Thread by @frodofied

No matter how much evidence.

No matter how clear the evidence.

It's been the same story for twenty five years.

They accuse her of wildly ridiculous claims. Ask @therealroseanne to tell you about Pizzagate. She's a real laugh.

@HillaryClinton will never be given a break.

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They simply make things up and pass them off as facts, l knowing that it's the accusations that matter, not the truth.

People want to believe that people are bad and do awful things, all of the time. It's a sickness, but this one has a name.

Clinton Derangement Syndrome

C.D.S is a chronic condition that affects millions of Americans, and is widely considered to be the most widespread political mental illness in contemporary history.

Symptoms include advanced stage misogyny, paranoia, ignorance, delusions, and overexposure to @FoxNews

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Advanced cases involve a loss of common sense, the creation and distribution of layered and increasingly deranged conspiracy theories, and what's clinically regarded as "Bat-Shit Craziness."

Known treatments include research using peer reviewed periodicals and journals,

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removing one's head from one's ass, NPR, PBS, and telling Jerry, your neighbor, to go f&&k himself

This condition is considered highly contagious. It's recommended that contact w/ annoying uncles & asshole coworkers should be minimal. Expose children only at their own risk.

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For over a year now @TheDemocrats, major news organizations such as @ABC, @NBCNews, @cnn, @MSNBC, and commentators like @joenbc, @mitchellreports, and former colleagues like @SenSanders & @joebiden have done everything possible to embarrass and blame @HillaryClinton for 2016.

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This strikes many of us as odd considering that for most of the time from 2015-2016 it was she and @BarackObama were the only ones fighting to save this country.

That is not an hyperbole.

Not even a little.

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For the most part, my fellow Americans have sat back and watched one of the most dangerous, blatant, and well-planned political hijackings in history unfold before them and have been content to do very little.

Well, for most, actually nothing. Not a godamned thing.

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It's been an astounding thing to watch. Once upon a time, even the remote possibility that a foreign power, not the least of which was Russia, had interferered with our elections would have understandably thrown the entire nation into an uproar.

It would not have been ok.

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In another time, an honorable person who had been assisted in such a way would probably have taken the heroes path--well, probably not Trump's nearest facsimile Nixon--and resigned for the good of American & called upon Congress to demand new elections. For American's sake.

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But, and this should come as no surprise to anyone, the man who chose to conspire / collude with our nation's longest and fiercest adversary / enemy is far and away the least patriotic man to ever cross the threshold at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in our history.

By leagues.

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To those of us w/ clear eyes, who are not bound by some primitive loyalty to the idea that it's better one is right than to protect what actually is right, this is clear.

To hold tight to what Trump is & what he has done here is to be unAmerican in the most complete sense.

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For them--the Repubs, the Russians, the Trumps--to work so hard to try to turn the Clintons into the entitled, elitist anti-American model is to spit in the face of America and every part of it's fading dream.

Hillary Clinton was born & stayed middle class most of her life.

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She was doing things as a woman that either no other or very few other women had ever done.

When Hillary Clinton went to Yale Law School in 1971 only 25 other women joined her. The rest, as it was in every law school in the nation, we're men.

All of them.

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She clapped back by beating all of them.

Every. Single. One.

But who she really beat were the professors and what she really beat was the system.

Forget what they now claim in retrospect. The fact that a woman was graduating first in class was hardly a cause to celebrate.

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Clinton, like her contemporaries, and all of those in the generations before who had broken down the walls of prejudice and misogyny, are THE reason young women today are able to take women like Clinton for granted, which says something for progress but little for gratitude.

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We are wholly underappreciative of the histories and experiences of women like Clinton who faced the full brunt misogyny and sexism for their entire lives.

Their strength, willpower, & strategic ability to manuver even the most misigynistic environments is truly heroic.

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These are qualities we should admire in our leaders. Clinton has had to fight for everything. The man who stole the presidency has only ever had things given to him, or stole, lied, and cheated to get them.

Hers is a far more American story than his could ever be.

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Whether they realized it or not, by their actions and deeds, we know that the men who fought in the Revolution and those who wrote our Constitution, were fighting for a future America that would celebrate @HillaryClinton far more than one that celebrated @realDonaldTrump.

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This is, of course, true of her husband and friends @BarackObama and @MichelleObama as well. These are American stories.

Trump's life reads instead like a warning he is a villain out of Dickens, or one to be ridiculed by Twain or Moliere. Rand wouldn't even be sympathetic.

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And so here we are. This is more than a crossroads, and more than a fight for our soul, it's a fight for the definition of America.

We fought a war several hundred years ago and we did not fight it just to eventually crown another.

Donald Trump is an aberration.

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This is true whether you are a Democrat, Socialist, Republican, or holed up in a cave with a gun writing manifestos. We don't always like elections results, but we should at least be able to agree that colluding with Russia to steal one is horrific and treasonous.

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Hillary Clinton earned the Presidency the American way. She fought for it with ideas & arguments. She ran positively & with courage. She fought for the forgotten and for fairness.

She fought for the we and not the me.

We are, we often forget, the UNITED States of America.

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We the people, but especially we the @TheDemocrats lost a big opportunity in 2016 to reassert our strength as a United States. We all woke up on November 9th knowing that something very wrong had taken place. We felt it.

Most of us did nothing.

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As the picture becomes clearer of how right we were why there is not a huge movement demanding the actual and far more American winner be given her due is a disturbing mystery to me.

@HillaryClinton won.
@HillaryClinton won.
@HillaryClinton won.
@HillaryClinton won.

I often tweet the laundry list of how she won, why she won, and she should be fought for.

In the end it all adds up to better and more.

She was the better candidate who received more votes.

By every metric.

By every meaningful metric she won.

That's America.

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And so while the powers that continue to silence her.

And while lesser men stand up to be counted in 2020.

And while so few of you might agree, I am officially calling on @HillaryClinton to stand up one more time.

For me, in 2020, I once again proclaim "Run Hillary, Run!"

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It's not the first time I have asked this of her (see the attached dedication from my 2014 book), but I am putting my heart in one more time.

In 1992 I told @HillaryClinton that she would be President one day.

Almost 25 years later I still believe.

#ImStillWithHer
#Clinton2020

See @Carlos_Thomas. I told you i would get there.