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Catie's avatar

I know Hillary Clinton got a lot of flak for her deplorable comment, but honestly she was right about trump's most ardent supporters: they really ARE deplorable. Laughing at cancer patients? Despicable.

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Andrei Taranchenko's avatar

The reason why that backfired was because these people *pride* themselves in being horrible. In fact, acting as a decent human being is a sure way to get ejected from MAGA.

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R Mercer's avatar

The deplorables thing with Clinton is what happens when you tell people the truth about themselves. They usually do not appreciate it much.

Because, the evidence is in, and these people ARE deplorable... worse than deplorable, actually.

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JB's avatar

It’s basically saying I’m okay openly murdering cancer patients. Ethan Schmidt is sick AF. He is essentially what the GOP is. Chaos.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

She should have doubled down on that and explained why supporting Trump was deplorable

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M. Trosino's avatar

Quite a missed opportunity, born, I believe, of what turned out to be a very mistakenly held overconfidence.

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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

Those proud to be ignorant are worse than the merely ignorant. And those proud to be deplorable are worse than the merely deplorable.

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