Guess who else is a Putin Puppet? Bernie and Jill

That didn't take long. It seems that everyone was a Putin Puppet except for establishment candidates.

Today's NY Times headline: Trump’s Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader

Today's Politico headline: Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016

You see! If Sanders wasn't in the pocket of Putin he would immediately apologize for his treason. Proof! They're the same!

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders declined to directly address Friday's revelation that Russian actors sought to boost his presidential primary campaign and sink Hillary Clinton's in 2016, instead insisting that the special counsel’s investigation proceed unimpeded.
The indictment revealed that the efforts included “operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.”
Russian “specialists were instructed to post content that focused on ‘politics in the USA’ and to ‘use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them.),’” the indictment continued.

Wait a second. Something is missing. Could it be that Politico is covering up for an even more devious crime?

On or about Nov. 3, 2016, just five days before the election, the Russians tried to boost Stein’s campaign by buying an ad to post on the Instagram account “Blacktivisit,” according to the indictment. The ad read in part: “Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it’s not a wasted vote.”

Why didn't Politico mention Stein's treason? Could it be that Politico is a Putin Puppet too?
Just how deep does this konspiracy go?

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Azazello's picture

I still don't understand why we need a struggle against Russia but I'm pretty sure that this will morph into a struggle against progressives. You watch, Medicare for All will turn out to be a Russian plot.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello But Lockheed Martin does.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

@Azazello They’ve been trying to connect Black Matters to those evil Ruskies for a while now, just like they tried with the Civil Rights movement in the 60s. I expect more progressive movements will magically find Russian backing as well.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

@Dr. John Carpenter I have always said this new McCarthyism and censorship craze has and will continue to be used against the Left. Mother Jones had an article:

Russian Trolls Stoked Anger Over Black Lives Matter More Than Was Previously Known
As Trump and Clinton battled, Kremlin operatives duped the left, the right—and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/russian-trolls-hyped-anger-...

The article sites soem research from University of Washington that puts a "statisical patina" on claiming Russian badness over BLM.

http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/examining-trolls-polarization.pdf

Many assumptions made about the data which make it very weak, but look at the bottom of the paper--partially funded by Office of Naval Research. Good lord.

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@MrWebster

The 'disinformation' claims apparently relate to the mere mention of BLM, which seems to indicate that the very idea of Black Lives Mattering is considered 'disinformation' by the McCatharyists. Because in their view, it's evidently UnAmerican to consider that the lives of any fellow-Americans who happen to be Black could possibly matter. And this interesting theory is carried by once-reputable media such as Mother Jones, even if it did abandon all principle with the corruption of Corn, writing pro-Monsanto articles.

Made me too nauseous to do more than skim much of it, but the sick lunacy, it burns... how do any people manage to swallow this racist, psychopathic, senseless nonsense?

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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@Azazello @Azazello @Azazello

I'm pretty sure that this will morph into a struggle against progressives.

More to the point, this has been the plan since 11:55pm of November 7th, 2016.

One does not have to do too much of The Googling to find hit pieces like this one at the incipient stage of the "struggle against progressives". They're running a year long Pavlovian-like campaign to get folks to think Putin/Russia whenever they hear Sanders/Progressive/Stein.

Common, garden variety dissent from the left is being propagandized as Russian Propaganda.
Nice work, if you can get it.

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@jobu

from Barry Dilller’s The Daily Beast

Hollywood's High-Dollar "Hillblazers": 10 Biggest Donors to Clinton's Campaign

8. $816K — Barry Diller ($427K) and Diane von Furstenberg ($389K)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywoods-high-dollar-hillblazer...

And guess who’s on the parent company’s (IAC) Board.of Directors

IAC’s family of websites is one of the largest in the world, comprised of more than 150 brands and products.
LeadershipLEADERSHIPBOARD OF DIRECTORS CHELSEA CLINTON
Chelsea Clinton
Director

http://iac.com/about/leadership/board-directors/chelsea-clinton

And the head honcho at IAC?

http://iac.com/about/leadership

Barry Diller
Chairman & Senior Executive

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@Amanda Matthews

said that Bernie took millions in donations from foreign governments. I wanted to reply that it was actually Hillary who received the millions from foreign governments when she was Secretary of State. But I guess that's okay for them, just like her Correct the Record bots were.

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@snoopydawg

of T.CC and Slick? Or the sleazy way they operated the family slush fund? Or the say they lied (and got caught) claiming their speaking fees were slush fund donations?

I cannot figure that out.

You would have been roasted and raked over the coals for bring that up.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

@Amanda Matthews

or "Team Blue" behavior explains it. Jimmy Dore keeps saying Trump excites Dems' lizard brains (limbic system) and they've tossed aside their critical thinking skills. It's all about their emotions and "winning."

Having been at TOS since 2006, I'd say persistent lefties also cause them to freak the fuck out. They've been defending feckless Dems in Congress (remember Sen Reid's magical dry powder), Obama, then Hillary since the beginning of political blogging. It's a reflex for them.

I don't think they'll ever admit to themselves how deep they're in it.

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@jobu There was growing body of anti-Russian propaganda I think since the Ukraine coup. Big time since Hillary lost. The NYTimes had an article that fingered Putin being behind anti-TPP movement.

In Attempted Hit Piece, NYT Makes Putin Hero of Defeating TPP
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/03/attempted-hit-piece-nyt-ma...

But the most remarkable stunt in this 5,000 screed is taking Wikileaks’ efforts to show policies a great many people believe are counterproductive — most importantly, passing trade deals that benefit corporations while hurting real people, but also weakening other strong hands in climate change negotiations — and insinuating they might be a Putinesque plot.

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almost lost down the memory hole

Hacked emails show that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, a longtime ally of Hillary Clinton and a major fundraiser for her 2016 campaign, urged her campaign team to silence rival Bernie Sanders’s message against police shootings of African-Americans. He suggested countering it with “the Sandy Hook issue” — a reference to Sanders’s opposition to lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
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@gjohnsit @gjohnsit i.e., donor, so whatever evil racist slimy shit he did on her behalf is a-ok. He went too far only on the casting couch.

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The conference calls these assholes make to one another to make sure they're all on the same page. I'm sure they'd be very instructive. In fact I'd be stunned if the media outlets that pass for journalism these days didn't have such a conference call right before Mueller came out with the "13 indictments".

Ya gotta hand it to 'em, they sure know how to capitalize on the latest "Russia" narrative to protect their own interests, don't they?

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Hey NYT: Your shit candidate lost all by herself. Deal with it.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

@The Aspie Corner

Well, she wouldn't been such an obviously psychopathic, pathetically venal, corporate-serving and untrustworthy creature if Putin hadn't HACKED!!! HER!!! And Made Her Do It!!! It's all RUSSIA!!!, all the time, controlling the world and all events in it... it's like a new religion from the criminally insane...

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A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/wisconsin-president-clinton-trump

CANDIDATE PARTY VOTES PCT. E.V.
Donald J. Trump Republican 1,405,284 47.2% 10
Hillary Clinton Democrat 1,382,536 46.5 —
Gary Johnson Libertarian 106,674 3.6 —
Others Independent 35,150 1.2 —
Jill Stein Green 31,072 1.0 —
Others 15,434 0.5 —

Not Stein. Johnson! And Independents! And Others!

Of course the DNC and HRC and MSM have been all over this...

Frickin Stein and attempt to Nadering HRC.

Not.

She was the only one that tried to contest the votes in court. Attempt to sway the vote to HRC. HRC and the Corpocrats support. Nada, Nothing, Thank You? nope. Strong to the hoop.

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Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!

Firesign Theater

Stop the War!

CB's picture

and proves to the American people that he did not collude with Russia. He has had a year and a half but he still stubbornly refuses to give concrete evidence that his snout was not firmly up Putin's anus while running for president.

How long is this charade going to continue? I suggest Trump be given a final ultimatum to either come up with sufficient proof of his innocence or be impeached and hung as a traitor at the next full moon.

At least the illegal witch hunt against Hillary has finally been put to rest. Anyone with any intelligence knows she has never willfully done anything wrong or immoral in her entire life. When Trump is finally convicted, Hillary should automatically be made Madam President because she is not only deserving of this honor, she is entitled to it.

We have to give thanks to Mr. Mueller for putting the focus back on the true criminal here.

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@CB He wanted all the sweetheart deals that come with being a former presidential candidate. But unfortunately the Capitalist Party USA overestimated their chances when they gave the plebs the choice between the 'Murican Burlesconi and Madam Boss Tweed.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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@The Aspie Corner

Love it. Stealing it!

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@CB Hahahaha. . .!
That shit is Funny.

Stop These Fucking Wars

peace

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

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Now you know. . .
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@CB you just took a birther’s screed and replaced Obama with Trump and made other changes as necessary, didn’t you?

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@Dr. John Carpenter
ToP or ToS or PoS or whatever it's current acronym is. Bad

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@CB

Did you get a bad case of intellectual whiplash after you posted it?

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@Amanda Matthews
Need to clean out my head.....

[video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dMrE9pyupQ]

Maybe the world is not so bad after all?

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@CB

Sadly, it's obvious she filmed that at a Russian Troll Farm in St Petersburg so all her vids will be removed from youtube by noon tomorrow.

I love Zep to my bones, and her tone was so right on it took more than a moment to recognize that that wasn't Plant!

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@CB

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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Why is that? Could it be because it was barely legal for them to do that? Why yes I think that is why people don't want too much attention brought to it.

Not sure what else Bernie is supposed to say about this accusation, but he's fully vested with the Russian interference propaganda.

“It has been clear to everyone (except Donald Trump) (and me) that Russia was deeply involved in the 2016 elections and intends to be involved in the 2018 elections. It is the American people who should be deciding the political future of our country, not Mr. Putin and the Russian oligarchs,” Sanders said in a statement. “It is absolutely imperative that the Mueller investigation be allowed to go forward without obstruction from the Trump administration or Congress.”

Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, exactly how did anyone in Russia get one person here to change their minds and vote for someone who they weren't planning on voting for? In other words Bernie, where is the damn proof?

The idea that Russia messed with our social issues is pretty damn funny. I think that with the number of people who cops shoot, our social issues are pretty fucked up as they are.

The comments on this are very funny, but sad.

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@snoopydawg Could it be because it was barely legal for them to do that?

to post kiddie porn on Bernie Facebook sites to shut them down the night before the Pennsylvania primary.

So why exactly isn't Mueller indicting Casey Champagne?

Not Russian enough I guess.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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@Not Henry Kissinger

the unethical ir actually illegal stuff TCC & Co. pulled. Actually one probably wouldn’t be enough.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

You can just see it now. Some CNN shill asking Bernie what it feels like to be Putin's preferred candidate. Even worse attacks on Bernie supporters for being Putin callabors and Putin puppets. Racist women gay hating Putin puppets at that.

Biden shills: Putin fears me and loves Bernie. It is starting now on TOP: the finally purging of Bernie supporters. There are Russians behind every noun and verb against Hillary.

Bernie was immune to charges of Russian collaboration pretty nuch until after the election. The Huffingtonpost among major sites had an article basically claiming the Bernie supporters were stooge victims of Putin. The Russian net was being thrown wide and deep.

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@MrWebster

And they call us nuts, Russian bots and other names.

(waves hello)

Bye

Hey guys, you're being played.

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@snoopydawg

spreading the insult that we were too stupid to know why we voted the way we did wiil not help them ‘win friends or influence people’ and get them to cross over to the Dark Side.

BTW, has it struck anybody else that TCC valudates The Peter Principle? She definitely found her own level of incompetence.

The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter and published in 1969. It states that the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

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@Amanda Matthews

They are stuck in the present and only listened to what she was telling them and they refused to look at her past actions. Even when we pointed them out to them, they refused to believe it. I left a few comments with links to reputable sources about what she did to Libya and I was called delusional and other names. When I posted a photo of Trump with her and Bill, I was told that was taken years ago and it's not a valid point. But they post that one photo of Jill sitting with Putin and for them it's evidence that she is Putin's puppet.

BTW, we only left the site because kos wouldn't let us post anything about Bernie. Funny, that's not how I remember it. We were told that we couldn't post anything about Herheinous if it made her look bad. Even if it was the truth. I love it when people rewrite history.

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@Amanda Matthews

Very desiccated British humour.

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@Hawkfish @Hawkfish
came out.

I keep my books. I have books in the attic, in the basement, in a big clothes closet upstairs and my cedar closet, in the front hall., and in my bedroom. My books (and vinyl albums) are my most prized possessions. I looked for my copy of The Peter Principle about 6 months ago and its gone so now I’m scouring the used book stored for another copy..(I love usef book stores.)

It was a great book and a fantastic read.

EDIT: to fix a couple stupid typos

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

I've been "brainwashed" by Russians because I hate Hillary Clinton.
You can't imagine how much this all reminds me of what I remember of the Army-McCarthy hearings.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

absolutely right.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

Good grief, I've had a problem with her politics ever since Bill was president and they passed welfare reform and all the other shitty legislation. Then she became SOS and got more blood on her hands and used her position to fund her fraudulent foundation.

Of course it was the Russians who made me feel this way. Gawd, people are stupid.

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@snoopydawg

Jimmy Dore keeps pointing out that Trump activates Dems' lizard brains and they toss away their critical thinking skills. Anything for a Team Blue win.

It's pretty scary to see the entire Dem establishment marching us to 1) purges and 2) conflict with Russia.

Strap in.

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@JVolvo2

People are coming apart from the Russian propaganda crap and they are believing in more conspiracy every day. They hear or read something someone else says and they repeat them verbatim. They still believe that all 17 intelligence agencies agree that Russia interfered with the election even though it was only 3 people who were selected by Clapper. They also believe that Russia hacked Vermont's electrical grid and a state's voting machine as well as the GOP, the NRA and others are laundering money for Putin. Go figure.

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@snoopydawg

Clapper as DNI hand-picked the analysts from 3 agencies, it was more than literally 3 people. Jimmy D has a video on this, too. It took NYTimes 2 months after Clapper testimony where he stated 3-not-all-17-agencies to "correct" their record. Of course, they only attached a note at the bottom of their months-old red-baiting article, not a full blown correx at all.

Amen to all the rest: Putin Hacked US Energy Grid!! Putin Hacked Voting Machines! Facebook ads turned the election!!1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKJhDasH1hE

#Ugh

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Since Hillary has now been exposed as having rigged the primary process from the very top, it's silly how they are talking about how much Russia is destroying the integrity of our election process.
It's called projection, and should be ridiculed at every turn.

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a point to.
@Mike Taylor
Call 'em out every chance I get.

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@Mike Taylor

In addition to using Correct the Record to have hired people going on to websites and inputting what they had been told to what she did with the DNC by controlling where the money went.

It was illegal for one candidate to have total control over the organization that was in charge of the primary.

Gary described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp. The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse.

This is basically money laundering.

Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund—that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties who were part of the Victory Fund agreement—$320,000—and $33,400 to the DNC. The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to Brooklyn.

Yet the states kept less than half of 1 percent of the $82 million they had amassed from the extravagant fund-raisers Hillary’s campaign was holding, just as Gary had described to me when he and I talked in August. When the Politicostory described this arrangement as “essentially … money laundering” for the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady. Bernie’s people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.

I think that this is up for debate and this should be investigated.

The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.

If one has to cheat to win, what does that say about the candidate?

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doing. It was money laundering! But the Clintons are experts. Take the family slush fund for instance.

EDIT: part of an old tesponse that I decided not to post just poppef up.

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"The Americans are really impressionable people, they see what they want to see. [...] If they want to see the devil, let them see him."

Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme

Yesterday the Justice Department indicted the Russian Internet Research Agency on some dubious legal grounds. It covers thirteen Russian people and three Russian legal entities. The main count of the indictment is an alleged "Conspiracy to Defraud the United States".

The published indictment gives support to our long held believe that there was no "Russian influence" campaign during the U.S. election. What is described and denounced as such was instead a commercial marketing scheme which ran click-bait websites to generate advertisement revenue and created online crowds around virtual persona to promote whatever its commercial customers wanted to promote.

The indictment is fodder for the public to prove that the Mueller investigation is "doing something". It is full of unproven assertions and assumptions. It is a sham in that none of the Russian persons or companies indicted will ever come in front of a U.S. court. That is bad because the indictment is build on the theory of a new crime which, unless a court throws it out, can be used to incriminate other people in other cases and might even apply to this blog. The later part of this post will refer to that.

In the early 1990s some dude in St.Petersburg made a good business selling hot dogs. He then opened a colorful restaurant. He invited local celebrities and politicians to gain notoriety while serving cheap food for too high prices. It was a good business. A few years later he moved to Moscow and gained contracts to cater to schools and to the military. The food he served was still substandard.
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The Justice Department indictment is quite long and detailed. It must have been expensive. If you read it do so with the above in mind. Skip over the assumptions and claims of political interference and digest only the facts. All that is left is, as explained, a commercial marketing scheme.

I will not go into all its detail of the indictment but here are some points that support the above description.
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According to their logic, anyone who dissents and thereby inconveniences the duopoly is guilty of treason.

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