Democrats are desperate to win back voters and it shows. They’ve dusted crust Hillary off and started posing her all over the place. Don Lemon, recently demoted from his own primetime show to a shared AM platform, set Clinton up for her 15 seconds of airtime and she used it to sell fear—Of course.
Lemon sent Clinton into a long-winded rant by asking her what Americans need to fear right now asking, “But if you look at what’s happening in Iran, if you look at what’s happening in, you know, all over the world, Bolsonaro, whatever, democracy is in danger all over the world, here in the United States as well, but it’s all over the world, Secretary Clinton. This is a global thing that is happening if. What do we do? Speak to us about that, please.”
Oh, yes. Wise old Clinton, tell us what to fear now…
“We have seen Xi in China consolidate his power. So, even what used to be a collective base of power is now all in one person. We’re watching Putin abuse and misuse that power to literally rewrite history, we saw a very close election in Brazil, we’re seeing the uprising in Iran. This is a time of great ferment and it is a time when the United States should be standing strongly on behalf of our values, of democracy and freedom, of opportunity and equality instead of being engaged in this culture war driven by the political opportunism of people on the Republican side of the ledger.”
I don’t think war is far from anyone’s mind but I find it laughable that Clinton thinks voters should put their trust in Democrats to navigate around war. Thus far, Biden has done a horrific job steering the US toward a conflict with Russia, in my opinion.
Hillary Clinton also tried to spin the current state of things adding, “there is no country in the world better positioned for the future than we are. The only thing that can stop us is if we get in our own way, which we seem to be doing a pretty good job of right now.”
Transcript
KAITLAN COLLINS: Well, Secretary Clinton, you know Putin very well, I mean, back from when you were secretary of State, the reset relations with Russia. And then, you know, I think, a lot of people don’t realize you wrote this confidential memo at the end of your time as secretary of State, telling the White House, don’t flatter him with high-level attention, decline his invitation for a presidential summit, don’t appear too eager to work together, you seem to have a really good sense of his mindset. Do you have a concern that officials seem more concerned about now than they were months ago, that he would use nuclear weapons?
CLINTON: I don’t believe that at this point. I think you always have to be assessing the risks and trying to determine what messages should be sent to Putin. He understands, you know, force, he understands push back. He will go as far as he is permitted to go. I think he, frankly, I believe if Trump had been re-elected, he expected Trump to pull us out of NATO so that his invasion of Ukraine would have proceeded much more smoothly. So you have to stand up to him. He is– he’s a classic bully. Clearly you have to continue to be assessing what he might do, but at this point I am, you know, not yet convinced that he will do that.
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LEMON: But if you look at what’s happening in Iran, if you look at what’s happening in, you know, all over the world, Bolsonaro, whatever, democracy is in danger all over the world, here in the United States as well, but it’s all over the world, Secretary Clinton. This is a global thing that is happening if. What do we do? Speak to us about that, please.
CLINTON: Well, Don, you’re right. I mean, we are in a struggle between democracy and autocracy. We have seen Xi in China consolidate his power. So, even what used to be a collective base of power is now all in one person.
We’re watching Putin abuse and misuse that power to literally rewrite history, we saw a very close election in Brazil, we’re seeing the uprising in Iran. This is a time of great ferment and it is a time when the United States should be standing strongly on behalf of our values, of democracy and freedom, of opportunity and equality instead of being engaged in this culture war driven by the political opportunism of people on the Republican side of the ledger.
You know, there is no country in the world better positioned for the future than we are. The only thing that can stop us is if we get in our own way, which we seem to be doing a pretty good job of right now.
You know, listening to the, you know, crazy stuff coming out from election deniers, from people who laugh at Paul Pelosi being attacked, from people who want to keep you scared, who don’t have answers to anything, you know, I think it’s time that every American say you know what, we’ve got a lot at stake in pulling ourselves together.
We’ve got some terrific opportunities because finally the Congress has passed infrastructure legislation, the CHIPS act, doing something about health care and drug pricing, helping us compete in the clean energy economy. Wow, we have so much good stuff that is right on the brink of happening if we don’t, you know, just confuse ourselves and listen to people who don’t have our best interests at heart. So the best thing we can do to lead the world in this struggle between democracy and autocracy is to get our own house in order and I hope that we’ll do that starting Tuesday.