Hillary Clinton will deliver remarks to her staff and supporters at 10:30 a.m. ET in New York Wednesday morning, her campaign announced.
Clinton called Donald Trump early Wednesday morning to concede the presidential race.
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Twice she expected to win, and twice she lost. This time to a buffoon, a madman, our new Gropin-Fuehrer Trump. That has to hurt.
There plenty of missteps. Debbie Whatshername Schultz helped create this path to America’s probable implosion. Donna Brazile helped out, too. And then we have the spectacle that was Bill Clinton.
A smug, tone deaf campaign, convinced that it was invincible, using a flawed, tepid plan to elect a flawed, tepid candidate. What can she say, except, “Dear America, I am so sorry. I should have never run. Even I realized that my baggage was larger than a speeding locomotive, yet I assumed I could leap tall buildings with a single bound. My arrogance, my closed minded approach, my bubble in which I willingly placed myself, all of these steps and errors of judgment led to the election of a fascist, sexist, vile creep. Blame me. I do.”
But such honesty will never cross her lips.
If disenchanted Sanders supporters end up a factor in Trump’s victory they’ll need a long sit down with themselves. They were upset that he lost a primary to HRC and that they felt that Primary was rigged. They’ve said as much. But if that anger motivated them to vote Trump they were reckless and unthinking. Bernie Sanders would have been a powerful Senator in a Clinton Administration. He’d have her ear anytime he wanted it and he’d get stuff done even with Democrats in the minority. In Trump’s administration he’ll be a seat warmer. If Sanders voters turned this election to Trump they should reckon with the fact that they also ended Sanders career. Ended his vision and his dreams. He is no one now. Nothing now. Just an old man keeping a seat warm until Vermont can replace him with a wingnut.
If you wanted Bernie’s vision of America to be America you shot that down with a Trump vote. It will never happen now. With a President Clinton you’d have had some of it. With Trump you’ll get it’s antithesis as well as a Right Wing SCOTUS that will shoot down future Bernie’s for 30 years or more.
Well, it was a nice planet while it lasted.
It is a lot more complex than that, to be honest. There is a lot of anger from a lot of people that all they’ve had over the last forty years is a long shower of shit and piss (and for the Millennials, it’s been a short sharp shower of excrement). The problem is that, instead of fighting back hard and going to their traditional base of the lower classes. the Democrats have been terrified of waging a “class war”; have failed to support unions as they’ve been busted (or at least failed to support them effectively), and failed to fight to fix the problems when they came up.
Oh, I am not letting the Sanders supporters who voted for Johnson or Stein off the hook either. Third Party Candidate protest votes are not votes against a rigged system. Did you idiots not learn anything from Brexit? People voted for it out of a sense of protest and the next day realized just how horrifying the world was going to be if they actually pulled that trigger. Luckily for them, they actually have a couple of outs. Unlucky for the US, we do not. We are stuck with Trump until at least 2020 (unless the GOP can reach an agreement with Schumer to oust Trump via impeachment), but unless that happens, our best hope for protecting what we have for the lower classes is Schumer doing to the GOP what they did to Obama- block everything. Truthfully, I had hoped that McMullen could have won Utah, but I suspect that was unlikely.
And finally- this is why I never believed that Clinton had an absolute lock on the Presidency. And this is why I often feel like Cassandra. Next time, let us not let the media pick our Presidential Candidates.
Oh, the planet will survive. The human race on the other hand…