Thread by @frodofied

They want her to go away:

"@HillaryClinton's High Profile Is Hurting the Democrats"
- @TheAtlantic
1 May 2018

"Hillary Clinton Needs to Move On."
- @politico
11 February 2018

They want her to shut up:

"Urge Hillary Clinton to Stop Talking."
- The Daily Mail
12 May 2018

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Almost everyday someone, somewhere, is wringing their hands about something the former Democratic nominee for President has done or said.

The amount of ink spilt concern trolling Hillary Clinton's every move since 9 November 2016 is nauseating on a real physical level.

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The game being played, of course, presently, is one of futures. It began almost as soon as the immiediate dust settled in 2016. The loss was her's & her's alone they lectured, and if she keeps recklessly blaming Russia then Democrats will lose & continue to lose.

Except no.

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Democrats began winning in special election after special election.

Even though Hillary Clinton didn't shut up.

Oh, and guess what?

Hillary Clinton was right about Russia, as usual.

Fast forward to the weeks before Clinton's book "What Happened" was to be published.

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Headline after headline declared Clinton's book would utterly destroy Democrats chances in 2018. Some claimed Party leaders were stricken with fury that she would not go away.

Except no.

There were lines stretching full city blocks. The book shot to number one everywhere.

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And Democrats, Clinton Democrats, kept winning in spec. election after spec. election.

The book was a huge success. It did nothing they said it would and said nothing they said it would say.

And @HillaryClinton kept talking.

The key here is that they SO want to blame her.

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Worse, they want to PRE-EMPTIVELY blame her.

If the not book, then her words, if not her words, that she ever existed at all. Somehow, if Democrats fall short in 2018 it won't be their faults, or voter's, or Russia's.

It will be @HillaryClinton.

As ever.

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I think that someone has gotten it into their head that if they can somehow pre-blame Hillary Clinton for imaginary losses that have not happened yet, then that somehow strengthens their equally bullshit argument that 2016 was all Hillary Clinton's fault.

Except no.

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The problem throughout, of course, is that almost no one can with a straight face claim that anything Clinton is saying is, in fact, untrue.

Now that has got to be a bitch of a position to be in, right?

But still she must stop!?!

Right, MSM?

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If only Hillary Clinton would just shut up, then they could continue not to shut up about her and the world be souch better.

For them.

There a lot of skeletons still hiding in. 2016's closet and I think people are afraid their own might soon coming tumbling out.

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Ask poor @DrJillStein for instance.

Can't anyone collude with a foreign government anymore without somebody trying to find out about it later on?

What is the world coming to?

Am I right, Jill?

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Of course they want her to shut up.

Because she has a pretty damn good track record of both telling it like it is and being right about it to boot.

That makes her dangerous.

And that's why she should keep on talking.

And talking...

And taking...

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And let's not forget the fact that is becoming almost irrefutable to many that she actually won 2016 fairly and squarely.

So, yeah, there is that.

Hillary Clinton is a boss.

Bosses don't shut up.

#SheWon
#ImStillWithHer
#StrongerTogether