Law... Look At This Mess..
Let this sink in. It was posted by Riverside Co GOP in Tweet
Well, here we are, post convention, post ten thousand fire storms of emails, conspiracy theories, chants of “lock her up” ringing through every Trump rally, memes creating a caricature of an evil, money grubbing war hawk and death merchant, even tweets from official GOP parties suggesting Hillary be hung...YES HUNG (see pic)….yet she still stands. The one and only narrative the media has to try and put a chink in the armor is whether or not Hillary Clinton is trustworthy. Benghazi, for 11 hours, not a crack. Having her personal emails gone through, searching for anything that might bring her down. Here’s the thing. It’s just NOT.
What Would Your Emails Say About You? What Could Someone MAKE Them SEEM To Say??
When I sit and think about whether or not I think Hillary Clinton is honest, several things come to my mind. If you’re really honest with yourself, then you have to put yourself in the same position Hillary finds herself in, and that is having every action, every word, every thing she has done in her whole life dissected and laid bare and on an almost continual basis for 30 years. ( I’d be insane or decide to become a hermit) I’m thinking about my emails right now and wondering what could be said of me by the content, and quite frankly I’m a little horrified. Between friends and family sending me gossip about people I know, (some unsolicited some not...) email lists I’ve inadvertently been subscribed to by hitting the wrong tab, or my Victoria Secrets purchases….thousands and thousands of emails. Sweet jeebus, I might be a monster! Maybe a slut? How would I feel about the world knowing what size drawers I wear and my bra size?? Or gawwd knows any other purchase that might be embarrassingly human. (Before you anal rententive huns come after me about how serious the whole email fiasco with Hillary was, you’re missing the point of this diary. LEAVE NOW! I’ll ignore your comments, You’re dead to me.)
Further Vivisected…
Then there are times when I’m grumpy, say things I don’t mean when I’m feeling salty and thank the cosmos no one gives a shit. I’m not a monster. I’m a deeply empathetic person and I care deeply about what happens to my family, friends, neighbors, and I’m a proud citizen of this country, but dayum…Sometimes stupid people piss me off, and I derive a small amount of pleasure tweeting facts to deluded Trump voters! So what could be said of me if everything I did was put under a microscope?? Depends greatly on who is looking and what they want to find. I think this concept isn’t one that’s hard to grasp. As more and more people have their moments recorded on the interwebz, and in fact do not know how to stop sharing when they SHOULD, it is an experience many of us have already had. Someone misunderstands, misconstrues, or just plain cherry picks to suit their own purpose and you end up being the asshole, social outcast, just judged as awful because you said something off or gawwd forbid spoke emotionally instead of rationally. So what do you do? How do you know what reality is??
After all of this thinking about having my life laid bare in this very myopic way, and what would it say about me, I’m not entirely sure it would have a shred of truth to it. So, what DOES speak about me? And I mean the truth. The truth of who I am, and what kind of person I’ve been in my life? It’s my actions and accomplishments. My good deeds, my hard work, what I’ve raised my child to become. The friends I’ve made, the people who know me. People who I’ve helped and people who’ve helped me. Those are the things no one can misunderstand. No one can misunderstand my nature when they learn I volunteer at the animal shelter, foster animals, adopt the one eyed, 3 legged dogs with bald spots and mange no one wants. No one can misconstrue that I work with Habitat in my community by donating furniture people aren’t going to be using anymore because they bought new from my family business. If they have other things I get my delivery guys to take that too. I don’t want accolades….I do these things because they make me feel good, useful, happy, in fact truly sublime. Then I think how maybe it’s these things a person should be judged by. Truth is a very relative thing. A million people could witness an event, and you’d have a million different stories, and ALL TRUE.
That’s a helluva lot of thinking, but it’s the one thing I always keep coming back to when I’m wrestling with my RWNJ uncle or I look at my Facebook page, and see the vile things people down here in the south say about Hillary Clinton. Bottom line, Hillary Clinton has plenty of money. She could ride off into the sunset, be a Grandma, and live out her days, away from pressure, threats, attacks, in complete comfort. She’s no reason to be greedy. She’s pushing 70. It’s then I look at her accomplishments, from the time she was a teen, up until this day. Those don’t lie. Here’s a good list if you care to have a look. I look at the testimonials from the people who’s lives she’s touched. Met the people she has touched when attending regional Dem rallies. I’ve met people she inspired to run for office, people who were able to have their seriously ill children cared for without worrying about losing their homes….all real. You know it’s real when you hear them because they are inspired. That’s what goodness does. It inspires. That’s why I take that as real.
Since the media has failed us all so miserably, and since everyone that does a story for a news seg or article or a commentary on Hillary Clinton, has a bit of theirs or someone else’s opinion baked in, and that times 1000 per day is a lot of noise. Reality is so distorted by one side or the other it’s hard to know just what reality is. Reality is accomplishment. Her accomplishments define her. So do her mistakes. Do I agree with her on everything??? Hell no….I’m a lefty...but I don’t doubt Clinton’s sincerity. I like the platform the Democrats have been able to put forth thanks to the hard work of everyone who worked in the primaries, and that means all enthusiastic Bernie supporters pushing….good gawwd the Dems need that!! That platform is us. I’ve witnessed Hillary Clinton stand up to the entire GOP and never back down. Not when she’s attacked, not when she’s sick, not when people yell lock her up, or suggest she should be hung. That takes real guts and drive, and her actions show she has it. I think lots of people understand this concept. When they answer these polls about “is Hillary Clinton trustworthy?” and their answer based on what’s out there in opinion and words tell them it should be so they say no, but when asked if trusted to get the job done, you get a different answer. Hell, even the polls are misleading. If you want your head to do ‘splody things check this Nate Silver article out… I think it’s telling that for the 20th year in a row, Hillary Clinton has been named most admired woman in the world. Does that sound like someone who people consider untrustworthy and dishonest??
The only conclusions I can come to after rolling it around in the brain pan, is that truth is relative, noise is noise, and instead of listening to how others see things, see it for yourself, come to your own conclusion, then see what others think. I looked hard at accomplishments. I came to my own conclusion. #ImWithHer
Then there’s that whole Donald Trump is a dangerous psychopathological LIAR but I’ll save that for another time ;) (Yes I made that word a mashup. Relax)
RIP Izzy…At least 18 yrs old, blind, little love and my friend. I miss her.