# Hillary's tweet about Chris Christie **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412 "2016-07-20T12:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/41 "2016-07-20T18:43:59Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Hahahaha. It was Democrat Party/Lame stream Media Outlet performance art that continued ad nauseam for months. I still get a chuckle out of the DNC’s failure to convict (or tell the truth) every time someone rehashes the Bridgegate debacle. > > ol’ Hillary’s attempt to cast doubt on anyone else’s credibility is equally hilarious. Oops- you mistyped Democratic party as Democrat party once again. You might want to watch out for that. Someone might think you don’t know better. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/42 "2016-07-20T18:50:30Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I think you’re well aware that changing someone’s username in a mocking manner is against the rules. Don’t do this again. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I am abashed. I just came from The Pit and forgot my self. I prostrate myself in front of the Dope and proclaim my sins publically, begging forgiveness. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/43 "2016-07-20T18:52:28Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Christie had no roll in the Bridgegate lane closing. I don’t think Christie ever missed a roll in his life. The bridge closing scandal (I refuse to use the -gate syntax) has yet to fully play out. The prosecutor is being slow and methodical. I would not rule out a Christie indictment in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/44 "2016-07-20T19:29:13Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Tells you just how out of touch she is with the real world and the average person. And how much she thinks she is above the law. A zinger is a zinger, regardless of who delivers it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/45 "2016-07-20T22:39:16Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > Maybe this is the beginning of a new suffix. Like how all political scandals now end in “gate” in reference to Watergate. Trumped up scandals that the other party just keeps investigating to try to make political hay out of can end in “ghazi”. I see what you did there. Well played. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/46 "2016-07-20T22:45:22Z")
So, conservatives who’ve comment in this thread, Trump has absolutely no ethically questionable events in the past, and neither he nor Christie have ever criticized Clinton on ethics grounds? Because if he has, and if they have, then really there’s no moral high ground to be had. It’s like saying the United States has no moral ground to condemn human rights abuses in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/47 "2016-07-20T22:52:40Z")
So Hillary is going to sell us a bridge? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/48 "2016-07-20T22:54:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The irony, it burns! > > Do you think **doorstop** even noticed? I guess not. > [@doorhinge](#): > > Hahahaha. It was Democrat Party/Lame stream Media Outlet performance art that continued ad nauseam for months. I still get a chuckle out of the DNC’s failure to convict (or tell the truth) every time someone rehashes the Bridgegate debacle. > > ol’ Hillary’s attempt to cast doubt on anyone else’s credibility is equally hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/49 "2016-07-21T00:58:52Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > There has been no finding of wrongdoing on Christie’s part but the Democrat party, media outlets, and the internet can’t stop beating a dead horse.) Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi… _This is the song that never ends. It just goes on an on again. Some people, started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they’ll…_ God, I miss Sherry Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/50 "2016-07-21T02:08:38Z")
> [@pool](#): > > What exactly is the consensus of bridgegate? I know there were a couple investigations but no wrongdoing on Christie’s part was ever proven, is the belief generally that he just gave a vocal order and was smart enough not to leave an e-mail trail or something? Most people balk at the idea that Christie would have let people do that without being involved himself. It’s just not the way he does things. There isn’t an equivalent for Clinton–or, if there was, no one talks about it. Her big scandals are Benghazi and the email thing. Neither involve blaming an underling, and they aren’t really ethics violations. Benghazi isn’t related to ethics at all–no one was trying to blame a conspiracy. And while some might call classification itself an ethical issue, most people require intent. She wasn’t sharing secrets or anything. She just may have not been as careful with something as she should have been. If it’s an ethical violation, it’s one that people slip up and do all the time. The bridge thing was malicious in intent. That is what made it a bigger deal back when Christie was running. Now it’s still a problem, but probably not one that anyone will really care about, except maybe people in New Jersey when they need to vote for governor again. I say the comment mostly just Hillary doing a more classy version of what Donald does. And, in the past at least, that used to go a lot better. A few _bon mots_ establish that you are tough. Doing it all the time would make you seem weak. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/51 "2016-07-21T15:46:11Z")
Oh, FFS. This is the Clinton campaign saying “Come! See the conservative hypocrisy!” It’s a Both Sides Do It dismissal of Christie. Although it’s somewhat more hip in its presentation than is usual for when the other side does this. I’d think the conservative cavalcade here on the SDMB would recognize this, since it’s literally the only trick they’ve bothered to teach their tired old pony. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/52 "2016-07-21T19:00:01Z")
> [@GunnarFranz](#): > > Gross. OK, By the Numbers. First, what is Gross about Anything I posted? > [@GunnarFranz](#): > > Her pokemon-go-to-the-polls was honestly the most cringeworthy thing I have witnessed in my entire life. Bad campaign decision, a PR miscue. It happens. Like plagiarism & backing out of NATO. > [@GunnarFranz](#): > > Second is her telling trump to delete his twitter account. This is possibly the nicest and most honest and helpful reply she could have given, and if Trumps team ever wanted to win, they should have changed the password on that account on him a Long time ago. He does better smiling or looking frumpy than he ever does whenever he opens his mouth. Honestly if you stuffed a gag in Trumps mouth, you’d be doing him a favor. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/53 "2016-07-21T19:07:40Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Tells you just how out of touch she is with the real world and the average person. And how much she thinks she is above the law. I saw that movie… with Steven Seagal? Hitmen walk down the middle of a city street, shoot people, shoot at people, and expect nothing to happen? [AmIRight](https://youtu.be/iTACH1eVIaA?t=5)? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/54 "2016-07-21T19:18:35Z")
> [@GunnarFranz](#): > > Gross. Her pokemon-go-to-the-polls was honestly the most cringeworthy thing I have witnessed in my entire life. Second is her telling trump to delete his twitter account. Clinton did not tell Trump to delete his Twitter account. Elizabeth Warren did. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/55 "2016-07-21T19:23:39Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > YES!!! Too bad no one like that is running… LOL! I wish this wasn’t true ! I really would love to write in ‘none of the about!’ We have 2 candidates acting like school kids . :smack: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/56 "2016-07-21T19:42:40Z")
Yes, but one of them is in graduate school, while the other has been held back in kindergarten 3 years running for failing to work and play well with others, cheating at coloring and outsourcing his naptime. Not to mention pooping his pants every other hour. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/57 "2016-07-21T19:53:27Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Clinton did not tell Trump to delete his Twitter account. Elizabeth Warren did. No, it was Hillary - [https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784?ref\_src=twsrc^tfw](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Elizabeth Warren also did so later - [x.com](https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/741245771412955137) ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/58 "2016-07-21T20:11:35Z")
Hilary (and her staff) have publicly stated that Hilary does not personally send out every tweet that appears under her account. They have also said that when one IS directly from her it will be signed with “-H” at the end. So the tweet “Delete your account” came from whoever the internet/twitter savvy person is running that part of her social media. Now, in the big picture, that doesn’t matter, because Hilary understands that she will “own” anything that comes out of that account. So, in this case, I have to say…so what? Delete your account is just a shorthand twitter insult implying that your tweet(s) are so worthless you would be better off closing your account down. It’s used a lot. Not sure why it is getting so much attention here. It is certainly not cringe-worthy. What it points out is that Hilary has someone twitter-savvy, who I don’t believe has done anything to embarrass the candidate, running her twitter account. The Trump team has some fly off the handle nitwit who tweets the first thought that hits his head. They should fire that guy. Oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/59 "2016-07-22T02:55:59Z")
I knew and considered either bridge, but either bridge made me chuckle. Anything to get Chris Christie to STFU. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412/60 "2016-07-22T16:14:21Z")
> [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](#): > > Benghazi… (post shortened) Gesundheit! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-tweet-about-chris-christie/760412.md?page=4)