Fuck u/spez

Reddit CEO alters users' posts.

I don't know how you can violate your users' trust like that and keep your job.

1st in Stupidity

Mathew Blanchfield, who runs 1st in SEO, posted the letter describing Mr. Trump as “a racist, sexist, fascist” earlier this month on his company’s website. 

He said that while he remains committed to his liberal clients, he “will no longer do business with any person that is a registered Republican or supports Donald Trump.”

His clients:

Versatile Vitality

 Altitude Sports Marketing
Saucedo Chavez
New Mexico Mold Removal
Accent on Vision
Fas Break Glass Repair

In case you are a Republican and want to know which liberal clients don't want your business.

Rigging the Election

The idea is to agitate in line and be so obnoxious that you get someone to react. Then the news covers it and says how violent the Trump supporters are.

The "naturally psychotic" people he's talking about are the ones attending the rally who get mad at people saying that Trump is a Nazi.

Weird, huh? Because you know that someone pulling that at a Hillary rally would be greeted with, "that's okay, everyone has their own opinion"....as if.

They share a list of all the Trump and Pence appearances and get people to turn out to agitate. It's really surprising that there hasn't been more conflict than there has. If you have enough people showing up, trying to engage in conflict, eventually they're going to find a few people who are having a bad day and are just one asshole away from losing it.

The people claiming responsibility for events like the Chicago Trump protest say they coordinate with the Clinton campaign and the DNC.

Also, according to Scott Foval, Iowa and Wisconsin are "racist as fuck".

Watch the whole video.

Hillary Clinton Goldman Sachs Speech Transcript #3

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            SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

                SPEAKER AT GOLDMAN SACHS

            BUILDERS AND INNOVATORS SUMMIT

               Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain

                    Marana, Arizona

               Tuesday, October 29, 2013

            

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Reported by:  Carolyn T. Sullivan, RPR

             

            

            

            

            

            

            

         ELLEN GRAUER COURT REPORTING CO. LLCC

           126 East 56th Street, Fifth Floor

               New York, New York 10022

                     212-750-6434

                     REF:  105182

             MR. BLANKFEIN:  That's the first of a ten-minute spiel, but let me introduce somebody who needs no introduction.  Secretary Hillary Clinton.

             (Applause.)

             MR. BLANKFEIN:  Now, when I say I want no introduction, I'm really only kidding because I want a real introduction and long.

             SECRETARY CLINTON:  I was waiting for it.

             MR. BLANKFEIN:  Well, I'll tell you, I'm more interested in the future.  So, anyway, why don't we just start.

             If you don't mind, can we start with a little bit of a tour of the world and say, you know, if you were -- if you were -- let's take a hypothetical.  Let's say you were Secretary of State.

             (Laughter.)

             MR. BLANKFEIN:  What would you be focused on?  What would you be focused on today?  And tell a little bit about how your priorities would be and how you would deal with some of it now.

             SECRETARY CLINTON:  Well, gee, I'll just have to cast my mind back.

             (Laughter.)

             SECRETARY CLINTON:  Well, first, thanks for having me here and giving me a chance to know a little bit more about the builders and the innovators who you've gathered.  Some of you might have been here last year, and my husband was, I guess, in this very same position.  And he came back and was just thrilled by --

             MR. BLANKFEIN:  He increased our budget.

Hillary Clinton Goldman Sachs Speech Transcript #2

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GOLDMAN SACHS

ASSET MANAGEMENT

AIMS ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

SYMPOSIUM 2013

FORMER UNITED STATES

SECRETARY OF STATE

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

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                  200 West Street

                  New York, New York

                  October 24, 2013

                  12:50 p.m.

     Before Rita Persichetty, a Notary Public

of the State of New York.

     ELLEN GRAUER COURT REPORTING CO. LLC

       126 East 56th Street, Fifth Floor

           New York, New York 10022

                 212-750-6434

                 REF:  105177

               P R O C E E D I N G S

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          MR. O'NEILL:  Welcome.  This has been a great day and a half here at the AIMS Symposium, and it is my distinct honor to introduce today's lunch conversation.  Please join me in welcoming Secretary Clinton, who will be hosted in a discussion with our own Tim O'Neill, who is the cohead of investment management.

          Well, thanks again, Madam Secretary. Everyone is very interested in what you have to say, so why don't we get right to it and start talking about the political process in Washington, D.C.

          I think it's fair to say that the government shutdown and debates that surrounded it were not the finest hours in political history, but democracy is an evolving process, and nobody has a more refined perspective of that than you, having served in the executive branch as well as Congress.

Hillary Clinton Goldman Sachs Speech Transcript #1

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GOLDMAN SACHS, CO.

            2013 IBD CEO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and

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                     The Inn at Palmetto Bluff

                     Bluffton, South Carolina

                     June 4, 2013

                     8:05 P.M.

         Before Patricia T. Morrison, Registered

Professional Reporter and Notary Public of the

State of South Carolina.

     ELLEN GRAUER COURT REPORTIN CO. LLC

       126 East 56th Street, Fifth Floor

           New York, New York 10022

                 212-750-6434

                 REF: 104014

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            MS. CLINTON:  Let's start with the

chairman.

            MR. BLANKFEIN:  China.  We're used to

the economic team in China.  We go there all the

time.  The regulations -- and then every once in a

while you hear about South China, the military

side.

            How do you from the state department

point of view -- less familiar to us -- think about

China, the rise of China, and what that forebodes

for the next couple of decades?

            MS. CLINTON:  Well, you start off with

an easy question, but first let me thank you.

Thanks for having me here and giving me an

opportunity both to answer your questions and maybe

later on some of the questions that some of the

audience may have.

            I think it's a good news/maybe not so

good news story about what is going on right now in

China.  On the good news side I think the new

leadership -- and we'll see more of that when Xi

Jinping gets here in the United States after having

gone to Latin America.  He's a more sophisticated,

more effective public leader than Hu Jintao was.

            He is political in the kind of generic

sense of that word.  You can see him work a room,

which I have watched him do.  You can have him make

small talk with you, which he has done with me.

His experience as a young man coming to the United

States in the 1980s -- going to Iowa, spending time

there, living with a family -- was a very important

part of his own development.

Trump vs Clinton: Townhall Edition

Drudge Report

Heavy.com

MLive.com

WHNT (Huntsville, AL)

FOX2

NJ.com

5News (Fort Smith, Arkansas)

Penn Live

Hollywood Gossip

Buzzfeed

Who Won the First Debate?

Here are some online polls that are tracking opinions on the winner:

Drudge - at the time of this posting it shows Trump at 81.5% to Clinton's 18.5%

NJ.com - which also offers "neither" and "I don't know" as options. It has Trump at 53.99% and Clinton at 41.31%

Time.com - Trump is currently at 58% and Clinton is at 42%

Fortune.com - they're tied at 50% each over all, Trump at 54% to Clinton's 46% on the economy, his 53% to her 47% on national security, and 50% each on clearest vision for America. Most people who responded (80%) didn't have their minds changed by the debate.

Las Vegas Sun readers think that Trump was the winner.

CNBC - finally there's one with Clinton in the lead 52% to Trump's 48%.

Update: The CNBC has reversed (and then some). Trump is at 56% and Clinton at 44%. He's also pulled ahead in the Fortune.com poll and has increased his lead in the others.

First Presidential Debate 9/26/2016

Watch the debate  live on C-SPAN. They're doing a split screen so you  can watch both candidates the whole time.

HRC goes first. She says we need jobs. Wants to raise minimum wage and, finally, equal pay for women. Wealthy will pay their fair share.

DJT sounds a little subdued compared to what we're used to. He talks about Ford leaving the U.S. and losing manufacturing/jobs to other countries.

He points out Clinton has been working in government 30 years and still hasn't done anything about improving jobs here.

He describes the disadvantage we have in trade with Mexico since they have a VAT and everything we sell there is automatically taxed. We don't have that tax so they don't have to pay it here.

She accuses him of saying climate change is a hoax, he denies it.

Holt allows HRC to continue to talk even though he said they were taking a break.

Trump says he'll release his taxes as soon as she releases her emails. Someone in the audience cheered. Holt reminds them that they promised to stay silent.

Hillary needs to shut up about her father. I hope none of the debate drinking games have people doing a shot every time she says "my father". They'd be halfway to done in by now.

DJT - under budget, ahead of schedule.

The next section is on race.

HRC wants police to stop killing people unnecessarily like they're doing it for the lulz now.

We have to restore trust between communities and police. We have to make sure police are using the best techniques and training, and are well-prepared to use force only when necessary.

Holt intervenes to "correct" Trump. Trump responds that Holt is mischaracterizing the "stop and frisk" decision.

She talks about systemic racism and how young black men are more likely to be arrested and jailed for the same thing a white man could do. I hope he points out how she called them super-predators.

She wants people on the no-fly list to be prohibited from buying a gun. (Is she against due process?)

He called her on the super-predator thing. Good job.

He's not much for due process before taking gun rights either.

HRC

I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate... and yes, I did.

He did?

DJT talks about Sidney Blumenthal being one of the ones that started the thing with asking about Obama's birth certificate. I doubt many listeners know who Blumenthal is.

HRC says cyberwarfare will be one of the biggest challenges. She's deeply concerned about attacks by Russia.

She's the last person I would want to take cybersecurity advice from.

She says "Donald" invited Russians to hack Americans.

He points out that we really don't know who the hackers were but agrees that we need to be concerned about computer security.

The tops of their heads are even but compare their shoulder height. Would they have zoomed in more on a man to make him look equally tall they way they've done for Clinton?

Where are the questions about her private server?

They are giving Trump a good chance to counter her claims that he supported the war in Iraq.

Trump throughout calls her "Secretary Clinton", she keeps calling him "Donald".

DJT has attacked her political decisions. She's attacked him personally. Now they're arguing about who has better temperament.

She accused him of not caring if Japan, South Korea or Saudi Arabia get nuclear weapons. Why didn't he bring up the hundreds of millions the Clinton Foundation got from Saudi Arabia? It seems like it would have been a good chance for him to work it in.

He says Hillary has experience, but it's bad experience.

Final question, or it would be but Hillary keeps talking and Holt doesn't stop her.

HRC talks about a female beauty pageant contestant that has become an American citizen and is going to vote this November. It seems glaring that she doesn't say, "is going to vote for me".

Will you support the outcome of the election, regardless of who wins.

Both say yes along with a lot of other blather.

First Presidential Debate 9/26/2016

Watch the debate  live on C-SPAN. They're doing a split screen so you  can watch both candidates the whole time.

HRC goes first. She says we need jobs. Wants to raise minimum wage and, finally, equal pay for women. Wealthy will pay their fair share.

DJT sounds a little subdued compared to what we're used to. He talks about Ford leaving the U.S. and losing manufacturing/jobs to other countries.

He points out Clinton has been working in government 30 years and still hasn't done anything about improving jobs here.

He describes the disadvantage we have in trade with Mexico since they have a VAT and everything we sell there is automatically taxed. We don't have that tax so they don't have to pay it here.

She accuses him of saying climate change is a hoax, he denies it.

Holt allows HRC to continue to talk even though he said they were taking a break.

Trump says he'll release his taxes as soon as she releases her emails. Someone in the audience cheered. Holt reminds them that they promised to stay silent.

HRC hypothesizes why DJT won't release his taxes. He's not as rich as he says, not as charitable as he says, that he has debt to foreign banks, or that he doesn't pay federal taxes.

Someone cheered a comment by Clinton. Let's see if Holt admonishes them too.

Basket of Deplorables

To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables'. Unfortunately there are people like that, and he has lifted them up.

Hillary Clinton said this at a LGBT fundraiser in NYC where tickets were reported to start at $1,200 and go up to $250,000. The event was announced by an email saying "We will come together on Friday evening September 9 in New York to celebrate equality, build support for our campaign for a stronger America and aim our focus squarely on continued progress by sending Hillary to the White House."

We want to celebrate equality...except for those deplorables.

The Trump Family That I Know

You can read more about the speaker, Lynne Patton, in this Daily Mail article that was published after the video went viral.

(Side note: I just have to add that I love this photo she took of three of the Trump kids and their spouses. Silly paper hats!)

Old Woman Yells At Internet

Then someone in the crowd yells, "Pepe!" and gets thrown out of the rally by the Secret Service. She must have thought he was "the hacker known as 4chan" and was afraid he would release more of her deleted emails.

Hillary Clinton's Speech Transcripts

What if she won't release the transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street firms because she didn't make any speeches but only took payment for them?

NY Post: Snakes On a Plane

NY Observer:
He just started walking over and [even her security] can’t tell him, ‘you can’t do that.’ He walked in her plane for at least 20 to 25 minutes and the FBI is standing face to face with the Secret Service and just chatting on the hot tarmac like, ‘what the hell.’ ”

Being a former POTUS means no one can say, "No"?

I feel sorry for the Secret Service people who were left out on the tarmac in heat that was around 110 degrees. You know it would be even hotter for them, standing around in black suits, on concrete that would radiate more heat. But who cares about them? Or if there were other planes that couldn't land because Bill had to chat with Lynch.

Priorities

Priorities USA, a super-PAC that's backing Hillary Clinton, accepted $200,000 in donations from a company holding contracts worth $976,560 with the Department of Defense for maintenance and construction projects at a Naval base in Newport, R.I., and the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

Clinton's priorities are power and money. This PAC that supports her obviously agrees. This company isn't the biggest donor to the PAC, that title goes to George Soros who's donated (so far) $6,000,000. The PAC has donated $1,000,000 to Correct the Record which pays people to go online and disagree with social media users who say something negative about Hillary Clinton. (As far as I can tell, what it's mostly done is make everyone assume that anyone who defends her is getting paid to do so. It must make her actual supporters - assuming there are any who know how to internet - feel like chumps.)

Fact-Checking Clinton's Columbus, OH Speech

Going through the whole speech so you don't have to. It's a long article, but fortunately you don't have to worry about space online the way print newspapers do. Maybe that's why traditional media doesn't spend much time fact-checking her. They save space by having an article called "Things Hillary Said That Were True". Then, with nothing to print, they just delete the title too. Assume that any blank spaces in newspapers used to be one of these articles.

More of the Same

“Liberal internationalism seems to have been dying for a while,” said Mark S. Mellman, a Democratic pollster who is not involved with the Clinton campaign. “But while that may be the animating philosophy of foreign policy intellectuals the world over, it is not the animating philosophy of America, nor of our domestic politics.”

Hillary Clinton is stuck in her old ways, unable or unwilling to adapt, but still, the NYT reminds us that a Trump election could possibly cause chaos. It's not clear what kind of chaos but they have to keep readers scared enough of Trump that they'll be willing to put up with the same tired business as usual from Hillary.

The best sentence in the article is:

Not many voters want a lecturer as president.

No kidding. That's what we've had for seven years now and it's wearing thin. It's not just that people are tired of lectures and scolding, people want a president who thinks that the US is great and its people are too.

Republican Delegates Sabotage Trump

Dozens of Republican convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block Donald Trump at this summer’s party meetings, in what has become the most organized effort so far to stop the businessman from becoming the GOP presidential nominee. 

The moves come amid declining poll numbers for Trump and growing concern among Republicans that he is squandering his chance to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The refusal of party members to get behind the nominee is more harmful than anything Trump is doing. They accuse him of squandering his chance while they sabotage it.

There's a Lack of Self-Awareness Here

Romney rips 2016 also-rans for losing to Trump

Romney's perceived unwillingness to fight to win in 2012 is one reason people are supporting Trump now. I think that Romney would have been an excellent president but during the election he seemed more interested in being seen as a nice guy than as a winner. Now there's a candidate who's more interested in being a winner than being seen as a nice guy.

As he has on previous occasions, Romney warned that a Trump presidency could have disastrous repercussions for the country.

He should have worried about what another four years of Obama would do to the country. Romney is just sounding like a bitter loser at this point, but perhaps I should have some sympathy for him. It must be hard being a professional politician watching the Trump train.