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Remember When Hillary Clinton Went On 'Broad City' And It Sucked So Hard?

We were so naive.

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As we endure through the US presidential election of 2020, I can't help but remember the last time all this happened.

The 2022 United states election isn't remembered fondly past well-nigh people — or at least by people who… didn't vote for Trump. Ma'am, if you're a Trump voter, what are yous doing on my apprehensive weblog?

The election of Donald Trump to president was a rude surprise to near people on the left, as we were all safely ensconced in our safe niggling bubbles, and confident in the ludicrous drawing buffoonery of the man. How could a country unite backside a walking parody of American excess? How indeed.

The confidence is difficult to look back on. There's a couple of truly galling examples — remember Drumpf? Remember how we though "Covfefe" was both funny and interesting — the human speaks weird! Now, I don't think anyone would even blink if he tweeted that.

But for me, this feeling of utter cringe at our devastating naïveté, of the vast depths of our horrifying stupidity, is when Hillary Clinton had a cameo on honey Television set comedy Broad City.

Wide Urban center was not just a great prove, it was a cultural moment. In 2015-2016, it was perhaps coming off the height of its powers, merely it was still a goddamn delight. Funny, crude, possessed of oodles of charisma and energy. It was groundbreaking in terms of the type of comedy we were seeing from women on Goggle box.

I personally re-lookout the episode where Abbi blacks out and becomes a crooning lounge-singer who eats diamonds, on echo.

Simply the Hillary Clinton episode was just a huge bummer. It's accordingly titled '2016' — and what is meant to be a lighthearted message of hope, ends upwards beingness a gloomy monument to our own foolishness.

In an SXSW console, Abbi Jacobson insisted the cameo wasn't an endorsement, and Ilana Glazer insisted they were merely "trying to make really skilful TV."

"We were not trying to make a statement, to be honest. We wrote season 3 a year ago at this signal. That's not our show, really: Let'south make a political opinion here. It was really more than that this is something Ilana's grapheme would practice. Hillary, even regardless of where we stand — and we beloved Hillary — is such an iconic figure. These girls being around her is non an everyday affair. That'south how we felt being effectually her. It was like, 'Oh, this is a different world.'"

I think something could be said almost the civilisation of trying to "stan" politicians that we want to back up. I think over the past four years, we've realised that politicians are not our friends, and are not relatable, and should exist judged only by how they are democratically performing their duties — having cute piddling cameos (like Biden on Parks and Recreation) not only feels blench, it feels upsetting, when those same politicians aren't representing our interests, or actively making our lives worse. This is a longer piece, I feel.

Regardless, it feels bad to watch this.

The scene, if it's non burnt into your encephalon involves Abbi And Ilana at the Clinton volunteer function, communicable sight of Clinton in a long greenish knit coat and a argument necklace.  She winks a whole bunch.

Most cringily, Abbi and Ilana FREAK out.

Then she unveils one of those inflatable air dancers.

"Of class!" Ilana says. "Nosotros assumed it was a he."

"Oh, no, no," says Clinton, putting her arms around Jacobson and Glazer. "It's a she." The camera flashes dorsum to the air dancer, bobbing away in front of a tv set displaying Clinton's logo and slogan.

Information technology's difficult to sentry.

Anyway, in 2022 Abbi Jacobson said: "I love Hillary. I don't think she should run again", then permit'southward merely keep moving on.