Advice to Hillary from a supporter on the emails

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Monday August 01, 2016 · 6:42 PM PDT

2016/08/01 · 18:42

This is not a nuanced electorate. They do not care that the most emails in question were not classified when they were on you server but were retroactive classified months after you left; so there was nothing you could have done. They don't get that when the director of the FBI said he felt many should have been classified, actually means that they were actually not classified. They don't care that the 8 or so that were marked as classified shouldn't have been marked at all. We all know that the fact that everyone was doing it does not mean it is okay. That the Bush White House destroyed millions of emails on a private server is irrelevant for whatever reason. This is way too complicated for the electorate.

Stop at just saying you are sorry and that you recognize that it was a mistake.

It won't even help to say, that because they were on your server, in itself does not imply anything, other than that they were on your server.

But saying you were exonerated is not helping. You were indicted on the email server scandal by the electorate before any details were out. You will remain indicted forever in spite of any reference to reality. You have to win anyway.

My advice “I was wrong, I'm sorry” move on.

No one expected ...

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Friday June 24, 2016 · 3:57 AM PDT

2016/06/24 · 03:57

No one expected England to drop out of the EU and trash their (and everyone else’s) economy.

No one expected Trump to go this far.

No one expects the US to go the xenophobic route that Europe is going in mass and elect yet another idiot to run the show …

Nearly half of people who supported Sanders have vowed to vote for anyone else other than the Democrat in the race for president, over half of that group have said they will vote for Trump. No one expected that.

We already know that there is a huge contingency of “hated that black guy and hate that bitch even more”, white and terrified, ready to push any button for change (any kind of change) people out there.

Do we know what to expect?

Radical Islam as Dog Whistle

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Wednesday June 15, 2016 · 5:26 AM PDT

2016/06/15 · 05:26

There is a reason that reasonable people don't use the term 'radical Islam'. It is because this is just another dog whistle to the small but energetic group of people who want to believe that Muslims are terrorists. Not that, this or that Muslim was or is a terrorist, but Muslims are terrorists. That is why Republicans are not really upset that the left refuses to use the whistle, because they count on the effect it has on this small but very energized group, not only when they use it but when Obama refuses to. That group has kept the extreme right in power for the last few years.
The key characteristic of this angry few is that they show up to vote and they vote Republican.
The dog whistles work. You call any young black man shot down, a thug, because young black men are very scary to them and represent a menace. The anti gay movement, again a small group by count, but they get out and vote. And radical Islamist … Muslims are trying to kill us and take over America. And Mexicans, this applies to any Latino because Mexicans are pouring over our boarders to rape our women and take over America.
Then the most effective dog whistle “Take America back”. Back to when all of these scary people weren't here menacing us. They easily discount that the America they want back is nothing like their fantasies because that is not the point. The point is it seems so clean and simple. Just like the old black and white TV shows where black was just another color on the white people. Everyone else was a bit player, a simpleton or foreign.
Trump and republicans in general know where their vote comes from. They are not worried about minorities. Where there is any number likely to vote there are strong voter repression laws in place to tamp that down. They certainly aren't worried about progressive Democrats because they run and hide when they don't get their way and vote in very small numbers.
The term “radical Islam” is a call to voters, voters that will show up and they will vote for Trump and that is guaranteed. Should you be afraid …. ??

I'll be back after the elections

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Thursday February 04, 2016 · 2:12 AM PST

2016/02/04 · 02:12

This sites vilification of Clinton and deification of Sanders is very troubling. I thought we were against the republicans ,,,

Talk about someone going to the bathroom

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Thursday December 24, 2015 · 8:41 AM PST

2015/12/24 · 08:41

Does anyone really think that Trump would have any idea what to do if he accidentally actually became president??? Talk about someone going to the bathroom ... permanently ...

Actually Trump has it right

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Thursday November 12, 2015 · 4:28 PM PST

2015/11/12 · 16:28

We can’t possibly compete with other nations whose work forces are nearly slaves working for pennies a day. So the only solution in his ever soooo wise and super knowledgeable, not to mention more humble than any other human being’s, eyes is that we are making way too much money. We are of course … not him. He is after all very, very rich and that is not on the table.

I think 30 cents an hour is a good start. And what is up with our overindulged kids not being in the factories 6 days a week 10 hours a day for 3 or four more dollars a week.

No wonder we suck as a nation.

No pain no gain. Is he asking too much? Of course not he loves poor people and they all love him … just ask him …

Where do you think it comes from?

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Tuesday October 13, 2015 · 5:31 AM PDT

2015/10/13 · 05:31

The rich, where does the money come from? Is there some deep pool of money they have access to because they are luckier, smarter (in the case of Trump) or just more industrious than the rest of us? Just how deep is this pool and where is it?

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Friday April 03, 2015 · 10:26 AM PDT

2015/04/03 · 10:26

In chart form:

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Wednesday March 18, 2015 · 5:36 AM PDT

2015/03/18 · 05:36

We as Americans just voted into national office a glut of far right representatives who believe we are chosen by God, are the exceptional nation and are threatened by "THEM".

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Friday March 06, 2015 · 5:25 AM PST

2015/03/06 · 05:25

It is not difficult to understand the anger and confusion over the heinous act of the Tsarnaev brothers especially in New England, especially in Boston. It is hard to find a criminal other than the surviving brother that deserves less compassion than Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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Thursday May 15, 2014 · 10:03 AM PDT

2014/05/15 · 10:03

Actually I’m not confused at all and neither is he. He is obviously fishing for primary voters but still …

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Wednesday April 09, 2014 · 7:24 PM PDT

2014/04/09 · 19:24

The legislature in South Carolina just passed a law designating the Woolly Mammoth (which went extinct 50,000 years ago) as their state fossil. That is great except that one state senator in a fit of total stupid would not let the bill through without attaching a piece of religious crap to it.

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