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Mar 6, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

My head is spinning. Do you think democracy has been made obsolete by the ease with which dedicated intelligence efforts can mislead political candidates and their potential voters? We’ve already been given a chief executive who the most powerful media sources automatically excuse as ‘not understanding’ his major responsibilities or threatened by truths which call into question the legitimacy of his election (when it seems to many quite obvious he was fully complicit in its most illicit actions). How can we possibly return elections to anything resembling fairness when their own participants won’t acknowledge how they’ve become compromised?

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Yes! I also believe that Saudi’s are donating to Sanders campaign, bc if he becomes Dem nominee, he will los3 to Trump

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/businessman-tells-conservative-publication-he-helped-saudis-make-millions-in-illegal-donations-to-trump-campaign/

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I dont think Bernie is an idiot at all. He's cunning and dishonest. Like Trump

.a demogogue. Bernie KNOWS Russia has been helping him. And is okay with it despite his weak protestations. His both sides lies about Dems give Gop cover .

Consistently. This cannot be accidental

Just look at his chief staff of Stein voters. He is the principal reason Trump is Potus and it appears he will do it again if not stopped NOW.

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I think Sanders is an old school lefty like Jeremy Corbin - strident, rigid, and down for the revolution no matter what. They both saw value in the USSR and are still willing to accept media support from Russia even today.

If Sanders' ego leads him to think that he can just will the masses to his cause, then there is no need for him to change his messaging or moderate his politics. The problem of course is that he's looking like he'll be just as successful as Corbin was.

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(by Greg Olear, article)

Now, it may well be that the Saudis and Emiratis who allegedly funded the Trump campaign via a plethora of small donations from unwitting people whose identities were stolen by the Chinese did nothing of the kind, and certainly did not repeat this grotesque malfeasance with the Bernie campaign. But in Sanders’ case, as the Patribotics thread shows, there were enough red flags to compel a whopping 501-page letter from the Federal Election Commission. It sure smelled fishy:

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