In June of 2016, Hillary Clinton was blowing the doors off of Donald Trump in polling. The Orlando nightclub terror attack had just happened, and Barack Obama had a chance to get his shots in at the New York businessman as well.
By September, the strain of the race was really beginning to show. Do you remember when the real name-calling started?
That was when Hillary Clinton, Mistress of Darkness (and looking worse than her usual) came out and finally told people what she thought about Trump supporters. Not Trump - everyone knew what she thought of The Donald.
But the people who supported him.
Got her some laughs from the over-credentialed, elite crowd she was speaking to. She was among friends, so maybe she figured a little intimate joke was appropriate. You know, one they would all 'get,' but that the knuckle-draggers in red hats would puzzle over, and who would care if they were pissed anyway?
It was also a decisive turning point for many. In her dismissive, derisive description, many regular folks found the trigger that gave them the shove into full-throated Trump voters. Perhaps they hadn't been 100% in his camp before, but they sure weren't fond of what Obama had done to the country.
And they had watched slimy Clinton Inc. as Bill and Hillary gamboled through the halls of our nation's power with the arrogant, breezy assurance of entitled thieves. Crime after increasingly heinous crime piled up, as did literal bodies, and never was there an accounting or culpability.
It was always slippery prevarications accompanied by smart, smug arrogance, someone else's fault, and, when it was all said and done, what difference did it make?
Regular Americans were galvanized into action as 'deplorables.' It became a rallying point, a war cry.
That this creature of so little moral fibre as to be invisible, who would literally do anything for more power with many people legitimately wondering if she hadn't done or countenanced unspeakable things in its pursuit, looked down upon them became a badge of honor.
Clinton has always been a polarizing figure and an off-putting personality. I mean, who does this as Secretary of State?
Seems a little unhinged, no?
People were watching now. All her weird little quirks and coughs and head bobbing seizures were being seen through new eyes, as in 'What the hell is with this female?' Liberal media did their best to cover, as did Hillary herself.
In the memorable head spazz, you can see that the first is involuntary - it came out of nowhere. But she immediately repeats the gesture as if it was all a big joke, and 'Try the cold chai!'
The coup de grâce for farcical explanations came at the Ground Zero 9-11 ceremonies. Clinton was unceremoniously rushed out of the venue. A photographer who hadn't been able to get in captured the candidate braced against a bollard, then swaying like a palm, before collapsing and being unceremoniously lugged into a waiting limo like a sack of potatoes.
Clinton had, her aides insisted afterward, 'overheated.'
The only thing overheating was the rampant speculation finally exploding in public over Clinton's health, and there were frantic efforts to smack it down. As I noted on our blog back in 2016, the Associated Press made sure their headline covered Clinton's selfless sacrifice of her own health to serve the rest of us.
The Associated Press was kind enough to remind us this morning that she’s not “SICK“.
She’s a HEROClinton has history of ignoring health _ and paying a price
The White House was submerged in scandal. Democrats faced tough midterm elections. And Hillary Clinton, far more popular than her embattled husband, had become a one-woman campaign machine...
AND HOW DARE YOU
Well, that 'machine' lost the election, thank God.
I will never tire of watching her lunatic supporters' little faces collapse in tears as the electoral map collapsed around them, and then their warrior queen couldn't even be bothered to come out to thank them and send them home. As we joked at the time, she was no doubt knee-deep in Xanax and vodka, and pencil neck Podesta has to finally emerge to shoo all the mourners away for the night.
And her nemesis has since won again.
As it turns out, all our jibes, joshing, sideways looks, and rational human intuition telling us this chick just ain't right may well have been spot on, if the Russians really knew what they said they knew.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just been unloading a treasure trove of 'Hawt damn, I KNEW IT' documents they've been uncovering. One of them is an intelligence assessment of an Oversight Investigation done by Congress in 2020 that said the Russian intelligence service (the SVR) had more dirt on Hillary than anyone could have imagined, much of it to do with the terrifying state of her physical and mental health.
...According to our own intelligence, Hillary Clinton was keeping all of her medical problems strictly secret, including from her top staffers.
But per Russia's intelligence from the DNC, Obama and party leaders found the state of Hillary Clinton's health to be "extraordinarily alarming."
She suffered from "intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrollable fits of anger, aggressiveness, and cheerfulness." She was placed on a daily schedule of "heavy tranquilizers."
She was, as we already all knew, "obsessed with a thirst for power."
The SVR (the renamed KGB) also had intelligence indicating that Hillary Clinton suffered from Type 2 diabetes -- a diagnosis that most could make just by visual inspection -- "ischemic heart disease, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." I know the latter is deadly, as it killed someone close to me.
Now, if Russia actually was determined to defeat Hillary: Why did they keep this intelligence secret?
Putin also knew that according to Obama, Hillary's health was "extraordinarily alarming" and was suffering from "intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness" and was placed on a daily regimen of "heavy tranquilizers" pic.twitter.com/4JGlOHSk2o
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 24, 2025
'Uncontrollable fits of anger' and 'a thirst for power'?
Whoda thunk it.
It's absolutely deplorable.
Trump isn't the only one who dodged a bullet.
We've done it now as a nation.
TWICE
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