It depends on what the meaning of "indictment" is...
So it wasn't the indictment we wanted; the indictment where Hillary gets led off wearing an orange pantsuit and handcuffs, but, it was an 'indictment' nevertheless. Nowhere did Comey say 'nothing to see here, move along'. Comey made the incompetence, the lying, the arrogance, and the corruption real and on record. No longer will Hillary be able to hide behind her lies. Her word against Comey's - give me a break.
So where does this leave her high profile endorsers such as Warren, Brown, Lewis, DeBlasio etc.? Are they going to be motivated to put themselves out there to say 'I'm with Her'? Forget about Obama, he doesn't have to go through another election, he's done in more ways than one.
So where does this leave us? Could Hillary's numbers against Trump go up after this? I don't think so. The genie was just let out of the bottle for Trump. Hillary will crawl into the convention a severely damaged candidate.
This ain't over folks.
Comments
It would seem she was "careless"
Except where it came to wiping her hard drive ("with a cloth"). In that moment great care was given so that no additional information could be forensically recovered.
Another Refugee from the Great Orange Purity Troll
Re: It would seem she was "careless"
It was a really good cloth!
Microfiber!
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
with a cloth
A cloth of gold. With I(DC) = OMG running through it at the time!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Carelessness is not a criminal offense.
Neither is incompetence.
Sorry, the MSM will just see "no recommendation for indictment", and move on from there.
I wish it were otherwise, but it isn't. Now, if the GOP had nominated a halfways sane candidate, Hill might have been in trouble, but Herr Dummkopf's tendency to shoot himself in the boot will only help Ms Teflon.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Carelessness is illegal, in this case
She clearly broke the law. Comey's invocation of her intent was a red herring, as intentions have no bearing on this kind of case.
Here's a similar case:
https://www.fbi.gov/sacramento/press-releases/2015/folsom-naval-reservis...
This one involved a Naval reservist who retained a few classified photographs in his home, and on a device. He gave them to no one, he kept them as unauthorized "souvenirs". The fact that he mishandled the classified data was enough, he was convicted and sentenced.
This case makes it clear that the rule of law no longer applies in America. Hillary is above the law, yet there are scores of "little people" who have been sorely jacked-up for far less.
Welcome to the Third World.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
It is interesting that no one
It is interesting that no one else in the government can use this as a precedent. There was no mention of a review of the personal e-mails and Clinton Foundation correspondence. When they announced today that Hillary was flying on Air Force One with Obama to Charlotte for a campaign event I knew the outcome of investigation.
The fix was in on this one. We will have to see how Trump plays it, Comey handed him plenty of ammunition to prove she is incompetent, if not indicted.
So are they continuing on the corruption investigation?
The one involving the email/Clinton Foundation intersection?
That's what I want to know, too.
It always seemed to me the parallel Clinton Foundation investigation was where the really meaty felonies would surface. After today, though, I'm done having any faith in Comey, either (as if anything could get past Lynch/Obama anyway).
Smithereens. It's a good word; one of my favorites, in fact. Unfortunately, it's the only word that springs to mind when I think of what the Republican nominee is going to do to HRH with what they were just handed.
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
Does make one wonder
if our 11-dimensional-chess-master-in-chief wasn't considering HRC's possible indictment when he appointed Lynch as AG. An excellent insurance policy.
Don't regular people who do
shit like this have their security clearance(s) revoked?? It seems to me that's the very LEAST that should happen to her. I just don't see how she can waltz away from this unscathed. Certainly a POTUS needs to qualify for security clearance.
I am amazed at what Clinton, Inc. can get away with!
"Stand Up! Keep Fighting!" - Paul Wellstone
She is literally untouchable
She is above the law, and there isn't much anybody can do about it.
The republic is dead.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Thankfully, the intelligence services do not enjoy a veto
over the outcomes of Presidential elections.
It would be nice to see Hillary get what she's got coming, but not like that. By definition, the person constitutionally elected to the position of President has full security clearance -- there is nothing in the constitution that gives any individual or institution the authority to withhold executive documents from the duly elected chief executive, and we should be grateful for that.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
So if a criminal is elected President by "the people",
it's all good??
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
From a strictly legal point of view, yes.
From any practical point of view, it means we're fucked unless and until Congress moves to impeach.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I'd be more inclined to say, "It's all bad."
But it is what it is.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Only the little people ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Helmsley
Riiiight.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Umm, yeah. People really want to vote for politicians
who are careless.
My problem is not that
My problem is not that Hillary be punished, charges are not serious at all to me, my problem is that the Clintons brought the hammer down on millions and millions of Americans with crimes that really are hardly crimes and espouse being tough on crime every opportunity they get, but faced with a criminal offense both cry empathy for me. Fuck that shit.
Precisely.
"We" both did the same thing, but it's 30 years w/o parole for you, and I get to walk.
Bwahahahahaha!!!
..... insert picture of $hillary laughing .....
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
I dunno about "serious"
Only a few people know the extent of the damage she may have caused to our national security by her actions. We little people will probably never know. Did this cost the taxpayers money, other than the investigation, as in were certain ongoing operations possibly compromised where our intelligence community had to make changes? I venture to say yes. But the big question for me is this. Were any American lives or lives of our allies compromised by her recklessness? If she was hacked by foreign intelligence it could very well be a yes. This person has no business being president. She's a train wreck waiting to happen. The clinton's greed will cloud their judgement on matters concerning the best interests of the US. They are not in this to serve America or the American people. On January 20, 1961, a good man made a speech and in it he said,
The clinton's have made a mockery of JFK's inaugural speech. For them it's always been, "what's in it for ME"...
Here.
Fixed that for you.
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
Thank You, how true n/t
No one with a brain thought she would be indicted
I certainly did not expect this would ruin $Hillary's reputation..., well, except in my fantasies which include Bernie getting the nomination over scumbag $Hillary-Billary and the email fiasco, followed by the pay-to-play bribes and money laundering through the Clinton Foundation.
Going back to the SCOTUS decision of 12 Dec 2000, the sheeple citizenry of the US still hasn't had enough of criminal activities of the protected criminal-political classes in DC. They will excuse her and even vote for her - or else Turdblossom's hacking team will make sure she "wins" in states without paper ballots where off numbers can result in a hand-recount.
If I were young, healthy, and had enough money, I'd emigrate faster than the blink of an eye and give up my US citizenship.
The corporate fascism and oligarchy that lies ahead of us will be mind-numbingly crushing not only to the US but to other countries (thanks to TPP and other "trade agreements"). It will be televised, but only as propaganda favorable to the oligarchic fascist leading us.
Welcome to the new and improved Nineteen Eighty-Four, complete with telescreens.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
I See It Similarly.
The recent acceptance of whatever those important people do is acceptable; not right, but what are you gonna do?
That shit scares me. We've got to shed a lot of people for the planet to make it. The corporate mind-numbing crushing will be the mechanism, which makes for a real ugly future.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
The planet may be in luck!
Since we know the MIC loves them some endless war, not to mention their hard ons for gazillion dollar war toys, and unemployment numbers look better when the poverty draft is in full swing, we may just be prepared to 'shed' a fairly large number of humans.
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
Well, they suppressed the overpopulation problem
for well over 40 years because they needed that increased demand pool. Sooner or later they have to start whittling us down. They should have started sooner, because at this point, the ruination of the planet is pretty well assured.
Not Exactly
You said, "We've got to shed a lot of people for the planet to make it."
The planet was here long before any kind of life ever developed, and will be here long after our red giant Sun makes life impossible.
"We" (read: top1%) desire to eliminate large portions of the 99% (at least until servile needs cannot be met) so that "They" (read: top1%) can survive. The rest of us don't matter at all.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
My all-time favorite comic strip: Cavin & Hobbes, June 2, 1993
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/06/02
I was having a particularly bad day that day, came home to finding that in the evening paper's comic section. I cut it out..., and many years later when I got my first computer, I scanned it, printed it out on magnetic 'paper' and put it on my fridge.
It does, indeed, put a bad day in perspective.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
!:-)
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
Even my hometown Florida paper is running Analysis:
Hillary Clinton's email problems may be worse than we thought. They picked up the Washington Post piece. I don't believe the MSM is of one mind with this. Too late to cover it up.
I hope you're right.
It's obvious that if it had been anyone but Hillary, they would already be in shackles.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
I heard tones of criticism on NPR - shocked me, actually
Sure, one of them was a British-based show... but still, it was NPR.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Thos Who Don't Care
$Hillary's troubles mean nothing to the Wall St Banksters except as the means by which to keep her under their thumbs. They will not make the email server a public issue. Anyone who does is a Trump supporter.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
Any Lefty with guts will still call out Medusa for her emails!
Screw Hillary. Screw Trump. Join us in an ungainly menage a trois--HRC, Her Drumpf, and the 99%.
Damn The Torpedoes?
I'm not sure there is a condom that can protect me from either $Hillary OR Drumpf!
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
Hillary's new slogan
I want to be your next Commander in Chief and although I really suck at National Security stuff you need to remember that Trump is scary. At least you know with me I'm just incompetent, careless and reckless, but not scary. Vote for me!
Maybe you can get a job writing her ads.
What you said isn't a whole lot different from what she says. Trump is an unknown, and vewy, vewy scary, but we KNOW Hillary is incompetent, careless, and reckless. Works for me!
No. She will not be YOUR C-i-C.
That implies a MIlitary Dictatorship.
The President is CiC of the Armed Forces of the USA, when at war!
Not of the Nation.
Even a non-American student of History who has taken a course in your Constitution, ill conceived, as it is, (sorry), knows that.
I think it was Nixon (or was it W) who invented the concept of CiC of "America", and therefore criticizing THE PRESIDENT is tantamount to treason.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
literary license
as opposed to literal
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
No, we do NOT vote for a Commander in Chief
We do not elect military personnel to lead, rule, or speak for We the People of the United States.
Commander in Chief is only mentioned once in the Constitution, and in the context of the meaning of the original wording, only one prez was ever asked to be CiC in one specific instance (to go out to actually lead the militias in person - Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791), but that was when we did not have a standing army. i.e. That was pretty much Washington's role as general of the Continental Army which was made up of enlisted personnel or militias (one of my ancestors was at Valley Forge the winter of 1777-78 during his first three-year enlistment, and eight years and some months later after he had been in many famous battles, his honorable discharge was signed at Newburgh by 'G. Washington' in 1783 - I have copies of his muster rolls and request for a pension later in life).
After we got a standing army in the early 19th century, there was never a reason to ask a prez to be a CiC and personally lead the militias like there was in 1791. Congress has always had the constitutional responsibility of being in charge of the military, has the power to declare war (or not), and provide money for same.
It was that blithering idiot, Dumbya, who was so enamored of being called "Commander in Chief," because he wanted to be remembered as a war president. No other president in my living memory ever made such a big fuss over the fake title of Commander in Chief (it was a practical function in 1791, and if you read the way the Constitution words it, a prez had to be asked to take on the role of CiC; the title was not automatically conferred on a president), like it was more important than being called President. After Dumbya's fuss over the title, Moronic Media and some pundits and politicians (even Obama & $Hillary) started referring to a prez as CiC and saying we elect a CiC (NO, we do NOT), and always in an erroneous context.
The sum total of the one reference to CiC; US Constitution, Article II, Section 2:
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
Exactly!
He could have just said 'no indictment' and walked out of the room. Instead he gave a litany of Clinton "poor choices " (deliberate or not) and then left the room without answering questions. Clinton's arrogant ineptitude left hanging in the air, for all to see. With nary a defence.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Comey acted as if he were following orders
which may very well have been the case. He said they would not indict but he never declared her innocent.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
and he added that other cases
with similar circumstances may very well be prosecuted. Just not this one. No explanation as to why. He should resign to finish his point.
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
And that's exactly what he said.
A stern warning to the assistant deputy undersecretaries: you try to pull this kind of sh*t off, and you're going to jail for decades.
Now Hillary. I'd like to, but I can't. Because reasons.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Yup,
Comey was letting us know she's up to her eyeballs in shit. And President Obama had to counter that message and make sure that we know he has had a front row seat regarding Clinton and her judgment is great - - he must have been asleep in the front row.
No everybody works for Obama.
He can't fire us all.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Obama's been using the talking points from the campaign
Not sure just how many times he's had to say there's never ever ever been a candidate so totally and completely qualified for the job, but it's been several times, including today. He's trying very hard to make it sound genuine.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
It's nonsense.
I was just watching a clip of his speech in nc, and he repeated that line. And I'm thinking: nobody? Not John Adams, not Jefferson?
And it sounds foolish coming out of his mouth. n/t
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
He's foolish
I would expect nothing better to ever come out of his mouth.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Stephanie Miller likes the 'most qualified EVAH' meme.
For myself, I'm thinking, as did you, "Really? Not even Thomas Jefferson? Really? Not even Thomas Jefferson?"
Whatever anyone thinks about Jefferson's morals, this remains true: With respect to qualifications as a candidate, he would have eaten Clinton's lunch for breakfast.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Take note that he never explains the details
of the "job" he thinks she is so qualified for. Those details would include pandering to Wall St and continuing and starting more wars and keeping the poor poor and silent. In which case, he is right.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Steward of the Machine
If I recall correctly, in an interview Obama once said that you're never really in charge of the government as president, but rather just someone that manages aspects of the system. He never saw the presidency as an office where he could enact fundamental change and progress, but something that he was the steward of, and his job was more to stay the course and keep the ship steady than rock the boat.
So in that sense, he's right that Hillary is extremely qualified. She will absolutely maintain the current direction of the country and will engage in the further neoliberalization and militarization of domestic and foreign policy.
Someone should tell Obama that simply being qualified for a position doesn't necessarily make you the best candidate for it.
"... he's (O'Bummer's) done in more ways than one."
In fact, his "legacy" (such as it may be) is now, officially, toast.
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
Wow,
They have officially rubbed our noses in it and swatted us with a rolled up constitution.
'Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P. Dowd "
We're still to little for a Top Comment list
but I would nominate that one...
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
As would I!
Oh my god, that is perfect. I have got to remember this one.
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
This is beyond extreme carelessness
She cannot claim she had no idea there were security issues:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-broke-federal-rules-email-se...
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
According to Comey, she DID use more than one "device"
Tale of Two Press Conferences
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
she was so darn ignorant about any of the
technological devices that she had used. It was too much for her to carry two devices? OMG, she is that weak? Her pants should have two pockets on each side ...
So, she had several servers used? Where are all the back-ups of those servers? Her lawyers cleaned up the server's hard drives in a way that precluded any forensic evidence to be found after that? Nice crooks, those lawyers? Or her tech admins? Too scared to quit? So, have all those servers with all the accounts of those persons she has sent emails to to be recovered and investigated. Or were those also "cleaned" out to preclude any forensic evidence?
My, my a lot of cleaning done then, if you count all the emails to all the many people she had sent emails to.
...just too much to swallow ...
https://www.euronews.com/live
At the very least,
her security clearance should be permanently held "null and void".
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Perfect!
That makes her unqualified to be president. Or at least another reason she's unqualified.
As someone said above,
Not possible to revoke her clearance.
Sigh.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Comey couldn't indict but perhaps if he had had the authority
he would have denied a security clearance. That should be done but don't know who has the cojones to suggest. The American people have to decide to not let her have it by not electing her.
I believe, correctly or not,
that security clearances can be revoked vis a vi administrative action, not necessarily by court actions.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
The Authoritarian Candidacy
I'm not sure if that's the right word....it's a mixture of imperial and totalitarian. Don't criticize the leader/s. Believe what we say about the king/czar/commissar/Fuhrer.
We are now getting into that territory that used to be so chilling. Thought crime! Be careful.
Bummer. We may all be hauled off this week.
I have been pretty open about my distaste. See ya!
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
#imwithher
because careless incompetence isn't technically illegal! what an inspiration!
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
we should keep it alive on social media
if we could bring Sanders to a viable national presence, we can do the same with this:
FBI: Clinton's lawyers cleaned devices to preclude full forensic discovery
FBI: Clinton & team 'extremely careless' with classified information
FBI: Evidence Clinton should have known unclassified system inappropriate
FBI: none of these email should have been on any kind of non-classified system
FBI: biggest concern - emails were on personal servers, not commercial or govt grade
FBI: Clinton knew emails were vulnerable, exposed system to capable adversaries
and yet:
FBI: no reasonable prosecutor will bring case against Clinton on email
“There are moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory… ”
― Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"
Jeffrey Toobin said it comes down to intent.
Basically, she didn't intend to expose the US government to who knows what. Cool! Just what we need! All she did was put HERSELF in the position to not be exposed. She didn't want to deal with FOIA requests and whatever. So, fuck the government! Little Hillary needs protection from the evil Judicial Watch folks, so the government is SOL. And that fits in well with why she's a terrible person to be president. She doesn't even know what she plans to do as president. She just wants the job so she can show she's just as good as anyone else (primarily her husband). Why do we have to suffer through other people's hangups?
If Hillary had charged Putin for the classified information
Instead of giving it away to him for free, then it would have been bad.
Beware the bullshit factories.
"Other people's hangups".
[1] G W Bush --> G H W Bush : "I'm better than you, Pops!"
[2] H R Clinton --> W J Clinton : "Anything you can do, I can do better!"
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
This is a criminal matter - Intent is irrelevant
The prosecutor's job is to prove a crime has been committed.
Intent does not matter and does not need to be proved.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
That's our "leak"
I remember numerous commentators commenting (as they are wont to do) that if the FBI were unable to recommend indictment due to political pressure that we could expect the details to be leaked.
Comey just leaked it for us, without anonymity, in a high profile press conference that could not be ignored or suppressed. In doing so he provided Trump (and Johnson and Stein) unlimited attack ad footage. It was apparently as much as he could do. Because a "reasonable prosecutor" is one who wants to keep his job. Or his head. Or are we not there quite yet?
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
You can add
there were "several thousand" work-related emails that were deleted that the FBI recovered. I sure would like to see those.
Soooo, where are the backup copies of the server's hard drive?
Weren't they included on the original search warrant?
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
HRC: "Oh, I am going to look into that and those backups" ...
never ask a simple questions, which would have simple answers....someone could actually understand something, that's a no no, don't ya know?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Yes, broken.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
There are I read somewhere two kinds of
authoritarianism:
Trump and Cruz. I'm trying to find the reference.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
the Trump vs. Cruz reference
..... is to this C99p essay.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Thank you, my fellow
Grateful Dead fan!!
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Any time!
Any time!
OT: Here's one for you and all our fellow Dead heads, complete with "Funiculi, Funicula":
link: here
embed: (Note: this clip is two hours long!)
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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Foolish Trump.
On the weekend he could have figuratively buried Hillary, he decides an image from a White Supremacist website would be a cool thing to tweet. It's almost like he wants to lose.
Some have long thought the Der Drumpf
was a Manchurian Candidate installed by the Clintons to ensure a Democratic win.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Ugh! Every time I see that photo
I am filled with disgust!
"Stand Up! Keep Fighting!" - Paul Wellstone
Maybe that was the plan all along.
Bam. Trump University fraud case disappears. Shady Trump deals forgotten. Trump goes on to luxuries life-style without having to worry about annoying details like how to run a government.
He just might at that. His problem seems to be his handlers
aren't any smarter than he is. And he's the poster boy for proof that money doesn't make you smart. He's sly and cunning, just like the Clintons. But they're able to extemporaneously compose and speak in complete sentences. But they are as Bob Herbert said long ago:
***
In America; Cut Him Loose
By BOB HERBERT
Published: February 26, 2001
The Clintons may or may not be led away in handcuffs someday. But whatever happens with the criminal investigations, it's time for the Democratic Party to wise up. Ostracism would be a good first step. Bill Clinton should be cut completely loose. Cold turkey. No more talk about his political genius, his fund-raising prowess, his ability to captivate audiences. He was president for eight years and the bottom line politically is this: For the first time in nearly half a century, the Republican Party controls the presidency and both houses of Congress.
Bill Clinton has been a disaster for the Democratic Party. Send him packing.
There's not much the Democrats can do about Mrs. Clinton. She's got a Senate seat for six years. But there is no need for the party to look to her for leadership. The Democrats need to regroup, re-establish their strong links to middle-class and working-class Americans, and move on.
You can't lead a nation if you are ashamed of the leadership of your party. The Clintons are a terminally unethical and vulgar couple, and they've betrayed everyone who has ever believed in them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/26/opinion/in-america-cut-him-loose.html
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Wow, he hit the nail on the head.
And 15 years ago, at that.
to me
she was "Dis-qualified" when she kept "looking into it"
and "looking into it" about the Million$ she pocketed from those "secret" Wall Street Speeches
-- and found nuthin -- but sleazy excuses.
Today's "indictments" of her character and judgment and her sense of personal privilege,
-- just make her EVEN more "Dis-qualified" -- to be "trusted" with the highest office of the land.
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