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Even though weve discussed how Game of Thrones teaches us everything we need to know about white America, breaking down the political and social metaphors embedded within each episode requires a keen eye and the ability to understand the language of literary analogy. The messages hidden beneath the layers of turmoil and conflict sometimes need decoding by a professional, which is why I am here to explain the nuanced meaning of whats going on in Westeros. But lets be honestyou didnt need me this week.

Im pretty sure I can skip this weeks explainer becauseeven if your eyes had been plucked out by the three-eyed raven, you could still see that this weeks episode was all about Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. Titled Stormborn, episode 2 of the second season was basically a recap of the entire 2016 presidential election, set in the Seven Kingdoms and ...

Wait. Am I the only one who noticed this? You mean you have no clue what Im talking about? OK, let me break it down for you:

The episode opened at the DNC (Dragonstone National Convention) with Daenerys giving the keynote speech as the partys nominee for queen. Like Hillary, Daenerys opened her speech talking about how Cersei is only supported by three of the Seven Kingdoms (Or as we know them, the basket of deplorables). Daenerys assumeslike Hillary Clintonthat she should be queen because of her family ties and her white privilege (the dragons).

Her political advisers thought it was important to get a minority endorsement, so she sent a raven to Jon Snow and the Starks in the North. Apparently, Daenerys has no idea that the black community frowns on her shenanigans because of what happened in the previous Clinton Targaryen administration but everyone knows: The North remembers.

Things got a little tense when Daenerys had to question Debbie Wasserman Schultz about the emails Varys about his underground network of spies and back-channel messages, but in the end, her advisers devised a plot to rally their base in the parts of the Seven Kingdoms where they have the most support. Basically, her plan is to become queen by winning the Electoral College.

Of course, we know how that ended.

Meanwhile, at the RNC (Red Keep National Convention) in Kings Landing, Cersei opened her speech warning her constituents about how Daenerys was coming with the savage Dothraki hordes and Unsullied terrorists who will surely rape and pillage the civilized wives and children of Westeros. No one even raised his or her hands to ask how castrated men could possibly rape anyone, but well get to that later.

Cersei weaved wonderful yarns about how the whites will be in trouble if the Targaryen administration gets control of the Iron Throne, including stories about them destroying noblemen and (gasp!) freeing slaves.

The other conservatives are skeptical of Cersei becauseeven though she pretends to be self-madethey know she inherited all her power and money from her father. But just like the Republicans, they are more interested in keeping their power in Westeros, so they make threats and outlandish promises of cabinet positions in exchange for loyalty.

Now that Samwell Tarly is enrolled in maester school, his knowledge of the health care system highlights the need for universal health care in the Seven Kingdoms. While I believe that a little shea butter would have cured Lord Mormonts skin condition when he first contracted his irreversible Acute Ashiness Syndrome, most doctors have refused him medical care on the basis of his pre-existing condition.

Now he is forced to try an experimental procedure thats not FDA approvedwhich is why Jon Snow needs to rule the Iron Throne and institute the public option. Hes been shot by arrows, suffered numerous concussions and stabbed repeatedly, so he knows the importance of good insurance. Hes still on the insurance plan provided by the Nights Watchs union, which is one of the best providers in all of the Seven Kingdoms. We know this becauseeven though it isnt mentioned in the books or on the TV showwhen he died and the Red Witch brought him back to life, she didnt even ask him for a co-pay!

Plus, I believe that the valuable stem cell research done at Maester University could help Grey Worm become sullied again. However, in the case of Grey Worm and Missandei, now we know: Its not the size of the boator even that you have a boat, becausein the minds of wypipothe fetishization of blackness is so strong, they imagine a castrated black man is still powerfullyvirile.

You know what they say: You can take a Stark out of the North, but you cant take the North out of a Stark. Even though Arya has learned how to blend in with the whites, all she ever wanted to do was get back to her hood and chill with her fam. Thats all shes ever desired.

... That, and reparations. Arya has wanted reparations since day one. Unlike a lot of people who blabber about it, Arya tookaction. She made a list and checked it twice. Shes like Reparations Santa Claus, and just when she was going to make a special delivery to Cersei Trump, she heard about the family reunion, so shes headed back home.

Sansa, meanwhile, is trying to warn Jon Snow against trusting Daenerys Clinton, because she doesnt trust anyone with that much white privilege. Sansa understands that Jon wants to believe that the Seven Kingdoms will unite to fight the Alt-White Walkers.

Ultimately, like Sansa, we all agree that a Hillary Targaryen administration will probably be marginally better than a Donald Lannister presidency, but we cant forget that Daenerys ultimately wants what Hillary wantsfor us to bend the knee. Sansa knows. Arya knows. We Superpredators know.

The North remembers.

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Sunday's Game of Thrones Episode Was All About Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Staying Woke - The Root

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And theyre off thats the tenor of Mondays politics, as Jared Kushnerheaded to the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify that he did not collude with Russia to sway U.S. elections.

And everybodys got an opinion but the most surprising so far is from Sen. Chuck Schumer. Giving credit where credits due: The leftist senator from New York finally said something that actually makes sense.

He said, in an interview with The Washington Post noted by Fox News, that Hillary Clinton had nobody but herself to blame for her election loss that her tendency to point fingers at, say, Russia was a bit off base.

When you lose to somebody who has a 40 percent popularity, Schumer said, you dont blame other things [former FBI chief James] Comey, Russia you blame yourself. So what did we do wrong? People didnt know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.

Going in to Mondays widely anticipated testimony from Kushner, this message was a heck of a gift from one of the Democratic Partys biggest horses.

After 1 year of investigation with Zero evidence being found, Chuck Schumer just stated that Democrats should blame ourselves, not Russia, President Donald Trump tweeted.

It was a perfect segue to cast Russian light back on the Clintons where it rightly belongs.

Trump tweeted: So why arent the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?

The reference, in part, was to recent revelations about former Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, that he failed to fully disclose some of his green energy involvements. In 2011, Podesta was appointed to the board of a company called Joule Unlimited. Shortly after he was appointed, an investment fund founded by Vladimir Putin gave $35 million to Joule. But Podesta failed to disclose his full relationship with Joule when he was brought on board as a counselor to Barack Obama in 2014, as noted by the New York Post.

In short, Clintons top campaign chief and a senior counselor to Obama sat on Joules board alongside top Russian officials as Putins Kremlin-backed investment fund funneled $35 million into Joule, wrote Peter Schweizer, for the Post. No one looking at the Podesta fact pattern can claim to care about rooting out Russia collusion and not rigorously investigate the tangle of relationships.

But its Kushner the left is after its Kushner the Democratic leadership, like Rep. Adam Schiff, finds an interesting target.

Trump, on Twitter, took him to task.

Sleazy Adam Schiff, Trump wrote, the totally biased Congressman looking into Russia, spends all of his time on television pushing the Dem loss excuse!

It didnt take long for Schiff to respond.

With respect Mr. President, he wrote on his own Twitter account, the problem is how often you watch TV, and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office.

What is this, Week Bazillion of the Democratic-driven effort to draw a parallel between Trumps win of the White House and Russia interference in the 2016 elections?

Heres a thought: When even Schumer, one of the lefts loudest partisans, is suggesting its time to move on with the party messaging its really time to move on.

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Donald Trump returns to campaign-style rhetoric in an apparent attempt to shift attention way from Russias alleged interference in the presidential election by hitting out at his former rival Hillary Clinton.

In a series of tweetsSaturday morning, the president questioned Clintons own ties to Russia, as well as her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.

So many people are asking why isn't the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted? he wrote, not specifying who was asking for a further investigation into Clintons emails, the FBI having concluded their own investigation prior to the election.

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...What about all of the Clinton ties to Russia, including Podesta Company, Uranium deal, Russian Reset, big dollar speeches etc., Trump said, adding: My son Donald openly gave his e-mails to the media & authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted (& acid washed) her 33,000 e-mails!

During Trumps election campaign, the topic of Clintons email use was a frequent one, with his supporters frequently chanting, lock her up when he referred to his Democrat rival.

But despite suggesting he would pursue a further investigation into Clintons emails if elected, Trumps tack initially changed once he won the election, stating back in December 2016 that prosecuting Clinton is not something I feel very strongly about, CNN reported.

However, since news emerged that Trumps son Donald Jr. met with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer who promised him damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the election campaign, Trump has once again turned his attention to his former rival, using social media to resort to tactics that played well for him during his election campaign.

As media attention on his so increased, Trump wrote on July 16: HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?

And reacting to another story on the information into election meddling by Russia, Trump wrote: Why aren't the same standards placed on the Democrats. Look what Hillary Clinton may have gotten away with. Disgraceful!

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BY: David Rutz July 23, 2017 8:41 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) took a veiled shot at Hillary Clinton's excuses for losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, saying that "you blame yourself" when you "lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity," not Russia or James Comey.

Clinton has blamed a variety of factors for her loss to Trump, including then-FBI Director Comey's decision-making during the investigation into her private email server use, Russian meddling in the election and the Democratic National Committee.

"When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you dont blame other thingsComey, Russiayou blame yourself," Schumer told the Washington Post."So what did we do wrong? People didnt know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that."

Schumer and Clinton formerly served together in New York's U.S. Senate delegation. Trump's polling was historically poor throughout the 2016 campaign but he managed to defeat Clinton, who also had low ratings with the public.

Schumer made the remarks as Democrats roll out an economic platform called "A Better Deal" and begin charting a path back into power in Washington. For the first time in more than a decade, the Democrats find themselves both out of the White House and in the minority in both chambers of Congress.

"Republicans talk in headlines; Democrats speak in fine print," Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) said. "That ends this week. Were going to make sure that were able to reach the American people in a clear and compelling fashion.

Recent polling showed Democrats are viewed by a majority of the public as simply standing against Trump rather than "for something."

Clinton has taken other criticism from her own party for assigning blame for her defeat to outside elements.

"It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump," former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod said in May.

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Schumer Takes Shot at Clinton: You Don't Blame Russia or Comey When You Lose to Someone Like Trump - Washington Free Beacon

The former Democratic presidential candidate, a favorite villain of the right, has been featured prominently across Fox News' programming this week.

In many cases, instead of the network's hosts applying pressure to the current President, who is grappling with the fallout from a federal investigation related to Russian election meddling, Fox News' personalities have deflected and turned their attention to Clinton. On Tuesday night, for instance, Clinton found herself a key point of discussion throughout the network's primetime lineup.

"The new rule is any contact with Russia is contact with Vladimir Putin himself and therefore treason," Tucker Carlson said to a guest at the start of a segment. "What do you make of Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton's contact with the Russians while she was secretary of state?"

Such questions about Clinton continued into the next hour, with the co-hosts of "The Five" devoting a segment to discussing a Bloomberg poll which found Clinton's favorability rating lower than Trump's.

"POLL: TRUMP MORE POPULAR THAN CLINTON," blared the chyron on the bottom of the screen.

Not to be outdone, Sean Hannity, perhaps Trump's most devoted follower on cable news, hosted an entire segment dedicated to the "Clinton scandals." He asked Jay Sekulow, an attorney for Trump, how "damning" FBI documents about the agency's probe into Clinton's private server were.

Related: Fox News' Sean Hannity calls colleague Shep Smith 'so anti-Trump'

In total, Fox News devoted more than 23 minutes to discussing Clinton throughout primetime on Tuesday, according to data compiled by Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog -- an unusual amount, given that she does not occupy public office and is not currently running for one.

The fascination with Clinton continued on Wednesday. A "Fox & Friends" segment covered the same Bloomberg poll finding that Clinton's favorability rating was two points lower than Trump's. And in an interview with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on "The Story," host Martha MacCallum asked, "Do you see any reason to re-open the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email and server?" (Fox News did back off of its Clinton coverage in primetime Wednesday as news of Sen. John McCain's cancer diagnosis and Trump's New York Times interview dominated coverage.)

The network's infatuation with Clinton hasn't been just limited to the airwaves either. Online, Clinton has found herself the subject of lead stories on the Fox News website this week.

"CLINTON'S SECRET? Hillary sided with Russia on sanctions as Bill pocketed $500G in Moscow," read a headline at the top of the network's website on Tuesday.

"RAIN, SLEET OR ELECTION TIME: Postal Service slapped for having workers boost Hillary Clinton," read another headline leading the website Wednesday.

The Clinton-centric news comes as Trump faces headlines unfavorable to him and his administration as the Russia investigation heats up and much of his agenda remains stalled in Congress. Donald Trump Jr. recently disclosed an email exchange from June 2016 in which he'd agreed to meet with someone he'd been told was a "Russian government attorney" about "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate" Hillary Clinton. And on Tuesday, Senate Republicans conceded they did not have the votes necessary to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's landmark health care bill which the GOP had for years campaigned on repealing.

Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Clinton's 2016 campaign, told CNNMoney that Fox News' renewed focus on Clinton "shows how difficult it is to defend Trump's conduct on the merits."

"Fox is resorting to dredging up the ghost of Hillary Clinton, who is never running for office again," Fallon said.

Ted Newton, president of Gravity Strategic Communications, who worked on the George W. Bush and Mitt Romney campaigns, called Fox News' coverage of Clinton "absolutely ridiculous."

"I'm sure if there were good things to report, Fox would be all over it," Newton told CNNMoney. "And suddenly this deep Postal scandal would be on the back burner."

"It's certainly something that in the short term will continue to get them ratings," he added, "but that well is going to have to run dry at some point."

A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

CNNMoney (New York) First published July 20, 2017: 6:38 PM ET

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