Oh, Good Lord. Robin Lakoff, a “professor of linguistics” at UC-Berkeley says the only reason Hillary’s illegal use of a private email server, mishandling of classified information, influence peddling via the Clinton Foundation, and lying to the FBI is being investigated is because The Patriarchy is trying to silence a brave and stunning woman.
The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere.
Meanwhile, The Guardian, of all places, is doing what the mainstream American media won’t do (because Democrat-Media Complex) and digging into what Hillary’s emails reveal about our political culture and Governance. Basically, it’s a corrupt, rotten pay-to-play circle of insider politicians, media figures, and billionaire donors all scratching each other’s backs.
In one now-famous email chain, for example, the reader can watch current US trade representative Michael Froman, writing from a Citibank email address in 2008, appear to name President Obama’s cabinet even before the great hope-and-change election was decided (incidentally, an important clue to understanding why that greatest of zombie banks was never put out of its misery).
This genre of Podesta email, in which people try to arrange jobs for themselves or their kids, points us toward the most fundamental thing we know about the people at the top of this class: their loyalty to one another and the way it overrides everything else. Of course Hillary Clinton staffed her state department with investment bankers and then did speaking engagements for investment banks as soon as she was done at the state department. Of course she appears to think that any kind of bank reform should “come from the industry itself”. And of course no elite bankers were ever prosecuted by the Obama administration. Read these emails and you understand, with a start, that the people at the top tier of American life all know each other. They are all engaged in promoting one another’s careers, constantly.
And if you vote for Hillary, you are voting for this.
This is the reason why Trump is gaining ground. People are tired of those using the race/gender/orientation card, where basically, if you are not a straight white male, anyone who opposes you does so because you are not a straight white male. He won’t be cowed by the gender card, which is why he is called a racist/sexist/homophobe/islamophobe even though he has NEVER been called any of those things until he ran for president.
“basically, it’s a corrupt, rotten pay-to-play circle of insider politicians, media figures, and billionaire donors all scratching each other’s back.” you described socialism.
“Can you imagine this happening to a man?”
Honey, have you even HEARD of Richard Nixon, Gen. Petraeus, Edward Snowden or Julian Assange? Even a little bit?
SMH
Watergate wasn’t about Nixon; it was a witch hunt against Rose Mary Woods.
“Can you imagine this happening to a man?”
No. A man would already be in prison.
Why is there even a Linguistics degree? And why is society taking some professor’s opinion in the said field so seriously?
I joke to my husband, see, women never should have been given the right to vote!!! Seriously, I am so sick of the whining from all these special snowflake groups. I really hope Trump wins, but I don’t believe that many people in Amerika are truly bright enough to vote for anything but democrat aka corruption.
When bad stuff happens to a woman, it’s a concerted effort by men to oppress her. When bad stuff happens to a man, it’s just bad luck, but let’s laugh at him anyways!
I don’t want to hear anybody claim that third-wave feminism is anything more than thinly-veiled misandry.
So women can’t be held to the same legal standard applied to men?
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
“7.I joke to my husband, see, women never should have been given the right to vote!!! Seriously …”
Seriously, it’s no joke: women should never have been given the vote.
Not to worry, once America suicides — precisely because American women were given the vote — women will no longer have the vote.