Does Seth Rich fit into this in any way?
I think the most probable explanation that makes the most sense is Seth Rich was upset (he was a Bernie supporter and what he leaked showed DNC colluding with Hillary against Bernie among other things) and he leaked the information to wikileaks. They killed him for it, and it wouldn't be the first time. They blamed it on Russian hackers as it was convenient to their agenda, and towards motive for build up to the return of the cold war. They told the police to stand down on the investigation into his murder and they did. If you don't think this is what happened it is also the first time I know of that wikileaks offered a $20,000 (I believe that was the amount) reward for information relating to his murder. They will not reveal their sources no matter what, but that is the closest to saying there was a relationship with Seth rich that I believe you will find.
The fact of the matter is our intelligence agencies are acting as other branches of the government outside of the 3 branches that are supposed to be there. They have far too much power, and they are entrenched.
I think there are many people who see things exactly the way you explain them here; me included. But like you allude to in your post, the media is bought and paid for and if the dems want something buried, then it will be buried. There is more to this story, however, and it's telling to me that very few, if any, of our elected officials seem interested in getting to the bottom of this.
Well if rumors are true some of the stuff that this hinted at could bring down a lot of those in power in both parties. The corruption could indeed be far worse than we've been suspecting.
This is of course me simply guessing. I have not idea how true it is as I haven't seen much actual evidence. I will say their reaction to Pizzagate and how they squashed some great journalists that dared to mention it when they've ignored these same journalists on just about every other issue did cause a bit of a Streisand effect in me... "Hey wait a minute, Ben Swann is a highly respected journalist, and one of the few that practices it the way it is supposed to be done, he's been covering all kinds of conspiracies and scandals for years, and corruption. He does a 6 minute reality check on Pizzagate where he doesn't say it is true he just notes NO actual investigation has been done though with the FBI's own manuals there seems to be enough there to at least warrant an investigation into it." Rather than saying it is not true without even looking. For that 6 minute piece he was essentially scrubbed from the internet. That made me think "Hmmm... maybe there is more to this". It seems like this is increasingly becoming evident to be the case. Current prevailing hypothesis seems to be that adultry is no longer scandalous enough to keep people under control via threat of exposure (aka blackmail) but pedophilia is. If you can get people involved in it then you have the blackest of dirt on them. Is this being used as a price of entry before would be politicians and power brokers are being allowed to play in the big leagues? I don't know. Yet their reaction is telling me that there is something there they are willing to go ballistic on to stop from being revealed.
It seems hypocritical for the gatekeepers to tell us for months that even with no evidence, an investigation into Trump and Russia is needed for our collective peace of mind, yet when it comes to the origins of the so called hacked information, there is no call for any investigations. Yet, as you say, the opposite is true. This is definitely very telling. There is a long history of sketchy circumstances and occurrences that happened to those that got too close during their investigations to the Clintons.
The narrative of the Russia hacker story amuses me no end. The accusation is that Russian hackers penetrated the servers of HRC, the DNC, and Podesta.
The hackers released the emails, which revealed the conspiracy to defraud the Democratic party and put forth HRC as the Democratic candidate.
Russia apparently tried to influence the American election for president by telling the truth.
Sacrilege!
Why didn't this story get shut down immediately with the statement "Thank you Russian hackers, for revealing these awful crooks that almost stole the election for President of the USA!"
That's my takeaway from the story. Thank you Seth Rich, or even Russian hackers. Thank God we now know who HRC is.
Agreed. It was a simple ploy of diversion; a case of accusing their opponent of being close to a certain foreign power and benefiting from them. Meanwhile, members of the DNC have actually benefited from the same foreign govt. By the way, let's not talk about all of the other connections that the leaders of the DNC have to other foreign strategic adversaries; somehow Russia jumps to the top of this list.