Now look here, America, you must, nay, you WILL watch this film!

After all, you owe her!  I mean, dammit, it was her turn and she deserved it but you let her lose!  You are all absolute scoundrels and so the least you can do to make amends is to spend four hours - oh come on, it's only FOUR hours! - watching this film which bears, alas, the unforgettable title of "HILLARY"!  Yes, it's about her, well everything, everywhere, all the time is about her. 

Alas, Mr. Kyle Smith of The National Review is definitely not a Hillary fan but don't let him put you off even if he does suggest that:

At some point in recent years, one or more of Hillary Clinton’s many handlers, advisers, or consultants told her, “You should laugh more. People like laughter.” Except she is sour, dour, and without a humorous molecule in her body. Her laughter is always feigned, hence always a non sequitur. When she reminds herself it’s laughing time, it comes across as a tic. It’s as bizarre as sudden-onset tap dancing.

Mr. Smith is obviously not a fan:

Her role today is that of a good-natured and not-at-all-bitter role model for tomorrow’s women. But her words betray her aggrievement and entitlement. She is not good at this. She was never good at this. She simply lacks the personality of a public-facing figure and should never have embarrassed herself trying to be one. If it hadn’t been for her proximity to William Jefferson Clinton, a man who genuinely did have a genius for connecting with people and lit up every room he was in for many years, the idea of trying to win elected office never would have infected her mind. There’s no shame in lacking political gifts. What is shameful is that she continues to blame her personal failings on the rest of us. [My emphasis]

And, of course, she is right!  It is all your fault, you very naughty 'Yankee-doodle-dandies', that you failed to recognise and reward a brave woman who merely sought to gain what was hers by right!  OK, OK, so she has a really irritating laugh habit - as Mr. Smith reminds us:

In more than a quarter of a century as a public figure she has never, as far as I know, said anything funny that wasn’t written for her. Yet in a fresh new batch of interviews taken for Hillary, the title figure becomes the second major movie anti-hero of recent months to exhibit a problem with bursting into unexplained, mirthless, and (hence) deeply disquieting laughter. Recalling the much-delayed concession speech she famously withheld until the morning after her 2016 defeat, Clinton says that afterwards, “I just collapsed in the back of the van. [Pause for hearty laughs.] I was like: What. Just. Happened.” According to her, “all the forces [Donald Trump] had unleashed had been rewarded. It made me sick to my stomach.” So, er, why the laughs? She’s Arthur Fleck in a pantsuit.

                        

                  Hillary Clinton                                                           Arthur Fleck      

Needless to say, her loss against the most unlikely Presidential candidate - ever! - was not her fault - it was yours, you naughty citizens!

“People still believe weird, wacky things about me because they’ve been told [laughs in spasmodic, Arthur Fleck mode] that, you know, I kill people, I rob people, I mean who knows what the heck they’ve been told?” Well, we’ve been told that it’s a felony to remove classified information from secure channels but also told that it was okay when you did it, Madame Secretary. But do go on about how the system is rigged against you.

Well, apparently, in this four hour marathon she does go on - and on - and on some more - all totally fascinating, of course, and I shall expect a full report from my 'Yankee-doodle-dandy' friends.

Comments

[otto]

On this side of the hemisphere, she is like a weeping sore that never scabs over and heals. Its a has been actress/musician desperately trying to stay relevant and adored, while trying to salvage whatever monetary gains she can from what she was supposed to be.

[Michael F Adams]

I am sixty nine years old. I will NOT spend four hours of what time I have left on this planet watching a doc about that woman.

[David Duff]

Gentlemen, you are very harsh! Just think what she has sacrificed on your behalf! There's, er, well ... and of course there is also, um ... and not forgetting ... dammit, I've forgotten!

[missred]

As much as I love you, dear Duffers, I am not going to watch this. I have been living with it since 1992. I just wish she would shut up and go away. Preferrably the way of many of her betrayers.
That may be rather harsh, dear Missred, you say. Well, dear Duffers, I loathe her intensely and completely, and I have no respect for those that idolise her.

[Whitewall]

Take four hours you say? No, I have big plans to take a large laxative in stead. Works out to about the same in the end.

[Bob]

The Clintons aren't the worst of America's embarrassments, but they're in the top 10. Are you trying to rub it in John Bull?

[David Duff]

OK, dear Miss Red, I take it you're not into masochism!

[Loz]

The Trump impeachment is full of good rock-and-roll though isn't it? ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/politics/dershowitz-trump-impeachment.amp.html

"But, he [Dershowitz] argued, a lawful act “does not become unlawful or impeachable if done with a mixed motive of both promoting the public interest and helping his RE-election.”

One of the many things to admire about the Don is his way of bringing ball-breaking tough cases like that one to the fore! I'm not sure if he does it for the entertainment or to trap and massacre the Dems on a battlefield of his choosing? Maybe, like the statement above, a bit of both!?

Gawd luv us, what would he do with Godel's Loophole if it ever comes across his radar?!

SoD

[Loz]

Just seen the Don has succeeded in persuading the Senators not to bother with more witnesses. He should be acquitted shortly.

By God, that man does war honour.

And then he'll be free to finish off Ping-a-Ling and square up to DomBo.

We'll finally get to see what DomBo is really made of when they have to actually do something, and in this first case, with the Don himself.

Should be a barrel of laughs.

SoD

[Loz]

The Don's pulling a double-Nelson or some such wrestler's grip in the ME ...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/02/arab-league-holds-emergency-meeting-trump-plan-200201105251740.html

The Arabs get protection from Iran that has proved its destructive capability against them in Yemen and directly against Saudi Arabia. Makes one wonder if the reason the Don left off responding immediately to Iran's attacks was to demonstrate to the Hairies of the Sunni persuasion just how destructive the Hairies of the Shia persuasion would be to them if the US wasn't around.

In exchange, the Arabs let go their embrace of Palestine and hand it to the Israelis. They've got form ditching allegiance to their Muslim cause, look at the Muslims in that province in Ping-a-Ling's gaff he keeps scuffing up. One cent of Chinese cash and the Arabs are like "Oh yeah, do what you like to them if you keep the cash rolling".

So far half the Arab states are on board, per the above article. Not bad for first corner out of the traps.

By God, that man does war honour.

But the Don's gonna need another stint in office to put this and his other deals to bed.

MAGA 2: the Sequel.

Go do, that voodoo, that you do, so weeeeeelllll America!

SoD

[Bob]

The Don is a genius compared to a manchild who just wants to play with a train set.