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Hillary Clinton on Friday called the Trump administration’s approach to governing both dumb and dangerous in an essay excoriating the Signal chat scandal and the Elon Musk-led mission to slash the federal workforce, and concluding that Trump would make the US “feeble and friendless”.

The former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that has been given the headline: “How much dumber will this get?” and opens: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity.”

Clinton starts with the Signal chat group scandal, when Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added a top US journalist to a small group of government leaders on the encrypted but unclassified app and then the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, proceeded to discuss intricate details of a forthcoming airstrike on Houthi militants in Yemen and report back to the group on the deadly results.

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[-] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 65 points 5 days ago

Perhaps she shouldn't have proudly orchestrated a desperate attempt to build trump up at the expense of an actual competitive candidate, then?

Go away, Clintons. You're a pestilence.

[-] burgermeister@lemm.ee 63 points 5 days ago

We know this. Go away Hillary.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 31 points 5 days ago

She gets under his skin, so if she could come from a place that wasn't self interest, she could be effective in criticizing him.

[-] burgermeister@lemm.ee 24 points 5 days ago

Good point, but it also seems like anything gets under his skin, dude is a poster child for fragile ego.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 13 points 5 days ago

Yes, but she's a woman, who is better than him in every way, despite her faults. Pity she failed at the one thing she needed to do to get rid of him for good. That's hubris. And Trump is now entering that territory, but with added fascism.

[-] WatDabney@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

And take Nancy Pelosi with you.

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago

I wonder if she wishes she’d played fair with Bernie and given him a chance to win in 2016.

[-] TemplaerDude@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

People like Clinton live in a consequence free world. I doubt she cares. I wish she'd fuck off.

Punchlines aplenty:

... Much like Hillary Clinton.

... Much like the Democratic party.

Etc.

[-] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago

Leaving the US friendless isn't true, He is great friends with Putin!

[-] PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

I doubt Putin even likes trump. I bet he’s just a useful idiot.

[-] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Nobody who's knows Trump personally, likes Trump.

[-] BumbyJohnson@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Good thing Russia isn’t communist anymore. am I right? Capitalism won out in all its benevolent glory. Hooray for feudalism 2.0

[-] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

The trump regime was designed to TANK the US economy so that stocks, businesses, and industries can be bought by billionaires at rock bottom prices.

All is going according to plan.

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 7 points 5 days ago

Yeah we know and it's on purpose. I'm just wondering what all these truck-nuts patriots are going to do when we are all out of freedom and power to brag about.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

The erosion of their own freedoms won’t bother them; so long as minorities have it slightly worse, they will be tickled pink.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago

Can't wait to see it.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Surely an essay will save us!

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

"Look at what a bit mess I made! This sure sucks for all of you."

[-] Geodad@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

When the worst person you know makes a good point.

[-] MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah probably, but what about her laugh?

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