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Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton review – the pain of post-Trump stress disorder
UK Guardian ^ | 9/23/2024 | Peter Conrad

Posted on 09/25/2024 10:35:49 AM PDT by simpson96

What Hillary Clinton lost was her chance to be the first female US president; what she has gained in the eight years since that wrenching disappointment is less clear. “My life is richer and my spirit is stronger,” she insists, but her new book, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty, reveals her to be also the victim of lingering PTSD. Brooding about her defeat, she muddles the five-step grieving process and alternates between denial and anger, bargaining and depression. As yet, despite walks in the woods and romps with her grandchildren, she seems not to have arrived at acceptance. Just as Donald Trump continues to grouse about the supposedly stolen election of 2020, so Clinton shadow-boxes her way through endless reruns of her wonky, uncharismatic 2016 campaign.

An FBI official, she relates, recently commiserated with her about Trump’s victory and blamed the bureau for tripping up her candidacy when it reopened an investigation into her emails. Clinton spurns his offer of sympathy, snapping “I would have been a great president”, and stalks away. Later, she elaborates a morbid fantasy about the US in Trump’s second term, with troops in the streets and concentration camps for refugees. In 2016, Trump anatomised American malaise and boasted: “I alone can fix it.” Clinton’s doomy scenario has a corresponding unspoken subtext. “I alone,” she seems to imply, “could have stopped him.”

Deprived of power, she has had to settle for fame, moving in a blinding glare of publicity alongside her buddies Spielberg and Wintour Her sense of entitlement leads her to experiment with appropriate titles for herself, if only the outcome had been different.

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1 posted on 09/25/2024 10:35:49 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

PTSD for TDS folks.


2 posted on 09/25/2024 10:39:47 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: simpson96
Narcissistic sociopath.
3 posted on 09/25/2024 10:40:00 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: simpson96

She should have been disgraced a long time ago.


4 posted on 09/25/2024 10:53:06 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: The_Media_never_lie

When I feel down, I often watch her scowl in defeat and the hysterical reaction of her supporters on the Youtube excerpts of 2016 Election Night.


5 posted on 09/25/2024 10:55:26 AM PDT by laconic ( )
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To: simpson96

She’s probably part of the shadow Presidency under biden/harris.

She should stop complaining!


6 posted on 09/25/2024 10:56:52 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: simpson96

Hillaryous Rotten Criminal a deplorable POS “mythomaniac” sociopath. RIH


7 posted on 09/25/2024 11:01:04 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: simpson96
IMG-7104
8 posted on 09/25/2024 11:05:00 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: laconic; GreenHornet

Copied from GreenHornet post -

No matter what she says or does, Hillary will spend the rest of her life waking up every morning knowing that, thanks to Donald Trump, she will never, ever, ever be the President of the United States.


9 posted on 09/25/2024 11:17:46 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: simpson96

Hillary reminds me of an infamous vaudville act, the Cherry Sisters. Their show was called “Something Good, Something Sad”, filled with music, drum pounding, poetry, mouth harp playing and recitations, elicited howls from audiences everywhere.


10 posted on 09/25/2024 11:36:51 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: simpson96

Go write an acceptance speech and cry to your mother Hillary.


11 posted on 09/25/2024 11:38:13 AM PDT by kawhill
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To: laconic

I love the one of her being tossed into the van.


12 posted on 09/25/2024 12:06:02 PM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: simpson96

Considering how much misery and unhappiness she has caused for so many other people, Hillary’s own unhappiness and her wallowing in post-election depression is sorely deserved.


13 posted on 09/25/2024 12:09:06 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: mund1011

>>she will never, ever, ever be the President of the United States.<<

Ahhh, that has such a nice ring to it. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.


14 posted on 09/25/2024 12:11:12 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: simpson96

Lock
..Her
....Up


15 posted on 09/25/2024 12:31:07 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Big Pharma, Big tech, Big Comms, Big Oil, Big Defense Contractor, Big Banks - BUST THE TRUSTS)
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To: simpson96

My life is richer and my spirit is stronger.
*****
I bet the Clinton Foundation did too.


16 posted on 09/25/2024 3:49:42 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: simpson96

She remains tied to her Promethean rock, unable to get free. Her election loss eats away at her every hour of every day. Even her best friends are tired of hearing her bitch about her loss. I’m sure Bill Clinton has long since told her to put a sock in it.


17 posted on 09/26/2024 3:12:48 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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