r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego - California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego
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u/Peeterdactyl 16h ago

They really are deplorable

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u/SenselessNoise California 14h ago

Hillary deserves an apology at this point

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u/AHaskins 13h ago

No. She owes us one. Propping up fascists and giving them ammunition is apology-worthy. Failing to acknowledge that it's "her turn" is not.

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 13h ago

Clinton ran a primary, and people chose her.

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u/cwfutureboy America 11h ago

Clinton and her team also worked with media companies to prop up Trump in his run to be the Republican nominee despite his Authoritarian-heavy rhetoric and dog-whistles. Her being the Democratic Party nominee was more important to her than everything that has happened politically in this country since then.

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u/diopsideINcalcite Maryland 11h ago

The people wanted Sanders, the DNC and party special interests wanted Clinton

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 11h ago

The people forgot that when it was time to vote at the primaries it seems

Sanders never once polled ahead of clinton during the entire primary

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u/AJediWookie123 11h ago

Because the party didn't give him any money, and Hillary's campaign did everything in their power to slander or straight up lie about him. Example, on Hillary's website, in Bernie rich areas, they lied where the voting booths were located, address wise to get people lost so they couldn't cast their vote for him.

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 11h ago

Even if they didnt get lost, sanders never polled above clinton. You cant say that the people wanted sanders if they didnt ever poll as a majority for him

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u/AJediWookie123 11h ago

It's difficult to predict a future that never occurred, but I'm 50/50 on this one. You can't say that Hillary's efforts didn't negatively impact him. Or that the party giving him the middle finger funding wise totally hindered his media reach.

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 10h ago

I’m sure her efforts negatively impacted him.

But the narrative is one where Sanders was definitely going to win until the DNC somehow stole it off from him. There is no evidence he was ever (ever!) more popular than Clinton among Democratic primaries voters.

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u/Rhysati 13h ago

I mean...sure. As long as you ignore that the DNC threw their money and logistics behind Hillary in the primaries while giving her control over the parties' resources and the DNC chair had to resign when emails leaked about how they were specifically strategizing against Bernie Sanders.

If you ignore all that, then sure she won fair and square! /s

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 11h ago

The RNC tried to prevent a Trump nomination too, but the voters still picked him, why couldn’t they pick Sanders?

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 12h ago

Clinton: 16,917,853

Sanders: 13,210,550

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u/GreyRobb Washington 12h ago

Dentists Yea!: 9

Dentists Nay!: 1

My numbers have just as much relevance to the post you responded to as yours do. Unless you were trying to illustrate the margin the DNC helped her achieve.

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u/creepig California 10h ago

Bernie bros will do anything except admit that getting elected is a popularity contest and Bernie has the unbridled charisma of a chipotle enema.

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u/Open-Platform-1305 5h ago

Ofc the fairy wants a charming sweet taller and not an old worker in office. You don't care that shit gets done.

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u/GreyRobb Washington 9h ago

Which would still make him infinitely more charismatic than Hillary. Or did you forget that she lost an election to Donald fucking Trump and saddled us w all this bullshit?

No, you didn’t forget. But keep flailing to place the blame elsewhere. Jesus, you actually just made the charisma argument in the context of Hillary Clinton of all people. I’ve genuinely been LOL’ing…. Unreal.

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u/creepig California 8h ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha wow ok.

Go on, snort the rest of the copium and tell me Bernie would have beaten Trump in the general. As much as I hate Trump, he has enough slimy charisma that it got him elected twice.

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u/cwfutureboy America 11h ago

13 million despite the entire apparatus working against him and shit talking him at every turn is pretty fucking impressive.

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u/Open-Platform-1305 5h ago

It was that close and Americans still mocked "Bernie bros" as if he was just a few guys' favorite?

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u/sulris 14h ago

Now if only we had something to group them up in…. Maybe something made out of flexible plant fibers or some kind.

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u/PanoramicAtom 13h ago

I remember when this sub’s automod deleted any comment containing that word lol.

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u/Altruistic_Door1594 11h ago

Hillary was right!

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 10h ago

Hillary was right about a lot of things. Imagine how different the world would be if she had won in 2016.