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Hillary Clinton dons the latest fashion accessory: the tin-foil chapeau

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Yesterday’s words of wisdom from our president-in-exile, Hillary Clinton:

She was referring to Tulsi Gabbard, who fought back by saying:

Gabbard is a strange amalgam of things, and she’s not doing well in the Democratic contest at all, but one thing she is not is a Russian asset – or a wimp.

What’s going on here? It’s been three years since the election, and Hillary seems to have gotten stalled in her non-progress through the stages of grief. Is she really stuck in denial, anger, and conspiracy? Does she actually believe what she said? Or is it just a ploy and does she plan to run again? Or all of the above?

Her basic argument is that she lost because of Russian interference, and that’s been her song right along. In this case, she appears to be saying that Gabbard’s candidacy represents the Russian interference in campaign 2020. And Hillary isn’t just saying that the Russians are promoting Gabbard online, hoping she’ll be a spoiler against the eventual Democratic candidate and run as a 3rd-party candidate in order to allow Trump to win again. It appears that by use of the words “Russian asset” and “grooming,” Hillary is saying that Gabbard is a knowing and willingly cooperative participant in this tactic.

No wonder Gabbard let her have it.

What a long strange trip this campaign has been. And it’s barely begun.

[ADDENDUM: The Babylon Bee is on the case.]

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Hillary Clinton dons the latest fashion accessory: the tin-foil chapeau — 39 Comments

  1. “Hillary seems to have gotten stalled in her non-progress”
    You mean that Hillary is no longer a, so called, progressive?

  2. “Asset” in intelligence circles doesn’t necessarily entail “knowing and willingly”, IIRC from various debates about Trump. Wiki appears to back this up.

    Ditto for grooming. IIRC, intelligence officers described the Trump Tower meeting as classic grooming. The colloquial use of the word, think of a pimp grooming a girl, implies the same.

  3. Hillary’s claim and Gabbard’s response — a two-by-four whack in the head — astounded me.

    But Tulsi’s a surfer. Surfers do that.

  4. Manju:

    Earth to manju; a pimp doesn’t “groom” a girl without plenty of contact, in order to ultimately gain her cooperation.

    And “asset” means this within the intelligence community:

    In intelligence, assets are persons within organizations or countries being spied upon who provide information for an outside spy. They are sometimes referred to as agents, and in law enforcement parlance, as confidential informants, or “CIs” for short.

    There are different categories of assets, including people who:

    —Willingly work for a foreign government for ideological reasons such as being against their government, but live in a country that doesn’t allow political opposition. They may elect to work with a foreign power to change their own country because there are few other ways available.
    —Work for monetary gain. Intelligence services often pay good wages to people in important positions that are willing to betray secrets.
    —Have been blackmailed and are forced into their role.
    —Do not even know they are being used (so called “useful idiots”). Assets can be loyal to their country, but may still provide a foreign agent with information through failures in information safety, such as using insecure computers or not following proper OPSEC procedures during day-to-day chatting.

    The first three involved knowledge and willingness, and Hillary is well aware of that and is also aware, more importantly, that that’s what the vast majority of people understand it to mean. Hillary is, after all, speaking to the public here.

    And then there’s that fourth definition: “Do not even know they are being used (so called “useful idiots”). Assets can be loyal to their country, but may still provide a foreign agent with information through failures in information safety, such as using insecure computers or not following proper OPSEC procedures during day-to-day chatting.”

    Hmmm – who is the politician who best fits that particular definition? Hint: it’s not Tulsi Gabbard, and the person’s initials are HRC.

  5. And the MSM tell me I should worry that the president who was elected is “unstable.” The losing candidate is flat-out nuts.

  7. And the MSM tell me I should worry that the president who was elected is “unstable.” The losing candidate is flat-out nuts.

    Kate: Maybe we need a “Nuts vs Knave” category…

  9. Neo hits the highlight. Which is Hillary’s attempt to manipulate public opinion wandering off into tin-foil hat land. BTW, most “assets” not only know they are assets, but willingly risk life and limb to do so. But, the second most interesting thing about the exchange are the details of Tulsi’s counter attack.

    “No wonder Gabbard let her have it.” — Neo

    Yes, Gabbard hammered Hillary; but she hammered the Democrat party just as much.

    “the queen of warmongers”
    I always thought that Hillary’s brain was stuck in the Reagan Thatcher era. A woman leader can sell her compassion, but also must establish her toughness; or at least that used to be true. I’d rate this one as partial hyperbole from Tulsi.

    “embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.”

    You could break this into pieces, but I think it is all of a part. The part that says the Dem party has been corrupt and sick for a long time, but Bill and Hill have taken it to new heights to such an extent that they personify it. Like the Wizard, they are so flummoxed by their failures that they are pulling back the curtain in some kind of last ditch effort.

  10. Hey she’s got that True Conservative hero Evan McMullan convinced. These people are beyond nuts.

  11. Earth to manju; a pimp doesn’t “groom” a girl without plenty of contact, in order to ultimately gain her cooperation.

    Well, there is online grooming these days…but the point is that the girl / American politician isn’t a prostitute / Russian agent at the time of the grooming.

    That Russia has taken an interest in Gabbard the way they took an interest in Trump isn’t new news:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russia-s-propaganda-machine-discovers-2020-democratic-candidate-tulsi-gabbard-n964261

  12. expat is right. Hillary is in it for the power first, last, and always. For her, ideology and values are exchangeable tools.

  14. During a recent appearance on “The View”, Hillary described herself as “a fun person”.

  16. LeClerc
    During a recent appearance on “The View”, Hillary described herself as “a fun person”.

    Two reactions.

    1.Of course. After all, a “fun person” is likeable enough.

    2. From what I have read, Hillary drinks a fair amount of alcoholic beverages. We all know that drunks are “fun people.”

  17. That actually was my first reaction to this ridiculous Hillary statement — that she’d had too much chardonnay. And as to “The View,” anything on that program should be ignored. I once dropped a gym membership because the women’s dressing room had the program on a large screen TV with the volume on high in the mornings when I was there.

  20. It’d be a reach to describe Gabbard as a pacifist Richard, given that she joined the military.

    We need to police the peace, but the police aren’t meant to enflame the violence. Fighting for the Kurds is not fighting for the side of peace and calm.

  21. Manju: David Duke, a top KKK guy, has endorsed Tulsi!

    Was David Duke “in a position to delete or change voter data…”

    Did the Republican controlled Senate find that Duke “affiliated cyber actors gained access to election infrastructure systems across two states, including successful extraction of voter data.”

    https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume1.pdf

    If so, then I think this may very well be something to keep an eye on.

  22. If so, then I think this may very well be something to keep an eye on.

    Manju: You do that!

  24. I think Hillary has been telling her excuse/cover story for so long she’s started believing it.

  25. I know Neo never agreed with this, but I think Hillary just proved Dr Ted’s diagnosis of 3 years ago that she has Parkinsons. One aspect is continuing mental degradation. What else would prompt HC to say such an outrageous statement?

  26. I have seen it mentioned that HRC and other Dems are trying to push Gabbard into an Independent run for Pres. The thinking is that a lot of independents like her and she would siphon votes away from Trump, thus electing the Dem. Who knows.

  27. Does anyone remember the good ole days when the smart money claimed Hillary was the brains behind Bill?

    After 2016 (or even 2008) that should have been put to rest. If Bill could have run in those years, he would have cleaned up.
    __________________________________________

    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
    No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
    Well, she talks to all the servants
    About man and God and law
    Everybody says
    She’s the brains behind Pa
    She’s sixty eight, but she says she’s fifty four
    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more

    –Bob Dylan, “Maggie’s Farm”

  28. Manju, perhaps you can explain how it was to the Russians benefit to promote an American nationalist like Trump? Where has Trump helped the Russians? And to what end would they want Gabbard in the oval office?

  29. How is it playing within the Blue Bubble? A look at the comments in WAPO to the main article on the Hillary Russian Asset claim shows a lot of support for Hillary and a clear belief that the Russians are all powerful and aggressively working against Hillary and the US. That they are totally controlling Trump.

    Russia Russia Russia is the default mindset among a very large percentage of the Blue Bubble Inmates. A little confirmation bias goes a long way. Syria is the latest reinforcement. Cognitive dissonance has become so familiar to them that clear thinking feels threatening. The only acceptable response to any other explanation is anger.

    I think Hillary does have her faculties intact and feels comfortable, given the world she lives in, in making the claim.

    Another article in WAPO, As Trump reels, Democrats wonder which of their candidates can beat him, supports my belief that Hillary will run again.

    The MSM will find Democrat Governors to hype and who will surge, but none will emerge as a clear favorite. Warren will peak, Bernie has already peaked, and Biden will slide but will retain a lot of support. Kamala Harris turned out to have the mentality of an 18 year old.

    When their hyped Democrat Governors surge but none break out, the MSM will engage in non-stop praise of Hillary. By early summer the faithful will tear up at the mention of her name. She won’t enter any primaries, but will take the convention.

    She is likely to promise to serve only one term, to put things back in order, after which her VP, a former Democrat Governor Surg’ee, will take over.

    I think Trump will obliterate her and take both houses.

    After an impeachment that fails in the Senate, the Democrats will have boxed themselves into: “Give us the Senate so we can impeach him again if he wins.”

    The voters won’t.

  30. J. E. Dyer at Liberty Unyielding with another thoughtful (if necessarily open ended) analysis: “What is Hillary Clinton doing with this ‘Russian asset’ theme about Tulsi Gabbard?”

    It’s tempting to assume Hillary Clinton has simply lost her mind. Apparently she didn’t just toss off, unthinkingly, her allegation this past week that Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard is a “Russian asset.” In the face of widespread criticism, a Clinton aide, Nick Merrill, doubled down on Hillary’s claim afterward.

    But . . .

    As if she is driven to it and can’t help herself, Hillary Clinton is busy, right this minute, slaying the central premise of her own anti-Trump meme. She’s showing it up for the inane, conspiracist bigotry it is: to insist that having thoughts and policy positions that can be associated with someone else makes you that someone’s “asset,” or puppet.

  31. Booze, hatred, and envy marinated Hillary has really, really lost it.

    I don’t even think that she knows what a “bot” is but, it sounds good, so she just throws this word around whenever she can.

    Leftists and Democrats are, at this point, just one gigantic “projection machine,” attributing everything that they are thinking, saying, and doing onto their opponents.

  32. Wild unfounded accusations have been part of Hillary’s repertoire for years; remember the “vast right-wing conspiracy” ? Unfortunately for her, you can only use that tactic so many times before people realize what you’re doing. Republicans reached that realization years ago, and now the Democrats have caught up.

  33. It’s been two days since Hillary’s vile McCarthyite smear. Only Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang have come to Tulsi Gabbard’s defense. Gabbard spoke up for Bernie in 2016. Why is Sanders silent now ?

  36. Golly. I can remember when the left and at least some libruls were in love with the Russians and it was the ugly evil Republicans who thought it best not to give away the store to them. Course, that was before 1991….

  37. Tulsi is closer to the top of the progressive stack than front-runner Fauxcahontas.

    If Warren disagrees with Tulsi or asks her a question or sets any kind of limit with her, that’s erasing brown people or something.

    Official Oppression Olympic rules state that a straight old white woman like Lizzy Warren cannot defend herself against attacks from younger, browner, citizen-soldier like Tulsi Gabbard; that would be *racist*.

    So the “superdelegates”… or whoever’s really running shit… try to keep Tulsi off the stage with arbitrary poll benchmarks.

    People didn’t like that, so now Warren surrogate Hillary Clinton smears Tulsi as skrull shapeshifter or a body-snatching pod person or some bullshit; so nobody listen to her or the Russians win.

    PS Trump is crazy.

  38. Manju

    The NBC news report you cited is a hack job written by Robert Windrem from a dem backer for ‘New Knowledge’

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Knowledge

    Hillary is delusional and is still angry that Tulsi quit the DNC and backed Bernie, because of the corruption she witnessed.

    Why does anyone even bother to interview Hillary anymore? She is not helping the Dems and is comedy for to everyone else.

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