Hillary Clinton Just Trolled the GOP Debate So Good

[MADem]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/hillary-clinton-just-trolled-gop-presidential-candidates


In Donald Trump's America, everyone speaks English.

When asked by CNN's Dana Bash during Wednesday night's GOP debate about his criticism of Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail, the Republican front-runner and real estate mogul responded:

We have to have assimilation to have a country. We have to have assimilation. I'm not the first one to say this, Dana. We have had many people over the years for many, many years saying the same thing. This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.

In true troll fashion, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton tweeted some insight.

Hillary Clinton ✔ @HillaryClinton
La libertad incluye el derecho de hablar en cualquier idioma. Eso nos hace fuerte como país y es algo que debemos celebrar—no denigrar.
9:22 PM - 16 Sep 2015

For those who didn't understand her, Clinton said: "Freedom includes the right to speak in any language. That makes us strong as a country, and it is something that we should celebrate—not denigrate."

[randys1]

1. I wish she was saying this on a nationally televised debate we were having to respond to these

horrible people

[MADem]

4. She's saying it to the people who would care about it--and it's getting through.

En caso de ser nominada como la candidata demócrata, Hillary Clinton ganaría fácilmente la elección presidencial ante cualquiera de los principales rivales republicanos, según una encuesta de NBC/Telemundo y la casa encuestadora Marista.

Clinton se lleva las preferencias tanto del electorado en general como entre los votantes latinos. Entre estos últimos en particular, la ex secretaria de Estado obtiene, en todos los casos con excepción de pequeñas diferencias según sea el rival, porcentajes de al menos el 60% de los encuestados.

Ante Donald Trump, quien hoy encabeza las preferencias de los republicanos, Clinton ganaría 53% a 40% entre los votantes en general y 66% a 22% entre los votantes latinos.

Ante Jeb Bush, el supuesto candidato preferido de la dirigencia y grandes donantes del partido republicano, Clinton también saldría victoriosa con un 49% a 45% entre los votantes en general y 60% a 30% entre los votantes latinos.

https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/2015/09/13/hillary-clinton-derrotaria-candidatos-republicanos-segun-encuesta-de

Quick translation--if the election were held today, HRC would win and take the latino vote decisively.

[upaloopa]

2. My grandmother never learned to speak English

I am sure I am not alone.

[riversedge]

8. i grew up in a household where my Grandma

spoke Dutch. She knew a little English.

[TlalocW]

3. I honestly don't understand why people don't get this

Many, many times new immigrants to the United States don't speak English and probably most of them never will. But their kids are going to grow up speaking two languages, which is good for them, good for the economy, good for the country. One of my degrees is Spanish, and while I don't have a job directly related to it, because I do speak Spanish, I find myself around Spanish speakers - including immigrants - more often than the next pasty white guy on the street, and when interacting with them, the parents rarely speak English, but their kids are fluent in both. That's the way it's always been - it's why we have and/or had Pennsylvania Dutch, Italian neighborhoods, barrios, Chinatowns, etc. Immigrant adults will tend to settle in areas where they have access to others who share their culture and language, where they work their asses off to provide a better life for their kids who do assimilate into a predominantly English-speaking nation while at the same time being able to interact with the people from the "old country." Many times I've seen it where by the third generation, they've started to lose quite a bit in being able to communicate with the grandparents.

TlalocW

[MADem]

5. Anyone who has lived in a diverse community understands this.

It's the people who live in homogenous areas, where the police are on the lookout for anyone who doesn't fit the demographic, that just can't deal.

[sheshe2]

6. HA!

Good for Hillary.

I just had to put this somewhere, MADem~

[MADem]

7. Run little combover, run!!!!!!

[sheshe2]

10. Dennis the Menace!

[ananda]

9. Exactamente!

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