Hillary’s Out: We Just Dodged These Six Bullets

Is Hillary Clinton psychic?

We wonder…

When Clinton cancelled her celebratory fireworks show over the Hudson River the day before Election Day, was she guided by a premonition?

And when, last week, Clinton showed up to her donor party in NYC looking, in the Daily Mail’s words, “rather glum” (which is fighting for “Understatement Of The Year” against Clinton calling fake news an “epidemic”), was she aware that the master plot had been foiled?

It must be said to the editors of the Daily Mail: If your picture of Hillary is any indication, she was not merely “glum” the evening of Dec. 15, 2016.

Oh, no.

Glum still has a glimmer of hope in its eyes. This, dear Laissez Faire Today reader, is glum:

This (courtesy of the Daily Mail), on the other hand, is something entirely different…

OK. To be fair, let’s set the stage for context…

In the picture you see above, Clinton’s moments away from stepping foot into a party in which, unfortunately for her, she had to explain to a lot of really powerful people (whom she undoubtedly owes a lot of favors) how, precisely, Putin and a crack team of Macedonian teenaged bloggers (and, of course, FBI Director James Comey), cost her the election.

Thus, with that in mind, we can think of plenty of better adjectives than “glum” to describe how Clinton looked and might’ve felt before she sauntered into that donor party.

Which is precisely why, for the sake of journalistic integrity, we’ve taken the liberty of sending the Daily Mail a curated list of ten words better suited for how she looked than… glum.

(We here at Laissez Faire take our adjectives extremely seriously.)

And since, of course, we’re such endlessly selfless souls (we can’t help it, nor do we wish to), we’ve granted them full permission (without credit, even) to swap the word “glum” with any (even all, perhaps, if they do so choose) of these more fitting descriptors:

1.] Aghast
2.] Lily-livered
3.] Pushing the panic button
4.] Yellow
5.] Petrified
6.] Having kittens
7.] Spooked
8.] Affrighted
9.] Rabbity
10.] And last but not least, Chicken-hearted

What do you think? Which word fits the bill?

And a one…

And a two…

And a THREE…

Yikes.

It’s almost as if our wide-eyed, lily-livered Clinton knew that the “Fake News” and “Russian hackers” narratives were falling apart at their precarious seams. It’s almost as if she understood that the electors weren’t going to be swayed so easily, despite all of the money dumped into her pockets before and, yes,
after the votes were tallied.

(So, we ask, is it psychism? Or is it, as Occam’s Razor suggests, common sense?)

Even so, she had plenty to say at the party about why, exactly, none of this was her fault.

(In case your blood pressure is low, or you feel as if your morning Shamatha meditation practice has you feeling a little too serene today, you can have a listen right here.)

But, hey, no matter. The time to confabulate, we posit, has passed.

At this point, Hillary, we wonder…

Make no mistake, there are times when yours truly, facing a Trump presidency, feels precisely how Clinton looks in the pictures above (yes, both of them at the same time, if you can imagine that). There are, indeed, plenty of reasons to be wary.

Trump is a wild card. He’s hard to read and, more concerning, has, apparently, been friends with Kanye West “for a long time” and meets up with him on occasion to discuss “life.”

(If this, my friend, is not the most bizarre thing you’ve seen this month, I hope you’ve at least started on that memoir. Because I want a copy. Pronto.)

Although we are true fans of adventures, roller coasters and weird, unpredictable experiences, even we are feeling tight knots of butterballs in our tummies as the steel tracks of America slowly creep us, click by click, into the dark abyss that is 2017.

Yet, we prefer, today at least, to dwell upon the positives as opposed to the potential torpedo creeping up from two points abaft the beam, starboard side. (Which, thinking about it now, that picture of Danye Trump is probably a net positive. We’ve changed our minds.)

This is why, today, we invite TJ Brown (AKA “That Guy T”) to the show to rap about six bullets Lady Liberty has dodged by not having to kneel under the chin of Mrs. Rodham Clinton.

And why, yes, we should count our blessings.

Don’t worry. Be happy.

And read on…

TJ Brown

The current news cycle is monopolized by two narratives. In one, Trump supporters are cheering the great and promising future. In the other, oppositional progressives are screeching about how hateful and daft he and his supporters are.

But in the midst of this chaotic national quarrel, one important person has managed to slip away: Hillary Clinton. Not only metaphorically but literally.

Maybe she’s seeking asylum in Russia.

Anyway, while Trump’s impending reign isn’t anything to be ecstatic over, a relief of what America avoided in a Clinton presidency is definitely warranted.

So let’s take a moment to examine some avoided disasters that likely would’ve happened had Hillary Clinton won.

The Death of the Sharing Economy

Democrats and even some Republicans have expressed their disgust of the abusive exploitation that’s found in the sharing economy. And by abusive exploitation, they mean disgust at innovative markets that are free from their regulatory micromanagement and competitive to their lobbied interests. Hillary Clinton is on the same track. Last year she pledged to “crack down” on companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Lending Club, Dogvacay, etc.

These are companies that are frowned upon by taxi and hotel cartels, street corner title loan shops, and many more awful, out-of-date institutions. With Hillary out of office, the sharing economy and all those who benefit from its employment opportunities and convenience get to live to see another day.

Minority Unemployment

Minimum wage increases, overtime rules, high corporate taxes; all these policies have historically and presently had a negative impact on employment opportunities among minority communities.

This is particularly true of youth and blacks in middle- and lower-class America. Hillary Clinton supports all of these initiatives and more. Her policies included manufactured outsourcing of labor due to uncompetitive corporate tax rates, which disincentivizes businesses to stay in the States, and, instead, offsets the insane tax by employing workers in other countries like China and Mexico.

So when it comes to the American labor force and those who are un- or underemployed, they may have dodged a huge bullet.

Globalism and Imperialism

War with Russia is bad, m’kay?

Hillary’s foreign policy mainly consisted of the same hawkish neoconservative interventionism as George W. Bush. It also included expansion of mass surveillance, the continuation of illegal execution of civilians via drones, and hostile sanctioning of world powers.

This would likely end in the same results of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen spread throughout the Middle East. In addition to terrible military strategy, she’s also a staunch globalist, using government to achieve it.

This is not to be confused with the internationalization of cooperative cultures and markets. She wants global governance, which means increased concentration of elitist wealth, power, and bureaucratic controls over our everyday lives.

Healthcare

It was she who reminded voters that Obamacare used to be Hillarycare. This is not something you want to brag about in the same month the government announced premiums would rise between 10% and 60%, adding to a bill people are forced to pay, for healthcare they can’t afford to use.

This program is a disaster. It’s no wonder that 83% of voters who hated the program rejected her at the ballot. Whatever comes after – and everyone knows that Trump already walked back from his promise to repeal – it is not likely to be as bad as it would have been if a Hillary-in-denial shepherded this program out of its current morass.

Guns

Hillary has made no secret of her opposition to the Second Amendment. She wants increased restrictions on ownership, use, and distribution of firearms. For people like me who value their ability to defend themselves and their neighbors, and partake in a fun recreational sport, Hillary Clinton’s defeat is good news.

And with her out of the way, things like the Hearing Protection Act, which calls for the removal of suppressors from the NFA registry, and the Annual Defense Authorization bill, which would allow military personnel to carry their firearms on base, have a chance of success.

This is what should be meant when referring to common sense gun laws. The removal of bureaucracy and infringement, not the expansion of it.

Energy

Clean energy development is a necessary and beneficial innovation that should be, and is being, supported by various companies such as Tesla Motors, Shell, British Petroleum, General Electric, Boeing, etc. But while these green energy investments are awesome, they’re also expensive and often come at your expense.

Clinton favored artificially inflating costs on many industries, like oil and coal, causing higher energy prices for average Americans. She also favored increasing already-challenging barriers for developing nations to afford the vital energy to jumpstart their economies.

Trump may have said green energy is a Chinese hoax, but chances are he’s not going to prohibit private companies from continuing their investments in renewable alternatives. In contrast, Clinton definitely would’ve sanctioned the fossil fuel industry, leading to even more financial hardship for the already-crippled middle class.

Some may have their fingers crossed for Trump’s promise to make America great again, while others are finding ways to numb their fears in dismay.

Regardless of your prediction of what the future yields, one fact remains true.

The guaranteed continuation of progressive attacks on enterprise, growth, and liberty was avoided.

And I think that warrants a bit of relief for all of us.

[Ed. note: This article originally appeared on FEE.org, right here at this link.]

Regards,

TJ Brown
AKA “That Guy T”

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