This will sadly be lost at the bottom of the comment pile. 10/10 would read again
One of the politics podcasts (NPR, NYC, or 538) made the point that the only reason that the Clinton foundations donor roles are even public is cause of a deal worked out with the Obama administration when she became Secretary of State.
Which is why Huma reminded her to take a nap in an email. It’s not that she has brain damage like the Trump fans want, it’s that she needs to be reminded that she has to slow down sometimes.
But will her schedules show her daily Vagenda(TM)? I.e.:
My boyfriend and I agree, Leslie Knope is Hillary Clinton (if Hillary Clinton were from Pawnee, IN and loved parks and hated libraries).
You’re right. And we’re going to have HEARINGS. Welp, there goes all hope of 2017-2020 being any better than 2016, because there will be at least three damn years of HEARINGS about HRC’s daily planner. Just . . . FUCK.
To sum up this scandal: “As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did her job, took meetings.”
And you know her schedule is going to look like Leslie Knope’s schedule the day she had to take off from work, and it required HER ENTIRE DEPARTMENT to take care of all the stuff she does in just one day. And Andy and Tom didn’t even bribe the Sanitation Department, so the next day... Raccoons Everywhere!
Vox has done a really good job of ripping the AP (rightfully) a new one for what amounts to REALLY BAD REPORTING on this:
I don’t know... there’s a bit of uproar that he should release his tax returns, then it’s treated like a joke in the media, but it goes nowhere. Meanwhile, because Clinton already served as Secretary of State, all her details are being made public. Basically, Trump is getting away wit having no experience while…
It would be nice if Donald Trump released anything, at this point. How is he getting away with this?
I think in almost any other situation you’d be totally right. The Trumpites are buying the IRS bullshit. But they’ll buy ANY bullshit. He could make a new excuse twice daily and it wouldn’t matter. I talked to one today. It takes a Cirque du Soleil-level contortionist to follow the mental gymnastics by which they…
I get that it’s an excuse; just saying he won’t be able to use it as an excuse, so how hollow will the NEXT excuse sound? Because the Trumpites are actually buying that IRS bullshit.
I agree. Its exhausting. I can only think it’s easier to look into her history because it’s all been public, and looking into Trump’s sordid and manipulated existence is too hard. We should hear every day about his connections in Russia, and with mob ties in NYC, and his hiring of immigrants, and fucking people over…
But the audit being finished isn’t an excuse. Finishing it won’t help. If they finish it, he’ll just be like “But I don’t have ten Twinkies. I can’t release my finances if I don’t have ten Twinkies.” And then someone will give him ten Twinkies then he’ll be like “Sorry, I meant eleven Twinkies. I only have ten. Sad!”…
Yep, not fair in the slightest. Mr. Fluorescent Three Brain Cells needs to do some releasing of his own.
This breathless coverage of the minutiae of Clinton’s daily schedule as Secretary of State, lunch habits as NY Senator, trips to the bathroom during debates, etc., is increasingly bizarre and demonstrative only of a media that are utterly invested in false equivalencies and a “horserace,” no matter the facts.
But the IRS can’t get it together to finish Trump’s audit so he has no excuses left there, and the Trump University lawsuit won’t move forward until after the election? Yeah, that seems fair.
I’ll see anything with Laura Dern in it, whose vivid performance in Wild (2014) (with Reese Witherspoon) utterly blew me away.