[dohboi]

Sooo, is profiling someone a bigot, a bigoted act? If so, then didn't you just engage in that yourself??

[litesong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'A')re you becoming the kind of hateful person you rail against?

[Plantagenet]

Oh-oh. This is amazing.

One of the Podesta emails just released on Wikileaks suggests that Clinton was blackmailing Bernie Sanders during the D primary.

The Podesta email says that Clinton has "leverage" over Bernie and they might have to remind Bernie about it again to keep him in line.

Podesta emails shows that Clinton was blackmailing Bernie Sanders

That would explain why Bernie went so soft on Hillary during the primaries. Hillary has some kind of dirt on Bernie, and the Hillary campaign would remind Bernie periodically that they had him by the short and curlies and he better go easy on Hillary or he would regret it.


Ohmigad....How in HELL did Hillary find out about THAT!

[KaiserJeep]

[litesong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', '[')img]http://cdn.spectator.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/05014146/2016.11.4-Police-Chase-2.jpg[/img]

[Sixstrings]

Feisty Hilly campaigning in the rain in Florida:

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https://youtu.be/cbRtvPzkShI

[dissident]

http://theduran.com/julian-assange-says ... president/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') “Libya more that anyone else’s war was Hillary Clinton’s war. Barack Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person who was championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s documented throughout her emails.”

“There’s more than 1,700 emails out of the 33,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails we published just about Libya. It’s not about that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state something that she would use to run in the general election for president. So late 2011, there’s an internal document called the “Libya Tick Tock” that is produced for Hillary Clinton, and it’s all the…it’s a chronological description of how Hillary Clinton was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state.”

“As a result, there [have been] around 40,000 deaths within Libya. Jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in. That led to the European refugee and migrant crisis, because not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people then fleeing Syria, destabilization of other African countries as a result of arms flows.”

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') “Libya more that anyone else’s war was Hillary Clinton’s war. Barack Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person who was championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s documented throughout her emails.”

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', 'S')ooo, is profiling someone a bigot, a bigoted act? If so, then didn't you just engage in that yourself??

[dohboi]

What lite said. It's really quite comical. I can imagine Newf in '30's Germany railing against anti-Nazis because they were being so unfair, and were 'profiling' and were all bigots. Really, nearly beyond imagination how far he has to twist himself into pretzel logic to come up with these broadsides...

If we can steer the conversation back a bit closer to the thread topic, though...

Hilary may have already secured herself the White House, or rather, Latinos who are voting early in record numbers, have secured it for her.

Nevada's early voting just ended, and dems outvoted reps by such huge margins that experts on polling in the state are saying that there is now essentially no chance for Trump to catch up in the main election. By Republican strategists own calculation, the margin of dem to rep turn out was twice as big what they though was possible for Trump to be able to have a chance of recovering from on election day.

It has often been repeated that Trump would have to win ALL the swing states as well as pulling some Clinton leaning states into his column to win. Well, he just lost a key swing state. That means Clinton could loose all the remaining swing states--Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and NC--AND she could lose New Hampshire and Maine...she could lose all of those, and still win the election.

The odds of here losing all of those AND losing one other state that is right now pretty solidly in her camp seem pretty vanishingly small to me.

But then this has been a very...peculiar...election year, so who knows. (Others should check my math to see if I am miscalculating somewhere.)

[vox_mundi]

The rise and rise of fake news

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The deliberate making up of news stories to fool or entertain is nothing new. But the arrival of social media has meant real and fictional stories are now presented in such a similar way that it can sometimes be difficult to tell the two apart.

While the internet has enabled the sharing of knowledge in ways that previous generations could only have dreamed of, it has also provided ample proof of Winston Churchill's line that "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on".

There are hundreds of fake news websites out there, from those which deliberately imitate real life newspapers, to government propaganda sites, and even those which tread the line between satire and plain misinformation.

One of them is The National Report which advertises itself as "America's Number 1 Independent News Source", and which was set up by Allen Montgomery (not his real name).
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]"There are times when it feels like a drug," ... "There are highs that you get from watching traffic spikes and kind of baiting people into the story. I just find it to be a lot of fun."

[dohboi]

Thanks again for these, vox.

Here's another analysis of the NV situation from 538:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/has ... 6-forecast

Here's the part that I didn't realize:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..most voters in Nevada vote early...

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', '
')
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..most voters in Nevada vote early...

[vtsnowedin]

Nevada may vote early but that says nothing about Who they voted for.

[litesong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')hat will make three war criminals in a row---

[litesong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pee-stare', 'H')illary will never appoint another Republican to her administration. War on those bastards has been declared. No more liberal nice guys. It's Blood and Guts for the Iron Lady. That sh@t eating grin of hers (that we hated so much) is gone. The real Hillary has the b*lls that Bill never did.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'H')illary will never appoint another Republican to her administration. War on those bastards has been declared. No more liberal nice guys. It's Blood and Guts for the Iron Lady. That sh@t eating grin of hers (that we hated so much) is gone. The real Hillary has the b*lls that Bill never did.

[litesong]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pee stare', 'L')ite, didn't get that. Would you restate?