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I figured this was a big enough news story to split off from the Presidential Election thread. For a rundown, a Russian hacker stole 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee and Wikileaks has been posting them.

Highlights include:

• Ken Vogel, a reporter with Politico, runs a story about Clinton fundraising past Mark Paustenbach, the DNC's Deputy Communications Director "per agreement" prior to sending it to his editor. The final article is not altered from the one sent to the DNC.
• DNC Chair Wasserman emails Chuck Todd, political director for NBC News, with the subject line "Chuck, this must stop," requesting a phone call over an MSNBC Morning Joe segment about whether she should resign. She also contacted MSNBC President Phil Griffin about it. Chuck Todd has stated "I think it’s clear what it was. Someone complaining about coverage. Something that happens daily from every campaign we interact with."
• DNC's CFO discusses possible ways to exploit Sander's religion or lack thereof to sway Southern Baptists away from him. The DNC's CEO responds with 'AMEN.' Marshall has subsequently said he was referring to a "surrogate" and not Sanders.
• DNC Chair Wasserman calls Weaver, Sanders' campaign manager, an ass and a damn liar.
• Mark Paustenbach, a communications official with the DNC, wonders if they can push a "Bernie narrative for a story" that his campaign is a mess after the donor list controversy. He's advised they'll have to leave it alone.
  And lastly,
• DNC spokesman Eric Walker calls a Buzzfeed article detailing the weak cybersecurity the DNC uses 'the dumbest thing I've ever heard.'

……….. Wow.
I actually thought my tinfoil hat wouldn't see use, but for once, it's right.
Damn US Government, you REALLY want some riots, don't ya?

Twitter slip up confirmed that they were suppressing the hashtag:

whoops!

DNC and Washington Post held joint fundraiser in violation of the law. Lawyers warned against, so they attempted to cover up event by not listing ticket prices.

Emails also raise question about relations between DNC and CNN's Jake Tapper.

Tapper's response.

Staffer who wrote "Atheism" email apologizes.

Widespread criticism of Twitter including accusations of suppressing story.

Plan to Smear Trump Campaign with Fake Craigslist Ad for "Hot Women"

DNC astroturfing anti-Trump protests with "allies" and interns. Remember all those violent protests blamed on Trump's rhetoric? Well there is a distinct possibility some of those individuals were DNC-affiliated operatives.

This seems like the kind of stuff fictional evil organizations were inspired off of I swear like trollanort said this is unreal. The Twittere suppression is what scares me most of all. I remember hearing for ages google and other sites were suppressing anti-Hillary stuff (it was already obvious the news was doing it because it's expected, they're the news) but like wow this is getting crazy she has her hands in everyone's pockets. I can barely comprehend supporting her at this point.

People are still defending her. Though they are quickly finding themselves alone. Trump is basically being handed the election by the opposition since everything they do is so sleazy and corrupt.

Someone on KYM, right this minute, may be getting paid to shill for Hillary.

I've been wanting to say this for a long time:

The tech giants (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc) are the robber-barons of the 21st century, and they are not our friends.

Like Standard Oil and Carnagie Steel were in their time, they are hugely successful companies whose creation and growth have fundamentally transformed the global economy and the way people live. Some of this change has been positive, but it also created an unprecedented level of wealth and power, and wealth and power are very useful tools when it comes to corrupting government in the interest of securing even more wealth and power.

"Someone on KYM, right this minute, may be getting paid to shill for Hillary."

It's Lisa. It was Lisa all along!

Seriously though, this is a problem. There has long been speculation that politicians use sock puppets one social media to inflate follower counts or push narratives. It's really just a high tech version of filling the streets with actors, interns, and union members.

It's ironic that they laughed at an article about their poor cyber security before they got hacked and had all this leaked.

Oh my god….Donald Trump is going to be our next president isn't he….

And even if he wasn't id still be equally unhappy

I want my Bernie back guys.

Fuck Hillary Clinton and the DNC. The fact that they did stuff like this is despicable. The silent majority of Hillary supporters REALLY need to be shown these e-mails, especially considering they won't hear from it on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, or any other mainstream media source, not to mention they're the type Hillary and the DNC want to keep ignorant since they're the reason Hillary won the primary in the first place.

That's only the beginning of the irony:

Hey @Reince – I'm in Cleveland if you need another chair to help keep your convention in order. #RNCinCLE (Reince Priebus is the RNC chairman)

DNC Chair Won't Speak At Convention Following Email Leak

I won't even get into the whole meta-irony about email security.

Is anyone even slightly surprised?

Shit like this is commonplace in politics. Virtually every candidate is up to something like this; the ones that appear more honest are just better at covering their tracks.

Not to mention that Clinton in particular is one of the most shamelessly corrupt out there – she's been known to do things like this for a long time. Clinton without a doubt falls into the "bad at covering tracks" group.

Someone on KYM, right this minute, may be getting paid to shill for Hillary.

With all the diehard Sanders and Trump supporters here? Naaaah. I don't think I've ever even seen anyone here support Hillary for any reason beyond "at least she's better than Trump" (and even that has died down with revelations like this that call that statement into question).

I'm certain that any Clinton astroturfing was confined to larger sites like Facebook and Twitter. Relatively small sites like KYM aren't as politically significant, and thus fly under the radar.

I think everyone knew politicians were this corrupt but they probably had that one part that thought they were just being paranoid. This crushes that little part that was left. They didn't have a whole lot of evidence either was mostly just speculation and hearsay.

So, how long till Schultz is out on her ass? Month's end?

Nah. She'll probably remain as chairwoman through November. If the Democrats win, she can resign having validated the sleazy methods through victory. If the Democrats lose, she can be the scapegoat.

The party has publicly marginalized her, but with the elections less than five months away I can't imagine they can afford to replace her. The other people prominent in these emails are more expendable in the short term.

Of course, that's without knowing how the convention is going to play out.

Meanwhile at the Republican HQ

Ding dong this twilight zone of a reality is here

She's stepping down after the convention.

Wow. So the leak is as bad as it appears to be. I'm always wary of gauging how much of an impact these type of events have on public consciousness based on social media activity, since social media is a notorious echo chamber, but this is an indication the outrage is real and broadly shared.

If this was done to take the oxygen out of the Philadelphia protests which are already underway I don't think it will work as it cements the perceptions of corruption and dishonesty, will give the Sanders' supporters the smell of blood in the water, and propels the story into the next news cycle while making it even harder for the media to ignore.

YES! YEEEEESSSSS!!!

I don't think they're satisfied.

Beautiful.

Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments

Interim Chair Donna Brazile Implicated in Emails, while new Permanent Chair

Marcia Fudge, has a long record of opposing the Sanders' campaign.

Meanwhile, disgraced former chair Wasserman Schultz joins Clinton campaign as honorary chairperson, further antagonizing Sanders' supporters

wikileaks rn

How did it all end up like this.

My guess as to the media control:
After 2 years of having the presidential seat the Democratic national convention had a large control of the media. With the rise of SJWs and the rest of the Regressive-left they voiced large scale support almost entirely for the democratic party. This resulted in multiple media and news outlets going "Progressive" in which they altered their core ideas to favor the regressive-left's ideals more. This leads to a far left-leaning control of most of the media and news outlets.

As to why they chose Hillary:
She is the very essence of a establishment career politician. She took all the bribes and used the money to bribe other people in the DNC to support her. With the rise of Trump the people in the DNC who didn't take bribes probably saw the threat Trump was to the entire system of government. So that further pushed them to try an unify the party. I imagine considering her behavior, she has been working her own people into the system to try and get the nomination for a long time.

So combination of Money, Manipulation, and Trump lead to this level of corruption in the DNC at least in favor of Hillary.

Republicans were in a similar position during the Bush 2000-2008. They had a large control of the media and the narrative that the people heard. But the rise of the internet kinda poked holes in the whole system and it deflated as they couldn't control the internet during this game. Hillary does have that, which is why she has been planting people and bribing social media websites to favor her.

This is going to be the greatest week.

Debbie booed off the stage as officials call for calm and repeatedly tells the crowd to "settle down".

CA delegates at their DNC state breakfast pounded on the tables, chanted "Bernie!", booed Hillary, and started a resounding "count our votes!" chant. Speaker asks "are we a Democratic family here" and they yell NO!

First major DNC protest with the catchiest chant yet imo – "hell no, DNC, we wont vote for Hillary" – sees thousands of Bernie supporters marching in extreme heat.

• Trump
• Hillary
• Move to Canada

Canada, for once, is moving up my rankings.

So, how long until this os blamed on sexist gamergate dudebros?

It's already been blamed on GamerGate. I linked to the story over in the GG thread where it belongs.

Bernie Texts: Please don't protest on the convention floor

The Bernie Bromance is ending. They're calling him a sellout now.

So far convention 10/10 very much drama.

So is there any evidence that Sanders was sabotaged against beyond the AMEN email?

Not asking out of skepticism but because I am way too lazy to sift through 20,000 eamils to win an internet argument.

There was a report of a super pac that was set up to pay people on social media to bash him.

Vanellope von Schweetz and Stewart Smalley calling Sanders' supporters ridiculous.

Can't wait for Lena Dunham to share her wisdom!

I personally like Silverman more as an actress than as a comic anyway (if you're looking for a quirky female comic, check out Maria Bamford, she's been in Adventure Time, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Louis, and Arrested Development). Meanwhile I have no opinion on Franken to begin with.

DNC remembers the US flag after various media outlets heckled and mocked the convention for not featuring a single American flag on stage or anywhere else in the convention center, although attendees eagerly waved Communist and Palestine flags for the cameras.

Meanwhile…..

@lisa

DNC Email Leak General thread?

How do the flag differences fit into that?

Steve said:

How did it all end up like this.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's because political parties have become less about the ideologies that supposedly unite the people and more about the people running for office. Pretty much everyone in the DNC wanted Clinton and likely wanted to get a government position somewhere if she won--I mean, they were emailing each other lists and spreadsheets of positions and people to be considered for those positions. They've all worked hard over the years to brownnose and scratch backs and are expecting to be rewarded like good little cronies.

Sanders was a threat to all that. He didn't care about the DNC or all the back scratching they'd been doing for years. So, they wanted to tilt the pinball machine a little just to make sure all their work wasn't for nought. I can only imagine what those in the RNC tried to do with Trump.

We've pretty clearly turned this into DNC General. What does Bernie Sanders texting "that's what Donald Trump wants" to voters who reject Hillary have to do with the leaks? Or Sarah Silverman's spiel against Bernie voters for simply continuing to exist?

So what are you guys' theories on why Bernie flipped? Do you think he finally caved into the money or no? I think it's more just he wants to keep his career, but then again by supporting Hillary against all odds he basically is nailing his career's coffin he would have been massive if he protested this with his supporters and went independent or something. I mean what loyalty does Bernie have to the DNC? It makes sense for most politicians to bend over to the establishment but in his case no.

I'm not that politically savvy though someone else more experienced with the game here might have a better idea. So far there's no proof he has been bribed or coerced because the emails would most likely reveal that. It has something to do with loyalty but I don't know what exactly.

He's desperate to beat Trump and sees Hillary as his only option. I imagine he figures not supporting Hillary will fracture the party's voters and guarantee a Trump victory.

Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to realize that Hillary's campaign is already boned, and that few of the pro-Bernie crowd will even consider voting for her wether he supports her or not. IMO, his best option at this point would be splitting with Hillary and painting himself as a candidate better able to defeat Trump in the wake of the email scandal in an attempt to seize the liberal voters from Hillary, but even that would be a very risky strategy.

>DNC Delegate caught on camera admitting Complete Gun Ban is the End Game

>“Saying you want to ban guns altogether, that’s going to piss everybody off,” the Clinton alternate delegate, Mary Bayer, told a Project Veritas reporter.
>“You have to take that sort of moderate… ‘We just wanna have common sense legislation so our children are safe!’” Bayer told the reporter, adding, “You say shit like that, and then people will buy into it.”
gun control get out reeeeeeeeeee