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Nationwide at a number of colleges, though the FBI said that none of the colleges themselves knew of the scheme. Of course, it brings up a number of questions:

1. What good does it do to get your spawn into an elite college if they're not good enough and they'll just fail out?
2. Why not go the time-honored fraud route of just pretending your offspring is a minority?

Someone at Slashdot seems to be pushing the "Russia supplied Wikileaks with the DNC hack info" theory as fact when it hasn't been proven. We've been hearing this supposition for over two years from Democrats and their media enabler who still can't bring themselves to believe the obvious truth that Hillary Clinton was a horribly corrupt and demonstratively incompetent candidate.

Anyone could have hacked the DNC, just like anyone could have hacked Hillary Clinton's illegal homebrew email server. It could have been the Russians, who regularly undertake malicious activity. But it could also be China, or a leak from within the DNC, or the Awan spy ring, who had access to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz's computers and tablets, as well as those of some 40 other House Democrats.

But the Russia theory is pushed above all because that's the one that fuels Democratic activist outrage and the "Russian collusion" fantasy the mainstream media has spent two years pushing. Which is why we get this piece from the hard-left Daily Beast on the front page of Slashdot.

Anything to maintain the mass hysteria bubble.

/Cue up the cries of "Russian bot" in 5...4...3...

Company after company has moved away from high-tax, high-cost California to low-tax, low-cost Texas.

California's big government system is so pension-debt riddled that Californians pay more and get less, and in return get unsafe streets, failing roads, failing schools, and sky-high housing prices.

That's pretty much what they do. They're retaliating against Micron because they got caught red-handed stealing their designs from UMC in Taiwan.

The irony is that China has no domestic semiconductor equipment manufacturers worth speaking of, so they'll still need to buy the equipment from American and Japanese firms like Applied Materials, LAM Research, and Tokyo Electron. Plus they're having extreme difficulty finding qualified semiconductor process engineers willing to move to China.

Plus they stole it for a fab that's still under production, so by the time they are producing chips using the stolen designs, Micron will probably already be fabbing their next design turn/feature shrink...

Laws that transfer power from citizens to the government are never about "good intentions," they're about control.

One of the first things they'll start censoring is content critical of sacred Eurocratic initiatives. Video opposing unassimilated Muslim immigration into Europe? Sorry, that's banned because we call it "hate speech." Video suggesting Italy should leave the Euro? Sorry, we have to ban that because it endangers "economic stability."

Good intentions have nothing to do with it. It's all about censorship and control.

Want to get rid of the toxicity? Start by firing Anita Sarkeesian from Google's so-called “Trust and Safety Council.” Twitter's politically unbalanced, SJW-inspired suspensions and shadowbans are destroying Twitter shareholder value.

Clean your own house first. Then you can start worrying about the "toxicity" of others.

(What, no story about the outage?)

Want to get rid of the toxicity? Start by firing Anita Sarkeesian from Google's so-called “Trust and Safety Council.” Twitter's politically unbalanced, SJW-inspired suspensions and shadowbans are destroying Twitter shareholder value.

Clean your own house first. Then you can start worrying about the "toxicity" of others.

(What, no story about the outage?)

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Slashdot is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when posters confirmed that the site had not been updated since March 1 and that much of the functionality (including login) was broken. Coming on the heels of a yet another slew of Social Justice Warrioring posts about women in tech, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray.

You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Slashdot’s future. The handwriting is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Slashdot, because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose readership. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

(Well, somebody had to do it. What, no front page story about the outage?)

That's a fact established by court documents Judicial Watch got released under an FOIA request. The only question is: Was the private company allowed to run unsupervised FISA requests Fusion GPS?

The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.

The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.

The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.

The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.

The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.

The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.

The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.

The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.

The fight against the Islamic State is largely won, thanks to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Iraqi government (plus various militias), and Assad's Syrian government. Raqqa, Deir Ez-Zor and Mosul have all been liberated from the Islamic State, and what little territory remains is split into shrinking, isolated enclaves.

The Islamic State may live on for a while yet as an international terrorist organization like Al-Qaeda, especially since so many worldwide jihadi terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to it, but without territory it lacks one of the prerequisites to be regarded as a "legitimate" caliphate by Muslims worldwide, which makes it considerably less dangerous and less likely to inspire acts of jihad in the future.

Why not come out and mention the real cause of Venezuela's nightmare: Socialism.

97 cents??? You're doing an entire Slashdot post about 97 cents worth of ads????

More than $140 million was donated to the Clinton Foundation by Uranium One board members and associates, but no, let's focus on 97 cents worth of ads.

The left's newfound Russia Derangement Syndrome is beyond parody.

The more cars it sells, the more cash it burns. That's not a problem you can make up with volume. Then there's the racial discrimination lawsuits, the drive to unionize, and a host of other economic problems.

Maybe Musk should have concentrated on making one business profitable, not start a half a dozen more.

Tesla Motors, despite all the hype and love showered here, shows no signs of ever showing a profit.

If we don't, Democrats might have to face the possibility that Hillary Clinton lost because she was a horrible, corrupt human being and that the Democratic Party's ideas are deeply unpopular with the American public.

And we can't have that.

Why cover the corruption trial of a sitting Democratic U.S. Senator when Trump's doorman's cousin might have talked to a Russian once?

No, by all means let's talk about RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! more, no matter how many anonymous leads turn out to be bunk, how many dead ends and retractions, no matter how many "smoking guns" that turn out to be neither smoking nor guns.

Anything to avoid rethinking Democratic dogma and admit that Donald Trump will be President of the United States of America for the next 3+ years and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it.

...he is actually protected because he filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board before publishing his memo, and the NLRB protects people against firing once they’ve lodged a complaint under whistle-blower statutes.

No it doesn't, and he likely is not protected. His actions were entirely individual at the time of filing
The test for concerted activity under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) is whether an employee acts “with or on the authority of other employees, and not solely by and on behalf of the employee himself.” Meyers Industries (Meyers I) (1984) 268 NLRB 493; Meyers Industries (Meyers II) (1986) 281 NLRB 882. If concerted activity is found, then the question of whether the speech is protected is determined by the 3 factors announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in NLRB v. Local Union No. 1229, IBEW (Jefferson Standard Broadcasting) (1953) 346 U.S. 464: (1) does the speech occur in the context of an ongoing labor dispute; (2) is it related to that dispute; and (3) is it determined to not be egregiously disloyal, reckless or maliciously untrue.

...he is actually protected because he filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board before publishing his memo, and the NLRB protects people against firing once they’ve lodged a complaint under whistle-blower statutes.

High costs, high taxes, and high regulation that are driving people and businesses out of the state. The minimum wage hike is only going to accelerate the trend by driving more business to other states and causing those that can't move to either invest in automation to replace their existing workers, or just hire more illegal aliens.

And the huge public sector union pension debt is going to cause more municipalities, and eventually the state itself, to go bankrupt.

Hillary Clinton?

President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" on May 25, 1961, and Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20, 1969.

So Europe plans to take twice as long as the entire Apollo program took to get to the moon to launch three unmanned probes.

All of this is just moonbeams anyway. By 2034, Europe will be too broke to pay for space probes...

Do you think that the US is any different when it comes to funding space stuff or science in general? Especially now, with the Orange One running things? When the EPA dude think climate change is BS?

Really? You're going to make that comparison?

President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" on May 25, 1961, and Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20, 1969.

So Europe plans to take twice as long as the entire Apollo program took to get to the moon to launch three unmanned probes.

All of this is just moonbeams anyway. By 2034, Europe will be too broke to pay for space probes...

There's a legal fiction that SJW types and their fellow-travelers like to promulgate that the First Amendment doesn't cover "hate speech." This decision says that argument is false:

A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.

The justices further noted that "speech that some view as racially offensive is protected not just against outright prohibition but also against lesser restrictions."

Free speech cannot be prohibited, or even restricted, just because SJW types find it "offensive."

If you want to see what life is like without capitalism, trying looking at Venezuela, where they're rioting because socialism can't provide enough food for them to eat.

One of the biggest and most overlooked problems with capitalism is that first you need the capitals, then you can get it. You know, Somalia has free market, zero taxation, so you may think it is some kind of capitalist heaven. It is not. Like India, or most of the world for that matter, where you have all the bases of the capitalist system, but there's a lack of capitals and so widespread poverty, precarious health, starvation.

It doesn't matter if Venezuela is socialist or not, because now Venezuela is like Saudi Arabia in ten years or so: a country without resources.

Getting a start on the clickbait lying right with the first sentence, I see:

"Work under capitalism is a brutal psychological gauntlet -- low pay, long hours, and little to no safety net."

Compared to what? And when? Lord knows no one under feudalism, mercantilism, socialism or communism ever worked "long hours for low pay."

Life in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Capitalism, and the technological progress it helped engender, is the system that helped lift those out of the poverty that previously plagued all but a tiny hereditary elite since time immemorial until a period just two centuries ago.

If you want to see what life is like without capitalism, trying looking at Venezuela, where they're rioting because socialism can't provide enough food for them to eat.

But enough. This is just another example of Slashdot leftwing clickbait, because evidently covering actual News For Nerds is evidently too boring compared to launching yet another left vs. right flamewar.

Is msmash the designated leftwing agitprop admin now?

The Panama Papers revealed extensive, documented financial ties between Putin and Clinton cronies

While we're on the subject of ties...

Your citation is your own blog, which quotes observer.com as the source. Observer.com is owned by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, and published by Jared Kushner's brother-in-law.

I want to be clear: I'm not commenting on the validity of the story itself. I'm just saying that your flagrant lack of transparency is *really* hurting your credibility as I dig through your comments.

The Panama Papers revealed extensive, documented financial ties between Putin and Clinton cronies:

Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Though hardly a household name, this firm is well known inside the Beltway, not least because its CEO is Tony Podesta, one of the best-connected Democratic machers in the country. He founded the firm in 1998 with his brother John, formerly chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, then counselor to President Barack Obama, Mr. Podesta is the very definition of a Democratic insider. Outsiders engage the Podestas and their well-connected lobbying firm to improve their image and get access to Democratic bigwigs.

Which is exactly what Sberbank, Russia’s biggest financial institution, did this spring. As reported at the end of March, the Podesta Group registered with the U.S. Government as a lobbyist for Sberbank, as required by law, naming three Podesta Group staffers: Tony Podesta plus Stephen Rademaker and David Adams, the last two former assistant secretaries of state. It should be noted that Tony Podesta is a big-money bundler for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign while his brother John is the chairman of that campaign, the chief architect of her plans to take the White House this November.

Sberbank (Savings Bank in Russian) engaged the Podesta Group to help its public image—leading Moscow financial institutions not exactly being known for their propriety and wholesomeness—and specifically to help lift some of the pain of sanctions placed on Russia in the aftermath of the Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine, which has caused real pain to the country’s hard-hit financial sector.

It’s hardly surprising that Sberbank sought the help of Democratic insiders like the Podesta Group to aid them in this difficult hour, since they clearly understand how American politics work. The question is why the Podesta Group took Sberbank’s money. That financial institution isn’t exactly hiding in the shadows—it’s the biggest bank in Russia, and its reputation leaves a lot to be desired. Nobody acquainted with Russian finance was surprised that Sberbank wound up in the Panama Papers.

And that is just one of the many documented financial ties between Podesta/Clinton and Putin's regime.

For Texas. Which has a space launch industry of its own, low taxes, and a business climate that's already luring companies from California...

Maybe if Democrats weren't relentlessly pushing for bigger government and SJW victimhood identity politics they could compete with Republicans.

As the court cases show, it's actually, Republican GERRYMANDERING that is responsible. In states like Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas, Wisconsin...all lost cases due to Gerrymandering. All facing new districts.

Oh so did Arizona.

But they chose a relentless drive for power and pushing the culture war over policies Americans actually want. Democrats deliberately pushed "blue dogs" out of the party so progressives could control it to-to-bottom.

Blue Dogs kept losing elections, so they were no longer in the party, not that they were much good in the party, but when you lose an election, you aren't much good in the legislature at all.

Democrats backed Bloomberg on civilian disarmament, backed Soros and Steyer on funding #BlackLivesmatter, insisted a man changing his name magically made him a woman, and then wonder why ordinary Americans no longer vote for them.

66 million votes in 2016. 66 million in 2012. 70 million in 2008. That's for President. Versus 63, 59, and 58 million.

Want to see the breakdown state by state? It's available.

And really, where are Republicans stopping Democrats in such paradisaical deep blue enclaves like Chicago and Detroit?

The Capital of Illinois is Springfield, the Capital of Michigan is Lansing.

Maybe it's because Michigan had Democrats win 2,302,417 votes in 2016, while Republican candidates received 2,283,727, enough to make the makeup of the legislature questionable. Maybe it's because Ilinois is so partisan in its gerrymandering that about half the districts had only one candidate at the general.

And you can see a documentary about the subject..

Maybe if Democrats weren't relentlessly pushing for bigger government and SJW victimhood identity politics they could compete with Republicans.

But they chose a relentless drive for power and pushing the culture war over policies Americans actually want. Democrats deliberately pushed "blue dogs" out of the party so progressives could control it to-to-bottom. Democrats backed Bloomberg on civilian disarmament, backed Soros and Steyer on funding #BlackLivesmatter, insisted a man changing his name magically made him a woman, and then wonder why ordinary Americans no longer vote for them.

And really, where are Republicans stopping Democrats in such paradisaical deep blue enclaves like Chicago and Detroit?

No, it's mostly shadow bans right and right, thanks to the SJW-ridden Twitter "Trust & Safety Council." To the best of my knowledge only right-wingers/trump-supporters are being shadowbanned/throttled.

...but yeah, even with that, $250,000 will still buy you a nice house in the Austin area. Good look finding anything like that anywhere near Silicon Valley...

Just one of the many, many advantages Texas has over California.

If it weren't for the latest tech bubble keeping them afloat, California would be completely screwed.

California has:

* High state income taxes, and overall it's one of the highest taxed states in the country.
* Over $1.3 TRILLION in government debt, much in underfunded public employee union pension obligations.
* A regulatory and legal climate that stifles growth and drives businesses out of the state to lower tax, lower regulation, lower cost states like Texas.
* Schools that are some of the worst in the nation.
* Some of the worst roads in the nation, despite having some of the highest gas taxes in the nation.
* Widening income inequality, driven by coastal elites enacting policies that make it increasingly difficult for the poor and middle class to earn a living in California.

San Francisco is an extreme example of the case, since their land use regulations are even worse than the rest of California, and their rent control policies make it so hard to evict tenants that building owners choose to let properties remain vacant because it's all but impossible to kick a tenant out if you want to sell the property.

People can't afford to live in San Francisco because the city and state governments have made the decisions that make it impossible for them to live there.

Security experts have been warning of possible foreign hacking for decades. But why this sudden spate of "Russia hacked X" stories now? Why not back when our Secretary of State was running an illegal, private, unsecured email server through which she transmitted classified information?

Simple: The Washington Post wanted Hillary to win the Presidential election, and reminding people how her action made it easier for Russian hackers to gain access to classified information wouldn't have helped her. But publishing it now helps support the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not disgruntled Democratic Party staffers, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the Washington Post and it's employees almost universally loath. That's the entire reason the story is being written and published now.

Further reading here and here.

What do you think the under/over is for MSM "Russian Hacking" stories between now and January 20?

Security experts have been warning of possible foreign hacking for decades. But why this sudden spate of "Russia hacked X" stories now? Why not back when our Secretary of State was running an illegal, private, unsecured email server through which she transmitted classified information?

Simple: The Washington Post wanted Hillary to win the Presidential election, and reminding people how her action made it easier for Russian hackers to gain access to classified information wouldn't have helped her. But publishing it now helps support the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not disgruntled Democratic Party staffers, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the Washington Post and it's employees almost universally loath. That's the entire reason the story is being written and published now.

Further reading here and here.

What do you think the under/over is for MSM "Russian Hacking" stories between now and January 20?

I'm sure the Russian government recruits computer talent in the many ways listed in the article. I would suspect the U.S. government does much the same.

The fake part comes in: Why publish this piece now? Why not, say, during the massive OPM breach?

Simple: Publishing it during the OPM breach would have harmed Obama, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally adore, while publishing it now helps prop up the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not a disgruntled Democratic Party insider, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally loath.

Remember, among the revelations to come out just after the election were how the Times abandoned objectivity to go after Trump and how the entire newsroom is dedicated to driving a predetermined narrative rather than carrying out an objective search for truth.

This story was published because it fits an (unproven and probably false) narrative that Russia "hacked the election" because it theoretically harms Trump.

Further reading here and here.

I'm sure the Russian government recruits computer talent in the many ways listed in the article. I would suspect the U.S. government does much the same.

The fake part comes in: Why publish this piece now? Why not, say, during the massive OPM breach?

Simple: Publishing it during the OPM breach would have harmed Obama, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally adore, while publishing it now helps prop up the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not a disgruntled Democratic Party insider, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally loath.

Remember, among the revelations to come out just after the election were how the Times abandoned objectivity to go after Trump and how the entire newsroom is dedicated to driving a predetermined narrative rather than carrying out an objective search for truth.

This story was published because it fits an (unproven and probably false) narrative that Russia "hacked the election" because it theoretically harms Trump.

Further reading here and here.

...in order to force taxpayer-funded abortions on the American public.

You may think that's an exaggeration, but look how tenaciously Nancy Pelosi insisted on the provision during the debate over Obamacare, forcing Stupak's block of flippers to cave rather than give it up.

Look how fervently the Obama Administration insisted that the Little Sister of the Poor must pay for abortifacients rather than come to an accommodation as required by the law.

ObamaCare was meant to fail as a means of forcing the full socialization of American medicine, true. But it was also designed as an instrument of the culture war, and one Democrats were determined to defend no matter how many legislators lost their seats over it.

And as for the current state of ObamaCare, take a look here.

...in order to force taxpayer-funded abortions on the American public.

You may think that's an exaggeration, but look how tenaciously Nancy Pelosi insisted on the provision during the debate over Obamacare, forcing Stupak's block of flippers to cave rather than give it up.

Look how fervently the Obama Administration insisted that the Little Sister of the Poor must pay for abortifacients rather than come to an accommodation as required by the law.

ObamaCare was meant to fail as a means of forcing the full socialization of American medicine, true. But it was also designed as an instrument of the culture war, and one Democrats were determined to defend no matter how many legislators lost their seats over it.

And as for the current state of ObamaCare, take a look here.

...if it succeeds in keeping Social Justice Warriors away.

If it works there, then we can expand the process to science fiction conventions...

Many of the "right wing hate crime" hoaxes have been debunked.

Meanwhile, in many incidents people have been arrested for attacking Trump supporters or committing property crimes during anti-Trump riots.

You are part of the fake news problem.

The major media outlets went all into the tank for Hillary. The New York Times abandoned even a pretense of objectivity to editorialize against Trump on their front page. Wikileaks proved that CNN and the Washington Post (among others) actively colluded with the Clinton campaign against Trump.

And you know who this hurt most of all? Democrats. Because the MSM was so in the tank for Hillary, the Clinton campaign couldn't get the information it needed to make tactical choices on what money and effort to spend where. Wouldn't it have been more valuable for them to hear "Hey, Hillary may have a problem with previously Democratic blue collar voters in the rust belt" than "Campaign Inevitable is going to crush all puny obstacles between her and the White House! You go girl!"?

Instead they tried to drag the most corrupt candidate ever to run for President of the United States over the finish line, and now they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.

The was the most unbalanced election news coverage in history, with major outlets (NYT, WP, ABC, NBC, CBS) so far in the tank for Clinton and against Trump that it embarassed many old time journalists:

This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.

So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.

It’s a profound failure of empathy in the service of endless posturing...We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession. Journalists, at our worst, see ourselves as a priestly caste. We believe we not only have access to the indisputable facts, but also a greater truth, a system of beliefs divined from an advanced understanding of justice.

And, after all that, Trump still won. So now liberals will look everywhere for a scapegoat to pin this "inexplicable" failure on. Everywhere, that is, except their own attitudes and actions.

The left is responsible for this result, because the left has now decided to any other opinion, any other way of looking at the world, is unacceptable. We don't debate anymore because the left won the cultural war, so if you're on the right you're a freak! You're evil! You're racist! You're stupid! You are a basket of deplorables! How do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that? When has anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or labeled? So now if you're on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion. That's why people wait until they're in the voting booth, where no one's watching anymore, there's no blame or shame or anything, and you can finally say what you really think, and that is a powerful thing.

The was the most unbalanced election news coverage in history, with major outlets (NYT, WP, ABC, NBC, CBS) so far in the tank for Clinton and against Trump that it embarassed many old time journalists:

This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.

So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.

And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.

It’s a profound failure of empathy in the service of endless posturing...We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession. Journalists, at our worst, see ourselves as a priestly caste. We believe we not only have access to the indisputable facts, but also a greater truth, a system of beliefs divined from an advanced understanding of justice.

And, after all that, Trump still won. So now liberals will look everywhere for a scapegoat to pin this "inexplicable" failure on. Everywhere, that is, except their own attitudes and actions.

The left is responsible for this result, because the left has now decided to any other opinion, any other way of looking at the world, is unacceptable. We don't debate anymore because the left won the cultural war, so if you're on the right you're a freak! You're evil! You're racist! You're stupid! You are a basket of deplorables! How do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that? When has anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or labeled? So now if you're on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion. That's why people wait until they're in the voting booth, where no one's watching anymore, there's no blame or shame or anything, and you can finally say what you really think, and that is a powerful thing.

Is it Sberbank, Russia’s biggest financial institution, and the one that The Podesta Group is a registered lobbyist for?

You know, the "Hillary Clinton inner circle" Podestas? Of Wikileaks fame?

Oh, it seems to be a different bank.

Is it Sberbank, Russia’s biggest financial institution, and the one that The Podesta Group is a registered lobbyist for?

You know, the "Hillary Clinton inner circle" Podestas? Of Wikileaks fame?

Oh, it seems to be a different bank.

A few points on this alleged story:

1. The Clinton campaign desperately trying to distract attention away from Hillary's fundamental dishonesty.

True, but so is Trump trying desperately trying to distrac this negative aspects. Desperately trying to distract is a key skill of all politicians.

2. Maybe the story is true, and the Clinton campaign hires people with the security acumen of a burned-out toaster.

Not Clinton, the DNC. And yes they probably do just like the Republicans and Independents do too. Any sufficiently large organisation will have numpties among their numbers. even the CIA, KGB, NSA, DoD etc have numpties. This is not unusual.

3. Buzzfeed? Really?

Pass

4. Maybe they figure if they keep yelling "Trump is a Putin pawn!" enough we'll ignore the fact that Podesta is a registered lobbyist for Putin's bank.

There's one candidate in this race who has a proven record of taking money for favors from Russian sources, and it isn't Trump.

Registered and disclosed. Do you see how it works now?