Bernie defends Tulsi, so naturally Russia loves Bernie again

The Clinton Dead-Enders aren't very clever or original, but they can stick to a script.
First Bernie defends Tulsi from baseless smears.

Then a former Hillary Clinton staffer who started the Ready for Hillary super PAC, Adam Parkhomenko, expresses the feelings of all Clintonites.

Then Surprise! Bernie becomes a Russian asset again.

This new Russian activity seems destined to reopen old wounds. According to a report from the the data analysis firm Graphika, Russian operatives created fake African American news outlets to tarnish former vice president Joe Biden while boosting the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). This is an eerie reflection of Kremlin mischief-making in 2016, when its operatives adopted the same techniques in order to encourage the defection of Sanders primary voters from Hillary Clinton, then the Democratic nominee.

Although the strategy did not work (fewer Sanders voters defected from Clinton than Clinton voters defected from Barack Obama in 2008), it left a bitter legacy. In the aftermath of Clinton’s defeat, some supporters suggested that Sanders had effectively derailed the election — and that his grass-roots popularity stemmed from the efforts of Russian trolls in St. Petersburg. For these former supporters of Clinton, many now supporters of Biden, it might feel as if history is repeating itself.
... As Sanders rose to Gabbard’s defense (“It is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset”), an online chorus accused him of being a Russian asset as well.

Taaaa daaa!
It IS just like 2016 again, because the Clinton Dead-Enders are full of bullsh*t, weak-a** excuses and baseless accusations all over again.

First of all, that article was written by a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council (i.e. NATO). What a surprise that NATO doesn't like Bernie and Tulsi, the least pro-war candidates.
Now let's look at the report.

People linked to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll group indicted by the United States for its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election, are laying the groundwork to do the same in 2020, new information released by Facebook on Monday suggests.
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The accounts Facebook revealed Monday, 50 of which were on Instagram and one of which was on Facebook, were designed to look like they were advocating on a broad range of issues across American life.

A single Facebook account! Are you sh*tting me!?!
You want us to panic over that?

Now let's remember that infamous Internet Research Agency. The CNN article above just flat out lied to you.

The DOJ has now admitted that the Mueller report “itself does not state anywhere that the Russian government was behind the Internet Research Agency [and Concord] activity.” Whoa. The judge then asked, “So it is the government’s position that tying Concord and its co-defendants to the Russian government is not prejudicial?”

In the subsequent order, Judge Freidrich wrote: “On May 29, 2019, following the Court’s hearing, the Special Counsel held a press conference…[in which he] carefully distinguished between the efforts by ‘Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military’ and the efforts of” Concord.

But hey. Russiagate was never about facts and reality anyway.

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Rep. Cheri Bustos, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is advocating internally for Democrats to wave through the House President Donald Trump’s renegotiated NAFTA, without any of the revisions demanded by labor unions and environmentalists — and despite concerns that it locks in high prescription drug prices.
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Bustos has help in making the DCCC’s argument to the caucus: former caucus Chair Joe Crowley, who was ousted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and is now a paid lobbyist for Trump’s revised NAFTA, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. He’s joined in the effort by former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who has also become a lobbyist for Trump’s trade deal.
...Bustos has been blunt in speaking about USMCA to corporate allies at fundraisers, saying that labor unions and progressive Democrats “will have to get over it,” sources said.
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Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the chair of the Ways and Means Committee, has been making a similar argument to Bustos’s, but less for protection of vulnerable members and more because he believes that the deal is good enough. Unions, he has argued internally, will just have to go along. He has proposed a divide-and-conquer strategy, by appending pension reform — a high priority of the Teamsters and a handful of other unions — to the deal in the hopes of splitting a few unions off from the labor movement and winning their support. That would allow House leaders to say that labor is divided on the question, so the party might as well vote yes.

Evil fucks

Unions, meanwhile, are pushing to strengthen provisions that would push Mexico to enact and enforce labor reform and raise wages for Mexican workers, which would make it easier for American workers to compete. Labor officials note that Mexico has neglected to fund its stated commitment to labor reform, and Neal recently traveled to Mexico to try to extract concessions from the Mexican government on enforceability. He came away with a letter of assurance from the Mexican president, which unions have dismissed as unserious.

The Sierra Club has been weighing in on the agreement for the last three years, Ben Beachy told The Intercept, and opposes it in its current form. He directs the group’s “A Living Economy” initiative, which advocates for green economic policy. “The deal as it stands is a pro-polluter deal any way you slice it,” Beachy said. “It not only fails to mention climate change, but would actively contribute to the climate crisis. Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 would perpetuate NAFTA’s outsourcing of pollution and jobs while giving new handouts to fossil fuel corporations.” The group has put out numerous statements regarding concerns that the current deal lacks binding environmental standards, and recently signed a letter along with 110 members of Congress calling for the new deal to address the climate crisis in a meaningful way.

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Guess the Waa Poo wants to make sure that people read it. Oh look at who wrote it:

Emerson T. Brooking is a resident fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council

Yep. The Atlantic Council that gets money from our government, has members of foreign governments on it and also gets funding by NATO., Bezo's WP strikes again. Once upon a time lots of people would read what they write with a grain of salt. Kinda like not trusting the CIA or FBI.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Hey, Adam, who was it who declined to challenge, not to mention swear out a complaint against, Killary's multiple violations of election laws? Who was it who campaigned for Hillary? Who was it who Would. Have. Beaten. Trump??? Crawl back under your rock, Adam.

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@Nastarana

After the primary is over we are going to see lots of calls for everyone to get behind the democratic candidate because we have to defeat Trump. When Adam and Neenah Neenah start calling for that I'm going to repost their tweets they posted. Remember Schumer thought it would be better if democrats got moderate republicans to vote for them then to try to make people on the left happy. That sure worked out well for him didn't it?

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

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@snoopydawg

That certainly inspires me to Vote Blue No Matter Who.

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Fuck Bernie. I’d forgotten how much I despise that asshole. Thanks for the reminder.

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It was us, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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@dervish

"It was more in the nature of a suicide."

Hillary didn't need anybody else to derail her, for similar reasons.

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For having an asshole as a Father, Son, and Husband.

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