magic hat.


5 posted on 10/26/2022 5:30:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I would say a douche bag, but she already has Bill...


6 posted on 10/26/2022 5:31:20 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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Chrome plated bracelets


7 posted on 10/26/2022 5:31:25 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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How about an all expense free trip to Dignitas in Switzerland?


8 posted on 10/26/2022 5:32:09 PM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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9 posted on 10/26/2022 5:33:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To become a monk & take a vow of silence.


10 posted on 10/26/2022 5:35:32 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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“..buckle up my sleeve....And PRESTO!...Oh, it’s Hilary again!”


11 posted on 10/26/2022 5:35:54 PM PDT by lee martell
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12 posted on 10/26/2022 5:37:20 PM PDT by dontreadthis (sometime)
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I think she needs to spend her 75th birthday making passionate love to President Bill Clinton.


14 posted on 10/26/2022 5:37:56 PM PDT by TBall
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The nastiest thing I could think of giving Hillary for her birthday would be a conscience. She and Nanzi should open a charm school.


15 posted on 10/26/2022 5:38:03 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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“That trick never works!”
16 posted on 10/26/2022 5:38:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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An extra hot spot reserved for her in the Lake of Fire.


17 posted on 10/26/2022 5:40:45 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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Orange jump suite with matching chrome bracelets.


18 posted on 10/26/2022 5:41:12 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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“That trick never works!”

"Time to get another hat!"
19 posted on 10/26/2022 5:41:42 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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🎼🎶 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer


20 posted on 10/26/2022 5:41:45 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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