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January 30, 2017 at 2:33 pm in reply to: Chairman of Joint Chiefs removed from National Security Council; add Bannon #64562MackeyserModerator
Okay… now we’re getting to the point that the corporatist Dems antagonism for progressives and progressive causes as well as the nascent recovery of a fourth estate is really getting eclipsed by outright treason…
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MackeyserModeratorWhen I really think about it, I really think it’s both, like I said to Billy in another thread.
I think Clinton and the DNC and the media really colluded to elevate Trump and Cruz in a concerted effort to hand the election to Clinton.
At some point, AFTER Trump had been given $2B in free media, I think the Russians saw they could possibly install someone friendly to them.
So, I don’t believe that this was all part of some master plan on Russia’s part. I do think it’s entirely possible after Trump got beyond the DNC and the media’s control that the Russians very likely took advantage of an opportunity to put someone in the White House much more friendly to them than Clinton.
But, as Herschel notes, reprinting what the CIA gives the media, just because they aren’t Trump doesn’t mean it’s reliable. Requires doing the work which is why I keep saying that journalists are only doing actual journalism part time except in rare instances.
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MackeyserModeratorThe best friend a Republican House and Senate ever had has been a Dem President.
Do we need to go through the list of Republican garbage Clinton and Obama passed that no Republican President could have?
And by having a Dem President do it, Reps can not only get what they originally wanted, but bitch about it and argue for more.
So, are we really going to entertain that another Clinton with a Republican Congress wouldn’t be the moderate Republican she really is and basically pass their agenda?
The only difference is that there would be a soporific quality about it.
Oh, and instead of Steve Bannon telling the press to STFU, it would be a White House staffer to Progressives…
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MackeyserModeratorWell, yeah, we disagree.
And the upside is that the piece of shit corporate Dems have very little sway right now.
The progressive movement actually has a chance to be part of a real resistance that can penetrate for the first time in 40 years.
It’s unfortunate as hell, that requires someone as destructive as Trump.
But we could have Shitnado hit and then mobilize to clean up after the disaster or we could continue the slow, immoral decline (Obama’s drone program, neoliberalism, mass incarceration, etc) while most of the citizenry and most of the press slept.
It’s arguable that 8 years of Clinton’s climate acceptance would be more damaging than four years of Trump’s climate denial followed by hopefully someone like Tulsi Gabbard who would focus on innovating on green/renewable energy.
Lastly, Trump’s ego is so dammed unstable that he succumbs to public pressure. He already has on numerous issues. When was the last time Clinton gave a shit about anything anyone said???
Not defending Trump, just pointing out that his weaknesses can be used against him.
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MackeyserModeratorActually, they were fired. It’s protocol to submit resignations at the end of each administration.
It’s unprecedented to literally recall a senior official from a non-proliferation treaty meeting to kick him out of government without having a qualified replacement.
Dumpster fire doesn’t begin to describe this…. underground coal mine fire?
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MackeyserModeratorHahahaha
We can barely get reporters to COVER actual movements and marches, let alone “riots”
Well, they’d cover riots because…property damage.
I swear, if 5 MILLION people peacefully and silently marched on Washington. No signs, but with one purpose. And there were ancillary marches in other cities across the globe, but 5 MILLION in DC…
And ONE naked photogenic idiot was involved in a car chase with police…
The media would cover the car chase.
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MackeyserModeratorYeah, I’ve been following a lot of Greenwald and Scahill and I just don’t buy this Russia narrative.
And Hersch makes too much sense.
To question the legitimacy of CIA nonsense in the waning days of the Obama presidency is NOT to endorse Trump.
Then again, as PA pointed out… it’s tough to get some people past that Trump can do anything right just like it was impossible to convince some people that Obama could do anything right.
I’m regularly engaging in watching those “restore your humanity” tearjerker videos.
I need them.
Otherwise, I just retreat into rooting for Giant Meteor with reckless abandon.
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MackeyserModeratorVery true.
And part of moving on is not repeating the mistake.
It’s not enough to “just” say that Clinton’s failed neoliberal economic policies doomed her or that she relied too much on access and privilege as part of the Establishment to intone in word and tone a sense of entitlement. Rather, it was the DLC’s purposeful abandonment of those without money for those with… essentially taking up arms in a class war they were determined to win…
That provided the fertile ground for others to divide and conquer along any number of lines…
So any number of bad actors can come in and feign taking the high ground while really doing despicable things and because the ground had been ceded, those who left…not just willingly, but purposefully…”we’re leaving you poor people because we lose being associated with you. So, we’re going to go get the corporate money so we can win. Not “we” like you and me, “we”, but “we” the Party and a different section of America that we’ll carve out that actually doesn’t really know or care about you…” It becomes extraordinarily difficult for those who abandoned the poor, the family farmer, the rural folks… to be able to swoop in before an election and say anything about the other guys, even if they are telling the truth about them acting badly, and have it have any meaningful effect.
Abandoned is abandoned. People may not be rocket scientists, but they get something as simple as that.
It’s not just race.
My child is transgender and it’s happening between binary and non-binary trans people.
With the Women’s March, there was some discord over all of the “pussy” hats being associated with “Women” because Transgender women don’t necessarily have pussies or wombs (I’ve heard the hats represent both or either). I told my child that I thought the way forward was not to buy into division, but work for inclusion and bring more power through combined purpose.
So, these bad actors will seek any possible avenue for division and it’s gross and unfortunate.
I just really, really want to see the DLC’s influence buried once and for all, even if we see the rise of a Progressive party. For the first time in a while, I find myself in an advocacy role, even if it’s advocating for the death of something (same with trickle down economics, for example…)
As for Jordan Peele, that dude’s got all 5 tools as they say in baseball. That looks like the first horror film in awhile I’ll see. On cable, but still. Looks really good and he’s very smart.
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MackeyserModeratorI feel you PA. Have some of the same issues.
Trump got a call right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day…
But let’s be honest.
Whether we use “better or worse”…pick your poison…
Trump was always going to be worse domestically and Clinton was always going to be worse on foreign policy and international trade (thus, internationally).
And when the Obama Admin wasn’t too concerned with killing innocent people with the Drone Program (75-90% of all people killed in the drone program were innocents based on various estimates), it’s pretty easy to understand why people aboard might not be too excited about a warmongering regime changer who almost certainly would have expanded that irresponsible imperialistic program over a nationalistic sociopathic egomaniac who decried foreign intervention.
The choices were shit sandwiches.
And it’s clear some of us disagree. I categorically reject the notion that one of the shit sandwiches was “better” than the other. Different, yes.
Better? I’m just not there.
But yeah. I’m all about the issues…and Trump’s gotten everything catastrophically wrong..except TPP.
So far. I mean…it’s early.
There’s still time to defund public education before the polar ice caps melt in a couple of years…
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MackeyserModeratorCool. Gonna have to follow all of them!
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January 26, 2017 at 2:07 am in reply to: House GOP closes investigation into Flint water crisis #64387MackeyserModeratorAw, c’mon. It’s not like there’s lead in any other water systems.
Wait, what? Others? Even more?
Oh. Nevermind…
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MackeyserModeratorFair enough.
Well, the young man’s ignorance wasn’t surprising, not the fallacies nor the fears. That said, the reason those fallacies and fears found fertile ground was explicitly because the DLC led DNC abandoned the working class, the family farmer and the poor.
This young man’s revelations weren’t new. We’ve heard various strains of it since the Tea Party and before.
What’s frustrating is that the author treats this young man’s output as original, new or revelatory.
Good God. Seriously with this shit? Is he being serious that we need to take human beings’ fears and concerns regarding their economic security as a real concern, even if the vectors for some of the concerns are fallacious?
Maybe it’s me that doesn’t get it.
Cuz I keep reading variations of the same things and then keep reading about each time, how people are struck with these new insights.
Yeah…maybe it’s me. I dunno.
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MackeyserModeratorIntriguing.
How would he deal with white collar criminals who pose no physical threat, yet the moment they have access to capital, would be as recidivist as (insert inappropriate analogy here…LOL) and simply reengage in that highly lucrative criminal activity.
As much as I agree with the author in MANY cases, it ignores the “sonofabitch” case… that person who simply decides to cheat when presented with better alternatives.
It’s entirely possible that a person could be at a 50/50 crossroads and simply choose to do harm because of a predilection to do harm or because they see it as a path of least resistance.
Often in critiques like this, I dunno how one would address a hedge fund manager who lives the life of Riley harming people. This person is already highly educated and uses that education to deprive people.
And I think it’s a red herring to bring up capital punishment. Cuz honestly.. if we had public corporal punishment and DIDN’T have extended jail stays, you’d have younger people willing to go to trail over 30 lashes versus taking a plea for 3 if it meant keeping so many rights.
However, in the case of actual prosecution just think of the panic the day the first cheating banker go strapped in…
Seems barbaric, but it’s not nearly as bad as our broken justice system that leaves people to be gang raped, brutally beaten or raped by inmates and/or guards and potentially driven insane in solitary confinement.
I’ve seen a documentary on that prison on Norway and honestly, I think IN MOST CASES, that’s the way to go.
But…sometimes… white collar criminals come to mind… I’m just not willing to afford reform toward belligerence unrepentence.
Then again, I’m cranky at the moment…
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MackeyserModeratorI dunno. With interest rates doing what they’re doing, you’re gonna be better off renting..
Just saying…
As for this lack of Clinton critique… I don’t particularly care to get into the semantics of “extravagantly corrupt”. I mean that’s really a bunch of pedantic masturbation meant to distract people who might otherwise be thoughtful and mindful about actual policies and processes of government.
However, there were REAL issues that were cause for genuine concern beyond the untenability of the gross expansion of her belligerent embrace of global neoliberalism including using the US Military to further its ends.
What I’m talking about in the near term is the regime change in Syria which would have started with the No-Fly zone. Sorry, but that would have been asking to engage in a proxy shooting war with the Russians if not an actual shooting war with them.
And let’s be clear. Much like the Chinese have NEVER not supported a satellite nation engaged in conflicts with the West, be it North Korea or North Vietnam, there is NO WAY the Russians were going to give up their ONLY deep water port which includes a Sub base in the Med. That wasn’t going to happen.
Anyone who thinks otherwise simply doesn’t understand the logistical importance of Sea Bases. There’s a REASON that the US has put them all around the world and fought to keep them open.
I can’t say this in strongly enough terms; Clinton was NOT simply a flawed candidate because she felt entitled to the job and she clung to harmful neoliberal economic policies. Her ACTIVE belief in regime change undermined the safety of US citizens at home and abroad.
So… while I think Donald Trump is a disaster and will be an ongoing disaster (I mean in the literal sense…like lives lost…wreckage physical and emotional…enduring harm to economy, etc), I do NOT by any means think Clinton would have been LESS of a disaster.
The difference would have been setting the front lawn and the living room on fire versus the back yard and the kitchen….without any means of putting out the fire…
It’s our fault as citizens we got to this point.
The ONE upside to this is that with Trump, the press…due to Trump being so pathological about his persona that he has to be the biggest and best at everything that he and his minions have to engage in pathological lying and outright propaganda to such a degree that incredulity set in EVEN TO CORPORATE SOCK PUPPETS LIKE CHUCK TODD… the press is beginning to embrace elements of becoming the fourth estate.
Not actually BEING the fourth estate, mind you, because…they’re still corporate hacks and sellouts and checks still need to be cashed, PEOPLE!!! But, the lies are so blatant, so apparent, so belligerent that the press can be total sellouts AND do some actual journalism on the side.
I can GUARANTEE that if Clinton had been elected, short of telling whopping lies about crowd size, she’d be engaging in much the same kind of corporate sellout neoliberal bullshit as well as neocon foreign policy bullshit like the no-fly zone over Syria and bringing us closer to war with Russia and the press would be rolled over on to their backs like a puppy waiting to have its belly rubbed. And while the cabinet might look like a Benetton ad, it’d still be full of policy sellouts who would engage in similar harm.
Although, that might change. Trump’s appointees might really want to be the best at everything including being the best at being the worst. Pretty sure Clinton wouldn’t have appointed someone like Betsy DeVos or Rick Perry. I’ll give her that. Rick Perry as head of the DoE. I’m thinking in order to be in charge of our nuclear stockpiles…you should be able to pronounce “nuclear” correctly.
I’m all for criticizing Trump on point. I only take breaks for health reasons. He does and will deserve every last bit of criticism he gets from me and most.
But man, the idea that anyone can look with a wistful eye towards Hillary Clinton just makes me ill.
Sorry, they both sucked EQUALLY badly and BOTH would have harmed real people in real and tangible ways. Just because they’re different groups doesn’t change the real harm.
At least when the Republicans lost, they had an “autopsy”. The Dems STILL DON’T FUCKING GET IT that neoliberalism is the cause, not just in losing the Presidency, but nearly 1000 government positions since 2008.
Here’s a scary thought… The Republicans are very close to capturing enough state houses to start passing Constitutional Amendments and having a rapid ratification process…. things like making gay marriage illegal UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.
Try undoing that one. And that’s not a function of “if we only had Hillary”…
I know you guys aren’t Hillary supporters, but dammit, it’s time to shitcan any thought of any corporate Dem. We’re here. It’s now. Death to the DLC. Death to the corporate DNC.
Now…if they want to become Berniecrats or go younger with Tulsi Gabbard… that’s a start. But honestly, the two things that get me going are 1) Trump’s BS 2) Clinton apologists
Lastly, there’s a lawsuit before the FEC to change the Debate rules to allow for an independent to be on the final debate stage. Doesn’t change local, state or federal office below President…but it’s a start…
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MackeyserModerator“To manage that fear, Dugger said, he has seen two very different responses. “People know the only real answer is, Fix the problem,” he said. “It’s a reason most of them give a lot of money to good causes.” At the same time, though, they invest in the mechanics of escape. He recalled a dinner in New York City after 9/11 and the bursting of the dot-com bubble: “A group of centi-millionaires and a couple of billionaires were working through end-of-America scenarios and talking about what they’d do. Most said they’ll fire up their planes and take their families to Western ranches or homes in other countries.” One of the guests was skeptical, Dugger said. “He leaned forward and asked, ‘Are you taking your pilot’s family, too? And what about the maintenance guys? If revolutionaries are kicking in doors, how many of the people in your life will you have to take with you?’ The questioning continued. In the end, most agreed they couldn’t run.” ”
Amazing how so many don’t see “fixing the problem” as the problem to fix, but rather to maintain their lifestyle in the face of radical systemic change is the “problem to fix”…
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MackeyserModeratorAnyone who thinks this is a sexist thing, I think Trump’s suits are tailored horribly and he’s a mess, too. It’s just harder for men in their more standardized “uniform” to differentiate themselves in any way, better or worse.
But yeah. Dude probably spends what I paid for my house on a few suits and the tailoring and he still looks like someone in a borrowed suit.
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MackeyserModeratorActually, the 3 tech on the right side is typical.
Houston plays the X tech ( varies, typically 5,7,9) on the LEFT side.
I’ll likely make that one of my Dead Horse Post of the Week posts.
By the way, we’re going to the playoffs this year. Almost certainly as a 5 or 6th seed, but we’re going. Book it.
And that’s with a ridiculous schedule that the Pats will never get.
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MackeyserModeratorI think there is room for multiple bad actors.
When I heard the tape of Hillary laughing about how she dismantled a 12 year old rape victim while defending a rapist while a young lawyer… um… sorry. THAT wasn’t fucking lawyering. THAT was character on display. There are plenty of defense lawyers who defend rapists and even suppress their gag reflex and challenge rape victims…, but subsequently LAUGH about dismantling a 12 year old girl who’d been raped? What the actual fuck was that?
If that’s not psychosis, what is it?
If her on tape insisting that the only way she’d support an election in 2006 in Palestine is if it were fixed and if SHE could choose who would win.
If that’s not sociopathic, what is?
Do you not know her history?
When Bill was accused of VIOLENTLY raping Juanita Brodderick, SHE took lead in deposing her…. I have to hold my head to not get dizzy from all the shaking…
And all the Clinton apologists INSISTED that it was okay for Bill to wave his finger at the complaint MSM that all this was conspiratorial and “why would he risk getting impeached over a tryst?” Well…and THEN they found the semen…
It wasn’t conspiratorial. He DID have sex with…that woman…Ms. Lewinski. He did lie directly to people’s faces and risk getting impeached over a tryst.
Why, Billy, would you give them any benefit of the doubt? For ANYTHING???
She makes 1000% profit on an investment that forensic examiners have said is statistically impossible…and SHE doesn’t go to jail NOT because she’s not guilty, but because her broker refuses to testify against her. And that’s a running theme.
The only thing my mind is made up about is that I put NOTHING past the ambition of the Clintons, that includes murder.
Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile strike the day of hearings and had innocent people die just to mitigate some of his bad news. Do I think they’re past murdering ONE person? Are you kidding? Not remotely are they past it.
But again, I’ve retreated a bit and said that this very well have been a bit of Murder on the Orient Express where there are multiple culprits.
The Russians wouldn’t have had a puppet to play against Clinton if Clinton hadn’t elevated Trump in the first place. That’s fact.
And that meeting DID happen. I’m super busy today, but google it. If I have to, I’ll find it. I believe the meeting happened in February, but it may have been earlier.
I’m serious about this. We can’t just say that political assassination happen everywhere, but here.
And if they DO happen here, WHICH ONES are they? Cuz if you ask, every single death is denied as not possible, which by deductive reasoning and logic is impossible.
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MackeyserModeratorThe net worth of his cabinet is equivalent to the net worth of the bottom 33% of Americans
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MackeyserModeratorConsidering that Trump is in violation of his GSA lease… on day one…
That he is in violation of the Emoluments clause of the Constitution…on day one…
Wait…I’m gonna stop there. This list could get long, but any incoming President that’s grossly and belligerently in violation of the Constitution?
See, that’s why it’s so hard to have a conversation…because there’s an inherent hypocrisy. Most of the lefties here ALSO slammed Hillary Clinton for things like the Clinton Global Initiative’s Pay to Play access model (and surprise, surprise…with her not being President or in Congress or Secretary of State… it’s closing), so there wasn’t that Democratic hypocrisy when it comes to criticizing Trump.
But…in one breath we hear from conservative voices NOTHING about Constitutional violations when it comes to Trump…BUT..the Constitution will become SACROSANCT when it comes to appoint a Supreme Court Justice.
It’s pure hypocrisy. It’s cafeteria Constitutional observance and there’s no integrity in it.
So…no. There’s absolutely not going to be any listening to “Obama was the worst” horseshit… cuz that’s what it is.
Andrew Jackson openly defied Congress. Clinton was impeached and Nixon left office before being thrown out due to clear high crimes. Trump is currently in violation of the Emoluments clause and in violation of his GSA lease on his Trump Washington Hotel…and that’s just for starters.
Principle wouldn’t ignore the gross violations.
Partisanship would misdirect to Obama…Hillary…etc.
But the principle still stands. And let’s be clear.
Donald J. Trump is in violation of the US Constitution.
Period. Doesn’t matter what you or anyone says about past presidents. Now… based on principle, are we going to get a statement about how the Oath of Office matters?
I suppose there’s room for conversation if principle is paramount, but beyond that? Not really.
Cuz, honestly? After $5 BILLION dollars of free press and the saturation to excuses for Trump to the point of being inculcated by them… I’m done and he’s been in office for one day.
I’ve been banging the drum for principle as long as these guys know me.
What Trump is doing with his businesses NOW, specifically his hotel businesses is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. As in actually unconstitutional, not bogus unconstitutional that gets bandied about in careless political discourse.
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MackeyserModeratorYes Putin had motives. Of course.
However, it would be naive to insist that Clinton did not.
Moreover, I find it curious that we acknowledge political assassinations in foreign countries by foreign governments AND we acknowledge that WE engage in political assassinations abroad via various direct and indirect means (drones, CIA and CIA contracted, etc)
What we can’t acknowledge is any domestic political assassination.
I mean which one can we acknowledge? Name one.
Point is that there is tremendous antipathy for people on every part of the political spectrum to allow for even the thought to pierce the critical thinking veil. However, simple deductive reasoning leads us to the logical and inevitable conclusion that it MUST be happening here.
And if so, then…when? Which murders are politically motivated? And why must every murder of anyone in government absolutely be NOT politically motivated no matter how many parties have motive, resources and opportunity?
Please understand. I’m NOT trying to say it’s NOT possible that Putin was responsible.
My best read is that the British diplomat wasn’t lying. That doesn’t fit.
Here’s where the Russian narrative falls apart.
WELL BEFORE the Russians supposedly got active, we know from the Wikileak’d emails that Clinton met with the MSM chiefs, top reporters and heads of networks to collude to elevate coverage of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in an effort to “pick her opponent”. They subsequently gave him more than $2B worth of free coverage.
Thus, the Russian narrative timeline doesn’t match. Well before any supposed Russian incursion, even before Clinton really was set up, they were trying to game this election and essentially fix it. That would be Clinton, the DNC and the MSM.
Now, is this a case of Murder on the Orient Express? Do we have multiple culprits? Maybe. Maybe even likely.
However, the Russians had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with elevating Trump, nothing whatsoever to do with saturating him over the airwaves for MONTHS, choking every other candidate of either party of any oxygen…
As for Clinton being Caligula, sorry, but that’s intellectually lazy. She’s on tape saying that she’s in favor of fixing elections, specifically I believe the 2006 Palestinian election. So much for “exporting Democracy”. So, I have ZERO faith in her have ANY integrity. The proof would continue to mount that she and her staff and the DNC sought to rig the primary process which DID risk violating Federal Election laws…except she knows that unless the MSM broadcasts it, no one seems to give a shit.
If it ain’t on TV, no one cares, apparently…
So, I dunno that she felt she was risking anything.
I think the truth very well may be a confluence of Clintonian corruption and Russian influence.
But when it comes to Trump, I’m always gonna put it on Clinton. I mean, the Russians couldn’t hack emails that show her and her staff trying to steal an election if they hadn’t tried to steal it… and even before the Russians got involved. SHE or one of her counselors decided that it was smart to elevate Trump cuz he was easy pickings.
Thanks Hillary. If she had just believed in democracy, not felt entitled and ran a straight campaign based on ideas…win, lose or draw…either she or Bernie would easily have won.
Then again, if the MSM had any integrity, they wouldn’t have allowed themselves to be coopted in the first place…so there’s that…
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MackeyserModeratorSports is the crucible of human virtue. The distillate remains are human vice.
MackeyserModeratorI read the title and I had the same reaction that Zooey had…absolutely nothing.
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MackeyserModeratorI just don’t believe in coincidence.
It’s more than likely that specifically he was the person responsible in part or en toto for the dissemination of the emails to Wikileaks.
The ONLY reason the “hacking” narrative can continue to live on is because he’s dead.
If he was alive, ONE interview…just ONE statement to ONE reporter would kill all of that dead, especially if he were to appear on camera. Further, it would only add to the indictment of the current DNC.
So, no, it’s not shitting where one eats. It’s more accurately called tying up loose ends.
Something the Clintons are extraordinarily adept at.
I mean, they ARE guilty of several things including Hillary with insider trading and both of them with the land deal. However, the one talent that they have that I honestly have never seen anyone else possess is having other people be willing to go to jail for them. If ANY of a number of people would have rolled on the Clintons in a number of situations…even one time… the Clintons, individually or jointly would have gone to jail.
But, they didn’t. Now, is it because their political opponents end up dead as so many in Arkansas allege and have alleged for decades? Is it because they are like Lannisters and always pay their debts? A combination of both?
I’m not exactly sure.
I AM sure that they are NOT innocent.
Clinton DID subvert democracy, DID use the MSM to elevate Donald Trump because she thought he’d be the easiest to beat (so, we can exchange “Thanks Obama to Thanks Hillary”) and so forth…
And the list of political…shall we say adversaries…of the Clintons who are dead is scary long. Worse, it involves plane crashes, etc.
Let’s not act like political assassinations ONLY happen in banana republics and in Putin’s Russia. That would be naive.
Occam’s razor. The ONLY thing that stood in the way of the complete dismantling of the DNC and the Clinton machine, that totally validated the emails AND would give voice and context to the malfeasance… ended up murdered prior to being able to talk with anyone…and to no one’s surprise, it’s an unsolved murder.
Shitting where you eat would be if they killed him in their home or were personally involved. I’m sure there was enough distance that Robert Ludlum would be impressed. Not the point.
The point is that the Clinton emails were leaked by Clinton personnel. And the likely leaker was murdered.
The ONLY people with motive…were Clinton personnel and high level DNC staff with a vested interest in keeping out the progressive wing and maintaining the corporate status quo. “Geld uber alles” (money above all) should be the DNC motto…
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MackeyserModeratorIt’s shit like that that fuels the “Clintons are killers” narrative and honestly, there’s so much smoke that I dunno if we just haven’t found the fire or what.
I mean, the evidence says it was a leak from inside the DNC from disgruntled staff who specifically were upset with how the Clinton campaign disavowed democracy for the sake of hijacking elected office.
And yes, when a former British diplomat goes PUBLIC that he received the data and personally handed the information to the folks at Wikileaks… that’s the kind of proof one needs. Everything he said fits the facts perfectly.
So… it’s clear that either Seth Rich did it or had to be party to it due to the level of access required to access all of those emails… And not long after the emails come out?
He’s murdered.
Yeah… I’m on the “Clinton had him murdered” train.
That’s not a big leap.
I mean, we have evidence that both Russians and Chinese were monitoring the election and that the Russians preferred Trump, but it was Clinton who the emails proved used the US MSM to elevate Trump, not the Russians.
It was Clinton who disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of NY democratic voters in NY and millions of CA.
The cheating was so rampant that you had Democratic poll workers who were aghast and made videos and ran to the MSM only to find out that… NO ONE WAS INTERESTED. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
When Bernie was done… he kept fighting for his values and the American people. When Clinton’s cheating didn’t net her the office she felt entitled to? Yeah, she went into seclusion.
Apparently, she wasn’t fighting for the American people or even Democrats…just her own selfish ambition. I’ve had critics mention misogygny…which is funny because MY personal favorite alternate other than Bernie…maybe MORESO than Bernie is Tulsi Gabbard. No one really close, although I do also really like Nina Turner, state senator from Ohio. Point being that all my alternatives to Bernie are WOMEN..specifically smart, strong, powerful qualified women of color. Kamala Harris essentially is disqualified for not prosecuting OneWest Bank. Sorry…when you got over 1000 violations and you just drop the ball? Done. I’m done with you. Go be a corporate puppet like Corey Booker.
Anyway, as for the OP, yeah, they were leaked, not hacked. Been the story from day one by Wikileaks, verified by the person who handed the info over to Wikileaks AND the person inside likely responsible for the leak…is conveniently murdered days after the handoff so that Clinton and the corporate DNC can further this hacking narrative.
Leave it to corporate Dems even when presented with Donald Trump to find a way to not be able to be an opposition party, to find a way to dither away any advantage, to screw up any and everything.
Lewis Black is right… it’s no longer Rep and Dem or Conservative and Liberal…it’s Psychotic and Idiotic.
We need a third party. And Green isn’t it…
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MackeyserModeratorApparently a former British diplomat came forward and has said on the record that he received the emails from a disgruntled former Clinton staffer with legal access to the emails.
The former diplomat did so insofar as he had a working relationship with Wikileaks and Assange.
But, I guess it’s a pretty big deal to go on the record.
Doesn’t mean the Russians didn’t hack the RNC and DNC. As a matter of fact, I’d wager they did.
But, this may be a case like Murder on the Orient Express… except in this case we know one responsible party was from inside the Clinton campaign and that Wikileaks saying they haven’t used hacked emails seems true.
Doesn’t have to mean the hacking is untrue.
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MackeyserModeratorHow anyone can NOT want Sean Payton for our HC is beyond me…
He took a very good QB coming off of a severe injury and turned him into a scoring terror in a WCO…which, honestly isn’t the easiest thing in a league with LBs that can run and cover (think of how many times we beat the Saints when they overemphasized Graham).
And it wasn’t for lack of trying to find the best defensive minds to match with Sean Payton… Then again, he never had this much talent even as undisciplined as they’ve been playing (they probably were more talented last year with JJ, Fairley, JL and CL)
Point being that I have NO doubt based on how I evaluate things (that whole pattern thing…) that Sean Payton would just CRUSH here.
No…I don’t mean “do well”. I’m not saying that.
I mean freaking CRUSH. It’s about how things fit. Patterns.
What did I say in the off-season.
Well. THIS time, I’m saying that Sean Payton is THE FIT.
If anyone from the Rams FO is reading this site, hopefully, they read this. I’m not good at many things, but I get patterns (figures, all my kids are good at math except my eldest, and he is high functioning autistic with crazy good memory recall)
Just sayin’.
Demoff can do all the research he wants. And he should. It’s his job. And Payton may not even be available or New Orleans may want a mint to let Payton out of his contract even though that’s exactly what they seem to want and what he seems to want.
So, if not Payton, then Kyle Shanahan. Another WCO guy who’s a QB whisperer, has seen Dan Quinn, a defensive guy, bring in quality coaches on both sides of the ball and make it work.
But seriously.
After that injury, Drew Brees didn’t pass multiple physicals with teams and almost couldn’t make a roster and now he’s on the verge of passing 5k yards for the fifth time??? Like it’s routine?
Goff would look like an entirely different QB. He’d be entirely unrecognizable.
I said before that the perfect offense for Goff would be the EP, especially the Pittsburgh EP, but since the chances of the Rams hiring Todd Haley are remote…and I don’t really think he’s the best fit… I also said the EXCEPTION to that would be Sean Payton’s WCO.
Well, if he’s available… let’s just say that based on what I’ve seen the stars are aligning. And we have plenty of room on the personnel front to improve still, which is fine. But having Goff, Gurley, Austin (actually an important piece), Benny Cunningham (also important) and Britt is the beginning of a really solid O. I won’t speculate about the OL. I just won’t. Too many permutations too early.
But I can really see how it could play out with Sean Payton and the Rams and… it’s just wow. And not wow years from now.
It’s wow even before the second half of the season.
Put it too you all this way.
If the Rams sign Sean Payton, even BEFORE the draft, I’ll be SERVING the Kool Aid, spiked with 100 proof Pollyanna Rum. While I’m banging the drum.
That’s how sure I am about this.
See… I’m not always a pessimist… And sometimes a realist can be really optimistic, even…
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MackeyserModeratorYes, I posted that.
And Jill Stein made enough of her case and Hillary showed herself to be a soulless, lying, warmongering candidate that I couldn’t support even when she was running against Trump.
I mean, I’m not ignorant of the politics, I just hate them. I realize that the Supreme Court is screwed (sorry, Scalia was among the worst jurists of the 20th century, right up there with the Oliver Wendell Holmes (see Buck v Bell if you have any questions…forced sterilization?), Clarence Thomas and John Roberts)
I took the time to really listen and get to know each of the candidates (as much anyone could know Trump). And Clinton horrified me. Any notion that she was the lesser of two evils was lost on me by May, iirc. In February, Clinton being the LEV may have still been a thing, but not by May. Pretty sure by May or even April when all the shenanigans were being pulled, I was going to vote my conscience.
And I voted for Stein in a battleground state without a moment’s hesitation.
And?
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MackeyserModeratorYes, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays all!
Well, if he doesn’t change his set up…and soon, Trump will not be in compliance with his Oath of Office and subject to impeachment on January 20th.
And I don’t say that as a “sore loser”, but as someone who actually took the Oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
As things stand now, he’s out of compliance. There are certain things he can’t continue to do. Some of these laws were passed after the Clinton Presidency expressly because of the reaction to Bill appointing Hillary to policy making positions or committees. Moreover, the financial laws now apply to the President and the Vice President. They didn’t before Clinton.
So Trump’s got a LOT of work to do.
He can’t possibly sell all of his holdings prior to Jan 20th. That would be impossible. Moreover, he wants his kids to run it. Well, that’s not in a blind trust. And while the blind trust has been standard to ensure the “appearance of impropriety” hasn’t occurred, it would be trebly difficult with the kids running it.
Having the kids in policy meetings in with Heads of State where the kids are doing business? Yeah…
The minute Trump is President, de facto, EVEN ONE DOLLAR paid by a foreign government to ANY Trump facility is, again, de facto a high crime under the Constitution. And as opposed to barring all foreign governments from staying at his facilities to ensure his compliance, he’s encouraging them.
I’m about principle. Have been my adult life. Said no to a million dollar a year job when I was unemployed with 4 babies in the house…on principle.
I would have had similar issues with Hillary and her connections with the Clinton Foundation (man, do I hate the requirement for equivocation…to even have a conversation anymore…)
NO President is EVER above the law. PERIOD.
Come January 20th, Donald J Trump has two choices. Be in compliance so that he can take the oath of office and not instantly be committing high crimes from day one…or don’t take the oath of office.
But taking the oath and then expecting that we can all just make an exception for him. NO. NO ONE is above the Constitution.
Not even Zaphod Beeblebrox, himself.
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MackeyserModeratorThe fact that he believes that there’s even the possibility for change for the better…
isn’t just laughable, it’s criminally naive.
And I didn’t get to respond in the closed thread, but no, I NEVER supported Hillary. EVER.
I spent FAR more time critiquing her than Trump, actually.
I supported Sanders, then Jill Stein. Never supported Hillary. Not for a second. She was and is a corporatist, lying, warmongering, lying… did I say lying…fascist. Yeah, I said fascist who doesn’t believe in democracy. The recording of her saying she didn’t support the Palestinian election…unless we had fixed the outcome. That so crossed the line that I don’t know where to begin. It certainly lends more credence to the fixing of the Democratic Primaries as many parties have alleged all across the country. I mean, she did everything she could to to “fix” the outcome including getting Super Delegates prior to announcing and having the DNC Chair be her former campaign chair, etc. When the Vice Chair steps down as a matter of principle…
If anyone needed to know what the Anti-Jimmy Carter looked like… I give you Hillary Clinton. Think she’s gonna dump the pumps and awful suits (that still cost a fortune) and start building homes for the homeless? Or championing clean water?
I could go on, but today’s not the day for hackles to be raised. I’m in too good a mood.
As for Assange, he should stick with non-partisan document release and leave the punditizing to the punditry.
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