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  • It wasn’t a mistake…

    It was an obvious and deliberate play between Hillary and DWS:

    On the phone Gary told me the DNC had needed a $2 million loan, which the campaign had arranged.

    “No! That can’t be true!” I said. “The party cannot take out a loan without the unanimous agreement of all of the officers.”

    “Gary, how did they do this without me knowing?” I asked. “I don’t know how Debbie relates to the officers,” Gary said. He described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp. The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse. Under FEC law, an individual can contribute a maximum of $2,700 directly to a presidential campaign. But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.

    Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund—that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties who were part of the Victory Fund agreement—$320,000—and $33,400 to the DNC. The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to Brooklyn.

    “Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”

    Gary said the campaign had to do it or the party would collapse.

    “That was the deal that Robby struck with Debbie,” he explained, referring to campaign manager Robby Mook. “It was to sustain the DNC. We sent the party nearly $20 million from September until the convention, and more to prepare for the election.”

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

    I swear the main reason people don’t appreciate today’s DNC, is they’re ignorant of what went down up till this chair was sat.

    Like, that’s literally the same “victory fund” Biden got, than Kamala got, and finally this DNC chair started paying back to state parties almost immediately.

    That’s why we keep doing so well in special elections, the state parties are funded for the first time in a decade.





  • Iran has (once again) said they don’t know who the fuck trump is talking to, but it’s not anyone running Iran…

    I really think the people around him are gaslighting him at this point:

    Wow, you’re so tough! I talked to _____ and they’re totally scared and willing to do anything you say tomorrow!

    Look at the people around him, no one is running complex grifts. They’re just absuing a geriatric asshole and grifting them out of our money.

    It’s why trump can’t be the only one held accountable.

    Everyone that did this shit over the last three presidential administrations needs prosecuted. It’s the only way to stop it from happening






  • Biden spent decades telling anyone that would listen that he believed the only way to deal with Israel was to give them everything they asked for…

    When I ama didn’t do that, he spoke out as VP against his own president.

    Kamala not only refused to respond in kind, she went out of her way to explicitly say if elected she’d be the same as Biden.

    This is one of a very few areas where it would have happened regardless of who was president.

    And that’s a huge problem we can’t ignore.






  • I think you’re confused still…

    Did you think this was a super important rare thing that is never done and a huge deal?

    Or…

    Are you aware (win or lose) a report like this is always done?

    Edit:

    And since you care enough about votes to bring it up, I downvoted you for “glazing”. And completely deriding the conversation.

    What about this are you actually upset about?

    You said “I’m not upset”…

    But I think it’s because you don’t understand the words you’re seeing…



  • Buddy…

    What do you want?

    On Thursday, Martin apologized.

    “When I was elected DNC chair, I commissioned an after action review of the 2024 election that I wanted to be honest and transparent, and with actionable and specific takeaways for the future of the Democratic Party,” Martin said. “When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over.”

    Martin went on: “I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced. After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize.”

    “For full transparency,” Martin continued, “I am releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited and unabridged. It does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards, but I am doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word.”

    Hours later, Martin told DNC members on a call that Paul Rivera, the report author, no longer “is with or advises the DNC in any capacity,” according to a source on the call.

    “I apologize. Being a leader at any level means you own every single mistake — those of your creation and frankly those not of your creation,” Martin said. “This was a major mistake. I own it, and now it’s time for us to move forward at the DNC, and I hope that you’ll move forward with me.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dnc-releases-2024-autopsy-chair-apologizing-creating-even-bigger-distr-rcna345963

    What are you actually upset about here?