29 thoughts on ““Lock Her Up””

  1. Actually, Glenn said it a bit wrong. He said protestors, but I think he meant attendees given the rest of the sentence context. If the question is protestors, I suspect there have been a few.

    Like it or not, the GOP has Trump because the base was tired of the fix always being in for a weak candidate whose turn had come. The DNC managed to keep its apparatchik functioning to produce Hillary as the nominee. Her greatest accomplishment seems to be avoiding jail for intentionally withholding records from the American people and giving access to classified information to the rest of the world through gross negligence. Oh, and she stood by her husband that took sexual advantage over interns.

  2. On the other end of the spectrum is the Green Party. The party traces its history to 1984.

    Freudian double entendre?

  4. also posted under Art Of Deception thread…

    What I find incredible is the idea of the Wasserman-Schultz debacle was forced because of hacked (read stolen) emails published in Wikileaks! The supposed source of said hacked emails? Russian intelligence.

    But no, no evidence that anything on Ms. Clinton’s server was ever compromised….

    Does anyone have a break they can give or even loan me?

    1. While the Russians are realistic suspects, they’re far from the only country that possesses the knowledge to hack the DNC’s (and Hillary’s) servers and who doesn’t like Hillary and the Democrats. To name just a few, think China, North Korea, and even Israel. Odds are there are several more countries with the means and motive to orchestrate such a release.

      I think the odds of a much more significant release happening sometime this October is quite high. For one thing, we’re quite likely to learn that those thousands of personal emails she had deleted weren’t just about Chelsea’s wedding and yoga.

      2. Whoever hacked the DNC servers, I’m not seeing any denial that the leaked emails are authentic.

        If I were doing IT for an organization with big secrets I’d insist that everyone use encrypted email for anything sensitive. That way even if a server is compromised the email content is still protected. But apparently such precautions are beyond DNC operatives.

        1. If I were doing IT for an organization with big secrets

          You mean, like the State Department or clintonemail.com?
          Supposedly it did, after it didn’t….

          http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/hillary-clinton-email-unsecure/

          And now we hear the Donald giving encouragement to Mr. Putin to come up with the missing Clinton emails… No doubt in MSDNC land this is the equivalent of a violation of the Logan Act, a felony. So you see it’s really the Donald’s fault that Hillary’s emails were hacked….

      3. I’m thinking “Murder on the Orient Express” here- there could have been several plans underway to leak the DNC emails, the Russians simply got there first.

    2. No break offered, given, or even loaned or rented out.

      Remember, what is mine remains mine and what is your is deservedly mine.

    3. It only get’s better. If I may be allowed a MSM link from:

      http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-dnc-emails-russia/

      “The FBI is investigating a cyber intrusion involving the DNC and are working to determine the nature and scope of the matter,” the agency said in a statement. “A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.”

      … ahem… er… heh.. heh heh.. haaa ahaaaaahahahahahahaha….

  5. I wonder if Byron Tau talked to anyone at the DNC or in Hillary’s campaign before writing that WSJ article? Also, will the Berniebots be attacked by the media like the Republicans were for expressing the sentiment?

  6. Democrats at the convention need to quit all this squabbling, and let the orgy of junk economics, envy stoking, neo-Marxist sociology and rewritten history commence!

      1. They’re rewriting it continuously with people like Carol O’conner playing the staunch conservative.

        1. Even though he was written as a caricature, people loved Archie Bunker. And they despised Michael Stivik.

  7. When Republicans shouted, “Lock her up!” it was framed by the media as a slide toward totalitarianism. This has been a constant meme, like if Trump says anything about a business.

    Last night we had speakers at the DNC attacking not just businesses but entire industries and even groups of people. They are targeting these people, businesses, and industries for punitive actions carried out by a weaponized government. Is anyone concerned about this actual totalitarianism? Did anyone that had problems with anything Trump said find this display a little disconcerting?

    The Democrats have even been pushing for anti-trust cases against many big companies, just not the ones like Google that give them tons of money.

    1. IMO there should have been plenty of anti-trust cases in the US already in the last decade or two. But it seems federal prosecutors don’t have stomach for it anymore. Just like they don’t have the stomach to apply sanctions for dumping, or to protect US strategic interests.
      There are rumors right now that GlobalFoundries and Micron will be sold to the Chinese. I hope not.

      1. Our military would cost so much less if we let the Chinese build it for us. What could possibly go wrong?

        1. What happens to quality when the contractor not only has no direct interest in doing it right, but does have an interest in slipping in “easter eggs”?

  8. Bill Kristol from The Weekly Standard had a different take on the Russian angle with Trump.

    “Trump’s business seems to be heavily dependent on Russian investment. His top campaign advisor, Paul Manafort, was the advisor to the Putin-backed stooge Viktor Yanukovich, and has deep ties to the Putin apparat. One of Trump’s national security advisors, retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, was paid to give a speech at a Russian propaganda celebration and was seated next to Putin. Trump’s Russia advisor Carter Page, who does much of his business with Russian companies, has argued, among other things, that “a few officials in Washington” annexed Ukraine and that the “so-called annexation” of Crimea by Russia was a rational response to this injustice.

    Furthermore, practically the only change Trump’s campaign made to the GOP platform was to weaken language supporting Ukraine. Wikileaks, which appears to have connections to Putin’s espionage apparatus, has released emails that are damaging to Hillary Clinton immediately before the Democratic convention. Trump heartily approves of this interference by a foreign power in an American election. They apparently intend to do the same with emails hacked from Clinton Foundation servers. Finally, Trump, to the cheers of the Kremlin establishment, has said he will not uphold our NATO commitments.”

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/putins-party/article/2003473

    1. Suddenly Democrats hate Wikileaks? When Democrats were championing Wikileaks for years, they were helping Putin?

      Hillary and the Clinton Foundation have some close ties to Russian interests as well. One of Trump’s employees may have worked on a political campaign but Hillary and her cronies made millions off her relationship with Russia as Secretary of State.

      1. The fun is watching Democrats trash Russia, which simply shows the failure of Secretary Clinton in improving relations with Russia. The only people buying her argument are her supporters. Sanders supporters, some proudly carrying Soviet flags, think she is FOS about Russia and Trump.

  9. Meanwhile . . .

    http://reason.com/reasontv/2016/07/26/democrats-clinton-authoritarian-trump

    (They really need my [patent] pending Statist Scale, aka the Coercion Meter: with 0 representing a pacifist libertarian anarchist such as Robert LeFevre, and 10 representing Hitler, Mao, Stalin. etc. “Liberals” such as Obama, Hillary, etc. fall way to to the 10 side of the scale: maybe a 7 or 8–or as I call it, “the State-f*cker zone.”)

    Also: http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/26/friendly-reminder-bernie-sanders-is-a-bigger-authoritarian-than-donald-trump/

    Wonder where Godzilla, Baghdad Jim, et al, see themselves on the scale. The statists I’ve run the Coercion Meter invariably put themselves at “5,” proving once again that Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt.

  11. Went and saw the new D’Souza movie. It was pretty good, productionwise better than his last two. The history portion was excellent. The Hillary portion could have used more polish but it included stuff as recent as a month or two ago so they must have rushed some of it.

    It isn’t a wonder why it is making the movie reviewer’s heads explode. It tells the truth of the history of the Democrat party.

    1. I heard it was doing well in the box office. And yes, yes it is. Snapshot on 27 July:

      Ghostbusters on 3,693 screens – daily domestic gross: $2,251,502
      Hillary’s America on 1,217 screens pulled in daily: $520,903

      Not bad for a movie with very little marketing. It’s top ten for the day, and if ranked by income per screen; it would be just behind Ice Age.

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