The M.O. of the Capitalist Hierarchy of American Political, Business and Journalistic Powers That Be: Commit Crimes And Lie To Get Your Way, Issue Buried Apology or Retraction Later. Donna Brazile Claims Proof HRC Rigged Primary Against Bernie.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 8:59am

Just caught this on Twitter and am compelled to drop it here. In light of "NYC Board Of Elections Admits ILLEGAL Purge Of 200K Progressives (Jimmy Dore Show)" this would seem to be another barnburner in what should amount to a full scale wildfire exposing how deeply corrupt the Democratic Party is. (Read the comments underneath the video on YouTube. Firsthand reminder of just how many people were purposely disenfranchised by the power-blinded Clinton machine).

In a more attuned world these revelations - along with Hillary's embarrassing petulant accusatory tour, the MSM's Russian Red Herring Mania bullshit and Bernie's standing as most popular politician by far - should have the effect of a huge, nonpartisan outcry by the citizenry that our electoral process, with the DNC Primary as Exhibit A, is a massive Lie being perpetrated on the American people. Instead of non-stop freakout over Drumpf, these revelations should be moving us in the direction of examining how we got there in the first place.

But first, the subtext of Brazile's curious admission has me ruminating on the fundamental problem of unbridled Capitalism. On a deeper level it has everything to do with the context of concentrated wealth leading to monopoly (six conglomerate corporations practically dictate everything we see, hear, read, eat and buy), with the ability to pay batteries of lawyers kept on call to obstruct and delay justice and/or to win wars of attrition against lesser-wealthy opponents/enemies. Basically, when you're connected to these kinds of levers of power, you can do whatever you want, almost literally, with full knowledge that there will be some cadre of high-powered lawyers to protect you for being a loyal officer. Just as no cops go to jail, neither do politicians. Or hardly ever. If you're a politician or in the media, just issue an apology or retraction; business as usual.

It's hard to imagine what Brazile has to gain by this; a little-too-late attempt to rehabilitate her credentials to Progressives doesn't quite feel right. The DNC's brazen expunging of Bernie supporters is another surefire sign that the Dems have learned nothing and are doubling down with arrogance and hubris. It's so pathetic to be laughable.

Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.

I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie...

So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.

Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks.

By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.

Jesus, heavy conscience. But after the fact. It's a burdensome game to be affiliated with, when you're dealing with massive power struggles. And "forged"? Attempting to absolve herself from having been caught giving CNN debate questions to $hills? Still, no one has come forth to prove the trove of Wikileaks docs from the DNC were lies.

Got to admit, though it's a weird place to be, it's satisfying to read stuff spilled out from the inside, confirming what we all suspected:

When you have an open contest without an incumbent and competitive primaries, the party comes under the candidate’s control only after the nominee is certain. When I was manager of Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.

I still get a gnawing feeling in my stomach recounting what it felt like to be a voter, two years out from the presidential race, knowing that it's all been decided and you don't matter at all.

In a larger sense, this is what America is and probably always has been.
It's a haven for flagrant abuse of power by the wealthy, who are shielded by the empty promise of the Greatest Democracy In The World™, the lies and propaganda of American Exceptionalism taught in our education system, while we are subliminally conditioned (with the help of advertising) to worship at the altar of the Deity of Capitalism, which without you can't achieve the hallowed birthright of your American Dream. That's the current state of America. Maybe it's always been this way. If it has I don't think it's been to this extent.

Power corrupts absolutely. Capitalism results in concentrated power.

Dopey Fascist Boy Drumpf's entire hollow, overextended, bankruptcy-ridden "empire" is built on this kind of criminal abuse of contractors, employees and developers. He's always operated with tactics of slinging a fusillade of bullshit, lies and false promises in all directions and seeing what sticks. It's his favored mode of uberCapitalism. Then he doesn't pay people, breaks contracts, etc and threatens people to sue him, or gets on the offense and sues them first. Lawsuits are filed indiscriminately, basically warning opponents that they'll get buried if they try to fight. This is also the way the 1% and Corporate America operates. Muck up the works; by fire-hosing the dockets, which also has the effect of preventing legitimate cases involving regular folks ground down in the dehumanizing meat grinder of Capitalism from getting their day in court.

Murdoch's media empire operates similarly. Run with outright lies, spread salacious gossip and ad hominem attacks on enemies, always for the purpose of keeping more eyes on your "product," which then sells more advertising. Issue a retraction or "correction" weeks later in the back pages after the damaging defamation has already gotten traction. Mission accomplished. Which in the end is the only thing that really matters: profit, and using all the tools in your portfolio, to increase your power. Both Murdoch and Trump play wars of attrition in order to beat down lesser-connected opponents.

The NYPD operates in the same way, illustrated in the way they destroyed Occupy Wall St. In the middle of the night the attacked with a literal invasion-style operation (coordinated with DHS, FBI, and Mayors of major cities, read: Domestic Security Alliance). People were beaten, personal property destroyed and blanketing efforts were made to keep the media away. Settle it out of court in the way distant future, as their pack of wolf lawyers kick the can down the road, admit no guilt and resume your fascist ways. Same for victims of murder by police.

It's another aspect of Capitalism that reminds us that it is this economic system, above all, that is the core problem. When people are prone to say it sounds like you're envious of those making money, it's not that at all. I could care less if unfulfilled braggarts want to spend their lives collecting things to impress their colleagues (at that level I don't think many even have true friends). What concerns me most, and is the entire criticism of capitalism, is the power it allows a cabal of criminals to wield on legislation, the justice system and the further concentration of commerce.

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

It's evident that the Democratic Party needs to be destroyed - with the purpose of ultimately dismantling of the Duopoly.

To do that, all those in frenzied meltdown over Trump need to see crystal clear, that the Democrats' deep festering corruption, illustrated in these two scenes this week (which are really only the tip of the iceberg), are what gave us Trump - full stop, 110%.

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Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 6:35pm

Too true

@native @native and that’s the curious part. I’m not sure I get what Brazile’s end game is, though I’m confident there is one. Is she just trying to get out from under the bus and shake the guilt? Is she going to be part of more sheepdogging, as some have suggested? Only thing I’m sure of is, she may be telling the truth now, but I don’t trust her at all.

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Submitted by dervish on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 6:12am

I think she just wants to get on the winning side

@Dr. John Carpenter I think she's hoping that this will redeem her.

It might also be revenge for that time that Hillz called her a "stupid buffalo".

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:23am

From what Jeff Weaver said, sounds like 'sheepdogging' on

@Dr. John Carpenter

the part of Donna Brazile.

Yesterday afternoon we heard two of Bernie's former staffers--Weaver and Symone Sanders--who either praised Donna (for being courageous), or spoke of the need for Party unity so that Dems could take on DT in 2020.

Here's a taste of the interview, in which Jeff Weaver calls Brazile 'courageous.' I'll post the full excerpt when we get back.

BALDWIN: All right, so, as we heard, you guys all, all along there, were raising the alarm bells throughout the campaign.

Did you know the extent of this deal between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC? Did you know the extent of that deal?

WEAVER: I don't think, Brooke, that we knew the full scope of the deal. Certainly, we did not know about the contractual control that the Clinton campaign had over, for instance, DNC hiring and being able to veto certain staff.

But it was certainly clear, however, that back as early as April, when we filed a protest with the DNC that Hillary Clinton and the DNC were engaged in a joint fund-raising agreement that appeared, at least on its face, to be skirting federal election law and was highly improper, given that there was a contested primary going on.

And I think, given that there is, as you may know, a Unity Reform Commission that is comprised of people appointed by Bernie Sanders and appointed by Hillary Clinton that came out of the Democratic National Convention that is now drafting a series of reforms for the party, it is important to move forward and to adopt those reforms to open up the primary process, to deal with superdelegates, to deal with transparency, accountability and democracy at the DNC.

BALDWIN: Sure.

WEAVER: We have got to move forward, Brooke, and we've got to deal with these issues, so we can beat Trump in 2020.

BALDWIN: I hear you on moving forward. But hang on, because we have to talk about what happened.

WEAVER: Sure.

BALDWIN: And Donna Brazile says, yes, while this was difficult news for her to learn, she says this is not -- what they did was not illegal. Do you agree with that?

WEAVER: Well, it's not clear whether it's -- I'm not going to get into the legality of it, but I will say this.

It was quite courageous on Donna Brazile's part to bring these revelations to the public. I'm sure she has fallen off the Christmas card list of a number of people. But she is a courageous woman. And I do know there were some -- obviously a flap during the campaign regarding the debates and what have you. But I'm going to tell you this, that when Donna Brazile took over as interim chair as DNC, she really did try to clean house there. She really did try to make it the type of party structure that all of us can be proud of.

And I have to say that revelations that she raised today I think demonstrate the strength of her character and her willingness to go against the status quo, to make the party ultimately stronger. And that's the job we have ahead of us.

Yikes! Doesn't sound like Donna's in any danger of suffering the ire of the Dem Party Establishment any time soon.

Later, Symone Sanders even went so far as to flatly declare that the election 'was not stolen.'

BTW, I've seen folks mention Warren's comment about 'rigging.' What they fail to mention is that Warren also spoke of the need for Party 'unity,' right after she agreed that some of the DNC actions amounted to 'a fix.'

Bottom line, they all give each other 'cover.' Nothing's going to change. (in regard to the DNC and the Dem Party Leadership/Establishment)

Mollie

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:45am

@Unabashed Liberal Weaver has exactly

@Unabashed Liberal Weaver has exactly no sway with Bernie faithful. To some extent, they blame him for a shitty job and suspect him of being in bed with Hillary's establishment.

Symone Sanders, I dunno.

If Nina Turner comes out and joins the chorus, then they'll fall in line.

#15.1.1

the part of Donna Brazile.

Yesterday afternoon we heard two of Bernie's former staffers--Weaver and Symone Sanders--who either praised Donna (for being courageous), or spoke of the need for Party unity so that Dems could take on DT in 2020.

Here's a taste of the interview, in which Jeff Weaver calls Brazile 'courageous.' I'll post the full excerpt when we get back.

BALDWIN: All right, so, as we heard, you guys all, all along there, were raising the alarm bells throughout the campaign.

Did you know the extent of this deal between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC? Did you know the extent of that deal?

WEAVER: I don't think, Brooke, that we knew the full scope of the deal. Certainly, we did not know about the contractual control that the Clinton campaign had over, for instance, DNC hiring and being able to veto certain staff.

But it was certainly clear, however, that back as early as April, when we filed a protest with the DNC that Hillary Clinton and the DNC were engaged in a joint fund-raising agreement that appeared, at least on its face, to be skirting federal election law and was highly improper, given that there was a contested primary going on.

And I think, given that there is, as you may know, a Unity Reform Commission that is comprised of people appointed by Bernie Sanders and appointed by Hillary Clinton that came out of the Democratic National Convention that is now drafting a series of reforms for the party, it is important to move forward and to adopt those reforms to open up the primary process, to deal with superdelegates, to deal with transparency, accountability and democracy at the DNC.

BALDWIN: Sure.

WEAVER: We have got to move forward, Brooke, and we've got to deal with these issues, so we can beat Trump in 2020.

BALDWIN: I hear you on moving forward. But hang on, because we have to talk about what happened.

WEAVER: Sure.

BALDWIN: And Donna Brazile says, yes, while this was difficult news for her to learn, she says this is not -- what they did was not illegal. Do you agree with that?

WEAVER: Well, it's not clear whether it's -- I'm not going to get into the legality of it, but I will say this.

It was quite courageous on Donna Brazile's part to bring these revelations to the public. I'm sure she has fallen off the Christmas card list of a number of people. But she is a courageous woman. And I do know there were some -- obviously a flap during the campaign regarding the debates and what have you. But I'm going to tell you this, that when Donna Brazile took over as interim chair as DNC, she really did try to clean house there. She really did try to make it the type of party structure that all of us can be proud of.

And I have to say that revelations that she raised today I think demonstrate the strength of her character and her willingness to go against the status quo, to make the party ultimately stronger. And that's the job we have ahead of us.

Yikes! Doesn't sound like Donna's in any danger of suffering the ire of the Dem Party Establishment any time soon.

Later, Symone Sanders even went so far as to flatly declare that the election 'was not stolen.'

BTW, I've seen folks mention Warren's comment about 'rigging.' What they fail to mention is that Warren also spoke of the need for Party 'unity,' right after she agreed that some of the DNC actions amounted to 'a fix.'

Bottom line, they all give each other 'cover.' Nothing's going to change. (in regard to the DNC and the Dem Party Leadership/Establishment)

Mollie

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures--they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive."--Gilda Radner

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

Fences For Fido

When a dog is unchained, a transformation begins.

It starts with what we call “zoomies:” The running, jumping, exuberant joy our Fidos display once unchained – many for the first time in years.

That visible happiness puts smiles on the faces of our volunteers and most importantly, on the faces of our client families who through this process being to connect with their pets in a more meaningful way.

Meet 'Cupcake' - FFF's 1000th Zoomy!

[video:https://youtu.be/wmTPDjXW8gE width:250 height:150]

Thank You 'Fences For Fido' Volunteers - You Are All Saints!

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:31am

Hi, CStMS! Agree with all your points. Folks

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

probably know that Turner is a CNN contributor--has been for a year or two. So, it's not difficult to ferret out her stances on a lot of topics. Soon, I should be able to find and post a transcript of her discussion (on this topic) with Hillary Rosen. Honestly, since I was pretty busy during the segment, I didn't catch enough of the discussion to accurately quote either of them--so I'll leave it alone. For now.

Mollie

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures--they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive."--Gilda Radner

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by eyo on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:01am

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@Unabashed Liberal Just quoting their page, everyone knows the address.

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Paying for lobbyists with dark money is what I don't like. I just don't like the idea of lobbying, it is corruption plain and simple. I don't think trading favors for money is democratic.

http://www.nj.com/helpinghands/nonprofitknowhow/index.ssf/2008/07/the_difference_between_501c3_a.html

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In regards to supporting these organizations, donations made to 501(c)(3) organizations are deductible to the full extent of the law as charitable contributions. Donations made to 501(c)(4) organizations are not deductible, though some businesses who make these contributions often write them off as advertising or business expenses. (Please consult your accountant.)

feel the bern

#15.1.1

the part of Donna Brazile.

Yesterday afternoon we heard two of Bernie's former staffers--Weaver and Symone Sanders--who either praised Donna (for being courageous), or spoke of the need for Party unity so that Dems could take on DT in 2020.

Here's a taste of the interview, in which Jeff Weaver calls Brazile 'courageous.' I'll post the full excerpt when we get back.

BALDWIN: All right, so, as we heard, you guys all, all along there, were raising the alarm bells throughout the campaign.

Did you know the extent of this deal between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC? Did you know the extent of that deal?

WEAVER: I don't think, Brooke, that we knew the full scope of the deal. Certainly, we did not know about the contractual control that the Clinton campaign had over, for instance, DNC hiring and being able to veto certain staff.

But it was certainly clear, however, that back as early as April, when we filed a protest with the DNC that Hillary Clinton and the DNC were engaged in a joint fund-raising agreement that appeared, at least on its face, to be skirting federal election law and was highly improper, given that there was a contested primary going on.

And I think, given that there is, as you may know, a Unity Reform Commission that is comprised of people appointed by Bernie Sanders and appointed by Hillary Clinton that came out of the Democratic National Convention that is now drafting a series of reforms for the party, it is important to move forward and to adopt those reforms to open up the primary process, to deal with superdelegates, to deal with transparency, accountability and democracy at the DNC.

BALDWIN: Sure.

WEAVER: We have got to move forward, Brooke, and we've got to deal with these issues, so we can beat Trump in 2020.

BALDWIN: I hear you on moving forward. But hang on, because we have to talk about what happened.

WEAVER: Sure.

BALDWIN: And Donna Brazile says, yes, while this was difficult news for her to learn, she says this is not -- what they did was not illegal. Do you agree with that?

WEAVER: Well, it's not clear whether it's -- I'm not going to get into the legality of it, but I will say this.

It was quite courageous on Donna Brazile's part to bring these revelations to the public. I'm sure she has fallen off the Christmas card list of a number of people. But she is a courageous woman. And I do know there were some -- obviously a flap during the campaign regarding the debates and what have you. But I'm going to tell you this, that when Donna Brazile took over as interim chair as DNC, she really did try to clean house there. She really did try to make it the type of party structure that all of us can be proud of.

And I have to say that revelations that she raised today I think demonstrate the strength of her character and her willingness to go against the status quo, to make the party ultimately stronger. And that's the job we have ahead of us.

Yikes! Doesn't sound like Donna's in any danger of suffering the ire of the Dem Party Establishment any time soon.

Later, Symone Sanders even went so far as to flatly declare that the election 'was not stolen.'

BTW, I've seen folks mention Warren's comment about 'rigging.' What they fail to mention is that Warren also spoke of the need for Party 'unity,' right after she agreed that some of the DNC actions amounted to 'a fix.'

Bottom line, they all give each other 'cover.' Nothing's going to change. (in regard to the DNC and the Dem Party Leadership/Establishment)

Mollie

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures--they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive."--Gilda Radner

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

Fences For Fido

When a dog is unchained, a transformation begins.

It starts with what we call “zoomies:” The running, jumping, exuberant joy our Fidos display once unchained – many for the first time in years.

That visible happiness puts smiles on the faces of our volunteers and most importantly, on the faces of our client families who through this process being to connect with their pets in a more meaningful way.

Meet 'Cupcake' - FFF's 1000th Zoomy!

[video:https://youtu.be/wmTPDjXW8gE width:250 height:150]

Thank You 'Fences For Fido' Volunteers - You Are All Saints!

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:54am

You nailed it, Eyo. I'm thinking that

@eyo

the 501C issue was one reason that Weaver ended up stepping down (or being replaced).

Hope everything's back to normal now, for you and your neighbors.

Mollie

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Submitted by eyo on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 10:19am

We are back to twice as normal now

@Unabashed Liberal thanks, y'all know all my crankiness comes from poverty and homelessness in the midst of obscene wealth, right? It is "my issue". I have a lot of issues, take salt grain.
Santa Rosa underpass homeless camp grows in wake of fires

The grubby bivouac of tents and bedrolls under Highway 101 that confounded neighbors and city officials before the Oct. 8 blaze has nearly doubled in size, with new arrivals spilling into the street and the adjacent Fifth Street underpass.

Like residents from Fountaingrove to Coffey Park who had to flee the flames, many homeless people said they were forced out in the middle of the night with no place to go. Some joined evacuees in area shelters while others plopped down on the sidewalk where they remain three weeks later.

“Everybody was affected by the fires whether they are homeless or not,” said Iraheta, 28, who spent the first 10 days after the Tubbs fire in a Red Cross shelter at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. “They amplified the chaos.”

Wait, who is amplifying chaos?

Cloverdale officer rolled her cruiser responding to a prank burglary call

A Cloverdale police officer was injured late Wednesday after her patrol cruiser crashed into a curb and rolled onto its roof, trapping her inside.

Officer Katie Vanoni was responding to a burglary call when the crash happened at 11 p.m., Cloverdale acting police chief Chris Parker said in a statement. The call turned out to be a prank.

Vanoni was pulled out of the cruiser by another officer who was on his way to the call on Buckeye Circle. He rendered medical aid until firefighters and medics arrived and took Vanoni to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, Parker said.

eXperience eXtreme over reaction by Cloverdale cops, includes capital punishment for snooping with a hammer in the dark. Do not make them afraid, that is the message. They are afraid of everything, signal received.

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:21am

Blowing the whistle while it’s happening is courage

@Unabashed Liberal waiting until after the damage is done and feigning guilt is not. I’m inclined to believe sheepdogging afoot, but I guess we’ll see who takes the bait.

#15.1.1

the part of Donna Brazile.

Yesterday afternoon we heard two of Bernie's former staffers--Weaver and Symone Sanders--who either praised Donna (for being courageous), or spoke of the need for Party unity so that Dems could take on DT in 2020.

Here's a taste of the interview, in which Jeff Weaver calls Brazile 'courageous.' I'll post the full excerpt when we get back.

BALDWIN: All right, so, as we heard, you guys all, all along there, were raising the alarm bells throughout the campaign.

Did you know the extent of this deal between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC? Did you know the extent of that deal?

WEAVER: I don't think, Brooke, that we knew the full scope of the deal. Certainly, we did not know about the contractual control that the Clinton campaign had over, for instance, DNC hiring and being able to veto certain staff.

But it was certainly clear, however, that back as early as April, when we filed a protest with the DNC that Hillary Clinton and the DNC were engaged in a joint fund-raising agreement that appeared, at least on its face, to be skirting federal election law and was highly improper, given that there was a contested primary going on.

And I think, given that there is, as you may know, a Unity Reform Commission that is comprised of people appointed by Bernie Sanders and appointed by Hillary Clinton that came out of the Democratic National Convention that is now drafting a series of reforms for the party, it is important to move forward and to adopt those reforms to open up the primary process, to deal with superdelegates, to deal with transparency, accountability and democracy at the DNC.

BALDWIN: Sure.

WEAVER: We have got to move forward, Brooke, and we've got to deal with these issues, so we can beat Trump in 2020.

BALDWIN: I hear you on moving forward. But hang on, because we have to talk about what happened.

WEAVER: Sure.

BALDWIN: And Donna Brazile says, yes, while this was difficult news for her to learn, she says this is not -- what they did was not illegal. Do you agree with that?

WEAVER: Well, it's not clear whether it's -- I'm not going to get into the legality of it, but I will say this.

It was quite courageous on Donna Brazile's part to bring these revelations to the public. I'm sure she has fallen off the Christmas card list of a number of people. But she is a courageous woman. And I do know there were some -- obviously a flap during the campaign regarding the debates and what have you. But I'm going to tell you this, that when Donna Brazile took over as interim chair as DNC, she really did try to clean house there. She really did try to make it the type of party structure that all of us can be proud of.

And I have to say that revelations that she raised today I think demonstrate the strength of her character and her willingness to go against the status quo, to make the party ultimately stronger. And that's the job we have ahead of us.

Yikes! Doesn't sound like Donna's in any danger of suffering the ire of the Dem Party Establishment any time soon.

Later, Symone Sanders even went so far as to flatly declare that the election 'was not stolen.'

BTW, I've seen folks mention Warren's comment about 'rigging.' What they fail to mention is that Warren also spoke of the need for Party 'unity,' right after she agreed that some of the DNC actions amounted to 'a fix.'

Bottom line, they all give each other 'cover.' Nothing's going to change. (in regard to the DNC and the Dem Party Leadership/Establishment)

Mollie

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures--they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive."--Gilda Radner

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."--Will Rogers

Fences For Fido

When a dog is unchained, a transformation begins.

It starts with what we call “zoomies:” The running, jumping, exuberant joy our Fidos display once unchained – many for the first time in years.

That visible happiness puts smiles on the faces of our volunteers and most importantly, on the faces of our client families who through this process being to connect with their pets in a more meaningful way.

Meet 'Cupcake' - FFF's 1000th Zoomy!

[video:https://youtu.be/wmTPDjXW8gE width:250 height:150]

Thank You 'Fences For Fido' Volunteers - You Are All Saints!

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 10:00am

Well put, Dr JC; and, yes, time will tell. EOM

@Dr. John Carpenter

Mollie

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:47pm

@Dr. John Carpenter Wrapped up like a deuce,

@Dr. John Carpenter Wrapped up like a deuce, another roller in the night!

Love, Go-Cart Mozart

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Timmethy2.0 on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 3:14pm

Hard to see how Brazile discovered the rigging in September 2016

When she participated in rigging the nomination by giving Hillary debate questions quite a few months earlier than that.

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Beware the bullshit factories.

Submitted by lotlizard on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 3:33pm

Donna Brazile’s “Captain Renault” moment

@Timmethy2.0

I'm shocked, shocked to find that primary rigging is going on in here!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME]

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:49pm

@Timmethy2.0 Well, of course she knew

@Timmethy2.0 Well, of course she knew about it. She was participating in it!

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 5:05pm

Donna Brazile's confessions might be,

in their small minds, the key to bringing the progressives back. "Oh, look - they're not as bad as we thought, now! They are admitting that her heinous and DWS were the corruption that is gone now! And look at Donna - she's got the courage to tell the truth! after having lied about giving her heinous the questions! She's a straight-up gal and we need to swarm back to the DNC and start contributing!"

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by FuturePassed on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 5:57pm

Is it possible that this is Hillary's pink slip?

I haven't persuaded myself, but I can't get the idea out of my head so I bring the idea here for comments.Feel free to rip it apart.

Maybe Brazile's comments have nothing to do with the DNC, Bernie or progressives. In Hillary's book and "I accept responsibility for being too nice to call critics and traitors out" tour, maybe she threw too many people under the bus. Not only did she toss the DNC. She threw St. Barack and Uncle Joe under the bus too. When you throw Obama and Biden under the bus the resulting bumps are big enough to throw the bus's wheels out of alignment.

Maybe this is establishment Democrats' way of telling her to cut it out.

Of course if it looks like there's an indictment in her future that could explain it too.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 6:39pm

I wish this was what is happening

@FuturePassed

but I doubt it because the Clintons are still involved with the DP. They and Obama are involved with her new America something PAC and they do not want the DP to move too far to the left. If Hillary is definitely not running again and Obama can't, then What Difference Does It Make what the democrats do?
And we've seen that they will not move to the left even if it means that they keep losing seats.
They are still backing crappy candidates or still allowing republicans to run unopposed.
They lost over a thousand seats in 8 years and still they will not admit they need to change anything.
Pelosi said this right after the election.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 10:08pm

No, that is not what gave us Trump, sorry to disagree.

This political system gave us Trump, not the democrats, not Clinton.
I think the Berniebots need to get over it and understand what the real problem is.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:49am

@Big Al Saying it's our

@Big Al Saying it's our political system, not the Democrats or Hillary Clinton, to blame--that's like saying "the problem is with my body, not my arm or my forearm."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:12am

It's a viewpoint held by many Bernie wing

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal @Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal supporters to counter the Clinton wing in their fucking blame game. A myopic view dependent on the duopoly system. It's like saying if only the dems had nominated Bernie Sanders (and weren't so corrupted, etc.), Trump would not have won.
It appears this game will go on until the next election. I'm afraid I'm about ready to sit that out.

Submitted by FuturePassed on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 1:08pm

I often wonder . . .

@Big Al
what you think you accomplish by sitting it out. I guess you save the gas you'd use going to and from the polling place. I may leave a lot of blank spaces or inset a lot of write ins, but I'll be there.

I think the work many people of modest means put in to expose the corruption in the Democratic primary is commendable. Only a GOS front pager could deny it now.

Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 2:56pm

Sitting out criticizing the dem party, or

@FuturePassed sitting out voting for the dem party? It's not like we don't already know enough about the duopoly political system. Like I said, this is nothing but a continuing squabble among two factions.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:52pm

@Big Al About ready? Damn, I

@Big Al About ready? Damn, I'm more than ready. I'm not voting again. Nor is anyone in my family.
I only voted last time because I thought I saw an honest man holding out his hand while standing up for decency and kindness. I couldn't leave him hanging, no matter how crappy his strategy was. I didn't expect him to get anywhere, but he was standing up for what was right, and I met him halfway. Well, we see how that went.

They can keep campaigning, but I'm not voting.

And it seems they will keep campaigning forevermore. No more off seasons for elections, anymore than there are offseasons for war, anymore.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:44pm

Actually I'm talking about this incessant focus

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal on the democratic party and how Bernie was shafted. Since Sanders is still a possible candidate in 2020, there is going to be no end on this blog. I'll have to pass on that.
As far as voting for the duopoly, you know my stance on that.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sat, 11/04/2017 - 11:23am

@Big Al I would like the

@Big Al I would like the focus of this blog to be broader, yes. A bit less focused on the Democratic party, yes. Mainly because there's other things we should be talking about, assuming we want to keep talking to each other, or do anything else.

That doesn't mean I need people to stop talking about the Democratic party. I just wish that essays not about the Democratic party could get more traction. Of course, your essays aren't about the Democratic party, and they always get plenty of traction. It's really action diaries that suffer, but that is hardly a phenomenon unique to this blog.

People generally come onto political blogs to talk and think, not to plan or act, and the grim conditions we inhabit aren't likely to encourage a change in that pattern.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:56am

You're a lot kinder than I am, Mark.

Brazile's crocodile tears don't impress me. This revelation strikes me as somebody saying "Well, it's going to come out sooner or later, so let's make sure we control the story."

A few choice tidbits:

cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers

Remember Russia bad. Russia hurt DNC. Bad Russia. It wasn't anybody from the inside or anything like that.

But who knew if some of them might have been forged??

Doubt creation, even at this late date. And, by the way, Bad Russia. Bad hackers.

Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.

I'm Black. Remember I'm Black. Hear the gospel music? I can't really be or do anything immoral. I'm one of the good guys, no matter what I do.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by eyo on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:35am

and a Persecuted Christian

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal Remember? Why yes, yes I do remember when she flat out lied to national media, and national media didn't even blink an eye, just kept going.

This is all helping her, we are tools making buzz for her public relations team, as intended.

With a New Book Creating Major Buzz, Donna Brazile Will Receive Legacy Award at the 2018 Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit

The political guru will be one of the headliners at the summit

"exclusive shopping excursions, and much more."

go away donna

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:32pm

@eyo Don't remind me...she

@eyo Don't remind me...she's going to be a mere 2 1/2 hours away from me. Eew.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Dark UltraValia on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 12:19pm

I'm Black too

so turn up the Black Sabbath and Living Colour to 11!

And that's just for starters.

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

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Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:31pm

@Dark UltraValia

@Dark UltraValia 6c5969f91921408267d249525f2f6d9b--farm-boys-the-princess-bride.jpg

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:58am

A regular Carl Bernstein, this one.

So I followed the money.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:02am

My predecessor, Florida Rep.

My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising

It's all Debbie's fault. Y'all hate Debbie, I know you do. Let's hate her together and forget about anybody else who might be to blame.

at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt.

Oh, and it's Barack's fault too.

[By the way, doesn't this implication that Obama did something wrong make Donna Brazile a racist? I thought that was how that worked. It's certainly how it's worked for everyone else not named Clinton.]

As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet.

Because that sounds better than what she actually did, which was use the party as a venue for money laundering.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 12:38pm

Attacking Barack is merely

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal good Triangulation. Attack your friends and people will know where you stand, paraphrasing a remark written about by Carl Bernstein attributed to the Shills.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:34pm

@lizzyh7 Not sure. There seems

@lizzyh7 Not sure. There seems to be a struggle going on over whether Hillary or Barack is going to be the fall guy here.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:06am

Oh, for Pete's sake.

When you have an open contest without an incumbent and competitive primaries, the party comes under the candidate’s control only after the nominee is certain. When I was manager of Gore’s campaign in 2000, we started inserting our people into the DNC in June. This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.

The party has been under that candidate's control (more or less) for twenty-five years or more. She's a Clinton. Just like the Republican party is under Bush control, though in that case I'm guessing W was less in control than his dad and his dad's friends. But the Clinton faction controls the Democratic party, and has since at least 1994; the Bush faction controls the Republican party and has since the 80s.

Stop talking like this is some kind of democracy, Donna, with rules and stuff that apply to everybody.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by eyo on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 9:51am

"When I was manager of Gore’s campaign in 2000"

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal "I became quite versed in how one group steals an election, and the other group immediately turns around to cash in and support them." Hire me!

Telegraphing her loser experience. Now she is on the DNC Executive Rules Committee. I swear this story writes itself.

nanowrimo

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:10am

Remember the chair-throwing in Nevada?

Run with outright lies, spread salacious gossip and ad hominem attacks on enemies, always for the purpose of keeping more eyes on your "product," which then sells more advertising. Issue a retraction or "correction" weeks later in the back pages after the damaging defamation has already gotten traction. Mission accomplished.

I was told on Twitter by a Hillary supporter "It doesn't matter what the truth is. The story's out there now."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 8:11am

all those in frenzied

all those in frenzied meltdown over Trump need to see crystal clear, that the Democrats' deep festering corruption, illustrated in these two scenes this week (which are really only the tip of the iceberg), are what gave us Trump - full stop, 110%.

Bingo.

Good essay, Mark.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by glitterscale on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 4:40pm

The one question I have is

why did Donna do it? She will be pilloried and few even on Bernie's side will be kind.

Yeah capitalism needs to go. It has no place good to go here and has no interest in achieving anything good. It relies on growth and at some point growth becomes cancerous. More and more it relies on lies. More and more it relies on slave labor. It is literally eating us out from the middle. We don't seem to be able to regulate it in any of its myriad forms.

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glitterscale

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 7:35pm

@glitterscale Hi, glitterscale! Great

@glitterscale Hi, glitterscale! Great to "see" you!

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

The M.O. of the Capitalist Hierarchy of American Political, Business and Journalistic Powers That Be: Commit Crimes And Lie To Get Your Way, Issue Buried Apology or Retraction Later. Donna Brazile Claims Proof HRC Rigged Primary Against Bernie.

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