"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

As an excuse as to why BS continues to campaign against Biden, you have to wonder whether they are holding out for another assist from Putin. If hacked emails suddenly show up, I am sure BS will play the role of victim. It is almost Trump-like when Roger Stone kept on teasing about how something might show up to change the dynamics of the race.

In 2016, 'Bernie' used his wife to float the idea shorty before the convention, that Mrs. Clinton might be indicted, to the political benefit of her 'Bernie'.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

Quite disturbing, to say the least.

Why would we wabt to trade one ego maniacal Russen asset for another?

Like Trump, they deny election interference. I suspect Greenwald is a willing Russia Asset.

...plus a fair amount of the right are big fans of Putin anti-LGBT views. It is not just Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz who are jumping on the Putin bandwagon.

and creating a new organization that would include Russia and focus on terrorism, also in line with Putin's own suggestion. Sanders declined to say if this new organization would include mutual defense commitments, or not. This as as NATO and other European nations are being forced to rearm against the threat of Russian invasion.

It had escaped my notice.

Such a line would certainly be of a piece with Sanders' 'SWP-adjacent' days in the Reagan era.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

but I didn't pull the speech up on a quick search. It was in the news back in 2017 or so.

Regarding the OP's theme of usefulness to Russia, it's actually important to note that Sanders has also publicly taken a firm position against any expansion of NATO. That's a guaranteed way to please Putin. In a lot of ways that benefit Russia his positions overlap Trump's, and no coincidence that Russia helps both.

Although I don't find anywhere that Sanders has actually called for exiting NATO if it can't be dissolved, there's been a lot of discussion, including among worried Europeans, that his stated noninterventionist foreign policy goals, which include continued withdrawal and even elimination of much of the U.S.'s military capability, literally could not be achieved while maintaining NATO commitments to mutual defense. It's hard not to suspect that Sanders, like Trump, must accept the very strong likelihood of military invasions by various aggressive nations with imperialist plans.

Secondary only to a lot of alarmed Democrats, those charged with stopping Russian invasion into their own nations must be greatly relieved to see Sanders soundly rejected in favor of a man they know will honor our commitments to maintain peace and security.

... which to me is the same as destroying it, because the main purpose of NATO was to act as a bulkwark to Russian expansion. Expanding NATO to include Russia as part of that coalition makes no sense.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/11/19/sanders-wants-new-nato-with-russia

How many Democratic delegates does Moscow have?

Not too many, I hope.

Well, given that BS likes to focus on billionaire influence, it seems that Bernie has the backing of the biggest billionaire on the planet.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a14480615/vladimir-putin-net-worth/

I looked up some estimates a week or two ago before making a post about how much he had compared to Bloomberg. Lowball estimates were around $70-80 billion and others say it could easily be twice that or more. Nobody really knows for sure how much that thug has stolen from the Russian people and has stashed away in secret Swiss and other accounts all over the world. But you can bet that Trump has laundered some of it at some point.

That's why I think Biden can confront him when he's POTUS and start pushing back hard where appropriate. At some point ol' Vlad is gonna wanna kick back and enjoy the fruits of his labor and all that hard-earned fortune he's built up over the years. He ain't gonna want a nuclear war and have all that dough go up in a flash of blinding white light only to be vaporized a few seconds later.

Trump kisses his KGB ass and Vlad loves it. Sanders would just let the US disappear and Putin would like that just as much. Doubt Joe would put up with his shit and make stopping his meddling all over the free world a high priority. Which is exactly why he's the last person Putin wants to see become the next US President.

now that's a, ahem, big surprise.

Bernie Sanders promoted false story on reporting Russian trolls

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/24/bernie-sanders-russian-trolls-false-story-423413

Some juicy stuff here I didn't know about...

How The Russian Social Media Effort Boosted Bernie

https://www.vpr.org/post/how-russian-social-media-effort-boosted-bernie

This guy is no better than the UK's Boris Johnson and half the Parliament who know damn well that Putin interfered with their Brexit fiasco but have done everything they can to squelch it so that the British public doesn't go totally apeshit.

You can bet your ass the Russkies will ramp it up bigtime not very long before the election just like they did in 2016. Biden better build up his War Room and take it to DEFCON 1 when October rolls around, if not sooner.

They tend to be generic attacks on billionaires with Bernie accusing his Democratic rivals of supporting such billionaires, which undercuts any attack on Trump.

This makes it easier for Russia to amplify Bernie's attacks. So, is it coordination if BS runs a campaign that emphasizes Russian propaganda points attacking the US knowing that Russian trolls will distribute such propaganda?