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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
February 22, 2020
This Russian nonsense is so dastardly, but Bernie is an idiot for going along with it in the first place.
To be fair, most of Bernie’s actual supporters online do not support this weird CIA gibberish. Michael Tracey and Jimmy Dore, who are the two men I think of when I think of Bernie Sanders, are both former employees of The Young Turks and both went against that outlet’s support of the Russian hoax. Glenn Greenwald is another Bernie supporter who denies Russian Hacker Theory.
Bernie himself went out the other day and tried to blame Russian hackers in a really weird way, as if he could flip the narrative on them. But by trying to flip the narrative, all he does is confirm the narrative. It’s like if I went out there and said that everyone who criticizes me is a Russian.
Now the intelligence agencies are saying he’s a Russian hacker. And yes, I understand they are not literally calling him a Russian hacker, but when they say “Russian hackers are supporting you,” they erase everything about you and replace it with their own narrative. The only possible response is to call it a hoax – to say: “this is fake and you are saying this to try to smear me.”
But he didn’t say that.
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 have also been informed about the Russian assistance to the Vermont senator, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke 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.
“I don’t care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president,” Sanders said in a statement to The Washington Post. “My message to Putin is clear: Stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do.
“In 2016, Russia used Internet propaganda to sow division in our country, and my understanding is that they are doing it again in 2020. Some of the ugly stuff on the Internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters.”
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
He needs to simply say “HOAX!”
Though it is going to ring slightly hollow, since he’s been out there promoting Russian Hacker Theory himself.
Here’s what the Atlantic Council said after he blamed Russia for his own supporters being “toxic”:
“We have seen no evidence in open sources during this election cycle that an online community of Sanders supporters, known as Bernie bros, were catalyzed by what Sanders suggested could be ‘Russian interference,’ ” said Graham Brookie, director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, which tracks disinformation on social media sites. “Any candidate or public official casually introducing the possibility of Russian influence without providing any evidence or context creates a specter of interference that makes responding to real interference harder.”
Of course, none of these people have ever provided any evidence for any of this bullshit. It’s honestly nuts. I have followed this hoax for four years, and there is no evidence for any of it. They don’t even really claim to have evidence. They cite private cyber security firms that are run by spooks and talk about “fingerprints.”
This case is the ideal example. They come out and say that Russian hackers support Bernie. They give no evidence. The media does not ask for evidence or draw attention to the fact that they are not citing any evidence, but simply prints it as though it is fact.
The Mueller Report did not present any evidence of Russian hacking. They say a few thousand dollars’ worth of Facebook ads were purchased using a Russian IP, which means absolutely nothing, even if it’s true. Mostly, the report alleged that sites like Daily Stormer and Infowars were being manipulated by Russians in order to support Donald Trump.
What is any of this even supposed to mean? Suppose it’s all real. What is Bernie Sanders supposed to with the information that Russian hackers are posting on the internet supporting his campaign? What is anyone supposed to do with that information?
Here’s the thing: how is it not “meddling in the election” for spooks to come out and tell the media that Bernie is a de facto Russian agent?
A foreign government is running television ads attacking Bernie Sanders.
And there is no problem with that, according to the entire media.
One country secretly posting on social media supporting a candidate is a massive important thing we have to hear about every single second of our lives, while the one thing we never hear about is any form of evidence for the claim. Meanwhile, another country literally running ads on TV for and against candidates is not even worthy of a mention in the mainstream media.
Why is Russia bad and Israel good?
Because of democracy?
What about the Palestinians?
How is anyone able to take any of this seriously on any level?
If people are actually this stupid – and believe me, they are – then how is the concept of a universal suffrage democracy in any way defensible?
“Russian hackers support you” is not hard to respond to. All you have to do is press them on the fact that they are not presenting any evidence. No one is really invested in this theory anymore. Bernie Sanders has nothing to lose by calling out these spooks as trying to harm his campaign by smearing him with the Russian conspiracy.
