Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night
by jmull on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:04PM
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But your scenario doesn’t actually help Buttigieg. Also the app people can’t control the timing of the manual reporting, so there would somehow be a completely new element of the conspiracy. And you’re switching from a conspiracy orchestrated by Buttigieg to one orchestrated by the corporate media, Bloomberg, and/or the industrial military complex.
Re:The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night
by jessaustin on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:50AM
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Buttigieg is 38 years old. His previous jobs were with McKinsey and "military intelligence" and his previous election total was 8,000 votes. He isn't trying to win the presidency. Iowa itself is a tiny state with a tiny number of convention delegates. The whole point of Iowa is that the winner gets some momentum. In this case, the winner won't get any momentum. That's the point.
Some people like to bore us with the "once is a coincidence" maxim. Some of them might like to pretend that this caucus is "once" and we'll have to wait a week or two to get upset about the ratfucking. Normal voters can remember four years ago, however, and this isn't even just the fourth time the national "Democratic" apparatus has ratfucked Bernie.
The count has been frozen at "62%" for six hours now. That just happens to be the first/only level at which "Mayor Pete" had a delegate lead over Bernie, even though Bernie still leads the popular vote. Several days from now, when the count ticks up to 100%, Bernie will lead both measures by large margins. Still, in the meantime, the corporate media can pretend like the Mayor is ahead. They know he's going to bomb in SC worse than Biden bombed in Iowa, but they're hoping that somehow they can get him to "Super Tuesday" when the other Mayor can take over for him due to his 9-figure ad spend.
Of course, the idea that the perfect candidate to beat a vain old NY rich guy is another vain old NY rich guy who also banned soft drinks the last time he held elected office is risible, but they don't care about that. The point is to ratfuck any candidate who might plausibly do fewer stupid wars.