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How can Bernie be a dictatorship loving communist and a Koch Brothers ally? (Original Post) Armstead Mar 2016 OP
He can't ... except in Hillary fantasyland. n/t earthside Mar 2016 #1
Please keep this post alive and well. oldandhappy Mar 2016 #2
That's up to others Armstead Mar 2016 #4
She's flailing and inept. morningfog Mar 2016 #3
Same Way President Obama SDJay Mar 2016 #5
You forgot atheist. Obama is also an atheist. Jim Lane Mar 2016 #23
When you fling sh*t, it doesn't matter what it covers enigmatic Mar 2016 #6
Your basic kitchen sink along with it Armstead Mar 2016 #9
I think you just came up with her ice cream flavor. Barack_America Mar 2016 #7
I dunno how can someone who goes to Nicaragua to try to stop a war... Kalidurga Mar 2016 #8
k&r krawhitham Mar 2016 #10
Easy if you're also a secret Muslim and a fascist. You'd never suspect the Muslim thing but brewens Mar 2016 #11
Minutemen, Koch Brothers and Castro, this is definitely a sign of desperation on Hillary's part. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #12
'Tis a puzzlement. kath Mar 2016 #13
A virtual Rubicks Cube Armstead Mar 2016 #15
Only in a Clintonian Universe EndElectoral Mar 2016 #14
Channeling a Gore Vidal response... An enigma that only exists in the minds of crypto-fascists! TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #16
A Castro Communist, while also being a militant anti immigrant Minuteman myrna minx Mar 2016 #17
I guess Bernie just loves fascists, regardless of ideology Armstead Mar 2016 #18
Sanders is swimming against the high profile of command economies in the cold war HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #19
Instead we have a Corporate Command Economy Armstead Mar 2016 #20
The oligarchs desire more freedom for predaceous capitalism HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #21
I've heard he's also a floor wax and a dessert topping. n/t winter is coming Mar 2016 #22
Because Brock's crackpipe is hot to the touch Mufaddal Mar 2016 #24
It's a world of maaaagic! Arugula Latte Mar 2016 #25
It's like when the GOP calls Obama a communist, a terrorist, and a fascist all at the same time. Avalux Mar 2016 #26
Whereas, Hillary can take the money of capitalists, embrace the likes of Kissinger, Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2016 #27
She just put it out there to set up the next attack... anotherproletariat Mar 2016 #28
They'd try that on Jesus himself if he ran as a Democrat Armstead Mar 2016 #30
Hillary must assume everyone's a weathervane like her. (nm) Lizzie Poppet Mar 2016 #29
a right Soviet Dixiecrat! MisterP Mar 2016 #31

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
5. Same Way President Obama
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:51 AM
Mar 2016

Was a Muslim and a disciple of Rev. Wright. When you're flailing, just throw shit against the wall and hope something sticks.

Great question, OP.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
23. You forgot atheist. Obama is also an atheist.
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:05 PM
Mar 2016

As you note, Obama is an adherent of a racist Christian church, and is also a Muslim (who's planning to impose Sharia law). But we need Ann Coulter to point out that he's an atheist. I don't know which of those three identities supports his status as the Antichrist.

Without doing any searching, and just going from memory, I think Obama has also been described as a Communist, a fascist, and an anarchist.

By comparison, Bernie is getting off easy.

enigmatic

(15,021 posts)
6. When you fling sh*t, it doesn't matter what it covers
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:51 AM
Mar 2016

And Hillary is flinging the economy sized bucket right now.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
8. I dunno how can someone who goes to Nicaragua to try to stop a war...
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:56 AM
Mar 2016

be characterized as someone who is for brutality in the government.

brewens

(13,596 posts)
11. Easy if you're also a secret Muslim and a fascist. You'd never suspect the Muslim thing but
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 01:00 AM
Mar 2016

he's a real snake in the grass I tell you!

Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)
12. Minutemen, Koch Brothers and Castro, this is definitely a sign of desperation on Hillary's part.
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 01:02 AM
Mar 2016

Thanks for the thread, Armstead.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
19. Sanders is swimming against the high profile of command economies in the cold war
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:23 AM
Mar 2016

Sanders isn't pushing for command economies, but the rhetoric of the cold war echoes in people's memories like the phrase "truth, justice and THE American way". That rhetoric is a useful cudgel for Sanders opponents, it allows them to righteiously swing at evils he does not promote.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
20. Instead we have a Corporate Command Economy
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:27 AM
Mar 2016

Rather than tinhorn dictators or Soviet bureaucracies calling the shots, we have slick oligarchs in nice suits and the corporate bureaucracies they own calling the shots.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
21. The oligarchs desire more freedom for predaceous capitalism
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:32 AM
Mar 2016

Of course, none of them would ever say they want to eat the homes of children for breakfast and enslave young people silly enough to think that big investments in education will result in big payoffs.

Mufaddal

(1,021 posts)
24. Because Brock's crackpipe is hot to the touch
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:10 PM
Mar 2016

"This guy Bernie. Big-time commie; hates immigrants. He's too far to the left; total gun-nut."


Avalux

(35,015 posts)
26. It's like when the GOP calls Obama a communist, a terrorist, and a fascist all at the same time.
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:59 PM
Mar 2016

No different in my book. Hillary sounded a hell of a lot like her 'enemies' last night.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
27. Whereas, Hillary can take the money of capitalists, embrace the likes of Kissinger,
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 01:02 PM
Mar 2016

vote for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of women and children, and portray herself as a kindly liberal.

What's amazing is that people fall for it time after time.

 

anotherproletariat

(1,446 posts)
28. She just put it out there to set up the next attack...
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 01:17 PM
Mar 2016

That the right wants Bernie to win the nomination because they know they could annihilate him in the general. By showing that the Koch Bros are putting out pro-Bernie ads, this just supports the argument. Remember, all those polls everyone continually sites are based on the public knowing very little about Bernie, and with NO negative campaigning against him. Think about it, the right has managed to turn Obama into some sort of cross between the anti-christ and a Muslim terrorist, they could do even worse to Sanders. A few clips of him saying he will raise taxes, combined with the socialists thing, religion, free giveaways, government taking over healthcare, etc...and wow, you have a repub win.

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
30. They'd try that on Jesus himself if he ran as a Democrat
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 01:27 PM
Mar 2016

A pretty flimsy excuse for smearing Sanders in such a ridiculous way.

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