Bernie Sanders is done.
He had a chance to help
effect the changes needed to keep the United States from sinking into political
depravity. But he blew that chance.
At the first sign of push
back by the intelligence agencies Bernie rolled over like my five pound rat
terrier, Ginnie, who’s literally scared of her own shadow.
After more than three years of ridiculous allegations of Russian
meddling into the 2016 presidential election the story refuses to die.
The latest iteration is Russia is not only working to get Donald
Trump re-elected (along with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg) but backing Bernie
as his opponent.
No matter who loses, the narrative goes, Russia wins.
Now, if
Bernie’s response to this wasn’t the new dictionary definition of weak
sauceI’d be laughing uproariously.
Actually, who am I kidding? This is hilarious.
Bernie wins an inconsequential state like New Hampshire and the
desperation to stop his momentum going in Nevada graces the front pages of not
only the Washington Post but the New York Times.
U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is
attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere
with the Democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter.
President Trump and lawmakers on Capitol Hill also have been
informed about the Russian assistance to the Vermont senator, those people
said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
It is not
clear what form that Russian assistance has taken. U.S. prosecutors found a
Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Sanders’s campaign against
Hillary Clinton, part of a broader effort to hurt Clinton, sow dissension in
the American electorate and ultimately help elect Donald Trump.
Honestly, this attempt to
discredit Bernie Sanders is so ham-fisted, so thoroughly unprofessional, that
we shouldn’t even be discussing it. This story is nothing more than an
intelligence agency hit job on Sanders and Donald Trump to keep alive a
narrative thoroughly discredited in the minds of every semi-rational person
left in America.
Trump did what he does best in these situations, he attacks. First,
he fires his acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire for
briefing the House Intelligence Committee and Trump’s nemesis Rep. Adam Schiff
and replaces him with Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Then he states that he hasn’t been briefed on this issue at all and
is backed up by his National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien.
Lastly, he openly mocks the Democrats and anyone else buying
into this story.
Are any Democrat operatives, the DNC, or Crooked Hillary
Clinton, blaming Russia, Russia, Russia for the Bernie Sanders win in Nevada.
If so I suggest calling Bob Mueller & the 13 Angry Democrats to do a new
Mueller Report, Democrat Edition. Bob will get to the bottom of it!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) February 23, 2020
Because it is just that, a story. It’s a fairy tale promoted to
throw shade on Bernie, pre-position him to be smeared with the same pro-Putin
brush that Trump has been.
This preempts any moves by him to change U.S. foreign policy in the
unlikely event he wins the election (and is not first cheated out of the
nomination) and becomes President.
After Trump goes on the
warpath, Bernie responds by validating it in the same way he has done in the
past. Because Bernie can’t validate Trump’s antipathy to the intelligence
agencies who have been working nonstop to oust him from power.
But, if there was ever a
time for him to break with DNC orthodoxy, show some cojones and call out the
lie for what it is, it was now.
Instead, he verifies the
lie saying he was briefed “a month ago” and then has stern words for Vladimir
Putin.
Like Vladimir Putin would look at President Sanders as anything
other than my dog Ginnie. Then again Putin likes dogs, he’d probably treat
Ginnie better than Bernie.
And that’s why Bernie’s
done.
Alex and Alex at The Duran had a great take on
this that is worth watching, laying out their thoughts on
what’s going on with Bernie.
They are right that this
shows Bernie has
·
Almost zero political
acumen,
·
Is spineless in the face
of adversity
·
Has zero chance of
beating Donald Trump in November.
·
no one’s confidence in
their hearts that he’ll be a strong leader on the foreign stage.
And they are absolutely
right. But they don’t go far enough.
Bernie made the tactical mistake of reflexively doing the opposite
of whatever Trump does. Trump fought this story so he much embrace it while playing coy
about being skeptical of the WaPo.
Bernie hasn’t realized
yet that he can’t have it both ways. He knows this is the handiwork of Hillary
Clinton and the intelligence agencies. Saying it would make him a serious
threat to Trump.
So why didn’t he?
Tulsi Gabbard went right after Hillary and continues to do so.
How is it that she can’t catch fire but Bernie can?
It’s a good question.
Maybe it’s because Hillary and the DNC know that keeping
Bernie’s campaign alive is the best way to ensure they keep control.
Tulsi won’t play ball. If she did she’d be on the debate stage.
Bernie has a price.
But this reflexivity against Trump has been the Democrats’
Achilles heel since he entered the political arena. By always ab reacting to
take the opposite position Trump does it makes them easily manipulated into
staking out politically poisonous positions.
Bernie had the opportunity play outside of his base and broaden his
appeal. This would have made him a much more viable opponent for Trump in the
fall. So, of course, he didn’t do this.
Sanders is weak because he’s been revealed to be a fake reformer. By
not standing up to Hillary and Wall St. all he is doing is running against
Trump. And Trump will eat him alive.
He rolled over to Hillary in
2016 and he’s in the process of doing it again in 2020.
Because the real narrative
isn’t whoever loses Russia wins.
The real narrative is that
whoever loses, Wall St. wins.
And isn’t that the ultimate irony. Bernie Sanders, pride of the
Occupy Wall St. set, leads progressives back down the path to ensuring a
victory for Wall St.
I’ve told you for weeks
that Hillary is prepping the ground for her return at the
convention. Now even long-time Clinton strategist and political
ne’er-do-well Dick Morris agrees with me that Hillary is playing puppet
master behind the scenes.
The Wall St. duo of Hillary
and Mini Mike Bloomberg put Bernie in this bind and he fell for the trap hook,
line and sinker.
By contrast, I was there when Ron Paul’s Revolution began. The
night he tangled with Benito Guiliani I realized they were scared of him and
that was the moment containment broke.
Ron didn’t flinch for four years even though they stole the
nomination from him in 2012. But he never validated the terrible things they
said about him.
He never gave them an inch while both sides circled the wagons
and defended The Swamp from the imperious outsider.
In the end he didn’t cuck out like Bernie did. The Republicans
embarrassed themselves nominating Democrats like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
while Ron’s shadow convention set the stage for Trump to run an insurrection
campaign in 2016.
And, in fact, Bernie’s as well.
Bernie knows the stitch-up is real, so why did he do this? I don’t
buy the line that he’s getting bad advice from his staff. Rather I firmly
believe Bernie isn’t committed to anything except Bernie.
You don’t get on that horse a second time and hoist that saber
if you aren’t ready to truly lead people. This isn’t a game.
You’re asking for the top job in the world and you can’t
outmaneuver a broken-down, inconsolable twat who is the antithesis of
everything you are supposed to stand for?
For all of his faults
Trump leads. He’s brought the Republicans, for better or worse, together. He
may lead in ways I disagree with but there’s no arguing he stakes out bold
positions and, in many ways, sticks to them.
So, Bernie supporters what is Bernie actually offering you? Do
you really think he has the stones to push through Medicare for all, gun
control, ending the wars and all the rest?
In your heart of hearts is this the guy you believe will win you
a war against the Swamp, a war a mobster like Trump has barely made a dent in?
He had the opportunity to truly put RussiaGate to bed and end
Hillary’s latest charade but he’s now extended it another three months.
I think Bernie is a
terrible candidate and the wrong choice for America, but that’s beside the
point. I would respect him if he sacked up when things got hard. I respect
Tulsi Gabbard. She’s made of iron, that lady. Bernie doesn’t deserve her as his
running mate.
Here’s the cold truth.
Russia didn’t elect Trump, y’all. We did.
Hate us, mock us, and
argue with us but stop avoiding the reality that Trump won in spite of an
election rigged against him not because of it.
Because once you do that
you can be honest about the state of your revolution and the man who leads it.
Because he may just be
leading you right back to the same prison you think you’re breaking out of.
And the guy most
disappointed in all of these false prophets is the guy who really does want the
animosity between the U.S. and Russia to end, the guy you think you’re supposed
to hate, Vladimir Putin himself.
