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What's shocking is not what "Clinton, Inc." was doing and how they were doing it. It was rather obvious to anyone with at least half a brain, and possibly much less. How else do you explain the accumulation of $200+ MILLION in personal wealth in the span of barely 10 years-- for doing nothing of any true productive value-- after declaring to the public that they were "flat broke" after Bill's 2 terms in the WH?
What's shocking to me is how so many people in this country-- specifically, HRC voters and the #nevertrump establishment Republicans (whose high-minded, "principled" stance in this election I find increasingly irritating)-- seem to feel that it doesn't matter all that much to them. Otherwise, we would have a block of establishment Democrats pleading #neverhillary. Instead, the party hacks in the media tell us "this is how the sausage is made" in politics and we should just grow up and get over it.
If that's the case, I want none of this sausage. And I hope that Trump takes their sausage and shoves it up their collective asses until they choke on it.
[Mail] Nearly 100 federal inmates are set to be released early after intervention from Barack Obama - meaning the outgoing President has commuted more sentences than his 11 predecessors combined.
A clemency push has sped up in recent months, and on Thursday 98 had their sentences reduced.
Obama has now cut short the sentences of 872 inmates, including 688 this year. The latest batch included 42 who were serving life sentences, the White House confirmed.
Con't.
#1
and not all were "non-violent drug possession" offenders. There were illegal weapons possession, violent offenders among the mix...but it's OK, because they were in the favored race and classes
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10/28/2016 8:45 Comments ||
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'Catch and Release, the upside. Should any of the 872 return to a life of crime, odds are about even their victims will have voted for or supported Obama.
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The Pardon power of the Presidency is an obscure but potentially disastrous tool for an Imperial President. Envisioned as a last option to right governmental wrongs, it has increasingly been exercised for purely political motives. If it has no limits, and no check, it's impact might be destabilizing (imagine a blanket pardon for immigration crimes). I fear Champ may offer us the opportunity to explore this potentially fatal error in our founding documents?
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Maybe this is enough to stick this time - since apparently a lot of FBI agents have threatened to quit over the roll-over and whitewash from Comey on the previous case that was obviously thrown by him. That being said...
Someone duct tape Trumps mouth shut for the weekend please.
It seems every time we get something like this he says or does something idiotic to put the spotlight on himself and off Hillary.
Let her twist in the wind, nothing else to distract form the chorus of emails revealing her and Podesta's lies and deceits, and now hopefully so much criminal evidence that not even Obama and Comey can hide it.
Secondary Bonus: this is a nice point for the case against early voting.
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And Raj beat me to the post, but Raj stuck it on Page 3.
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10/28/2016 18:59 Comments ||
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She is blaming the FBI and calling for the emails to be released. I'm sure WikiLeaks will be happy to reply. Something really big must be cooking. The head of DOJ pleads the 5th and now this?
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As bad as it seems, I'm concerned this was chosen as a manageable strand of the web. Emails everywhere, FBI lockdown of 'an active investigation', Hilarity recusing herself for a Dem 2nd stringer is easier to swallow than treason and murder.
I was amazed at this and further amazed that so little has been made of it.
' "Pleading the Fifth" is a colloquial term for invoking the privilege that allows a witness to decline to answer questions where the answers might incriminate him, and generally without having to suffer a penalty for asserting the privilege.'
You can only incriminate yourself when you have done something criminal.
I'm more likely to believe only the press' comlinks were down. The folks up front, on alternate communications methods, were spinning feverishly, trying to figure out how to minimize Mr. Comey's invasion of their safe space.
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