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Occam’s Weiner

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Thoughts on the mess from Mark Steyn, who will soon have his own show.

[Update a while later]

“My guess is Weiner’s perversions were to some extent a cry for help. He wanted to be caught. At some point, he desperately wanted out of the Clinton nexus (who wouldn’t?).”

[Update a few minutes later]

Hillary didn’t see Carlos Danger coming:

Carlos Danger (Anthony Weiner) once held high political office. He talked smart trash. He sassed Republicans and snickered. The liberal media loved it. Can’t catch me, I’m Carlos Danger.

Carlos Danger is also a pervert who sends naked pictures of himself to underage females.

Thanks to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s criminal deceit and his wife’s (Huma Abedin) complicity, after Carlos left office in disgrace he still had access to classified national security information.

Let’s review key incidents in The Lowest Cesspool. The pervert digitally exposes himself to 15-year-old girl. How vile. The cops investigate. Good. But oh the irony. The perv’s exposure incidentally exposes the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate as a crook and serial liar. The pervert’s estranged wife may face perjury charges. The pervert is cooperating with the FBI because he’s a coward and a punk and he’ll cop a plea to save his arse.

Unlikely plot twists? Not all that surprising, given the crooked characters. No need for Greek gods to dispense justice. Crooked characters do crooked things. At some point they take a crooked step and fall. Even crooks who think they can design a centralized and cost-effective national healthcare program, the kind of megalomaniacal crook who thinks she can foresee every contingency, a crook who thinks she can control the narrative just because she has ABC and NBC and CNN and The New York Times in her pocket—even a crook with that kind of power eventually trips up.

He certainly chose an appropriate name for himself.

[Update a couple minutes later]

The Democrats asked for this.

Yes. It’s what happens when you ignore all of the klaxons and flashing lights and nominate a corrupt incompetent serial felon.

25 thoughts on “Occam’s Weiner”

  1. Even crooks who think they can design a centralized and cost-effective national healthcare program…

    Because it was crooks who designed it. Crooks who steal the liberty of a citizen; crooks who steal the savings of citizens and give it to insurance companies in exchange for lobbying money and crooks who take free health care from the savings of working class people.

  2. Beginning to see Hillary get shriller and shriller as the cold sweat panic begins to set in.

    Carville has already gone Bonkers. One thing I don’t understand about their logic in blamingthe Russians:

    If they want to whine that the Russians hacked them, how could any sensible person see that as other than direct concrete evidence that the Hillary crew isn’t utterly and totally incompetent and can’t be trusted with a grocery list let alone State Secrets? I see they attempted to put Trump in cahoots with the Russkies but that fell flat on it’s face.

    And if the Russians do have all that stuff, the opportunity for blackmail is enormous.

    Sensible people would see those two things as reason enough to NOT vote for Hillary.

    2. The Blame Russia meme actually makes tactical sense for the Democrats. It feeds into their claims that Trump is pro-Putin, or a puppet of Putin. It also serves to deflect from inconvenient facts such as one candidate (theirs) having the real ties to Putin and having received vast sums of money from his inner circle (the Rosatom deal, amongst many others).

      Of course, the little downside of all this is a major ramping up of tensions with Russia, which increases the risk of war, but hey, that’s small potatoes compared to the political usefulness.

      As an aside, even if the e-mails on Wiener’s computer turn out to be just copies of ones they already have, if those include classified ones it’ll get amusing fast; Wiener has no security clearance (and is rather well known for broadcasting things he should not) so the presence of classified information on his computer is unimpeachable evidence that Clinton’s illegal setup *did* put national security information at risk because it absolutely was in the hands of someone who clearly should not have it.

    3. For some reason, the left want a war with Russia, and looks like they’re going to get one if Clinton wins. Theories seem to range from them hating Putin because he’s one of the few politicians who won’t go along with gay marriage, to Soros paying them a lot of money to start WWIII and kill off most of Europe and America so he can rule the rubble.

      2. For some reason, the left want a war with Russia

        Nope. The past 8 years, or the past 60, show the exact opposite. Putin isn’t worried about the architect of the Russian Reset going to war with Russia.

        The sudden appearance of hatred for Russia has more to do with trying to peel off Republican voters than any animosity Democrats have for Russia.

        Just like the claim vanished that Latinos would never vote for a Sanders after fleeing socialism to the south, hatred at Russia will magically disappear soon enough.

  3. Curious that Steyn presents more evidence of Trump’s good intuitive instincts. How to explain it? Oh, I know… He’s Maxwell Smart or Inspector Clouseau.

  4. Another sign of desperation: the Democrats reviving of the infamous “Daisy” commercial from the 1964 presidential campaign. That’s the one in which a little girl picking daisies is incinerated in a mushroom cloud, presumably after President Goldwater drops the Big One. The ad was quickly yanked, and I have gotten the impression that it’s sort of an embarrassment to Democrats over the years. Probably if you confronted Bill Moyers, who didn’t create the ad but I understand gave the go-ahead with it, about “Daisy,” he’d blush and run away, not wanting to be reminded of his past as an LBJ hatchet-man, before he became today’s Pious Parson Bill. But apparently the current crop of Democrats–certainly not the Clinton Gang–don’t even have that amount of decent shame.

  6. We know that government employees with security clearance are required by law to protect confidential, classified, Secret, Top Secret, and Special Access information. Possession of any of these outside secure channels is a felony, and in the case of the highest levels can rise to treason.

    We only know of the existence of the server due to the Benghazi hearing and a FOIA request by Judicial Watch. The records concerning Benghazi should have been on state.gov servers and thus should have been trivial to find. That they were on a private server is a felony. That there were over 100 classified email chains and other email chains that contained records of higher security is even worse. Everyone who communicated classified information to or from a domain outside the state.gov secure system has committed a felony. That includes Obama.

    We know the Russians hacked her server. We know a Romanian lone hacker hacked her server. We know the NSA has the contents of every email – not just the emails on Hillary’s server but literally every email. There is probably only one email account that is more sensitive in terms of national security than that of the secretary of state, and with her own server Hillary was probably the target of every intelligence agency in the world, friend and foe alike

    We know they tried to destroy evidence using Bleachbit. We know they tried to destroy devices with a hammer. And now Anthony Weiner’s laptop ends up in the hands of law enforcement (NYPD) and it turns out to have 650 thousand emails on it.

    We don’t know but I surmise that the quantity of emails suggests a copy of the all email that went through the Hillary server. It’s a life insurance policy.

    We don’t know but I surmise that Wikileaks is getting information from way more sources than the Russians. The only thing keeping Julian Assange alive – and that by a thread – is credibility. I think they’ve had a lot of this information for a while but don’t publish unless two or more sources provide the same information.

    I can see Hillary making the occasional appearance in public, the biggest crowd so far is about 900. I’ve seen Trump pulling in 4000 people in Wisconsin. I see him with even bigger crowds in Nevada and New Mexico. He’s pulling ahead in even the most slanted polls.

    This is a preference cascade. She’s toast.

    1. We actually don’t know that the Russians hacked her server. That idea comes solely from the Clinton campaign which – at this point – should have no credibility whatsoever with any sentient being.

      The intel community would never broadcast such information, even if they had it. Take it from someone with actual experience in the black world.

      The scary thing is that the Clinton campaign would: a) accuse, without proof, that a nuclear-armed enemy was interfering with the U.S. election, or: b) reveal intelligence information, acquired by whatever means, that should never be revealed, all for “political advantage.”

      2. We know the Russians hacked the server because they are not stupid. They had every reason to do so and it was easy enough for Guccifer to do it with his limited resources. Of course they hacked it. So did the French and the Germans and the Canadians and China and everyone else.

        Hell, a five year old could hack into a server with username Admin password Admin.

        1. I agree that Russia is likely competent and interested to have the data, but we neither know they hacked Hillary or the DNC nor the source of the leaked data to Wikileaks. Considering the petty tone of the leaked email, I’m thinking the leak was internal, perhaps a former true believer in socialism.

          Maybe Russia would want to muck with our elections, but the more devious way is to call into question the integrity of the voting system, and the emails only touch on that tangentially. People say, “I told you so” in response to Donna Brazile cheating debates. People resort to violence if they learn that the election is a complete fraud. Or at least very close to violence, as so far Austria has managed to avoid a breakdown in civility.

  7. Steyn is so awesome. One thing not noted in his article, however, is the fact that the folder containing the 650,000 emails is marked…wait for it…”Life Insurance.”

      1. Admittedly, no. I heard it on WMAL on my way to work this morning. So, no, I don’t have have hard info. It will be interesting if it is true. I will stop short, however, of saying “If it isn’t true, it should be.”

        Good thing I stopped short of that, isn’t it?

  8. @Gregg: “Carville has already gone Bonkers.”

    Dude, that train left a loooong time ago.

    @Edward M Grant: “Dude, everyone hacked Clinton’s server”

    Imagine a Downfall parody where Hitler learns his staff tried and failed to hack her server… “Mein Fuehrer…”

    I will say, this election has not lacked entertainment value. When the Titanic is taking on water, at least enjoy the free Moet in the bar. (Admittedly, it’s a hell of a way to look at things, but the alternative, despair, is even worse.)

    1. What will happen next?

      Still more wikileaks and O’Keefe stuff to come but what does Hillary have to drop? Or maybe Hillary is counting on her dark money wet works squads.

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