This is floating around:

A woman claiming to work at a bookstore sent out this tweet. A short while later the tweet was removed and her account is no longer active.

 

Here’s a closer look (click to enlarge), which I have transcribed below:

“The 2016 presidential election was unique in a number of ways. It saw the first major-party female nominee for the highest office in the country, the improbable rise of the kind of demagogue previously unknown in American politics and enough infighting and mudslinging for 10 election cycles. But as the tone of the election grew darker and more bizarre by the day, President-Elect Hillary Clinton “went high” when her opponent and his supporters went even lower. No stranger to trudging through the mire of misogyny in her career as first lady, senator and secretary of state. President-Elect Clinton continued to push for an issues-based campaign even as a handful of Trump’s most deplorable supporters, seeing the wide margin Clinton held among female voters, called to repeal the 19th amendment. On election day, Americans across the country roundly rejected the kind of fear and hate-based conservatism peddled by Donald Trump and elected the first woman in U.S. history to the presidency. The culminating election of a career in politics spanning three decades and arguably more experience than any other incoming president, 2016’s was not an easy race watch, comment on or be part of – but when the dust cleared it revealed a priceless moment in American history. The highest glass ceiling in the Western World had finally shattered.”

WTF! I’m trying to think of an explanation. Did Newsweek hedge their bets and send out two versions, one of which we haven’t seen? Could this have been a fake magazine doctored for this exact purpose? The surrounding scene looks pretty “back of a bookstore” to me, so I it at least appears that Newsweek devoted a lot of resources to a sure Hillary win.

Comments »