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Swordsmyth
01-06-2019, 08:33 PM
Well, like it or not the dust has barely settled from the November midterms and the 2020 presidential race is already underway. Campaigns are being launched, names are being floated, “Gosh look what an ordinary person I am!” videos are being live streamed from politicians’ kitchens, and we are already seeing many of the same toxic patterns from 2016 resurfacing from many of the same toxic people.
NBC News has published an op-ed (https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/bernie-sanders-fans-can-t-be-allowed-poison-another-democratic-ncna953976) by Republican political strategist-turned Clinton advisor and Dem strategist David Brock titled “Bernie Sanders’ fans can’t be allowed to poison another Democratic primary with personal attacks — Bashing Beto O’Rourke (and every other Democrat) doesn’t help liberals’ cause in 2020. It only helps Trump.” The article explicitly blames Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump on supporters of Bernie Sanders who criticized her during the primary, and makes it clear that such criticisms must be forcefully and aggressively fought against this time around.
“I’m hardly the only political observer who blames Hillary Clinton’s general election defeat to Donald Trump in part on personal attacks on Clinton first made by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his backers,” Brock’s article begins. “Those attacks from her left laid the groundwork for copycat attacks lobbed by Donald Trump — and, in the process, helped hand the Supreme Court to the right-wing for a generation.”

Haha. Last election, David Brock ran a social media smear machine for HRC. https://t.co/HKkY5zljAa
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) January 3, 2019 (https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/1080973543310090240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Citing no evidence, Brock goes on to accuse journalists and social media users of staging a “coordinated effort” to “attack” Beto O’Rourke and other presidential hopefuls, as though coordination would be necessary for criticisms and questions to emerge about the voting records and campaign donations of public officials seeking the highest political office on the planet. The implication, of course, is that no criticisms of any kind should be leveled at Democratic presidential primary contestants, leaving narrative-shaping authority solely in the hands of the plutocratic media and beltway manipulators like David Brock.
Brock concludes his screed as follows:

In 2016, I ran a pro-Hillary SuperPAC which attempted to defend the candidate against false attacks, many of which came from or originated to her left. Though they were hardly in charge of our messaging, it was made very clear to us by our allies at her campaign headquarters that any efforts on our part to push back against the left-wing anti-Clinton brigades were unwelcome assistance; they feared alienating Sanders’ voters.
That head-in-the-sand posture was ultimately self-defeating.
Today, Democrats are rightly laser-focused on picking a winner in 2020, and the stakes are just too high to let bad faith actors — whose real aim is to smear Democrats as no different than Republicans — stage inter-party schisms. If Sanders decides to run again this time, he should focus on policy and eschew character attacks on Democrats — and admonish his supporters to do the same. Otherwise, they put the core values we all share at risk, yet again.
It is unclear what “character attacks” Brock is claiming Sanders made; the entirety of criticisms leveled by Sanders and the overwhelming majority of his supporters were directed at the policy decisions Clinton made in her political career and the shady places she took money from. What is clear is that the pro-Hillary SuperPAC he is referring to was the infamous “Correct the Record” troll operation, which employed literal shills to deceitfully pose as grassroots Hillary supporters online whose job was to attack anyone who criticized her. This despicable tactic was incalculably disruptive to online political discourse in 2016, and Brock clearly wants to implement a far more aggressive version of his operation in the 2020 primaries.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-05/clinton-crony-says-bernie-supporters-must-be-silenced-2020-primaries

Occam's Banana
01-06-2019, 10:20 PM
Bernie Sanders alumni want meeting to discuss 'sexual violence' on 2016 campaign (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?529769-Bernie-Sanders-alumni-want-meeting-to-discuss-sexual-violence-on-2016-campaign)



I'm not wasting any sympathy on Sanders, but the orchestration of this smacks of a "Do you still beat your wife?" poison pill.

Someone doesn't want Bernie gumming up the works this time around ...

https://media.giphy.com/media/tFK8urY6XHj2w/giphy.gif

juleswin
01-06-2019, 10:32 PM
The way I see it, Bernie is working with Hillary both playing good cop vs bad cop on the unsuspecting supporters. The same Bernie that endorsed Hillary and went along with the Russiagate nonsense. I mean, he would not even say that the DNC cheated him in the primaries.

oyarde
01-06-2019, 10:35 PM
The way I see it, Bernie is working with Hillary both playing good cop vs bad cop on the unsuspecting supporters. The same Bernie that endorsed Hillary and went along with the Russiagate nonsense. I mean, he would not even say that the DNC cheated him in the primaries.

Bernie is on the take because he is just a crook at heart .

Swordsmyth
01-06-2019, 10:38 PM
Bernie Sanders alumni want meeting to discuss 'sexual violence' on 2016 campaign (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?529769-Bernie-Sanders-alumni-want-meeting-to-discuss-sexual-violence-on-2016-campaign)

https://media.giphy.com/media/tFK8urY6XHj2w/giphy.gif
How long until they accuse him of Russian collusion?

He did honeymoon in the Soviet Union...................................

juleswin
01-06-2019, 10:59 PM
Bernie is on the take because he is just a crook at heart .

Bingo, the only people who don't know this are the Hillary and Bernie supporters. So sad :(

Swordsmyth
01-07-2019, 12:09 AM
Sen. Bernie Sanders (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/bernie-sanders) (I-Vt.) may be mulling a run for president, but the editorial board of one of his home state’s newspapers is asking him not to.
In an op-ed published Saturday in the Barre Montpelier Times Argus (https://www.timesargus.com/opinion/perspective/don-t-run/article_290102b1-d007-5ef3-8342-8c132265f27d.html) titled “Don’t run,” members of the board said “we beg him” to avoid throwing his hat in the ring for 2020.
“That is an unfavorable opinion, especially among most Vermonters and progressives who support the platform that has come to define him,” the board acknowledged. “But at this point, there are more things about another Sanders run at the White House that concern us than excite us.”
One of the board’s gripes with Sanders, the writers noted, was that during his 2016 presidential run, he was absent dozens of times for votes on key matters they felt were important to his constituents.
Taking issue with his laundry list of past media appearances, the board added, “you are more likely to catch Sanders on Colbert, CNN or MSNBC than you are to see him talking to reporters here in Vermont.”
“Evidently, microphones here don’t extend far enough.”

Aside from Sanders’ cable news habit, the board’s biggest concern was that he may not have the ability to foster party unity among Democrats, which will be essential if they hope to take back the White House.

“We fear a Sanders run risks dividing the well-fractured Democratic Party, and could lead to another split in the 2020 presidential vote,” the board said. “There is too much at stake to take that gamble. If we are going to maintain a two-party system, the mandate needs to be a clear one.”

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/editorial-board-vermont-paper-begs-013607543.html

Occam's Banana
01-07-2019, 01:31 AM
“We fear a Sanders run risks dividing the well-fractured Democratic Party, and could lead to another split in the 2020 presidential vote,” the board said. “There is too much at stake to take that gamble. If we are going to maintain a two-party system, the mandate needs to be a clear one.”

From "Blue Tidal Wave" to "if we are going to maintain a two-party system" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONN-0uoTHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONN-0uoTHI

Swordsmyth
01-07-2019, 01:36 AM
From "Blue Tidal Wave" to "if we are going to maintain a two-party system" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONN-0uoTHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONN-0uoTHI
The Demoncrat party is almost ready to fly apart at the seams.