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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    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.

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      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.

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

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          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.

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          Always so word to me seeing people value him for masculinity. Like fucking what‽ I’m an ex body builder who is still very intimidating looking, and any dude who I met who used that alpha beta bullshit, calling themselves the former, always turn into whiny babies when I question who they voted for.

          I recorded one and showed it back to him at a later date, and to his defense he did apologize and recognized what he looked like, but still can’t see the same in dear leader acting the same.

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

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

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      Yeah. I hate when experienced people write on a subject they’ve known and worked for decades.

      We should hate them because they were an imperfect candidate with a career of work and support only overshadowed by Saint Bernie, and expected America to not elect a felon.

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        They were not imperfect… They didn’t adapt to times. Election was won not because of past career of work but by something else they (and their expensive consultants) do not know how to handle

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          They not only don’t know how to handle it, they supported him during the damn primaries. They wanted him to be the 2016 candidate, because they figured he had no shot of winning.

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            Yeap, they seemed to underestimate how far Muricans would cut their own nose to spite their faces

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      Literally if it weren’t for her and the DNC collusion in 2016 this could’ve been avoided entirely. Like it legitimately does come back to Sanders - he’s very much a centrist at best and FAR from ideal, but could’ve at least greased the wheels a bit to loosen the overton window and pave the way for actual leftists.

      The DNC knows this and they wanted this. Fascism is preferable to them.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    1. Understand that Goldberg and every Atlantic employee is a neocon/Zionist supremacist CIA mole. There was zero threat that he would leak attack plans to Iran/Houthis.

    2. Actual top secret leak from chat is how much US empire/administration hates its allies. Victoria Neuland’s “Fuck the EU”, and spying/control of EU puppets, under DNC/neocon control was not any different. Though it is an extra intensification that “Europe needs to be grateful for war on Iran”

    3. Sure there is a stupidity level in chat list. But the only warcrime being stupidity, and attack plans shared among hateful genocidal list, is a distraction to how hateful and genocidal US empire is, with HRC’s support.

    4. Trump is being ultra successful in intensifying hatred/divisivenesss towards Russia and China among left leaning colonies. It’s still 50/50 how pathethically they will increase sycophancy. Canada says they will renegotiate a security/economic partnership after election. That can easily mean more defense purchases and less exports for Canada, and continued divisiveness with alternate trade partners.

    US is definitely on path to friendlessness, and economic weakness from grassroots boycotts. But all CIA puppets willing to enslave their population for all of the heavy lifting in blood/money/and US weapons purchases for war on Russia can be a major win for US empire. Current gaslighting potential/levels are more extreme than during Ukraine proxy war provocation.

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      Understand that Goldberg and every Atlantic employee is a neocon/Zionist supremacist CIA mole.

      War Criminal Putin totally agrees!

      There was zero threat that he would leak attack plans to Iran/Houthis.

      There is 100% threat that Traitorapist Trump and 100% of the people who work for him are monumentally incompetent and that will come back to bite us in the ass. Trump’s only skillset is that of bullshit artist and he only hires the absolute worst of the worst. That is why nobody who worked for Treason Trump in his first term is still working for him. Because last time Trump accidently hired a few people slightly above absolute trash.

      But the only warcrime being stupidity,

      You are totally fine with “genocide” when it comes from Trump or Putin. Got it.

      Trump is being ultra successful in intensifying hatred/divisivenesss towards Russia and China among left leaning colonies.

      Nice try but we all know the world’s most powerful malignant sociopaths are working together.

      The AXIS OF EVIL:

      Traitorapist Trump - War Criminal Putin - Comrade Xi - Caligula Jong Un

      https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+anti+war+protests&udm=2&fbs=ABzOT_CWdhQLP1FcmU5B0fn3xuWpmDtIGL1r84kuKz6yAcD_igefx-eKq1gCPHF3zhthFomUWD4JA37sWEIpiDUfp9ifmI-Qh4ZC8jbD0_0a8wjuzKq2mD1GkLL86rWsiIQSMT0VwXZTDWzu46JxQl5LYSlCT0HCRKZKTZg7YDSM3vYN2tVWAc6ZrsH61WVNY6MrI6esMwS5

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        you are totally fine with “genocide” when it comes from Trump.

        My comment was specifically that the only crime/concern is the leak, and not the mass murder.

        the world’s most powerful malignant sociopaths are working together.

        Dangerous delusion. War on Russia was from malignant sociopaths. More importantly to malignant sociopath perspective is that it was a losing war. That Trump may want to end a losing war, to use as leverage war on Iran, doesn’t excuse the other wing of the malignant sociopath of needing both wars. The delusion that everything Trump extorts can only be the benefit of traditional CIA/malignant sociopathic sycohpants to CIA enemies is that the response becomes to increase sycophancy to Trump through amplification of division with those CIA enemies. You only help gaslight the victims of democracy.

        As far as dissidents are concerned, if supposed Canadians were to object to the defense of Canada, it would be normal/less divisive to suppress them.