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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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I believe that interested foreign players have found ways to exploit US elections to their benefit, just as America has arranged other countries-leaders, or policies in any way they deemed best to aid America. In this case Russia and others have an agenda that we aren’t privy to, but is obvious that their aim is to keep Americans off balance and myopic (looking inward) to their own politics and leaders. Trump has succeeded in dividing Americans as had Sanders in dividing democrats. When all is said Democrats represent the majority of folks of all stripes and colours, which if united can be an amazing but powerful voice in the world. Republicans and our frenemies are extremely worried that we will win, and change the game so that they no longer benefit or are unable to profit from our division and disarray..

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Mar 6, 2020Liked by Greg Olear

I’ve been wondering this since 2016. Hopefully, once we take back the WH & Senate we may be able to tackle the problems of campaign finance created by the GOP. Our Toady Media is a whole other problem...

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It starts with Congress regulating media better...especially social media, which remains the Wild West...and for the media to adjust and adapt to the new reality. I'm working on a piece about media failures that will cover all of this.

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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 mean "useful idiot" in the KGB sense. Although I don't think Bernie is particularly smart. Cunning and instinctive, yes. Smart, no.

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I do think that Sanders knows things we haven’t found out though, it a wonder that republicans didn’t or haven’t yet tried to find out why Sanders is suddenly in the money, but they probably already do

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Or they do know and are waiting to splash it across the news if Sanders becomes the nominee.

As an aside, I’ve met both Sanders and Biden. Sanders at O’Hare last summer. We shook hands, exchanged pleasantries, but I came away with an uneasy feeling, something about the way his gaze surfed over mine, then flicked around the concourse as if he was looking for an escape. Perhaps it was just exhaustion.

Met Biden at a fundraiser in 2012 here in the Bay Area. Extremely approachable, genuine & kind. Well-prepared for all the climate change/sea-level-rise questions we threw at him.

Anyway, just two personal interchanges that made all the difference to me.

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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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