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Old 11-04-2016, 09:26 AM
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and 1984 was supposed to be a warning...
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Hard to believe they were that much ahead of the curve. From the timeline:

2009 – First 2.0 terabyte hard drive[26] (Western Digital)
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The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official.

These emails, CBS News’ Andres Triay reports, are not duplicates of emails found on Secretary Clinton’s private server. At this point, however, it remains to be seen whether these emails are significant to the FBI’s investigation into Clinton. It is also not known how many relevant emails there are.
no dups. missing deleted emails.
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the media loves getting crabs from Clinton.

Thrush Gets Caught AGAIN Emailing A Staffer For Approval | The Daily Caller

For the second time in less than a month Politico chief political correspondent Glenn Thrush has been caught sending stories to Hillary Clinton staffers for approval.

Thrush sent an email to Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri on April 17, 2015 with the subject line: “pls read asap — the [Jennifer Palmieri] bits — don’t share.” This was revealed in Thursday’s WikiLeaks release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails. It is included in Podesta’s emails as Palmieri shared the email with several other Clinton staffers, including campaign manager Robby Mook and Podesta.

The eight paragraphs that Thrush sent Palmieri were filled with glowing sentences about her. She wrote in the forwarded email to Clinton staffers, “He did me courtesy of sending what he is going to say about me. Seems fine.”

The paragraphs about Palmieri ended up largely unchanged in the column, “Quiet, please. Hillary’s running,” a piece focused on Clinton’s press strategy.
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what msnbc considers voter fraud and vile:

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'Voter fraud'? California man finds dozens of ballots stacked outside home | Fox News

Jerry Mosna was gardening outside his San Pedro, Calif., home Saturday when he noticed something odd: Two stacks of 2016 ballots on his mailbox.

The 83 ballots, each unused, were addressed to different people, all supposedly living in his elderly neighbor’s two-bedroom apartment.

“I think this is spooky,” Mosna said. “All the different names, none we recognize, all at one address.”

His wife, Madalena Mosna, noted their 89-year-old neighbor lives by herself, and, “Eighty people can’t fit in that apartment.”

They took the ballots to the Los Angeles Police Department, but were directed to the post office. They felt little comfort there would be an investigation, and called another neighbor, John Cracchiolo – who contacted the Los Angeles County Registrar's office.

A spokeswoman for the Registrar said the office will investigate. Both Cracchiolo and Jerry Mosna told FoxNews.com they think they stumbled upon a case of fraud.
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How Macedonia Became A Global Hub For Pro-Trump Misinformation
BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic.
The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don’t care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US. The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of US display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.
“Yes, the info in the blogs is bad, false, and misleading but the rationale is that ‘if it gets the people to click on it and engage, then use it,’” said a university student in Veles who started a US politics site, and who agreed to speak on the condition that BuzzFeed News not use his name.
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Clinton's charity confirms Qatar's $1 million gift while she was at State Dept | Reuters

The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. The email, among thousands hacked from Podesta's account, was published last month by WikiLeaks.

Clinton signed an ethics agreement governing her family's globe-straddling foundation in order to become secretary of state in 2009. The agreement was designed to increase transparency to avoid appearances that U.S. foreign policy could be swayed by wealthy donors.
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black people dont have:
access to DMV
access to internet
money
intelligence
data plans
awareness
are felons
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trump is such a lunatic:

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Using Hillarys website to show what a less credible source looks like for my Philosophy's midterm paper.

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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And then, during last season’s June finale of “Say it Ain’t So, Joe,” there was a grand Virginia wedding for Morrissey and the now-20-year-old Myrna Warren, complete with a Swarovski-encrusted gown and white tents on the family farm.
And the Beatles said, "Money can't buy me love."
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Since the last election I've liked everything Gary Johnson has stood for, but unfortunately its just not enough. Johnson wouldn't be a waste of a vote.....IF he stood a chance.

With things this close between Trump and Clinton, I firmly believe a vote for Johnson is a step in the wrong direction.

Ask yourself, do you want Trump or Clinton as your next puppet president. More importantly, do you want to remain in a downward spiral led by liberals....
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That is freaking awesome, perfect pic
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
I will get tax cuts. I'm not in the 1%. No dick for me.
Same here, no dick and badly needed tax cuts. I was playing around with the bureau of labor and statistics inflation calculator..OMG..I was making less in the 90's but in real cash value I was making more, even though I make more now, if that makes sense...today it takes $158.42 for $100 in 1995...WOW
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black people dont have:
access to DMV
access to internet
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intelligence
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are felons
Well...if they pass voter id dems will never win again. They will be missing their DEAD demographic at the voting booth...They just blame it on the racist white boogieman.
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Originally Posted by Vashthestampede
Since the last election I've liked everything Gary Johnson has stood for, but unfortunately its just not enough. Johnson wouldn't be a waste of a vote.....IF he stood a chance.

With things this close between Trump and Clinton, I firmly believe a vote for Johnson is a step in the wrong direction.

Ask yourself, do you want Trump or Clinton as your next puppet president. More importantly, do you want to remain in a downward spiral led by liberals....
CT isn't a swing state, right? Vote for whomever you want.

I've all but decided I'll be voting for Darrell Castle (CP). He and Gary Johnson are the only two candidates I can stomach that appear on the MS ballot (and you can't really write in other candidates).

There are things I dislike about both but Castle just aligns a bit more closely with my views than Johnson.
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