The similarities between what happened in the Iowa Caucuses last night and what happened back in 2016 during that razor-thin contest are too strong to be coincidence.
They’re uncanny. Spooky, even. Consider:
Last night, based on no facts and zero precincts reporting, Pete Buttigieg, who hadn’t won anything, nonetheless gave a victory speech while people were still awake.
Four years ago Hillary Clinton’s campaign did the same thing. While every major network and news outlet was still reporting that the race was too close to call, her campaign declared victory by 9:30 p.m. Monday night.
Leaving no hint that Iowa was anything but a victory, the AP reported the former secretary of State told supporters she was “so proud I am coming to New Hampshire after winning Iowa!”
Is this why the Iowa Poll went missing?
Then, two nights ago the much-anticipated Iowa poll results were suppressed without reason or warning. That might have been to spare everyone further embarrassment.
Four years ago, the big Des Moines Register Iowa Poll did make it into print. Some may wish it didn’t. It was wildly, drunkenly, inaccurate.
It showed 56 percent of likely Democratic caucus participants favoring Clinton as their first choice for president. Just 5 percent favored Sanders.
Yet thirty-six hours later the race was still too close to call.
Was it just bad judgment? Or something worse?
It wasn’t until seventeen hours after Iowa’s Democratic caucuses began that The Associated Press officially called Hillary Clinton the winner by a razor-thin margin over challenger Bernie Sanders, 49.8 percent of state delegate equivalents to Sanders ‘49.6.
She had already taken a victory lap (or two) by then.
The secret Shadow app business
Then, of course, there is the whole business of Buttigrieg’s funding of the failed app. The whole business about why the Iowa Democratic party insisted the app be kept secret.
We refuse to demean ourselves by repeating the sordid details.
Hot rumor: During the caucus tally four years ago, the Iowa Democratic Party used an unnamed smartapp supposedly similar to the one which prevented tallying ballots Monday night.
Precinct captains with information, please get in touch with me (headers stripped. anonymity assured) @ madcownews@gmail.com.
He came out of no where just like Obama. They keep using the same playbook.
I support Elizabeth Warren, but speaking of Buttigieg, his credentials are a heck of a lot better than Trump’s.
Buttigieg:
+ His father was born and raised in Malta and studied to be a *Jesuit* before emigrating to the United States
+ Harvard magna cum laude Grad (History major)
+ Oxford Grad
+ Rhodes Scholar
+ Naval Intelligence Officer
+ Conference Director for The Cohen Group
+ Contractor for McKinsey & Company
+ Board Member of Truman National Security Project (NatSec think tank)
Spot the Spook…
Crimes of the State: Past and Present
7pm April 8, 2002.
235 March Life Sciences, University of Vermont
This is the twelfth year Joseph Baltar has been organizing panels discussing the criminal behavior of the US Goverment within agencies like the CIA, the NSA, the FBI and state and local law enforcement. The panel tours schools throughout New England, including Boston University, University of Maine and the University of Vermont. See. https://www.bates.edu/news/1996/03/07/fbi-conference/
FBI’s Alleged Crimes are Conference Topic
By Bates News. Published on March 7, 1996
Several prominent speakers will highlight the ninth annual Maine Conference Investigating Crimes Committed by the FBI.
This is the second year the event occurred at the University of Vermont. This years event was sponsored by SPARC, the International Socialist Organization (ISO), Toward Freedom Green Valley Media, and the Vermont Mobilization for Global Justice (VMOB).
Bud Schultz, author of “The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America”. Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trinity College. Schultz will discuss his new book. “The Price of Dissent” is a vivid oral history that presents the amazing testimony of people who have experienced repression and persecution firsthand. Schultz has extensive knowledge of some of the most important struggles in American history including the labor movement, Black freedom and the antiwar movement.
William Turner, author of “Rearview Mirror: Looking Back on the FBI, the CIA an Other Tails”, “Hoover’s FBI”, and others. Former FBI Special Agent Turner will expose hidden truths from an inside and personal perspective on the FBI that reveals a complex web of cover-ups and deception, from the Hoover years to the murder of Robert Kennedy. His book covers the Hoover years through the Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose, the JFK assassination and the murder of Robert Kennedy and more. Turner is able to expose hidden truths from an inside perspective that reveals a complex web of cover-ups and deception.
Kit Gage is an activist and organizer from Washington, DC. She is National Coordinator for the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF) since 1997, and Director of the First Amendment Foundation and the National