AIBU to wonder where Hillary is?

[Wookiecookies]

Ok, sorry in advance for posting yet another election thread in AIBU so please hide post if necessary but, after everything thats happened is anyone else really surprised that she didnt at least thank her supporters at the rally? There's been nothing from her at all!

Its just bizarre.

[maddiemookins16mum]

She should have got her 'losing' 🙁 speech over and done with this morning, her supporters at the NYC venue were just told to go home and get some sleep. They must have felt very let down.

[Wookiecookies]

Spring, with all due respect that isn't really relevant to the question I asked is it?

[Jackie0]

CNN announced she will give her speech at 10.30 east coast time

[eurochick]

I suspect she didn't want to concede early / make any speech until she could see how close it was. There might have been the prospect of legal challenges.

[AlexaTwoAtT]

"shinynewusername

Trump would have done the right thing whatever one might think of him

Are you on glue? He said he wouldn't accept the decision if he lost."

Am I on glue? Whaaat? What a very mature question. He would have addressed his supporters and that is he point. Are you able to follow? Oh and HTH!

[AlexaTwoAtT]

...is the point.

[Wookiecookies]

Fair point Euro I guess that was a possibility.

[FannyWincham]

If I were Hillary I'd be in an enormous bubble bath with a vat of gin and the new Jilly Cooper, thinking 'fuck you all, then'.

This is quite possibly why I am perhaps not suited to public office.

[Cockblocktopus]

Ahahahhhahaaaa at trump would have done the right thing.

[Wookiecookies]

Haha Fanny

[PavlovianLunge]

Of course Trump wouldn't have done the right thing, but I would have expected Hillary to. I suspect she didn't because she was/is crushed, and must know that this was her last shot.

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

I suspect she didn't because she was/is crushed, and must know that this was her last shot.

I agree she won't go again.

[Sonders]

HRC probably went to bed because it was the middle of the night and she's exhausted. In the past the concession speeches were made earlier but that doesn't mean she's a terrible person for waiting a few hours.

Also, since Trump became president elect, she's overtaken him in the ballot count and it looks like she's going to take the popular vote - which is a really big deal. No doubt the remarks have changed/are changing to reflect this.

[OlennasWimple]

I can't see Hillary running again: the onus is now on the Democrats to quickly identify a new, cast iron ticket to run in 2020 so that DT only serves one term.

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

Also, since Trump became president elect, she's overtaken him in the ballot count and it looks like she's going to take the popular vote - which is a really big deal. No doubt the remarks have changed/are changing to reflect this.

There may have had to be changes for Republicans taking Senate and House too.

[lionheart]

I think it's more like that escape scene from Shawshank where Andy crawls through a tunnel of excrement in order to reach freedom. She's going to have to spend a long time washing off all the crap and she didn't reach her goal.

[3luckystars]

I always feel so sorry for the person that loses. Poor Hillary. It must have cost them billions.

Totally not the same at all, but I went for a Job once that I should have gotten. I really broke myself doing everything to prepare. I bought a new suit even though i didn't have very much money. I did everything to get it.
I didn't. It was really awful, I was so upset, I couldn't understand it and neither could anyone else, I felt I had let everyone down, especially my family. The worst part was when i thought about the money i squandered on that suit, it made me feel so ashamed. (it was just a normal suit from Next, but i never really buy clothes for myself)
I did wear it a lot afterwards but i will never forget that sinking feeling i had about spending my family's money on my selfish quest for the job. It felt worse than not getting the Job.

I wonder if Hillary feels like that today (multiplied by one billion). I hope she is ok. Sorry for my rambly post, no wonder i didn't get the job. I cant summarise : )

I hope she recovers ok.

[Marcipex]

3luckystars you were doing your best.


I think Clinton showed very poor form, not thanking her supporters, just a no- show.
Yes I'm sure she was tired, so were they.

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

She did phone Trump before his speech however to concede.

[saranuff]

Poooor Hillary

[RepentAtLeisure]

Poor form? She just lost to a puff of vile orange candyfloss who mocks the disabled live on TV, spent donations to his charitable foundation on his political campaign, admits to being racist and misogynist, and has chosen a VP who wants to electric shock gay teenagers until they are 'cured'. A man who should be in court next month over the alleged rape of a 13 year old CHILD, but won't be because the death threats from his almost equally vile supporters made her run away. I can't actually think of a worse example of humanity and she just lost to him!

If she manages to do anything other than tell people to enjoy the monumental fuck-up they brought on themselves, it's very good form.

[Chris1234567890]

Id just guess, shes very busy at the moment, taking calls from all those individuals, corporates, countries, she'd done deals with WHEN she was president........ Just saying.

[Itinerary]

Trump's success, like Brexit, is about validating people's prejudices and stoking divisions and fears.

Yet again, there are some ridiculous generalisations being made about Brexiters (You voted leave? We haven't met, but you must be xenophobic, stupid, right-wing, old and will die soon, from some laughably backward part of the country, were just making a general protest because you're too thick to understand what you voted for, and you should be patronised and not allowed to vote). It's just bizarre when people are priding themselves on supposedly being less xenophobic than others, yet are quite happy to make insulting generalisations in so many other ways

Many people voted leave because they would like Britain to be independent again. In 1992 all British citizens were made to take on "European citizenship", and you can't even renounce this without, at the same time, renouncing your British citizenship. Why would a simple trading group need to make people into "citizens" if there were no plans for a federal Europe?

Why would a trading bloc need its own flag, anthem, parliament, flag, motto, materials to promote itself in schools, currency, laws which always supercede those of member states, or to prioritise large corporations who can afford vast amounts on lobbying? Why is there no mechanism for leaving the euro, and why was Article 50 an afterthought only brought in 7 years after John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty?

Many of those who cited immigration as a reason to vote "leave" were not "xenophobic" and would be offended to be wrongly described as such. For most, it was simply about our own government making the decisions, not the EU. Most countries around the world do the same, after all. Regardless of a small minority of extremists or troublemakers, who will always pick out things to hide behind (religion being one example), for most leavers it was definitely not to "validate their prejudices" or "stoke divisions and fears".

[pregnantat50]

from the press

Hillary Clinton had her concession speech prepared - she just never thought she’d need to read it out loud.

And when the moment came early today to admit that her lifelong dream of becoming America’s first woman president had been dashed, she simply couldn’t face the world.

The devastated Democratic candidate remained locked in her New York hotel room as it became clear that her glass ceiling had come crashing down around her.

[SpringSpringSpring]

Well, obviously I asked because I thought it was relevant wookie, what I meant was that criticizing her for being ungracious after such an appalling campaign of hate and vitriol from the opponent seems all out of proportion. How can she congratulate him, knowing what he is and what this means for the country?