C-SPAN had a wonderfully informative discussion with former US Attorney about HRC's email server:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?406228-4/washington-journal-joseph-digenova-hillary-clintons-emails

Three pieces for your entertainment:

The Grauniad ran an opinion piece by former NYT executive editor Jill Abramson abtly titled "This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest". The headline is enough to make my head spin, nevermind the content. Not worth spending time on, really. You can guess what the comment section thought of it. Not surprisingly, it was closed after an hour.

Worth a read, however, is a recent polemic by Sean Kerrigan: Will We Elect Hillary After Her Many, Many War Crimes?

What made me laugh was this: the supposed presidential frontrunner would have been hanged if judged by the standards set at the Nuremberg Trials, yet Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer, holds a fundraiser for Clinton at $350k per pair for seats at her majesty's table. Who the hell needs satire anyway, not even Doug Stanhope could come up with most of the twisted shit reality confronts us with day in, day out.

Last but not least, Robert Fisk wonders why neither Cameron nor Obama seem to be celebrating the retaking of Palmyra from the IS.

"Here are the Syrian army, backed, of course, by Vladimir Putin's Russkies, chucking the clowns of Isis out of town, and we daren't utter a single word to say well done."

The party is split no matter who wins. Trump has and likely will get more votes than anyone, but if he wins, I have even Republican friends who out of a moral obligation feel forced to vote for Hillary Clinton. Let that sink in. These are people who claimed Obamacare was "a complete government takeover of the health care system" claiming people (which is pure bullshit), and they can't stomach the thought of a Trump presidency.

On the other hand, Trump supporters might riot if Trump doesn't get it.

I don't generally make drastic predictions about politics, but I think we are watching the destruction of a political party. I don't see a way forward for the GOP because the Tea Party movement is too big and energetic within the GOP to not dominate it, yet cannot accept their way is a losing way, they are perfectly content on burning the GOP to the ground in the process, and too stupid to understand that is what they are doing.

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If you read two articles today, let it be these two splendid pieces on the election:

http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/05/why-bernie-vs-hillary-matters-more-than-people-think/
http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/10/why-bernie-sanders-is-more-electable-than-people-think/

The cherry on top would be these scathing pieces on the Clintons:

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/
https://newrepublic.com/article/129433/clintons-war-drugs-black-lives-didnt-matter

From what I've seen in the perfectly statistically representative grouping of posters in whatever internet fora I visit: there are a large number of Sanders supporters who, quite properly in my view, despise Hillary Clinton.

People forget, Hillary scammed tons of money with the Whitewater scandal for decades until it was leaked in 1992, but they protected Hillary by everyone else in the partnership taking the heat but her, then very quickly almost without media catching it Bill Clinton as lame duck end of term pardoned everyone involved in Whitewater, in 1994 Hillary was stealing money "again", her law firm partner "fell on his sword" accepting the blame keeping Hillary safe, 1996 democrat fundraising head "fell on his sword" receiving 17 count indictment for money again.

there's ton of stuff even back to her youth with money scams and always wiggling out of it.


“In 1997, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, along with several other groups, filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and Donna Shalala over closed-door meetings related to the health care plan. The AAPS sued to gain access to the list of members of the task force. Judge Royce C. Lamberth found in favor of the plaintiffs and awarded $285,864 to the AAPS for legal costs; Lamberth also harshly criticized the unethical tactics especially as she was a partner in a lawfirm, at least before it was shut down due to her partner "falling on his sword for theft and scamming clients".


“In the weeks before the inauguration, he [Vince Foster] had worked intensively with another Arkansas lawyer to expunge Bill and Hillary’s financial records of a shady land deal – a scandal later known as the Whitewater affair… One of his [Vince Foster’s] first jobs in the White House was to try to make sense of the Clintons’ false tax returns concerning the Whitewater land investment. A note in his hand-writing, found much later, warned that Whitewater was “a can of worms you shouldn’t open.”

Vince Foster was assassinated 1993.

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Hillary Clinton "I don't think... I don't think." Says it all really.

If she doesn't change her policies in response to donations then what are these people paying for?

Look, if Hillary Clinton says she sucks dick for campaign contributions, then I guess the generous thing would be to take her at her word.

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Considering that Bernie Sanders might win, I don't share so much pessimism. But of course if Palin's twin sister (Hillary Clinton) wins...yeah, I am with you.

If you're a "Bernie or Bust" person, a Trump-Palin ticket would be by far and away the way to make that happen should Sanders pull an epic upset of Hillary Clinton.

My greatest fear about that is the general electorate is so stupid, that if the economy were to crash, people might vote for Trump-Palin, and they'd win over Sanders.

And that's about the craziest f'n thing perhaps in the history of presidential politics.

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