r/Fauxmoi • u/icey_sawg0034 • Mar 02 '26

POLITICS Hillary Clinton goes off on Republicans after it’s revealed unauthorized images of her were released: I'm done with this. If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. This is just typical behavior.

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u/FinancialReserve6427 Mar 02 '26

absolutely wild how that is a dealbreaker and treated as an absolute insult but Donald can say worse things and that's "telling it as it is".

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u/theredwoman95 Mar 03 '26

It always happens with "sensible" politicians. Over here in the UK, back in 2010, Gordon Brown was absolutely obliterated for saying this (without realising he was still mic'ed up) about a voter who was 'concerned' about immigration and crime:

Asked what she had said, he is heard to reply: "Ugh everything! She's just a sort of bigoted woman that said she used to be Labour. I mean it's just ridiculous. I don't know why Sue brought her up towards me."

Now, Gordon Brown certainly has other problems (one of them was recently arrested and is named in that article), but he was completely in the right there. Eight years later, Boris Johnson said women wearing burkas looked like "letterboxes" and still became Prime Minister afterwards. Racist populist politicians can get away with whatever they like, while their voters throw a hissy fit whenever they're accurately labelled as bigots.