Badass in a Red Pantsuit

You already know #ImWithHer

Published in
3 min readSep 27, 2016

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I believe that every child in America had “President” as a potential occupation choice when they were younger, but it was something that many of us crossed off after seeing our presidential track record. For over 200 years, it was a job that only white men were capable of acquiring, until Barack Obama came around in 2008.

The year is now 2016 and for the first time ever, a woman — specifically a badass, eloquent, intelligent one in a red pantsuit — stood on stage and debated during a presidential debate, making little girls everywhere believe that they too can become president.

Donald Trump, the Republican party nominee and disbeliever in global warming, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic party nominee and absolute Queen, both stood on the stage at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y. and participated in the first of three presidential debates.

While many decided to judge HRC’s pantsuit and tone of voice, instead of the fact that Donald Trump is incapable of responding to a question without using the words “China” or “Mexico,” it was a 90-minute debate between a politician and your really republican family members Facebook page.

With live fact checking the new thing — S/O technology and social media — and Lester Holt somewhat being a decent moderator, Hillary was realistically unstoppable. We got to watch an educated and capable woman, who many have doubted, talk about her plans to change America once she becomes president. She gave real solutions to problems, while Trump constantly changed the topic, brought her husband into conversation and just…shouted and sniffled?

All Donnie really had to contribute was the amount of properties he had across the country and the fact that everything was “wrong.”

Fact-fucking-check!

Donnie also did one thing that no human on this planet should ever do. Ever. He made Chicago’s angel and lyrical genius, Chance the Rapper, go to Twitter to explain his concerns about this presidential debate.

But less about Don, and more about Hill.

I was shook. I was truly, genuinely shook. The amount of times I yelled “YAS QUEEEEEEEEEN” at my television set was barbaric, but the debate just proved how qualified she is to run this country.

Even when her emails were brought into conversation, she remained poised and said that it was a mistake and that if she had the chance to go and do it differently, she would.

“I’m not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake and I take responsibility for that.”

She acknowledged racial injustice in America by saying that “race still determines too much,” while Donald literally rolled his eyes at the mention of a vibrant black culture. You can’t forget her iconic shimmy.

She also blasted Don when he said that he doesn’t believe she has the stamina to be president. As if he couldn’t say a more misogynistic thing, she came back and said “this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs.”

She was serving, and it was exactly what we ordered.

All in all, watch the debates. Live tweet them on Twitter. Become educated about the two candidates that are currently in the running to become our next president. Election Day is Nov. 8. If you haven’t registered to vote yet, you can do so here.

Also, send me your address so I can mail you an “#ImWithHer” pin.

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Former EIC of Substance.Media. The lovechild of Kanye West and Anna Wintour.