Things Which I Find Irritating
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chris_gerribI'm going to cleanse my palate of irritation prior to heading south for The Big Turkey Dinner.
Irritating Thing #1 - The Clintons
So I voted for Hillary Clinton as the best politician on offer. But I did and do find some of her actions irritating. For example, the Right claims that when the Clintons moved out of the White House in 2000, they stole a bunch of furniture. Well, the truth is they didn't, but if you click the link you'll see it's not cut-and-dried.
And that's what irritates me about both of them, and what I think ended up costing Hillary the election. They run right up to the edge of impropriety, take a good look around, then stop just before the line. Not only that, they do so with high levels of secrecy. This then leaves their defenders making ponderous explanations.
Irritating Thing #2 - The "Roman" Salute
I also note that the various alt-right folks running out of the woodwork like cockroaches in the dark have taken to calling the good-old-fashioned "Heil Hitler" salute a "Roman" salute. Again, the salute's history is complicated (the tl;dr version is it ain't really Roman and it's got fascist fingerprints all over it) but all this wink-nod "Roman" crap ain't fooling nobody.
Irritating Thing #1 - The Clintons
So I voted for Hillary Clinton as the best politician on offer. But I did and do find some of her actions irritating. For example, the Right claims that when the Clintons moved out of the White House in 2000, they stole a bunch of furniture. Well, the truth is they didn't, but if you click the link you'll see it's not cut-and-dried.
And that's what irritates me about both of them, and what I think ended up costing Hillary the election. They run right up to the edge of impropriety, take a good look around, then stop just before the line. Not only that, they do so with high levels of secrecy. This then leaves their defenders making ponderous explanations.
Irritating Thing #2 - The "Roman" Salute
I also note that the various alt-right folks running out of the woodwork like cockroaches in the dark have taken to calling the good-old-fashioned "Heil Hitler" salute a "Roman" salute. Again, the salute's history is complicated (the tl;dr version is it ain't really Roman and it's got fascist fingerprints all over it) but all this wink-nod "Roman" crap ain't fooling nobody.
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Date: 2016-11-24 02:35 am (UTC)It's that “levels of secrecy” bit that caused problems.
“her first instinct is to lie (http://baron-waste.livejournal.com/2515914.html)”
“Hillary Clinton will beat pneumonia. But she won't beat
her actual fatal condition: untrustworthiness…”
I was amused to see G Gordon Liddy, who has experience in the matter, call her “a bigger crook than Nixon.”
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The “cronyism and entitlement mentality” spoken of earlier, was all too obvious (http://baron-waste.livejournal.com/2481336.html) also.
What the heck. As an earlier article pointed out America will not founder either way. Trump will make mistakes. People do.