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Two things: 1. Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. Even when campaign staffers suggested bad things they got shot down. T

Two things: 1. Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. Even when campaign staffers suggested bad things they got shot down. The email releases have been one big nothing-burger after another. The media is like a toddler... unless you have something interesting going on their attention wanes quickly. 2. The Trump sexual assault tape is not bad because he had a foul mouth. In some cases focusing on that is a deliberate effort at mis-direction. Trump can swear all he likes and no one except a few pearl-clutching grandmas care. What is gross is Trump boasting that he commits sexual assault against women and they let him get away with it because he's rich and famous. That's what was so offensive about that video.

DominikR 10y ago
> 1. Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. So you have read _all_ the emails and thanks to your superior judgement you can now explain to us peasants how it all doesn't matter. Whats interesting is that your deflection contains zero substance, you just call it a nothing burger.
bduerst 10y ago
Definitely agree on #1 - even Assange knew there was nothing in the emails which is why there was no "October surprise." Now they're releasing the emails in parcels to manipulate the 24 hour news cycle - e.g. "More Hillary Emails leaked!" There's no smoking gun in those emails, and the majority of the "There's a lot there" statements boil down to examples like this: http://i.imgur.com/eRRc02n.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/eRRc02n.png?1
- EdHominem 10y ago
  > they're releasing the emails in parcels to manipulate the 24 hour news cycle That's be the tail wagging the dog. They release daily to participate in the 24h news cycle.
  - bduerst 10y ago
    Yes, semantically speaking, manipulating the 24 hour news cycle does require participating. If there was any actual news in the emails, released each day, then it wouldn't be manipulation. It would be news, like how WashPo released the Trump sex assault tape the same day they got it. As it is now, they're withholding empty, hacked information and timing the releases to participate and manipulate headlines during the U.S. election period.
    - EdHominem 10y ago
      Yes, but it's silly to say that the smallest participant is manipulating the largest. Poor Fox News and CNN, being rick-rolled by that evil Assange... /s Empty information? What does that even mean?
shard972 10y ago
> Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. So you think it was fine for the current head of the DNC to leak questions from CNN to hillary during the primary? And you think it's fine for the under secretary of state to be trying to bribe the FBI to reduce the classification of emails found on her server? Personally I don't see how that isn't a crime. A subpoena was already in place for those documents, it's tampering with evidence.

DominikR 10y ago

> 1. Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. So you have read _all_ the emails and thanks to your superior judgement you can now explain to us peasants how it all doesn't matter. Whats interesting is that your deflection contains zero substance, you just call it a nothing burger.

bduerst 10y ago

Definitely agree on #1 - even Assange knew there was nothing in the emails which is why there was no "October surprise." Now they're releasing the emails in parcels to manipulate the 24 hour news cycle - e.g. "More Hillary Emails leaked!" There's no smoking gun in those emails, and the majority of the "There's a lot there" statements boil down to examples like this: http://i.imgur.com/eRRc02n.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/eRRc02n.png?1

EdHominem 10y ago
> they're releasing the emails in parcels to manipulate the 24 hour news cycle That's be the tail wagging the dog. They release daily to participate in the 24h news cycle.
- bduerst 10y ago
  Yes, semantically speaking, manipulating the 24 hour news cycle does require participating. If there was any actual news in the emails, released each day, then it wouldn't be manipulation. It would be news, like how WashPo released the Trump sex assault tape the same day they got it. As it is now, they're withholding empty, hacked information and timing the releases to participate and manipulate headlines during the U.S. election period.
  - EdHominem 10y ago
    Yes, but it's silly to say that the smallest participant is manipulating the largest. Poor Fox News and CNN, being rick-rolled by that evil Assange... /s Empty information? What does that even mean?

shard972 10y ago

> Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. So you think it was fine for the current head of the DNC to leak questions from CNN to hillary during the primary? And you think it's fine for the under secretary of state to be trying to bribe the FBI to reduce the classification of emails found on her server? Personally I don't see how that isn't a crime. A subpoena was already in place for those documents, it's tampering with evidence.