Sure, sure… Julian Assange really brought out the goods with that last email dump…<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Assange said in an interview<\/a> that aired Sunday on NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Meet the Press.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting question, of course, as to who our sources are. But as a source protection organization that many sources from across the world of many different types rely on to protect their identity, and their rights, to communicate the truth to the public. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about here, communicating the truth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> Actually, if you want to know the brutal truth, I think this email dump would have been much more effective at the end of the convention than at the start of the convention.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the big “reach out” from Team Clinton to Team Sanders on all things personal politics and all things domestic policy would have been less so, and the make nice from Team Sanders to herd his supporters behind the Clinton banner would unravel with the new information. I’m struck by the banality of everything here.\u00c2\u00a0 Like, yes — Sanders was toiling against the Democratic Establishment (as he’s done his political life), and yes, the DNC was scheduling as few debates as they could get away with, and, yes, low level staff suggested questioning Sanders’ religion so all the Southerners who weren’t voting for Sanders would now doubly not vote for him…\u00c2\u00a0 AND–?<\/p>\n Maybe he can do better than this, and maybe the fact that Hillary Clinton used a server more hack-able than gmail is more than enough.\u00c2\u00a0 And Assange does state here he has no preference for Trump, and then again over there he has some preference for Trump.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And I suppose it is worth more than reading the news reports coming out of the private email correspondence reported over the year in such places as the New York Times where we mostly just end up with a humanized Hillary Clinton sweating out her Senate Benghazi Testimony, a net gain (I suppose)…<\/p>\n “Mr. Gorbachev.\u00c2\u00a0 Release naked photographs of Walter Mondale” — (Stephen Colbert parody imagining Trump’s reaction as fitting previous eras.)<\/p>\n And somewhere as things get… stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sure, sure… Julian Assange really brought out the goods with that last email dump… \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Assange said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Meet the Press.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15682,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15680\/revisions\/15682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I can say categorically is that we have published proof that the election campaign of Bernie Sanders was sabotaged in a corrupt manner by [former DNC Chair] Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others within the DNC,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can say that categorically. We have published proof. But as for anything else, we can only speculate.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d […]<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In order to divert attention from proof that we published that the Sanders campaign was subverted within the DNC,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Assange said on NBC, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Clinton campaign tries to take attention away from a very serious domestic allegation about election interference and try and bring in foreign policy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nOr, to put it another way… a larger bloc unable to stand the situation.<\/p>\n
\nI suppose the theory of the campaign lies in the “Telling it like it is” meme: we’re standing up to the Patriarchy inherent in Islam — finally, multiculturalism be damned.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t parse this out fully, sometimes out of touch here “in a world” where a Mosque being built within earshot of “Ground Zero” lands a wave of laws and bills to ban Sharia Law <\/a>— but I imagine most of America assumes even if she’s piously a shirking violet — a “Who Cares?” is in order.<\/div>\n