It's time to talk about Mayor Pete

Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:06pm

Sometimes there are simply too many coincidences.

The thing about a victory speech, generally, is that it requires a victory. But when this year’s Iowa caucus didn’t quickly produce one, Pete Buttigieg claimed the win as his anyway...
An irony of Buttigieg’s victory speech is that in the days leading up to the caucus, his campaign staffers warned reporters not to fall for the Sanders campaign trying to claim victory out of early results. But by the time Buttigieg landed in New Hampshire after the caucus, in the middle of the night, his campaign was the one out on a limb, hoping that by the time the state Democratic Party sorts out what’s going on, he’ll have come in first, or at least second.

The thing about audacity is that if something suspicious is going on, people will think that you did it.
Let's also not overlook the fact that Mayor Pete managed to spike the last poll that showed Bernie kicking his a**.

The question is "Is this konspiracy theory of real?"

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:12pm

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Submitted by brae-70 on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:43pm

@gjohnsit We have a correction on that story, Wolf. She broke in to a Staples and threw office furniture.

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Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:04pm

@brae-70 Maybe she can challenge the other candidates to a furniture toss? Farthest throw is declared winner of Iowa! Biden certainly seems up for the physical challenge, at least when he's talking to potential voters.

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Submitted by Shahryar on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:13pm
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in his "11 takeaways" article he writes

5) The biggest asshole of the night was small-liberal-college-town Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who gave a victory speech utterly divorced from the reality on the ground. His pretend “I won and shocked the nation” speech was everything we hate about politics—a Trumpian attempt to create reality by merely declaring it so.

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Submitted by WaterLily on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:19pm
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@Shahryar

everything we hate about politics—a Trumpian attempt to create reality by merely declaring it so

Except totally not when Hillary does it, because ohmygawd, it's her turn!

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Submitted by JCWeb on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:58pm

@Shahryar Even a broken clock is right twice a day or, as some have noted, even a blind squirrel can find an acorn now and then.

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Submitted by CalvinV on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 5:28pm
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@Shahryar They deleted my comment
I have not visited that establishment shithole for nearly 4 years. Just out of curiosity (and since Hillary's campaign is very dead now) I looked around today and could only find establishment crap over there. All the good writers are gone.
One particularly annoying post criticized Bernie Sander's surrogate (they meant Nina Turner) for calling Bloomberg an oligarch. They claim Bloomberg is a democracy-supporting Democrat who might even help a socialist in the general election (yes, like it's happening).
When I responded with the correct definition of an oligarch. and pointed out the fact that the Biden's camp also criticized Bloomberg as yet another New York (but richer) billionaire and Elizabeth Warren called Bloomberg's approach "dangerous to our democracy" they evaded addressing Biden and Warren and instead tried to find other faults with Nina Turner (as ex-director of Our Revolution) and that Bernie Sanders also belongs to the 1%.
I responded to those two replies very courteously but they deleted the entire exchange from the web site.
TOP is very sick now.

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Submitted by wouldsman on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:19pm

reminds me so much of Clintonites who remind me, every other sentence, that HRC won the popular vote. Nice symbolic non victory victory you got there Cheatin Pete.

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Submitted by Alphalop on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:02pm
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@wouldsman @wouldsman That and "Impeached forever no matter what!" "Impotus" and all the other silly nicknames they toss around have to be the most annoyingly dumb stuff ever. It causes my brain to want to vomit.

I've been detached from politics mostly for at least a year and has it really just continued to devolve into a middle school playground?

I knew something was gonna happen though when the first couple caucuses shown on CNN showed Bernie winning by margins around the 20 point range higher than 2nd place.

I certainly hope Sanders voters have such an internal tracking app.

We need to keep eyes on these crooks every second, they can be trusted less than my Zoe with a steak on a TV tray. (Don't ask me how I know...)

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Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:28pm

From CIA Pete.

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Submitted by Bisbonian on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:46pm
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@humphrey , a friend of mine posted a statement that Juan Guaido was the winner of the Iowa Caucus.

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Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:30pm

Hmm, the company counting the votes is run by a Mayo Pete supporter. Pete's campaign has a financial hook into same company. Pete declares victory with 0% reported, beating the polling. Seems like I've heard this story before.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:43pm

@Dr. John Carpenter
Not to mention how Shadow's CEO was behind the dark money attack ads on Bernie.
It's almost enough to make people ask questions.

BTW, Nevada's caucus will be using the same app.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:38pm
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"McKinsey Man Makes Good."

Details to follow.....

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:40pm

A mere coincidence I suppose?

Tara has such great roots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McGowan

Career
McGowan began her career as a journalist, working on the CBS program 60 Minutes.[1][2] After covering the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, she left journalism to become a press secretary to United States Senator Jack Reed.[3] During the 2012 United States presidential election, McGowan was the digital producer for Barack Obama's re-election campaign.[4]

In 2016, McGowan directed the $42 million digital advertising branch of Priorities USA Action.[5] This was the largest ever ad campaign by the largest Super PAC aligned with the Democratic Party.[6]

In 2017, McGowan launched the political strategy firm Lockwood Strategy, which Campaigns and Elections magazine identified as a crucial force in Democratic Party victories in the 2017 Virginia elections

ACRONYM
One month after founding Lockwood Strategy,[3] McGowan co-founded the digital advertising organisation ACRONYM with Michael Dubin.

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Submitted by Emmet on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:50pm

They paid $50,000 for it but they have seen the light.

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Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 1:52pm

@Emmet Since Iowa caused the APP to be exposed.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:04pm

@Emmet
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Is that the good 50% or the bad 50%?

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Submitted by Bisbonian on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:48pm
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@gjohnsit , need to know.

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Submitted by ChezJfrey on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:06pm

but it's relevant to this as well, RE SHADOW:

http://www.clarmond.co.uk/ewExternalFiles/Election%20Special%20-%20The%2...

Well it does not take much digging. The Democratic party were using an ‘App’ to count the votes; you cannot make it up but the tech company creating the app is called SHADOW, a name generally given to a Bond villain. To add to this Bondness, SHADOW is owned by another group called ACRONYM, whose CEO is Tara McGowan, Obama’s digital strategist. Gerard Niemira, who worked on Hilary’s 2016 campaign is CEO of SHADOW and finally David Plouffe, Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, sits on the board of ACRONYM. Additionally, the Buttigeg and Biden campaigns paid SHADOW for work done. Strange coincidences indeed.This sleuthing took me all of 20 minutes when you asked me to see what the heck happened in the Iowa cornfields. There are two explanations: it is a conspiracy of the Washington Consensus cabal denying Bernie a clean win and essentially muddying the waters...or it is total and utter incompetence of bringing an untested, non-transparent technology into the democratic process.

https://twitter.com/taraemcg/status/1085980913467564033?lang=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McGowan
https://www.anotheracronym.org/blog/
https://shadowinc.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-niemira-aaa9b73

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Submitted by brae-70 on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:19pm

I have a concern, though. What if Trump wants to join in and throw the desk fron the Oval Office?

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:20pm
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had a hand in the creation/use of the app exposes his victory speech for what it was. He knew the app would make him victorious. When it failed, he didn’t realize it failed and thought it would come through in a matter of minutes maybe an hour. He is caught red-throated.

Mayo Cheat! Mayo Cheat! Go Team! Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
Pleasantry

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Submitted by i dunno on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:23pm

I think the candidate most hurt by the lack of prompt returns is Buttigieg. If he actually finished second, and it seems likely he did, that is huge for him and would have helped create momentum going into NH.

Sure, it would have helped Bernie too, but he was expected to win. And Bernie will win NH next week.

I expected Buttigieg to do well because it seemed likely that Biden would not be viable in many places.

The candidate helped most, of course, is Biden. He can pretend that Iowa and his disastrous showing never happened.

Anyway, if I am looking for a suspect to have engineered this, I would look to Biden's camp.

FWIW, I am a Bernie supporter and have been for a long time. There are no circumstances I can imagine where I would vote for Boot or Biden. If Boot did this, he hurt himself.

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Submitted by lizzyh7 on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:36pm

@i dunno Well, the Democratic party is chock full of candidates who hurt themselves with dumb unforced errors, so he fits right in with the rest of that corrupted swamp, doesn't he? Although I will say personally I do not for one hot minute think these people are truly incompetent and I do think outright cheating is their preferred way to "win." They aren't going to hide anymore, their corruption is now on full display for anyone paying even the tiniest bit of attention, but ascribing it to incompetence perhaps makes it a bit easier to swallow. After all, this is America, surely our elections are above board and it's only stupidity that Democrats just cant seem to pull out that win?

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:00pm

@i dunno

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:00pm
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@The Voice In the Wilderness
that's just so fkn true!

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Submitted by ggersh on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 2:56pm
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Sega if he was losing

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/02/iowa-caucus-results-disaster-pete-but...

“Mayor Pete Was the Kinda Kid Who Unplugged the Sega If He Was Losing.”

The Iowa Caucus was a clusterfuck. Yes, the UN should be called. Jimmy Carter should have to certify this election. I can’t think of a bigger endorsement of “political revolution” than last night’s clusterfuck in Iowa.

It’s hard to tell where incompetence ends and corruption begins. Or if there’s really any difference. Incompetence, in this instance, is functioning like a fifty-foot shit-heap upon which Mayor Pete is more than happy to scale and plant his flag.

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Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:27pm

Could this be part of the reason for the long delay?

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Submitted by Steven D on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:33pm
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Meanwhile Centrist Twitter is going off on how everyone on the Sanders' campaign staff is a Russian asset. I kid you not.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:44pm

@Steven D

everyone on the Sanders' campaign staff is a Russian asset

That's because it's true.
In other news, the Soviet Union never fell. They've just been hiding.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:42pm
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Has this been posted here yet?

Biden campaign general counsel Dana Remus sent a letter to top Iowa party officials demanding "full explanations and relevant information" about the abysmal breakdown of the Dems support-tallying app.

The letter noted that both the primary system for counting votes - the app made by mysterious Bond-villain wannabe SHADOW - and the backup system - telephonically phoning in results - failed. Now, caucus chairs, the leaders of each individual caucus district, are attempting to report results via telephone to the party brass, but many of them aren't getting through.

But here's the kicker: The Biden campaign would like a "full explanation" of what happened before the results are released.

That little detail shows exactly what the Biden campaign is getting at. His team is clearly aware that the chaos benefited all of the centrists still in the running - Buttigieg, Biden and Klobuchar - while hurting Sanders (believed to be the real winner) and Warren.

Lots of info flying so apologies if it has. But seriously wtf? Let's make the DP voting system even more broken than it is.

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Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:46pm

Now here are the results of 60% of the tally.

I can hardly wait to see the 100% figures.

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:04pm

@humphrey
It's when the results have been predetermined. Come to Chicago and get a crash course from any alderman.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:03pm
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So who decides what is fake or not? Does this mean that all the compilations of ByeDone cutting social security go away?

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Submitted by Alphalop on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:04pm
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There is no way I believe that.

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Submitted by ggersh on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:43pm
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@Alphalop https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/02/putin-prepares-to-release-the-iowa...

Democratic Party @DNC - 22:16 UTC · Feb 3, 2020

For three years, we’ve been preparing for the process that officially kicks off tonight in Iowa: the Democratic presidential primary. Today our chair, @TomPerez, reflects on the reforms we’ve made to make this the most transparent primary in our history: How We Prepared for 2020

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 5:12pm

@Alphalop

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Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 5:24pm
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@gjohnsit

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Submitted by Nastarana on Wed, 02/05/2020 - 8:47am

@wouldsman @Alphalop @Alphalop We have seen so many CIA coups in other countries we can't remember them all. Now we get to experience one up close and personal.

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Submitted by Nastarana on Wed, 02/05/2020 - 9:05am

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/480087-iowa-caucus-fiasco-trump/

The jokes about Pete the Cheat are writing themselves. The guy who was supposed to be America's Macron turns out to be Juan Gaido. You would think, if the CIA were going to pick a president for us, they might have come with someone a bit believable.

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