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Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

mozumder wrote: post #415
ars wrote: post #381

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> And if they want more, they can always get a search warrant for them. How would that help? She deleted them. > The public needs to be forceful in telling the House to stop wasting government money on Hillary emails. No, they need to tell the House that Hillary should be indited, that she is not above the rules.

> How would that help? She deleted them. Sucks for them, then. Perhaps the House Republicans should have been quicker on their feet, instead of clowning around? The public is in support of Clinton, and want House Republican members impeached and jailed.

Source on that please.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by sctb »

curried_haskell wrote: post #401
mozumder wrote: post #373

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It's fine that she deleted her personal emails. Everyone does that. No one really cares about this issue except the House Republicans. They really are trying their hardest to figure out something here, but are obviously coming up empty. It just makes them look foolish.

Are you serious? Can you see you yourself right now? Take a step back, back from the politics, and think about the kind of behaviour you are defending right now. It's not even Hillary's behaviour that makes me lose the most faith in western democracy. It's people like you. The people who go around justifying this corruption because your candidate did it and the other candidate's party is trying to dig it up. You make…

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Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

imron wrote: post #382
saboot wrote: post #369

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You are wrongly characterizing what I am saying. Maybe try reading my original post again? People can only "allow" them to inject themselves into discourse when they have full consent, ie what their agenda is. Ignoring them doesn't silence them, nor makes it clear that their ideas are not acceptable. Did I give you any links? I indicated that they are there and it is explicit and obvious. If you cannot handle that a…

> Maybe try reading my original post again? Ok, sure > But you are ignoring that people who are proudly racist are openly admitting to using pepe specifically to broaden and popularize explicitly racist ideas Yes. I am ignoring such people, because such tactics don't merit anything more. I would also ignore them if they claimed to be using Mickey Mouse or any other broadly popular icon to promote their ideas. Because…

You tried.

The mental gymnastics in that thread made my head spin.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

heurist wrote: post #438
School-Cotton wrote: post #169

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What do you mean? We found it. This is fire.

It's an old unverified post on reddit being reviewed by republicans in the House of Representatives . Has everyone gone mad? We are literally paying our representatives to waste time reading Reddit based on a tenuous connection and some miniscule hope that it some how someday leads to FINALLY exposing the CORRUPT Hillary, or even better, hurting her chances of winning the presidency. Even if this were illegal, everyt…

Head meets sand.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

peu4000 wrote: post #424
adamrezich wrote: post #376

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It's really interesting to hear you say that, actually, because from my perspective, she had two positive messages: - "I'm experienced" - "I'm a woman, and it's high time a woman became President" It's interesting that her campaign has finally stopped beating us over the head with the latter, at least; it was insultingly sexist.

It's insultingly sexist to suggest that 51% of the population should finally have representation in the highest office in America?

The only reason she was able to become a senator is because her husband was president.

The hypocracy is palpable.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

yolesaber wrote: post #184
Dagwoodie wrote: post #174

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I'm sure you're absolutely right. If he hadn't been such a snake he would have just fought the system, used his ample government connections to ensure he won't get prosecuted. The people would understand, he was just acting in those good intentions of advancing the desires of the party, after all.

Nixon was 100 percent going to be impeached if he did not resign. He had very little sway in the Republican Party by the time the tapes came out. He ran an incredibly secretive and paranoid White House that was mostly disconnected from the Senate and made many enemies even in his own party.

Sounds familiar.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by sctb »

throwaway2016b wrote: post #295
learc83 wrote: post #281

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In 1989 he reportedly said "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day." He spent 5 years pushing the birther conspiracy even after Obama produced his birth certificate. He also implied that Obama was a Muslim despite his claims to the contrary. He's implied several times that Obama sides with terrorists because of his upbring…

In 1974, when Bill lost a bid for senate, Hillary called his campaign manager a "fucking jew bastard." Hillary as First Lady called black men "super predators" that need to be "brought to heel." Hillary Clinton started the birther conspiracy. Hillary took part in a scripted joke with Bill de Blasio about "colored people time." Hillary voted as a Senator to build a wall between Mexico and the United States. Trump call…

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Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #404
throwaway2016b wrote: post #274

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Hillary is far, far more deserving of that label than Trump. To campaign and donate millions of dollars on her behalf requires ignorance, a seriously twisted moral compass, or some financial and political incentives that you don't want to talk about.

She's spent her life struggling to help children and single parents. Donations fund her charity that has helped millions worldwide. To twist that into something bad is just more of the political smokescreen that plagues any woman in public office.

Bullshit.

She has spent her life advancing her political career.

Her stances on key topics have changed more times than i can count.

As for "women in public office", most didnt get there by being married to the President.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by gozur88 »

snowwrestler wrote: post #418
gozur88 wrote: post #393

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>But not personal emails. That's true. >The House GOP is careful to avoid making that distinction, because their goal is to feed a sense of impropriety--a goal which seems to be well-met here on HN, judging by the comments. No, the sense of impropriety was fed by Hillary Clinton herself when she turned over a tiny fraction of emails relating to official business and then destroyed the rest so nobody could ever retrie…

Again, to make this perfectly clear: she was only required to turn over official business emails. And was legally permitted to do what she wanted with her personal emails, including delete them. It is nonsensical to say that following the law implies impropriety. On top of this, the FBI recovered and reviewed many of the emails that she deleted, and did not find anything damning. They declined to recommend a prosecut…

>Again, to make this perfectly clear: she was only required to turn over official business emails.

Again, to make this perfectly clear: she was required to turn over official business emails and she omitted thousands of them. She deleted the ones she didn't turn over and had the server purged.

It takes a lot of chutzpah to set up a server such that your personal email is intermingled with official government communications and then claim you're the only person who can go through that server looking for official email that shouldn't have been there.

>The evidence shows that she wanted some privacy, and even Hillary Clinton is entitled to that under the law.

People try to use privacy rights to cover criminal activity on a regular basis. That's why we have subpoenas and laws against destruction of evidence.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by stonetear »

douche wrote: post #127
CamperBob2 wrote: post #90

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The reason I'm worried is that it's becoming increasingly clear why the GOP was so enthusiastic about blocking Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS. That never made any sense, except in a bizarro world where they were very sure they weren't going to lose the Presidency. Nate Silver has been wrong at every single juncture, as have the rest of the polls. We're off the beaten path and down the rabbit hole, an…

The only person that's had a pretty good batting average on this election so far is Scott Adams - it's downright eerie the way he's called it almost since this time last year.

Agreed, the guy is like a fortune teller.
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