Reality, it's a thing
Submitted by OPOL on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 1:01pmNOTE: Most of you don't need to hear this. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I need to say it and this is my only forum. I beg your indulgence.
NOTE: Most of you don't need to hear this. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I need to say it and this is my only forum. I beg your indulgence.
Remember this? It's why anyone voting for Sanders was a sexist. Even women.
The DNC has been having trouble raising funds ever since the Clinton campaign purchased the organization in order to rig the 2016 primaries against Bernie. So you would think that the DNC leadership would go out of their way to distance themselves from their corrupt past. You would be wrong.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, the same asshat who hammered Hillary Clinton over "Benghazi e-mail", called Clinton for advice in preparing for the Senate confirmation hearings for the cabinet post to head the State Department.
Russians opened Twitter and Facebook accounts, and used them to say bad things about Hillary Clinton and good things about Trump. They took out Facebook ads that did the same, and organized political events along similar lines.
That's what they're being accused of, anyway.
Just one problem: none of that is election fraud.
I don’t know exactly how I ended up there, but I’m from South Carolina, and into legal stuff, and Trey Gowdy can provide some decent entertainment, so I was watching this video in the tweet below, and around the 2:58 mark Gowdy is talking about conflicts of interest, and says:
“… and then we have a Senior Agent assigned to inv—“ — and there’s a glitch right there — “—Secretary Clinton’s email, helped draft the exoneration letter where we changed the language from ‘grossly negligent’ to ‘extremely careless, interviewed Secretary Clinton in an interview I’ve never seen, and I doubt you have either in your career as a prosecutor …”
What happens when people who are supposed to cure the conflict of interest have even greater conflicts of interest than those they replace?https://t.co/s6nmJltHOe
— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) December 13, 2017
Something/Someone Old
My Something/Someone Old today is King Edward VIII.
What if Hillary won?
There are almost too many unknowns about that question to count.
However, there are a few items that I can predict with confidence. Specifically, the response of the establishment Democrats. You can see it in yesterday's election.
SIMPLY PUT: If you spread the idea that Hillary Clinton is a horrible monster, you were a de facto Russian propagandist. Congratulations.
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) October 10, 2017
Hey, guys. I'm sick, and somewhat pudding-brained. The essay I planned to write deserves better thought than I can give it at this moment.
I made a comment yesterday that Gulfgal, Ellen, and Snapple BC thought was worth turning into an essay. I'm going to set it here for discussion. Hopefully, a more ordinary Open Thread will be on its way to you next Wednesday!