@dkmich

Even though Caitlin Johnstone has no idea I exist--heck, I'm barely aware of it myself--I hope with all my heart that I have "a dispositional inclination toward truth and peace."

I feel I must make a distinction between "Russian wikileaks" and and "black people's twitter." While both are misnomers, I assume that neither Russia nor Assange nor most readers of wikileaks who are not in government's corner would claim there is such a thing as "Russian wikileaks." However, black people do claim that there is such a thing as black twitter (where, btw, the mocking "Bernie so black" meme was first published publicly). So, I would not imply any equivalency between "Russian wikileaks" and "black people's twitter." Both are misnomers, but one (Russian wikileaks) is also a deceptive smear regarding something that does not exist at all, while the other (black people's twitter) is, AFAIK, only the wrong name for something that does exist.

Why is the distinction important? Because government has tried on the past to move against both Assange and wikileaks and, as I listen to some of Comey's testimony this morning, it's very clear to me that government has not given up on this. I cannot emphasize enough: They ehall keep trying to rob wikileaks of its First Amendment protection and, if they succeed, that will open the door for them to move against other non-traditional media located anywhere in the world.

Hillary Lies About North Korea And Syria, Proves She Was The More Hawkish Choice

Well, it’s time to play Hillary whack-a-mole again. Every time she pokes her ghoulish head back out of the woods she spews nothing but pure toxicity, so anyone with a dispositional inclination toward truth and peace needs to work together to smack her back down again. In yesterday’s CNN town hall, hosted by some sycophantic presstitute whose name I can’t be bothered to look up, Clinton spent some time inventing an imaginary organization called “Russian WikiLeaks” (kind of like Black People Twitter, I’m assuming?) and accepting complete and total responsibility for her loss while also blaming it on James Comey, the media, sexism, racism, homophobia, arachnophobia, Youtube star PewDiePie, an obstructionist congress, my teacher hates me and the dog ate my homework.

@thanatokephaloides

What the hell is with a town hall? I thought they were for holders of elected offices sand candidates for elected office. Hillary has held elected office since 2008 and, supposedly, she will never run again. (Next.)

Didn't CNN and ABC both suspend contracts with Disgraceful Donna Brazile (still a DNC employee, btw)for sharing a question with Hillary? http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/roland-martin-cnn-email-d... (Later, Brazile "resigned" from her position with CNN.http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/31/media/donna-brazile-cnn-resignation/ )
So, one woman gets punished for furnishing a question, but the woman who accepted the question and let CNN ask it during the debate gets to be honored with a town hall? Whiskey.Tango.Foxtrot.

To what do we attribute the disparate treatment by CNN. They're both women, so we can rule out misogyny. That leaves racism or plutocrat versus those who must work for a living.

wikihowto has been kind enough to let us know how to contact cnn. http://www.wikihow.com/Contact-CNN I hope anyone who reads this does contact cnn about this injustice.

While you're at it (and I hope you do get at it), contact ABC. I don't think ABC and Brazile have severed ties. I also don't think all George Steph's ties to the Clintons, including donations to the Clinton Foundation, have been disclosed to viewers. http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3068843

..... would be Hillary Clinton making a public statement including the sentence:

"I am retiring from public life effective today...."

No chance of that happening, though!

@CB

a great song by an even greater chanteuse.

I do not regret having voted for Jill Stein in 2012 and in 2016 or formally having Demexited in 2016. I excuse nothing the turd currently occupying the Oval Orifice says or does, or ever said or did. I blame him and Hillary and the DNC and the RNC and everyone who voted for Hillary for handing us a choice between evil and evil. Moreover, I do not think voting for Hillary would have been voting for the lesser evil. She, too, is a neocon. Long term, the greater evil is perpetuating the lie that Americans can, will and must vote only for neocons.

Despite Everything, I Am Happy Hillary Lost

May 2, 2017
...
I didn’t vote for her. Despite everything — despite all the chaos I feel coming — I cite Edith Piaf:

Je ne regrette rien.

...
She didn’t have the right personality to lead human beings. She didn’t deserve to be president. America, and the world, are better off without her.

Which does not mean I’m not scared of Trump.

@snoopydawg

OMG, I love your tag line. On occasion, I've posted that I liked Candidate Obama in 2008 and wish he had become President.

blaming a unfair ruling on the 18th hole for costing her the championship, overlooking her 7 bogies on the back nine...

@detroitmechworks

That explains exactly how I feel about that woman.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEGjLU2egA]

@ggersh

Obviously, everyone but the Clintons is to blame.

Look!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yikpWtIFU8]

her heinous came this close to being president.

I mean how in the fucking world can the "best candidate ever"
lose to donnie tinyhands, oh wait for it

Russia, Putin, Bernie, sexists, misogynists, racists, deplorables
Comey, me, Russia, Putin, Bernie, sexists, misogynists, racists
deplorables, Comey, me, left wing conspiracy theorists, right wing
conspiracy theorists, me.

EDIT: I'm so fucking happy she lost!

@smiley7

Axelrod was campaign manager for Clintonite Deval Patrick in 2002. I researched it once. I don't recall all the details now, but I think I learned then that Patrick was the first African American Governor of a U.S. state since Reconstruction who had not been Lieutenant Governor first. Or something like it. Whatever the exact qualifications, it was a historic election.

And when Axelrod criticizes Hillary, you have to respect that he's at least not one of the Democratic chorus. On the other hand, I suppose some might say he's still pissed about 2008. Then again, with the racist campaign she ran in 2008, who could blame him? I'm still pissed about that, too.

Trump.' Axelrod told CNN on Wednesday. "Let me tell you, he was the least popular presidential candidate to win in the history of polling."

Axelrod called the 2016 race a "miserable slog" and said nobody in America wants to relive it "except the combatants who keep going back to it."

"She has a legitimate beef because Comey's letter was instrumental I think in her defeat, so in a narrow sense she is right about it," Axelrod said.

"But Jim Comey didn't tell her not to campaign in Wisconsin after the convention. Jim Comey didn't say don't put any resources into Michigan until the final week of the campaign," he continued.

"And one of the things that hindered her in the campaign was a sense that she never fully was willing to take responsibility for her mistakes, particularly that server."

Axelrod then offered a piece of advice for Clinton.

"If I were her, if I were advising her, I would say, 'Don't do this. Don't go back and appear as if you're shifting responsibility.' ... She said the words 'I'm responsible,' but the — everything else suggested that she doesn't really feel that way," he said.

"And I don't think that helps her in the long run, so if I were her I would move on."

PS: not a particular fan of Axelrod's, but, he did win, twice.

@blue drop

"left of the left" predicted years before the election.

FWIW, I, too, believe that a deal was made in 2008, in return for the Clintons giving their best efforts to rein back the PUMAs and help elect Obama in 2008 and 2012. Supposedly, the deal was that he'd help her pay off her campaign debts. I was an Obama donor in 2008. Let's just say I donated enough to get two Obama Biden T shirts with requesting anything and three Christmas cards from the Obama White House (though by year 3 I was getting the Xeroxed version). I got ONE email from Obama suggesting I should help Hillary. So he did ONE fundraiser and sent his individual donors ONE email and that mollified Her? As if the Clintons need help raising money anyway. In the words of Bubba in a very different context, "Give me a break. This whole thing's a fairy tale."

Hillary chose to run the State Department off a private server located in her Chappaqua home, or there would have been no investigation of her emails.

There would be no Comey if not for the private server. It would appear that yesterday's Clinton interview was an attempt to preempt Comey's testimony today. Either way, she doesn't come out looking good. The interview was all a blame game from what I've read.

The Democratic Party should never have promised her the next nomination after her loss in 2008. She and the party deserved to lose if they weren't going to be fair about the process. That would be the secondary reduction. There would be no scandal with the DNC if they had had an honest primary.

Trump will be out of office in four years, maybe sooner, compared to eight years of Clinton. I didn't want the Clintons anywhere near the White House again even before Bernie came along. I was going for O'Malley before then. My primary strategy was ABC -- anybody but Clinton.

@MrWebster

Thing is, neither Party offers America much, but at least the Democrats are inclusive and somewhat still pro-choice, though Obama had to invoke his daughters (again) and Hillary seemed willing to give away the store, but for health of the woman. And, they've been getting away with that, plus a foreign policy about which Graham and McCain can but dream, plus austerity that makes Ron Paul envious since the DLC ate the Democratic Party.

The democratic party as it stands today is the same as the Clinton controlled party the day before the election. It is the same party today that since Obama has lost many elections and lost huge parts of the country. The gop controls 25 states holding both governorship and lawmakers. The democrats seven, and four of them are the smallest states in the Union.

Since Trump was inaugurated, the democrats as a party have offered nothing. Perez refuses to take any positions and lawmakers can't even vote nor mouth support for policies which would NOT cause them to lose any votes in their safe districts.

The only way the democrats can win in 2020 is to get an outsized personality like some famous celebrity as the democrats cannot talk policy as all policies are neo-liberal and pro-corporate. Unfortunately, the dems and gopers have put up so many barriers to third parties, will be difficult to move aside the corpse of the party.