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blackbootz  ·  3001 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Hillary Clinton For The Democratic Nomination" - NYTimes Editorial Board

    Hillary Clinton is what you get when a legit conspiracy spends billions of dollars spreading the slander...

You know, I think it's illuminating to point to the Republican maelstrom that has been the environment that Hillary came of age politically. It's easy to be the perfect embodiment of liberal ideals if we live in a socialist Nordic utopia... It's decidedly more difficult if you try to campaign in a country where there is only one non-religious member of Congress, where 41% of Americans believe that Jesus Christ definitely (23%) or probably (18%) will return to Earth by the year 2050, and 30% of polled Republicans believe that we should bomb Agrabah, the fictional home city of Alladin. And Hillary can't come out and say it, but some non-zero amount of her political posturing is simply because she doesn't just how much she has to dumb things down to not scare the bejesus out of a striking proportion of the population.

Bill Burr "has been bitching about the population problem for three specials now." (And by the way, I am being completely facetious linking to Bill Burr. I don't think it's wise or feasible or in the slightest way moral to eliminate 85% of the population... but the man is funny.)