like hiring as his National Press Secretary in 2020 a former editor of The Intercept (of all places) who publicly announced her support for Jill Stein in 2016.

And he could have done more to stop the Hillary hate that was swirling around his campaign, IMO. For one thing, he could have conceded months before the convention, rather than allowing thousands of his supporters to protest there, hoping against hope they could get enough delegates to change their minds.

Absolutely!!!

they saw the trolls descend on every one of their websites, and did nothing. i remember seeing his social media director talking about it, and they knew. they traced the trolls, saw where they were coming from, and did nothing.
and they saw what they were posting. and they saw how many of their followers were useful idiots.

if he was really a leader, he would have faced it head on.
if he was the one to pick up the pieces at this point in history, he would have at least tried to solve this.
but i see no sign that he is even trying to prevent it this time.

no, yeah, i blame him.

And also, I believe Bernie missed a lot of Senate votes on sanctioning Russia.

I guess we’re all supposed to just not think about it, or something.

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Now he has two people at the top of his campaign who were Jill Stein supporters. This makes me sick!

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2016 General Election ...

Co-Chairman: Nina Turner - Jill Stein voter
National Press Secretary: Briahna Joy Gray - Jill Stein voter
Campaign Speechwriter: David Sirota - Jill Stein voter
Top campaign adviser: Cornell West - Jill Stein voter

Sanders' choice of staffers and their 2016 histories make the howls about replaying the last campaign a very weak stance.

Deja vu all over again. It is what it is, only this time we have a heads up, a 'fool me once' sort of thing.

I remember rabid tRump supporters in 2016 as they exhibited a strange enthusiasm during the primaries for the Sander's campaign. It actually struck me as very, very strange at the time and almost seems like many of them were aware of the connections in this Machiavellian plot.

Mueller didn't consider these an act of war. Almost treasonous, in fact.

but Hillary was my only choice so I voted for Hillary.
I AM ANTI WALL STREET.

If both Hillary and Bernie were on the ticket I would have
voted for Hillary.

The GOP is all Wall Street. I am UNION. I am a veteran
of Viet Nam. I would never vote GOP!!!

Hillary took our Democrats in the wrong direction. But I
voted for her!!!

I still stand by my support of Bernie in the 2016 election. I think his stances aligned by my stances a lot more than Hillary's did. Tax the rich, Medicare for all, free public college, etc.

But the Russians absolutely capitalized the divide and drove as much of a wedge between Hillary and Bernie supporters as possible. Right now we need to start healing our party, realize who put the wedge there and become mobilized to beat Trump.

And I’m glad I subsequently voted for Clinton.

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all on our own.


After Warren's speech about who built the roads, who educated the workers, I listened to mainstream media to see her interviews. I got to know Bernie by his trying to get her to run. They did several interviews on issues they were working on in congress together. I started to really like him. I thought he pushed just that much further and wouldn't it be great if he ran. But this country isn't ready for him. Warren never would run and then he jumped in, to keep those issues. I didn't believe he could win, but I sure hoped he would.

I don't twitter, instagram, snapchat or pintrist. Now, I am barely on FB. But all those FB friends of Bernie I made and have remained active. I saw the skinniest snowman ever made from one guy's kid in Austin. I cried when another found her birth family after years of trying to find them. I have friends of friends now in Denver because of another one. NONE of them folded up tent.

Sid

swept under the rug like some are trying to do.

to forget how many elections the US infiltrated. Maybe this is just karma.

Like all those European colonizers getting a huge flux of immigrants. karma.

We reap what we sow.


Not saying that the media influence isn't bad. But I think there is a lot of varied media sh*t going on from all sides.


We are humans, after all and our shared history says we do sh*tty things a lot for power.

I believe Susie Surandon has also rung that bell as has Vladimir Putin on more than one occasion.

Adios.

I prefer tofu.

I had forgotten about that one.

It's the funniest thing I've read all day.



TAKE THAT, Mr. Liver!

As far as getting told to go to hell on this board that was one of the more friendly exchanges. I’ve been called worse.

post.

....Russian interference and chalk it up to "karma"?

cause we did bad stuff too?

I am just saying that karma may be in play.

But filter it as you will.

Russia really did its best to help sanders

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How The Russian Social Media Effort Boosted Bernie

"apologize" for anything.

if he is the great white hope, he better be able to handle some trolls.

i saw them w my own eyes.
go ahead and laugh it up.
i not only saw the trolls, i saw what they posted, how many useful idiots jumped on the bandwagon. and even how many of them split off from du because of how ugly it got.

you might want to walk that path again, but i dont. we best get ready, cuz there's gonna be some serious push.

internet these days trying to push their agenda.

'Bernie Bros' tweeted at Hillary supporters that she was a 'lying ****-bag' and in supporting her their 'vaginas are making terrible choices.' They harassed supporters at rallies, and unleashed special fury at female reporters. Sarah Jeong of Vice had to shut down her Twitter account after being flooded with sexist attacks, simply because she had asked Sanders supporters to tone down their rhetoric. Janell Ross of The Washington Post was inundated with 'a variety of curse words and insults typically reserved for women. More than one has suggested that I deserve to become the victim of a sex crime.'

"Sanders himself, probably not wishing to alienate his fiercest supporters, was uncharacteristically mild in his response to the increasingly violent, misogynistic outbursts. 'Senator Sanders is committed to running a positive campaign on the issues, and we encourage all his supporters to stick to that same message,' Hector Sigala, Sanders's digital media director, told Mashable. ... Bernie pretty much let his 'Bros' do whatever they wanted. He claimed that he couldn't -- and shouldn't -- try to control what his supporters thought, but that, of course, was disingenuous nonsense. He knew he had tremendous influence, particularly with his younger fans, and exploited it throughout his campaign. But he never criticized the misogyny in their attacks on Clinton."

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attacking Hillary Clinton."

Too bad they didn't take their concerns to the Clinton campaign or to the FBI.

https://www.vpr.org/post/sen-bernie-sanders-russia-we-knew-what-we-knew-when-we-knew-it?_ga=2.202720786.2004122569.1555920891-313237303.1555441518#stream/0



(Finally, in September a Bernie campaign volunteer, acting on his own, told someone connected with a Clinton super-pac about the strange activity, but the word didn't get to Hillary because the super-pac wasn't allowed to contact her.)

Making of the President ... 1960
Humphrey supporters not thrilled with Kennedy
Kennedy people HATED LBJ

1968 ... Kennedy, Eugene McCarty, Humphrey ... need I say more?

1980 ... Kennedy hated Carter

1992 Jerry brown hated Clinton and started the entire anti-Clinton campaign that lasts through this day
2000 gore and Bradley
2008 Clinton and Obama

Sometimes you need a healthy debate. This year we have some great debaters, and I don’t see grudge matches amongst the candidates ... amongst the voters, maybe, but not the candidates

I think our display of riches in the debates will put the Repugs to shame.

Signed, Pollyanna

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them in this one. And then go on to pound Putin.

I'm hoping very much that Sanders' role will be at most a forgettable answer to a quiz question in freshman American history a decade from now.

sitting with Konstantin Kilimnik and Paul Manafort turns my stomach. I voted Bernie in the last primary, then Clinton. I regret the Bernie vote and feel betrayed. Never again.