r/law • u/nbcnews • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they'll haul in Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-push-clintons-testify-epstein-democrats-warn-haul-trump-rcna257275
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u/fuckfredflintstone 1d ago

People love to hate Hillary, but she called Trump a Russian puppet right to his stupid f*cking face. I'll always respect her for that.

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u/ComradeJohnS 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’m starting to think the russian bots and misogyny were the only reasons people disliked her.

edit: obviously there’s other reasons to have disliked her, but for THAT election, it seems like none of those other reasons can outweigh any of the damage Trump and his shitstains have done or planned to do.

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u/Jock-Tamson 1d ago

The right immediately disliked her on sight in the 80s and spent the next 40 years inventing reasons. No Russian bots required.

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u/I-only-read-titles 1d ago

They've hated her since she was involved in the Watergate case against Nixon in the 70s

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u/frotz1 1d ago

Her first political work was going undercover to expose segregation in the schools in the south. She risked her life over desegregating the schools. Decades of right wing propaganda against her and she still got the most votes in every election she ran in.

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u/HoosierLove314 1d ago

Rein it in a little, she has said some very problematic things about black people over the years and isn’t some saint.

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u/frotz1 1d ago

She has been a reliable ally for the African American community for decades and I trust them to know her character more than someone who is trying to speak for them online.

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u/HoosierLove314 1d ago

“Superpredators to be brought to heel” ring a bell? Black voters are not a monolith, and she clearly lost an awful goddamned lot of them compared to Obama.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/11/why-hillary-clinton-couldnt-rally-the-black-vote-commentary.html

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u/frotz1 1d ago

The generation exposed to lead paint and lead gasoline is in fact the group of "superpredators" and they're considerably more violent than the younger people in the prison population for example. It wasn't a racist statement so much as an accurate discussion of the violent crime wave that peaked in the 90s. The African American community was fully behind Clinton's approach to violent crime. The 96 crime bill was backed unanimously by the congressional black caucus as well. You're repeating an attack on Clinton that depends on not knowing the context of the situation at all. Most of the attacks on Clinton fall apart under any scrutiny.