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The people Weiss wrote about targeted both Clintons, but there was always a special venom reserved for Hillary, seen as a feminist succubus out to annihilate traditional family relations. An attendee at the 1996 Republican National Convention told the feminist writer Susan Faludi, Its well-established that Hillary Clinton belonged to a satanic cult, still does. Running for Congress in 2014, Ryan Zinke, who would later become Trumps secretary of the interior, described her as the Antichrist. (He later said he was joking.) Trump himself called Clinton the Devil.

For Clinton, these supernatural smears are part of an old story. This is rooted in ancient scapegoating of women, of doing everything to undermine women in the public arena, women with their own voices, women who speak up against power and the patriarchy, she said. This is a Salem Witch Trials line of argument against independent, outspoken, pushy women. And it began to metastasize around me. In this sense, Frazzledrip is just a particularly disgusting version of misogynist hatred shes always contended with.

Nor is the claim that shes a murderer new; its been an article of faith on the right ever since the 1993 suicide of Vince Foster, an aide to Bill Clinton and a close friend of Hillarys. Recently I spoke to Preston Crow, who, when he was a graduate student in 1994, created one of the first anti-Clinton websites, where he posted about things like the Clinton body count. (He has since become a Democrat, and he voted for Hillary in 2016.) Once you start following the conspiracy theories, its fairly similar, he told me. QAnon took it several steps farther.

Greene now claims that she no longer believes in QAnon. In a speech on Thursday, before the House voted to strip her of her committee assignments, she blamed her claims that leading Democrats deserve to die for their role in a diabolic pedophile ring on her inability to trust the mainstream media. I was allowed to believe things that werent true, she said.

To my surprise, Clinton thought Greenes passive account of her own radicalization wasnt entirely absurd. We are facing a mass addiction with the effective purveying of disinformation on social media, Clinton said. I dont have one iota of sympathy for someone like her, but the algorithms, we are now understanding more than ever we could have, truly are addictive. And whatever it is in our brains for people who go down those rabbit holes, and begin to inhabit this alternative reality, they are, in effect, made to believe.

Clinton now thinks that the creation and promotion of this alternative reality, enabled and incentivized by the tech platforms, is, as she put it, the primary event of our time. Nothing about QAnon or Marjorie Taylor Greene is entirely new. Social media has just taken the dysfunction that was already in our politics, and rendered it uglier than anyone ever imagined.

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It was utterly shocking to read the headlines: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clintons new production company HiddenLight has acquired the rights to Gayle Tzemach Lemmons forthcoming book Daughters of Kobani, a nonfiction work about female Kurdish fighters written by a white American woman.

During the Clinton administration, the U.S. sent Turkey weapons that it used with U.S. knowledge to slaughter tens of thousands of Kurds and destroy their villages. Where was Ms. Clinton all these years? Will her movie shed light on how America has treated Kurds? Will she stay loyal to Kurdish feminism, which is far removed from Corporate Feminism? Will she include Kurdish writers, actors and filmmakers or will she exclude Kurdish women from a TV drama about Kurdish women?

As the author of the recently published Daughters of Smoke and Fire, which weaves fifty years of modern Kurdish history, and the first Kurdish woman to publish a novel in English, I carry the heavy burden of both representation and education. Ever since my debut novel was released in May, I have heard from numerous audience readers and interviewers that the only thing readers really know about Kurds is that Americans have betrayed you.

Stateless Kurds have been overlooked in the mainstream media, except for when represented as victims of the Iraqi dictators genocide in the 90s and as girls with guns in the past few years, the all-female militia defeating one of the most vicious forces of our time, the Islamic State group (also known ISIS or ISIL). Its true that America has backstabbed the Kurds repeatedly over the past century, most recently in Oct. 2019 when former president Trump ordered American troops to withdraw from Rojava, the Kurdish region of northern Syria, and leave Kurds at the mercy of Turkey. Trump did this after Kurds globally hailed as the most effective ground forces against ISIS sacrificed over 11,000 lives to fight ISIS.

In 2007, the U.S. allowed Turkey to carry out a heavy bombing campaign against Iraqi Kurds. In the 1970s, Henry Kissinger first armed the Kurds to rise against Saddam Hussein and then let 40,000 of them die as he made a deal with the Shah of Iran and withdrew his support. The Treaty of Lausanne, which the U.S. supported in 1923, denied Kurds a country what the 1920 Treaty of Svres had promised. The treaty subjected us to a century of unimaginable suffering at the hands of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, from gassing and genocide to mass incarcerations, systemic suppressions and cultural genocide.

When speaking to readers about the Kurds, I have to explain too much: why were no longer on the map, why our voices are mutilated, why our women have to fight in the 21st century and dont get a chance to allow their creativity to flourish. My book is dedicated to Kurdish women for everything we have been fighting national chauvinism of the states ruling us, male chauvinism, war, poverty, displacement and more.

Yes, America has betrayed the Kurds eight times, but theres much more to us than that. We are masters of rising from our ashes. We know how to be resilient, and a world ravaged by a pandemic has much to learn from us. Read our stories not only the ones written about us, but also, and more importantly, those written by us.

Thats not to say I dont value allies. If someone with a large platform tells our stories with enough sensitivity and responsibility, public awareness may reduce the number of attacks on us. They can do a lot of good for Kurds, for minorities, for humanity. But please dont talk about minorities as if we arent here; as if we can only be talked about, never talked to; as if movies made by us are not as valuable as those made about us; as if we can only be third person, and never first person.

Ava Homa is an activist, a journalist and the critically acclaimed author of Daughters of Smoke and Fire (HarperCollins, 2020).

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Will Hillary Clinton tell the whole truth in her TV drama about Kurds? - Toronto Star

Americas latest first lady is breaking with tradition as the first presidential spouse to keep her job while in the White House.

Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education, is an English professor at a community college near Washington.

I think in particular, the fact that she is in a profession that is seen as a helping profession, that is seen as not innately a controversial profession, that she will be more accepted by the American people in continuing her professional life, says Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University. Also, shes in a traditionally female profession teaching.

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The role of first lady is not a job that is applied for,and there is no salary. While therearentany specific job requirements, Americans often expect first ladies to be warm, motherly figures.

Americans see presidents as father figures and family members. That makes firstladiesmaternal figures and kind of the mothers of our country, says presidential historian Barbara Perry. Or if they're younger, like a Jacqueline Kennedy who was only 31 when she became first lady... then they see her as an older sister or a glamorous aunt.

Setting a standard

Eleanor Roosevelt was scorned by some for being an activist first lady who pushed for universal civil rights and social programs.

She was more liberal than her husband and constantly pushing on civil rights, generally, women's rights, labor rights, says Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. She was always pressing for the social programs that she wanted and was much reviled because of that.

While many criticized Roosevelts political activities, she nonetheless set a standard for future first spouses.

When we had a couple of lower-profile first ladies immediately following Mrs. Roosevelt, I think a lot of Americans said to themselves, Well this isn't right. We want someone who's more in the public eye, someone who has at least a major project that they are advocating for, Jellison says.

First ladys role

When Jacqueline Kennedy moved into the White House in 1961, she was dismayed to find it furnished with few historical artifacts. Strongly feeling the executive mansion should reflect the artistic history of the country, Kennedy spearheaded a restoration of the White House and had a hand in preserving the neighborhood around it.

Ever since she embraced historic preservation in the 1960s, every first lady has adopted at least one public service project.

Lady Bird Johnson was an environmentalist who pushed for the preservation of wildflowers and other native plants. Nancy Reagan encouraged children toJust Say Notodrugs. Barbara Bush championed literacy for children and adults, while Michelle Obama promoted healthy eating by planting a White House vegetable garden.

Things that are related to women children, health literacy, drugs, gardening, historical preservation those are the things that Americans are comfortable with their first lady doing, says Perry. The American people have a limited role they want the first lady to play, and if she steps outside that role, they turn on her.

Hillary Clinton learned that firsthand in 1993 after President Bill Clinton appointed her to lead his task force on national health care reform. It was an unprecedented policy role for a first lady. But fierce public backlash, some of it personally directed at Clinton, herself, helped doom the plan, which never even got a floor vote in Congress.

We saw where that got her much hatred, people turned on her, it didn't pass, Perry says. And then, she had to go back to more soft-power approaches to being first lady.

Behind the scenes

While first ladies are often seen as motherly symbols of American womanhood, history shows these women can have considerable behind-the-scenes influence.

Melania Trump had a top national security adviser fired in her husband's administration because she didn't like the way her staff was treated on a foreign trip by this adviser. So, they can also determine who's around the president, says presidential historian Kate Andersen Brower, author of First Women. Nancy Reagan was really the human resources department for her husband. She decided who would be in and who was out.

And the same year she tried to push health care reform through Congress, Clinton made a quiet suggestion to her husband.

She's one of the reasons why Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on the Supreme Court, Andersen Brower says. She told her husband that she thought she would make an excellent Supreme Court justice.

Its an example of soft power and how private conversations between spouses can have a huge impact on the country.

These women are really strong. I think that they're constantly underestimated, and I think that's partially because women in our society are often underestimated, says Andersen Brower. I hope and I think that we are moving in the right direction having Jill Biden as a working woman who can be both things at the same time. She can be a wife, a supporting actor, but also a strong woman.

While Biden is redefining her current role, the biggest shake-up could come once a woman is elected president, Jellison says, and a man takes up the role of first spouse.

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Behind the Scenes, America's First Ladies Exert Powerful Influence - Voice of America

Highland County voted 5.4 percent more Republican in the 2020 presidential election than it did in the 2016 election, according to The New York Times. The numbers are from what The Times calls An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election.

It shows multiple precincts and how they voted in the 2020 election, as well as comparing those results to the 2016 election.

In 2016, 75 percent of Highland County voters voted for Donald Trump, while 20 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. In 2020, 80 percent of Highland County voters voted for Trump and 19 percent voted for Joe Biden. That led to a 5.4 percent Republican increase in Highland County in 2020.

At the Brushcreek voting precinct, 78 percent for voted Trump and 19 percent for Clinton in 2016. In 2020, Trump got 87 percent of the vote and Biden got 13 percent.

In the Clay voting precinct, Trump got 81 percent in 2016 and Clinton got 16 percent, then in 2020 Trump got 83 percent and Biden 17 percent.

The Concord precinct gave Trump 84 percent of the vote in 2016 and Clinton 13 percent. Then last year Trump received 87 percent and Biden 12 percent.

The Dodson voting precinct gave 82 percent of the vote to Trump in 2016 while Clinton received 15 percent. In 2020, Trump received 84 percent and Biden 15 percent.

In the Fairfield voting precinct, Trump got 81 percent in 2016 to 17 percent for Clinton, and in 2020 Trump got 85 percent to 15 percent for Biden

The Greenfield voting precinct is split into two different areas, north and south.

In the northern area in 2016, Trump received 60 percent in 2020 and Clinton 36 percent, and in 2020 Trump received 67 percent to 32 percent for Biden.

In the southern area in 2016, Trump received 62 percent and Clinton 34 percent, and 2020 Trump got 70 percent and Biden 28 percent.

In the Hamer voting precinct, Trump received 80 percent in 2016 to 17 percent for Clinton, and in 2020 Trump received 83 percent to 15 percent for Biden.

In the Highland precinct, Trump got 84 percent of the vote in 2016 while Clinton got 12 percent, and in 2020 Trump got 84 percent and Biden 15 percent.

The Hillsboro area is split into five different voting precincts.

In the northeast portion, 66 percent voted for Trump in 2016 and 30 percent for Clinton, while in 2020, Trump got 70 percent and Biden 28 percent.

In the northwest portion, Trump received 67 percent in 2016 and Clinton 29, then in 2020, Trump got 68 percent and Biden 30 percent.

In the southwest portion, in 2106 Trump received 68 percent of the vote and Clinton 26 percent, then in 2020 Trump received 69 percent and Biden 28 percent.

In the middle of the Hillsboro area, Trump received 70 percent in 2016 and Clinton 24 percent, then in 2020 Trump received 73 percent and Biden 25 percent.

In the southeast section, Trump received 65 percent and Clinton 31 percent in 2016, while in 2020 Trump received 65 percent and Biden 33 percent.

In the Jackson precinct Trump received 77 percent of the votes and Clinton 19 percent in 2016, and in 2020 Trump received 77 percent and Biden 22 percent.

The Leesburg voting precinct gave Trump 76 percent and Clinton 21 percent in 2016. In 2020, Trump received 79 percent and Biden 21 percent.

Liberty Township has three precincts.

in 2016 the northeast section gave Trump 76 percent of the vote and Clinton received 22, and four years later Trump received 80 percent of the vote to 19 percent for Biden.

in the northwest section, Trump received 79 percent in 2016 and Clinton 17 percent, and in 2020 it was Trump 85 percent and Biden 14 percent.

In the southern portion of Liberty Township, Trump received 83 percent of the vote and Clinton 14 percent in 2016, then in 2020 Trump got 85 percent and Biden 15 percent.

In 2016, the Lynchburg voting precinct gave 79 percent of the vote to Trump and 16 percent to Clinton, and four years later it gave 85 percent to Trump and 14 percent to Biden.

In the Madison voting precinct, Trump got 71 percent in 2016 and Clinton 25 percent, then in 2020 Trump got 79 percent and Biden 21 percent.

In the Marshall precinct, Trump got 78 percent and Clinton 19 percent in 2016, and in 2020 Trump got 81 percent and Biden 18 percent.

In the New Market precinct, Trump received 82 percent and Clinton 15 percent in 2016. In 2020, Trump got 85 percent and Biden 15 percent.

The Paint Township voting precinct is also split into three areas.

In the northern section, Trump got 76 percent and Clinton 21 percent in 2016, and in 2020 Trump garnered 82 percent and Biden 17 percent.

The western section gave Trump 70 percent of the vote in 2019 and Clinton 26 percent, and in 2020 Trump received 78 percent and Biden21 percent.

In the southern portion, Trump got 66 and Clinton 29 percent in 2016, and in 2020 it was Trump 75 percent and Biden 24 percent.

The Penn precinct gave Trump 82 percent and Clinton 15 percent in 2016, and in 2020 it gave Trump 85 percent and Biden 15 percent.

In the Salem precinct in 2016, Trump received 77 percent of the vote and Clinton 17 percent, and our years later it was Trump 82 percent and Biden 17 percent.

In the Union precinct, Trump got 80 percent in 2016 and 86 percent in 2020, while Clinton got 16 percent and Biden 13 percent in 2020.

In the Washington precinct, Trump received 82 percent in 2016 and Clinton 14 percent, and in 2020 Trump got 83 percent and Biden 16 percent.

In the White Oak voting precinct, Trump got 80 percent and Clinton 17 percent in 2016, and in 2020 it was Trump 80o percent and Biden 19 percent.

Reach Jacob Clary at 937-402-2570.

This is a map of the voting precincts in Highland County.

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MADISON A Stanton couple asked a burning question in the Dec. 26, 2020, Daily News. Basically it was how did Biden win? Heres how.

Former president Barack Obama regularly tells people, Democracy is hard work. Thats what Ben Franklin meant in 1781. He was leaving Independence Hall in Philadelphia when a woman asked him, Dr. Franklin, what have you given us? He replied, A republic, if you can keep it.

A candidate for president in this country has to have a ground game. Thats the hard work. Super Spreader rallies in the middle of the deadliest epidemic since 1918 look reckless and irresponsible. Furthermore, to suburban women in Detroit, Philadelphia and yes, Omaha, who have never quite forgiven Trump for the Access Hollywood tapes, they look dangerous. These women are mothers and grandmothers and woe betides anyone who looks like he is endangering children and fathers. These women are wonderful foot soldiers for a ground game. In this election cycle, the Democrats had a lot of them.

As for Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia, the letter writers do not pause to explain why Republican election officials in all of these states would help Biden unless they were just conscientiously doing their duty.

Hillary Clinton won Nevada in 2016. Not a surprise that Biden won there again. Arizona, however, was a big get. Biden had no coat tails to speak of in down ballot contests for House and Senate but in Arizona, extremely popular former astronaut Mark Kelly, Gabby Giffords husband, was running for John McCains old Senate seat, which he won with roughly 3% more votes than Biden. Kelly, without a doubt, boosted Biden.

The letter writers fail to remember that the FBI and the Justice Department have a firm rule that investigations into candidates, their relatives and close friends are never made public during presidential campaigns. James Comey broke this rule in 2016, which cost Hillary Clinton the election. Despite the fact that the attorney general and the FBI director are both Trump appointees and Republicans, they had the integrity to follow the rule, which cost the attorney general his job.

The letter does not mention that Trump filed 62 lawsuits seeking to overturn election results in various states. Or that the State of Texas and, sadly, the State of Nebraska filed suit on Trumps behalf in the U.S. Supreme Court claiming election fraud. All the cases were dismissed because Trumps attorneys could not prove fraud!

The letter also repeats the report that 79% of Republican voters think the election was stolen. They say so because Trump says so. But its another lie by a serial liar. Sixty-two judges, many of whom Trump appointed, are not wrong!

The letter claims that fat cats like George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg supported the Democrats. Does anybody think the Republicans didnt have fat cats of their own?

The letter claims everybody is against the Republicans. How did the Republicans gain nine seats in the House of Representatives if everybodys against them?

But the real problem with the letter is that it promotes the unfounded belief that the election was corrupted; that the duly constituted officials of six states were powerless to prevent it; that both federal and state courts were complicit. The letter undermines our faith in our institutions.

Remember Obama: Democracy is hard work. There is another election in four years. Pick a better candidate. Organize a better ground game. Never forget, its a republic if you can keep it.

I learned in high school that in a democracy, we have to trust each other, because we are the government. I learned that facts are stubborn things that do not yield to lies. I learned that an argument without facts to support it is a hollow argument.

In fact, Ill bet the author of the letter taught his classes that. Has he forgotten?

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