At a debate of aspiring Governor candidates in Vermont last night, nobody mentioned Hilary’s name once all night, a sign of her divisive, unpopular toxicity with the electorate.

Call it the Clinton Quiet, a very bad sign for Democrats in November, expressed in other places like the absence of Clinton bumper stickers or lawn signs. People are reluctant to endorse her because of things like Monday night, June 6th, when the Clintons added a new scandal atop heap: a contrived propaganda assault to suppress the vote ahead of the California Primary.

MSNBC and AP's false claim that the nomination was clinched Monday ahead of the California primary was an intensely orchestrated, fraudulent theater to cause voter suppression to benefit Clinton. Clinton conspired with MSNBC and others to 'make news' and 'push history' in an dark chapter of incesty elite power, propaganda and yellow journalism. MSNBC's coronation of Hillary on Monday night was an anti-climactic, premature election. People are less likely to vote if they think it's over, so MSNBC pre-call suppressed the vote. This was an illegal, immoral, antidemocratic hoax on the American People.

Watching MSNBC on Monday night felt date rape. I tuned in for "appointment television" with someone I trusted, Rachel Maddow at 9pm, looking for news ahead of the June 7th California primary. Rachel Maddow looked a little guilty and embarrassed and said basically "sorry to bother you but this election is over tonight, not tomorrow. Now let's pause and savor this victory for Feminism." A corporate-suit guy with the title "Office of Election Results" comes out and blandly explains that the super-delegates voted in secret and Hillary won. Well, la-dee-da. Hurray, we have a new leader, because white smoke is coming out of the Vatican chimney! The whole evening felt like bad North Korean propaganda, icky elite political power manipulating the press to make wag-the-dog mind-warfare coup-de-ta.

While Clinton feigned surprise, she clearly knew what was coming. Rachel just happened to have done an interview with her shortly before MSNBC "broke this news" that they were calling the election for Clinton on Monday night before CA. Everybody at MSNBC had a guilty-as-hell look on their faces, with a touch of smug for getting the scoop. Why was Hillary in such a hurry to claim victory? It was a twofer one: she wouldn't have been able to claim victory after the results of CA came in because it was A)too late at night for TV and B) she didn't have the numbers to clinch the nomination even with a big victory. So, being Hillary and believing that truth is relative, she falsely claimed victory before California and suppressed the vote to boot!

MSNBC has been propping up Clinton all season. Chris Matthews gives Clinton on-air advice on not-screaming and waiting for the crowd to stop cheering before continuing. They are obvious in-the-tank for Clinton. MSNBC called the election for Clinton based shaky math about the super-delegates at the maximum detonation point to discourage voters the next day. That was not a coincidence. That was the plan. The Clintons clearly pushed this story and narrative through the press, as evidenced by Clinton's fake surprise to by declared the victor, feigning regal inconvenience at the news. I reject that this news was accidental, that the Clintons didn't have foreknowledge, that the whole affair wasn't an elaborate stage-crafted fix to trick Sanders voters into staying home. To call the election early, based on the rickety math only served the Clinton Campaign, this must be seen as an ugly tactic of the corporate media doing partisan voter suppression disguised as a flat, straight news event.

This was an ugly chapter in media/journalism history, a collusion to suppress voter turnout between elite media outlets and the struggling Clinton campaign. The Sanders Campaign worked hard and effectively in California and recent polls had the outcome very close. The pre-calling the election for Clinton can only be seen as an extremely disciplined tactic by the Clinton campaign to suppress voter turnout. By calling the election on the eve of the real 'Super Tuesday', California on June 7th, the media damped turnout for Sanders and possibly moved the needle back to a Clinton victory instead of the Sanders victory predicted by recent polls. Sanders was counting on a California win to catch up in pledged delegates, but that didn't happen. Sanders had barnstormed up and down California for weeks, with over 210,000 people attending his rallies. He was in position to win and then he didn't.

Monday's awkward pre-call allowed Hillary to give a big fat victory speech Tuesday night at the perfect time, 10pm eastern, long before the California results came in and thus much too late for east coast TV. Clinton's victory speech and crowd were carefully-composed theater, complete with cheering captains and choreography worthy of the Beijing Olympics. The people behind her sometimes looked awkward and wishing they were somewhere else, but they were appropriately racially diverse and cheering like real supporters do. Sometimes her stages have looked liked a rave thrown in a cheap corporate hotel lobby at 5pm but Tuesday night was grade A choreography, worthy of Trump on a good night. Hillary was dressed in a fresh virgin white, repackaged as a Feminist and giving a speech using all Bernie's most popular ideas.

But Hillary didn't win yet. Sanders supporters won the right to a contested convention because Hillary did not get the magic number to avoid an uncontested convention: 2838. Hillary minus super-delegates = less than 2838. Meaning, Clinton does not have the nomination locked up. She didn't clinch the nomination. She only laid claim to be the presumptive nominee. She didn't get the requisite number to win on the first ballot of the convention, we are going to a contested convention. We'll see if she has the votes in Philly, or we do. At the convention, people will have to be together in meatspace, in two months and vote again. By then, maybe she'll be indicted. By then, maybe the Democratic Party will smarten up and decide to win with Sanders instead of lose with Hillary. For awhile, some Republicans were saying it would be better to "lose with Cruz than win with Trump." That argument failed to catch on. Now, Democrats are being told it's better to "lose with Hillary than win with Sanders." Hopefully, Democrats will catalyze around the real winner of this campaign and a Sanders Surge will take back Congress, the Senate and the White House. Or, corporate Democrats will succeed in this dark hustle and nominate an unpopular candidate whose campaign will collapse before November.

Hillary has acted all year like she is entitled to the nomination, in a rush to get the process over with, queenishly irritated that she has to deign to campaign at all, always claiming she's already won. Her rush to claim the nomination Monday night was just how she rolls: entitled, imperious, above the law, disrespectful of process and trying to pull off these giant 'wag the dog' shennanigans like a 10-year-old trying magic tricks.

On the last night of the primaries, she showed in spades what people don't like about her. She's sneaky, lies to you, pushes big scams saying one thing and doing another. Pundits talk about unifying the party. If Clinton wanted to unify the party, she shouldn't have robbed us and stuck her finger in the eye of Sander's supporters with this crooked gambit on the last night of the primaries. She really does have poor judgement looking around the corner. She is running from history not looking forward. She needs independents and Sanders voters to win and she's not acting like that. She must be failing upwards, a curious dynamic in dysfunctional systems.

If Hillary is the nominee, she going to lose bad. Hillary and her corporate Democrats are over-confident about Trump because he's been holding his fire waiting for Sanders to lose. Democrats will go down to stunning defeat in November if they steal the election from Sanders and anoint Hillary. Don't be losers, Democrats! Win with Sanders! Corporate Democrats, be you warned. You and Hillary, if you succeed in stealing this nomination from Sanders, are going to lose so bad in the fall it will be grimly fun to watch. DNC, make an on-ramp for those Sanders crowds, not a roadblock! Win with Sanders, Democrats!

ps I’ve been making videos that have captured a lot of the momentum for a cable access TV show in VT called Bernie Blackout News. This is what news can look like:

https://youtu.be/xu_eub_L-2s

https://youtu.be/0NlbGVTi-8c

https://youtu.be/moMcRMDp0uY

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Theo Talcott



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