Waddya Mean "Democrats", You Corporate Stooge?

The NY Times tried to have a bit of fun describing the sale of their party to the special interests with a piece originally titled

“How Democrats Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Big Donor Money”

Ahh, well, and who among us does not enjoy a Dr. Strangelove reference? Evidently the non-enjoyers include NY Times editors, their readers, the 43% of Democrats who voted for no-PAC Bernie, and even, if we believe what she says rather than what she does, Hillary Clinton.

In any case, the current revised title is

"Democrats Rake In Money, Thanks to Suit by Republicans"

That's not quite "Republicans made us do it!", but it's closer. And it spoils our fun, since it was only last week the Times ran a piece titled

"Liberals See Hillary Clinton’s Focus on Big Donors as Bafflingly Dated".

To be fair there is a lot about Hillary that is baffelingly dated. But in this instance, I think the Times people quickly got the message that running yet another reminder of what a special-interest sell-out their party establishment has foisted on an unhappy Democratic base may not be helpful to the ongoing Hillary cram-down promotional effort.

 

 

Comments

[sbw]

Come on. I don’t want to be first.

[Buford Gooch]

They've always loved big donor money. No learning necessary.

[maryrose]

I wonder if Feingold is taking big donor money this time?

[Appalled (Alt-Moderate)]

sbw:

Sorry bub. You're first. And now you have to pay us non-firsts reparations. The UN says so.

[lurkersusie]

Oh my,

Robert Gates disarmed America, dares to attack Trump

http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/robert-gates-disarmed-america-dares-to-attack-trump/

[rse]

Just a heads up given the previous thread's discussion of giving up control over the ICANN. I wrote a post a few weeks ago about a troubling report called the Roadmap for the Next Administration. It just came to my attention within the last hour that the co-authors of that roadmap are also involved with creating the new form of governance template for ICANN.

Also heavily involved with the UN, Open Data, and new forms of governance for us serfs generally. I am still looking at the papers mentioned in footnotes.

[lyle]

Reposting this from last thread:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/29/oregon-judge-to-convicted-murderer-if-i-could-i-would-take-all-the-guns-in-america/2/

Short version: it wasn't the murderous perp's fault, it was the gun's fault.

[Captain Hate]

That article on Gates is outstanding.

Yeeaargh is blaming the MFM for his comments about Trump having a blow problem.

[lyle]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/deepwater-horizon-film-poses-fresh-woes-for-bp-1475227803

The new movie, a $100 million-plus production from Lions Gate, doesn’t shy away from unflattering portrayals of BP executives, who are depicted as more concerned about budgets and schedules than safety.

Well, of course.

[buccaneer morgan]

I liked gates, back when he worked for a rough hewn type like bill casey, but the last decade or so, he seems to have lost any lessons from that experience,

btw, they leaked the trump briefing, just to make a rhetorical point,

[buccaneer morgan]

but of course, grey poupon, they do not delve into the company's 'beyond petroleum' philosophy, due to their bout of skydragon worship, or consider who were some of their patrons,

[Buckeye]

I wrote a post a few weeks ago about a troubling report called the Roadmap for the Next Administration.

rse...I hope you are compiling a list of these 'intellectuals".

When the revolution starts, I need to know which way to point my shootin' iron.

[buccaneer morgan]

remember when for cereal@lyle, they knew it was the north koreans, except really do they seem the sort that would care about amy pascal's mundane musings

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/obama-admin-leaks-details-trumps-classified-intel-briefing-influence-election/

[lyle]

From Taranto's column today:

“Obama on Peres: ‘I Could Somehow See Myself in His Story’ ”—headline, Politico.com, Sept. 30

[rse]

Buckeye-Joi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Lab is also involved. That means that there is a tie to that twitter/UN Pulse arrangement because Alex "Sandy" Pentland is both on that task force and an mit prof tied to media lab.

[buccaneer morgan]

it's funny how obama can raise 1.5 billion (mostly from the subprime legion of doom, not once but twice, and yet he speaks out against corporate power, ayudanme, 'help me out, here'

[Tom R]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2016/voters_don_t_trust_media_fact_checking

So the trust in the accuracy of the "fact checkers" is about the same as the trust in the overall media. Bottom line is about 70% of likely voters distrust the media.

The good news is that value represents all likely voters. When you break it down by party affiliation you get Republicans 79% Independents 69% and Democrats 40%

In other words, for all the anti-Trump/pro-Hillary propaganda that the leftwing media is spewing out now to influence the election, roughly 70% of Independent voters realize its nothing but crap.

[Buckeye]

Buckeye-Joi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Lab is also involved. That means that there is a tie to that twitter/UN Pulse arrangement because Alex "Sandy" Pentland is both on that task force and an mit prof tied to media lab.

So I went and read his bio Robin and this jumped out:

"Soon after coming to MIT, Ito introduced mindfulness meditation training to the Media Lab. "

Well that sounds like a good use of a STEM education. /sarc.

Yep. He is in the crosshairs:)

[Captain Hate]

Finally Conason is good for something:

http://nypost.com/2016/09/30/hillary-keeping-bill-off-trail-due-to-rumored-affairs-report/

[jimmyk]

"Democrats Rake In Money, Thanks to Suit by Republicans"

I missed their story "Trump Pays Low Taxes, Thanks to Laws Passed by Democrats"

[buccaneer morgan]

you know I try to be cynical, but I can't keep up, when carolyn maloney, upbraids wells fargo, having been the recipient of a four figure danegeld

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2016&cmte=C00034595

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/breaking-tens-of-thousands-of-fraudulent-clinton-votes-found-in-ohio-warehouse/

[lyle]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-hatred-derangement-syndrome-1475192121

A commenter on this article coins a new term: Trumpanzees. Cute, huh?

[James D]

Lyle, I believe I've seen that term in comments over at NR before...

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I find I don't care what they call me. Still gonna pull that lever for Trump.

[lyle]

I'm sure it's not new, JD, just new to me. This is seriously one effed up election season.

[lurkersusie]

New Trump ad

General Flynn
General Flynn – ‏@GenFlynn

Why #NotHillary -- Because ISIS spread on her watch. @realDonaldTrump will Make America Safe Again. https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/781892652925083648 …"

[Beasts of England]

lol, jimmyk!!

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Dear Lord, MM - NO WONDER Obama won 2012! How many other warehouses around the country are loaded up with pre-filled phony Clinton ballots!? And no wonder Hillary's not campaigning much in Ohio - what will the honest mailman's son Kasich do about THIS?

[rse]

From looking at the ICANN blueprint, it appears to me the UN was already taking over control of the Internet. The surrender of ICANN appears to be so the US can no longer be an impediment to that desire to control information. That not only fits with what is really going on in ed, but it fits with a push back in the early 70s in connection with the declaration of the UN GA of the New International Economic Order.

I think I may have to go off the fact it is now 5 o'clock in bermuda and st John, New Brunswick.

[anonamom]

MM, send that warehouse full of votes story to Matt Drudge

[lyle]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-obama-clinton-coal-bailout-1475190767

Gangster government at its apotheosis: Close down an entire industry and the livelihood of thousands and thousands of workers in the name of a non-falsifiable theory based on poorly designed models and dramatically tampered data.

"Hey, sorry to squash your job, coal miners, but it's for your own good and Gaia loves you."

Then shift the pension obligation of these workers to the US taxpayer--in the name of fairness to widows and orphans--with backing the Uniparty.© Et voila.

Next phase? Hundreds of horrendously underfunded pension plans from every state, municipality start queuing up to Uncle Sugar...

[henry the deplorable]

Your clock reading skills work for me.

[henry the deplorable]

Yes, then your private 401ks and IRAs become the bailout for the grifters.

[lurkersusie]

It gets worse everyday

Daniel Horowitz
Daniel Horowitz – ‏@RMConservative

Judicial Amnesty? Federal judge indicates he might revive Obama’s DAPA amnesty https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/09/judicial-amnesty-federal-judge-indicates-he-might-revive-obamas-dapa-amnesty …

[rse]

https://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-applauds-us-senate-saying-yestoiana certainly suggests I am right.

Shout out to mitch mcconnell by name.

All the names that come to mind for him are slang for anatomy.

[buccaneer morgan]

yes, he will be imminently fair, I'm cereal,

On July 16, 2012, Judge Garaufis ordered the New York City Fire Department to implement racial quotas to address grievances from minorities who failed entrance exams. His ruling requires hiring off a list of priority hire candidates, two of every five newly hired firefighters to be black and one of every five Hispanic, until the department has fulfilled the court-ordered quota of 186 black and 107 Hispanic hires or until the list is exhausted. This is due to a lawsuit that alleges two placement exams (Written Exams 7029 or 2043) for the FDNY were discriminatory against blacks and Hispanics, because fewer minorities passed the exam than whites.[1]

[lyle]

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/black-moons-matter-t18723.html

Back to parody and satire after yesterday's TV show review.

[buccaneer morgan]

and they want to take credit for that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/30/shimon-peres-claims-from-beyond-the-grave-that-he-stopped-netany/

[lyle]

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/30/university-of-michigan-gets-trolled-gloriously-on-progressive-pronouns/

A student demands he be called "His Majesty."

That's some grand master level trolling, right there!

[Jim Eagle]

rse,

I wonder how Esther Dyson is feeling today?

[henry the deplorable]

Re Feingold's donations: his PAC pays Feingold a salary, but supports no candidates. Very Clintoonian.

[maryrose]

Henry:
There is always an angle to democrat activities.

[Captain Hate]

what will the honest mailman's son Kasich do about THIS?

He should, through the attorney general, seal off the area as a crime scene and start dusting for prints. Anybody IDd should be facing charges of treason with very long jail time.

[Buckeye]

He should, through the attorney general, seal off the area as a crime scene and start dusting for prints. Anybody IDd should be facing charges of treason with very long jail time.

Don't hold your breathe.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Ran out to the grocery and Seann Hannity was on my radio. He had Carrie Prejean, another gal with an Hispanic name, and a former Miss Wisconsin in the Miss USA pageant.

I didn't hear all of this, but Carrie Prejean said that when all of that controversy came down on her, Donald Trump was the only one who stood by her and defended her. She said he even gave her his private cell phone number and always answered.

The Miss Wisconsin lady has some sort of incurable disease and is now in home care. She said that when Trump found out about her illness, he offered all sorts of help and also made sure her son has a full ride scholarship to college. (I don't know if he personally donated or hosted a fundraiser.) He also wrote her a beautiful letter about how she was the bravest woman he knew.

I didn't hear the third woman, as she had been on before I turned on the radio. All three of them are outraged at Hillary Clinton using this story and at the Venezuelan woman who accepted Trump's help and thanked him and then made up a story about him. (And once again, I ask how she managed to get US citizenship and how quickly and without a good background check.)

The more I see, the more I think Trump is a pretty nice guy who has been terribly maligned by the democrats and the press.

[Captain Hate]

I'm not; none of these mutts takes this seriously.

[Jim Eagle]

Sorry, I don't believe the Ohio story.

I think they are sample ballots each party sends out to their regiistered voters to show them how to vote.

I would suggest like all airplane crashes to wait for the real story.

[Beasts of England]

Sounds like a good time to liquidate 401s, etc., and convert into real assets. The penalty will be much cheaper than the confiscation...

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Regarding the ballots, for all we know Kasich put them there.

I sure would be looking to see who had access to that warehouse, and of course the crime scene/fingerprints thing.

MY solution is that all states should have paper ballots with a new form showing they were printed AFTER September 30. All ballots should be locked in a vault in a bank, and removed only the morning of election day by armed state police, who transport them to voting areas under TV cameras.

And if this adds 6 hours to the voting day, so be it.

Also, hand counting under video surveillance with results announced on camera when counting is finished. Ballots nor people do not leave the room until counted.

[Captain Hate]

Sample ballots are usually clearly marked as such with an obvious voter ID number. Not sure what was in those crates from the article.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

And if they were ballots identical to official ballots, what's to prevent the crooked Dem party from using the Democrat pre-marked "sample ballots" to boost her numbers? Maybe I've grown too cynical, but I don't trust the Dem's to do ANYTHING honorable. Especially, as desperate as they are to keep their corrupt power structure in place, to protect them from prosecution in a Trump administration.

[Jim Eagle]

CH,

You can print those voter ID's later. These are templates. I believe there is voter fraud but on this scale? Hard to believe because even the GOP have security people who watch out for this in every state.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

If they are sample ballots, why are they stored in an obscure warehouse and not at party headquarters?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBIj1x-OZb0

Live thread, Trump rally, Novi, Michigan.

General Flynn just introduced Mayor Guilianni.

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

Because even political parties have to leaser warehouse space from time to time. You really think that those storage bins could fit into a campaign HQ?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jack,

We don't have sample ballots handed out here in Indiana. The newspapers print out some information and you can get it on the web site, but we have electronic voting, so sample ballots would not make sense.

I certainly do think those "sample" ballots could fit in a campaign HQ. The dem party's main offices are not cubbyholes.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Crowd in Novi reported to be 25,000 to 30,000.

Not sure if that is inside or counting people who couldn't get in.

Rudy is skewering Lester Holt and Hillary.

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

Those are Ohio ballots not Indiana.

You have a right to be suspicious and I have the same right to call Bullshit on the story. I think its phony and will await confirmation.

[Porchlight]

The article source looks sketchy, and the "Ballot Box" lettering on the boxes looks very Photoshopped.

But if one is going to cheat with paper ballots, this is probably how it's done. Volunteers in a warehouse somewhere filling out fake ones.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jack,

That's ok. I am not mad, just pointing out why I am suspicious.

Could be nothing, could be a fortuitous discovery. Will keep an eye out to see if anything else shows up.

[Porchlight]

Donald J. Trump
‏@realDonaldTrump

For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!

11:37 AM - 30 Sep 2016

[maryrose]

Porch:
We do have paper ballots filled out with pens.
It is a 3 page ballot this time.
Check it out and make sure there is no fraud.
Our AG Husted is a stand up guy.

[maryrose]

My sister in Hinckley has electronic voting.

[Porchlight]

Super sped up video of the line to see Trump in Novi, MI.

https://twitter.com/USAforTrump2016/status/781951978494582784

Chilly and rainy, too.

If anyone finds a source for the size of the crowd, please post!

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

I always suspicious of stories that show up on these minor websites. It just seemed to much of a story fitting a paranoia. Not saying you are but some times we want these things to fit our theories which may or may not be a reality.

Now machine politics in major Dem urban areas don't even need that level of sophistication. They just need to make sure the cameras aren't on.

[Captain Hate]

There were enough cases of suspicious Ohio activity in 2012 that the party of stoopid turned a blind eye to that nothing would surprise me.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Porchlight,

I saw on the Reddit thread 25-30 thousand, don't know where it came from. Apparently CNN is showing part of this.

[Porchlight]

MM,

I was looking at the RSBN stream and they showed the crowd. It didn't look quite that big to me but could have been 10K for sure.

maryrose, I sure hope it isn't fraud. I think we would need confirmation on what was in the boxes to be sure.

[maryrose]

We had a nun who voted 4 times in 2012.
How come Virginia has dead people and felons voting?

[Porchlight]

Apparently Trump says 20K in the speech. LOL, he would know better than I would.

Meanwhile while Trump campaigns in enemy territory, Hillary coughed up another lung in Florida where she's behind.

[Art in Newport]

.. Sounds like a good time to liquidate 401s,..

Beasts, I closed mine in 2011. I currently have a business investment (family business), and a savings account.

If the election goes the wrong way, going to start gradually drawing down the bank account and buying heavy metals.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Trump is demanding Obama promise not to pardon Hillary or her "con-conspirators."

Also brings up the Marc Rich pardon and the cattle futures scam!

Boy, he is on fire!

[Buckeye]

1) We have electronic voting in my precinct in Franklin County. Probably county wide.

2) Agree with JiB that the photo in the warehouse looks photoshopped.

[henry the deplorable]

It would be nice if anyone in the national media covered those remarks. Unfortunately, Rabinowitz this morning is as close as we will get.

[maryrose]

Obama will pardon the entire girl gang because he knows Trump would prosecute them . 5year window to prosecute.

[Deplorable Momto2]

Video and photos of Hillary's "crowd" in Florida today.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/shocking-video-shows-dismal-turnout-hillary-coral-gables-fl-rally/

[maryrose]

Fox News Polls kind of a mixed bag.
Trump still wins on the economy.

[maryrose]

Trump 54 visits to swing states
Hillary 25

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Almost 26,000 on the RSBN feed.

At rush hour on a Friday night.

[maryrose]

Fox poll according to Charles Payne is 42 dem 38 republican

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

DebinNC,

I hope you get a chance to watch this rally. I think you will be pleased.

[buccaneer morgan]

they have evidence of this right,

https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/781868298057179136

[Deplorable Momto2]

Commission on Presidential Debates admits Trump was right about his microphone. I also thought, not just in the hall, but over the broadcast, they were turning up his personal mike to pick up his breathing. Rush explained how this works on his show. It was not the case with Hillary's mike, however. (I know, I know - crazy conspiracy theory!)

http://www.debates.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=69&cntnt01origid=27&cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&cntnt01returnid=80

[lyle]

Why would the Clinton criminal gals need pardons when, according to the MFM, they did nothing wrong? Rhetorical question.

[maryrose]

Lyle:
They did plenty wrong as did Hillary.
I remain hopeful some accountability for this egregious flaunting of federal law will occur.
Question of the day:
Should Trump take up residence in Florida to insure a win there?
Romney came so close that I want Trump to be locking it down in the next two weeks.

[maryrose]

Momto2
Sabotage at the debate run by the Dems so that the mic for Trump is faulty.
They will sink to any level to defeat him.
That is why the ultimate victory will be so glorious!

[buccaneer morgan]

it's now an official exercise in absurdity,

http://www.weaselzippers.us/298617-gary-johnson-whos-harriet-tubman/

[Deplorable Momto2]

Steve Bousquet ‏@stevebousquet 2h2 hours ago
FBI holds emergency conference call with FL election supervisors after finding evidence of attempt to tamper with voting system

Steve Bousquet =
Tallahassee bureau chief, Tampa Bay Times

[Deplorable Momto2]

Yes, maryrose, it is rather pathetic is it not? I mean, how obvious can they be? Rush said they were compressing the sound (?) I think was the term, only on Trump's mic and that made every breath sound as loud as his speaking voice. If they did it to both candidates, you might give them leeway that it was an error of the sound technicians.

I'm so mad about their crooked tricks! I almost think he should have these things monitored and just stop in the middle of the debate and demand that they switch microphones.

I just hope everyone hears of their plots. It makes me more determined to vote,get every family member to the polls, and wear my deplorable t-shirt everywhere I go!!

[maryrose]

They have to make sure everything is above board in Florida.
Governor Rick Scott and Pam Bondi to the white courtesy phone.

[buccaneer morgan]

don't feel too bad, it happened to birch,

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/us/politics/evan-bayh-indiana-senate.html?_r=0

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

If I were Governor Scott, I would say, "Oh, thank you, FBI! We appreciate the warning! Thus, we will enact the emergency "paper ballots only" to prevent fraud."

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

buccaneer morgan,

Indiana voters haven't forgotten that he voted for Obamacare before he left the Senate. The Times article doesn't mention that.

[maryrose]

MM
I thought he voted for it.
Well the track record for Dem Senators that voted for it in normal states is not that good.

[maryrose]

No hanging chads please in Florida.
No one wants to go down that road again.

[buccaneer morgan]

unless lugar attacks him, or as in montana, the libertarian splits the vote, that's how they held baucus's seat,

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/30/its-alive-fbi-files-reveal-how-clinton-server-was-created-in-k-street-lab.html

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

maryrose,

He also voted for a couple of other really bad things. The partial birth abortion thing comes to mind.

He makes ads touting Hoosier values. Then he goes to DC and voted opposite of what the voters wanted.

People herer didn't forget that stuff.

They also didn't forget his desire to live in DC, his edict that his wife couldn't wear pants (back in the 80's) and his connection to lobbyists.

[Captain Hate]

The part about him refusing to ALLOW his wife to wear slacks just points out the pathetic state of opposition research and willingness to employ it in the party of stoopid. Lee Atwater would be sooooo pissed off.

[Free James D!]

Jonah Goldberg is going to be the Guest Programmer for October on Turner Classic Movies:

This month TCM welcomes two Guest Programmers--writer/editors Jonah Goldberg and Leon Wieseltier--who choose their films with an eye toward "Ideology in Movies." Goldberg is a syndicated columnist who writes about politics and culture for National Review, where he is also a senior editor. Wieseltier is a scholar, critic and contributing editor to The Atlantic, and former literary editor of The New Republic.

In alternating segments with host Ben Mankiewicz, the pair presents four movies. Wieseltier, a staunch liberal, chooses Elia Kazan's America America (1963), because it leads to a discussion of today's "widespread vilification of immigrants." His second pick is Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), which Wieseltier links to the current "ascendancy of demagoguery in our politics." Goldberg picks Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957), noting that he comes "from a branch of conservatism that is nervous about excessive political enthusiasm"; and Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) in part because he considers its crusading hero to be "the first Tea-Partier."

It's next Wednesday, October 5th. I think I'll be skipping TCM that night.