WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) 377
WikiLeaks has released an additional 2,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta -- the second leak in four days. The first leak contained thousands of emails from Podesta, including apparent excerpts from Ms Clinton's paid, closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives after leaving her position as Secretary of State. CNN reports: The emails appear to be mostly from 2015, covering a litany of policy and strategy discussions between Clinton staffers on how to handle issues of the day and the press, including the release of the book "Clinton Cash" alleging nefarious activity by the Clinton Foundation. Another email has long-time Clinton aide Doug Band referring to Chelsea Clinton as a "spoiled brat." Doug Band emailed Podesta and longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills about a damning story about his consulting company, Teneo, by lashing out at Chelsea Clinton. "I don't deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things," Band wrote. "She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life." The emails also revealed that Clinton wanted to respond more forcefully to "Clinton Cash," the 2015 book that looked to connect Clinton Foundation actions and decisions made by Hillary Clinton's State Department. According to an email from another close aide, Huma Abedin, Clinton wanted to tape a straight-to-camera video responding to the allegations. Clinton campaign responded to the release by slamming the Trump campaign for "cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin," after Trump adviser Jason Miller tweeted a link to the document page with the phrase "And here...we...go."
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I find that highly unlikely in the first place, as the timing for a "big one" is not "two months from now" but rather urgently needed by Trump *right now*. Even if they do have something, given the rather suspected source of the documents I think that if they time a really juicy email to appear right before the election it's going to be dismissed as fabricated, and proving it ain't so will take time that just isn't there.
So: don't keep your hopes up. Clinton may be skating the edge of the law, but given the evidence so far, that's it. A bit like Trump, really, except in different areas of the law.
Wrong (Score:2)
Assange has made it a point to dump material for Journalists to report on. Wikileaks my occasionally provide some commentary, but that is not the service they want and not the service they claim to provide.
The real issue is that we have a massive media monopoly in the US. Journalism has died and entertainment took it's place. IMHO, the US DOJ should start breaking up the media monopolies. We have laws for that.
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Dipshit, how about the Clinton Campaign giving assignments to ABC,NBC, CBS,CNN, NY Times, Bloomberg,Vox, Huffington Post , People , New Yorker, Vice , Politico.
Hint it is call propaganda then, just like you know in Nazi germany, and Hillary has done it even better.
You are repeating exactly what Hillary wants you to , now step into the shower.
https://theintercept.com/2016/... [theintercept.com]
(NOTE Glenn Greenwald is not on Faux spin news)
The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effect
Re:50,000 * 30 (Score:5, Insightful)
Judging by the summary, there's nothing of substance in this release, just some petty bickering and some predictable discussions. What makes any of that newsworthy?
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Well if we weren't talking about grabbing pussy and Chelsea dissing a big donor then we'd have to talk about real issues and that shit is boring as hell.
Re:50,000 * 30 (Score:4, Insightful)
Due process. You got evidence please release it.
We've got tens of thousand's of people pouring over all these emails and no one can find ANYTHING that could be submitted in a court of law?! But everyone knows she is corrupt... Meanwhile, we've got the other confessing to sexual assaults and it's just "saying things"
Stay in school kids!
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no one can find ANYTHING that could be submitted in a court of law
Except that Trump is currently involved in dozens and dozes of lawsuits, so that's not true at all.
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"Confessing to sexual assaults" and no one can find ANYTHING that could be submitted in a court of law?!
Do you mean like the current rape lawsuit that Trump is involved in? The one that is about to go to trial? That one??
Re:50,000 * 30 (Score:5, Insightful)
People are upset because he basically confessed to molesting women, then talked about trying to hook up with a married woman, then bragged about how people with power can do pretty much whatever they want, which you may recognize as the line of thought that is used to criticize the legal treatment of Clinton. It's pretty much the profile of a rapist, even if he hasn't gone that far, and it should alarm people, because he shows no remorse, doesn't even seem to realize that there's anything wrong with what he said or did.
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“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton supposedly asked, according to unidentified State Department sources.
Unidentified sources also told me that she gets off on killing puppies.
Especially with the history of people who've crossed the Clinton's ending up dead?
Might want to stop believing everything you read on Facebook [snopes.com].
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Re:50,000 * 30 (Score:5, Insightful)
Why not? The mainstream media refuses to do so, but sure as hell runs every 11 year old "pussy" recording it can dig up.
Note: there is a difference between a presidential candidate saying he probably sexually assaulted a bunch of people and internal whining about the boss's kid. Yeah I know its all about relative expectations. So long as trump doesn't shit in his hand and throw it at a camera its a win for him....on second thought maybe thats a win too cause he's sticking it to the media.
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Come on now, fair is fair. And to be honest the people most upset about it are the Republican establishment weenies. I know !Jeb and Cruz and Rubio are wondering where all this good dirt was when they needed it.
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Isn't it about time ... to reveal all stuff THEY [Republicans] are doing and do not want you to know?
New embarrassing documents are being revealed every single day. Don't you follow @realDonaldTrump?
Rules for Radicals (Score:4, Interesting)
Deny Deny Deny, Distract, Distract, Distract. Sorry folks, but if you are just now waking up you may want to go back to sleep. Politics is full of criminals and criminal actions, each trying to cover up for each other. The media has been in on the scam, as has been Department heads in charge of prosecuting wrong doing.
It's going to take me a while to read through this lot, I'm not done with the last dump. You can bet your ass the Media won't bother with this, because 11 years ago Trump said the P word. For the people focusing on that instead of actual political corruption, you deserve what is planned by the Left.
Re:Rules for Radicals (Score:4, Insightful)
They are just throwing everything they have now, hoping something will stick. None of it is particularly explosive though, like the Trump tape.
I think they realised he can't really win, and are just flailing about.
Brexit (Score:2)
Hearing the media, progressives, and phony right career politicians claim doom and gloom for Trump is a narrative that benefits the left. It's obvious why they push the narrative, but I trust them with that as much as I trust them not to try and tag team Trump in debates. The left is so sure they won the USA they are playing sloppy. Remember Brexit was going to be a blowout too, and all the elites wanted to remain in the EU. I seem to remember the people of the UK getting the result that the majority wa
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Bad news about Brexit, it's already going badly wrong and the predictions that the experts made are coming true. The Pound is lower than it's been for decades, business is not interesting.
People are realising that their feelings aren't a substitute for expert advice. It's an huge failure of democracy, both the post-factual campaign and the fact that now our PM keeps saying "Brexit means Brexit" but no one knows what people actually voted for.
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Explain how corruption caused the weak Pound. Explain why the Pound fell massively on the day of the result, and again when the article 50 date was set
Immigration is a huge benefit to the UK. It's hardly a flood, just badly managed.
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I'm not disputing the wasted money, I'm saying it isn't responsible for the sudden and severe drop in the value of the Pound.
The UK has always been corrupt in this way. In the 80s they couldn't play certain Irish people's voices on TV. In the late 90s the internet wars started. Yet the Pound was fine, now suddenly after this vote it's crashing. Are you saying the timing if Brexit is mere coincidence?
Re:Brexit (Score:4, Insightful)
There is no sudden and severe drop in the pound,
u mad bro? The pound dropped over 10% vs the dollar literally overnight. That is not up for debate. That is a verifiable fact.
Brexit was the smartest thing the people could do, because the whole of the Eurozone is tanking.
We are not and have never been in the Eurozone.
What do you do with 1,000,000 immigrants when you already have 9% unemployment?
The refugees from Syria and etc aren't going to stop coming just because we've had a referendum to pass a law that will in some currently rather non-specific way change a bunch of legal arrangements with our neighbours.
The levels of corruption in the UK today far exceed what I remember in the 80s and 90s which were at least similar to the US.
If the government is corrupt, how does handing them even more power via Brexit make the slightest bit of sense?
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In the US for example, the 1.2 Billion dollars handed to Iran for hostages could have been used for roads and money been recirculated by the public.
This is incorrect for several reasons [mediamatters.org].
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You speak of "the elites" as if that's something bad.
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In what way is the Trump tape explosive? Did it change anyone's opinion of Trump?
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Act surprised [Re:Rules for Radicals] (Score:2)
During the Republican debates, Trump admitted* to bribing just about every politician on the stage. Is a pimp better than a ho?
If he's the answer to corruption, then what's the question?
Almost all politicians are sleazebags. We just happen to be seeing the dirty laundry this time due to the hacking. The honest ones get steamrolled by slimers because voters are easily duped, inattentive, and forget history.
* More like bragging
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Is a pimp better than a ho?
If you want to end the pimp game, it ain't gonna be hos doing it.
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But he said "Pussy!" You can't talk about grabbing pussy like that. The bad thing is he's full of shit. He can't just walk up and grab some woman's pussy without getting the shit slapped out of him unless she's a whore. I'd like to see him grab Hilliary's pussy. Right in the middle of the fucking debate. I'd pay good money to see that. I bet it'd bite his fucking hand off.
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Only what you should have heard already. 1. Hillary want's open borders and free employment with all of South America (say buh bye to the lower and middle class jobs). 2. Hillary has private positions and what she tells the public (not a big shock, but the admittance is nice). 3. The State Department worked with media to suppress stories about Hillary's (illegal) email activities. (Good to see our tax dollars at work I guess.) 4. Hillary wants Wall Street to make it's own rules and Politicians shou
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Bill and Chelsea drove the COO of the CF to commit suicide.
In Chelsea's defense (Score:5, Insightful)
I would probably be a spoiled brat too if I had been raised by parents who taught me that political power is the only thing that matters, and that it can buy you out of any moral responsibility.
It probably also wouldn't help if everything in my life were just handed to me because of my parents' political clout, without me ever having to actually earn anything on my own or even having get a real job that wasn't just handed to me on a silver platter.
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If you want to talk about "white privilege" .. Chelsea is the poster child.
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If you want to talk about "white privilege" .. Chelsea is the poster child.
There's not enough room on the poster for all the children who belong on it, but there's room to include Trump's tiny hand holding a check for a small ten million dollar loan from his father.
Re:In Chelsea's defense (Score:4, Interesting)
I do understand that he paid it back. His father was pretty adamant about that. But yeah, he wasn't born into poverty by any means. Unlike so many of that set though he did manage to make a lot of money which he lost then made more then lost that and then made more. Reminds me of Ted Turner who also went bankrupt several times. Those guys are risk takers and wheeler dealers whereas Hilliary is a parasite who has become a multi-millionaire in government service. I know I trust him about -10 on a 1 to 10 scale and her about - 100 billion. He'll probably screw us over and she certainly will. It's not a good choice anywhere I look.
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I wish my white privilege extended to a million dollar loan. I got left paying part of a 15 thousand dollar funeral bill.
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And then there's !Jeb.
Won't make any difference (Score:3, Insightful)
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the amount of illegal votes that Hillary will receive
I feel like you needed to explain this part a little more... wtf are you talking about?
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It's a democracy. The people get the government they deserve. It's hardly surprising we have vain, lying money grubbers running things considering how many people live the same way. That is what a representative democracy is.
STOP THE PRESSES! SIREN! (Score:3, Funny)
Julian Assange's October Surprise. Hillary will have to drop out now that an email has been leaked from someone calling her daughter a 'spoiled brat".
The American People must not stand for this.
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Stop the presses! Trump likes pussy! Oh well, I guess I'm ready for open borders, mass immigration of retarded 3rd worlders and muslims, take my guns, ramp up for war with Russia over Syria, and ram the TPP up my deplorable ass #ImWithHer. If only it he had been a cum-gargling faggot he'd have been beloved by the progressive and tolerant left, but men who like pussy are unacceptable in [current year].
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Admitting to sexual assault is not the same as "liking pussy".
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Yes, Pay No Attention! Move Along, Citizen!
Because if there's one partial dump of all the 30K emails being released that *don't* have loads of stunningly criminal/corrupt activity in nearly every single email, then that completely exonerates Clinton/DNC on any of the other criminal/corrupt activities already revealed and anything to be revealed in future email dumps.
But hey, thanks for Correcting The Reco
Once upon a time, Wikileaks mattered... (Score:3, Insightful)
... because it revealed things that truly matter to the freedom of the people of the US and the world. And yes, even because in doing so it put some people's lives in danger for what it and its supporters consider to be a good cause. Not everyone agrees to the latter, but at least the debate about what was right and/or wrong fundamentally mattered to the citizens of this world and will continue to matter for decades to come.
Nowadays, Wikileaks has degraded itself to being a mere tool in Assange's personal revenge vendetta against Hillary Clinton. He doesn't care about right or wrong (anymore).. All that he wants these days is to damage his personal enemy by any means possible and if achieving that implies potentially handing over the US nuclear arsenal and its economic power - and therefor the entire world - to a raging lunatic, then apparently so be it.
Now, if these leaks there would actually reveal a substantiated serious accusation... But no...The fact that Wikileaks now thinks that it must inform the world of the galactically shocking fact that someone finds Chelsea a spoiled brat says more about Assange's character and insignificance than it says about the Clintons..He used to get media attention by doing things that mattered. It seems that he as run out of such things, but can't accept that he too doesn't matter anymore and the media therefore moved on to other hunting grounds..
I'm no fan of Trump, but even if I were one, I would still hold the same opinion of what Assange is doing. Who wants to be president because someone considers the daughter of one's opponent to be a spoiled brat?
Showing his true colours (Score:2)
I can't wait to see how his regular fan boyz are going to rationalise this.
Media works for Clinton Glenn Greenwald (Score:3, Informative)
The media is basically taking marching orders from the Clinton Campaign.
https://theintercept.com/2016/... [theintercept.com]
Its going to be on this, and no none of the below are going to break it.
The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effects of corruption and shining a light on those who would use their entrusted power for personal gain. An independent and free media is a cornerstone of democracy and a crucial component of a healthy governance system.
Clinton has corrupted this and turned it into a propaganda arm for her campaign.
ABC,NBC, CBS,CNN, NY Times, Bloomberg,Vox, Huffington Post , People , New Yorker, Vice , Politico taking assignments from her campaign.
This should scare the hell out of the american people if they know their history.
Note some journalist declined her invitations , they are real journalists.
Glenn Greenwald broke the who Snowden story open and the NSA spying on everyone.
Glenn hates trump and hillary both but at least he is ethical.
#mediagate
Wish I had read this (Score:2)
before I posted already. You deserve +5 Informative.
I call BS on blaming the Russians (Score:3)
Assuming the Russians have ALL of Hillary's emails (to be expected with her defenseless email server), why wouldn't they want her to win? How hard would it be to blackmail her into becoming Putin's puppet? If she loses the election, they squander the value of the work. If the Russians have a preference in this election, it's for a candidate who is easily controlled. Trump is utterly unpredictable, so it's hard to imagine why the Russians would work to promote him.
If (the original) Guccifer was a FSB asset, no way would he be extradited to the US. Based on what he revealed about Hillary's server, it could have been hacked by the Geek Squad from Moscow Best Buy.
No matter who these people turn out to be, they weren't the idiots who deployed the server, nor did they force Hillary to use it.
Blaming the Russians is just a political ploy to set expectations low. Don't expect anyone to get caught. Problem is, blaming the Russians isn't any more plausible than blaming the Benghazi attack on a YouTube video.
Re:Upstaged by Trump (Score:5, Insightful)
This. If this was in any other normal election cycle against a normal opponent, this would be hugely detrimental to Clinton and would cost her supporters and party investment. However, against Pussygate headlines and an imploding Republican party, it's not even enough to crack front page news.
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The clinton scandals in this case being a clash of personalities in a large organization and a strategy to respond to an opponent's attack. Shocker. Lets have 9 congressional hearings and a blank check to investigate the spoiledness of Chelsea Clinton and how it relates to the well known establishment plot to steal our precious bodily fluids!
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Hillary's husband can rape as many women as he wants with Hillary attacking the victims and the cat ladies would continue to vote for her.
Re:bluster versus power (Score:5, Insightful)
She's got Goldman Sachs and most of corporate America paying her. She's outspending Trump by a ridiculous amount and it's not making a difference. Trump has one thing and one thing only going for him. He's not Hilliary Clinton, and for nearly half of American voters that's all he needs.
Re:Cry Wolf (Score:4, Insightful)
Bill and Hillary have both been proven to be guilty, though the latter was given a free pass and the DOJ denied the ability to prosecute.
Complains about innocent until proven guilty and due process, immediately claims Clintons are guilty even though they have never been convicted. Such doublethink... frankly amazing.
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My request was for fair treatment, yours was claiming guilty by allegation. Not that you really care (shill much?) but for the accidental reader:
Bill was proven guilty of both sexual assault and perjury, check the court records. He settled one case for $850,000.00. He was disbarred for misconduct, check the Bar records. Bill also faced numerous allegations which were never brought to court. By your standard, he should be in jail for all of those allegations.
Hillary was also proven guilty by admitting s
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Re:Cry Wolf (Score:4, Informative)
Hillary was also proven guilty by admitting she destroyed emails after receiving a subpoena from Congress which is at a minimum Obstruction of Justice. She is guilty of perjury again by looking at her own testimony where either she lied to Congress or the FBI Director did. Within the statues of the law, she is guilty of mishandling classified information. Proven by the FBI directory who for her case, and only her case, put a stipulation of mens rea on filing charges. NO other cases in the US have used intent as a stipulation for assessing guilt, NONE. Intent has not even been used in the sentencing of cases against US Military mishandling classified materials. Some of which were completely accidental (US Marine who found a paper in his laundry and turned it in only to be handed over to the courts).
Can we stick to facts please...
Hillary did not say that she destroyed email after receiving a subpoena from Congress. The guy managing her email destroyed the emails after being asked to remove personal emails months earlier but he slacked off and didn't delete them until later. The FBI found that there was no collusion. Even the Republicans in Congress couldn't find any evidence. Anything beyond that is just political grandstanding... unless you have hidden evidence to add to the discussion...
http://www.politifact.com/trut... [politifact.com]
http://www.politifact.com/trut... [politifact.com]
As for intent, historical court cases does not back up your assertion that intent was not a requirement for a successful conviction. Here is a good article explaining the previous cases:
http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/... [fortune.com]
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No, you should really try to read it again. Claiming that Hillary is still subject to criminal punishment is not the same as claiming she should be in jail for allegations. I laid out facts demonstrating her guilt, which you have not questioned.
The reason for my post requires reading the article linked, which claims that Trump should be jailed for an allegation. If allegations were the only measure, both Bill and Hillary should be in jail with Trump.
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Oh God the clown doesn't realize that politifact was busted working with the dnc in the dncleaks.
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Oh God the clown doesn't realize that politifact was busted working with the dnc in the dncleaks.
Everything that I typed can be checked against multiple news sources. But instead of fact checking what was stated you would rather attack the links provided and call me a clown. Do some homework yourself and maybe we'll listen to what you have to add to the conversation. Until then you are just name calling...
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John Podesta says Hillary Clinton "lies" often , so she is Crooked Lying Hillary.
http://canadafreepress.com/art... [canadafreepress.com]
Re:Upstaged by Trump (Score:4, Insightful)
It doesn't "crack front page news" because the "news" has been in the tank for Hillary from the get-go.
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This. If this was in any other normal election cycle against a normal opponent, this would be hugely detrimental to Clinton and would cost her supporters and party investment. However, against Pussygate headlines and an imploding Republican party, it's not even enough to crack front page news.
You mean the revelation that one of Clinton's aids called her daughter a "spoiled brat"?
It's not on the front pages because it's irrelevant. Not every leaked email contains a discussion of how they planned 9/11.
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Re:Upstaged by Trump (Score:5, Insightful)
The trump tape is over a decade old
That the Trump tape is a decade old is a datum back from that era. Comparing Trump then with Trump now shows that he has not changed during that time. That is independent of who ever released the tape.
I don't know if I subscribe to the conspiracy theory that this was all orchestrated for maximum effect before this debate. You'd think that if this tape was common knowledge amongst various people that Billy Bush would have used it to help his cousin Jeb out during the primaries.
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I suspect that they are desperately digging hard for anything to hit Trump with. He's a lot harder to do away with than Bernie was. I'm sure they couldn't have had it long or they'd have pulled it out before the first debate. I wouldn't be surprised if they find some more evidence of bad behavior before the election. Of course for every nasty thing the Main Stream Media can dig up about Trump good old Wikileaks will drip some more of Hilliary's bad past as well. Nothing like a good old mud slinging Pre
Re: Upstaged by Trump (Score:4, Informative)
They were 'found in December, 2009. [cnn.com]
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I'm not pro-Trump at all and welcome future President Clinton, but this extreme campaign bullshit hypocrisy on both sides is more than annoying. (Don't get me wrong, it's same way in most other countries.) Maybe there are some male US politicians who have never talked this way in their life -- mormons, religious fanatics and extreme douchebags come to my mind --, but they surely are in a minority and nobody in his right mind would want to have one of those as a president.
I understand when some naive women
Re:Upstaged by Trump (Score:5, Insightful)
That would be such a good argument if Trump hadn't been fat shaming women, telling people to go hunt down porn and talking about a newswoman bleeding out of her "whereever" in just the last few weeks.
Unfortunately for your argument, Trump's behavior has made it incredibly clear that he has not changed at all, despite his protests to the contrary.
Trump hasn't changed? (Score:2)
That would be such a good argument if Trump hadn't been fat shaming women, telling people to go hunt down porn and talking about a newswoman bleeding out of her "whereever" in just the last few weeks.
Unfortunately for your argument, Trump's behavior has made it incredibly clear that he has not changed at all, despite his protests to the contrary.
Apropos of nothing, how does a recording made 11 years ago show that he hasn't changed?
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You just quoted the answer to your own damn question. R u kan reed gud?
Re:Upstaged by Trump (Score:5, Insightful)
The trump tape is over a decade old
When he was but a wee 59 year old.
and occurred when he was a democrat.
Which is relevant how?
CBS was waiting for the right moment for maximum effect ... just like the KGB and wikileaks.
Maybe, though we don't actually know what the circumstances behind the timing were, it could simply be that it took a really long time for a) someone to remember the tape existed and b) to find it.
Either way I'm sure Ted Cruz wishes it would have come out a couple weeks ago!
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and occurred when he was a democrat.
Which is relevant how?
Open your eyes man. Clearly he was projecting and it's Clinton running around grabbing pussies. He's now a republican. Jesus wouldn't let him do that. OPEN YOUR EYES!
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At least this time it's not a computer word processor document from the early 70's.
Re:Wikileaks (Score:5, Insightful)
is the press office of the KGB. Only releases information that is useful to russia.
If America didn't criminalize transparency and persecute whistleblowers, then the Russians wouldn't have a monopoly on the flow of information.
Re:Wikileaks (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe you should blame your party's leadership for their own actions instead of the people who are revealing their actions.
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Who you calling KGB? (Score:3, Interesting)
Wait, Snowden — hiding in Russia is a hero for his exposes, but Assange — hiding in London — is a "KGB agent" for his?..
The only known instance of an American politician covertly seeking Russian help in exchange for favorable policy changes is that of Ted Kennedy [oregonlive.com] (struggling against Ronald Reagan) — the Democratic "lion" and otherwise a hero of everything Progressive.
Re: Who you calling KGB? (Score:5, Insightful)
Thanks to the links I offered above, you too know, she spoke an untruth.
Maybe, you are too young to have paid attention, when these facts broke out, but Hillary Clinton was already very active in politics — she can not possibly not have heard about it. Therefore, she knew. Deliberately telling an untruth is the very definition of lying [princeton.edu].
Well, what would you accept as fact? There are folks, who still question Moon-landing, for example, and they too can explain in detail, why everything known about it was not "fact". In the early 1990-ies, when the archives were (briefly) made accessible, the KGB was in disarray...
American Left have always been good to the USSR and Russia... It was because of them, the US was humiliated in Vietnam, defeated not by military might, but by discontent back at home. Later, when the USSR collapsed, it was Bill Clinton, who didn't push for Nurneberg-style of the Communists, allowing their prosecution to fizzle [nytimes.com] — that during the time, when Moscow was barely avoiding famine thanks to America's help [nytimes.com]. Later, it were Barack and Hillary, who offered Putin a "Reset" — and poured billions of dollars into Russian scientific research [wsj.com] — not selflessly [freebeacon.com], of course. The duo also completely forgave Putin his invasion of Georgia by ending all sanctions in 2010 [nytimes.com] (thus encouraging him to invade Ukraine, as predicted [politifact.com]).
Why would Putin seek to undermine such an asset as Hillary — whom he could've instead controlled with a combination of continuing bribery and blackmail over the bribes already taken [freebeacon.com]?
Sure enough, Democrats would like Trump to look like Putin's favorite, but history points rather strongly at them...
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Do you check under your bed every night in case Putin is waiting to get you?
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As soon as President Hillary Clinton is in office Assange will be a dead man. The ecuadorian embassy will be stormed or destroyed. Any opposition by ecuador will be silenced by military force. Wikileaks will be shut down and anyone who has donated money will be rounded up and punished. And that will be the end of it.
Why? It's not like anything on Wikileaks has been more than a nuisance to her so far. And storming a foreign embassy in another country would do more harm to her than anything Wikileaks has done thus far. However it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Mr. Assange is eventually found dead from suicide, or choked on his dinner.
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Well, he can't live in his Ecuadorian mother's basement forever.
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? And?
Re: Wikileaks (Score:5, Interesting)
Proof that this email thing started YEARS ago! (Score:2)
CHECK THIS, THE MOST SHOCKING "JON PO" EMAIL!!!
Proof that this email thing has been going on for years.
Getting Down and Dirty with "John Po". [ietf.org]
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians were helping make these leaks, whether by breaking into the computers, connecting the data thieves with leaking organizations, bankrolling those organizations, or whatever.
But even if they did all those things, the real questions are (a) is the content true, and (b) if it is true, why do we need the Russians to reveal it?
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tie Trump to the Ruskies.
I wonder where that idea came from? Perhaps someone who's last name rhymes with dump?
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But it's Russia! And they hacked the DNC leaking all the info on how the Dems colluded to fuck Bernie over! Oh the horror!
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Maybe that's why I liked him so much. I knew he wasn't all bad.