It's billionaires' power vs. people's power
Too bad Sanders won't fight back against the Russian meddling smears. They are singularly dangerous and liable to prove disastrous to his potential administration. (TGP screenshot)
RussiaGate will never die. Just watched the local news (CH 9, part of the Tribune Corporation - Nexstar Media Group Completes Tribune Media Acquisition Creating the Nation’s Largest Local Television Broadcaster). According to US intelligence, and Ch 9, now Russia is helping. Bernie. Same US intelligence that told us Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. So now not only Tulsi is a Russian asset, now Russia is helping Bernie get elected. I had to post the following: “Another long essay. Please DO NOT take it personally: >>> Written by someone else, but it nails it....>>>>>>
RUSSIA DID NOT: “Also, let's talk about the divider in chief. This orange piece of shit who is actually a threat to democracy. This narrative suggests that we coalesce around the things we have in common. What the fuck do sane people have in common with MAGA other than American self flagellation? I bet this narrative has a suggestion: The Status Quo.
Ahhhhhhh, ‘normalcy’, ‘getting back to what America was before Trump’, because for the consultant class in this country Trump is offensive to the eyes and ears, and getting back to before him would be wonderful for their conscience while it makes no economic difference for them who’s in office. They want to see ‘a friendlier Washington where Republicans and Democrats can work together.’
Well, America before Trump was in a place that elected Trump.
It wasn't the Russians who caused 80% of Americans to live paycheck to paycheck.
It wasn't the Russians who made it so that 76% of Americans can't afford a thousand dollars emergency.
It isn't the Russians denying 30M people healthcare.
It isn't the Russians charging $10K deductibles and copays.
It's not the Russians who kill 30K people a year because of lack of insurance.
It wasn't the Russians who poisoned Flint Michigan.
It wasn't the Russians who brought the military budget up to $800Billion/year.
It wasn't the Russians who spent $5Trillion bombing the Middle East.
It's not the Russians who are lending our money to banks at -1% interest rate.
It wasn't the Russians who brought the debt to $22Trillion.
It wasn't the Russians who turned this great nation into "one giant transcontinental shopping mall"
It wasn't the Russians who refused to declare Hurricane Katrina an emergency.
It wasn't the Russians who used Hurricane Katrina as an excuse to throw poor people out and redevelop the land they owned.
It's not the Russians who are about to throw 3M people off food stamps.
It wasn't the Russians who took every good union job and shipped it overseas.
It isn't the Russians who refuse to bring the minimum wage up to $19/hour.
It wasn't the Russians who bailed out criminal banks instead of homeowners during the financial crisis.
It wasn't the Russians who threw 10 million people out of their homes in 2008.
It wasn't the Russians that pushed Americans onto billions of opioid pills.
It wasn't the Russians who sold millions of weapon to desperate angry people.
It's not the Russians doing mass shootings.
It's not the Russians making college unaffordable.
It's not the Russians destroying all the mom n pop shops in every town and city and turning them into Amazon and Wal-Mart enclaves.
It not the Russians who have made a cubicle/warehouse/retail slave out of 80% of the country.
It's not the Russians who created 3 billionaires that own more wealth than the bottom 50%.
It's not Russia that threw 3 million black people in prison for minor offenses.
It's not the Russian police that are killing a thousand black men every year for no reason whatsoever.
It's not the Russians who can throw a person in prison and make $70K/year of them.
It wasn't the Russians who used the CIA to import cocaine into black communities and use that money to fund Nicaraguan terrorists.
It wasn't the Russians who created a drug war, and subverted Latin American democracies to cause a mass exodus from Latin America.
It wasn't the Russians that subsequently put those people fleeing violence into concentration camps.
It wasn't Russia that killed a million Iraqi civilians.
Russia isn't the worlds largest arms dealer.
It wasn't Russia that created Al Qaeda and ISIS.
It wasn't Russians that passed the Patriot act, Citizens United and repealed Wall Street regulations.
It wasn't Russians that created a Surveillance State (NSA) with a Gestapo (ICE) and turned every airport into a 1984 checkpoint.
It isn't Russia that is persecuting journalists for exposing war crimes.
It isn't Russia that has the power to address climate change and refuses to do so.
It isn't the Russians that refused to disarm all nuclear weapons when Gorbachev proposed unilateral disarmament.
It's not the Russians that killed 100M Native Americans.
It isn't the Russians who are taking us to a +5 degree world with unstoppable feedback loops that will annihilate life on this planet.
It isn't Russia that shredded the American constitution!!!
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