Media's Premature Coronation Is Bad News For Hillary
It wasn’t a political night. I was watching hockey. My beloved Pittsburgh Penguins were ahead 2-0 and on their way to taking a 3-1 lead in the Stanley Cup Finals. And then, during a major sporting event, I heard a beep and saw a scroll at the bottom of the screen for BREAKING NEWS!
That’s not good. You generally interrupt major sporting events with news items only when it’s like seriously, super major bad news. Was I about to be warned of imminent severe weather? Had there been a terrorist attack? Was a major party presidential candidate just found liable for fraud?
Nope. Instead, the AP had “announced” that Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination! Wait...what? Was someone voting tonight? Did I miss something? Had I briefly nodded off and now it was Tuesday and all the primaries were being called?
Nope. The media, on a random Monday night before six major primaries had interrupted my enjoyment of the Stanley Cup Finals to prematurely anoint Hillary Clinton the winner of the primaries. When I switched to MSNBC briefly during the intermission to see what the hell was going on, I kid you not that this is what I heard (paraphrased of course):
“We have a secret poll of anonymous super delegates and we now believe that when you add them to the pledged delegates, Clinton will win.”
So, as the BBC so aptly put it today, Hillary Clinton “Secures the Nomination.” The quotes are theirs.
This is absolutely terrible news for Hillary Clinton.
Why? The answer should be obvious if you’ve been following along these past few months. Hillary Clinton needs the vast majority of Bernie Sanders supporters to vote for her in order to beat Donald Trump in November. And one of the major reasons that Sanders supporters have been resistant to her candidacy is her insider status in the Democratic Party and close ties to establishment institutions in the corporate world.
What would do more to validate the feeling that the establishment had decided this election long ago and they were never, ever going to let you win no matter what than the mainstream corporate media declaring Clinton the winner on a night when nobody even voted?
The majority of my friends and colleagues are Bernie supporters, as am I. I’m not here to say that Clinton orchestrated this in large part because it would have been maddeningly stupid for her to do so. I think Clinton has many major faults but being stupid isn’t one of them. The only scenario I can imagine in which she would consider trying to engineer something like this is one in which internal polling had her fearful of a major shellacking tomorrow and she was trying to head it off by declaring the race over ahead of time. I don’t currently see any evidence that this is the case so I don’t think that’s what is happening. But here’s the problem—now there are a lot of people who feel they will never really know how today’s primaries would have turned out without this premature announcement. And that will make a lot of people trust today’s results even less than they might have before.
I have no idea what the media’s or the AP’s rationale for this random news drop could be. Was it just a slow news cycle and they had nothing better to do? It doesn’t even make sense from a money standpoint. Didn’t they just crush their own ratings for coverage of tonight’s primary? Is it possible they just really wanted to piss off Sanders voters so that we will stay pissed off and march on the Philly convention and create a major ruckus they can cover in July? That would be a bit of three-dimensional chess reverse psychology if so, as they seem to want to declare this whole thing over. Are the corporate masters super scared of Donald Trump having his fingers on the button and and ordered this Democratic thing over, now? Or is news just more and more irresponsible and will report anything from anonymous sources in secret polling just to get a story?
Whatever the rationale, the way this all went down is really bad for Team Hillary. There will be no celebration after a major primary win or after a unifying concession speech or even after a roll call vote at the convention. There will be this:
This is the perfect symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary: The nomination is consecrated by a media organization, on a day when nobody voted, based on secret discussions with anonymous establishment insiders and donors whose identities the media organization – incredibly – conceals. The decisive edifice of superdelegates is itself anti-democratic and inherently corrupt: designed to prevent actual voters from making choices that the party establishment dislikes. But for a party run by insiders and funded by corporate interests, it’s only fitting that their nomination process ends with such an ignominious, awkward and undemocratic sputter.
So Hillary Clinton “secures the nomination.” And Sanders supporters are feeling a little more cheated and a little more justified in claiming that the entire system from the DNC to Wall Street to the corporate owned media has been rigged against them the entire time. This is bad news if you’re someone who wants Hillary Clinton to win in November.
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It's certainly not Democratic
It has very bad optics. It won't help turnout for Democrats.
I think that we should petition for U.N. election monitors next time.
I'm worried about today's turnout
We've got House and an open US Senate seat up for primary -- and with the stupid "top two" system in place, there could be races where voters in November will have to choose between two Republicans if Democrats/progressives don't get to the polls. Yeah, I know, the Democrats are not all that great in some instances but they're way better than the Republicans, and there are some good folks out there as well.
Glen Greenwald's take
Amen
I gotta say greywolf
Change your avatar. For your own sake.
He's a pirate...
Give him a break.
I want a Pony!
Allow me to clarify
A lot of the people here are nursing wounds from TOP. So a DKos avatar is like a finger in the eye.
Just saying.
Look closer
If anything it's celebrating my banning from DKos, which was later rescinded. Someone screenshotted it for me and I put it up as a badge of honor.
Brilliant work on that BTW
The Saruman diary was epic, but the thin-skinned overreaction to it was a priceless portent of the depravity to come.
Well played indeed my friend.
That was amazing
That was the first time I read the Saruman essay, and it may be one of the greatest political takedowns I've ever read in my life.
It was, indeed, amazing.
Perhaps one of the most astute and also hilarious satires I've read. And so perfectly spot on.
It was, indeed, amazing.
Perhaps one of the most astute and also hilarious satires I've read. And so perfectly spot on.
How about re-publishing it here? I'd like to read it.
When the time is right. I've had a couple of "Blast from the Past" ideas myself, lately. As the US sinks into dystopia, patterns are beginning to appear in rapid cycles — patterns of corruption, patterns in propaganda, patterns in applied fear (boogymen scares and false flag attacks), patterns in criminal injustice, and patterns in "newspeak." Excerpts from our past essays can clearly identify and demonstrate the repeating patterns of deceit and social engineering as they cycle through again in the present. This inoculates the community against brain washing.
We are a new culture. The bonds can be strengthened by weaving in narratives from the past, re-establishing shared memories that can be experienced again, here. This builds social infrastructure, which is the foundation of an enduring culture. Anything can become possible with a strong foundation.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
It was and is
At least I think it's still up. I never took it down.
I really DID mean your essay, with such wide acclaim
…really does belong here. It has apparently influenced quite a few Esteemed Members. That's why I went on and on about building community infrastructure…..
Discerning users are picky about where go and what they experience. They have mental-heigine standards and there are certain links that are not acceptable — for example, mentally degraded places like Stormfront or Daily Kos.
In the end, where you send folks to read your words, reflects on you. I notice some folks here are mindful of that and have removed or moved their Diaries.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
I'm Even a Pittsburgh Pirate
And I have always wanted to raise the jolly roger. So it's nice a Kos banning helped me with that.
"Every normal man must be tempted
at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats."
— H.L. Mencken
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
Thank you for this!
It's always a pleasure to find a new awesome quote
Aye!
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Aye, Mate!
Me thinks it may be time to found a club. The Black Flag Club!
I like his avatar.
If I had one, I would make it my avatar and wave it like a pirate flag too.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Great Essay and well said.
Yes - hooray! Hillary won the battle of the Democratic insiders as was predestined and foretold before any vote was ever cast anywhere. Voters are simply a formality in the Democratic Party in this iteration. Honestly, any rank and file voter who stays in a Party that so completely vaporizes their influence and even existence has to have very low self-esteem.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
I still think
that is is more about putting an excuse in place for a bad showing tonight. The excuse will run along the lines of: People stayed at home due to the premature reporting by the media. It is all about minimizing impact of losses and trying to kill the narrative that Clinton is limping towards the nomination - which is how it is seen outside of Kosland.
This is partly conjecture but there is lots of circumstantial evidence.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
To me it's voter suppression plain and simple
aimed at Bernie and his voters. Oh, well, we lost, let's go get pizza instead of voting.
But, ironically, it could depress Clinton's voters just as much out of complacency - Haven't you heard? Hillary won! Let's go get pizza.
But Bernie supporters have always been windmill tilters. I wouldn't be surprised if this last dirty trick simply energizes them.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
I'm not sure
Exactly - which is why the straightforward voter suppression narrative doesn't quite stack up for me. Also agree with your third sentence and would be very surprised if whoever was behind this idiocy hadn't gamed this out.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I believe the majority of...
Sanders supporters are smarter than this. Or maybe you said that tongue-in-cheek?
Damn, the PR fraud situation has me crazy for two days. Apologies!
I think the strategy
is not specifically targeted at Sanders supporters - it is more about shaping the narrative going forward - Clinton the triumphant winner vs the damaged candidate limping across the line. The inevitability narrative has been their strongest theme and they need stories that feed into that.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
And help cut off any further talk of superdelegates
talking about switching if Hillary lost CA by making it seem like she's already won.
News of the campaign's demise has been greatly exaggerated.
We have been hearing that Bernie had lost to Hillary since before the first vote was cast. It was never less true than today. Does Bernie's base hang on the AP more than Hillary's?
This Might Be The Case
But thanks to the premature call, we might never really know.
I was thinking the same thing
The real story is a strong possibility of indictment for gross negligence under the espionage act.
I have tried to follow the email story closely, but press coverage seems hopelessly muddled. Nevertheless, the story seems to have a watergate tinge to it.
The smoking gun may be the first three months of HRC's tenure as SOS. I believe that she has not as yet produced any emails from that period, although she was using her unsecured blackberry while travelling in China and elsewhere during that period.
But numerous sources indicate that her home-brew server did not have an encryption key installed during that period. That means what she was sending was in the clear (like ASCII text) both to and from the server during that period. That's gross negligence under the espionage act.
By all means Bernie, don't drop out.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." de Saint-Exupery
As much control as the Clintons have exercised
over the media and the super delegates, I really believe this story originated from the campaign or even more likely, the Democratic party (read Obama). This is a leak worthy of the White House. I am beginning to think it has a lot to do with the FBI investigation. They need the Sanders campaign out of the way in case they need to parachute Joe Biden into the nomination spot.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I think that you are
on to something here. Sanders has to be defeated and nor just in second place.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
The clintons
and the msm are in bed together. So yeah, I believe her campaign had a lot to with this lie. It's the same thing that's been happening this whole cycle. Calling states early, purging voter rolls, changing voters party affiliation. It all ties in together.
Go Penguins!!
BernieOrBust...
Thumbs Up for Go Penguins!
Not sure yet if I'm "Bernie or Bust". Going to be hard to see myself voting for Clinton, though. Might vote for Jill Stein. Might write-in Bernie. At this point I might write-in myself. I'm over 35 now.
What? no thumbs
for my in-depth, thought provoking comment?
I'll most likely vote for Jill Stein but for now I'm Bernie Or Bust all the way. Someone made a good point about leaving the president choice blank and a less than honest poll worker filling in the oval for their preferred candidate.
I watched a couple of the Penguins practices at the bar/restaurant where you could look down on the rink. I believe it was South of Pittsburgh-Meadow Lands? Canonsburg?
Iceoplex in South Pointe
I think. Now their facility is north of town up in Cranberry. I think?
Fun fact--I used to get to go skating at the ice-o-plex where the Pens practiced back in the day. My last girlfriend in high school was a hockey player and she even taught me how to skate. I got through skating and turning but sadly the relationship ended before I learned how to stop without just running into the wall. I guess it means I was destined for a checking line.
Uh, folks?
I just voted after dropping the youngest at school. The school is the polling place. I've been sitting here observing the parking lot and a lot of people not parents are rolling through here at a tremendous clip. If this continues all day, methinks coronation world might get a surprise.
Btw, the wife and eldest child volunteered for poll duty and are currently on duty somewhere in the wilds of NoHum.
#Berners for Bernie
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Where are you voting?
I went to grad school in California so lived in Goleta (Santa Barbara) for five years. Haven't been back to visit though since 2010, in large part cause I hate to fly and finding the time to drive or train out there from Pittsburgh is gonna take a few more banked vacation days.
I used to love to fly, would jump on a last minute deal all the
time and just go someplace for the weekend.
But now, between the TSA and the shitty airlines service and sardine like seating arrangements I barely ever do so anymore.
On the upside, the wife and I are discovering that it costs sometimes quite a bit less to rent a camper, take the dogs instead of hiring a sitter, airfare, etc.
If you look, there are a surprising number of cool places to visit within driving distance of just about anywhere, and quite often it is a lot more fun and less stress.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
If I was a Democrat
I'd be thoroughly embarrassed by the rotten, stinking, pile of shite that calls itself a party.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I'm Still a Democrat
And probably will stay one because PA has closed primaries and makes it a pain to change your registration back and forth. But I am so sick of the party elites right now.
We have closed primaries in Florida too, but my plan is to drop
and then only re-register IF there is a progressive candidate up for a primary that I can vote on, and then I will only re-register long enough to vote in that primary and drop again.
Maybe they will notice the pattern eventually if enough of us do so.
(While also pushing for open primaries of course.)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Exactly what I'm going to do.
Go Sharks
Beware the bullshit factories.
A loyal fan
Penguins beat my Lighting.
So I'm sorts rooting for them. Eastern conference and all that.
I want a Pony!
Was Cheering for them Until Now
I spent five years in California and during that time decided to pick a West Coast team to cheer for in the Western Conference playoffs and the Sharks were it. I feel like they took a lot of stuff from the Pens when they started--the triangle logo is similar, the Pens used to play Jaws music and have shark fins waving around before a power play, and I noticed the Sharks also used the "Hey" song after scoring goals until recently. Makes sense as the Pens had just won back to back cups when the Sharks got started.
In any case, I've been pulling for them to GET to a Stanley Cup final for a long time and I'm glad they did. And if they were playing anyone else, I'd be rooting for them to win the cup. But that can wait til next year. Unless my Pens are back again.
Aww
How could you put "Go Sharks" in a good diary?
HBK
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
I'm still hoping, as a theater geek, that one day...
...there will be a Sharks vs. Jets Stanley Cup final...
I want my two dollars!
Could be Conference Final
Pretty sure one of them would have to move conferences to be a Cup Final. But it would be hilarious! They would have to have musical face-offs instead of fights.
"There will be no celebration"?
I beg to differ. There will be a _huge_ celebration tonight, with lots of balloons and dancing and singing and clapping and prancing around the end zone spiking the football. And the media will be lapping it up, covering it wall-to-wall on every channel, and asking for more. Count on it. It'll look just like the real thing, and will convince a lot of low-information people that it _is_ the real thing.
The fact that it is based on a lie won't slow them down a bit: if you keep telling the Big Lie, people will come to believe it. They are now totally dependent upon keeping up the Big Lie. I thought that putting out the pure-projection middling-sized lie that Sanders was "responsible for voter suppression in Puerto Rico" was a really nice touch, for example. It is now all Big Lie, all the time, and will remain so until the end of the convention.
Speaking of which: looking forward to the day after the convention, when I can join a lot of other lifelong Democrats (in my case, since 1976) in changing my registration to "no party preference". If this is the way that the party chooses to conduct its business, I'm out. The Big Lie will get HRC 53% of the 29%, but not much more. Purely Pyrrhic, innit? Pity.
I think...
that you give Hillary far too much credit. Remember, she has already said that she will be the nominee of the Democratic Party, and she said it unequivocally. I think she is trying to head off the embarrassment of not winning the delegates needed to win the nomination prior to the convention. And while this is a bullshit, and undemocratic, way of doing it, it will create the optics with the public (they hope) that she won in June.
This is exactly the kind of thing that the Clintons would do.
Or at the very least the tone deaf party establishment. What are the odds that nearly a dozen "undecided" superdelegates would suddenly endorse Clinton on the eve of the last string of primaries, where her opponent was likely to win the biggest prize of the night and drag the fight out to the convention? This kind of thing doesn't just happen by chance. It was absolutely orchestrated by the party, just like how polling places were conveniently reduced by up to 66% in blue states and lifelong Democratic voters "mysteriously" had their registrations switched without their consent for closed primaries. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Hillary isn't stupid. She's arrogant. And arrogance can breed stupidity, even in smart people. She's always thought that she could steal this thing, hence the blatant election fraud, but I guarantee you that all this has managed to do is piss off almost every single Bernie supporter and reaffirm every aspect of the oligarchy narrative that Bernie has been pushing since day one.
Clinton - the party or both could well be behind this
There is the belief that enough voters will continue to vote the D since to quote the party "they have no where else to go" and this year there is the added incentative of Trump as the alternative.
Anointing HRC prior to today's primaries is a win - win for Clinton and the Dem establishment. If It suppresses Bernie's support, then she avoids looking weak by loosing CA. If she loses, there is the built in excuse that her supporters didn't show up because she had already won.
The party doesn't think that ticking off Sanders supporters will have any long term ramifications to HRC becoming president. History has so far supported their assumption that when push comes to shove, we will fall in line.
As far as I'm concerned, Jill Stein has just gotten another vote come November.
Clinton is not stupid.
Incredibly arrogant? Arrogant enough to spit in the faces of voters from seven states just to tell them that their votes don't count? Yes.
Not stupid, though.
'French theory is a product of US cultural imperialism." -- Gabriel Rockhill
Maybe not technically stupid, but arrogance leads to blindness
Her arrogant belief that this is somehow hers by right can make her take very stupid actions. I'm not saying she's a stupid person, but we all have blind spots, and she has many many blind spots - particularly her inability to understand that us peons actually care about retaining our democracy, such as it is.
Not stupid when it comes to policy...
but she has shown her instincts in campaigning are awful, so I argue when it comes to running, she is a fucking moron.
Clinton's foreign policy is reckless.
See e.g. Greg Grandin's guide:
http://www.thenation.com/article/a-voters-guide-to-hillary-clintons-poli...
So, yes, she's quite bright -- she knows how to install coup regimes, to get nation-states to privatize their assets, to militarize whole regions of the planet, to promote "trade deals" that enforce global corporate interests. All the ends are bad, though, and Clinton policies are generally reckless. I'm sure it's hard to care too much when your global foundation is a massive slush fund.
'French theory is a product of US cultural imperialism." -- Gabriel Rockhill
She is stupid in a lot of ways
It's stupid to create clusterfucks in Iraq and Libya.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Wasn't Stupidity There, But Cowardice
She voted for Iraq because she was always afraid of being called "weak on defense" by Republicans. She knew better and she voted how she did cause everything is subsumed to her desire to be president someday. The sad part about the Iraq vote is that it probably is what mostly cost her the election in 2008. Sad for me that it's not costing her as much again this time around.
I disagree
Clinton is a hawk. She is a true believer in the regime change. She is being counseled by two of the biggest hawks around, Henry Kissinger and Robert Kagan of PNAC fame. Her vote to invade Iraq was neither stupid or cowardly. It reflects what she believes in.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
She is intellectually adept.
You can intellectualize a war, but without a functioning heart you are blind to any consequences of your actions.
That's a form of stupidity in my book
Having no ability to see the long term consequences of your actions is a form of stupidity as is an inability to admit to yourself when you are wrong.
Beware the bullshit factories.
intellect
Wonderfully stated socalaltvibe. I will try to remember this poignant statement
My wife's registration was switched but mine wasn't...
I wonder if the fact that she is from the age group of women that Hillary isn't winning and I am on the cusp of the age group that she is winning is the reason that hers was changed and mine wasn't...
I would really like to see an age/sex breakdown of those that had their registrations changed to examine for any correlations.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I read...
Some of the comment threads on the Greenwald piece (which, I thought was very even-handed by Greenwald). Many of the comments were 'Well, she is going to win the nomination today anyway, so this is no big deal'. OK. Even allowing for that - then why not wait 24 hours? Why do it last night when no vote occurred than do it today when 6 states are voting? It just smacks of undemocratic back-room dealing. Which will hurt Hillary in the long run.
Democrats, we tried to warn you. How is that guilt and shame working out?
Hey, hey, Oligarchs!
How many votes have you stolen from us today?
Yeah, I know it doesn't rhyme. But I had to say it anyway.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Hey, Hey OligarchAY
How many vote have you stolen today?
There - that kind of works
We need to put that one in the book of chants
for the coming, huge, democracy demonstrations.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Remember remember the sixth of June...
Doesn't have a ring to it either, unfortunately.
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
NEW: http://www.twitter.com/trueblueinwdc
Arrogance and insularity within a circle that reinforces
your views lead to the blunders we've seen throughout Clinton's campaign. And the belief she could contravene rules for her own purposes with her home server and never be called to account--indeed, might not have been without the persistence of Judicial Watch and a judge who allowed that suit to proceed.
The Clintons have gotten away with so much for so long. They have an expansive network of powerful connections. They're the mob without the mustachios. The assorted methods of election cheating we've seen have been ready for activation. They'll remain options in the future unless someone does something about it. That something may be this:
Trust the Vote lawsuit filed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IAJ5fAm3Cs
Some comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kossacks_for_Sanders/comments/4myu2y/trust_the_...
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
They are just continuing the trend.
Can anyone remember just how many times its been stated that her election was certain? They started stating that shortly after Sanders declared that he was running.
This sort of thing is literally part of the status quo. It reminds me a lot of the stock market actually. The people on CNBC literally never say any stock is bad... they only talk about stocks which are good. That's because they aren't reviewing the quality of any stock on any program.
They are cheerleaders, not impartial observers. They want to tell people the stock market is great so it will go up. That's why they never see the bubble coming.
Wow! That Trust the vote lawsuit sounds really interesting.
Do you have a detailed knowledge of it? That sounds like something that would be worth it's own essay for sure.
There are a lot of legal ramifications, particularly with them claiming RICO status.
Do we have a resident attorney yet that could maybe weigh in on this?
This could be a very big deal in the long term.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Just reposting a link seen elsewhere; more links below
Several relevant comments from the k4s reddit subthread (where I found the link):
Here's the full interview with Stephan Spoonamore, it's a classic and explains exactly how the Diebold voting system is easily hacked at multiple points. This is an old interview but everything he says is still true today. Nerds will especially appreciate Spoonamore's deep dive into the technical details. Not only does he show how the Diebold system was actually designed to be hacked, he also gives actual examples where hacks were used to steal elections. Here's the url: https://youtu.be/BX6vcoIZdA4
The site http://trustvote.org/ has a 2 hours long video on this and it is so interesting and enlightening. They go back and cover the history of all this election fraud. So if you are interested you should take time to watch this.
Found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofB3QMbPu60&feature=youtu.be
The info. under the video http://trustvote.org Bob Fitrakis, Cliff Arnebeck and Lori Grace at Sunrise Center, Corte Madera, CA. Video by Ed Ellsworth, Enlightened Films.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Californians have always been
Californians have always been resentful of the fact that they are the largest state in the USA, but play almost no role in the primaries. Snatching California's one chance to play a role in the process won't play well. In meantime Hillbots will think it's over and won't bother.
Bad news for Hillary, my
Bad news for Hillary, my aching back. It will depress the vote massively, and Sanders was, as always, hoping for turnout, especially in California. Also, studies show people like voting for a winner. It makes them feel as though they got it right.
The most corrupt primary I have ever seen--that I know of.
ABC Breaking News
Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky clinches nomination for 2052 nomination.
From the Light House.
98% of the super delegates have already lined up for her.
Beware the bullshit factories.
and some of these 2052 superdelegates are toddlers!
they're still lined up for her. They are, after all, babies living in the 1% world.
For Someone in Admin, "Share" on FB doesn't seem to work
It created a link and put it on my facebook page, but when you click on the link it just spins and spins up in the browser address bar and nothing happens as it tries to go to some weird address that is mostly gobbly gook.
Mine works.
Try again. It posted to FB and the link in it works. It brings me here to the live blog that I posted.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I just cleared...
the database caches a little while ago, you may have caught it right at that time. Try it again and see what happens.
I can see why you were banned from TOP :-)
Trenchant diary. And now we move on to the choreographed calls for "unity" and putting feel good labels on a bottle of arsenic.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
People here will not tolerate being bullied about unity. eom
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon