With such vitally important information contained within, I can’t imagine why someone would do this except to disrupt.

I voted accordingly.

People need to know about this.

Rec it please, yp?

Thank you!

would face this once again.

Rec it, BT?

Mahalo!

Many of us remember the angry, destructive DemExit rabble in 2016. Some of those anti-progressivism hostiles pushed it here and were told to clean up their acts or leave, and some had to be kicked out and were.

And a K&R for good measure.

And you’re only 23? I’m so excited, I thought I was the only millennial on this website lol. (Although I’m at the other end of the generation, I’m 36).

Great material in your OP.

… and well researched and laid out, Celerity. Thank you for sharing. Your OP sheds a lot of light in some very dark corners.

As a brief followup, there is a conservative website (apparently run by good cons and not bad ones!) called "The Russia Tweets" that attempts to track and identify accounts linked to certain hashtags that are either suspected or known to be connected to the Russian IRA (Internet Research Agency). Here is an example summary for just one Twitter account know to be Russian in origin..as you can see, your #demexit one has several hits associated with it but it pales in comparison with the number that glommed on to the granddaddy of them all...#feelthebern.

https://russiatweets.com/author/MISSOURINEWSUS/hashtags

Their page here shows the enormity of the IRA's operation...

https://russiatweets.com/author

This is a short FAQ summary by the same website...

https://russiatweets.com/page/faq

Basically, The Russia Tweets took all the data from a deep dive that 538 did back in 2018 and made them more easily accessible and searchable by users...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-sharing-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/

This link shows how conservative websites either knowingly or unwittingly collaborate with the Russian troll farm to broadcast their anti-Democratic propaganda. I don't intend to join Red State just to read the entire article and I suspect none of you fine folks will either...I am just including it to show how they typically work together as a sorta feedback loop echo chamber to amplify this bullshit...

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/03/11/demexit/

Not all Russian propaganda operations are covert...often they do it right out in the open for all to see, as in this recent RT (formerly Russia Today) article...

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/483267-demexit-progressives-third-party/

It sure is tough being a Democrat...not only do we have to worry about foreign enemies like the Russians and foreign terrorists like al Qaeda, but we also have to fight against domestic threats known as Republicans.

Is Traitors! Saved.

From your post:

Harlan Hill, the erstwhile pro-Sanders blogger (and ex Democratic Party operative who also worked in the UK and the EU) who kicked it all off (see above, unfortunately the original article is gone and even the Internet Archive is scrubbed, if someone with greater IT skills that I posses could find it, that would so aid in this attempt to show the history in full) had a VERY curious turn in his career right before this all went down......

To be able to dig up something like this, I'd need more details of the article you're referencing, because I'm confused about what in the "see above" you're wanting to find. You have a lot of "above" there, after all, covering a huge range of possible avenues to explore. It would take forever to sort out all of that sprawl to find one obscure article.

If you'll narrow down what you're looking for and be more specific about some of the details of the article you want to find, then it would give any sleuths and excavators a greater chance of getting their hands on it.

We just don't have enough to go on to find it based on what you've given us.

http://harlanhill.com/opinion-the-death-of-a-revolution-and-demexit/ <<<<<<<< it is gone and I cannot find it archived aywhere



here is the top link and snapshots of a 'shown below' (they refer to videos or tweets, etc) same for 'see above'

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/demexit






cheers

An article he wrote in early 2019...

Democrats Pursue Yet Another Russia Investigation While Ignoring Another Real Crisis

https://townhall.com/columnists/harlanhill/2019/03/13/democrats-pursue-yet-another-russia-investigation-while-ignoring-another-real-crisis-n2543088

Sadly, this very real humanitarian and security crisis can’t compete with the salaciousness of the made-up claims Democrats are using to justify their Russia witch hunt, especially in a media environment dominated by liberal partisans who are just as desperate as Democrat politicians to destroy Donald Trump’s presidency.

President Trump is struggling valiantly to do the job that the American people elected him to do. The Democrats, on the other hand, are obstinately obstructing his policy agenda at every turn while inflaming Cold War-era tensions and undermining U.S. foreign policy just because they think it might weaken the President’s political standing.

Relentless obstructionism is no substitute for a real agenda, but it’s all the Democrats have to offer.

Harlan Hill is a political advisor, media commentator, and an advisory board member of the Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.

And then there's this interview of some Congressman that Maria Bartiromo did with Hill on the panel just a scant 2 months before the 2016 election where he's identified as a "Democratic strategist"...

https://www.manufacturing.net/home/news/13111130/president-obama-says-united-states-has-moral-obligation-to-help-people-of-laos-and-pledges-90-million-of-taxpayer-money-cyber-security

HARLAN HILL, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Congressman West, Harlan Hill here. Do you think the Democrats have been successful in obfuscating what's the meat of this issue, which is that Hillary Clinton, you know, misused her email server and has had all kinds of scandals between the Clinton Foundation and others that are worth highlighting and made the topic of discussion about Trump's non-existent ties to Russia?

As Dagen so clearly laid out, you know, Hillary Clinton had the Russian reset. She abdicated her responsibility on Syria, and you know, she sold a quarter of our uranium reserves to Russia in a deal between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.

So you know, it seems like they have succeeded in distracting the media from the meat of this issue because here we are talking about it.

Sure sounds to me like this dude is in serious cahoots with Trump & Putin...if he's blogging for Sanders that's only because he's trying to get the guy who those two want to run against in November nominated. A "Democratic strategist" in Sep 2016...a "Trump political advisor" in Mar 2019...and now a "Bernie blogger" in 2020??? Gimme a break...not even a chameleon changes colors that fast.

If this doosh ain't on Putin's payroll I'll eat an old KGB hat. The plot thickens.

Any people pushing the "if people do not nominate my candidate, I'll vote 3rd party" or "if people don't nominate my candidate, I'll leave the party" should be summarily ignored. If Democrats fell for this, they would see it every 4 years, and the entire party would be built around not majority rule, but minority vote butthurt. If whiny sore losers want to take their balls and go home, or do whatever, I say let them. We are, and must, be a majority rule party. If a group of people cannot convince a majority of Democrats to vote for a nominee, how are they going to convince the General Electorate?

that will drive away voters who would have voted for Biden more than likely if they were not being so manipulated, manipulated via the same methodology and framework of reflexive control I showed in the OP. These disruptive, wilful interferences need to be stopped and countered. We cannot just capitulate and let an extra 500,000, 750,000, 1.25 million, or more voters (MANY is CRUCIAL swing states like the Midwest) who would have pulled the lever for Biden if not shit-stirred out, simply be driven off via artificial external manipulation.

Yea i'm aware of the Faux News-like disinformation. Alot of it also seems to be coming from Bernie camp as well, which is pathetic & disgusting to say the least.

and it is not designed to extract anything in terms of concessions from us. It is aimed at marginally attached Sanders supporters and is designed for pure increases in the amount of their defection rate (meaning they vote 3rd party, or vote Trump, or simply do not vote.)

The core of his support this time, 2020, versus 2016 is extremely problematic. It is far more radical, far less Democratic Party-friendly, and far more likely to bolt the barn this go-round.

Here is a good OP on DU from 11 months ago discussing this (and remember, this is from April 2019, so 11 of SMASHING other candidates by the rad left social media spheres and rad left websites and boards has since taken place, making them even more likely to not support Biden, who is now the clear winner):


Worrying trend with Senator Sanders' supporters

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128775007

Forbes.com released a new poll pitting Mayor Buttigieg and Senator Sanders, and found some interesting numbers in the results.


5 Weird Items In The New Bernie-Buttigieg Poll

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldurkheimer/2019/04/17/5-weird-items-in-the-new-bernie-buttigieg-poll/#337df7ec7ddd

......

What does this say about some of Senator Sanders' supporters? Not being an expert, to me it seems that a sizeable number of them have no trouble with burning the village in order to save it, and that they are willing to sacrifice any marginalized group if they do not get the economic policies they want delivered by the man they have chosen - the fact that Senator Warren have very similar stances, fleshed out with detailed policies, even, does not seem to matter.

And at this point in time it is only the willfully blind or the downright psychopathic who do not see that a second Trump term will mean deaths, many, many deaths. It will kill the weakest among us, the women who need abortions, African Americans all across the country, the disabled, the people on SNAP, the LBGTQ community, immigrants, Latin American children and adults at the border, and Americans of Latin American descent. All groups that can be scapegoated for the Trumpian deplorables will have its victims at the hands of the Trump regime. I never thought I would fear that Senator Sanders' supporters would help bring that into reality, but apparently I do.

snip




Again, the 2020 group (the main saving grace is that they are smaller in absolute numbers) is shaping up to be far less Democratic party-friendly, far more radical than his 2016 voting cohort was. I fear we may see an even larger defection rate (either to Trump, 3rd party, or no vote) than the 30% we saw in 2008 from Clinton Primary voters

For Clinton 2008 primary voters, around 24 or 25% voted for McCain, around 5% did not vote

https://isps.yale.edu/research/data/d130

https://sites.duke.edu/hillygus/files/2014/06/hendersonhillygustompsonPOQ.pdf



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/



snip


I also dealt with Operation Chaos here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128775007#post166

which was very tiny in both number and impact in 2008. It has been vastly overstated here dozens of times just that I have seen since mid 2018, when I joined DU.

we can scratch this Harlan Hill traitor off the list of loyal Democrats. I seriously doubt he ever even was one to start with. No true-blue Democrat talks the way he does.

How Russia Is Trying To Boost Bernie Sanders' Campaign

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812186614/how-russia-is-trying-to-boost-bernie-sanders-campaign

This Hill asshole must at this point surely realize that Bernie will not be the Dem nominee. But that won't stop him from trying to wound Biden enough so that Trump wins reelection, while doing it under the guise of being an ex-Sanders supporter.

If he wants those rubles to keep pouring in, that is.

I was under the impression he was still blogging for Sanders but after posting and then reading a little more I saw what you just said...once he went full-Trumpist he never looked back. But yes, he may very well have been a "plant". Who knows if he is still contributing to some of those hashtags in the hopes of disrupting Democrats and weakening our guy in favor of his?

Can't imagine how one goes from Sanders to Trump so fast...I would think the whiplash alone going from that far-left to that far-right would snap one's neck.

I don't follow that Twitter crap...I only see what some folks post here. Far too many legitimately informative sources to fill one's day.

and he did so whilst only weeks removed (how fully I do not know) from being a very influential blogger and active operative within the Sanderite sphere. The all the usual suspects glommed onto it, and combined with the Wikileaks drop and the Stein campaign going all out attack, it was a tripartite shitstorm that EASILY pulled enough Sanders voters out of the Party to cause the defeat of Sec Clinton in those 3 key MidWest states. The same thing is now replaying in 2020, unfortunately. Hell Stein is even up to her old Russian-led tricks, ffs.

look at her last Tweet, #DemExit2020 front and center, and spinning the 'rigged primary' shite all over again.

they work off the fool you once, we can fool you twice methodology

it is happening in plain sight, and so many will just say 'fuck 'em we don't need them'

even though I was not here on DU in 2016, I saw this all unfold in the same manner last time

and people had the same 'fuck 'em' attitude everywhere I looked back then

until we lost and there was a DIRECT tie to those lost votes and then losing to Trump via the EC

history doesn't repeat itself, but is sure does rhyme

Link to tweet

there's definitely something that stinks about Stein to high heaven...

Here’s what a new trove of Russian Twitter accounts tell us about Moscow’s support for Jill Stein

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/newly-released-trove-reveals-russian-tweets-that-promoted-jill-stein-6318ee05adcb/

Not only did Stein appear at the 2015 gala in Moscow honoring the Russian propaganda outlet RT — memorably sitting near Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser — but she spent 2016 describing the outlet’s decision to host a Green Party debate as an “inspiration” for “millions of Americans.”

RT...that's the source of one of those links I provided in my very first post. Used to be "Russia Today" but they changed it to RT to throw us off...LOL. Sneaky bastards, those Russkies.

We need to find a coed prison somewhere so Stein can bunk with her good buddy and fellow traitor Flynn.

Saved that sucker on the hard drive...named it "KGB Vlad & President Putinpuppet" so I can find it easy.

Thank you Celerity.

who pushed Bernie and then went on to work against Dems and for Trump. Just another coincidence like all the others.

a movement (as laid out in the OP) that caused us to haemorrhage a shit tonne of Sanders primary voters, quite likely enough to cost us WI, MI, and PA and thus hand the POTUS to Trump via the EC. He was already (maybe always was) working hand in glove with the Trump campaign when he helped kick it all off.


so no, not

and certainly not

We are all in your debt.

It would be nice if somebody ran a 3rd party on the right as well, with more success than McMullin in 2016. That’s the only thing I worry about. Stein’s votes were somewhat offset by McMullin last time, but I don’t know if that will happen again. Maybe Jesse Ventura on the Libertarian ticket? I don’t know...

Bernie Bros and Sisters (not the normal ones) on social media remind me more of Left wing Ron Paul supporters than the MAGA crowd, but even more extreme. I am beginning to think they are part of the Maoist Bob Avakian cult: full blown communists in need of a personality cult who insert themselves into every protest and fuck it up. I know Cornell West is tight with Avakian (which saddens me since I was at one time a supporter of Dr. West).

You forgot the bigger one, Gary Johnson (who is not running unfortunately, as he is by FAR the biggest vote getter ever for the Libertarians)

The Libertarians draw mostly from the Rethugs, and in FAR greater numbers overall compared to what the Greens drew from us, especially in 2016. This is often overlooked (as it doesn't fit certain narratives), but if you add the 5.2 MILLION votes Gary Johnson and McMullin (a few state indie run) got to Trump, he then beats Clinton, not just in the EC, but also in the POPULAR vote as well, even if you give Clinton ALL 1.46 million Green votes.

Harlan Hill's toothy rictus face replacing Martin Shkreli's smirk stricken countenance as 'most punchable' IMHO.

(Merely an observation, not advocating violence)