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[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is she still living rent free in their heads?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Worse, I think there might be some amorous feelings just below the surface.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Next we're gonna find out that they had an affair in the 80s and that's Eric's real origin story.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I just threw up in my mouth a little

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it involves diapers and thigh high leather boots.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just wait in 10 to 20 years when the zombie Hillary adds start running.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Considering how she’s not in politics anymore, I hope she sues him for libel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would it be slander if spoken?

Regardless, the standards for a public figure are very high and often difficult to prove. Despite no longer being active in politics, she would still qualify as a public figure.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Hilary's super secret brainwashing technique that she chose not to use in her own election bid. Keep the conspiracies coming.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, according to another Trump conspiracy theory, Hillary got a million illegal immigrants to vote for her in California which is why he lost the popular vote. So somehow she was able to get a million people to illegally vote without leaving any evidence and she decided to have them all vote in safe blue California instead of within swing states.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he lost by 2.9 million so even if you double it he still lost. He also did that 'were gonna find out about those illegal votes' and asked for voter info. Every state responded with no that's illegal and we never heard about it until he lost again. Why would I vote for someone that can't even protect my right to vote when they're president? Or a weak ass party that can't get anything done against a powerful party that can cheat and get away with it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Trump actually formed a commission to turn up evidence of illegal voting. Their plan was to show that Democrats were illegally voting. Only, the evidence showed that most illegal voting came from Trump supporters voting twice - and even then it wasn't enough to make a difference in any race.

We're talking about a dozen or so nationwide and all easily caught. Because, surprise surprise, it turns out that it's hard to vote illegally and NOT get caught. It's orders of magnitude harder to vote illegally at a scale where it affects an election result without getting caught.

Instead of releasing their findings, Trump's election commission decided to just disband themselves. This way, Trump could claim that there was still fraud without his own commission saying otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I love that I never hear a out Hillary at all, except for when the GOP constantly bring her up... it would be years of not knowing she exists anymore otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't the Conservatives the ones always going on about "Trump living rent free in your head"?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She lives in the MAGA Republican head rent free.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've had it in for her ever since the early 90s. They just never got over the uppity woman piping up on matters of policy.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He wants to run against the person he beat in 2016 and not the person who beat him in 2020, the reasoning for the person in particular makes sense.

But the brainwashing thing seems a little too always-online, I don't think you're winning over any moderates who voted Trump 2016, Biden 2020, and those are the people he needs.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They may not exist.

In 2016, Clinton got around 66M votes, to Trump's 63m. But in 2020, Biden got over 81M, while Trump got over 74M. 2020 was the highest voter turnout, by percentage, since 1900.

It may be that nobody at all changed their mind, and that the casual voters, who normally don't bother, decided to vote this time, and more chose Biden. The winning strategy is to give these more apathetic voters a reason to care about your side.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

oh i know a lot of people who half heartedly voted for trump the first time as a meme. especially terminally online 18-20 year olds who had never voted or cared before. i know 6 people who voted for him as a meme then regretted it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yes I think that was a lot of his appeal in '16. It was people voting for anything but the status quo, a protest vote, a donkey vote of sorts. It turns out that the status quo is still better than an imbecile.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yup, same. Not all were in that age range, but I knew some in that range. I also knew people much older, but very low-info, who voted for him because he had that game show and he would "shake things up" and was an "outsider" and "not a politician" and other stupid reasons. I also knew a guy in his 30s who was scared into voting for the first time (for donnie) because he was convinced Hillary was going to "take his guns". Also, this guy does not actually OWN guns, but wants to be sure he can get them...

It's sad that elections are probably decided at the margins, often by people making absolutely terrible decisions based on very little actual information.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All that power and she couldn’t use it for herself. Did she get it from a monkey's paw?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She trained with the Bene Geseritt and learned The Voice.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL, retired politician, rent free in their heads.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the rent's cheap, lots of empty space, but the shit smell is just horrible.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Unoriginal copycatting. This is only because she said MAGAs would need deprogramming. Accusation = confession as usual

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Every accusation is a confession.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It's always projection.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Stuff like this should be illegal. But alas.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

This feels.... Desperate

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Hillary should start sarcastically campaigning for Trump. Do a “Lock Her Up” tour.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I’m so glad there’s no one smart enough left in his circle to tell him to shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

MAGA: "Please Hillary, come back! You were the only democratic nominee that a MAGA-head could actually win against! We don't want to go back to the constant stream of failed governor from Florida or rich asshole senator/governor from New England!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump accusing others of brainwashing 😀😀😀 he's just jealous because his followers don't have brains so that he can claim to do what she does

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She's probably regretting not brainwashing more people to vote for her in 2016

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

But she did win the popular vote. Its the system that America haves that doesnt make any sense.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Playing the hits I guess

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you hearing voices again Donald? You should know she hasn't spoken to you in a year. Honey you should take your meds. Yeah haha ofc "make America great again" but make your bed first. Thank you honey.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really?

95% of the time I hear anything from or about HRC it’s because the right wingnuts are constantly talking about her.

She keeps a pretty low profile for someone with that alleged level of control.

Besides, isn’t brainwashing the repetition of simplistic ideas and negative reinforcement of questioning those ideas? Making everyone on the same team, and punishing those who don’t conform? Sounds a lot like the republicans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Rent. Free.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So their strategy is to double down on the crazy. This is certainly going to be an interesting campaign season then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Can she include "take out the garbage wednesday night" for me because man i could use some help.

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