Hillary Clinton tells voters to 'get over yourself' when it comes to Biden-Trump rematch

With a electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would feel safe to vote for whomsoever they wish, as their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn’t win.

Just search for videos on FPTP voting if you want an explanation on how and why the spoiler effect exists.

Electoral reform is possible in each individual state (for now), we dont need federal reform! Maine and Alaska have already passed electoral reform.

Republicans are moving to make alternative electoral systems illegal in their states. Republicans LOVE first past the post voting. Just sbsolutely adore it. Why would you want to use the same voting system republicans want?

More political parties means a higher percentage of the population is represented by their choices in the voting booth. More people involved in the electoral process, more people engaged.

Its a win win win all around for not just the people, but also for the democratic party. More people voting means more democratic votes. The numbers dont lie. So what’s the hold up blue states?

Some day we will be able to vote for who best represents our interests. We won’t need to grovel on our knees, begging for representationin government. We won’t need to wait for the Republican party to stop existing.

We can do it right now. We don’t have to get over a damn thing. If anyone needs to get over themselves, it would be the democrats who assume they are the only way forward.

Consider starting a campaign to change how we vote in your own state! Force our representatives to compete with fresh outside ideas. We deserve the best representation, not excuses.

evergreen,

Hillary is a downer cuck that needs to stfu and gtfo. Nobody cares what she has to say. She’s done enough. Please just fuck off and go make some insider trades or something.

PP_BOY_,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Is she scared there won’t be anymore opportunies for $200,000 speeches if Trump gets a second term? What’s she worried about?

tjhart85,
tjhart85 avatar

Conversely, maybe she thinks there will be MORE opportunity for $200k speeches if Trump wins!

casmael, (edited )

I don’t know dick about shit but I know for absolutely fucking certain that Hilary rod man Clinton should shut the fuck up

aniki,

Yall ready for the end of America?

credo,

As a middle aged millennial (how the hell did that happen?) I am so proud of this comment section.

The two powers with a death grip on our society need to (a) let that shit go and (b) fix our voting system before that society breaks.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
Semi-Hemi-Demigod avatar

Changing our voting system will take longer than we have before society breaks

MedicPigBabySaver,

She’s a rotten c you next Tuesday!

Fuck off Hillary!

Tolstoshev,

Hillary was the only candidate unlikeable enough to lose to Trump. She should stick that in her pipe and smoke it.

Maeve,

She won the popular vote. It's sickening that the dnc has sunken so low.

Dukeofdummies,
Dukeofdummies avatar

She BARELY won the popular vote. Yes she should have won but her second term would've been this all over again 😑

Gork,

She did try to pander to us with this gem of a phrase, “I don’t know who created Pokémon Go, but I want to figure out how to get them to have Pokémon Go to the polls”

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Though I loved Steven A. Smith’s smokey-voiced play-by-play of how Hillary fucked up, - just like CNN would be expected to do - he focus on how this comment hurt her and Joe Biden’s standing because is would “alienate voters” and the margins are thin, but not how wrong and almost grotesque it is for a politician to say, “You have to vote for me, because of how bad the other guy is!”

Like, yeah, you rigged this system and now because of your own decisions, you have made it a tenuous situation. You have two choices - change or let the other guy win. What do you want, democrats? You tell us it’s an emergency! Why don’t you get to it! And we won’t fall for bullshit promises, we want action now - especially on the urgent stuff like Palestine. You gave us the vote, and we’re using it Libs.

pendulum_,
@pendulum_@lemmy.world avatar

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SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

OK Boomer.

I’m voting for Biden but I’m not obligated to be excited or happy about it or to not critique it for the DNC. It’s a choice between a lawful neutral (at best) milquetoast waffling imperial fuckhead and an outright chaotic evil dictatorial megalomaniac imperial fuckhead. One choice is clearly superior but that’s the choice that’s also dangling the more dangerous choice over me like a threat as the only reason to vote for them. That’s pretty fucking abusive, if you ask me.

Talking down to voters with stuff like “Why don’t you go run for something, then?” worked out so well for her before, right?

Boozilla,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

Well said. The two front runners are like creepy old lords from Game of Thrones or something. One is much worse, but neither is good.

The Clintons need to retire quietly, nobody wants their input.

kent_eh,

One is much worse, but neither is good.

Given that one of them will be president after the election, it should be obvious that preventing the much worse option is in everyone’s best interest.

msage,

It’s like the fucking Trolley problem, but blaming the entire setup on the person next to the switch.

Who put that person there? Why are we shifting the blame on them? Stop the trolley, don’t act all smug pointing fingers screaming “noone normal would let the trolley go straight”.

scaredoftrumpwinning,

South Park called it long ago and it still fits. It fits with Hillary and Trump back in 2016 and today. It’s a choice between a shit sandwich and a douche bag. They just missed the part where one is hell bent on destroying our democracy and then added a season with Mr Garrison as president.

Now we are repeating history and might put “Garrison” in charge again. I never liked history but I didn’t think we were this dumb it hasn’t even been a decade but that’s more to do with brain washing

distantsounds,

Hilary propped up Trump. Never forget that. The political turmoil we are currently in is directly because or her. Fuck her and the DNC

cooljacob204,

I don't think it's fair to put Trump all on her. If we were to ask anyone 10 years ago if someone like Trump could win the presidency we all would have laughed. No surprise they tried to prop up an opposing candidate they thought was bad.

DragonTypeWyvern,

The Simpsons warned her, and she did it anyways.

Silverseren,

Yeah, that was exactly the feeling at the time. No one saw Trump coming.

I can only assume people making claims otherwise now are kids who have no understanding of the history involved.

PhlubbaDubba,

Not just kids, white kids, nobody else needs to have it explained to them why throwing the election to punish the establishment does nothing to help anyone and in fact makes you not just a collaborator, but the most insidious and/or idiotic sort of one imaginable.

Their thinking is either, “I know how to defeat the fascists! Let the fascists win!” or much more likely underneath, “I know exactly where I stand on the hit list, I can wait it out for enough bodies to pile up so I can file my demands with the bodies as set dressing!”

The white left would see us all be made corpses before they ever tolerated the possibility that we might not choose to follow them without being convinced and compromised with.

treefrog,

I’ve read through several of your comments in this thread. Do you know any IRL leftists, or are you just assuming everyone is white from talking to people on lemmy?

Most of the leftists I know IRL aren’t white. And I’m sure some of them didn’t bother to vote for Hillary.

PhlubbaDubba,

Literally everyone I know is either a leftist or comfortable in leftist spaces, and literally everyone I know thinks that the white “left” fuckasses who threw 2016 because counting votes instead of individual donors didn’t let them feel pandered to enough aren’t worth the air they breathe to spew their bullshit about what we made them do to us.

Dobbs is the white “left’s” child, they had the chance to abort, but they actively chose not to, and now they don’t get to abandon that child just because the fact that it wanders the neighborhood skinning small animals reflects bad on them.

Any real leftist with functioning brain cells either voted for Hillary or has owned up to the severe mistake that not doing that was, anyone else is just red-washing them being a fascist collaborator, and would live to see trial among the rest of the lot if the revolution they claim they want instead of voting ever actually came.

They don’t get to call themselves socialists while selling out the common laborer to republican governance, they don’t get to call themselves an ally while standing by as women are hung by the umbilical chord because republicans would rather let them die than allow the possibility that a woman can “pull a fast one on them,” they don’t get to call themselves anti-imperialists while making space for the president who handed Israel Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights getting back into office if it means they get to feel valid about using my people’s corpses as set dressing for the whole sickening display they want to paint for themselves as the saviors of us lowly ungratefuls who shall descend upon us with their divinely inspired marching orders that will surely brint about world peace and global communist revolution and surely won’t just get us all killed while they sigh and gaslight the survivors about how we just didn’t revolution hard enough for their brilliant plans to work.

treefrog,

I feel you. I just know a lot of black leftists that fall into that camp, so you constantly saying white leftists didn’t fit with my world view.

PhlubbaDubba,

I emphasize white because it’s white mindset

Willful blindness to the perspective of the PoC who find themselves most at risk whenever one of these vote strike or punishment vote movements spins up

Carlo,

I agree that any leftist person with two brain cells to rub together ought to have voted for Clinton in the general. I voted Sanders in the primary, and I certainly turned out for her. Maybe it’s just because I’ve blocked most of the tankie dipshits masquerading as leftists, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone claim otherwise that wasn’t a bona fide fash.

I do think it’s both fallacious and counterproductive to blame Sanders supporters for Clinton’s loss, considering they voted for her at a much higher rate than Clinton’s own supporters did for Obama in 2008. Fully 25% of Clinton’s 2008 primary supporters voted McCain in the general. By comparison, only 12% of Sanders supporters voted Trump.

CancerMancer,

I saw Trump coming. He did something no one else was doing at the time: acknowledge just how miserable life was for many Americans at the time. Other politicians have been content to pretend everything is great save for their pet policy projects, Trump said it’s all bad. In a post-COVID world this would be more effective save for his own history of failure and inaction, but people often have short memories and they will forget quickly if they get angry about something else.

Last thing anyone needs is the narcissist Hillary Clinton inserting herself where she doesn’t belong. I imagine voting enthusiasm will already be low because the choice between a failed conman and Weekend at Biden’s isn’t particularly enticing, so maybe Hillary can just fuck off for a bit and not make it worse.

Ensign_Crab,

I don’t think it’s fair to put Trump all on her

Why not? Her supporters blame Trump on anyone who ever thought about voting for Sanders in the primaries, regardless of who they voted for in the general, and have for nearly 8 years now.

Sanders campaigned for her in states she ignored because they were full of worthless flyover hayseeds who were beneath her. Her campaign didn’t seem to understand how the electoral college functions.

Her campaign WANTED to go up against Trump because they were unforgivably stupid enough to think that Republicans would be less energized by a charismatic con man than by Jeb Bush, Republicans’ presumptive frontrunner that no one wanted.

Clinton earned her loss multiple times over.

Ensign_Crab,

She got her second choice in 2016, like all centrists did.

Silverseren,

Since when was she a centrist? Her congressional voting and action history put her way left of the party, way farther than Obama, and second only to Bernie Sanders.

anticolonialist,

Blink 2 times if you are being held against your will

Silverseren,

Apologies for actually knowing the history of the subject. I've had these debates with misinformed people on subject regarding Clinton, Biden, and so many others going back years. For some reason, far left people actively fall for made up right wing BS claims about Democrats.

anticolonialist,

Liberals translate ‘misinformed’ to mean anything I don’t like

Ensign_Crab,

Lie to someone else. Obama won the 2008 primaries because his healthcare plan was to the left of Clinton’s.

Centrists in congress made sure to limit Obama’s plan to what Clinton ran on.

She’s nothing but a centrist.

Silverseren,

Wait, wait, wait, are we talking about the healthcare plan that was fundamentally based on the individual mandate from the Heritage Foundation?

Also, are you referring to this plan from Hillary?

Ensign_Crab,

Yes and yes. Obama ran on a public option and no individual mandate. Clinton ran on no public option and an individual mandate. The Heritage Foundation plan was still to the left of what Clinton ran on.

We got what Clinton wanted, but the voters wanted what Obama was selling. Even though it turned out to be a bill of goods.

I remember the 08 campaign. Her cronies also made a huge stink about flag pins, started the “Obama isn’t a citizen” rumors that Trump would run with later, and once she had lost the nomination because the party didn’t successfully quash her opposition for her, her supporters started a PAC to get McCain/Palin elected because Clinton’s cult would rather have Palin as VP than have a black man be president.

Clinton’s VP pick of Tim Kaine in 2016 was an additional “fuck you” to everyone to her left. I get that you’re trying to pretend that Clinton is someone that the left should be happy with, but Clinton is centrist at best. She’s a corporate owned neoliberal from the “triangulate between the meekest Democrat and the vilest republican” Third Way James Carville wing of the party.

Yes, she is absolutely a centrist.

CancerMancer,

Hillary Clinton is an avid follower of the Iron Law of Institutions

batmaniam,

She openly opposed gay marriage as a NYS senator. Her career has been over long before 2016.

Silverseren,

Oh, fun, we're going back to the usual BS that tried to be thrown at her, despite her having the longest history of supporting the LGBT community out of anyone involved. I also remember leftists getting super pissed off when so many of the LGBT community supported her (though not the young ones who didn't live through the period) because of her long history of supporting the community and being there, both personally and with her political position.

With her being likely the first Congressperson to force equal federal compensation and benefits for same sex couples that worked in her office or, later as SoS, who were in her department. Even if those couples weren't married in the time period before that became legal.

batmaniam,

Basic human rights are not subject to pragmatism. She wound up where she needed to be.

CooperRedArmyDog,

I agree she is not a centrist, but she is a fucking right wing ghoul … so is Obama btw

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

politico.com/…/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-…

So to take Bush down, Clinton’s team drew up a plan to pump Trump up. Shortly after her kickoff, top aides organized a strategy call, whose agenda included a memo to the Democratic National Committee: “This memo is intended to outline the strategy and goals a potential Hillary Clinton presidential campaign would have regarding the 2016 Republican presidential field,” it read.

“The variety of candidates is a positive here, and many of the lesser known can serve as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right. In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more ‘Pied Piper’ candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party,” read the memo.

“Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to:

• Ted Cruz

• Donald Trump

• Ben Carson

We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to [take] them seriously."

While the campaign also kept a close eye on Rubio, monitoring his announcement speech and tightly designing the tweeted responses to his moves, Clinton’s team in Brooklyn was delightedly puzzled by Trump’s shift into the pole position that July after attacking John McCain by declaring, “I like people who weren’t captured.”

Eleven days after those comments about McCain, Clinton aides sought to push the plan even further: An agenda item for top aides’ message planning meeting read, “How do we prevent Bush from bettering himself/how do we maximize Trump and others?"

Maeve,

Wow. I can't believe I missed that. How much more do the American public need to understand we are a nation ruled by kleptocrats? Thanks for this.

Entropywins,
Entropywins avatar

I remember something like this happening in Germany...some people like Von schleicher and Von Papen thinking if they propped up Hitler it would help the conservative old Gaurd consolidate power...not exactly the same but it looks the same and smells like shit to me

PhlubbaDubba,

I remember something similar, the far left in Germany stabbing the Social Democrats in the back thinking Hitler coming to power would teach those establishment politicians a lesson and surely they’d get to bulldoze their way to lead next time!

“First Hitler, then Our Turn.”

reddig33,

If she’s jaded about the whole thing, can’t say I blame her. If the dems had pushed to get rid of the stupid electoral college after Gore’s “loss” she might have been president.

Altofaltception,

To be fair, I don’t think she would have made a good president even if the electoral college didn’t exist. She would have been better than Trump but that’s not saying much, because a shit sandwich is better than Trump.

Silverseren,

Why wouldn't she have been good? She was one of the few people in Congress that actually cared about understanding and enacting policy (ie actually getting stuff done). Her platform was the only one with actual details on how to accomplish the stated goals on a legal level.

Not that any of that matters now, since her comment here is pretty shit.

But I don't like the re-writing of history on how she was a million times better candidate than Trump and had a ton of made up conspiracy nonsense being claimed about her at the time.

orcrist,

What did she get wrong? The Iraq War vote was a huge one in my opinion, but of course this entire question depends on your individual values.

Silverseren,

Really? You're bringing up that long since debunked canard? I can only assume you don't know anything about the context because you were a child when said vote happened.

Hint: That vote in question wasn't actually about allowing a war. And it didn't help that Bush actively lied about what intel we had from Iraq and Afghanistan. He really should have faced charges for that alongside Cheney.

orcrist,

The intel that many of us knew was fake at the time, before the vote? That intel? … Yeah.

You can assume whatever you like, my friend. Good luck with that.

Altofaltception,

The thing with Hillary Clinton is that, even conspiracy theories aside (because I’m not a conspiracy theorist), her morals are ambiguous. She is not “clean”, with some questionable things she’s done over the years, including some potential corruption.

Now, I’m not saying she’s the most corrupt in the bunch, but she’s not the saint that sometimes the Democrats make her out to be. I’m also not holding her to a higher standard, because that’s bullshit, but what I’m saying is if we are taking the moral high ground here, we should pick a better mascot.

Ultimately it comes down to whether would she have been a better president than Trump? Without a doubt. But would she have been a good president? I’m not convinced.

Silverseren,

Feel free to point out what corruption and morals you're referring to that aren't based on conspiracy theories or made up right wing mud-slinging then.

I remember a lot of the usual made up claims about her being anti-LGBT despite her long history of actually supporting the LGBT community (and voting or not voting for gay marriage in NYS is not a gotcha about her history or her reasons then).

It reminds me a lot of the made up nonsense about Biden's history with the African American community that right wingers and leftists were trying to mudsling over, yet said groups still being perplexed why he continued to have such massive support in said community. Because despite twisting of statements from decades ago, it was his actions that mattered. And that there's context to those actions (such as how the black community itself was the primary pushing force behind the 1994 crime bill).

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That would have taken a Constitutional amendment and I don’t think that would have been possible any time within the last 24 years.

The Democrats never had anywhere near the majority needed and I doubt enough states would be willing to ratify it if they did.

I think the electoral college is stupid and archaic, but I also think we’re stuck with it for the foreseeable future.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a workaround that several states have signed on for. Your state allocates all of the electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. But they only do it once enough states sign on to make a majority.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It sounds great, but I would be very surprised if any red states went along with it.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I think best case is that you get enough purple states to sign on. But either way, it’s a lot more feasible than an amendment.

reddig33,

You ever know until you try. They couldn’t even be bothered to get behind the idea. It’s bitten them in the ass repeatedly.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I think they did know, which is why they didn’t try. You need 2/3 of both houses of congress and a ratification by 3/4 of the states. There has been no time between 2000 and 2024 when that would have had the remotest chance of happening. All they would have done would be to waste taxpayer dollars on something performative.

Like I said, I don’t like the electoral college and I wish we didn’t have it, but we’re stuck with it.

tal, (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

You need 2/3 of both houses of congress and a ratification by 3/4 of the states

You don’t actually need Congress at all. You need 2/3rds of the states to initiate the process via the convention route, and 3/4 to ratify (so functionally, probably 3/4 of states, assuming that a state willing to ratify is also willing to initiate).

But functionally, there is no way that 3/4 of the states are going to make a change to shift power away from smaller states to larger states, which moving away from the electoral college would do (well, okay, it doesn’t have to do that, but if you want it to be moving towards a population-only weighting, which I think is the main reason that a lot of people on the left side of the aisle would like that to change, it does).

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Okay, fair enough, but that’s not going to happen either.

reddig33,

While you’re content throwing up your hands claiming nothing can be done, republicans already have a plan to change the electoral college to their advantage.

www.theguardian.com/…/nebraska-electoral-system

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Please go away, get out of public life and stop “helping.”

Being a dick to people is not going to get them to vote your way. Same with the ‘deplorables’ comment. I agreed with her on it, but it was a stupid thing to say in an election.

ShepherdPie,

I think the deplorables comment would have been fine if they did try to cowardly walk it back immediately after in the typical miquetoast, ‘cater to everyone’ Democratic fashion.

PhlubbaDubba,

Maybe they wouldn’t have thought they had to if they could have counted on the left for any of the energy coming up with reasons why them not voting is everyone else’s fault.

The white left being shocked and outraged that they in fact do not get to call themselves the base when they have to be dragged kicking and screaming by their hair just to get into a poll booth, never mind to not be a fucking moron and vote green or some shit, never ceases to amaze me.

The Tea Party are the Republican base because they don’t have to be convinced to show up for the general you entitled fucking morons.

ShepherdPie,

Oh right, when you’re running in a popularity contest and lose, it’s the fault of the people voting not your own. The fact that she couldn’t even be more appealing than a known conman, failed businessman, and reality TV host with zero political experience really says a lot.

PhlubbaDubba,

When those people voting let a fascist in, then yes, it is in fact their fault.

If you need more convincing than “that guy is a fascist” to be doing everything in your power yes including voting you dumbass to stop him from coming to power, you’re a fucking fascist, doesn’t matter how many pride flags you cram in your bio, doesn’t matter how many times you say your Hail Marries Genocide Joes, when it came down to it you chose letting fascism win over sucking it up for someone who’s greatest sin was not delivering St. Bernard his rightful throne over something as petty as he got 3 million less fucking votes than her because you shitlord cunts don’t even turn out for your own guy.

Bernie deserved better than you. It’s because of voters like you that the DNC has been drifting right, because why bother trying left when all they’re met with is unreliable and underperformant apathy for turnout, when playing the center gets voters who show up to the ballot without even fucking knowing all the offices that are gonna be up on it because at least they remember the whole civic duty part of their public school education!

go_go_gadget,

Rather than calling us names how about making material compromises with us?

go_go_gadget,

Explain something to me. How can you simultaneously believe we don’t vote but care that we don’t vote? Biden won the 2020 general election so if we didn’t vote for him then who cares if we won’t vote for him in 2024?

So which is it?

Ensign_Crab,

“Cater to everyone but the left”

batmaniam,

It wouldn’t have. That’s when I knew we were screwed.

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Yes, it’s like she took notes from her husband, but isn’t Smooth Willy enough to pull it off. I think it’s because deep down, she is just a bitch.

Zahille7,

South Park said it best: “my wife is a crazy bitch.”

some_guy,

Lewis Black said her problem was that she never went away. I’d say that’s pretty spot on. Shitheads wants attention, wants to be important. Maybe if she’d given the public a break and then came back for a second act it would have been different for her. But we’re still in act one and it never ends.

Hackerman_uwu,

I’m still convinced that only person insufferable enough to lose to Donald fucking Trump in 2016 was Hillary Clinton.

You can hate it all you want but in some level it’s a popularity contest and she is utterly utterly unlikeable.

Her smarmy q&a with those millennials was a fucking PR nightmare.

jeffw,

Like “basket of deplorables,” she’s not wrong. She just shouldn’t be saying it because it can only really hurt things

PapaStevesy,

Nah, she’s wrong. The only way to “get over ourselves” in this situation is to stop caring about the present and future of our country and world.

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