Bernie is a Russian Agent, Again
Yes, we are back there again. With corporate Democrats back to smearing everyone to their left as working for Putin.
We were already there in The Great Post-2016 Election Meltdown of 2017.
Russian agent of influence no two ways about it at this point https://t.co/OW1C0pc9Di
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) April 19, 2017
I hope everyone likes sequels, because that is where we are headed.
A very mainstream writer, @page88 - now at @wired, @Slate & @latimesopinion - explicitly suggests Bernie 2016 was a Kremlin operation & ponders if he was "wittingly" helping Putin. This is Alex-Jones-level conspiracy derangement but these are the conspiracies the mainstream likes pic.twitter.com/JGmSWn11ZH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 26, 2019
A thread about the possibility of Bernie Sanders as a very 2016 Kremlin-Trump operation. https://t.co/d4xFUVsAOu
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) January 26, 2019
3/ First off, Russia did not just put all their roulette chips on Trump. His was just the number that came up.
There were chips on Jill Stein. On Bernie Sanders. On Rand Paul:https://t.co/EbK3ZzKMDM
And so on. (Right now, looks like bets are being placed on Tulsi Gabbard).
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) January 22, 2019
It seems that there are ways to spot a Russian Spy.
Proving whether a social media account is a ‘Russian bot’ or not is an inexact science, and some organizations have played fast and loose with the rules before. The Hamilton68 dashboard – a bot-hunting database frequently cited by Russiagate types – doesn’t reveal its methodology, and PropOrNot – another outfit that sees Russian agents everywhere – has declared that anyone using the term “establishment” is a Kremlin stooge. Ben Nimmo, bot-hunter in chief at NATO-sponsored think tank the Atlantic Council, has also claimed that bad grammar is a dead giveaway of paid Russian trolls.
Between the lines @HillaryClinton raising pointed questions abt Bernie as an op. Consider the complicity in his campaign of bots, trolls, bros who *still* bully, threaten & harass HRC & Democrats.
Many of the Bernie “supporters” we know fr/IRA indictments were Kremlin minions. https://t.co/vJFa0B2yyd
— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) January 26, 2019
Better not tell Heffernan that Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, Clinton strategist Mark Penn, and John McCain’s 2008 campaign manager Steve Schmidt also lobbied for Yanukovych in the late 2000s.Better not tell her too that some Americans disagreed with Hillary Clinton’s brand of watery, focus-grouped centrism in 2016. That might be too much for a writer who once described Clinton as “an epochal heroine” who “cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second.”
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Bernie never should have bought into Russiagate
Now they are turning it against him.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Who didn’t see that coming?
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
No one.
Put your Red Shoes, Media.
Let's Dance.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbD_kBJc_gI]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
One of these things is not like the other...
Bernie Sanders
Dr. Jill Stein
Rand Paul
Hmm...
How are people taking this seriously?
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Because we have always been at war with Oceania
/snark
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
The pattern is actually obvious
The only criteria for whether a Russian Agent:
People considering a presidential bid -- are their names either Hillary or Kamala?
Yes = Democracy! Vote for Her!
No = Russian Agent
Kamala's super "predator'' gaffe
This reminds me of Hillary's "we came, we saw, he died " chortle. And her laugh. OMG!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
I'm baffled
My first assertion, which is irrelevant to the conversation at hand, but I'm throwing it out there: I don't think there will ever be a political solution to the fiasco in the U.S. at this point...I'm going to comment anyway.
Bernie has been a professional politician for many years; you'd think he'd have a better grasp at how these things go. Especially the two facets of celebrity-cult and group-think "us vs. imagined boogeyman." I'm a layman, but the psychological manipulation ploys are well documented and old...he's gotta know, right?
Anyway, from the jump, when the Bernie=Russian agent idea was thrown into the mix, you'd think he'd have been wise enough to know, going into their fold to appease, was never going to make that vanish...it would always be resurrected, whenever expedient, if he ever looked even remotely cross-eyed in the wrong manner, forevermore; stored "ammunition" that would be hurled whenever desired, and automatically believed by the zombie minions.
Two: Due to the tendency toward the celebrity-cult styling and tradition of the Democratic Party, mostly starting with Bill, but reaching peak height with Obama and Hillary; the inability for critical thought, vs. zombie-regurgitation of whatever mantra employed by the party overlords/sycophant media, would always be reflexively swallowed and echoed to the corners of the earth by the cult worshipers.
Strange he didn't consider this, see it coming, and do the most logical thing...accept Stein's offer and join up over there.
Politically, it seemed the only rational choice, because at the first utterance, he was damaged goods/burned forevermore within Democratic Party, no good-faith trust and can't really accomplish much within their bubble, because the "Russian agent" would always be at the ready for reuse by establishment Dems to control thought, and no matter how ridiculous, probably work on the mindless.
I don't know...I suppose he probably also bought into the idea that Hillary would win, so therefore within the Democratic Party, he still "makes a difference" being on the winning team in Congress. Drank that Kool-Aid too. Shoulda checked those "polling" data support figures; they were a joke.
I mean, look at the Mensch message..."I Don't know if Indy Ossoff is Progressive"....vague, innocuous statement, signifying nothing becomes, "Russia! This is proof!" WTF? How the hell does that even follow?
Hmmm, *this* Virginia Heffernan.
(HT to snoopydawg)
Okay. . . . If Heffernan -- HRC's royal encomiast -- is sending shots across Bernie's bow this week, to discourage him from running again, that means Hillary is definitely going to run again. Why else do this?
Yes, I can totally see her as the light bringer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ki1idGN0U]
[video:Oh whoops, was I supposed to forget the literal translation of "Lucifer"?
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Why? To sabotage him regardless of
WHO the official DNC candidate is. They’re just being ‘proactive’.
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
Hillary is only proactive for Hillary. n/t
Virginia Heffernan
Makes Markos M. seem like a reasonable, thoughtful opinion writer.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Freaking Mensch & Heffernan...
Somebody quick, grab the stake and the crucifix. These self-serving frauds have sucked the brains out of millions.
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
Aaaaaack, and I have the PERFECT song...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXOAcuNhFS4]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Ha!
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
I'd vote for Bernie now even if I hadn't already planned to.
Just to spite those A holes!
All I want is the truth. Just give me some truth. John Lennon
Right on burnt out
Clinton tools never stop, never ever. Bernie won California by the way. Or he would have if they had counted all the votes. Padilla and Becerra are not good role models if you ask me. Edit: this video:
UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary
https://youtu.be/D5ugmNoanx8
get out the revenge vote
NOBODY 2020
dump plutocracy
peace
You say she can’t win California but why?
Her record of rights violations, pettiness, and the fact that she’s less than ‘truthful’ most of the time. Her record of dating Willie Brown who gave her career a ‘boost’ and she was well paid for it. BUT she keeps getting elected to political office. Why then wouldn’t California vote for her?
Thanks.
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