boutons_deux
11-04-2016, 02:31 PM
Consider these recent developments:
There appears to be a war going on inside the FBI, and from what we can tell, a group of rogue agents, mostly in New York, may be in such a fervor (http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518) to destroy Hillary Clinton that they may be aggressively leaking damaging innuendo to the press against her in the waning days of the campaign. They succeeded in their apparent goal of making FBI director James Comey a tool of their campaign — and the basis for their investigation is an anti-Clinton book written under the auspices of an organization of which the CEO of the Trump campaign is co-founder and chairman. Pro-Trump FBI agents now seem to be coordinating (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/03/meet-donald-trump-s-top-fbi-fanboy.html) with Trump surrogates to do maximal possible damage to Clinton.
Republicans continue to cheer the fact that the electronic systems of American political groups were illegally hacked, and then private communications were selectively released in order to do damage to one side in this election. The Republican nominee has explicitly asked (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-invites-russia-to-meddle-in-the-us-presidential-race-with-clintons-emails/2016/07/27/a85d799e-5414-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html) a hostile foreign power to hack into his opponent’s electronic systems.
High-ranking Republican officeholders are now suggesting that they may impeach Clinton as soon as she takes office. These are not just backbench nutbars of the Louie Gohmert variety, but people with genuine power, including Ron Johnson (http://m.beloitdailynews.com/mobile/news/johnson-clinton-could-be-impeached/article_e6451d9c-a03c-11e6-b059-e3910e7e9427.html), the senator from Wisconsin, Michael McCaul (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-could-be-impeached-if-elected), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and veteran legislators like James Sensenbrenner and Peter King (http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/politics/gop-congressmen-constitutional-crisis/). The message is being echoed by top Trump surrogates like Rudy Giuliani (http://time.com/4555119/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-impeachment/).
There is a growing movement (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/10/27/republicans-are-already-treating-clintons-presidency-as-illegitimate) among Republicans in the Senate to simply refuse to approve any nominee appointed by a Democratic president to the Supreme Court, leaving open any and all vacancies until a Republican can be elected to fill them.
State and local Republican officials are engaged in widespread and systematic efforts (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/03/federal_judge_slams_north_carolina_voter_purge.htm l) to suppress the votes of African-Americans and other groups likely to vote disproportionately Democratic; in many cases officials have been ordered by courts to stop their suppression efforts and they have simply ignored the court orders (https://www.thenation.com/article/gop-states-keep-ignoring-court-orders-to-restore-voting-rights/).
Republican elected officials increasingly feel emboldened to openly suggest (http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/oklahoma-legislator-on-hillary-clinton-two-words-firing-squad/article_6fa93116-17bf-5a89-abfa-84402602a009.html) violence (http://www.vox.com/2016/10/31/13482672/richard-burr-hillary-clinton-gun-joke) against Clinton should she be elected.
It is important to understand that is not normal. This is not just bare-knuckle politics. Something extraordinary is happening.
a group of FBI agents is in direct conflict (http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957) with prosecutors who believe the agents have a weak case in their attempt to find evidence of corruption that can be used against Clinton. The agents, in an atrocious violation of FBI policy against injecting the Bureau into an election, begin leaking dark innuendo to reporters.
these agents are basing (http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518) their investigation on a book called “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer. Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute (http://www.g-a-i.org/about/), an organization co-founded and chaired by Steve Bannon. Who is the CEO of the Trump campaign.
When Bill Clinton was impeached, people talked about “the criminalization of politics” — the idea that Republicans were trying to use the levers of the justice system as a means to prevail in what should be just ordinary political competition. George W. Bush’s administration fired (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy) a group of U.S. Attorneys because they were unwilling to pursue bogus voter fraud cases against Democrats or were too willing to investigate genuine corruption among Republican officials. There are cases like the absurd prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, who has been in jail (http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obama-pardon-don-siegelman) for years
Donald Trump takes every ugly impulse Republicans have and turns it up to 11, and just about the entire party follows him down. So now they are making it very clear that from literally the day Hillary Clinton is inaugurated, they will wage total war on her. There will be no rule or norm or standard of decency they won’t flout if it gets them a step closer to destroying her, no matter what the collateral damage.
In a strong democracy, one party can’t come into power and just lock up its opponents.
It can’t turn the country’s law enforcement agencies into a partisan tool to destroy the other party.
It can’t say that the courts will function only at its pleasure.
But there’s only one party that is so vigorously undermining core democratic institutions in this way.
Democrats ... aren’t engaging in widespread official vote suppression,
chanting that should their candidate win her opponent should be tossed in jail,
promising to prevent any Republican president from filling vacancies on the Supreme Court,
suggesting that they’ll try to impeach their opponent as soon as he takes office,
cheering when a hostile foreign power hacks into American electronic systems, and
trying to use the FBI to win the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/03/republicans-are-now-vowing-total-war-and-the-consequences-could-be-immense/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1
Thanks, Repugs, y'all all always, behind the shield of BigCorp/VRWC $Bs, fuck up everything.
America is fucked and unfuckable. VRWC/BigCorp/Repugs are unstoppable.
Will just the myth of American democracy make it to 2050?
There appears to be a war going on inside the FBI, and from what we can tell, a group of rogue agents, mostly in New York, may be in such a fervor (http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518) to destroy Hillary Clinton that they may be aggressively leaking damaging innuendo to the press against her in the waning days of the campaign. They succeeded in their apparent goal of making FBI director James Comey a tool of their campaign — and the basis for their investigation is an anti-Clinton book written under the auspices of an organization of which the CEO of the Trump campaign is co-founder and chairman. Pro-Trump FBI agents now seem to be coordinating (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/03/meet-donald-trump-s-top-fbi-fanboy.html) with Trump surrogates to do maximal possible damage to Clinton.
Republicans continue to cheer the fact that the electronic systems of American political groups were illegally hacked, and then private communications were selectively released in order to do damage to one side in this election. The Republican nominee has explicitly asked (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-invites-russia-to-meddle-in-the-us-presidential-race-with-clintons-emails/2016/07/27/a85d799e-5414-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html) a hostile foreign power to hack into his opponent’s electronic systems.
High-ranking Republican officeholders are now suggesting that they may impeach Clinton as soon as she takes office. These are not just backbench nutbars of the Louie Gohmert variety, but people with genuine power, including Ron Johnson (http://m.beloitdailynews.com/mobile/news/johnson-clinton-could-be-impeached/article_e6451d9c-a03c-11e6-b059-e3910e7e9427.html), the senator from Wisconsin, Michael McCaul (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-could-be-impeached-if-elected), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and veteran legislators like James Sensenbrenner and Peter King (http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/politics/gop-congressmen-constitutional-crisis/). The message is being echoed by top Trump surrogates like Rudy Giuliani (http://time.com/4555119/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-impeachment/).
There is a growing movement (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/10/27/republicans-are-already-treating-clintons-presidency-as-illegitimate) among Republicans in the Senate to simply refuse to approve any nominee appointed by a Democratic president to the Supreme Court, leaving open any and all vacancies until a Republican can be elected to fill them.
State and local Republican officials are engaged in widespread and systematic efforts (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/03/federal_judge_slams_north_carolina_voter_purge.htm l) to suppress the votes of African-Americans and other groups likely to vote disproportionately Democratic; in many cases officials have been ordered by courts to stop their suppression efforts and they have simply ignored the court orders (https://www.thenation.com/article/gop-states-keep-ignoring-court-orders-to-restore-voting-rights/).
Republican elected officials increasingly feel emboldened to openly suggest (http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/oklahoma-legislator-on-hillary-clinton-two-words-firing-squad/article_6fa93116-17bf-5a89-abfa-84402602a009.html) violence (http://www.vox.com/2016/10/31/13482672/richard-burr-hillary-clinton-gun-joke) against Clinton should she be elected.
It is important to understand that is not normal. This is not just bare-knuckle politics. Something extraordinary is happening.
a group of FBI agents is in direct conflict (http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957) with prosecutors who believe the agents have a weak case in their attempt to find evidence of corruption that can be used against Clinton. The agents, in an atrocious violation of FBI policy against injecting the Bureau into an election, begin leaking dark innuendo to reporters.
these agents are basing (http://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-recordings-fueled-fbi-feud-in-clinton-probe-1478135518) their investigation on a book called “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer. Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute (http://www.g-a-i.org/about/), an organization co-founded and chaired by Steve Bannon. Who is the CEO of the Trump campaign.
When Bill Clinton was impeached, people talked about “the criminalization of politics” — the idea that Republicans were trying to use the levers of the justice system as a means to prevail in what should be just ordinary political competition. George W. Bush’s administration fired (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy) a group of U.S. Attorneys because they were unwilling to pursue bogus voter fraud cases against Democrats or were too willing to investigate genuine corruption among Republican officials. There are cases like the absurd prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, who has been in jail (http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obama-pardon-don-siegelman) for years
Donald Trump takes every ugly impulse Republicans have and turns it up to 11, and just about the entire party follows him down. So now they are making it very clear that from literally the day Hillary Clinton is inaugurated, they will wage total war on her. There will be no rule or norm or standard of decency they won’t flout if it gets them a step closer to destroying her, no matter what the collateral damage.
In a strong democracy, one party can’t come into power and just lock up its opponents.
It can’t turn the country’s law enforcement agencies into a partisan tool to destroy the other party.
It can’t say that the courts will function only at its pleasure.
But there’s only one party that is so vigorously undermining core democratic institutions in this way.
Democrats ... aren’t engaging in widespread official vote suppression,
chanting that should their candidate win her opponent should be tossed in jail,
promising to prevent any Republican president from filling vacancies on the Supreme Court,
suggesting that they’ll try to impeach their opponent as soon as he takes office,
cheering when a hostile foreign power hacks into American electronic systems, and
trying to use the FBI to win the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/03/republicans-are-now-vowing-total-war-and-the-consequences-could-be-immense/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1
Thanks, Repugs, y'all all always, behind the shield of BigCorp/VRWC $Bs, fuck up everything.
America is fucked and unfuckable. VRWC/BigCorp/Repugs are unstoppable.
Will just the myth of American democracy make it to 2050?