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    Now if it was just a ride on a jet, that’s totally fine. Absolutely nothing suspicious could happen on a jet you just hitched a ride on.

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    Hillary is just jealous she has to hide and do it slowly for years whereas Trump doesn’t give a single fuck and do it the obnoxious way for 2 times more money.

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    I would think that Hillary having some experience in accepting bribes, would know…

    So idk why everyone is doing the pot/kettle thing (with various wordings). She’s speaking from experience.

    Corruption is probably one thing that Hillary knows about, and she’s calling it out. Doesn’t mean she’s any less guilty of being bribed, not does it mean that this isn’t a bribe for Trump, nor does that mean we should be unhappy at Trump and not unhappy at her for them both doing it.

    My point here is, why not both?

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    Stats for this thread:

    Comments about Hillary Clinton: 150

    Comments about the president of the US receiving a bribe: 3

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      Comments about the president of the US receiving a bribe: 3

      My brother in Christ, there are a thousand other threads about Trump being corrupt full of people lamenting Trump being corrupt.

      But this post is like hearing Al Capone chastise Pablo Escobar over organized crime.

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            Aside from anecdotal evidence, Snopes was unable to find any proof to corroborate this claim. We know that most major food labeling requirements occurred in the decades following Capone’s 1947 death. However, aside from infant formula, there is no requirement to label expiration dates in the U.S. All such labeling is done so voluntarily by food manufacturers.

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            When you share a little factoids like this, you don’t think check to see if they’re true, this sounds like it was designed to be shared and to be viral, but nothing of whether it was fucking true or not, Jesus, fucking Christ dude do better on the Internet

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            I didn’t know that about old scarface, I will be adding that to the list of fun facts right next to the fact that at least one Roman Emperor thought that he was becoming a god right between violently shitting himself to death.

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      What is your point? Lemmy is full of Trump criticism. It’s the norm. One thread shitting on Hillary won’t change that.

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        She had plenty of supporters, why do you think Bernie was shut out? It was just mostly the older and more centrist democrats, so not people on here.

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          Not plenty enough to keep that orange turd out of office the first time and putting us all in this mess.

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          She had plenty of supporters, why do you think Bernie was shut out?

          Because her supporters run the party.

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            Your downvotes don’t change the facts, there was a decent core of supporters in the democratic party. You’re wrong when you say no one liked her. The fact that you don’t like that wing of the democratic party doesn’t change the fact that they’re around.

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            And there was plenty of people who supported her in the caucus, which was 100% ordinary people voting with their butt. It’s fine if you don’t like her, but don’t act like nobody supported her. You and the people you talk to aren’t the entire democratic party.

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              Nobody’s acting like “nobody supported her”. Plenty of people supported her, but she didn’t support them and so they should be called by their proper name:

              fools

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        It’s almost as though human beings have lost the ability to prioritize what actually matters

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          It’s almost as though no one wants to hear from her anymore except a bunch of people who are so unforgivably out of touch that they think she’s a good messenger.

          It might be a good point, but she doesn’t deserve positive attention ever.

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          This is a post about her and her tweet. If you want to discuss the Air Force Bribe, I’m sure there are thousands of simultaneous discussions happening at various points on the internet. Perhaps even millions.

          Sorry that this space isn’t dedicated to that, though.

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      .ml never fail to take a criticism against Trump and whatabbout it towards a democrat

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        If they didn’t suck so much it wouldn’t be so valid of a criticism.

        Get your own fuckin house together. Then we can talk.

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          not good that your guy is receiving $400 mil airplanes

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            Hillary personally did more to put Trump in office than every protest voter & third party voter combined

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            We blame you for him. You understand that, right? In our eyes, he’s your guy.

            Trying to make leftists feel bad about Trump doesn’t work. We believe (And have the fucking receipts) that it is the DNC’s (And the Clintons) corruption that is at fault that Trump is President. Again.

            The Democratic Party died with Paul Wellstone.

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              You understand that, right? In our eyes, he’s your guy.

              centrists prefer trump over anyone to their left.

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            Not my fucking guy. I don’t care about the fucking plane.

            I want the democrats to stop pretending this is an episode of West Wing and play hardball. I want them to act like any of this matters. Because it actually matters.

            What doesn’t do anything is finger wagging and gotya tweets. That kind of shit appeals to a insignificantly small demographic of Brunch Liberals and literally nobody else. They should be filibustering every single republican bill and denying every political appointment. Leadership should be stripping committee appointments and threatening primaries on turncoat dems. The entire party should as a singular unit be blocking everything they can. They should be aggressively promoting an alternative policy agenda with real tangible benefits for real people.

            But they won’t do any of that. They’ll stand around cock-in-hand and wait for Schumer’s strategy of “give them everything they want” to payoff somehow (think trickledown) because the DNC is a corporation. They really aren’t bothered by all the disastrous shit Chump is doing because it benefits them too.

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              I don’t care about the fucking plane.

              I just hope Boeing puts as much time and love and care into the custom 747 as they have done with the 737 Max and 777-X

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              I want the democrats to stop pretending this is an episode of West Wing and play hardball.

              Dunno if you have watched it or not but I want them to start pretending it’s an episode of West Wing because the Dems in that went hard. I’m tired of the milquetoast responses and typical DNC fair but they also are playing politics and trying what they think will work.

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                Imagine coming to a text based forum and thinking not reading is a flex.

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                  It’s an explicit attempt to troll

                  “I’m going to say something I know you won’t like and pretend not to listen to any response because my goal is to anger you.”

                  Frankly, if I was a mod of this forum, I’d ban [email protected] for trolling. They’re not even trying to hide that that is their goal rather than actual discussion.

                  It’s explicitly bad faith.

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    Looks at the Clinton foundation and the UAE

    looks back at post

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        Huh. Funding dried up after she lost and wouldn’t have the political influence the funders thought they were buying.

        Who’d have thought.

        Did you look at the date of that article and think about it at all? You’re making my point for me.

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      .ml never fail to take a criticism against Trump and whatabbout it towards a democrat

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        “Yeah well what about your party’s corruption” is actually a valid point for which you have fuck all as a defense

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        Corruption is fucking corruption.

        Calling whataboutism and not cleaning your own house is precisely what leads to loss of trust and directly led to the first term of Trump. EDIT: Along with explicitly and blatantly breaking their own rules to give the primary to Hillary (This isn’t conjecture or theory. They’ve explicitly admitted this in court and justified it by saying they aren’t a public entity but a private organization and can cheat if they want. Funny how they’re a public institution when they get free federal funds, but private when applying their own rules)

        Democrats being feckless cowards and refusing to prosecute Trump for emoluments violations during the first term, and then failing to prosecute Trump for fucking insurrection on day one of Bidens Administration is what led to Trump term 2.

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          Centrists still believe Hillary was the most qualified and deserving person ever to run for president.

          And there’s millions of them.

          I fucking wish everyone hated Hilary Clinton. Then maybe she wouldn’t have walked into a NY Senate seat, much less the Dem Presidential nomination.

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            Centrists still believe Hillary was the most qualified and deserving person ever to run for president.

            centrists just wanted her because she’s kissinger’s protege.

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        So you think that having a slew of money coming to you while you are out of power right before an election you are expected to win means that that isn’t explicit corruption?

        I have this really nice building for sale in New York that I have to sell for a really steep discount. Send me the money and we can meet up and I’ll sign it over to you. My loss is your gain.

        Seriously, this is the stupidest attempt to justify corruption I’ve ever seen.

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    All these pushes to keep Hillary relevant is so tone deaf. Waiting for the day some doofus tries to tell me why we can’t find better representation from the 350,000,000 people in the united states.

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        I would really appreciate this twisted timeline we’re in featuring the Clintons openly acknowledging that they know how corruption works from experience as a way to derail the current corruption train that we’re all tied down in front of. The writers need to demonstrate that they haven’t completely lost the plot or I’m cancelling my subscription

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      She also received money (@ least a million) from Qatar while in office.

      She failed to report it, admitted it after being called out. It was part of the ridiculous show that won him the election.

      She’s the worst person to open her mouth about this, as she’s directly guilty and tried to hide it.

      Not 400 million, but a direct comparison with Qatar can be made.

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        Ah, the Russian bots are working overtime today to distract the left from talking about trump again.

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          We don’t really need to talk about Trump’s corruption. We all know he’s corrupt and none of us are arguing about it.

          But when the person who was so corrupt she couldn’t win an election against the orange buffoon starts inserting herself into the conversation, accounts like yours come out of the woodwork to defend her using stale 2016 rhetoric. If there are fake accounts here, I’m pretty sure it’s yours.

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          Brother Russian bots are at least getting paid for it. You are in this thread “protecting” fucking Hillary of all people, with your life, FOR FREE. Who is the real idiot here?

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          Truly, there is nothing like sitting in midwest america in trump land and being called a russian bot. @[email protected] I realize a nuanced view is difficult for many.

          Should I insult you before I finish replying?

          Is posting a fact about the 2016 election, and Hillary Clinton somehow disinformation?

          https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/16/mike-pence/did-qatar-promise-clinton-foundation-1-million-fiv/

          My point was, that the turd is being a hypocrite, in that part of his campaign in 2016 was capitalizing on her errors in failing to report external country lobbying.

          There’s strong evidence to point to Hillary being wrong here and very much the orange turd. Two things can be true.

          I’m not trying to what about the facts.

          Someone posted a screenshot of her top contributors.

          I recently watched a video discussing the jet, which played clips of him arguing against her doing the same thing he’s defending. I looked into it and found https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/13/trump-plane-qatar-comments/

          As I noted in my statement which you replied to - It’s not exactly the same, but comparable.

          If anyone wonders why I would even try, please be aware of this adage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law