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Seth Abramson: Trump guilty of treason (in equivalent words) (Original Post) triron Mar 2018 OP
In deference to some here you can find this at triron Mar 2018 #1
Sanctions on Russia didn't start NewsCenter28 Mar 2018 #2
The Magnitsky Act was signed into law in 2012. triron Mar 2018 #3
You should take anything Seth Abramson says with a grain of salt. BzaDem Mar 2018 #4
Perhaps. triron Mar 2018 #5

NewsCenter28

(1,835 posts)
2. Sanctions on Russia didn't start
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:53 AM
Mar 2018

until February/March 2014 after the invasion of Crimea. I would have expected better than Seth. This is a huge factual error on his part. Heretofore, I had trusted him completely on pretty much everything and Seth was the overriding almost singular factor in my belief that Special Counsel Mueller would eventually get rid of ShitGibbon and his entire disgusting, vomit-inducing crime family. Abramson is a wack-a-doodle though if he's saying Trump was agreeing to lift sanctions in 2013 that hadn't even been proposed or even thought of yet.

This is an abject lesson to me in "if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is", if Seth doesn't correct what he actually meant stat.

BzaDem

(11,142 posts)
4. You should take anything Seth Abramson says with a grain of salt.
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 01:37 AM
Mar 2018

This is the same Seth Abramson that was claiming that Bernie Sanders was winning the Democratic Primary in June. If you think that I am surely exaggerating, I am not:

Media: Bernie Sanders is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race

(If you wonder why I am linking to an archive.org version of the post, it is because he deleted it many months later. I wonder why.)

In another post, he basically admitted that all of his reality-denying posts from that period were, well, read for yourself:

When I began blogging about Bernie Sanders, my goal was to imagine what an equally accurate and reasonable and just master narrative sitting alongside the one promoted by the corporate media would look like. I wanted to write editorials that came from that master narrative, not the corporate one, because I believed then and believe still that the experimental journalism of the future will embrace the multi-dimensionality of metanarrative. Write that Sanders is in the midst of a competitive primary race enough times — and support those claims with unimpeachable elements of the totalized “Real” — and in time we collectively can see that that seemingly impossible metanarrative is every bit as powerful and present and perceivable as any other. Over the last 90 days, my articles on the 2016 Democratic primary have been shared more than 200,000 times on Facebook, and with each share there were people who read the article and called it a fantasy and others who saw in it a master narrative equally plausible to the one they’ve been sold daily since that moment in the 1990s when Hillary Clinton decided she would become President.

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