My thoughts on the election

    I don’t really like Hillary Clinton, but I cannot even begin to pretend why anyone would vote for Donald Trump short of denying reality. So I’m going to present a few arguments here that that Hillary isn’t more corrupt than many other politicians, presidential candidates, or even previous presidents. Most importantly I’m going to ask Trump supporters to stop using conspiracy theories and lies to defame Hillary rather than sticking to the legitimate complaints they could have. If your belief that Trump would be more fit for office than Clinton, you should be willing to get there by criticizing Trump when he uses conspiracy theories and lies instead of clinging to them and attacking people by claiming they are delusional/paid off by Clinton when they point out the falseness of Trump’s claim. Doing so invalidates your ability to debate as you are refusing to accept the other party and believe something false with ignorant fervor. It makes you intellectually dishonest, especially since Trump lies over 60% of the time. 

    So, let’s start with the big shit storm that is her deleted e-mails. 33,000 e-mails were deleted from Hillary’s private server, by an aide working for her prior to turning it over to the FBI. Hillary admitted to using the same server for classified and non-classified e-mails. There’s no evidence she was aware this had happened prior to it happening, and the investigation ended with the head of the FBI saying no reasonable person would prosecute her. But even if we assume she did know it happened and even ordered it to happen. That still doesn’t look as bad when you remember the Bush presidency deleted 22 million e-mails from a private server, that the Bush administration assures you, was not used for non-personal e-mails when the FBI went to investigate whether or not they were using the server for government use. So Hillary isn’t more corrupt than Bush and Cheney in this instance as she admitted to using a private server for governmental e-mails, when Bush and Cheney denied it and deleted all e-mails that contradicted them.

    So let’s move on to Benghazi, do I really need to go over this one? She admitted more could have been done and claimed responsibility for the failure. Let’s go back to the Bush administration, you remember Katrina? The fact that Bush was repeatedly told the levees would not hold, and did nothing. People lost their lives and livelihood. It’s almost like republican’s and Trump supporters want to pretend the Bush administration never happened. Like the corruption of that time never happened and that Hillary is somehow worse than Bush.

    So let’s move on to her wall street speech that was leaked recently, where she said you need a public and private stance on politics, which is actually something I’ve told people for over a decade, but a politician saying it is suddenly a horrible thing, my biggest problem with Hillary saying this was when asked during the debate she didn’t own it and tried to instead claim she was talking about Lincoln and how he managed to get things done, which arguably was part of the speech, but it was separate from the 'needing a public/private political stance' statements. Now do people remember Romney’s wall street speech from 2012? No? Of course not, because to do that would make Hillary’s speech feel mild and possibly meaningless.

    So let’s move right along to the Hillary intimidated Bill’s sexual assault victims. I am under no circumstance going to claim that Bill did not attack these women. That being said I find the idea that Hillary knew about it and threatened them hard to believe. "Why?" you might ask. Well, let’s just post a link to the Wikipedia page and come back to it after you’ve read that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_misconduct_allegations

    So here’s my problem with the idea that Hillary knew about it and intimidated these women. You may have noticed that they only claimed to have been intimidated by Hillary this year, even though they made the claim Bill attacked them over a decade or two earlier. Meaning they had no reason to conceal the fact that Hillary intimidated them into silence since they had already broken that silence. Yet they said nothing about the involvement of Hillary until she is the presidential nominee for a major party. That makes the claim that Hillary knew about incredibly suspicious to me. Why wait over a decade to claim that Hillary knew the whole time and threatened you to keep you silent if you already broke that silence? There’s no reason to do that unless the threat was fake unless you were just trying to get back at the Clintons by attacking their credibility or grab a moment of fame now that Hillary is a big name again.

    So if you read my last blog post you know that the claims about Hillary assassinating people who stood in her way politically originate from a website that has no credibility. This didn’t stop Trump supporters from clinging to it, though it really should have. But here’s the thing, the logical fallacy I mentioned last week, if Hillary actually did kill all those people and get away with it, why didn’t she get rid of a single one of Bill’s sexual assault victims? It can’t have been suspicion because the people she’s credited with killing are people that websites claim were going to testify against her. It can’t have been fear of getting caught because being able to assassinate someone who’s going to testify against you and not getting caught means you could have done it without getting caught. There’s no way logically that those two things can be true at the same time, so if you believe that Bill honestly assaulted those women then you cannot logically believe she is responsible for those deaths without some insane mental gymnastics.

    So Trump said on a video that he doesn’t even wait, he just starts kissing them, that when you’re a star you can do whatever you want, “grab them by the pussy.” So many Trump supporters seem to have the misunderstood belief that “Grab them by the pussy” is the part many people find offensive about this comment, calling it “locker room talk.” News flash, no one gives a shit about the vulgarity of that phrase, what everyone is upset about is what precedes it, the “I don’t even wait,” The “when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.” those two phrases make what he is saying bragging about sexual assault. Which is the rape culture feminists are up in arms about. If you wonder why feminists don’t support Trump, that’s why. He literally bragged about sexually assaulting women, and the response that was given was, "it’s just words," just “locker room talk.” That statement, and the empty apology he gave, afterward, are the very representation of rape culture in the U.S.

    I heard a youtube video where someone said what Trump claimed wasn’t that bad, that as a billionaire Trump might have women come on to him all the time. That he might not be able to tell the difference between that and women who don’t want to have sex with him, that he might unknowingly commit sexual assault. Except his statement shows he clearly did know that he was aware they were not into him, but ignoring that. They wouldn’t even imagine extending Bill the same courtesy. Bill Clinton, a man with far more charisma than Donald Trump, a man who was in a much more powerful position, a man who did have consensual sex with multiple women during his marriage to Hillary. Bill would be far more likely to, from his perspective, confuse consent, where Trump by his own statement did not. I will, again and again, state that I don’t see that as an excuse, but if you’re going to claim Trump could confuse it when he makes it clear he didn’t, and in fact brags about ignoring consent, then you logically would have to claim that maybe Bill, who doesn’t brag about it, is either unaware and doesn’t feel he did assault those women or possibly feels ashamed that the women he was with felt he did.

    Again, I don’t feel like that’s an excuse for Bill’s behavior, just like I feel using it as an excuse for Trump is lazy and offensive. Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, that’s the long and short of it. If you believe he didn’t or that it’s just “locker room talk,” then you’re misunderstanding what people are upset about.

    Hillary is better than Trump. Sure, she’s about as corrupt as Bush, and I wouldn’t necessarily vote for another Bush. However, I’d vote Bush again in a second before I’d ever vote for Trump. So my vote will go to Hillary because there’s no one in this election who is anywhere near as qualified. Trump is a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, bigot. He inspires hate at his rallies and encourages violence against his opponents and protesters. He, in a not so veiled way, suggested that someone might want to assassinate Clinton if she gets elected. At the second debate, Trump said he would hire a special prosecutor to look into her case and have her arrested, which is exactly what tyrannical dictators do. He cannot accept the idea that he would lose unless the election was rigged against him. He’s a coward and incredibly unfit for office. Hell, he can’t even follow the simple rules of a debate or answer a question without ranting about something completely irrelevant, then throw a tantrum like a child when the moderators try to get an answer from him.

    Hillary might not be the best president, but of our choices this election, she’s by far the best choice we have.