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Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President (theverge.com)
WikiLeaks has been releasing thousands of emails over the past couple of weeks belonging to Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. One of the more interesting tidbits revealed from the email dump was the list of potential running mates considered by Clinton's campaign. The Verge reports: Clinton's vice presidential candidates, while not altogether surprising, include some vaguely interesting choices like Bill and Melinda Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and General Motors CEO Mary Barra. In the mail, Podesta says he has organized the list into "rough food groups," one of which includes all the people mentioned above. Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz are also in this "food group," along with Michael Bloomberg. With just under 40 names on the list, it's not immediately obvious how close any of these people came to actually being asked to take on the role (Tim Kaine is on the list).
Don't worry, I actually covered that in a comment to my own submission, which is the first post on this story.
Also, let's linkify that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
As an Australian, I came across this Clinton body count website recently...
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.php
Scrolling down the list of journalists and agents investigating the Clintons who have committed suicide by shooting themselves in the head twice, or shooting themselves and stuffing themselves in a duffle bag, etc. etc...as cliche as it is to say, it blew my fucking mind.
How many Americans know about this shit? Hardly any it would seem.
The picture it paints is that these people are basically the mafia or worse.
I've known for a long time (since watching the mainstream US media blatantly blacking out Ron Paul of the last presidential race) that the American federal election system is a farce, but holy shit...I really feel sorry for you guys. And in extension I feel really sorry for the world.
These people think their so smart controlling elections and keeping the common man from having any real choice or power. Eventually it's going to blow up in their face. The whole point of democracy is to let the peasants feel like they're having their say. When the people feel powerless and oppressed, that's when revolution happens.
Because the evidence is junk.
First the "investigative" video is by James O'Keefe, who is infamous for dishonestly editing and framing videos to create the false appearance of criminal behaviour. And yes, you're allowed to shoot the messenger when the messenger is lying.
As for the woman Zulema, even if she was a Clinton supporter or even worked some aspect of the Clinton campaign (they must have thousands of paid staffers) that doesn't mean she was part of a Clinton conspiracy to frame Sanders supporters for violent protests. People who work in politics sometimes care about politics too, and they're more than capable of attending a protest on their own.
Oh, and I don't know what she has to do with the violent protests anyway, the video is of her at a peaceful (though disruptive) protest on a highway!
Huh.
Scott Adams has a blog post on attacking the source, and claims it's almost always a "tell" for being guilty.
I don't know about those sorts of things, maybe this is the statistically improbably case where a non-guilty person attacks the messenger.
Then again, you don't cite any sources, show independent reviews of the evidence, or even any rationalization. Just "the evidence is junk".
Was that on purpose?