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anonymous - an example of your "willing to sell the birthright of regular every day Americans down the river to feather their own nests and for their own self aggrandizement."

I didn't know that FBI Dictator Comey was put in a Lockheed job for big bucks, did you? If everyone who didn't get a multimillion/billion special job, law. favor, or fat contract from Obama/Hillary did not vote for her, she would get only about 1000 votes total:

willing to sell the birthright of regular every day Americans down the river to feather their own nests and for their own self aggrandizement.
From Spengler at PJMedia https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2016/10/09/trump-will-win-the-national-battle-for-legitimacy/

"The referee should have stopped it in the tenth. Punching at will, Donald Trump said, "Hillary used the power of her office to make $250 million. Why not put some money in? You made a lot of it while you were secretary of State? Why aren't you putting money into your own campaign? Just curious." Reeling and against the ropes, Clinton gasped that she supported ... the Second Amendment. It was a brilliant rhetorical device: under the rubric of campaign financing, Trump slipped in an allegation that Clinton corruptly enriched herself by using the power of her office for personal gain--and Clinton didn't even respond. That's a win by a knockout.

That's the decisive issue of the campaign: the corrupt machinations of a ruling elite that considers itself above the law, and the rage of the American people against the oligarchical ruling class that has pulled the ladder up behind it. Trump's bombshell below Clinton's waterline came at the end of the debate, well prepared by jabs at Clinton's erased emails and Bill's rapes. Trump used the "J" word--that is, jail. That was perhaps the evening's most important moment. This is not an election fought over competing policies but a struggle for legitimacy. A very large portion of the electorate (how large a portion we will discover next month) believes that its government is no longer legitimate, and that it has become the instrument of an entrenched rent-seeking oligarchy.

By and large, I agree with this reading. "America's economy is corrupt, cartelized and anti-competitive," I wrote in August. It is typical of rent-seeking that Lockheed Martin's stock price has tripled during the past three years, and payment to its top management team has risen from $12 million a year to over $60 million a year, while Lockheed Martin's F-35 languishes in cost overruns and deployment delays. Produce a lemon and get rich: that's Washington. It is not a trivial matter, or unrepresentative of our national condition, that the FBI director who declined to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for mishandling of classified material just returned to government from a stint at Lockheed Martin, where he was paid $6 million for a single year's service. I don't know whether FBI Director Comey is corrupt. But it looks and smells terrible.

That's why it was so important for Trump to talk about jail time for his opponent. If things had not gotten to the point where former top officials well might belong in jail, Trump wouldn't be there in the first place. The Republican voters chose a reckless, independently wealthy, vulgar, rough-edged outsider precisely because they believe that the system is corrupt. They are right to so believe; if the voters knew a tenth of what I know about it, they would march on Washington with pitchforks.

Zach, wake up and get out of your mother's basement and get to your job !!I know you will be here. What do you have to say about this?

"A significant portion of online support for Hillary Clinton is manufactured by paid “astroturf” trolls: a large team of supporters who spends long hours responding to negative news on the internet about her. The Clinton SuperPAC Correct the Record, which is affiliated with her campaign, acknowledged in an April press release that it was spending $1 million on project “Breaking Barriers” to pay people to respond to negative information about Clinton on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. That amount has since increased to over $6 million. The trolls create a false impression that Clinton has more support than she really does, because one supporter will frequently create multiple anonymous accounts."
add an https to this and read the rest:
stream.org/astroturf-outrage-machine-of-paid-trolls-floods-social-media-to-counteract-negative-news-about-hillary-clinton/

Zach, glad you are awake !! Hillary mess in aisle #3 - Zach bleachbit needed !!
What do you think about this? (I think it was Comey who cleared hillary of Whitewater crimes, so he has experience for the job) from the American Thinker today:
"October 10, 2016
Only One Way for the FBI to Regain Its Lost Reputation
By Bruce Walker
James Comey, the crooked political operative running the FBI for the left, has clearly lied to Congress, lied to the American people, and fixed the criminal investigative process to protect Hillary Clinton and her creepy aides from justice. Conservatives have gotten used to the Department of Justice under Obama as simply another organ of leftist activism. Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch have both been abominable heads of the Department of Justice, and several federal judges have indicated as much.

Using federal agencies as tools of political oppression or leftist activism is the best case yet simply abolishing the Department of Justice completely and devolving the enforcement of all federal laws to the fifty state attorney general offices.

In the same vein, one might think we should leave the FBI only for the purpose of supporting state law enforcement efforts with technical support, but that was before the incredible stream of new revelations, never volunteered by Comey and discovered only by insistent probing, that show intimate collusion between the Clinton campaign and the FBI, with sleazy actions so blatantly bad that no serious person can doubt the wrongness of it all.

Physical evidence is destroyed before anyone can see it, though subpoenaed by Congress and possibly containing classified information. Computer systems with classified documents scrubbed clean by private vendors before federal officers know what has been scrubbed. Suspects sit in on the questioning of other suspects, and suspects are given immunity, it appears, for no good reasons at all.

If this presidential election is fixed by an utterly politicized FBI, then the reputation of that agency will never recover. No serious American, in that case, should ever believe anything the FBI tells us about anything at all. If we cannot trust the FBI when powerful politicians are being investigated, then when can we trust it? If the FBI can be influenced by politicians, then it can be influenced by drug lords or crime bosses or crooked billionaires.

There is only one thing, at this point, that can rehabilitate the reputation of a once honorable organization now up to its neck in the muck of influenced investigations and tampered justice. A number of current FBI agents must publicly condemn Director Comey and deplore the deeply disturbing, very unusual actions taken by the FBI in these investigations. This may cost the agents involved their careers, but agents who care about the agency more than their careers will take that risk. These agents ought to explain exactly how this investigation was utterly wrong and how it deviated from normal practices.

Director Comey compelled twenty-five agents to sign nondisclosure agreements, but these agreements cannot prevent these agents from publicly criticizing how politicized the investigation appeared to them. In fact, this might even be more telling: "We have been ordered by Director Comey to sign nondisclosure agreements, so until he releases us from those agreements, we cannot provide details, but we can say this: the whole thing stinks from top to bottom. Everything about this investigation fails the smell test. If Director Comey will release us from the nondisclosure agreements, we will be happy to say more."

If FBI agents need a model, they might look to the National Border Control Council, which, frustrated by politically correct border enforcement, took the Obama administration to task. These border control agents cared more about America than their careers and used their private association as a vehicle.

There is an FBI Agents Association that represents 12,000 current and retired agents and advocates criminal justice issues to Congress. Members of this private association have 55 different field office representatives in as many cities of the nation. Nothing prevents these field office representatives from signing a letter on behalf of the members in their region condemning the whole structure of this putrid conspiracy against honorable and serious investigation.

Indeed, if this association ever expects Congress or the American people to listen to it, then it is vitally important that it act before the election. The FBI Agents Association, of course, should not endorse any candidate or party, but if it urges funding increases to Congress or changes in criminal laws, it must have credibility. And if it ignores the swollen carbuncle of this scandal within the agency, no one ought to listen to it anymore.

There is this one chance for the FBI to redeem the damage done by Comey. There will be no second chance if Hillary wins because of the cowardice of the Bureau's agents.

Zach, I'm quite sure that Mr Walker and the AmericanThinker don't mind at all.
I didn't think you had an answer. A "specially-hand-selected very small Team" sworn to avoid standard practices and keep absolute secrecy , even from Congress. Riiiiiight.... very persuasive.
Look in your Troll cut-and-paste answer book under Comey" - there must be something else there for you, other than the advce that if we don't have an answer, just cou-and-paste our Troll-trademark "if it seems true..."

Dale, I'm not one to say Zach is brainwashed either - have some pity. He needs a job to get out of his mother's basement. He, like most Americans, has talent. But the Dems have destroyed US jobs, and he has enough character that he doesn't want to go completely on welfare. So he works at the only job left to Americans who want to work - temporary part-time Hillary troll. It is disgusting, soul-wrenching work, but he does it because be wants to work.

HA ! But Zach is too nice, and too smart. zach is working at a job and doing his best. Give him a break! Zach likely doesn't get minimum wage, but he is trying really hard, and seems to have some remnants of decent character despite what he is forced to cut-and paste. Chelsea on the other hand is reported to not be very nice, and to be somewhat "spoiled". She gets $750,000 per year special journalist-type jobs based solely on her talent, and no different than any other recent graduate applying for a job to the mass media. Zach will forced to assure you this has nothing to do whatsoever with bribing her parents for favors. Poor Zach - his career in journalism isn't going as well as Chelsea's.

sorry, jma, my apologies. Paid trolls drive me nuts (but you might not notice the difference) Though you set me up to point out that Zach is like our beloved Froggy the gremlin, who'se schtick was to interrupt and cause trouble. (I loved the jungle book stories)

At your request, I'll go live in a Buster Brown shoe with Tige for a while, and let you read Zach to your heart's content. Have fun !

jma, thanks for letting me out of the shoe. Tige has dog breath.
I, too remember when the FBI, even under Hoover, had a good reputation and good people with ethical responsibility and courage.

Ah, the 16-year-old belief that somewhere there are others with Kool parents, who come to breakfast on their 16th birthday, and find car keys at their silver placemat. Most likely a corvette convertible. Alas, a year later "the car" materialized as a way-underpowered junker that had to have its tiny engine rebuilt (with my dad - what a great experience!).

For Zach's contemplation about his journalism career not going as well as Chelsea's, even though he is smarter and a nicer person, Chelsea finds things like a $10 million condo with an in-home emergency medical annex at her breakfast table. Zach, why can't you get your dream journalism job at $750,000 per year? You are smarter and nicer than Chelsea? Maybe the whole country is now "fixed", and you don't own any Congresscritters (they can be surprisingly affordable if you have the right connections)