Some people haven't read 1984 or wouldn't recognize it happening right in front of them.

The DNC and Team Hillary gave us Cheetolini. He was their handpicked Pied Piper. Rigging primaries has consequences.

@WilliamCharles Why not ask Trey Gowdy & the rest of the Very hostile Repug investigative team, who blew through approx 6 million taxpayer dollars investigating this Years ago....no indictments, no censure, no nothing. Time to abandon beating that dead horse! Just like every other trumped-up charge, If they could have found one thing, just one, they would have run with it!

W.J. Astore

"Give me five minutes, and I can tell you exactly what Bernie Sanders believes in. Single-payer health care for all. A $15 minimum wage. Higher taxes on the richest Americans. College education that doesn’t bankrupt families and leave students with crushing debt. Criminal justice reform. Investment in infrastructure and renewable energy. He gives specifics, and he’s walked a principled walk for decades.

But what does the Democratic Partly leadership believe in? As this article at Truthdig put it, “Nancy Pelosi Believes In Nothing.” Of course, she does believe in something: her own power and privilege, which she seeks to maintain and expand. But principles like those held by Bernie Sanders? Forget about it.

I’ve been reading Matt Taibbi’s “The Great Derangement,” a terrific book that came out in 2008, and Taibbi nails it in this passage (pages 243-4):

The Democrats’ error was in believing that people wouldn’t notice this basic truth [that the party’s ideology is driven by power and nothing more] about their priorities. They were wrong on that score. In fact, a Quinnipiac poll taken around that time [2007] found the approval rating of Congress had fallen to 23 percent. Other polls saw the number plummet to the teens. The rating of the Democratic Congress was even lower than [George W.] Bush’s, and it was not hard to see why. Bush was wrong and insane, but he stood for something. It was a fucked-up something, but it was something. The Democrats stood for nothing; they viewed their own constituents as problems to be handled, and even casual voters were beginning to see this.

If you substitute Trump’s name for Bush’s in the above quotation, it makes even more sense. “[Trump] was wrong and insane, but he stood for something. It was a fucked-up something, but it was something.”

This is the biggest issue for corporate Democrats: What do you stand for? For so many in the establishment, what they stand for is themselves. The perpetuation of their own power and privilege. This is the biggest reason why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. It was always all about her."

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@AnneWimsey

Russiagate is the dead horse Team Hillary is beating. Why wouldn't they, it was their concoction.

@AnneWimsey

Where's Trey Gowdy come in?

@WilliamCharles ohferpetessake...ever hear he was the head of the Benghazi Investigation?
Amnesia is So convenient! Especially for drump apologists

@AnneWimsey

Cool yer jets there, Anne. I wanted to know how it applied to Assange revealing war crimes. Hillary has quite a lot of blood on her hands. Assange helped expose that.

Gowdy is a POS as well.

@WilliamCharles gee, I mostly remember Podesta's risotto recipe being the big revelation. And I was a Bernie supporter, big time.
Hilary...blood from where, exactly? Other than Bernie's..........

@AnneWimsey

The Dems never, ever explained the pedophilia code words in those emails. Seems as if that would have been easy to do.

You talk about being clueless... Hillary pushed for the destruction of Libya. In fact, she cackled like a deranged sociopath after Gaddafi was sodomized with a bayonet before being murdered.

Your ignorance of Hillary's warmongering does not speak well of your political knowledge.

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"Berta Cáceres, a Honduran indigenous rights and environmental activist, named Hillary Clinton, holding her responsible for legitimating the 2009 coup. “We warned that this would be very dangerous,” she said, referring to Clinton’s effort to impose elections that would consolidate the power of murderers."

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@WilliamCharles "pedophilia code words". Yeah, okay.......because she is my age, and us older women are well-known as pedophiles. In fact, my mug got plastered all over Facebook as one when I was defending Hillary against fathead rumor-mongers like you, by several people who obviously were not native English speakers. Estonian BS, much? FACT: that pizza parlor, like most real estate in swampy DC, is built on a slab, no basement whatsoever. Which anyone with a real interest in the truth could have checked, building plans are public record!
Nasty, nasty troublemaker, you & your co-conspitators!

@AnneWimsey

You still don't get it. There were some things written that were extremely cryptic. Would love to know what the hell they were talking about. It's from the FBI list of pedophile code words.

The Comet Pizza owner himself was quoted in a Sunday news mage about storing canned tomatoes in his basement. There's tunnels all through yhat area.

One of HRC's CFI employees was busted in Haiti for child trafficking. Again... sorry you can't see past your filters.

@WilliamCharles OMG, you cannot be serious! Go to the Town Hall, read the building plans! "There are tunnels all through there"??? So the slab can fall in?
Blocking your willfully 8gnorant stupidity Now!