But how Hillary left Ambassador Stevens to die such a horrible death that was 100% avoidable, ranks amongst the most truly reprehensible acts - or lack thereof - by any govt official in the history of the US.
Don't believe me? Take a look.
Posted on 09/09/2026 4:10:34 AM PDT by Libloather
Let’s start with the obvious: “Basket of deplorables” is a weird turn of phrase. There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples.
Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. There were two kinds of Donald Trump supporters, she explained: Voters who feel abandoned and desperate, who she placed in one metaphorical basket, and those she called “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic” — her “basket of deplorables.”
Trump — the same man who announced his candidacy by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” — clutched his proverbial pearls, aghast that his opponent had uttered such a shocking slander. His campaign turned that insult into an asset; supporters wore hats and shirts proudly declaring themselves deplorable. Pundits seized on the phrase, debating who does and doesn’t deserve to be called that. Five years later, many believe “deplorables” — figuratively and literally — are here to stay.
This is not a cautionary tale: Clinton probably didn’t lose the White House because of a figure of speech. But it’s a lesson in how politicians make unforced errors. And, in a nation where half the country thinks the other half is wrong and possibly even deplorable, it’s about how we talk about each other.
On Sept. 9, 2016, Clinton was the opening act for Barbra Streisand at a glitzy fundraiser in New York City. A group of LGBTQ supporters were gathered at Cipriani restaurant, and the Democratic candidate had one job: to fire up her donors.
“I am all that stands between you and the apocalypse,” Clinton told the cheering crowd. She launched into all the things she found “deplorable” about Trump...
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“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems,” Trump said in a speech at Trump Tower in New York. “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”
But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
I can still hear Hilrod’s truly deplorable, droning, monotone line “racist, xenophobic, homophonic, islamophobic” slur of normal Americans. Hillary Clinton, know liar responsible for the Benghazi deaths who screamed “what difference does it make” for all the world to see. She is a ghoul far worse than a deplorable.
I can still hear Hilrod’s truly deplorable, droning, monotone line “racist, xenophobic, homophonic, islamophobic” slur of normal Americans. Hillary Clinton, know liar responsible for the Benghazi deaths who screamed “what difference does it make” for all the world to see. She is a ghoul far worse than a deplorable.
I can still hear Hilrod’s truly deplorable, droning, monotone line “racist, xenophobic, homophonic, islamophobic” slur of normal Americans. Hillary Clinton, know liar responsible for the Benghazi deaths who screamed “what difference does it make” for all the world to see. She is a ghoul far worse than a deplorable.
She and her husband took US political life to an unsurpassed low Americans still can't shed!
Hillary deliberately committed an informal logical fallacy by exploiting the ambiguous wording of Trump's original statement.
Trump's (I'm omitting the honorific title "President" here because, at the time, he had yet to be elected to that office) original statement (I'm paraphrasing here) was merely that "droves of illegal immigrants are entering our country" and that they were committing "rape" (among other crimes). He did not explicitly label all illegals as "rapists" (and how could he have? Trump well knew that many of the illegals were women and children) - but Hillary brazenly misquoted or misconstrued what he had said, as though he had uttered a sweeping condemnation of all illegals.
When orating at political rallies, American politicians rarely bother splitting hairs and clearly stating whether they mean "at least one," "a small minority," "some," a "significant percentage," "most, but not all," or "all" - and Trump is no exception!
In fact, President Trump is perhaps the most-ambiguous public speaker I have ever heard.
It grates on my nerves, because I am myself a student of Rhetorics - but I understand that it serves him.
Regards,
Hillary deliberately committed an informal logical fallacy by exploiting the ambiguous wording of Trump's original statement.
Trump's (I'm omitting the honorific title "President" here because, at the time, he had yet to be elected to that office) original statement (I'm paraphrasing here) was merely that "droves of illegal immigrants are entering our country" and that they were committing "rape" (among other crimes). He did not explicitly label all illegals as "rapists" (and how could he have? Trump well knew that many of the illegals were women and children) - but Hillary brazenly misquoted or misconstrued what he had said, as though he had uttered a sweeping condemnation of all illegals.
When orating at political rallies, American politicians rarely bother splitting hairs and clearly stating whether they mean "at least one," "a small minority," "some," a "significant percentage," "most, but not all," or "all" - and Trump is no exception!
In fact, President Trump is perhaps the most-ambiguous public speaker I have ever heard.
It grates on my nerves, because I am myself a student of Rhetorics - but I understand that it serves him.
Regards,
So will she run in 2028?
But how Hillary left Ambassador Stevens to die such a horrible death that was 100% avoidable, ranks amongst the most truly reprehensible acts - or lack thereof - by any govt official in the history of the US.
Don't believe me? Take a look.
Yes, no doubt about it. And I’m sure it was far worse than pictures reveal.
So the author and her ilk are hatefilled scumbags.
Could anyone find that lie that President Trump said it? Of course, no one can find it, because it is BS...
10 years ago, I thought Hillary was unfit to be president and I still do...Hillary thought I was a Teen Deplorable, and I was proud of it!!
I need eye bleach....
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