When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

Who was behind all of this? When I stumbled on it last fall, I had an idea. I was already investigating a shadowy organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, that spreads false information on the Internet. It has gone by a few names, but I will refer to it by its best known: the Internet Research Agency. The agency had become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a “troll farm.” The more I investigated this group, the more links I discovered between it and the hoaxes. In April, I went to St. Petersburg to learn more about the agency and its brand of information warfare, which it has aggressively deployed against political opponents at home, Russia’s perceived enemies abroad and, more recently, me.

Tonight I was imagining four or five years up the road when things haven't gone well for Donald. He's busking in the NY subway at Penn Station. He's in blackface and doing field holler songs.

This isn't about governance, it is about power.

Tonight I was imagining four or five years up the road when things haven't gone well for Donald. He's busking in the NY subway at Penn Station. He's in blackface and doing field holler songs.

Hope of what?

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Why do you suppose Hillary is running so hard?

The quest for high office, by anyone, reveals a quest for power. But that wasn't the point. One can seek to attain a powerful position through all sorts of means but where those means involve the degrading of civic trust, the obstruction of governance (to ensure the opponent cannot achieve goals that demonstrate that governance can help citizens), the use of misinformation, etc then the nature of the quest itself reveals the person(s) involved unworthy for power.

Hope of what?

Hope of us becoming a Russian satellite under Trump.

And re george's and others hatred/mistrust of Hillary, this is really the thing (outside of tribal loyalty, that is).

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As former New York Times editor-in-chief Jill Abramson wrote, “I would be ‘dead rich,’ to adapt an infamous Clinton phrase, if I could bill for all the hours I’ve spent covering just about every ‘scandal’ that has enveloped the Clintons.” After all that investigation, Abramson concluded that Clinton “is fundamentally honest and trustworthy.” But the appearance of perpetual scandal surrounding Clinton can make it seem as if she must be hiding something monstrous, especially to those who are predisposed against her.

And that's why they keep doing it and will continue doing it. This isn't about governance, it is about power.