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Sympathy for the Devil
Here’s an informative, professional speculation about Clinton’s health issues, which gives me pause. She is probably suffering from a number of things, but the syndrome is one I call Michael Jackson’s Disease. She is surrounded by the elite of the progressive world-crushing governance, the shock troops of the freedom-trampling lawyers of malice, the useful idiots and pathetic suck-ups of the soul-corroding entertainment and media propaganda machine. She has not a single friend with a conservative thought, nor any impure specimens of less-than-worshipful Clinton machine acolytes.
Clinton is like a stunningly beautiful woman in average surrounding who fears she has no female friends, and who finds that she polarizes men into vicious hunters and weaklings, and who therefore hangs out with the gays and laments that all of her friends are gay. Not that she’s stunning in any manner except for her jaw-dropping, appalling, callous disregard for life, law, and liberty. But her presence causes certain actions to be taken, certain answers to be given. The success of the progressive machine is not in its parts but in its pervasive smothering, and the news anchors need not be told what they must say, or why. State Department employees need not be told what they must do. IRS agents need not be told to kneecap conservatives. The FBI director need not be instructed how to stay alive. They all know — they or their mentors, their bosses, their idols, and their legends have all been working on the same project since the 1960s. The answer, my friend, is blowing in a wind which does no good.
So how would the personal physician of one Hillary Clinton approach the subject? With deep reverence and medically respectable pronouncements of the fitness of the candidate. Or she would not long be the physician of Hillary Clinton, who is Going Places, and will not brook any untoward answers.
I am quite certain that she does not have friends. She has become entirely a creature of the project, the horrifying emptiness at the center of a Cult of Nothing. Get it right the first time or be destroyed. Hilary Clinton is not some sort of weak sister, the farce following the tragedy of Bill the smooth-talker. Many of us on the right have always referred to her as the force behind that man, and there is an old joke about Bill & Hill talking about the gas-stand attendant, known to both of them since high school, which ends with Hillary’s pungent retort that if she had married Fred, he would be the President, and Bill would be pumping gas! I shall now re-read the book Hell To Pay.
She has functionaries and superfunctionaries. She has those whom she trusts more and those whom she trusts less, but her whole life is a project for which others will be destroyed, and fail, and stagger away, and die, and for which she will not. Her crimes are legion, her excuses laughable, her denials absurd, and still she and her entire machine simply get away with it. Many are fond of calling her the most beatable candidate ever, but this is simply not true. More often than not, that excuse is just shoring up anticipated failure by pre-blaming an unloved nominee, but it’s moral laziness. The Hillary machine is formidable enough to blast its way through investigations, committees, scandals, crises, laws, and flag-draped corpses not because Trump is the nominee — that’s ridiculous.
She is untouchable because she is surrounded by a human mass of spear-catchers and the most criminal cabal of coup by lawyering yet seen on the face of this Earth. Hillary Clinton is our reminder that monsters are not different — they are humans, and that women are equal — their successes in global politics may contain a high percentage of tyrants, of demented dictators, of torture hungry beasts in human form.
Michael Jackson died (and good riddance) because nobody around him withstood the tide of hangers-on, of highly-paid concierges, and the occasional functionary with the power to prescribe what the real doctor ordered — Jackson’s entourage. Likewise, no doctor of Hillary’s is going to tell us anything like the well-thought out article linked in the first line of this post. The left summoned a demon in Obama, and he does his master’s bidding, laying the path for total conquest.
Hillary could win in an iron lung and nobody would dare mention it.
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The eye thing is weird, and it’s serious. I’m not a doctor but my understanding is that that doesn’t happen without some neurological issue.
Great article. I was exposed to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos’ cronies toward the end. The key Ferdinand Marcos Cronies were very few, very dangerous, and far more interesting because his power rested on them. Imelda’s groupies depended on her for their wealth and had to be at her beck and call, they were pathetic, soulless, spiritually and intellectually dead. Your description of Hillary’s groupies brought Imelda’s to mind.
Yeah. It’s a cranial nerve palsy, and there are any number of causes. I suspect it’s a residual of her prior venous sinus thrombosis. The real question is what other neurologic problems she has as a result.
Wow, Ball, this is fantastic. Truly. I think you absolutely nailed it.
Absolutely. I shudder to think where any other nominee would be at this point with their utterly predictable campaigns and predictable personalities and predictable politeness. We’d be talking about how far behind they’d be, how unfairly they’ve been portrayed, how much their inevitable gaffes would have pigeon-holed them by now, all victims of the Machine.
Excellent post! You really did nail it!
I guess Trump is the best possible opponent, since he’s not a politician and doesn’t have any qualms about responding in kind to her dirt. I would like to see her bloodied in the debates and on the rest of the campaign trail.
I think #18 on this list of “signs you are a gay man” is that you’re best pals with women nobody else can stand. It’s a gift. Think: Ann Coulter. Relevant?
The people who don’t play by the rules usually get crushed because the rules show no mercy when you break them. It is sad when you have no one to tell you what you need to hear.
Just in Hillary has someone new to help with messaging.
This is what makes her election dangerous. Those who think Trump is more dangerous than Hillary seem to be overly focused on the individuals’ character traits. The machine and its political culture is the real threat.
In response to concerns about Clinton’s obvious strabismus the Clinton campaign released a letter from Dr Bardack detailing Clinton’s cholesterol numbers which Dr Bardack states ,”are excellent”.
BDB,
I agree with your post virtually in its entirety. My own estimation of her is similar except for one thing. I believe there could have been a moment where she broke with it all. After she and Bill left the White House instead of doubling down she could have snapped it and started a new life. First, she divorces Bill. Who would blame her? Next, she divorces politics for a time at least. Instead of forcing herself on the public with the senate run she could have written a book about power & corruption. The book could have done some good for this country and made her a nice dollar too. After 4 or 5 years she might have got back in the fray but not as a democrat. She might have run as an independent. With the real creds of contrition and remorse working for her she could have been an effective member of congress truly working for the public good.
All of this didn’t happen and wasn’t going to happen. She is rotten all the way to the core. She took her second chance and threw it in the trash. Everything she did from then on was only more and more corrupt. If she dies because of the phenomenon that you are describing it will be poetic justice.
Regards,
Jim
Not that she’s stunning in any manner except for her jaw-dropping, appalling, callous disregard for life, law, and liberty. But her presence causes certain actions to be taken, certain answers to be given. The success of the progressive machine is not in its parts but in its pervasive smothering, and the news anchors need not be told what they must say, or why. State Department employees need not be told what they must do. IRS agents need not be told to kneecap conservatives. The FBI director need not be instructed how to stay alive. They all know — they or their mentors, their bosses, their idols, and their legends have all been working on the same project since the 1960s. The answer, my friend, is blowing in a wind which does no good.
Brilliant, the whole thing! It made my day. Spot on.
BDB,
If for one minute anyone has any doubts about Hillary’s culpability in the matter of handling classified information:
‘Clueless’ Clinton Spent Six Years on the Senate Armed Services Committee
Comey claims he couldn’t prove intent??!! She knew exactly what she was doing every moment.
Regards,
Jim
I have wondered from time to time if she might be a sociopath, except she doesn’t have the social glibness and surface charm of so many classic sociopaths.
Then I think of her having lived her life with a man who exudes charm out his pores; perhaps the bitterness at his effortless popularity sets in, and she decides in her heart that it’s due to sexism rather than her base unlikeability. The bitterness turns into a nastiness that is always just under her social veneer of calm competence.
Don’t know if it’s legit or not, just found it elsewhere on them internets. Was just waiting for yet another HillHealth thread to drop it by and see what’s what.
Hillary has always been a concept as a political force. As a living breathing politician she was mediocre at best.
She remains a concept but the body is failing. It is sad, and would be a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare.
It shows how the Democratic party is as spent as the GOP as a force. The wheels are coming off and this election is turning from a race into a demolition derby.
Nice post BDB. Well put, well said and well posted.
At first sight I read this as “Clinton is a stunningly beautiful woman in average surrounding who fears she has no female friends…” I was thinking, BDB has lost his mind! Never thought I’d say this but thank goodness for the word like in that sentence.
Beautifully written.
Also, it’s the way I see it.
Brilliant post, but I did want to pick on this bit. The Clinton machine has always been formidable in its wielding of political power. It’s Hillary’s personality and blatant dishonesty which undermines her efforts. These are separate issues. It’s fair to criticize the “most beatable” candidate status based on her political force, but neglects the part of her that undecided voters find distasteful. It’s a bit like pointing out a steel vault door is impervious to explosives when others are worried that the vault isn’t locked.
Hillary would be an nearly impossible foe if no one knew anything about her and she was her husband twenty years ago. Fortunately we aren’t running that race again.
Two thoughts arise:
1) I hope ya’ll are down with Tim Kaine because he may be the next Lyndon Johnson. (Which is why Kaine probably took the job in the first place. It’s his ticket to the Oval Office.)
2) Consider the total, blind ambition that causes a person to continue fighting toward a goal, betting her life on the fight. And it’s a goal most normal people would really rather not achieve considering it requires you to give up your soul to get.
Woodrow Wilson comes to mind too, his running for re-election in 1920 was madness.
Oh.
Tolstoy rolls over in his grave, kicks his feet and mutters, Damn, why couldn’t I have said that.
Very nice.
BDB,
Bill & Hillary’s last dinner party.
Regards,
Jim
The Democrat Party seems to be filled with these sick people who’ve been running for President since they were teen-agers, both Clintons , Obama, Kerry, Gore, all of them going back to at least 1988, I don’tp know about Dukakis . Sick.
Excellent post, Trump could never be as dangerous because he could never get away with the stuff Democrats get away with routinely .
All the drones know what to do without being told, protect the Queen at all costs.
she’s the perfect incarnation of everything we hate about baby boomers
Well done @balldiamondball! Absolutely inspired writing. Have you submitted this piece to the NY Times yet? There can be no way to turn this down…ya think?
Nice paragraph! It tickled me to read it.
Thank you for the upvotes and the kind words, folks.