{"id":2328,"date":"2016-03-14T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattralston.net\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2016-03-19T04:11:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T04:11:44","slug":"hillary-clinton-basta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/politics\/hillary-clinton-basta\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton, Basta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EFjBa5W5Gvs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHillary Clinton&#8217;s hispandering is increasingly patronizing to\u00a0Latinos in my opinion. She was recently discussing Donald Trump&#8217;s shameless race bating on the issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I called him out when he was calling Mexicans racist. When he was engaging in rhetoric that I found deeply offensive, I said Basta&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Basta <\/em>means &#8216;stop it&#8217; or &#8216;cut it out&#8217; or something similar in Spanish. I had to look it up. Weird that Hillary had it on the tip of her tongue, since she&#8217;s whiter than a Tillamook and\u00a0Wonderbread sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>The reason nobody actually likes Hillary Clinton is that she&#8217;s cringingly inauthentic. She&#8217;s the type of person who would take an informal poll of meat preference before throwing a barbecue and weigh that against cost ratio. Then she&#8217;d sit there maniacally laughing with smoke in her eyes drinking the same Bud Light for three hours.<\/p>\n<p>She never said Basta before she said it on stage. Someone told her to say that she said\u00a0Basta. I did some informal research and slid Basta into a few conversations with some Mexicans I know. They looked at me like I was a wearing a Che Guevara shirt and\u00a0repeating a\u00a0Spanish\u00a0Google Translate passage of Tupac&#8217;s\u00a0Strictly 4 my Niggaz.<\/p>\n<p>This is ironic because Trump&#8217;s popularity stems in part from his candidness and perceived lack of calculation. He appears to be saying whatever comes off the top of his head, because he often\u00a0is. Granted it has no substance, but neither do his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>But people appreciate it. I appreciate it on its face. Unfortunately it has\u00a0manifested itself as hate speech and has\u00a0increasingly appealed to a constituency of\u00a0poor white trash who are pissed at people who work harder than them. Roll Tide.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing people\u00a0like about Trump they find revolting about Clinton. Trump has become increasingly\u00a0calculated, meaning he nailed down his talking points on the fly and is hiring people to help him stay on message. Yet he appears human enough for it not to show. This is a skill which cannot be programmed.<\/p>\n<p>When Clinton peppers her rehearsed anecdotes with index card imperatives gleaned from consulting firms at $2,500 a pop, it reaffirms what we already know, she&#8217;s an empty vessel. At least\u00a0Trump is full of something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible\u00a0Hillary will\u00a0secure enough Superdelegate votes, meaning career douchebags with her\u00a0shared financial interests,\u00a0to win the Democractic nomination. A morality play of the unlikeable corrupt candidate vs. the loathsome\u00a0antihero will ensue. It would be close, and with enough variables could lead to a Trump presidency. The Democrats would have brought it on themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders is Trump.\u00a0Just the\u00a0authentic embodiment on the completely opposite side of decency. That&#8217;s what people are leaning towards. Basta with this shit, take a cue. Not sure how to say that in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s hispandering is increasingly patronizing to\u00a0Latinos in my opinion. She was recently discussing Donald Trump&#8217;s shameless race bating on the issue: &#8220;I called him out when he was calling Mexicans racist. When he was engaging in rhetoric that I found deeply offensive, I said Basta&#8230;&#8221; Basta means &#8216;stop it&#8217; or &#8216;cut it out&#8217; or &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/politics\/hillary-clinton-basta\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[956,852,897,957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}