The 2016 United States Presidential Election

This tape plus the new revelations that he boasted of walking into the dressing room at the Miss Universe "contest" in order to see the contestants naked. -- add peeping tom pervert to the list.Curious that these are being suddenly released now, in counterpoint to the wikileaks about Clinton and the Podesta emails. The Clinton machine built him up and got him a lot of that extra media exposure -- you can be sure that they also had the dirt to use when necessary.Frankly I am thoroughly disgusted by this years election garbage, these cess-pool occupying candidates, by far the worst choices in decades.yechh

I find it difficult to listen to either one, and each new revelation makes it that much worse. It's like they are actively racing to the bottom to see how low they can go. We just got back from 3 weeks in Canada, where headlines were about local politics, and it was quite a relief. My phone had no service (thanks Verizon) and we went from B&B to B&B up to Cape Breton and back, enjoying the views. Very therapeutic.The only problem I had was our first night on the Bay of Fundy we went to these caves that were open to walk into at low tide but flooded at high tide so you could kayak into them, and I slipped on some seaweed and sprained my wrist -- the kayaks we brought stayed on the car for the duration of the trip. Now I have to finish the all new front porch before winter.Fun

The GOP set the groundwork via hate-media that enabled Trump to be a candidate, but the impetus for all that media coverage that he received gratus from the main-stream media came from the Clinton Machine using their "contacts" with the media (big donors) in order to get him to be the RNC candidate, even if they didn't like it.Read the leaked emails -- it lays out this very game plan:

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Leaked Emails Show That Trump Was a Tool Used by the Hillary Campaign From Day One

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Calling them the "pied piper" candidates, team Hillary describes Trump, Cruz, and Carson as nominees that could - if handled properly - make the extreme the mainstream.

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"We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously," it said in the email.

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The summary is that the DNC and the Clinton campaign wanted Trump to be Hillary's opponent because they knew his extreme stances could be used to alienate and divide. They could then use these candidates to paint the Republican party as a whole as something dangerous.

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Trump was a tool for Hillary's campaign all along. She wanted the press to take Trump seriously, put him up as the most viable option for Republicans, and the right took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. Now with the Trump campaign burning to the ground, and GOP leaders walking away due to his recent comments, the Clinton campaign's plan to put Hillary on top is coming to fruition.

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It wasn't just Bernie that they rigged the system against, they've been planning this for years, and you can bet they have dirt on every candidate, including LOTS on Trump, to release when needed.Enjoy

If she can't win house and senate, particularly senate, they will hog-tie her like the did Obama. The emails may still sink her with low voter turnout and with high voter burnout.If she does win big, as now seems increasingly possible with a 50 state plan, she can deal the GOP the ultimate irony: Obama as Supreme Court Justice (a position he is highly qualified for). I don't believe he would accept but it is a wonderful thought.Then we will see what her private positions are instead of her public positions -- especially as regards Wells Fargo and then Wall Street in general.Unfortunately the big loser will be climate change. Again.Enjoy

The RNC wanted Bush. The media railroaded them into Trump -- all you need to do is look at all the anti-Trump republicans. You mean the rampant evidence of collusion of CNN MSNBC an other media with the Clinton campaign? Where the DNC and Clinton aides wrote the news? The collusion that resulted in a virtual blackout on the Bernie campaign while plastering Trump all over the place?It's in the hacked emails.Try google. Really. Or are you like Donna Brazile, afraid of the truth?Just a moment...Enjoy

I'm going to vote for Jill Stein for president in order to see if we can get the Green Party vote count over 5%.Down ticket I am voting for progressives in federal and state positions -- building the progressive base that will put Bernies policies into law, eventually if not this election cycle,And to take back the senate and the house, which is more important than president -- they write the laws and approve the appointments.What Donald has done to the GOP certainly opens the door for a democrat takeover.The problem democrats have is that they don't know how to get people to go to the polls -- they don't promote any burning social issues to get people excited. It's not like there are no issues they could use (minimum living wage, universal healthcare, #blacklivesmatter issues on police violence, free community college, etc), rather it is like they have forgotten what it's like to be an advocate for the people.Enjoy

You mean like invading Iraq on a pretext because Saddam threatened daddy bush?

Most certainly they will if they retain a majority in the house and senate.The senate is the most likely to fall, so at least appointments can be approved, the house has some systemic issues (gerrymandering), so not as likely.Enjoy

The evidence is there in documents, mostly the emails, that show collusion, but I am not interested in converting you -- if you want to pursue the issue, fine, if you want to ignore it and feel cozy warm in ignoring it, also fine. This election has shown me that the vast majority of people are not interested in the fact that our democracy is under siege by the 1% or dealing with social issues, they are much more interested in the behavior of football players. Hillary is bought\colluding, the DNC is bought.Enjoy

I mean the 50 years (5 decades) that I have personal knowledge of, and this includes two impeachment trials (Nixon and Clinton). Trump would likely be a fast 3rd, and if Hillary\DNC lose the 2018 election (house and senate) we can expect the GOP to play this game again.We can also expect both to face legal trials if not elected.Enjoy

Elizabeth Warren. There could be 3 opportunities for the next president, but ... The bigger problem is that the democrats need to learn how to win off-year elections -- they are likely to lose the senate in 2018, and then we are back to gridlock, with even more vengeance, not just misogyny but because it is Hated Hillary.The fear Trump gambit won't work in 2018. You need social issues to bring out voters ... like the progressive platform issues:Living wage
Universal Health
Free Community College
etc etc etcThe DNC (under DWS) blew it in 2014 and lost the senate ... when #FightFor15 was producing strikes and marches and lots of publicity, the DNC was silent. Same with #BlackLivesMatter.The need to be FOR the people in order to get the people to vote for them.Enjoy

It isn't. RI is a D+11 state on the Cook Preferred Voting Index, which means that whoever is the democrat will be the one to win our electoral votes.That liberates me to vote my conscience. He doesn't have the brains to be either. He is a vengeful idiot that grew up rich, squandered more than he earned, and is the epitome of white male privilege with no conscience.Enjoy

On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive is an Easy CallWikiLeaks: New York Times Propped Up Clinton, Subverted SandersMedia To Voters: Drop Dead, We're Getting Hillary ElectedJust some articles I came across today. I didn't, but if the shoe fits. Like I said, I am not interested in convincing anyone, especially anyone not interested in finding out. Are all Bernie supporters now conspiracy theorists, or is this just you way to dismiss it. LOL. Attack the messenger fallacy.Enjoy.

Then donations are tax deductible. And that's why they lose off-year elections, as in 2014 when they lost the senate.Enjoy

Voters purged from registration overwhelmingly Bernie supporters while areas of Clinton supporters not purged. Voters with registrations mysteriously changed so that they couldn't vote, predominantly young.Evidence of machine tampering to record false results, always to Clinton benefit (a trick learned from the GOP).Long lines in Bernie districts because of sudden cut-back on polling stations ... but not in Clinton districts.Then add in the systemic rigging of closed primaries where independents could not vote, as in New York where you had to register democrat before the first debate to be able to vote in the primary. Half of Bernie's supporters were independents.And add in the systemic rigging through the media (all owned by corporations that supported Hillary massively) so that even MSNBC rarely mentioned Bernie and the media blackout on his rallies,Finally there is the systemic rigging of the superdelegates such that Bernie would have needed something over 60% of the popular vote to win.Given all the deck stacking against him I find it incredible that he was only 10% behind of the "official" DNC "certified" popular vote at the end.Bernie said the system was rigged at the beginning, but I think people were shocked by the degree of rigging and the degree of complacency about it -- dismissing it as "politics as usual" -- especially when election fraud was exposed and admitted (Nevada). Agreed, and this is where the incompetence of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz first became apparent in 2014, when the democrats were handed a social issue on a silver platter and they ignored it: the protests, strikes and marches for $15/hr wages. That is also when they lost the senate. She should have been fired then, but hey, she was installed to support Hillary (2008 campaign chair, Tim Kane asked to step down to make room for her ... wonder what he got in that deal). And this is where the Bermie revolution continues today, thousands of people have stepped up to run for offices "from dog-catcher to senator" to get progressive issues back into the party. Here in RI we elected 13 "Berniecrats" in the primary, and they will be elected in November because RI is a D+11 state on the Cook Partisan Voting Index.But our voting system has some severe systemic problems that perpetuate the two party system and the easy corruption of candidates to get funding to get elected. Bernie has shown us a path to deal with some of it, but it is going to take a much larger effort to change the system to enable third parties a viable role in American politics.Enjoy