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Cohost @badfaithpod with @briebriejoy. Public intellectual. Bestselling author. Buy the pod http://badfaithpodcast.com 

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    Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

    By now you have probably seen this excerpt of HRC's book, which we are all condemned to discuss because we live in Geohell.pic.twitter.com/slgzbj21TM

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      2. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        The language here is a bit weaselly. The "innuendo" was Bernie highlighting HRC's secret paid Wall Street speeches, a major campaign issue.

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      3. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        Bernie of course campaigned against corporate influence in politics generally, which is frankly intuitive and backed by empirical data.

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      4. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        To my knowledge Bernie never stated or implied that Wall Street bought a vote or position from HRC. Just that she was cozy with banks.

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      5. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        (Incidentally, HRC once promised to release those speech transcripts, but never did. The most damning excerpts later appeared in Wikileaks.)

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      6. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        In her book HRC is almost certainly referring to the Feb. 4 debate in New Hampshire. The relevant part is at 24:45. https://youtu.be/UhVGAZz-EwQ?t=24m45s …

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      7. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        In full, here's HRC's challenge to Bernie to name a position she changed due to a donation and his response. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/transcript-of-the-democratic-presidential-debate.html …pic.twitter.com/66sUeDJMj6

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      8. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        It is true that Bernie doesn't name one, but that was never the charge to begin with.

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      9. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        Bernie says that in HRC's career she's hoovered up money from Wall Street, drug companies, and special interests. That's demonstrably true.

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      10. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        Through omission HRC implies that only transparent acts of bribery, getting a big dollar sign sack to change a vote, are pernicious.

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      11. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        But HRC obviously elides that one's positions to begin with can be driven by campaign donations. No flip flopping needed.

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      12. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        A more enlightening exchange came at the 2nd debate, where HRC shamelessly invoked 9/11 to justify sucking up donations from Wall Street.pic.twitter.com/sWh8xAfKDL

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      13. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        Obviously HRC's criticisms of Bernie are self-serving and absolutely disingenuous. But I don't think they're insincere.

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      14. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        The Clintons are inveterate influence-peddlers and meritocrats who intuit that wealthy interests wield power in society and think it proper.

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      15. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        What one might consider normalized bribery, they (and virtually all of the DC establishment) consider a proper state of affairs.

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      16. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        So to Clintonites if you object to Wall Street's tentacular power over society you're a malcontent. That's just the way things ought to be.

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      17. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        The acceptable "far left" position is some folks should pay a little more in taxes. Full stop. Both Obama and Trump campaigned on this.

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      18. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        (Obama suggesting it's pragmatic medicine, Trump using it to demonstrate his independence from his "hedge fund friends.")

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      19. Virgil Texas‏Verified account @virgiltexas 6 Sep 2017

        But to HRC if you have the temerity to say that the policy preferences of financial elites should be disregarded, this is unacceptable.

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