Clinton operatives linked to Assange smear

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:48am

It's less than a surprise to see Orange State, a Democratic Party mouthpiece, linked to the Julian Assange smear.
So it should be even less surprising that Larry Summers, an influential, neoliberal advisor in the Clinton campaign, is also linked to the Assange smear.

Internet sleuths from Reddit were able to dig up some information about the dating service pushing the attacks on Assange, finding that the company shares the address with a private intelligence corporation named Premise Data Corporation.
Interestingly, Larry Summers, who is connected to the Clinton Campaign, is on the board of directors of Premise Data Corporation.

Here is the Reddit post that lays out the findings:

As other Redditors point out, the Center for American Progress was founded by Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and was funded by billionaire and pro-Clintonite George Soros.
As we reported yesterday, Fox News had told its audience Tuesday morning that Assange would be arrested “maybe in a matter of hours,” leading to the speculation that there could have been a plot to arrest Assange over the pedophilia accusations.

Internet sleuths connect Clinton to mysterious intelligence contractor associated with Assange false accusations 2 https://t.co/idKuVC1BoD pic.twitter.com/ueX2JKhpOw

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Submitted by bobswern on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:21am

Anyone who's spent any time doing national political media...

...work in this country could smell this bullshit a mile away, when it first appeared. The fact that this was first promoted over at Daily Kos--which receives somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million-plus per year from the DNC/DSCC/DCCC, but refuses to provide any details regarding the specific sources of its financing--really tells us all we needed to needed to know. Their credibility is--and has been for quite some time--truly and totally shot. For more than two or three years, they've been little more than just another neoliberal Hillary PAC. Orange State is to the point where they make even John Podesta's and Neera Tanden's Center for American Progress look good!

Fucking shameless and disgusting!

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Submitted by Cachola on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:26pm

Not even doing media work

Anyone who has been paying some attention. When the Assange rape accusations first came out my son said in his best church lady imitation "How conveeeeeenient."

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Submitted by flowerfarmer on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 2:53pm

Not even 6 degrees of separation

How stupid and desperate is Clinton to underestimate the talent of internet jockeys to unravel this simple slipknot in record time.

She and her gang of hubris driven sociopaths are pathetic.

Submitted by k9disc on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 1:46pm

They Think Money Solves Everything.

They are idiots when it comes to tech and modern society. Complete Morans.

They're paying people to do work for them who "know" how to do it. The guy who contacted Reddit for help securing her server, for instance. The people being paid to do the work are surely aware of their limitations and the limitations and risks involved with doing the work that "their betters" are contracting, or demanding them to do.

It's called Hubris, and the Internet has a way of reducing hubris to farce in rapid fashion.

Hillary and Drumpf don't even know how to internet. Ted Stevens is an IT phenom compared to them. And what makes it worse is they don't care that they are ignorant of such common and bedrock technologies. Any problem can be solved with enough money and institutional propaganda.

This is a main reason they are failing to keep the rabble in check. The Big Lie is collapsing because of this.

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Submitted by Bardot on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 5:23am

So you dont believe one cornspiracy theory.

but are willing to believe the bigger one?? Cool!!!

Submitted by dkmich on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 8:16am

You got a point? Love to hear it.

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Submitted by Alex Ocana on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:37am

Also being discussed at 4Chan

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/93582614#p93582614

When searched for. The ToddandClare business location is actually identical to this company
"Premise Data Corporation"
https://local.yahoo.com/info-135125211-premise-data-corporation-san-fran...

Here you can view its team page
http://www.premise.com/ourteam/

Who's board of directors has guess who
"Larry Summers" Who goes by "Lawrence Summers" in "The Center for American Progress" Superpac
https://www.americanprogress.org/about/staff/summers-lawrence/bio/

Also Affiliated directly with Podesta, as a quick wikileaks search gets
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9829

A summary TO MOMENT:

http://yournewswire.com/reddit-clinton-julian-assange-pedo/

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 2:17pm

Since 4Chan is the birthplace of Anonymous

it's not surprising that they would be all over this.

Submitted by kharma on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:26am

It smelled as soon as I read it.

The big bombs must yet to be dropped for this kind of crappily thought out smear to see the light of day. They must really be worried.

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Submitted by native on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:32pm

Looks like they didn't

cover their tracks very well either. The schemers were not only amoral and vicious, but incompetent as well. Hillary is probably in a back room somewhere, tearing her hair out & giving somebody major shit.

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Submitted by Roy Blakeley on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:56pm

malevolent and incompetent

Pretty much like HRC's foreign policy when she was Secretary of State.

Submitted by Thaumlord-Exelbirth on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 12:11am

Or maybe

there's discussion on what type of "accident" the person who botched it will be facing. Should we keep our eyes and ears pealed for a mysterious death befalling one of the people involved?

Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:37am

I feel a great disturbance in the Force...

as if millions of Hillary-leaning Bernie voters suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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Submitted by duckpin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:40am

When Larry Summers was the chief economist for the World

Bank, he wrote an internal memo that CounterPunch got and published. Summers said, "I've always felt that the under populated countries of Africa are under polluted, their air is vastly inefficient..."

That's what a Harvard education will get you...

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Submitted by fugwb on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:49am

I'd never

wish anything, like death, on anyone. But I sure wish an alien spacecraft would come down and gather people like Summers up, kinda like picking blueberries, and use them for snacks on their long journey through the universe...
...although, they'd probably get the shits....

Submitted by Caerus on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:11pm

Summers wrote that

as a justification for the idea of using that land as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. When confronted, he said something like he was "just thinking out loud" -no intention to really do it, etc. SCUM is too good a word for him.

Never known myself to be a violent person, until now. Never owned a gun, too scared to do anything but SCREAM. Feel a RAGE can't even describe.

Understand why many voting for Donald Trump. Think he's less dangerous. Clintons & all their sycophants need to GO. Be destroyed. That's my first wish, Jill getting a helluva lot more than 5% is my second wish. But getting rid of Clintons is #1.

Submitted by duckpin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:23pm

The chief economist of the World Bank does not "think out loud"

in official internal memos. He meant it. He meant it like using Sierra Blanca county Texas as a repository for nuke waste...Whole landscapes and the populations are just in the way of capitalism's eternal quest for profit.

Agree with you: SCUM; and, I hope the Greens get over 5%.

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Submitted by eyo on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 3:00pm

"an ideological construct"

Piling on with a link, probably others from elsewhere have seen me post it before. I repeat myself:
Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty, big page about a third of the way down is a quote:

In 1991 Larry Summers, then Chief Economist for the World Bank (and US Treasury Secretary, in the Clinton Administration, until George Bush and the Republican party came into power), had been a strong backer of structural adjustment policies. He wrote in an internal memo:

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of dirty industries to the LDCs [less developed countries]?… The economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable, and we should face up to that… Under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted; their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City… The concern over an agent that causes a one in a million change in the odds of prostate cancer is obviously going to be much higher in a country where people survive to get prostate cancer than in a country where under-five mortality is 200 per thousand.

— Lawrence Summers, Let them eat pollution, The Economist, February 8, 1992. Quoted from Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest, (South End Press, 2000) p.65; See also Richard Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (Allyn and Bacon, 1999), pp. 233-236 for a detailed look at this.

When looked at in this light, poverty is more than simple economic issues; it is also an ideological construct. [...]

Good reading over there I think. Thanks a lot.

Peace

Submitted by Caerus on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 3:33pm

Agree with duckpin

that's why I put "" around it. Those were his words to defend himself.

Almost as sickening as when McNamara "apologized" for his role in the Viet Nam war, years and years after the fact. Still makes me sick to think of all of them. SCUM.

Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:24pm

There is also his Harvard time as President

where ho vocally doubted the abilities of women in science fields. Arrogant prick.

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Submitted by boriscleto on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:53pm

He fucked the University

By gambling away its endowment too.

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Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:09pm

Was that before or after the World Bank stint?

Who knew that we would have to do a timeline on Larry Summers. Bull in many china shops?

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Submitted by boriscleto on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 2:13pm

The World Bank was before the Clinton administration

Harvard was after the Clinton administration. He left Harvard before the Great Recession, but the investments he made while President cost the University at least $1.8 billion. By 2008 the University was selling bonds and increasing its debt load. Then Obama hired him...

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Submitted by Ellen North on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 5:54pm

Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:24pm —

Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:24pm — riverlover

There is also his Harvard time as President
where ho vocally doubted the abilities of women in science fields. Arrogant prick.

OMG, he was that guy? No wonder Bernie supporters were magically made misogynists, as well as Young White Racist Males (and sometimes affluent and either educated-elites-in-a-bad-way and sometimes ignorant college students or worse, depending).

I never did wear a bra except for horseback riding, so that part was OK about being turned male, but the jockstrap failed to come with a decorative pink penis and seemed rather pointless. But optics are all, right? That, and 'magic lantern' projection.

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Submitted by Christine.MI on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 8:03am

Words cannot describe...

the disgust I have for this man. Insulting women at Harvard, his mighty hand in ousting Brooksley Born(e) at the Federal level, (Frontline piece), his outstanding dislike for the 99% of this country, and on top of that, his comment on CP. Truly disgusting.

Evil.Scum. If she wins, he'll be in the Cabinet somewhere. I don't advocate violence against/to anyone, but he's on the same level of disgust as Cheney in my opinion, and sometimes I wish the Karma would kick into overdrive and rid the world of people like this.

Submitted by WheninRome on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:46am

Considering how odious Trump

Considering how odious Trump is, Hillary is still having trouble getting a decisive lead.

Then there's all this pearl clutching about how democracy is at risk because........Trump is saying the elections are rigged. How we all have to get along for the sake of the country. Like when was the last time we got along? I seem to remember Rove having a meltdown when RMoney lost, he couldn't believe his version of rigging went awry. And how about all of that rigging to steal the primaries from Bernie? Are we supposed to act like those aren't things?

"Oh, they're stealing democracy".......that's the newest line. If the truth is stealing democracy, then we aren't in a democracy. I hate all of these people. I want to move to the wilderness.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:52am

Thomas Frank on Larry Summers

This quote was was taken from a New York Times book review of Frank's book, "Listen Liberal." I have referenced it several times because it captures the extreme sense of entitlement and arrogance of neo-liberals like Summers.

As proof, he points to the famously impolitic Larry Summers, whose background as a former president of Harvard, former Treasury secretary and former chief economist of the World Bank embodies all that Frank abhors about modern Democrats. “One of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to the way that they’re supposed to be treated,” Summers commented early in the Obama administration.

“Remember, as you let that last sentence slide slowly down your throat, that this was a Democrat saying this,” Frank writes. From this mind-set stems everything that the Democrats have done to betray the masses, from Bill Clinton’s crime bill and welfare reform policies to Obama’s failure to rein in Wall Street, according to Frank.

People like Summers need to be relegated to the trash heap of history. They have done so much damage throughout the world and they really do not care.

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Submitted by duckpin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:27pm

In my view, you don't tinker with capitalism, you replace

capitalism with a system that encourages democracy in the workplace and in planning infrastructure additions; supports a sustainable agriculture; supports earth-friendly energy generation; and recognizes the concept of "enough."

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Submitted by Redstella on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:56pm

Perfectly said. nt

Submitted by duckpin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:30pm

Thanks : )

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Submitted by Alex Ocana on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:42pm

Cornell West and Summers

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/4152/20130807/cornel-west-expla...

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Submitted by Christine.MI on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 8:17am

As if the above CounterPunch quote isn't enough,

you share this comment, gulfgal98.

Calling Karma!!!

Submitted by Bob In Portland on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:52am

But but you can't rig American elections!

So the thing that the Russians were plotting to do a week and a half ago Clinton and the media and the CIA can't do today?

The good thing about propaganda is that the general population cooperates by forgetting what was said yesterday in favor of the new story. The new story is that Hillary is ahead by double digits and the integrity of the election is unchallengeable.

Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:02pm

Somebody wake Larry up when this is over.

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Submitted by kharma on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:39pm

Forgive him

he was up all night trying to figure out how to starve someone.

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Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:02pm

Whilst visions of Honey Pots...

dance in his head.

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Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:07pm

After this week's honey wagon incident with the bus-

yes. Swimming lessons?

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Submitted by dervish on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:35pm

The list of bird-doggers and rat-f@#kers grows

Larry Summers, David Soloff, Scott Foval, Robert Creamer, who's next?

Does anyone know anything about Brad Woodhouse, Foval's boss and former DNC operative? His brother, Dallas is chairman of the Repugs in NC, where the firebomb hit the Rep. party HQ. It all seems too weird.

Nothing is too slimy for these guys.

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Submitted by k9disc on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 2:00pm

The Right and Left Are Being Gaslighted.

Only the people comfy with the Corporate Center are immune.

And I have to say, mass gaslighting of people with guns is dangerous stuff.

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Submitted by dervish on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 2:21pm

We can add another name

Aaron Black aka Aaron Minter is featured in a new video about getting women to be bullied at Trump rallies:

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Submitted by duckpin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:36pm

"Larry Summers strikes me as the Ariel Sharon of higher

education." so said Cornel West who felt compelled to leave his teaching job to get away from Summers.

Summers served as president of Harvard for only five years, the shortest tenure of anyone in over a century. Summers, the arb king, over ruled the people who ran the Harvard endowment and had his investments blow up in his face.

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Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:44pm

Has wikileaks become the only honest broker of the "news"?

How about the info on the TiSA?
TiSA … another trade scam exposed by wikileaks that could pass in the lame duck session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVDJ0i33L0Y (15 min) from the real news

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Submitted by ptressel on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 5:04pm

Wow. TiSA is awful.

Thank you for posting that link, Lookout. That's as bad as the TPP. Have you heard of any actions countering this? Individual contacts to elected officials and individual letters to the editor are good, but may not get noticed, and won't get the word out to the public.

Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:09pm

Hellery running her campaign from "Wag The Dog" script

There are too many events now from the plot line of the movie to continue to think it's coincidence.

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:10pm

Then maybe if Assange really DOES have something it's time to

quit with the talk and the threats and release it.

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Submitted by edg on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:34pm

Why?

You keep saying things like that. Do you have some agenda that wants to push Assange to drop everything he has all at once in mid-October so it's forgotten about by the time the election rolls around? Really, it's hard to understand why you would otherwise be doing this.

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 5:24pm

No one here is powerful enough or important enough to have what

may be referred to as an 'agenda'. Myself included. And you. We're small potatoes here, outside of this community no one cares what we say. What I have is an 'opinion' just like you. And it may be mid-October but some of us can carry an idea in our heads for longer than 24 hours. And discuss it. And pass it on. There will be no political equivalent of the Hail Mary pass with 2 seconds to go and down by 3.

On October 4th Assange said this (that was the last time he was supposed to be releasing devastating news about the election):
"“There’s been a lot of misquoting of me and WikiLeaks publications,” he said. “In this particular case, the misquoting has to do with that we intend, or I intend, to harm Hillary Clinton or that I don’t like Hillary Clinton. All those are false.""

IN THIS ARTICLE from the WP is a video at the top of the page of him saying it.

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Trump fans wake, and wait in vain, for a WikiLeaks ‘October Surprise’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/04/trump...

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After him saying that he really needs to drop his bombs or quit playing everyone. Comes a time to either 'fish or cut bait'. Either he has something or he doesn't and I'm leaning toward the doesn't based on past actions and his statement in that video.

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Submitted by CroneWit on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 9:37pm

This writer searched in vain for any Assange quote saying that

he had 'enough evidence' to get HRC aressted/indicted/convicted. He provides the video that has been purported to be the source of such a statement by Assange, and has done a thorough search of other articles that refer to that purported 'statement by Assange'.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/will-a-wikileaks-email-get-...

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:23pm

People are looking for a last minute 'miracle' from Assange

and it just isn't there. He is not going to turn this election around. And Hellery will (unfortunately for us all) win this freaking election. But this Assange stuff is like Linus in the pumpkin patch. (Good article. I hope more people read it.)

Me, I'm voting for Stein so that I can look at myself in the mirror.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

Submitted by Bisbonian on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:22pm

I already voted for her, yesterday.

Now where is my blanket? It's cold out in that pumpkin patch.

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 11:30pm

We'll send out Sally with a blanket. Hope you packed a lunch. nt

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Submitted by lunachickie on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:33pm

That would only seem to make sense

if Assange was a CIA mole gone rogue. Something about him has tripped my bullshit meter for a long time, but if that's even in the ballpark, then he's dangerous to somebody...

Submitted by Alex Ocana on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:51pm

A thousend pin pricks

This is a war of a thousand pin pricks and which each release the pins become sharper, thicker and more directed. Today for example is this (copied my post in Facebook).

I have been posting elsewhere concerning the Podesta emails, the Clinton run smear campaign against Assange (Wikileaks) and such like. But this one email really pisses me off because some months ago I was attacked for posting that Clinton was still accepting donations from private prisons and private detention centers which are used as slave labor camps for African-Amaricans, Hispanic-Americans and immigrants. I knew months ago she was lying through her teeth and got attacked for calling it.

Well here is the fucking email that proves what I was saying all along on the subject:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21213

"She wants to be able to say: "No, I don't accept donations from private prisons or from ppl who run private prisons." But for her to say that, it has to be true. Meaning that she only accepts money from bundlers who lobby for private prisons -- as well as other groups. Or that there is some disconnect between the lobbyists/bundlers for her, and actual private prison companies."

"Thanks, Sara. Running this through the channels to make sure that we can get something set up on it tonight."

This is slimy shit, and it enrages me. There is plenty to be outraged about in the so far twelve dumps of Podesta E-Mails. But, for goodness sake, don't be fooled by Trump either... the person is either so ignorant in his statements, most of which are plain false, or is a pathological liar on the same scale as the Clintons.

They are both evil corporate police state pieces of garbage. Please, vote for Stein, Johnson or someone else (I prefer Socialist candidates) and register your protest. One of these two are likely to win, but we need to keep them to as minority a vote as possible so they can't claim they have a mandate. We have to get 5% for Green so they are an "official"party next election.

A smoking gun would be ignored by MSM... what we have here are an overwhelming mass of blows... with, if many sources are correct, will lead to the knock out punches.

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Submitted by Steven D on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 1:54pm

There's been a hundred smoking guns,and all have been

dismissed or ignored or the media has played with the Clinton campaign the "shoot the messenger" game.

There really is literally nothing that could come out that will change this election.

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 5:26pm

I agree 100%. Thank you.

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Submitted by lunachickie on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:38pm

I disagree

Her Heinous is, sooner or later, going to piss off the wrong Very Important Person in said media. I say that only because she's managed to piss so many people off, in her desperation. It's a long shot as to any good timing, but I don't think it's an impossible scenario yet...

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 12:02am

She's only got three weeks to go. Her handlers have done a

Frankenstein on her and completely redone her look, clothing, hair, and it looks like they got a grip on her health problem. She seems more cool and collected than she has this entire campaign (IMO a drug-induced calm but I could be full of shit on that one).

She's been disappearing for days at a time and each time she show up again she looks better than she did and acts better too. I would love to know what's going on an where ever it is she goes because her little disappearances have made a world of difference. Now all she has to do is lay low, maintain her cool, and she's got it made.

It would be nice if there was a last minute 'miracle' to save us from Hellery, but it's not going to happen. TPTB have too much invested in her and too much to lose themselves if she fails. I'm not saying the election is rigged because I can't prove it. Do I think it could be? Of course. Look at the Democratic Primary. I'm sure that this will sound terrible, but in a way I hope the Democrats don't retake the House. And the reason for that is (I think) obvious. The Repubs saved us a number of times when Obama wanted to put the screws to us. She's going to be worse. Let's hope they hate her as much as they did old Hopey-Changey.

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Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 1:56pm

Since Johnson has been quoted

Since Johnson has been quoted as supporting the TPP corporate coup, Jill is the only Presidential candidate currently running who supports democracy and the global survival of life on the planet over totalitarian corporate/billionaire power and control on order for the few to literally 'have it all', even though destroying 'it all' (including global oxygen production in the very near future, as within your own/your children's/grandchildren's theoretical lifespans) in the hostile takeover/profit maximization process.

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Submitted by ZimInSeattle on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 2:02pm

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Submitted by MrWebster on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 3:03pm

One thing to remember post election.

One thing to remember for people like Sanders, Warren, and similar voices in Congress on the democrat side, is that this smear machine will probably remain intact after the election. If Hillary wins, I don't think TOP will be anymore open to say criticisms of Clinton's history as an extreme war hawk then they are right now. Establishment dems will support the David Brock's to work at dominating social media and the internet for any message they want to deliver, or to marginalize any group or person.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 3:34pm

Exactly

This isn't going away on November 9.
This is the way it'll be for the next four years, especially on TOP

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 5:25pm

Great point, Mr. Webster

Look at how any criticism of Obama was handled on DK.
He continued almost every one of Bush's policies including expanding PNAC's goals in the Middle East, the spying program which incorporates 800 private companies, extended the patriot act as well as the charter schools programs just to name a few things.
The anti war protesters on DK were told to shut up because Obama is different than Bush.
People are still writing that he has been the best president since FDR even though income inequality is as bad as it was in 1928.
And they say that he's ended two wars and hasn't started any new ones while the Afghanistan war is still going strong, he's sent troops back into Iraq.
Invaded and destroyed Libya on false pretenses and is trying to overthrow Assad again on false pretenses.
People say that they will miss him when he leaves office or wishes that he could run for a third term.
Meanwhile the people in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and God knows how many other countries have had their lives either snuffed out or their country destroyed.
The only difference between him and Bush when it comes to the wars is that less American soldiers have been killed in the line of duty.
Even Bush or Cheney said that they had the right to kill 3 Americans without due process.
No bank CEOs or war criminals have even been charged, but he has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act then all previous presidents.
Most transparent administration ever, my ass!

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 5:29pm

It's a collective cult mentality. nt

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Submitted by dervish on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 3:51pm

Don't forget that he's doubled the national debt as well

That's important because it's how they fund all these crazy wars, on credit. Once the bubble finally bursts, they won't be able to afford a war with Russia, China, Iran, or anyone else.

The sycophants at TOP are pretty tedious. That part is simple though, because as the place restricts more thought and expression, it gets increasingly boring and stupid, and people leave, as they already have, in droves. In ten years we'll barely remember a place called DKos.

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 6:20pm

And happily for Moosie, he'll be able to retire on all the money

that he's fleeced them out of.

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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

Submitted by irishking on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 3:13pm

if the herd holds steady,

they will hold on to win the election. but it does not have to happen.

a whole lot of people are wised up now.

bernie would take the prog. wing of dem party with him today if he went Green.

stein could have 1/5 -1/4 of the vote and it is a new day.

If we fail, it will have been the failure of our progressive "leaders". The people are ready to go.

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 12:07am

I agree about the herd and the outcome. But I am curious

about one thing. The young. Everyone has quit talking about the millennial voters. It's like they all disappeared from view.

What are they thinking? Who are they going to vote for? At one time I read only 15% of Sanders voters were going over to the Dark Side. Where's that number at now? They are an important factor in this election.

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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

Submitted by CambridgePulsar1919 on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 7:04am

They're either staying home,

They're either staying home, or voting Green/Libertarian. I base that on the large number of Millennials I associate with. Only one or two have succumbed to Trump panic and decided to vote $$Hill.

I suspect this country is going to see the greatest generational strife since the Vietnam era.

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 7:41am

I know some will stay home. My 23-year old says he's one of

them. And one of his friends is voting for Johnson. One went to the Dark Side and none of the others seem to know what they are going to do. (they all originally supported Sanders). All of them except the one who;s going with Hellery now say it's not worth it, it doesn't matter even though I try to tell them different, but it seems they REALLY don't care anymore and just get that glazed over look in their eyes. And the topic of the election doesn't seem to interest them anymore either.

I didn't know if this was a particularly 'odd' bunch of millennials or if they are representative of the whole. I wish that the Dem primary hadn't turned out the way it did because they seem to be as jaded as I am about the whole system now, and that's pretty bad because I'm no spring chicken and have been playing the election game for almost 40 years. It doesn't bode well for their participation in the future either, which is what concerns me the most.

Thank you for your reply.

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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

Submitted by CambridgePulsar1919 on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 9:31am

mmm hmmm

Seems many of them have 'got $$Hillary's message' about the value of their participation.

The DNC had better hope and pray that their little coalition is enough to beat back the repigs in the coming elections, because their utter asshole-ishness towards what should have been the future base of their party may cost them, and all of us, very, very dearly.

Submitted by Bardot on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 5:25am

future base of their party???

you mean the 1% that will vote for Jill Stein???

Submitted by lunachickie on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 2:05pm

I lean more toward the idea that

they're going Green or Libertarian--though I know a couple who have bailed. Nowhere near as many as I thought, though. It probably depends on where you live. People in so-called swing states will probably participate a bit more.

Submitted by gustogirl on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 1:16pm

They need to get their smears straight.

It is unlikely a man who has been charged with raping adult women, would want to play naughty with an 8-year-old over the internet.

It was so improbable from the very beginning.

Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 10/21/2016 - 2:03pm

At best, they're trying to

At best, they're trying to find something more disgusting than Bill's so far been caught doing, although so far it seems to be things that are likely to publicly come out about things that he's done.

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Submitted by dervish on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 4:10pm

Soloff and the other perps

desperately need to be indicted. Imagine the social harm they can cause if allowed to run free... who will their next target be? Charges like these destroy lives and families, it's a crime of the most serious order.

What incredible scumbags.

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