You know what’s curious? That so many Trump supporters were so quick to assume Secretary Clinton was referring to them; that they immediately identified themselves as one of the “deplorables”,  even if they had to look up the definition on Dictionary.com. They hopped right into that handbasket and went straight to social media, taking offense to being insulted by the big ol’ liberal meanie.  Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?

Of COURSE, you are familiar with Hillary Clinton’s grossly generalistic statement about the estimated 50% of Trump supporters who are openly “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic… you name it.”

Fine folks like this.  And this.

Secretary Clinton referred to this group as a “basket of deplorables.”

Fair enough.  That gets no argument from me. That ideology IS deplorable. Base, despicable, reprehensible, loathsome, ignominious. Backward and shameful.

That is a fact and in a modern, civilized society, that fact isn’t debatable.

From what I’ve experienced this election cycle, I think Secretary Clinton’s estimate is a lowball.

If you happen to be one of the very, very few who are interested in factual information and you actually listened to the rest of her statement, in context, you would have heard…

“…Unfortunately there are people like that. And he (Trump aka Orange WannaHitler) has lifted them up.  He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric.  Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”

Clumsy metaphor aside, she’s right. Because she was referring to the white supremacists, the anti-Semites, the KKK, the white nationalists (like David Duke and those Stormfront idiots). She was referring to those who are brainwashed and hate-blind by the lies of the Fox Propaganda Network, Breitbart.com, by the hostility they hear coming from the pulpit, from their elected officials, from the voice of their own bigotry and fear. Trump loves those people, as he loves the poorly educated (they are one and the same, no?) They do his dirty work, and they are doing it so well.

But wait!  There’s more!

There just so happens to be a whole other basket…

Secretary Clinton continued:

“But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he (OrangeWannaHitler) says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

Very thoughtful. Very judicious. Very diplomatic.

But screw that, right?  She’s a nasty bitch, right?

RIGHT?!?!?

You know what’s curious?  That so many Trump supporters were so quick to assume Secretary Clinton was referring to them, that they immediately identified themselves as one of the “deplorables”, even if they had to look up the definition on Dictionary.com. Those folks hopped right into that handbasket and went straight to social media, taking offense to being insulted by the big ol’ liberal meanie.  

As ignorant as they seem, we need to listen to these folks. They are loudly and proudly telling us who they are.  Shouting it from the rooftops, in fact.

They are telling us that, YES, they detest all human beings of other races. The are telling us that they believe they are superior because of their skin tone. These butt-hurt children are telling us that they believe women are inferior to men. They believe that sexual assault is perfectly okay if the perpetrator is rich enough. Or white enough. Sexual abuse and assault is just locker room behavior. Boy stuff. They’re telling us that they hate or feel threatened by those whose sexual orientations and/or gender identities they don’t understand. They are telegraphing the fact that YES, they hate everyone who isn’t white, fundamentalist Christian, and born in ‘Murica. Oh, and a “pro-life” gun humper.

For the deplorables, this campaign isn’t about politics or policy.

It’s about pure, black-hearted, filthy hate. And when Trump, during the second “debate” made the claim that a Clinton presidency would be “four more years of Obama”, he said all he needed to say. It’s about racism. Still.

A lot, dare we say a basket-full, of self-professed “Christian” folks are ranting and raving about what a bitch and a cunt Hillary is, how she should be locked up, executed, and how all liberals are Satan’s spawn.  Just like Jesus would do.  (Never mind that Jesus was the poster child of bleeding-heart, socialist liberals.  And if he were here today, he would slap the shit out of the Deplorables. But that’s another post for another day.) 

And did you know that Hillary’s the Devil because Hollywood Movie Stars!!  Translation: Jews!  Hilter would be so proud.

 Let’s add anti-Semitic to that list while we’re at it.  Oh, and the Deplorables, they hate Catholics too.  Don’t ask me why.  People are saying, I’ve heard they do.

Oh, thou doth protest too much, methinks, my little deplorable monsters!

Your misdirected, ginned-up outrage speaks volumes.  The fact that you didn’t automatically put yourselves into the latter category, that other basket – the working poor, the disenfranchised, the mistreated, the misinformed – so very telling.

It’s the victim role. You LOVE the victim role!

But being aware of the other basket would have required further reading, research, and not jumping to the worst possible conclusion.

You know, thinking.

No, you latched right on to that deplorable label.

Some of you have even gone so far as to embrace it. 

And quite a fitting label it has proved to be.

Recent polling shows that 20% of Trump supporters disagree with the Emancipation Proclamation – they think Abraham Lincoln made a mistake freeing the slaves!!

Other information gleaned from the same February 2016 poll:

• One-third of Trump supporters questioned willingly stated that they believe that gays and lesbians should be barred from the country.
• Approximately one-third of Trump supporters questioned openly stated that they believe that whites are the superior race.
• In a South Carolina poll, it was revealed that 70% of Trump supporters questioned openly admitted that they wish the Confederate battle flag were still flying above their state house. 38% of them admitted that they wish the South had won the war.

Pretty fucking deplorable. The fact that there is ANYONE in 2016 who holds these opinions is disgusting. Pathetic.

Secretary Clinton went easy on you. And I don’t think she should have apologized. She should have elaborated and dragged your filth out into the sunlight.

Deplorable does not begin to describe you, what you are so proud to be.

No, one four-syllable 8th-grade vocabulary word does not do you justice.

We’re going to need a bigger thesaurus.  (For you evolution-deniers: don’t worry. A thesaurus is not a dinosaur.)

You self-admitted cretins,  you do NOT deserve to be outraged.

Stop trying to blame Secretary Clinton and the liberals for your black hearts and filthy souls.

You have categorized and classified your own damn selves.

It was YOUR choice to align yourselves with the scum of the earth.

And you don’t even recognize the irony.

What a joke.

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The takeaway:  If the shoe fits, cram your twisted, gnarly foot into it and ignorantly stomp all over your own respectability, baby!

Your fashion choice reveals way more about you than any politician’s or bitchy blogger’s snarky comments ever could.