that whole Russia thing with the DNC. Best way to spin it - the Russians will effect US elections, cyber-security NOW! OMG America!!! Squirrel!!!!!

Scary shit, but not wholly unexpected either I guess.

...last night I got to hang out with Greg Palast and watch his upcoming film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, which will premier in NY next week.

Signed and confirmed the petition.

Alex Padilla of California is a Russian
Debbie Wassermann Schultz is a Russian
Governor Cuomo is a Russian
Seth Rich was a Russian

Look, Debbie, as much as I love your show, you obviously don't know a Russian when you see one!
Here's a few more examples that you have overlooked:
Edward Snowden is a Russian--or at least he is hiding out there
Julian Assange is a Russian.

/s/

Confirmed too.

This slimy shit's got to stop!

Or maybe the Chinese version, where the Party announces the selection candidate and the people confirm it by a plurality of 98%. Those who dissent are sent to "re-education".

If there was an organization left which could be trusted to actually uphold the US Constitution and work for the public good, I'd say that careful electoral oversight by a reliable org. in turn being overseen itself, perhaps by some (randomly selected from volunteers?) citizen's group? is essential, as it so obviously is. There should be a central authority, something like... maybe a Justice Department? or something like it? to protect the Constitutional rights of citizens throughout the US... too bad there seems to be no 'there', there. Just a solid mass of corruption barely leavened by a few clear spots, here and there.

This sounds more like the only way it seems Hillary is going to 'win' - having the routinely unconstitutional officially disenfranchise the people for the last time it'll probably ever be necessary.

Edit: this is evidently part of the set-up for what's supposed to be a quiet transfer of power belonging to the American people and merely granted by them to their representatives in order that they may use them, in the course of their duties, for the public good to ruthless self-interests intent on global capture.

Since Congress unconstitutionally ceded their delegated power over the stream of corporate coups to follow the promoted passage of the initial TPP, I have read of other instances of this surrender of borrowed powers occurring among various public services/servants. Seems to me that this is, rather obviously, a shift toward handing over the powers of the American people to this hostile global corporate take-over, first removing them from the reach of the people who own them. I suspect that this has been arranged so that excuses regarding their inability to use the people's delegated powers will not involve explaining their new corporate serfdom until the people have been further drained into helpless submission.

Such traitorous acts cannot be regarded, as is claimed, as 'legal and binding', and there must be an appropriate legal response where the traitors are imprisoned for their high crimes.