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The 2020 Presidential Election
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Hempy McNoodle
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How to win a coin toss DNC style!
https://mobile.twitter.com/awzurche...1224533900946485250&ref_url=https://qmap.pub/
https://mobile.twitter.com/awzurche...1224533900946485250&ref_url=https://qmap.pub/
Brother Nature
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Hmm..
Buttigieg Backer Top Funder of Group Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting App
February 4, 2020
A dark money operation funded by billionaires is behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results, Max Blumenthal reports.
By Max BlumenthalThe Grayzone
At the time of publication, 12 hours after voting in the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses ended, the results have not been announced. The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc.
This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark-money nonprofit backed by hedge fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign.
The delay in the vote reporting denied a victory speech to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presumptive winner of the opening contest in the Democratic presidential primary. Though not one exit poll indicated that Buttigieg would have won, the former mayor South Bend, Indiana, took to Twitter to confidently proclaim himself the victor.
Iowa, you have shocked the nation.The bizarre scenario was made possible by a mysterious voting app whose origins had been kept secret by Democratic National Committee officials. For hours, it was unclear who created the failed technology, or how it wound up in the hands of Iowa party officials.
By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious. #IowaCaucuses
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) February 4, 2020
Though a dark money Democratic operation turned out to be the source of the disastrous app, suspicion initially centered on former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook and his Russiagate-related elections integrity initiative.
Leveraging Russia Hysteria
While Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price refused to say who was behind the failed app, he told NPR that he “worked with the national party’s cybersecurity team and Harvard University’s Defending Digital Democracy project….” Price did not offer details on his collaboration with the Harvard group, however.
The New York Times reported that this same outfit had teamed up with Iowa Democrats to run a “drill of worst-case scenarios” and possible foreign threats, but was also vague on details.
Robby Mook, the former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, was the co-founder of Defending Digital Democracy.
His initiative arose out of the national freakout over Russian meddling that he and his former boss helped stir when they blamed their loss on Russian interference. Mook’s new outfit pledged to “protect from hackers and propaganda attacks.”
He founded the organization with help from Matt Rhoades, a former campaign manager for Republican Mitt Romney whose public relations company was sued by a Silicon Valley investor after it branded him “an agent of the Russian government” and “a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Rhoades’s firm had been contracted by a business rival to destroy the investor’s reputation.
As outrage grew over the delay in Iowa caucus results, Mook publicly denied any role in designing the notorious app.
You know it’s bad when… https://t.co/oNDQnVPxjRHours later, journalist Lee Fang reported that a previously unknown tech outfit called Shadow Inc. had contracted with the Iowa Democratic Party to create the failed technology. The firm was comprised of former staffers for Obama, Clinton and the tech industry, and had been paid for services by the Buttigieg campaign.
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) February 4, 2020
FEC filings show the Iowa Democratic party and Buttigieg campaign paid Shadow Inc.
The Path to Mayor Pete’s Wine Cave
Shadow Inc. was launched by a major Democratic dark money nonprofit called Acronym, which also gave birth to a $7.7 million Super PAC known as Pacronym.
According to Sludge, Pacronym’s largest donor is Seth Klarman. A billionaire hedge funder, Klarman also happens to be a top donor to Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.
Though he has attracted some attention for his role in the campaign, Klarman’s prolific funding of the pro-settler Israel lobby and Islamophobic initiatives has gone almost entirely unmentioned.
Seth Klarman is the founder of the Boston-based Baupost Group hedge fund and a longtime donor to corporate Republican candidates. After Donald Trump called for forgiving Puerto Rico’s debt, Klarman — the owner of $911 million of the island’s bonds — flipped and began funding Trump’s opponents.
The billionaire’s crusade against Trump ultimately led him to Mayor Pete’s wine cave.
By the end of 2019, Klarman had donated $5,600 to Buttigieg and pumped money into the campaigns of Senators Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris as well.
The billionaire’s support for centrist candidates appears to be driven not only by his own financial interests, but by his deep and abiding ideological commitment to Israel and its expansionist project.
As I reported for Mondoweiss, Klarman has been a top funder for major Israel lobby outfits, including those that support the expansion of illegal settlements and Islamophobic initiatives.
Klarman was the principal funder of The Israel Project, the recently disbanded Israeli government-linked propaganda organization that lobbied against the Iran nuclear deal and backed the Israeli settlement enterprise.
Klarman has heaped hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and the American Jewish Committee. And he funded The David Project, which was established to suppress Palestine solidarity organizing on campuses across the U.S. and battled to block the establishment of a Muslim community center in Boston.
Through his support for the Friends of Ir David Inc, Klarman directly involved himself in the Israeli settlement enterprise, assisting the U.S.-based tax exempt arm of the organization that oversaw a wave of Palestinian expulsions in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
Other pro-Israel groups reaping the benefits of Klarman’s generosity include Birthright Israel, the AIPAC-founded Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a neoconservative think tank that helped devise Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign of economic warfare on Iran.
Klarman is the owner of the Times of Israel, an Israeli media outlet that once published a call for Palestinian genocide. (The op-ed was removed following public backlash).
In recent weeks, Buttigieg has sought to distinguish himself from Sanders on the issue of Israel-Palestine. During a testy exchange this January with a self-proclaimed Jewish supporter of Palestinian human rights, the South Bend mayor backtracked on a previous pledge to withhold military aid to Israel if it annexed parts of the West Bank.
NEW: The day after Trump unveiled his plan green-lighting Israeli annexation and Netanyahu’s announcement of a cabinet vote on annexation this Tuesday, @PeteButtigieg backtracked on his repeated promise that the "U.S. will not foot the bill for annexation." #StopFundingOccupation pic.twitter.com/dldyRnI5loAnother recipient of Klarman’s funding, Amy Klobuchar, has taken a strongly pro-Israel line, vowing to support Trump’s relocation of the U.S.embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
— IfNotNow? (@IfNotNowOrg) January 30, 2020
Battling Bernie with Hedge Fund Money & Sexism Claims
Like Klarman, Donald Sussman is a hedge funder who has channeled his fortune into Pacronym. He has given $1 million to the Super PAC and was also top donor to Clinton in 2016.
Sussman’s Paloma Partners operates through a series of offshore shell companies, and received tens of millions of dollars in the 2009 federal bailout of the banking industry.
His daughter, Democratic operative Emily Tisch Sussman, declared on MSNBC in September that “if you still support Sanders over Warren, it’s kind of showing your sexism.”
MSNBC pundit says if you support Bernie Sanders over Elizabeth Warren it’s “showing your sexism.” pic.twitter.com/fghFIqOF6CAs Democratic elites like the Sussmans braced for a Bernie Sanders triumph in Iowa, a mysterious piece of technology spun out by a group they supported delayed the vote results, preventing Sanders from delivering a victory speech. And the politician many of them supported, Pete Buttigieg, exploited the moment to declare himself the winner. In such a strange scenario, conspiracy theories write themselves.
— Ibrahim (@ibrahimpols) September 27, 2019
Hempy McNoodle
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A lot is being exposed these days about TRUE corruption. And more and more people are slowly figuring out that the Russian hoax was just that; a hoax. Can Bernie take on these criminals and win? Certainly not.
super triggered
it's not a hoax, it's a hoax inside the hoax
prepare for the hoaxalypse, new world order, etc.
Hempy McNoodle
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Lol, that coin toss kid made my day! Another typical deep dem tactic is to use people whom it would be bad (optics) to 'attack.'
Use kids, minorities, women, etc. Anyone who questions the results is a racist, sexist, genderphobic, meanie- bully.
Use kids, minorities, women, etc. Anyone who questions the results is a racist, sexist, genderphobic, meanie- bully.
Brother Nature
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Who cares who put all the pieces together, all the links contained in the article also work and paint the same picture, from sources you probably don't find bullshit either. Of course, I know you won't check them cause you don't care about listening to any opinion aside from your own. I put that article up for the more open minded people here.
Hempy McNoodle
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Worst case scenario would be if the DNC is intentionally rigging for Trump. That would mean that Trump is one of them and this is ALL theater for us proletarians.
I am tired of repeating this - the DNC is owned by the clintons. They want old joe and the hag for the ticket. Bernie bros better just get used to him being paid to go away with another house and book deal. Job #1 for a socialist is themselves.
Hempy; Do you mean the Trumps?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political...rous-voting-app-buttigieg-backer-seth-klarman
Still no word from Iowa huh? If bernie won the election the dems would impeach him. They will tell you who you want for president and she is the hag.
Still no word from Iowa huh? If bernie won the election the dems would impeach him. They will tell you who you want for president and she is the hag.
Hempy McNoodle
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No. They are proving to be surprisingly clean and ethical. Especially, in comparison.
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How about that well oiled example of what the democratic party can accomplish if we let them run the show called the Iowa caucus sponsored by the klinton software company. Wonder how much slick and log legs made off that venture? Now we just need to let them run Medicare for all and for me to invest in casket manufacturing and I will be rich.
No.
You guys are spreading bullshit over a computer error.
What’s the point?
There’s enough trash in politics.
Then stop repeating it. You sound like a parrot. You haven’t a clue anyway.
THE MSM SMELLS BLOOD LOL... This dude is chum.. This dude says hes been caucusing for 20 years but looks like hes 25 years old lol.
Iowa is a wash.. Move on and forget about that stupid shit. How complicated do they need to make this..
Iowa is a wash.. Move on and forget about that stupid shit. How complicated do they need to make this..
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Hempy McNoodle
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See now why we must drain the swamp first? Can't elect good people if bad people have the system rigged.
Dont fool yourself, There all bad including Trumpturd.
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