i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
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Yes, that argument makes about as much sense as candy flavored suppositories but frankly I bet people on the MAGA side will argue it.
That's working out well so far.
-The people who helped him make it possible. (NYT and related MSM editors, who have never taken public responsibility for these calls.)
If Comey keeps his yap shut
If ANYONE in the GOP primary had stood up and fought
If Obama had sounded the alarms on Russia
You'll also never convince me that Biden loses to Trump in 2016. Maybe he loses to whoever in 2020, but Roe is still here.
The majority of retrospectives have concluded that the last-minute Comey intervention made a very significant difference, by most calculations "the" difference.
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-around-disclosure-detailed-in-new-email
If only (a) Comey himself, or (b) Dean Baquet in specific and people in positions like his more generally, would ever have seriously addressed this.
World history has turned on good and bad luck. (Eg JW Booth.) This was huge bad turn.
The truth is there was no scenario in which 2016 would have been anything other than razor tight.
Those of us who remember the 2000 election know the same was said about Al Gore. It should have been impossible for hanging chads to matter.
The people to blame are those who voted for him
It’s the TV network that should have declined to make him the “star” of The Apprentice. That show made viewers think he’s a good businessman.
The producer of The Apprentice has said recently that he regrets it.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/13/democrats-republicans-condemn-salt-typhoon-hack
Years later, when the "Republican" former POTUS STOLE nuclear state secrets, took them home, lied about it, hid them, then lied about hiding them in a completely unsecure location... our legacy media didn't think that was a big deal so they dropped it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/rice-aides-powell-got-classified-info-on-personal-email-accounts-idUSKCN0VD2G1/
Why the hell don’t we organize?
Sign so this constitutional rule gets heard, he is exposed, and denied office.
We lose when good people do nothing. When we fight, we WIN!
https://resist.bot/petitions/PGZBAX
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/forming-the-new-american-resistance?r=2dkdc&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Zero trace.
Of course Trump doesn't use email and never puts anything incriminating on paper so he feels safe.
Cowards.
So many opportunities for such consequences have come & gone that there's no longer any point in expecting him to ever stop doing exactly what he wants to do.
Like they're in a cult or something.
Democrats represent competence in government, the benefits of such spread out over a society.
Republicans represent incompetence with benefits concentrated in select groups.
But the incompetent party is exciting and confident and promises tax cuts, growth, and ponies.
The media gives those people a permission structure to choose excitement over boring.
People want to do what they want and media give them excuse to do so.
It's not about what they should, it's about what they want.
And when what they want becomes a problem because it concentrates wealth among the top...
But the media benefits from a system driven by wants. They exist to indulge them.
Press responsibility? That's just quaint.
But I certainly hope he is miserable. I hope it galls in places he never knew he had.
Hold on. Getting new talking points now . . .
[listens to earpiece]
I'm getting new information...
I am sorry, one moment
[listens to ear piece]
....
then they say there were no consequences, several times
then they go, "see? we do it now but its ok because they got away with it before"
Oh ho ho! What a knee slapper!
We facing situation unlike any others in our lifetimes. Some think an implosion is inevitable; the debatable remains timing and severity.
it's like we took 450 years of white supremacy and taught it to make ridiculous noises with its mouth, and half the population didn't bat an eye.
If you always wondered how Hitler rose to power…
Which means Putin is in on all the decisions.
So, pretty dumb really.
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Whenever I hear "Dems are bad at messaging" I think of Chuck Todd saying it's not his job to call out lies--Obama just needed better messaging.
It’s a double standard that’s applied on a gender/race/class basis independent of PR
The FSB has all the notes from the KGB and they're helping the GOP.
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html