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The childish side of me typed in "penis" expecting no results. Boy was I wrong.

None of them are particularly interesting, though. So far I'm pretty surprised with how pedestrian it is.

Even looking for the word "fuck" reveals few internal communications which use it. In one thread, some guy seems to have gotten a sub-optimal time slot for putting out Democratic-leaning news on CNN, since it's at 6AM rather than closer to near 8:20AM when, it turns out, Obama was going to deliver some statement. They asked him if he thought it was possible to move the thing forward a couple hours, and suggested that if he couldn't then they might have to withhold the news completely for a later time. And he replied with a bit of lip about how crummy that is: "They structured their whole show on that we’ll make news in the 6am hour. We told them a time. They took care of us. Now they’re all asleep. Are we really going to screw them over on our mistake???" and he follows it up with a couple more replies which are similarly irreverent but not outright bad, making a valid case (which the higher-ups seem to eventually agree with) that alienating someone who's doing you a favor is a really bad idea and they should just bite whatever bullet they're biting with the worse time-slot. They basically tell him, "You're right, we'll listen to you, but fuck off with the attitude." And that's the scope of the thing. Relatively minor.

In another one, someone admitting that they're writing for FoxNews.com invites comments from them about some hit piece he's thinking about writing on the subject of Hillary Clinton maybe protecting Bill and trying to silence his accusers during his sex scandals... an internal email discussing this "opportunity" (to, presumably, have whatever their words might be, twisted) one emails to the other people in his office, "Is there a Fuck You emoji?". After some laughs they decide not to respond at all; but the guy is persistent, so the person who handles the forward says, "The asshole from fox emailed us again. I did some research and there’s still no “fuck you” emoji, unfortunately."

It's pretty tame stuff so far in my browsing. Relatively professional.

Re: Search the DNC email database

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I guess Assange would like to see Trump win - quickest way to bring about the downfall of the US

So we're supposed to tolerate corruption simply to avoid Trump? Trump offers us a lesson that if we don't take democracy (and the underlying components/principles) seriously, it will decay.

just like Bush offered you a lesson?

Re: Search the DNC email database

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post #24
post #7

I guess Assange would like to see Trump win - quickest way to bring about the downfall of the US

Trump isn't going to signal the downfall of the US no more than Obama has. Democrats have adopted the scare tactics and language of Republicans circa 2008

Have you seen Trump's twitter feed? I've rarely seen such spew outside 4chan. Your average software engineer is more qualified, just by the signal virtue of having self control in public.

It's widely understood internationally that this is not normative US election wank.

I assure you, I'm not a Democrat either. I would probably be a Rockefeller Republican... if such a thing existed today.

Re: Search the DNC email database

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post #31

The childish side of me typed in "penis" expecting no results. Boy was I wrong.

None of them are particularly interesting, though. So far I'm pretty surprised with how pedestrian it is. Even looking for the word "fuck" reveals few internal communications which use it. In one thread, some guy seems to have gotten a sub-optimal time slot for putting out Democratic-leaning news on CNN, since it's at 6AM rather than closer to near 8:20AM when, it turns out, Obama was going to deliver some statement.…

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/7643

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11508

I wouldn't call that professional. I would call that conspiring to commit a civil rights violation, or exploit one.

Re: Search the DNC email database

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The childish side of me typed in "penis" expecting no results. Boy was I wrong.

Well, none of the six results were particularly interesting. Four were variations on Trump's debate comment about having a big penis. One was a news summary which included the world's first successful penis transplant. The last was someone calling Trump "Hillary Clinton with a penis". Nothing authored by someone in the DNC.

Re: Search the DNC email database

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an odd difference, but that's actually alleging he's atheist . Being Jewish is considered preferable to evangelical voters.

I would argue that the distinction is between smearing him because he's a secular Jew or being an atheist . They're arguing he's an insufficiently religious Jew, which is a common smear in itself against some Jews.

I'm not from kentucky or west virginia, but my understanding of those places is that it would be much worse to run as an atheist than as a jew

Re: Search the DNC email database

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post #11
post #7

I guess Assange would like to see Trump win - quickest way to bring about the downfall of the US

Mocking those on the opposite side of the aisle from you isn't going to help a damned thing. Maybe if everyone stopped shitting on the opposite party we'd see Congress get their shit together.

Just to help people manage expectations...

Duverger's law suggests that our form of elections results in a two party system. Opponents of the duopoly should advocate for an alternative. Such as Approval Voting.

The GOP REDMAP 2001 redistricting (gerrymandering) effort (and the Kochs Bros) created the Tea Party and the extreme obstructionism and partisanship we see today. Even the GOP regrets how successful that effort was (eg #NeverTrump), so expect a walkback on that.

Having run for office, I never mock candidates. Not even Sarah Palin. People not involved in campaigns just don't know how rough it is.

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