But 10 other comments will probably pop up while I type this friggin' thing, because I'm both verbose and a perfectionist.

First of all, so wonderful to see you, Steven! You are the bees knees, man, and I'm glad you are on the road to recovery.

Second, Hillary Clinton's campaign is royally fucking up everything they touch. I don't understand it, really, but that's what Democrats are best at: squandering victory at every opportunity. Jesus Christ, these people are the worst campaigners in modern history.

Clinton's campaign has to keep the focus on things other than herself because she's a terrible, awful, no good, very bad candidate. Hillary is so full of flaws and has such a shady history that no one is buying the shit she is selling, still. This is why they are claiming that the Russians are hacking shit when they have no legitimate proof -- it keeps the lotus of the election news on how bad other people are instead of how good Hillary Clinton is. Because Hillary Clinton is not at all good.

Thanks to recommendations from other c99p folks, I now check out websites I was unfamiliar with and had never checked out before. Truthdig.org has been a favorite of mine, and this article really captures the heart of the absolute stupidity of the Clinton campaign:

You could not pick a worse, more inept, inexperienced or offensive joke of a presidential candidate than Donald Trump. The United States has become the butt of international ridicule over our very own “Kim Jong-Un.” Any candidate running against Trump from the opposing major party with a pulse ought to be beating him in the polls by double digits. But Hillary Clinton isn’t.

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In positioning herself first and foremost as what she is not—Trump—Clinton is picking only the low-hanging fruit. My 9-year-old son could make fun of Trump in clever ways, and does so routinely. For Clinton to fixate on Trump’s endless flaws suggests that her own platform has little substance. For example, in a recent speech she said of Trump, “He says he has a secret plan to defeat ISIS. The secret is, he has no plan.” While these kinds of statements might make for funny one-liners, Clinton’s main credential is that she once led the State Department, and she did so with such hawkishness that Americans who are weary of endless wars are not impressed by the experience. (Not to mention that she was caught telling lies about her private email server while secretary of state.) If she proposed diplomacy over war, a plan to exit Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria, a promise to withhold weapons from Saudi Arabia, a commitment to Palestinian human rights, and so on, voters might sit up and take note.

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Rather than reaching out to American voters on such issues, Clinton has been busy pandering to one particular community: the uber-rich. According to a New York Times article, she has made multiple trips to wealthy enclaves over the past month alone. In addition to Beverly Hills, she has visited Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons, rubbing elbows with celebrities and other rich elites. Just in August she raised more than $140 million through such fundraisers—easy fodder for the GOP to criticize in a new set of ads.

While making herself accessible to America’s upper classes, she has made herself almost completely unavailable to the press. Until Thursday, Clinton had not held a single news conference in 2016, inviting the unflattering comparison to President George W. Bush, who came under fire for avoiding interactions with the media. Bush was skewered for acting like he was hiding something, afraid the press might ask hard questions that would invite a blundering response. Clinton, one could argue, does not need to win over the press—most mainstream outlets already embrace her nomination and are pushing hard for her election. A recent article by Paul Krugman in the Times is a prime example. Ordinary Americans, however, continue to be unimpressed.

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If Clinton loses this election, it will not be because Americans are dumb, racist misogynists who would cut off their noses to spite their faces in refusing to elect a sane woman over an insane man. It will not be because too many Americans “selfishly” voted for a third party or didn’t vote at all. It will be because Clinton refused to compromise her allegiance to Wall Street and the morally bankrupt center-right establishment positions of her party and chose not to win over voters. This election is hers to lose, and if this nation ends up with President Trump, it will be most of all the fault of Clinton and the Democratic Party that backs her.

I hope that didn't violate Fair Use, but I parred it down as best I could. The whole article is really spot on.

Hillary is going to lose this fuckin' thing and we are gonna be stuck with President Trump. I don't even know what to say anymore.

To add to today's to do list: look up how to emigrate to a Scandinavian country, or Canada.

The worst-case scenario is that the election is close enough for either side to manipulate. If Hillary wins, then the Democrats will pretend that no hacking happened as the Republican veterans of vote manipulation cry foul. If she loses, the Russians did it because of Trump's connections to Putin and the Mafiya and they both prefer him in office. Either way, the public will have been denied an honest accounting of their voting. TPTB want no trouble over their selection for president.

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is behind the hacking of the DNC computer systems, the various state voting systems--yada, yada, yada.

(The story being that returning lawmakers--both parties--have been briefed, and provided 'evidence' by various Agencies that Russia is behind these breaches. The White House is studying 'what to do about it.')

Further proof that 'the One Percent rules.'

Mollie

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Update: Misty May has been adopted. Yeah!

Trump. The media is pushing this bullshit because freakin' Donald Trump is tied with the best-known, best-financed presidential candidate in history. The Coronation is imperiled by a looney New York real estate developer, and the MSM just can't stand it that the little people have learned Her Majesty has no clothes.