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Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com)
New submitter troublemaker_23 writes: Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, submitted a detailed draft to a key Clinton aide on April 15, 2014, outlining his ideas for a possible run for the presidency and stressing that "The key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them." The ideas, in an email released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, were sent to Cheryl Mills, former deputy White House counsel to Bill Clinton. Mills forwarded it to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, campaign manager Robby Mook and Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager David Plouffe. The email is one of a trove from Podesta's gmail account that was obtained by WikiLeaks. About two weeks prior to this, Podesta wrote to Mook that he had met Schmidt and that he (Schmidt) was keen to be the "top outside adviser." In the April 15, 2014 email, Schmidt emphasized that what he was putting forward was a draft, writing, "Here are some comments and observations based on what we saw in the 2012 campaign. If we get started soon, we will be in a very strong position to execute well for 2016." It was titled "Notes for a 2016 Democratic campaign." He divided his comments into categories such as size, structure and timing; location; the pieces of a campaign; the rules; and what he called the key things. With regard to size, structure and timing, Schmidt wrote: "Let's assume a total budget of about US$1.5 billion, with more than 5000 paid employees and million(s) of volunteers. The entire start-up ceases operation four days after 8 November 2016." As to location, he did not like the idea of using Washington DC as a base and was keen on low-paid workers. "The campaign headquarters will have about a thousand people, mostly young and hard-working and enthusiastic. It's important to have a very large hiring pool (such as Chicago or NYC) from which to choose enthusiastic, smart and low-paid permanent employees," he wrote. "DC is a poor choice as it's full of distractions and interruptions. Moving the location from DC elsewhere guarantees visitors have taken the time to travel and to help."
AmiMoJo is a SJW. A psuedo-intellectual who believes he knows better than anyone else and lacks empathy for others. The best prescription would be for him to walk in a working class persons shoes for a good decade. He wouldn't spout his drivel after that.
And yet when you get down to it, it's always the progressives and liberals who turn violent when they don't get their way.
Every time.
[citation needed]
(Good fucking luck with that.)
Simple - search on "BLM". Motto: "Kill White People".
...and yet it was the Democrat Party that gave us the brain donor currently occupying the Resolute Desk. How do you explain that?
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Yes, Democrats are pro-science. Republicans are only pro-science when it's conveeenient. They're downright Lysenkoist when scientific findings inconvenience either their fat-cat backers or their useful idiots in the pulpits.
Ooh, moderator points! Five more idjits go to Minus One Hell!
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I'd argue that violence is the resort of those who feel powerless, because they believe it to be the one form of power that remains to them.
Except the left is not powerless, and is not becoming violent against government power. They want the government to have more power, and they want the government to use that power against their fellow citizens to enrich themselves. Antifa is not anti-government. They're pro-establishment, and against the people who would rebel against the establishment.
Look at the anti-Trump protestors in the US, like the riots in Chicago, or the closing of the Arizona freeway. These were organized by Moveon.org (funded by George Soros, who also funds Hillary Clinton) and PACs paid by the DNC, including paid workers from Hillary's campaign. So the wealthy and powerful on the left (Soros and Clinton) fund and train leftists/anarchists to attack the populace (political opponents or just random people on a highway) to terrorize political opponents to not oppose them, so they can maintain the political power of the current ruling regime. I don't see how any of that involves "powerlessness." These people already have lots of power, and want more.
On the other hand, their victims, the Trump supporters are largely working class people who have seen their jobs leave because of free trade agreements that benefit the establishment, and their neighborhoods invaded by at best indifferent and at worst hostile foreigners for the benefit of the establishment (keeping labor costs down), and they're powerless to do anything about it.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
There were also those gun wielding uneducated hicks trespassing on land that wasn't, isn't and will never be their land.
I suppose that Harry Reid owning 93 acres next door and wanting to start commercial development had no effect on the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) deciding the Bundys were suddenly trespassing after generations of using the land.
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Pretty sure it's the liberals who wanted to mandate government issue marriage certificates to gays. This issue does not support your argument unless there's recent examples of laws passed to prevent same-sex people from having civil ceremonies and living together as "married."
This is exactly what we're complaining about - a local jurisdiction approved same-sex marriage (as without such legislation same-sex spouses couldn't even see the other spouse in the emergency room), then the conservative response [1] is to pass constitutional amendments through fear and hysteria.
You might want to research before posting next time.
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOL...
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