WashPost Imagines ‘What If Hillary Had Won’ With TWO ‘Alternate Timelines’

Talk about not letting go. While some liberals are gathering to “scream helplessly at the sky” for the one year anniversary of the 2016 presidential election, the journalists at the Washington Post are busy writing the equivalent of fan fiction, an “alternate timeline” imagining "what if Hillary had won." Amazingly, the Post published TWO "alternate histories" in 24 hours.

Writers Ben Terris, Dan Zak, Monica Hesse and Amy Argetsinger (it took four people to write this?) on Thursday began by rewriting, “What if Election Day 2016 had gone a little differently? What if a freak snowstorm across the Rust Belt had kept rural Trump voters from the polls? What if Russia had read its psyops data wrong and pivoted its resources to Snapchat? What if James Comey had taken a closer look at those emails in late October and decided, eh, it’s probably nothing.”

They fantasized, “What if all of these things happened? What if Clinton had won? Let’s pretend." The entry included bizarre attempts at humor (?) such as “Carrie Fisher is still alive.” The four journalists speculated:

On Inauguration Day, President Hillary Rodham Clinton took the oath in a headband and a pantsuit. Hey, it was rainy, and what does she care what you think anymore? That night, Lin-Manuel Miranda brought the house down with a freestyle rap at her first inaugural ball, while new White House co-chief strategists/toasts of the town Robby Mook and Donna Brazile set Twitter afire with their exuberant choreographed dance.

The following day, dozens descended on the Mall for the “Men’s March.” Three fistfights broke out over who forgot to secure a rally permit.

It all coincided with a major shake-up at Fox News. The New York Times had taken advantage of the post-election news lull to ramp up its investigation of Bill O’Reilly, who was forced out by early December. Fox then rebuilt its lineup around its new highest-paid star; Megyn Kelly’s two-hour show, which debuted Jan. 23, fillets the new president every night for a record-breaking viewership. Tagline: “Hey, she’s a woman, so you can’t say it’s sexist.”

Some of it is meant to “funny." Other entries dripped with typical liberal journalist disdain:

In June, CNN reported that Chelsea Clinton requested permission to stow her double stroller in a West Wing broom closet while bringing the kids in to see Grandma. Outraged, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) — already seeing in the chaos of his party a shot at the House speakership — postponed his 12th Benghazi inquiry to probe this potential violation of the Federal Anti-Nepotism Statute.

It’s hard to imagine the journalistic “alternate timeline” for John McCain or Mitt Romney defeating Barack Obama in 2008 or 2012.

On Wednesday, the Post’s website posted a SECOND alternate timeline with typically snarky condescension from writer Rachel Sklar

Nov. 22, 2016: In an exclusive interview with the New York Times, Clinton touches on a wide variety of issues. The transcript is widely read, and widely understood.

Dec. 4, 2016: Clinton begins speaking with foreign leaders through State Department channels. She declines to speak to the leader of Taiwan. She doesn’t cite decades of diplomatic tradition because it’s obvious.

The Post isn’t the first media outlet to imagine this “Hillary wins” fantasy. In August, a Showtime program fantasized about “President Clinton” bringing “world peace.”

Timeline if Clinton won:

Obama’s policies remain in full force and political abuse of the IRS expands to other divisions.

The liberal bullies would be empowered at all levels. Title IX investigations at colleges would continue unimpeded because the IRS would shut down nonprofit legal funds that help the victims. Men would get kicked out of college at even higher rates than they do already because a woman or homosexual man’s accusation is all it takes.

Conservative groups unable to get nonprofit status since 2012 and any new ones still cannot get approve. Government demands for records of all types remain a financial drain on those that try. State and federal investigations of those that exist - like Judicial Watch - explode in an effort to find reasons to shut them down.

The federal contracting rules under Obama that led to federal contractors falling over themselves to implement social justice in the workplace in the hope of winning federal contracts get WORSE.

We’d see federal government contractors mandating “implicit bias testing” and ordering employees to take anti-bias training despite the fact it isn’t demonstrated to help, the tests themselves have flaws and often makes things worse.

Compulsory Political Education: A Real World Case Study at the U of Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7YGGCE9es

The False ‘Science’ of Implicit Bias
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/false-science-implicit-bias-10689.html

Educational policies based on erroneous implicit bias as sacred doctrine is pushed in schools. The deliberate indoctrination of far left political views (drag queens reading pre-K story time, gender swap parties for elementary school students) become backed by the federal leviathan.

The Ontario law society is demanding that everyone not only attend diversity training as a continuing education requirement but not requiring a diversity statement. They want to force as a condition of credentialing that you write out a statement that you agree with far left tenets of social justice. Refuse, you risk losing your license. Write it and violate it, they take your license. If Clinton were in office, you’d see the same thing here from law to psychology to teaching. The few conservatives in those professions are purged.

Using Canada as a model of what happens without the conservative balwark, conservatives are labeled unfit foster parents of all children if against homosexuality or transgenderism.

We already have lawsuits of churches fighting for federal funds for playground improvements for preschools and reimbursement if they provide aid after a disaster. Under Clinton, all of that stops because the state says no church will ever receive such funds. Mosques continue.

Illegal immigrants get amnesty. More illegal aliens flood in.

Muslim migration continues unabated, any community that resists loses federal funds or is literally forced to accept it.

Religious schools risk losing all credentials and licenses because traditional Christian and Jewish doctrine violates liberals’ “hate speech” rules. They are ordered to either change teaching in all grades or shut down. This has already happened to an Orthodox Jewish school in the UK for refusing to say there are more than 2 genders and you can swap genders ... to elementary aged students.

YouTube and Google censorship is not only backed by the feds but funded by them in the name of protecting the public, while all their data gets mined by an increasingly oppressive regime.

Liberals routinely smear all conservatives as stupid, ignorant, crazy or evil. Expect to see anyone registered or listed as conservative denied the ability to own a gun because you’re put on a list as mentally ill or retarded.

Medicare regulations already modified under the Quality of Life Years model that devalues life and especially past age 65 accelerate. If you’re on Medicare and over 65, the available test intervals increase more, the care you receive decreases and the entire system shifts to deny care to save money on healthcare and retirement while eliminating all those obsolete old voters.

Euthanasia becomes legal. Medicare increasingly recommends it for everyone over 65 who votes conservative and any Democrat who costs too much money.

The death penalty is essentially halted. Mass pardons and restorations of felon voting rights. Prisons fill up with people guilty of hate crimes (not being PC enough) instead.

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