British spy uncovered in the Bernie campaign

Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 3:48pm

Hmmm. But Russia is the problem.

Have you ever noticed that mainstream politicians are almost never racist and sexist, but leftists ALWAYS are?
You can set a watch by it. Every single time a leftist decides to run for office and do something meaningful and measurable for marginalized communities, that person will be "exposed" as racist and sexist.
Meanwhile the mainstream candidate that mouths meaningless platitudes for those same marginalized communities, will be portrayed as a defender of said people.

It's almost enough to make one think that the media is completely full of sh*t.

Speaking of leftists, the socialist government of Bolivia is rolling out universal health care.
Yet the United States "cannot afford it".

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 3:49pm

This moron thinks he's hurting AOC

Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is...
...High School video of “Sandy” Ocasio-Cortezpic.twitter.com/s723Vga9zF

— AnonymousQ (@AnonymousQ1776) January 2, 2019

Submitted by dance you monster on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:45pm

Don't we need to distinguish . . .

@gjohnsit

. . . between casual morons and this other level of stupidity? We can't do it with a superscript, because these folks never got comfortable with math or science past the second grade. It needs to be a word. I can't think of one that truly captures the full degree and compass (and frequently, the malicious twisting) of the stupidity, so maybe we need to do the Internet a favor by making one up, c99's special gift to the toobz. Suggestions encouraged. Get creative, folks.

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:53pm

In a related quest

@dance you monster

...I saw in the comments someone recommending we sponsor the yearly

Bullitzer Awards

With Bullitzer Prizes handed out to journalists and publishers who most further the causes of ignorance each year.

Submitted by dance you monster on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:59pm

We'd need to come up with a rule about repeat awards, . . .

@Pluto's Republic

. . . so Luke Harding doesn't walk off with every Bullitzer.

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 5:11pm

You mean promote them up

@dance you monster

...to a Lietime Achievement Award?

Submitted by dance you monster on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 5:13pm

Okay, you're going to be good at this contest.

@Pluto's Republic

Anyone else wanna join in?

Submitted by earthling1 on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 8:11pm

How 'bout dotard

@dance you monster

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Submitted by OzoneTom on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:44pm

AOC responds

@gjohnsit
And she know how to troll on teh twitterz:
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1081234130841600000

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 3:57pm

Because Leftist actually care about racism and sexism.

A right winger will simply shrug their shoulder's and mumble,

"Well, if they're gonna hang me for a goat..."

Wheras a Leftist, if they're true to their principles, must learn, accept, acknowledge, and generally derail to prove that they are ... ugh... Monty Python summed it up better.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUBAx8jbYNs]

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Submitted by boriscleto on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:33pm

Splitter

@detroitmechworks @detroitmechworks

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Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 8:52pm

wanker

@boriscleto

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On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
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Submitted by dkmich on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:10pm

Saw this on Jimmy Dore...

Nowhere else, of course, until here.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 5:11pm

Moon of Alabama covered it

@dkmich

British spies infiltrate Bernie's campaign

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?

Submitted by Lookout on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 8:05am

Max Blumenthal at the grayzone project

@dkmich

wrote the article Jimmy describes...

https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/12/17/inside-the-temple-of-covert-propa...

He also wrote a piece about "New Knowledge" which is CIA - NSA types rather than NATO MI6 types...

https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/12/25/senate-report-on-russian-interfer...

And one more I would recommend is this Ukrainian arms deal piece...
https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/04/04/how-russiagate-helped-secure-a-da...

He and Ben Norton have a podcast "Moderate Rebels" which is interesting if you're a podcast listener. http://moderaterebelsradio.com/

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:57pm

Some might argue the macrocosmic view

...that the British Empire has been in control of the global ride for this entire time.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 7:03pm

Wow!

@Pluto's Republic I am beginning to think you have really hit upon something.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 1:19pm

The patterns have played forward with heartbreaking precision

@gulfgal98

...haven't they? I suppose we had to put this much distance on these events to begin to see the entire picture and understand what it is doing to our own lives. And, of course, none of this could be done without a Deep State.

Roles have changed since that first thrust. Now, China is the stand in for Germany. The US remains Brittian's colonial Golem. Russia is a changeling — the Cheshire Cat. Better historians than I could call those roles more accurately. As always, the Deep States and family lines are in full control, waiting patiently at the edges of their webs to strike.

That's my view, at least. It never seems to change much.

Submitted by on the cusp on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 8:54pm

I was a history major back in the day...

@Pluto's Republic I will watch the other parts. Can't thank you enough for this. We can't understand the world unless we understand true history of it.
Again, can't thank you enough.

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Submitted by bobswern on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:47am

@Pluto's Republic Actually, Pluto, it's

@Pluto's Republic
Actually, Pluto, it's been oft-stated that the Spanish-American War was "The First Media War." So, in many ways that matter, the Brits were taking copious notes with regard to what was playing out here in the U.S. (the Brits' "little study group" was formed in the early 1890's). It would then follow that it's not a stretch to say that WWI was "The Second Media War."

I think it's important to point out that there was a hell of A LOT going on in the 1890's:
--the U.S. was dealing with the massive Panic of 1893 (Depression), etc.
--Russian and other major eastern European cities were growing exceptionally quickly. As a result of that rampant growth, societal pressures were mounting; and, particularly in Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution started metastasizing around 1905.
--and, while the U.S. was beginning to wonder whether there was anything else to exploit in the lower 48, the U.S. economy's downfall, earlier in the decade (with harsh reminders of same still prevalent throughout U.S. society for six years), was an ongoing reminder that it was time to look elsewhere for new places to plunder; I find this a bit ironic, in that if the U.S.--with all of its land, and only a paltry 125+/- years of existence--was beginning to feel fenced in and aggressive, it doesn't even begin to describe the many decades of British lust for continuing global domination, while simultaneously sitting by, in 1898, seeing the U.S. plunder so much Spanish property both in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in a matter of months!

I find this PBS/CPB video, "CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRE" to be an important, obvious and necessary preface on any accurate, historical overview (and especially when discussing something created by Corbett, et al, regarding an event that occurred around 15 years later), of WWI:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkINlTPfP4]

The Spanish-American War is often referred to as the first "media war." During the 1890s, journalism that sensationalized—and sometimes even manufactured—dramatic events was a powerful force that helped propel the United States into war with Spain. Led by newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890s used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers--a style that became known as yellow journalism.

The term yellow journalism came from a popular New York World comic called "Hogan's Alley," which featured a yellow-dressed character named the "the yellow kid." Determined to compete with Pulitzer's World in every way, rival New York Journal owner William Randolph Hearst copied Pulitzer's sensationalist style and even hired "Hogan's Alley" artist R.F. Outcault away from the World. In response, Pulitzer commissioned another cartoonist to create a second yellow kid. Soon, the sensationalist press of the 1890s became a competition between the "yellow kids," and the journalistic style was coined "yellow journalism."

Yellow journals like the New York Journal and the New York World relied on sensationalist headlines to sell newspapers. William Randolph Hearst understood that a war with Cuba would not only sell his papers, but also move him into a position of national prominence. From Cuba, Hearst's star reporters wrote stories designed to tug at the heartstrings of Americans. Horrific tales described the situation in Cuba--female prisoners, executions, valiant rebels fighting, and starving women and children figured in many of the stories that filled the newspapers. But it was the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor that gave Hearst his big story--war. After the sinking of the Maine, the Hearst newspapers, with no evidence, unequivocally blamed the Spanish, and soon U.S. public opinion demanded intervention.

Today, historians point to the Spanish-American War as the first press-driven war. Although it may be an exaggeration to claim that Hearst and the other yellow journalists started the war, it is fair to say that the press fueled the public's passion for war. Without sensational headlines and stories about Cuban affairs, the mood for Cuban intervention may have been very different. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a world power, and the U.S. press proved its influence...

# # #

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Submitted by dervish on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 2:52am

I find it stunning

@bobswern that I was taught all about the Spanish-American War in school, yet it wasn't until I was an adult that I even realized that the US fought in the Phillipines for many years thereafter, to the great detriment of the people there.

That war has been largely erased from the collective memory. It did spawn the invention of the 1911 model Colt 45, a standard issue sidearm for years to come, but only because there were so many wogs to gun down.

#4
Actually, Pluto, it's been oft-stated that the Spanish-American War was "The First Media War." So, in many ways that matter, the Brits were taking copious notes with regard to what was playing out here in the U.S. (the Brits' "little study group" was formed in the early 1890's). It would then follow that it's not a stretch to say that WWI was "The Second Media War."

I think it's important to point out that there was a hell of A LOT going on in the 1890's:
--the U.S. was dealing with the massive Panic of 1893 (Depression), etc.
--Russian and other major eastern European cities were growing exceptionally quickly. As a result of that rampant growth, societal pressures were mounting; and, particularly in Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution started metastasizing around 1905.
--and, while the U.S. was beginning to wonder whether there was anything else to exploit in the lower 48, the U.S. economy's downfall, earlier in the decade (with harsh reminders of same still prevalent throughout U.S. society for six years), was an ongoing reminder that it was time to look elsewhere for new places to plunder; I find this a bit ironic, in that if the U.S.--with all of its land, and only a paltry 125+/- years of existence--was beginning to feel fenced in and aggressive, it doesn't even begin to describe the many decades of British lust for continuing global domination, while simultaneously sitting by, in 1898, seeing the U.S. plunder so much Spanish property both in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in a matter of months!

I find this PBS/CPB video, "CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRE" to be an important, obvious and necessary preface on any accurate, historical overview (and especially when discussing something created by Corbett, et al, regarding an event that occurred around 15 years later), of WWI:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkINlTPfP4]

The Spanish-American War is often referred to as the first "media war." During the 1890s, journalism that sensationalized—and sometimes even manufactured—dramatic events was a powerful force that helped propel the United States into war with Spain. Led by newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890s used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers--a style that became known as yellow journalism.

The term yellow journalism came from a popular New York World comic called "Hogan's Alley," which featured a yellow-dressed character named the "the yellow kid." Determined to compete with Pulitzer's World in every way, rival New York Journal owner William Randolph Hearst copied Pulitzer's sensationalist style and even hired "Hogan's Alley" artist R.F. Outcault away from the World. In response, Pulitzer commissioned another cartoonist to create a second yellow kid. Soon, the sensationalist press of the 1890s became a competition between the "yellow kids," and the journalistic style was coined "yellow journalism."

Yellow journals like the New York Journal and the New York World relied on sensationalist headlines to sell newspapers. William Randolph Hearst understood that a war with Cuba would not only sell his papers, but also move him into a position of national prominence. From Cuba, Hearst's star reporters wrote stories designed to tug at the heartstrings of Americans. Horrific tales described the situation in Cuba--female prisoners, executions, valiant rebels fighting, and starving women and children figured in many of the stories that filled the newspapers. But it was the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor that gave Hearst his big story--war. After the sinking of the Maine, the Hearst newspapers, with no evidence, unequivocally blamed the Spanish, and soon U.S. public opinion demanded intervention.

Today, historians point to the Spanish-American War as the first press-driven war. Although it may be an exaggeration to claim that Hearst and the other yellow journalists started the war, it is fair to say that the press fueled the public's passion for war. Without sensational headlines and stories about Cuban affairs, the mood for Cuban intervention may have been very different. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a world power, and the U.S. press proved its influence...

# # #

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 10:15am

We get taught a "Disneyfied" version of history

@dervish
in school.
And generally people stop learning history after the 10th grade.

Interesting side note, I recently realized that all Identity Politics, both liberal and conservative, is built upon this Disneyfied understanding of history.

Submitted by Bisbonian on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:05pm

PNBC

@Pluto's Republic ...the Project for a New British Century.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:22pm

But what else can you call it?

@Bisbonian

Submitted by Bisbonian on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 10:26am

I dunno...I am just seeing a parallel.

@Pluto's Republic

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 3:40pm

I meant to say there is no more perfect

@Bisbonian

...parallel. Kudos.

Submitted by mimi on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 4:48pm

I wonder when a woman who criticizes a male

politician will be called a sexist. Not gonna happen. What is good for the goose is apparently not good for the gander. Con artist sexism on the rise.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 7:08pm

This is the real meddling

in our elections. But because they are the Brits and are allies, it is okay that they meddle in our elections or act as proxies for the Deep State to meddle in our elections.

Something that no one has commented on but strikes a strong chord with me is that II (Integrity Initiative) was not only recognized as a charity, but also worked with NATO. IMO, NATO is the enforcement arm for imperialism in the northern hemisphere and needs to be disbanded.

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Thu, 01/03/2019 - 8:46pm

Hmmm.....

lessee... a government financed 'charity' located in the not inexpensive, rarefied air of the Temple (see Inns of Court, barristers, etc.). And just down the road (literally) from Arundel House, home of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Nothing odd about that.

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 2:06am

Russia Today, Sputnik News and some right wing sources

that may have picked up the story from RT (oddly enough) claim that the role of Integrity Initiative is disinformation. I don't dismiss the story because of that, though, especially since II targeted Bernie.

https://www.rt.com/news/447256-integrity-initiative-psyops-establishment...

Submitted by lotlizard on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 3:53am

Yep. Like allegations that Corbyn and Labour are anti-Semitic.

You can set a watch by it. Every single time a leftist decides to run for office and do something meaningful and measurable for marginalized communities, that person will be “exposed” as racist and sexist.

Submitted by CB on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:15pm

Moon of Alabama reports

I wonder how much of this will be reported by the MSM who are in the pocket of the war mongers?

'Integrity Initiative' - New Documents From Shady NGO Released
January 04, 2019
The British Government runs an anti-Russian smear campaign through the pseudo non-government-organization Integrity Initiative. Some person, operating under the 'Anonymous' label, obtained internal papers of the Initiative and publishes those in several batches. Moon of Alabama was one of the first sites that analyzed the released papers.

Our last piece on the Initiative concluded:

After reading through all the released Initiative papers and lists one gets the impression of a secret military intelligence operation, disguised as a public NGO. Financed by millions of government money the Institute for Statecraft and the Integrity Initiative work under a charity label to create and disseminate disinformation to the global public and back into the government and military itself.

Today the Anonymous account released a new batch of some 50 internal Integrity Initiative documents at the Cyber Guerrilla website.

With the new release Anonymous lays out a timeline that connects the Skripal affair in Britain with the activities and personal of the Integrity Initiative. Our last piece had already drawn the Skripal connection to the Initiative, but some of the new documents add to the trail.
...
Tim Hayward provides a complete list (scroll down) of all articles written so far here and elsewhere about the Integrity Initiative .

Submitted by CB on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:39pm

What the Left faces in terms of anti-Leftist propaganda

Dang, forgot where I read what some poster noted about the Integrity bullshit. But the poster noted how well funded and connected are the propaganda forces fighting and smearing the Left--and alot of it government(s) funded. Millions in this case. And the New Knowledge "experiment" in just AL which was funded to the tune of $100,000, which is 25X what the Russians spent on Google. The AL "experiment" relied on Hamilton 68 project whose funding looks to be easily hundreds of thousands of dollars given the people involved with the project.

Submitted by Big Al on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 12:56pm

Which left?

The democratic party left or the real left?

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 1:22pm

New Knowledge checks to see it Daily Kos is spreading propaganda

every diary writer has this after their username: This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff This is because NK flagged a few of the diaries there as propaganda. Marcos contacted them and told them what the site was about and in order for NK to not flag the site they had to put up that disclaimer. Plus this one is at the bottom:

This content was created by a Daily Kos Community member.
Make your voice heard! Click here to write or comment on Daily Kos.

I haven't seen one diary there that talked about how New Knowledge infiltrated Roy Moore's campaign and tried to make it look like it was Russia that was doing it.

I will find Kos' diary that describes this if anyone is interested. I do read the site everyday and am just flabbergasted at what people there are believing about Russia Gate and all the tangents it has taken and the new ones being discovered every day. It's mind numbing to see a massive propaganda campaign's effect on people I thought I knew and respected. You will have to see for yourselves how far off the rails the site has fallen.

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 1:26pm

Just finished reading the support for Nancy's pay go

@snoopydawg

it's not really as bad as you think it is according to them. This was after Paul Krugman came out against it. Pick and choose what you like about the people you look to for information on what's good for the country I guess.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 2:07pm

As far as I can tell, PayGo has one purpose

@snoopydawg

...for the Dems. It is to prevent passage of Bills like "Medicare for All" and "Free Education" legislation. This is a Donor-directed provision. Nothing that directly benefits the American people will be discussed in the next two years. Nothing that would affect the upcoming election.

Submitted by CB on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 2:35pm

The main individual

@snoopydawg
responsible for spreading the anti Putin/Russian propaganda in DKos is Mark Sumner - the Luke Harding of DKos.

He will use his previous diaries to back up new claims made in successive diaries until he has woven such a fantastical story that it has little to no relation to reality. He is such a master of "baffle them with bullshit" that one would need a front end loader to get to the bottom of his shitpile.

The fact that time has failed to prove the veracity of Sumner's reporting just shows the extent of the remaining Dkos'rs ability to allow truths that do not fit the narrative to fall into the memory hole. Otherwise their heads would surely explode with cognitive dissonance.

But maybe there is some hope for these people after all. Looks like they're no longer drinking the koolaid.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 3:57pm

Ooh absolutely it's Sumner and I agree that he's the Luke

@CB

of DK. He has been linking the Luke article on the guardian and he has a habit of wording links to fit his content, but when you click on them they say nothing of the sort. I have been laughing at this for some time. Just ask gulfgal....

He will use his previous diaries to back up new claims made in successive diaries until he has woven such a fantastical story that it has little to no relation to reality. He is such a master of "baffle them with bullshit" that one would need a front end loader to get to the bottom of his shitpile.

This too. And yet not one person has called him out on this. Of course they don't because it fits their narrative too. And I'm thinking that this is why New Knowledge marked it as propaganda. But how sad is it that DK has to outsource its fact checkers?

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?

Submitted by CB on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 4:35pm

Anyone who even begins

@snoopydawg
to entertain thoughts of questioning ~~Luke's~~ Mark's conclusions immediately crimestop* themselves. The DKos Thought Police have done an excellent job of culling any dissenters who would speak truth to power on that site.

*Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

Submitted by dervish on Sat, 01/05/2019 - 2:50am

There are still a few that do

@CB (speak truth to power) over there, but they do it very cautiously. People have been banned for literally no reason at all. Kos purges much like Stalin did, and for the same reasons.

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Submitted by ChezJfrey on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 2:04pm

But Russia is the problem.

to quote OP.

Yes! And the British Spy within the Bernie campaign proves it! The British would not have inserted a spy into the Bernie campaign if Bernie were not in bed with the Russians, so the British had to act and save U.S. democracy by sending in their operatives to thwart the Russian influence occurring among Bernie and his bros.

Simple and clear; all roads lead to Russia!

Sure, laugh it up, but you just know, that's how this crap gets spun...it's ALWAYS, ALWAYS Russia...remember how if the Guardian's Manafort/Assange/Russia reporting was false, then it's because they were tricked by Russia? https://youtu.be/bQPDfN2kveA?t=1089

It is either "Russia did it...and if not, then Russian disinfo/trick."

Russia, Russia, Russia!

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 4:00pm

But this is what makes Bernie going along with

@ChezJfrey

Russia Gate so sad. And disappointing. He knows that never happened and that it was why Hillary lost. But what makes me more angry about it is what Russia Gate is intended to do and he has signed on to it.

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Submitted by CB on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 4:49pm

I'm not surprised

@snoopydawg
Bernie was never anything more than a fluffer for Hillary.

His campaign was responsible for getting Her Heinous a majority in the popular vote. But he couldn't give her the presidency as too many people were woke to the DNC machinations by the time of the election.