Jazerus posted:

Obviously Lynch has never met a Clinton ever and is going to be hugely influenced by 30 minutes with Bill

theblackw0lf posted:

Greg Sargent talked to the Sanders campaign, and sounds like there's more victories they've gotten from the platform than has been reported. Some really good stuff here

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/07/01/bernie-sanders-is-winning-some-big-victories-over-the-dem-platform/


According to Sanders adviser Warren Gunnels, they are mostly satisfied and believe they are off to "an excellent start"

HorseRenoir posted:

Have to pretend Sanders got something accomplished out of this drawn-out mess, I suppose

Geostomp posted:

If it has any hope of destroying those check cashing scammers that prey on poor areas, that alone would be enough reason to demand it.

No Butt Stuff posted:

Well, when she had demonstrably different ideas prior to their engagements, I think it's fair. I don't think it's fair that he'd get all the credit for all the ideas, but you can't deny his impact on some of it.

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Also, at this point I view Hillary as a woman the same way that OJ documentary portrayed OJ as black. It's a convenience thing.

No Butt Stuff posted:

Much not all, which is what I was attempting to say, but didn't really, I guess.

I'm guessing you didn't watch the OJ documentary I'm referring to. The idea was the he transcended race, and then it was utilized by other people (and to a small extent, himself) as a type of leverage in his trial, but that for the most part he was thought of outside of the context of race, which was a huge thing.

But yeah, I'm totally just being a dick about Hillary not being genuine.

gfsincere posted:

Yet we haven't had this problem with our citizenship test. Wonder why that is?

Thaddius the Large posted:

God drat, I forgot it was time for that again. Yodarape was pretty funny, but I'm glad to see the animetars go.

Jackson Taus posted:

I don't know all the details, but "trying to beat someone else out for a committee chair you want" sounds like a normal political thing that politicians do, right? Like scheming for better committee assignments is basically every Congressperson's hobby, no?

Grognan posted:

If it were anyone but the leader of one of the two parties that run the federal government, they'd be fired and not be working anywhere near classified information. The State dept. IG report actually detailed that this happened to a US ambassador that also used a private server in violation of dept. policy. He resigned rather than face administrative punishment.

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The Ambassador has lost the respect and confidence of the staff to lead the mission. Of more than 80 chiefs of mission inspected in recent cycles, the Ambassador ranked last for interpersonal relations, next to last on both managerial skill and attention to morale, and third from last in his overall scores from surveys of mission members. The inspectors found no reason to question these assessments; the Ambassador’s leadership to date has been divisive and ineffective

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(The Ambassador) does not read classified front channel messages and has not established a system to have his staff screen incoming cables relevant to Kenya and U.S. interests in the region.

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The Ambassador’s greatest weakness is his reluctance to accept clear-cut U.S. Government decisions. He made clear his disagreement with Washington policy decisions and directives concerning the safe-havening in Nairobi of families of Department employees who volunteered to serve in extreme hardship posts; the creation of a freestanding Somalia Unit; and the nonuse of commercial email for official government business, including Sensitive But Unclassified information. Notwithstanding his talk about the importance of mission staff doing the right thing, the Ambassador by deed or word has encouraged it to do the opposite

Grognan posted:

I am going to posit that none of you actually read the FBI and DoS IG reports.

go3 posted:

he is the literal embodiment of FYGM

FourLeaf posted:

Fine. I will step back and say that the article has a severe case of 'dramatic headline not backed up by actual content'. The author conflates his own opinions about Bernie's white privilege with the facts presented by actual Sanders staffers regarding the campaign's funds and time limits. It's extremely dishonest.

Spaced God posted:

So I was reading a WaPo article about "Why the police in Baton Rouge look like they’re dressed for war" and it was your bog standard military police stuff, but I learned something fun:


Why did we need to clarify police don't need bayonets or grenade launchers? Did any department get loving bayonets? I guess they expect to fight some blacks bank robbers in 1916 Verdun or some poo poo

radical meme posted:

So you think being the first police chief in the U.S. to blow up a citizen without any sort of judicial process looks good on a resume?

CelestialScribe posted:

Holy poo poo. Back in February everyone was saying "wait until July when polls are more accurate". And this isn't a Rasmussen poll - it's a pollster that has a top rating at 538 and isn't known for making crazy errors.

It's July. Trump is gaining ground. This is happening. Stop trying to deny it.

This is one poll, yes. But you can't look at it and dismiss it just because the average is still in positive territory.

Empress Theonora posted:

thanks for this, i've been freaking out all day over the other polls

gfsincere posted:

I advocated that black people should arm themselves, but I get visits because of
a) Ferguson
b) providing plenty of material support to BLM
c) was in the Marines as an intelligence analyst with speciality in insurgency and counterinsurgency operations and tactics.

I'm probably not the person you want to lose track of and not know what he's up to in case I decide to go off the reservation, as it were, especially in the light of the Dallas attack.

Internet Webguy posted:

I suppose miraculously learning to walk again is about on par, difficulty-wise, as someone "deciding" to join the 1%.

smg77 posted:

Periodiko posted:

I'm wonder if the reason they haven't thrown the speechwriter under the bus is because the person who wrote the offending passage is a Trump family member.

size1one posted:

Trump isn't going to drop out. He's the bratty kid in class who craves attention so he annoys everyone. He doesn't care that everyone hates him as long as people pay attention to him.

There's even a non-zero chance that Melania's plagiarism was intentional just to create a scandal and buzz. Just think how much attention Trump will get now.

size1one posted:

You're assuming he doesn't see he wife like everyone else in his life: Disposable.

size1one posted:

Yeah I remember that. I don't think that proves he cares. People sympathize with the wives when they're attacked so that was an easy win for Trump. Just look ITT to see people who despise Trump but honestly feel bad for Melania.

People who compulsively crave attention don't stop when they get attention. Giving them attention usually makes it worse.

Edit: and even if you're right about it being a possessive thing theres a difference between Cruz using her and Trump using her. Trump gets to do what he wants with his playthings.

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/CraigSJ/status/755860548604923904


Apperantly the "alleged" Speechwriter wasn't on Trump's payroll with the FEC.

Arcanen posted:

VP doesn't matter! Who cares if Clinton's pick is a super bland blue dog white dude who's signed reckless banking legislation in the last couple of weeks? Biden was exactly the same, and look how much we all love him?

Necc0 posted:

What the gently caress??

This is really from the GOP?

GalacticAcid posted:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/755972015249645568

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The Hatch act does not prevent cabinet members from speaking at the DNC. That is just a policy Obama implemented. The Hatch act prevents cabinet members from performing political functions only in their official capacities.

Speaking at the DNC is not a violation of the Hatch act.

Giving an interview about a new program and saying "and that is why you should vote for Obama! He does stuff like this!" is a violation of the Hatch act.

Franco Potente posted:

VPs have almost no home state effect anymore.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

Your noodles are violence against my people. Your broth; cultural genocide.

Reason posted:

http://www.irbsearch.com/index.html I believe this is the website we ended up using and think its the one I'm talking about. They will give you a print out of the person you're looking up with all previous addresses, dobs, and ssn. But if you're talking about info only process servers(and I guess state patrol and law enforcement) have access to let me tell you about ACE the WA state patrol database.

Heck if we want to talk about databases the public doesn't have access to it opens up all sorts of crazy stuff that employees have access to. Verizon at least used to when your account pulled up after you called in it would include your SSN in plain text right there on the screen. There are easier ways to get someones SSN and invade privacy than wikileaks. It would be pretty trivial to pick your target then get hired at some outsource phone support company for their cell phone provider and right there on the screen have literally everything you ever needed on anyone who had a phone account.

irbsearch website posted:

IRB is the only data provider that exclusively serves investigative professionals. You and your business are our priority.

citybeatnik posted:

We're trapped in a stable time loop, doomed to repeat ourselves again and again until after the convention.

The emails read like the kind of thing I'd hammer out on my cellphone - short, slightly abrupt, and since it's between colleagues not necessarily cleaned up/as polished and professional as you'd use for public consumption. Like those climate scientist emails that people on the right were crowing about a few years ago.

a shameful boehner posted:

"Lets get this story out there without attribution"

Bushiz posted:

an honorary chair is an entirely optics-based position.

you can't really have this one both ways.

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

She didn't.

She offered her an unpaid, ceremonial position as honorary campaign chair. it is completely useless and I am sure an olive branch to make sure she went the gently caress away quietly.

Dead Cosmonaut posted:

I think it was Glenn Beck who first invented this argument. I don't like Assange, but Assange has posted poo poo that is both critical of the Russian and Syrian governments.

Necc0 posted:

Not calling out anyone in specific because honestly I can't remember who they were but to all the people who told us we were wrong when we got pissed at Bernie when he turned his campaign negative: go gently caress yourselves.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Please say this was recorded. It must have been.