by William Skink
There is an interesting Democratic primary for Senate District 40 in Helena getting some attention from blogs like Flathead Memo. While the initial framing of this political primary is more generational than ideological, with the younger Joshua Manning challenging “old school” Democrat Jacobson, some interesting things stood out.
Joshua Manning has expressed his political opinions on the National Democratic primary, writing a post at MT Cowgirl under the pseudonym “Secret Squirrel”. The post’s title–Please, Don’t Get Bern(T)–hints at the Hillary shilling about to drop. While there is a lot of crap in that post, this fecal matter stood out to me:
Watch the Benghazi hearings or just the highlights. Tell me that is not a president who would stand up against the far right. Imagine Sanders in the same chair, what would he be doing and saying? Maybe he would not have taken action in Libya. Maybe Qadaffi would have wiped out the eastern half of Libya’s population. Imagine that hearing.
Could she turn in the general election to the triangulating Clinton we all fear? Sure. The passion for Sanders is real and understandable for just that reason. But he will not sustain it. Clinton has made so many promises short of what Sanders has said, and in some cases to his left, that she would have a hard time turning back on them, I trust her, I trust the team around her. As president, I cannot think of anyone more qualified to take on the risks of running an imperial presidency against Congress to do the right things despite the risks. I think she, more than anyone else, would love the challenge and risks associated with doing whatever is good and necessary to spite the right.
I find it utterly disgusting that, once again, Libya is positively referenced as an example of Hillary’s decisiveness without the harsh reality intruding. And what is the harsh reality you ask? The pesky fact that Hillary’s exploitation of a R2P “humanitarian intervention” in Libya has transformed this nation into a safe haven for ISIS.
Joshua Manning can’t claim ignorance about this reality because, according to this glowing post from Cowgirl, Manning is a (former?) spook:
Manning has been a civil rights investigator for the Department of Labor and Industry’s Human Rights Bureau for the past two years. He returned to Montana after spending four years analyzing counterterrorism with a Washington D.C. intelligence agency and providing strategic support to leadership and staff at the White House, Congress, Pentagon, and military special operations forces. Before that he served seven years overseas leading soldiers as a U.S. Army non-commissioned officer and military intelligence analyst in Europe. He deployed to Middle Eastern combat zones on three occasions. He is a graduate of the Evergreen State College and was a reporter in eastern Idaho before joining the military. He grew up in Missoula.
Joshua Manning is one of those duplicitous Democrats that will claim he is against the oligarchs from one side of his mouth while shilling for one of the biggest corporate whores Democrats have ever produced. I like this depiction of Hillary from Glenn Greenwald:
Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a fucking hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the first female president, and women in America are going to be completely invested in her candidacy. Opposition to her is going to be depicted as misogynistic, like opposition to Obama has been depicted as racist. It’s going to be this completely symbolic messaging that’s going to overshadow the fact that she’ll do nothing but continue everything in pursuit of her own power.
I hope Joshua Manning loses and Democrats come to their senses regarding Hillary Clinton, but I’m not holding my breath. Democrats have ceded substance to symbolism, and Manning’s cheerleading for a sociopath who celebrates the execution of a head of state exposes how vacuous party politics have become in this country.
JC
I hope Manning loses as well. I hope the Helena Cabal his step-mom is part of gets a swift kick in the ass right out of the Queen City too. As to Democrats coming to their senses, well, how long can you hope before giving up? I’m giving up on that silly thought.
Hillary is toast. The indictment for the mishandling of classified docs will be her demise.
Funny turn of events. Remember the first debate where Bernie said we had enough talk about her emails?
The corporate media wants to hush that up because Hillary’s their bag man. The networks convince the public to donate to candidates so the candidates can give all that money to the main TV networks of the country, which just boosts the bottom line of those huge corporations. It’s a screwy system, and corrupt to the hilt.
Trump will have his way with Hillary when the primaries begin to wind down in the spring and early summer. He’ll bring out that email scandal a lot more and then the corporate media won’t be able to ignore it so much.
The problem is that Obama controls the Justice Department so getting anyone to actually charge Hillary is touch.
Like I said, corruption to the hilt.
I don’t think so Swede – because I think the Obama Regime decided not to indict Hillary on the day(s) before Joe Biden announced he wasn’t running.
I can’t prove it, but I believe that if the Great Leader wanted to bury Hillary he would have had a replacement candidate (Joe) lined up – one who would continue his policies.
I have it via a good source.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/1/6/former-u-s-attorney-hillary-clinton-could-face-criminal-indictment-in-next-60-days
Swede is wrapped up in partisan politics again. It is like a drug. Can’t say no.
I’m supporting the outsiders this time Mark.
There are no outsiders.
Chavez is dead and Castro’s almost dead.
Both are ghoulish images planted in your head by media.
My favorite planted image.
http://ep00.epimg.net/diario/imagenes/2007/10/07/domingo/1191729156_740215_0000000000_noticia_normal.jpg
Not tracking your train of thought here.
Trustoria has Manning working for BAE Systems as a team leader and intelligence analyst. BAE Systems specializes, among other things, in electronic spying. It also supplies billions of dollars worth of military hardware, like jets and tanks, to the likes of Saudi Arabia. They also sell more to the U.S. DoD than to the U.K. govt. BAE also owns Lockheed Martin Electronic Services, and has been suspected to be in merger/acquisition negotiations with a major U.S. defense contractor like Boeing or the rest of Lockheed Martin.
The Wikipedia entry on BAE (linked above) has extensive sections on corruption, bribery, cluster bomb production, nuclear weapon component production, etc.
Somehow, I don’t really think that Manning’s employment by BAE would be a positive element for a Democrat candidate. Then again, I could be wrong…
Maybe Qadaffi would have wiped out the eastern half of Libya’s population.
After the WMD scam in Iraq, tech assumption was that the American people would not be fooled in that manner again. I never bought that for a second – I knew they merely had to change the table setting and that the same lies would work once more. And they did. In Libya, they invetned a monster and said it was going on a murderous rampage.
Then “Obama/Clinton” (as if) saved the country by going on a murderous rampage.
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https://youtu.be/5MBjAN7jqsQ
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