Hillary Clinton, in an interview with a British newspaper this week, appeared to compare herself to wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill while responding to a question about being a polarizing figure.
“I’m sure they said that about Churchill between the wars, didn’t they?” she told The Guardian when asked if she should withdraw from public life to help heal divisions in the U.S., given her reputation.
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee then immediately claimed she wasn’t actually comparing herself to Churchill, before going on to elaborate on the analogy.
Churchill went into the political wilderness between the two World Wars and during that time was a key voice criticizing then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler. He would go on to become prime minister himself and help lead the Allies to victory in World War II.
The Guardian report notes that Clinton made the Churchill reference “a fraction too quickly for the line to sound spontaneous.”
Clinton continued: “I mean, I’m not comparing myself, but I’m just saying people said that, but he was right about Hitler, and a lot of people in England were wrong. And Churchill was a pain. He kept popping up all the time.”
I love the note from the Grauniad, it’s perfectly true. She has never done anything in her entire life that was spontaneous. Everything she does has been planned to move her up the power chain.
And she will never understand, and certainly never forgive, the peasants for rejecting her
…just jumped Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell. God bless her, she rips back at them.
Dangerous, but don’t we ALL want to.
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife harassed by violent crowed, as Maxine Waters urges more protests pic.twitter.com/vC9SeMbjiu
Her mother also has a loving, EMPLOYED husband and 3 other children she ABANDONED to light out for that big WalMart in the North. Who's abusing that child again? https://t.co/PbgAjFlr72
— tree hugging sister (@treehuggingsis) June 22, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: ‘They’re together and safe: Father of Honduran two-year-old who became the face of family separation crisis reveals daughter was never separated from her mother, but the image of her in tears at U.S. border control ‘broke his heart’
…lost our Big Handsome last night. Our hearts are just broken and we are shattered.
You all here have watched BeauBeau grow up: shared his adventures, his wisdom and his recoveries from Scottie chomps over these past 13 years. And he enjoyed knowing he made you smile.
We had to say good-bye to our Big Handsome tonight.? Our sweet BeauBeau is leaving a huge hole with his passing. They found him wandering as a puppy in Lake Charles, LA after Katrina, & WE were lucky enough to get him the next spring. 13 years seems like yesterday. Heartbroken? pic.twitter.com/ugSW0EuJ3a
— tree hugging sister (@treehuggingsis) June 21, 2018
Damn, this house seems so empty without his massive, strong, loving presence here.
Americans’ long-running joke about a Starbucks on every corner may be nearing its end.
The coffee behemoth is retrenching in its home market as it contends with sales growth that Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson acknowledges isn’t fast enough. The cafe chain said Tuesday it expects comparable sales to rise just 1 percent globally for the current quarter—the worst performance in about nine years. That’s well below the 2.9 percent analysts were expecting, according to Consensus Metrix.
Starbucks also plans to close about 150 company-operated stores in densely penetrated U.S. markets next fiscal year, three times the number it historically shuts down annually. Shares initially slid as much as 6.3 percent in late trading Tuesday before inching back up. The stock was down 1.6 percent as of 5:24 p.m. in New York.
…The closing stores are often in “major metro areas where increases in wage and occupancy and other regulatory requirements” are making them unprofitable, Johnson said. “Now, in a lot of ways, it’s middle America and the South that presents an opportunity.”
Son of a bitch thing to do, the son of a bitch. We always knew he was a wreck and one of the world’s biggest assholes, but he’s ALWAYS been one. He didn’t have to leave.
New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.
CNN confirmed Bourdain’s death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.
“It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the network said in a statement Friday morning. “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time.”
Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series “Parts Unknown.” His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.
My favorite Anthony Bourdain episode: Beirut.
At minute 20 or so, he starts to become American again, and his paean to the United States Marines who rescue him from a war zone makes me cry to this very day.
…then you should face the amount of jail time that they would have faced had they been convicted
A young Long Island woman who spent over a year insisting that she was raped by two Sacred Heart University football players officially admitted in court Tuesday that she’s been lying the entire time.
Nikki Yovino, 19, pleaded guilty to charges of falsely reporting an incident and interfering with police, according to the Connecticut Post.
The former college student reportedly accepted a plea deal, and will now serve a reduced sentence of one year in prison. She had been facing six.
She should not be looking at 1 year; she should be facing many, many years plus a life-long stint on the sex crime list.
#APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license would have allowed Iran to convert $5.7B by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after 2015 nuclear deal. https://t.co/yo0UAMozAj
Man, I HATE these holier-than-thou, mendacious, anti-American sumbitches with a passion more every day.
There’d better be justice for the American citizen coming…SOMEWHERE…SOMEDAY…for at least ONE of these assholes.
UPDATE: More…
The Obama administration secretly gave Iran permission in 2016 to sidestep sanctions and convert $5.7 billion in Omani currency into US dollars https://t.co/pz0ZOqRMUe
…the 82nd Airborne is LIVE-TWEETING the D-Day invasion, hour-by-hour, as it happened for them. Filled with tidbits, maps, illustration, photos and GREAT BIG BALLS OF ALL-AMERICAN BRASS, it’s SPECTACULAR.
Check in on it and scroll through history as it happened.
And God bless them. EVERY. ONE.
#AADDayReenactment We're in it, folks! This is our D Day Reenactment. For the next 17 hours we'll bring you an "as it happened" play-by-play of The Division's actions during D Day. Follow along, ask questions, comment. We're typing this as we go cuz we want to interact w/ u pic.twitter.com/G5oBQ7ui0s
— All American Division (@82ndABNDiv) June 5, 2018
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