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Hillary Clinton on Friday called the Trump administration’s approach to governing both dumb and dangerous in an essay excoriating the Signal chat scandal and the Elon Musk-led mission to slash the federal workforce, and concluding that Trump would make the US “feeble and friendless”.

The former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that has been given the headline: “How much dumber will this get?” and opens: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity.”

Clinton starts with the Signal chat group scandal, when Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added a top US journalist to a small group of government leaders on the encrypted but unclassified app and then the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, proceeded to discuss intricate details of a forthcoming airstrike on Houthi militants in Yemen and report back to the group on the deadly results.

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[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 64 points 2 days ago

Perhaps she shouldn't have proudly orchestrated a desperate attempt to build trump up at the expense of an actual competitive candidate, then?

Go away, Clintons. You're a pestilence.

[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We know this. Go away Hillary.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She gets under his skin, so if she could come from a place that wasn't self interest, she could be effective in criticizing him.

[–] burgermeister@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Good point, but it also seems like anything gets under his skin, dude is a poster child for fragile ego.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago

Yes, but she's a woman, who is better than him in every way, despite her faults. Pity she failed at the one thing she needed to do to get rid of him for good. That's hubris. And Trump is now entering that territory, but with added fascism.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Always so word to me seeing people value him for masculinity. Like fucking what‽ I'm an ex body builder who is still very intimidating looking, and any dude who I met who used that alpha beta bullshit, calling themselves the former, always turn into whiny babies when I question who they voted for.

I recorded one and showed it back to him at a later date, and to his defense he did apologize and recognized what he looked like, but still can't see the same in dear leader acting the same.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

And take Nancy Pelosi with you.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hillary Clinton can fuck off

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I hate when experienced people write on a subject they've known and worked for decades.

We should hate them because they were an imperfect candidate with a career of work and support only overshadowed by Saint Bernie, and expected America to not elect a felon.

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were not imperfect... They didn't adapt to times. Election was won not because of past career of work but by something else they (and their expensive consultants) do not know how to handle

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They not only don't know how to handle it, they supported him during the damn primaries. They wanted him to be the 2016 candidate, because they figured he had no shot of winning.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeap, they seemed to underestimate how far Muricans would cut their own nose to spite their faces

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Literally if it weren't for her and the DNC collusion in 2016 this could've been avoided entirely. Like it legitimately does come back to Sanders - he's very much a centrist at best and FAR from ideal, but could've at least greased the wheels a bit to loosen the overton window and pave the way for actual leftists.

The DNC knows this and they wanted this. Fascism is preferable to them.

Punchlines aplenty:

... Much like Hillary Clinton.

... Much like the Democratic party.

Etc.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if she wishes she’d played fair with Bernie and given him a chance to win in 2016.

[–] TemplaerDude@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

People like Clinton live in a consequence free world. I doubt she cares. I wish she'd fuck off.

[–] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Leaving the US friendless isn't true, He is great friends with Putin!

[–] PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt Putin even likes trump. I bet he’s just a useful idiot.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Nobody who's knows Trump personally, likes Trump.

[–] BumbyJohnson@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Good thing Russia isn’t communist anymore. am I right? Capitalism won out in all its benevolent glory. Hooray for feudalism 2.0

[–] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.

All is going according to plan.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

Can't wait to see it.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

When the worst person you know makes a good point.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah we know and it's on purpose. I'm just wondering what all these truck-nuts patriots are going to do when we are all out of freedom and power to brag about.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

The erosion of their own freedoms won’t bother them; so long as minorities have it slightly worse, they will be tickled pink.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

"Look at what a bit mess I made! This sure sucks for all of you."

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Surely an essay will save us!

[–] MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al -5 points 2 days ago

Yeah probably, but what about her laugh?