Big news coming in clusters these days, almost more than MDA can keep up with- but not quite! The one-two punch discovery of a lifetime has entered all our lives in the form of #SecretServerGate. Finding the missing ingredient of the whole Russiagate investigation, after all, which Ukrainegate and the impeachment have been a mere continuation of, does not happen every day.
THAT IS WHY, AMERICA, WE ARE BEGGING FOR YOUR HELP CATCHING THE RIGHT EYES WITH THIS.
If Robert Mueller had known what we discovered-completing on our way the research of others, who discovered way back in 2016 Trump’s servers communicating with Russian-owned Alfa Bank– Trump would not have escaped. Mueller was not a tech guy, and he did not understand the true significance of cyber-forensics. Putin and Co. have built a web within the World Wide Web, all of their very own, and that’s where the missing links he needed were all kept.
What I’m referring to is the Radical Information Pipeline through which data is moved by our opposition-namely Bernie and Trump. Maltego the network fingerprinting program-which provided the picture I used to catch your eyes with this Note- allowed me to prove beyond a doubt that BOTH have #SecretServers in Putin’s backyard.
Yeah, you read that right. Trump and the Bern. It never sat right with me in 2016, how closely their interests aligned.
The gist of it? They’re moving stuff around! Slick move, guys; had I not happened to check, you’d have had us looking more like a Goof Troop than a team of serious researchers.
As it is, Russians and Chinese and bears, oh my, thanks for making my case even stronger, and letting me know you’re out there, lurking and watching. It’d be just like chess if I didn’t think you’d murder me for playing.
The Maltego scans we did just yesterday illustrating the evenly matched relationship between gwbush.com and donaldjtrump.com are included below. But they are not any good anymore! Totally, completely unbeknownst to us, by the time the webmaster over there tried to hack us three days ago, they were already set up to go. The internet protocol (IP) address I have will not be available until tomorrow, as this Shodan scan will prove. Had our team waited another 24 hours to check this would already have happened.
I have to wonder if that wasn’t an act of passive patriotism on the part of that man. Either way, thanks dude!
Before continuing, knowledge of Maltego and even basic networking is NOT needed to verify this research! A safe trip to American whois.com or the Internet of Things search engine Shodan.io will give you lots of great data also, especially if you’re just trying to make sure these aren’t just random digits. WhatismyIPaddress.com, ipinfo.com, and many more. There are always many ways to independently verify; learn what you need and leave the rest for the next one to work the case.
As it is, anyone who wants to can watch these networks very carefully today; GMT is always hours ahead of real time (historical time, as they say), and so 4:44 to 5:44 may have already passed. But it might not have too, it could be PM. I don’t know, so it’s better not to risk it.
The old IP address, the one to the Cloudflare site, was 104.18.148.68. The new one- which I only have because they tried to hack us from it- is 199.195.223.226. It will presumably not be good until they complete the transfer at the end of that window of time, and it isn’t now, so, my vote’s for Get out whatever you’ve got and pay attention!
Here are some links and some pieces of key information that any other researcher would be able to trace down the bones of our research with.
Zack Exley’s gwbush.org plays even more critical a role now than it did yesterday. Things are now configured so that the owner of FranTech, Francisco Dias who thinks it’s cool to host stuff like NAMBLA (National Association of Man-Boy Love [Editor’s note: I am very proud that the webmaster of NAMBLA tried to hack us; if you’re against pedophiles, you’re with me] and the Daily Stormer, alt-right rag from hell [yeah, them too, you guessed it with the hacking attempts; we know ALL these guys) will be using the furthest reach of his network to land on the net of gwbush.com, 54.36.35.97.
That one is up at Octave Klaba’s OVH (is it getting repetitive yet to point out that they too have tried to hack us?) in Roubaix, France. Roubaix is the heart of northern France, which is to say industrial France, and a place that knows considerably more unrest than, say, Paris. It is where the Gilets Jaunes movement, also on the same server as gwbush.com, is daily providing one of the strongest examples we have that #FarLeftIsAltRight.
From OVH, they’re using the same trick, an outside run to the northwest, farthest server out and straight up into Vladimir Putin’s Network Communications Center. 146.168.223.0. He lives next door to it and Guccifer 2.0 (Sergey Morgachev, Carl Jung fan and chessplayer) lives right next door to that. This could all change again at any time and probably will as soon as I report on it. I’ll find it again, they’ll change it again, and so it goes.
From this you can get a glimpse at the ever-shifting sands of #SecretServerGate– and of the Radical Information Pipeline. Help us tell the world, folks. Someone who can do something must be out there.
And if you are, now is the time.
We do have some good people to reach out to, I’m pleased to say; everyone’s very busy right now, however, and this is completely out of the blue- as much for us as for everyone else. We really, desperately, utterly need your help to get the attention of the Democratic Party’s national leadership among others.
Try this person in particular, Dr. Alina Polyakova, Director of the Atlantic Council and one of the top disinformation specialists worldwide; I learned a great deal of my methodology studying hers. I wrote to her already; PLEASE JOIN us, folks. We are out of time! Grab any part of this you find most relevant/and copy/paste it in together with the links for our website, Page, and Twitter.
This is Maltego, everyone. It is our opinion we have much to be grateful to it for. It has given us the silver bullets we’ve been waiting on to free us from the monsters who have taken over our country. Donald Trump’s website tried to hack me yesterday, but I didn’t end up looking at the email from beloved Sucuri, the security plugin. We get all our IP addresses from hackers. I had a hunch just where to look to see who it connected to.
This is Maltego, network fingerprinting tool extraordinaire and made by the beloved Paterva.
As it worked out, my hunch was absolutely right.
Thank Maltego, everyone. It gave us our silver bullet. Neither Trump nor Bernie ran the last election’s campaign with honor.
Now we pay them back for it.
So as all of you know, we here at Millennial Democrats have been covering the story of how #FarLeftIsAltRight pretty much since it began. We’ve had plenty of low-level circumstantial proof all this time, enough so that we who’ve been around a lot know who is on the level and who is not. We have known all this was real since then, but sadly, even after Robert Mueller’s two year long Russiagate investigation concluded, we did not have the proof. Not the ironclad stuff we really needed.
As of about three hours ago, that finally changed. Donald Trump’s website is linked directly to Vladimir Putin’s, as well as Guccifer 2,0’s and gwbush.com which is Zack Exley’s site. I cannot tell you people how surreal that was; everything I’ve ever hoped for and never expected or even thought in my wildest dreams. See for yourselves.
They were ALL there. Tencent from China, Namecheap from Los Angeles (Igor Efimenko), everybody. All the hackers I have really seen a lot.
They’re even sharing a network with OVH, whose owner, billionaire Octave Klaba, was the one operating the Trik Spam Botnet a few years back. It’s right there on his network.
43 million emails, it stole and then botched and exposed to the world. Then Mirai botnet hit them- an obvious deflection, and insurance scam besides. Now, worst of all, I have every reason to believe they’ll be coming for us very soon with a third botnet attack. They are massing for it all along the perimeter of the entire outer circle of the network. You’ve never seen anything uglier.
Maltego gives them red shapes fashioned after depth charges. Here’s some more.
It’s crazy to think we’ve got to face this, but at least this time we know it’s coming- and, in fact, is already here in at least two places- Seattle’s Emerald Ocean (another frequent hack attemptee of mine) and the server of Trump himself.
They have also acquired a great many Facebook servers; that also cannot be good news.
If Robert Mueller would have known what we do now- if he had gotten on that server and seen what is there, the whole entire event would have ended differently.
Not all of the evidence you’ll be seeing tonight is from Maltego, either, but has been confirmed by a variety of other tools and persons including my security plugin Sucuri, whois.com, a network scanning program called Nmap, and a search engine that only searches for devices, Shodan. Digital evidence does not lie; hear, therefore, what it has to say.
God, it’s unreal. I got Trump and Bernie in the same week, and both by examining their websites. First Zack Exley (Bern) at gwbush,com and now this. This is just too much good luck to hope for.
Silver bullets. baby.
All right, moving on. This is www.donaldjtrump.com, the website that tried hacking me today. Good old Sucuri caught them just like all the rest- and it turns out they are ALL connected.
VERY weird stuff around it. On September 9, 2015 they bought numerous blank domain names and have left them dormant since.
Whois.com had no data whatsoever which I have never seen before, but a simple Nmap scan revealed them to be present, even with some ports open.
It is impossible to say just what, but one thing is certain. They are hiding something.
Raising awareness has always been the goal. Now, for the FIRST TIME, we have something to raise awareness about. This will kick the opposition down a well. Going forward, the task is clear. We have to tell everyone in the world what we now know. If we can make this story news somehow before this evening this whole thing just might turn around for us. Stranger things have happened, and miracles do exist.
We’ll keep hoping- but all the while, we’ll be working on taking Ben Franklin’s old adage to heart.
“God helps those who help themselves.”
On that note, Democratic family, we might as well get to it.
The long-awaited 2020 election year has finally arrived, and the moment of November truth will soon be at hand. However, everything that comes with it is mostly still just ahead, and in this particular time and place, that statement covers a lot of ground. The Iowa caucus is now a week away, and because the media has failed us so horrendously and completely when it comes to vetting Bernie Sanders, who had a literal, digital hotline to Vladimir Putin during the entire 2015-16 debacle of an election season through Justice Democrats founder Zack Exley, we have no choice but to do it ourselves. This task has brought many eye-widening moments into my life.
But nothing whatsoever like this.
Just in case you missed that, Bernie had a hotline to Putin, through “Democratic” socialist Zack Exley. A literal hotline to the Russian Federation, Guccifer 2.0, and Putin. In the form of a computer server- that the Chinese government is connected to as well- provably! He still does. It’s unofficial, of course, but it exists. I have proof enough to fact-claim it for sure. I’ve got the evidence, and as soon as I’m sure it’s safe I will give it all to you guys. Suffice it to say for now, it’s a place of such significance to them that a literal billionaire has been hired to safeguard its net presence. I am trying to contact the Democratic Party’s national leadership about it before I put the data out in earnest for the whole world to see.
This is Exley up above here; remember well this goofy Mad Magazine face, but know he’s not as silly as he looks.
Look at his eyes. They glow like coals in the head of a predator; one suspects in the dark they have red shine, which no mammal has ever had unless it be by unwholesome means and in nightmares. There is no doubt the man is formidable, and wickedly so.
He’s one of the most clever and cunning people you will ever meet, actually, a Harvard graduate who has created a progressive council in every county that comprises the United States of America, more than seven thousand of them in total, according to his Harvard mentor, the famous union organizer Marshall Ganz.
I know what you’re thinking, folks; what in the hell does this guy mean, Bern and Exley had a hotline to Putin? That’s crazy!
This is tall talk, and I apologize for tantalizing you, but I have no choice. Please keep in mind as well, we have never failed a fact check. Not once.
What I found recently- using irrefutable methods, mind you, the type that simply cannot be faked- was enough to shock the breath right out of my lungs. I’ve never even been CLOSE to something this big before. I can’t help but think I should try and contact the Democratic Party’s leadership before publishing it. It may literally change history completely. There’s only one thing I can give you right this minute in the form of a hint, and it’s below.
I hate to say it, after all we’ve been through, but the Bern himself is a real piker compared to this guy Exley. Bern’s loud mouth and blue clown suit were the big reasons in the beginning why I thought he was trouble. But after the Philadelphia riots, which Exley’s close proxy Becky Bond- who co-wrote Rules for Revolutionaries-How Big Organizing Can Change Everything alongside him- describes vividly in said book, in which illegally-acquired-by-a-foreign-power documents saying nothing whatsoever
I never thought he could possibly be this bad when I first started researching him, only that he was a smartmouthed punk of a socialist who was trying to take over the Democratic Party with nonsense like he and Cenk Uygur’s#WeWillReplaceYou.
Who would have known in the beginning that this young-looking, self-admitted former snotnose kid was actually this strong of an opponent?
By now it should be frightfully clear to the reader that we are up against something much bigger- and much nastier- with the Bernie Sanders “revolution” than the newspapers are telling us. We actually are up against a man who, from all appearances, has been an asset of Russian intelligence for the last entire two decades. There are actual evidentiary items showing us this, I remind you. I have to get ahold of the Party leadership. I can’t believe I’ve been covering this all these last five years and never caught it.
Then again, Robert Mueller didn’t find it either. If he had, I believe with all my heart the whole thing would have gone a very different way. Paul Manafort is sitting in prison for seventeen years, and as much of a piece of trash as he is, he too is a piker next to Exley!
Very little of his personal life is known, but what we do know indicates- at least to me, knowing what I do about Chinese hackers whom I suspect are connected to Putin and the Russians- he broke bad in 1987, or whenever before that he really committed to all this and went to Shanxi Normal University in China– on the Russian border- to go to college.
I’ve been working on this piece on him, which literally spans back before two decades ago, for nearly six months, and that is the reason why.
It took me a lot of work, folks, putting all this together for you. It’s the biggest project by far I have ever taken on, and I’ll admit to being slightly freaked out, but c’est la vie.
Going forward, we’re going to view him increasingly not as Exley, but as what he is; a society-smashing hooligan of a Garbage Man.
George W. Bush was both right and not lying both for the first and only time in his whole entire life when he coined Exley’s moniker for him.
To fully understand the far left, and what has been happening with them, the story of the Garbage Man and his twenty-one year long attempt to conquer the Democratic Party is absolutely central. A more thorough understanding likewise of the true power and significance of MoveOn.org is necessary, as for the entire second half of the millennium decade it was vastly more influential than the Justice Democrats are now. It was powerful enough for people to take seriously the following statement from then-MoveOn executive director Eli Pariser.
Next time we’ll be starting out with a blast to the past. Flashback to the year 2004, a month and a day after John Kerry’s defeat at the hands of the junior Bush, to an episode of CNN Crossfire on which this quote from Pariser, who at that time was the young executive director at MoveOn.org, a man who all agreed was a genius, is read out by, of all people, Tucker Carlson.
Yesterday, the head of MoveOn’s political action committee sent an e-mail to supporters attacking outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Quote: [from Eli Pariser] “We can’t afford four more years of leadership by a consulting class of professional election losers,” he wrote. He went on to say: “In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC and proved that the party does not need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it’s our party. We bought it, we own it, and we’re going to take it back” end quote. -Tucker Carlson, CNN Crossfire.
God, I resent how these radical leftists keep making me agree with the Republicans.
Pariser left MoveOn.org in 2013 to write the book “Filter Bubble” about the dangers of hearing only from people who agree with you (To me, this is highly revealing, and one day I will find out exactly why Pariser left; my guess is, it’s a really interesting story) was the first and the strongest of all Exley’s wunderkind proxies, and although there have been many since, none have surpassed him and all have been crafted in his image.
This is also when Exley developed the shocking trick he’s kept himself in the shadows with all these years, namely, not taking credit for anything (loudly, at least) and not boasting. In that, at least, we can find something to respect. But it’s also why it’s so tough to find anything out about this man and his utterly shady existence. Pariser’s “genius” gave him something-and someone- to hide behind.
The MoveOn.org team didn’t mind that Kerry had lost, just as they didn’t mind when Hillary Clinton was robbed in 2016. We know it was sabotage the second time, and one day we will find out about the first time too. Bank on it; after all, Tad Devine was there for that one as well-and for Howard Dean.
Why? Because they can’t have the likes of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, coming through with their conservative and extremely successful fiscal policies, proving that you don’t have to waste money like a slob to run a good country, nor talk like a Nazi either, nor start wars for cheaper oil only to jerk up gas prices. I wonder how long this has been going on for. I’m sure it’s been on a historical continuum, a plan revealed in phases, and only through windows made of treachery- and tragedy.
Maybe by now you’re starting to see the pattern.
Exley has a set of goals in mind that are not conducive to American life. Not in any way at all. And he certainly, in no way whatsoever, has goals that align with our Party. His only use for our base, e.g. the polyglot of persons that makes America and the Democratic Party both so strong, lies in co-opting them and putting them to zany work. Why?
Because it benefits the Republicans, and the right wing in general.
Donald Trump’s entire campaign for the year revolves around the Squad. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can’t go half an hour without saying something obnoxious or radical, like calling centrist Democrats- the only sane people in the country!- the Tea Party of the Left (which is Exley’s whole plan for her faction, according to Marshall Ganz) recently, and if it isn’t her it’s Ilhan Omar. Everything they do makes us look bad and they have tremendous energy, being young.
This is the whole point of Millennial Democrats, by the way. It’s half the reason it’s so important. We had to stand up and show you that not all of us are insane socialists! We were listening while we were growing up, we do not spurn you, we have not rejected the good things you taught us. We love you. Do not feel restless about leaving America in our hands.
How dare you try to take that from them, Zack Exley!
The far fake radical Bernie “left” wants to co-opt our entire generation. They wanted to use us like chalkboard erasers to undo the civil rights legacy of our parents- hence, “OK Boomer”. That is why the Bernie left literally made a fake Millennial Democrats of their own, several weeks ago.
They’ll throw huge cash at it, and unless one of our guys wants to do the same with me, they will soon be bigger than we are. So be it; I’m used to that.
But they’ll never be as good.
The far left exists to make Democrats look bad. We knew already Facebook had paid out huge sums of money (in 2015 Dustin Moskowitz gave MoveOn.org $1.5 million and his wife Cari Tuna gave another) to help breathe the far left into existence, which pretty much let us know for a fact why we’d been having so much trouble with them. Now we know that Putin too has been footing the bill; they’ve got an actual, physical hotline with him, through the server they keep just outside of his backyard.
See you all in Part II, and thank you for your patience on the bombshell. It will not be long.
Bernie Sanders is not going to be our President. One look at him is enough to tell you that; Americans love a winner, and that is not a role Bernie can play. Then after you hear him yelling, you can doubly forget it. Regardless of all the endless dollars that have poured into his creation, regardless of his fanatical following’s ferocity, Bern is a bust just as much now as he was in 2016. Democrats will come together behind literally anybody else, but we want nothing to do with the Bern. He’s a chickenhawk, scam and aggressive panhandler all rolled into one, like a prestigious university dual major, I can’t wait for the day I stop having to even write his name. I’m sorry the day came when I had to start.
On the other hand, Senator Joseph Bissonette Biden of Delaware, father, former vice-president, and all-around good guy, has the best of all possible chances. He will get a chance to demonstrate tonight once again why he’s in a league of his own when compared to the rest.
Tonight the final Democratic debates of the pre-Iowa caucus season are here, and the only thought on my mind is to protect the primary by any necessary means. We can’t let things get too out of hand or it’ll be 2016 all over again. Bernie, who is either foolish or evil for even running again, since he knows no true Democrat will ever accept him as their Party’s leader, kicked things off in his usual bullying style with a surprisingly vicious attack on his old friend Elizabeth Warren, a fight that has been coming for some time. They are now squabbling like a pair of aged turkeys jostling for feed, the alfalfa pellets that are so reminiscent of neo-progressive voters.
Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton, knows better than to get deeply involved. Let them have at each other, what a blast. He won’t bother engaging with Bern since nothing good can possibly end up coming out of it. Bern is Murphy’s Law weaponized and given human form. His idea of philosophy is, Anything that can go wrong will go wrong- because as soon as I get the power, it will all be smashed to bloody smithereens by Great Destroyer me! Scourge of the millionaires and billionaires.
After the zoo that has been the last four awful years, the country needs to heal. We have to somehow find a way to cope with and process all that we’ve been through. Not one but two demagogues showed up, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, and both shattered tranquility anywhere they could find it. All of us on every side have essentially been living in hell, and need nothing now so much as a little peace of mind and peace and quiet; we’ve been dancing on quicksand all this time. We need the measured, sane leadership of Joe Biden.
We can knock this one out of the park without even mentioning 2016. It has been a long three years with this guy.
How about the time he tried accepting a keynote speaker’s invitation from the foulmouthed and bestial Linda Sarsour, who wants to “take away” the vaginas of other women, to appear at the Women’s Convention of 2017? When American women found out and made their feelings known, Bern backed out so fast you’d have thought he’d seen a ghost. He did the same thing at the Women’s March later that year, with the same result, showing he has no respect for women at all.
This is why his women’s rights record reads like an excerpt from Stag Magazine- on purpose.
“Have you ever looked at the Stag, Man, Hero, Tough magazines on the shelf of your local bookstore? Do you know why the newspaper with the articles like ‘Girl of 12 raped by 14 men’ sell so well? To what in us are they appealing?”
Who are we nominating for president again? Judge Roy Moore of Alabama? It’s clear Bernie knows to what they are appealing, at any rate, and why not? He always has the answers, to everything!
It has really been a long few years.
The first election of the primary season will be the same as it is every year, the Iowa caucus. This year it will be held on February 3; just three short weeks away. It is the first step on the way out of the miniature Dark Ages that terrible 2016 became- but it is not a critical one. Iowan voters have let themselves go haywire good in the past. The Bern’s overperformance there last time empowered and encouraged his tilting at windmills campaign, as did his expected victory in New Hampshire. Hope springs eternal in the human heart, they say, especially when hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to put it there, and for one special moment, they truly believed they could win.
Then the voting down South started, and all that was gone like the mirage of an oasis, Hillary Clinton’s lead became insurmountable instantly, and every week it just got worse. So did the behavior of his followers, who soon displayed the racism and sexism their foul breed is known for, every chance they got. Considering that their master once wrote something like this rape essay here- for fun, I might add, on his leisure time no less, can we really be surprised that not very long from his defeat in July of 2016, one of them put this picture up on the door of a black church?
This is who they are, these far leftists we’re constantly attacked and assaulted by. These will be the people running the government if ridiculous Bern should stumble out a win.
By Super Tuesday Bern was in dire straits, and within the next few races, it became clear to any sane observer of sense that the jig was really up. His devotees, not yet completely insane prior to April, shrieked and howled at the moon like so many hyenas and wolves, and soon they resolved to bern down anything they couldn’t conquer- which was pretty much everything. Likewise, they made common cause with the Russians and their Macedonian flunkies, like Oliver Mitov here.
These pro-Bernie Sanders Facebook groups were all partially run by Macedonian hacker Oliver Mitov, who may or may not even exist.
As you may have guessed by now, Bernie’s foreign policy has a lot to do with the Russians he was boozing it up with in the video of his honeymoon below, a presidential display if ever there was one. Putin definitely felt the Bern and maybe hopes one day to feel some more of him. This ad he put out on Facebook for the Bern suggests it’s grossly possible.
This is Buff Bernie, a Russian rendition. Notice the poorly worded and clearly unnatural English they have here. This was typical, and precisely what caught my attention in the first place.
Buff Bernie, for the love of all creation. You don’t know whether to go blind or-
Well, fill in the blank.
Why someone would have spent his honeymoon in Russia, hanging out with a bunch of men, I do not pretend to know. A sodden intoxication, yowling Woody Guthrie songs with Communists in the Soviet Union, shirtless and disheveled and the most slovenly sight I’ve ever seen.
Judge for yourself.
You’ve got yourself a classic there, Bern. I can’t tell you how much I’m feeling you right now. Perhaps you and Putin and Vitali Shkliarov, another skeevy Ruskie working on your “central to the Russian interference plot” campaign, will all go out a-wassailing next Christmas, or at the next Russian military parade.
You should have been on trial beside Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, Bern, or at least testifying against him like your old campaign manager Tad Devine. You admitted blatantly to having known the Russians were involved in helping you and hurting Hillary Clinton when the whole world knows you sat idle and did not a thing to help.
You knew, Bern. The country was in danger, our electoral process was being used by foreigners as toilet paper, and the whole world was laughing at us. You are supposed to be our next commander-in-chief, which means it’s your job to protect this country, all of it. But you said nothing. Then later, in that interview, you lied on TV and said you lot had sent warning specifically; that was nothing but a joke from our perspective, the people who stayed to nail things down when your lunatic band of foreign and robotic Merry Men summoned a tornado down on us all. Just so we understand each other, you are nothing but a traitor. And your brat supporters false-reported the tweet offline.
Why have we been saddled with this moldy albatross around our necks, O Lord? Take this cup from us-please!
With thanks to Alternet for the writing and the data.
The attack on Kosovo is hardly the extent of Sanders’ hawkishness. While it’s true he voted against the Iraq war, he voted in favor of authorizing funds for that war and the one in Afghanistan. More recently, he voted in favor of a $1 billion aid package for the coup government in Ukraine and supported Israel’s assault on Gaza. At a town hall meeting he admitted that Israel may have “overreacted,” but he blamed Hamas for the entire conflict. When an audience member asked why he refused to condemn Israel’s actions, he told critics: “Excuse me! Shut up! You don’t have the microphone.”
Foreign policy is an area in which the Biden/Bernie gap becomes a chasm, a gaping abyss. The ancient Norse Vikings believed that all life on Earth arose from a massive Gap of Gaps, from which poisonous fumes rose like socialism and somehow created all we have. Go figure. Anyway, a gap that size is the one we’re talking about here. When it comes time to talk about fitness for the task of representing us well in the world, these two guys Biden and Bern are a ludicrous comparison to make. It’s like comparing apples to dog turds. They might as well be on different planets. We’ve got to stay focused on that and make sure everyone else does too.
By this point, parties on all sides are well aware the next six months promise a circus beyond anything P.T. Barnum ever dreamed of.
America doesn’t require or desire a return to what former President Warren G. Harding once called “a return to normalcy”, because what is normal in today’s world is a freakish caricature of what it meant thirty years ago when we were kids. Professional wrestling spilled out of our television sets and took over the world. Everything seems like a skit now, and Bernie is the perfect Heel to Trump’s Hero. Normal is probably out.
But we can have sane and decent again. Joe Biden is not a crazy socialist with a fifty trillion-dollar health care time bomb ready to set off in our economy. He knows what he’s doing in there. We have gone through too much in the Trump era for any more shenanigans from a demagogue, and we need someone capable enough to clean this whole mess up. We, center Democrats, have held the line; we became that rock in the river, tethered to a principle, and ready with a plan at every turn. These days Joe is the best representative we’ve got, which is the other half of the reasons to reject the candidacy of ridiculous and rusty Bernie Sanders.
In conclusion, it is not only Bernie’s incompetence and unfitness for the role that ensures he never will be President. We’ve got a better guy, one who is more popular, more polished, more professional, and just plain superior to the Bern even when he’s at his abysmal best. Joe Biden was the most recent vice-president Democrats have had, and under Barack Obama, no less, who turned out to be a genius. He has the information and skill that this will take. His unpleasant Gollum-like opponent is just plain lacking by comparison- and objectively.
While Bern was renaming post offices and little else, lounging around the Senate like the white Clarence Thomas, Biden was all over the world handling American affairs and representing her people with the utmost decorum and skill. Can he speak like John F. Kennedy? No. But that makes him all the more perfect for this time and place, in which nothing is more needed than a plainspoken, honest sort of fellow, the one your guts tell you you can trust- a No Malarkey sort if you will (check that awesome Group out on Facebook). Biden is a kind and genuine man, a finder of lost children. Bernie is the guy to lead us farther out into the wilderness. That old zombie will never, ever, EVER be the President of America, and for that, we really can be grateful.
From Millennial Democrats, starting today, look for All Biden, All The Time, until Iowa and beyond. We are in it to win it, and the day to fight in earnest together has come. You can find us without too much trouble at @MilDemsAmerica on Twitter. On Facebook, we’re Millennial Democrats- America and her fifty auxiliary State Pages. Our parent organization Organizing For Democrats has a great many Groups and Pages also, and allied organizations in the family such as the good folks at the WIRAPress Files, links shown here in blue, or the Musing Madman’s Madhouse, a blog living right next door to this one, so to speak, or talkingbarrysense.wordpress.com for another. Last, we’re newly on Instagram at millennialdemsusa. Check us out. And check out Joe Biden, while you’re at it.
As next year’s election season draws in ever closer and looms over Planet Earth like the Apocalypse, all the world is wondering what American voters will do next year. Will Donald Trump and his evil divisions and his foolhardy ways be thrown out on his ear, or will they be codified and set into stone in a new Dark Ages to take place until at least 2024? Only one thing is certain: 2020 will be the most critical election of our lifetimes, except for 2016.
After months of uncertainty, former vice-president Joe Biden decided to run. We soon endorsed Biden as the only sane choice, knowing in our hearts only that Trump must go and that a socialist must not replace him. Now everything depends on him. The blown gasket of Bernie Sanders gave second-place Elizabeth Warren a big boost and set the chessboard up for next year’s races. The game will be between the two of them. When it ends, and it comes time for Joe Biden to accept the nomination, it is our opinion that he should at least consider picking Warren as his running mate and making her the vice president.
The nature of politics requires shifting alliances at times, and it is in that context that I first began to think about the possible efficacy of running a Biden/Warren ticket. If executed correctly the play could end up repairing the gaplike rift that was torn in the Democratic Party by Bernie Sanders back in 2016. The long term health of the Party would be likely to improve, which is critical to America’s future.
In essence, it will depend on what Warren decides to do after she realizes that she is going to lose to Joe Biden beginning on Super Tuesday and heading into next summer. Will she link hands with Bernie as her chosen vice-president in a wrongheaded attempt to land herself in the Oval Office? Or will she do the right thing and throw her support behind Joe, the only one of us who has what it takes to beat Donald Trump, and offer to throw in as his chosen vice president?
It’s one of the biggest decisions a person could ever have to make, and we can’t say with any sort of certainty that Joe would even consider picking her. Many believe that he would not, but I’m not sure I agree. Joe Biden was the first person in politics Elizabeth Warren ever spoke to, as a friend of Dr. Phil’s, and his magnanimity in engaging her in a debate is how she became a recognized figure. If she has any decency at all, and I believe she does, she will harbor some gratitude towards him for creating her. For his part, Biden seems to like Warren and to have taken some interest in her career, and the race between the two of them has remained civil. I say it’s possible and more than possible. I say it’s a good idea. We should try putting it out there before she throws in with the other side irrevocably.
The fake leftist organization known as the Justice Democrats have been pushing Warren hard to formally align with Bern and make their two camps one, effectively dividing the Party forever and leaving us with a truly uphill struggle going into the general election against Trump, a man who is as vicious as a sewer rat and has a pack of them waiting behind.
They have dangled many a tasty bait before her eyes. But she still hasn’t fully bitten yet. She screwed up bad in Texas campaigning against Henry Cuellar for the socialist trying to primary that good Democrat out, but she does not have to cast her lot with them all the way. She is still in a good place for sucking it up and making Biden a good vice.
That is the only reason why it’s even worth it to write this article. We’re not saying it’s a sure thing, or even a likely thing, or any of that. We’re saying it’s possible, that it makes sense, and that it makes enough sense to be worth speculating on publicly. I would like to see it happen. But it absolutely has to be on the correct terms, the terms we’ve been talking about over here for three years now, the terms of America’s moderate core, and the core of the Democratic Party.
In next year’s general election, it’s all going to hinge on our ability to show the people that we are the sane and moderate ones. America desperately needs to return to normalcy after four years of living in the zoo, and we have to show the people that in the vacuum created by the Trump era we haven’t warped too much for that to be possible.
Above all, we have got to tell the people we are not for any sort of socialism. The Democratic Party’s entire future hinges on making sure we say that clearly enough. Trump’s entire reelection strategy revolves around pointing the finger at all the far-out things said and advocated for by the Squad‘s most famous and controversial member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Having to defend her all the time really sucks, and she’s only a freshman Representative.
Warren’s plans are too close to socialism for us to get behind her entering into the White House- except, just maybe, as a vice.
The strategic requirements of the position are hard to measure in a dissolving political landscape like this one. The evaluation can only be unclear. Given that, we should preserve all our options as long as possible. Warren could still make a good vice, and it is my opinion therefore that, annoying as she is, as annoying as her Warren Weevils are, we do not attack in earnest just yet. She could still be of use.
Warren has never declared openly as our enemy, although campaigning with the “Democratic” Socialists and the Justice Democrats in Texas comes pretty close; to get rid of Trump, I would suffer it for the time being and support her as a vice-presidential candidate.
She has flirted with both sides but remained uncommitted; certainly this is the sign of a turncoat, but that’s just life sometimes. We need her to pacify and bring into the voting booths the radicals on our behalf, which is the reason we’re congratulating her cannibalizing of the Bern.
She’s the only one who could have done that.
Warren was the first choice of the fake left to hamstring Hillary Clinton back in 2016, not Bernie. The campaign was invented by a socialist and was called Run Warren Run, a reference to a scene in the movie Forrest Gump where a mentally retarded person is fleeing rock-chasing tormentors.
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Warren didn’t bite that time, either, and so six months to the day after they’d started, Run Warren Run shuttered its doors and Bernie Sanders became a manufactured folk hero, someone the right-wing could trust to take a dump in every Democratic lawn. Her instincts were decent enough back then to let her know she had no chance of winning.
In her heart, she must already know that is the case again.
Poll aggregators like this one from RealClearPolitics show out completely the false media narrative of Biden having a co-frontrunner. Biden is beating Warren like a flea-bitten animal in the overwhelming majority of polls, and any poll where more than just rich white college kids are asked for their opinion, and tying with her even there. On her own, in the driver’s seat, Warren’s case is hopeless.
But she could still do some good for us. Her judgment in the history books will depend on her being selfless and sensible enough to throw her lot behind us and Joe Biden.
In closing, if Warren can bring the radical leftists to the booths (at least, those that aren’t closeted right-wingers), and Trump can send the sane Republicans in there for us once and for all, Biden can bring the moderate core of America, the one that has held this country together during thick and thin, and the Democrats can retake the White House. Of course the whole concept may be about as substantial as a Beach Boys song, but even so.
Bernie Sanders has just been rushed to the hospital with chest pains, and even after everything, it makes me sad to see he’s had to cancel all his upcoming campaign events. Sanders 2020 was not going to happen and was an annoying specter from the past, but it’s sad to see it effectively ended this way. I didn’t wish this for Bernie. I hope he gets better and I believe most of you do too.
To Senator Sanders and his family, therefore, we send our sincerest best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. In spite of all you’ve done, Bernie, my heart goes out to you. Perhaps God is trying to tell you something. Please be smart enough to learn.
At the end of the day, it is important to remember there’s a difference between an opponent and an enemy. Bernie Sanders has done and said a lot to place him at ends with us, but we do not wish him dead. Get better, Bernie.
That would be Bernie Sanders except that he never was, is not now, and never will be a Democrat. We’re used to this kind of thing out of Bern; it’s what he does. It’s Elizabeth Warren. He’s drooled over the prospect of running against her and she is not helping. “TX-28, we’re gonna get this done,” she shrilly shouted on stage.
Here is a riddle to solve if you can, sing the bells of Notre Dame. Who is a traitor and who is a Dem?
What caused Warren to break with our ranks? Who knows why she would do such a thing? Perhaps it’s a tumor, or something infectious. Like a socialist brain disease. Otherwise, why else would she go crazy and start endorsing enemies who have sworn to destroy all semblance of sanity in the Party? That 2% wealth tax is going to get us killed.
I’m not happy to be writing this article. Not at all. I hadn’t planned to have to agree with the staff over at Breitbart News about anything, ever, let alone this week. I have never considered Warren an outright enemy, even though she’s got a whole grocery list of plans even nuttier than Bernie’s (if such a thing is even possible). At least unlike Bernie, she can explain theoretically why they might work. Also, we could use a good vice for Joe Biden and I thought she could help to weld the rift in the Party Bernie the non-Democrat tore.
Unless, of course, she makes a habit out of trucking with the enemy.
We’re not going to play games about this, Warren. If you cast your lot with these people, we will fight you with uncompromising persistence. You’ll remember that word, I’m sure. On another subject- Are you nuts? That brat is not worth the laundry of Henry Cuellar, who is a moderate Democrat and therefore our friend. We don’t need any more of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; she is the most annoying person in the world and like Cuellar’s opponent completely unqualified.
Warren must know this too; she’s a calculating person underneath all the wacky plans. She used to be a Republican; her best friend in those days was a woman named Katrina Harry. “Liz was a diehard conservative,” Harry told Politico in a recent interview.
It is our opinion that a leopard can never change its spots.
Utility consumer advocate Barbara Alexander was shown an old essay of Warren’s and was disgusted, making a comment which applies to pretty much everything she does.
“She simplistically makes conclusions without any analysis of actual facts, just economic theory.”
Just what we need, Liz, another crazy to give Trump the only possible plan that he might win with.
Way to go.
She’s doing this because she believes it is politically expedient- and what more proof could you ask for that she doesn’t belong in the White House? This is a complete disgrace.
The Justice Democrats grew out of the cancerous petri dish that was the remnants of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign. They have given a boost to Trump at every turn. Their numbers are chosen from two groups of people; the ‘Hold your nose to the polls’ type and the Vote for Jill Stein type. They either did or did not understand how badly they were hurting Hillary Clinton’s chances back then, which means they’re either stupid or evil.
Let us make no bones about it. The more Warren enters the socialist, Justice Democrat fold, the harder we will fight her.
They have not changed their ways; these days they’ve got a different tack. They find the most radical and silly people and use them to sniper out good Democrats. Then they make Trojan Horses out of them, infecting the Party.
Then we have to spend months or years mopping up the slop.
Trump is running against AOC and Ilhan Omar. He doesn’t want to fight Nancy Pelosi or us, her people; we’re too strong by far. So he won’t tangle with us. He’ll plan an end-run right around us into the touchdown zone that is the American fence-rider’s keys to the presidency. And as of Monday, he’s got Elizabeth Warren out there running interference for him.
Aren’t economics people supposed to be smart? What about professors at Harvard? They seem to be as smart or not smart as the rest of us. I guess there’s not much else to be expected out of someone who lied about her ethnicity (she’d spent years claiming she was a Native American, as white hipsters are known to do) when applying to Harvard in the first place and then later allowed themselves to be used as a poster boy for ethnic diversity among their staff. She even went so far as to get a DNA test done- it showed evidence she might have had a Native ancestor in her family, six generations ago. Lol.
I mean, literally. They put her picture on a poster. I feel silly even thinking about it.
He appears to have been correct when he said that Pocahontas herself had been insulted.
Trump’s 2020 reelection strategy revolves around the Justice Democrats and the Squad they got elected. We’ve been predicting it would since the beginning when we first worked on researching the newly-formed organization just after the election. The kernel of it lies in seeking to portray us as helpless hostages of the fake left socialists, lions among lemmings who are headed for the ocean- and the even larger beasts with teeth who live there. He has already been carrying this out for a long time.
Now Elizabeth Warren is throwing him a helping hand. Unbelievable.
As a side note, this isn’t being written for Joe Biden. Although we do choose to endorse him (mostly because he can say no to these people), this has very little to do with him per se. This is the same fight as always, sane liberal centrists against fake left socialist crazies. We have been here before, many times. This is being written for the sanity of the human race! There’s no way to overstate the case.
We have never attacked Warren before, though; we still feel she would make a good vice president if she turns back from this horrid course right away. If she does not, then we feel it fair to inform everyone we will give her the same treatment as the Bern.
#NeverBernie (check us out on Facebook)is a stance we’ve taken for many other reasons than the unpleasant characteristics of the Bern himself. Even the fact of his campaign’s Russian infestation, worse than Trump’s, is not the biggest reason. It’s because of the socialist plague that gave us both the Nazis and the Soviets, who in the end were nothing more than rival sects of socialists. Nothing in the world, no candidate or Party or anything else, is worth letting yourself become the vector of plague.
Speaking of Bern, here is a video of him, shirtless and drunkenly howling out Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land is Your Land’ while vacation honeymooning in the Soviet Union.
You can’t make this kind of thing up, man. Shakespeare couldn’t have done it, let alone me.
We’ve obviously endorsed Cuellar. Millennial Democrats are Democrats fire and foremost. We understand loyalty, we love the Party with all our hearts, and we will do anything for it- especially when it comes time to fill the trenches to oppose the crazy socialists. Cuellar has said the same, so there you have it. Do anything you can to help him win, folks. He’s our guy.
The Justice Democrats, on the contrary, are complete and total enemies. The people who run it are the very definition. Remember We Will Replace You? The org they started to hold our feet to the fire with so-called progressive ‘litmus tests’? Or the Brand New Congress, when they wanted to get rid of EVERY professional in either legislative branch who refused what amounted to a loyalty oath to the Bernfuhrer framed up like a questionnaire?
These rank among the stupidest ideas ever conceived of in politics or anywhere, and Elizabeth Warren’s new friends were the ones who came up with it all. The latter two are not around anymore; they’ve been absorbed into the ranks of the Justice Democrats. The Democratic Socialists of America are brought to you by the very same clan as well. They’re as enemy as it gets. This is not going to fly, Senator Warren. Not even a little.
We don’t forget that you were their first choice to hamstring us in 2016; remember Run Warren Run, folks? They didn’t even look at Bernie until they had tried for six entire months to coax her into doing it instead. She didn’t bite, knowing it would have cost her every friend she ever had. It’s clear now that today is very different.
Elizabeth Warren, mark carefully these words. You will not be forgiven for this unless you reverse your conduct at once. You could still be of great use, but that will not survive the race in Texas- which thankfully hasn’t happened yet. You still have time; therefore use it. Going forward we’ll be keeping a close eye on you.
Time marches on, folks. Political landscapes dissolve and reform as new systems with new rules. Objectivity must by necessity govern strategy. Each position must be considered its own reality, weighed care
And with that I will inform you that I’m ready now to shift Our strategy to something reflective of common sense. The for-profit big money calling three front runners and awarding Chief Liz the non-Native and Bern equal status ludicrously with the one man who might win. We like all the rest, except for Tulsi G, and GOD, was it nice to see Gillibrand go! We remember Al Franken, you traitorous crow. Go jockey for influence somewhere below where throat-cutting your friends is a good thing to do. We’re nothing but glad to see no more of you.
It’s time for us with boots on to jump into the fray and land with a stomp with no further delay. So we’re Ridin with Biden at once and for all. He is by far the best of those who heard the call. It’s undoubtedly true that he’s no HRC. He’s also no Trump; that’ll do it for me. The country is weary, and so I will fight. I will fight and I’ll fight with all of my damn might, for Biden and all those resisting the night! I will refuse to quit until we see the light! I decided to declare today using verse so the world will take notice of all we rehearse.
We’re Americans, by God! Take note of our opinions, world; they are taking note of you.
Would be President Biden,
In the name of good sense, man! Please listen to me!
I know where I’m going! We’ve somewhere to be!
Let me speak for Joe Biden! Let me talk to them!
I’m one of these people!
They’re mostly my friends!
They will welcome the sound of my voice.
And I know, For the Bible tells me so!
I will speak for these people, for God only knows
Their voices are not being heard by all those
Who live in golf kingdoms and Ivory Towers
And watch us like beasts in their leisurely hours
Serene in their money, through bulletproof glass!
But it can’t keep the truth out! Now hear our forecast!
I’ll tell, if you’ll listen, the way that it is.
The people are feeling cut loose and adrift.
The people need life that makes sense and a plan.
We are starving for knowledge, and most of all, man
The people need language that we understand!
The people are hurting. The people are tired!
We’re bewildered and mad because we’ve been lied to!
We’re insisting today that you tell us the truth!
The American people are proudest on Earth!
We’ll be damned before demagogues play us like dupes!
Let me be the first, sir, to tell you aright
We don’t mean to waltz gently into that good night!
We the People are getting fed up, sir! We’ll fight!
We will kick down the doors of those hiding the light!
Let me talk to the people. They’ll listen to me.
Their struggles and dreams are the same ones I see.
We love this dear country with all that we are,
And we’re sick in our hearts at what’s happening to her!
The people need someone with stomach and heart
Who will be there for us when life’s looking most dark.
We’ve only got one first rank option, and so
We chose a good man with the good sense to know
That we’re willing and able and raring to go!
We are Ridin with Biden, millennials we.
All of us have been ready. So with no delay
It’s my duty to tell you, dear sir, that today
All us people are waiting to hear what you’ll say.
Donald Trump is at it again, and he is not alone. It’s just like professional wrestling. Heel, vs. Hero. This feud he’s got going with the Squad, that being the famous and infamous four-person bloc of socialist junior Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and to a lesser extent Ayanna Pressley (who somewhat unfairly is often lumped together with the rest, even when she herself did nothing wrong) is the single most difficult problem facing Democrats today. Donald Trump has turned the four of them into his own personal Goldstein a la 1984, a bogeyman to stir up his base with. They themselves stir the pot at every turn.
And we’ve got to clean up the slop; a Democrat’s due.
As if that lot needed any more stirring! We won’t need to remind anyone of the slaughter in El Paso, Texas recently, or in Dayton, but one day it could be useful to note this was written in the aftermath of those shootings. It all ties together, rather horribly so.
To support these four women, strong and intelligent though they be, in a proportion commensurate both with their own behavior and with the significance they bear to all this in mind is not easy, even though you’d think it would be. I want to support them. I support many others like them who get little press because they don’t go around attention-grabbing, grandstanding about grand political theories; eighty-four women received congratulations and articles of support from me, including the Squad. They’re Millennial Democrats, after all, same as me. It is natural that I would want to support them. And yet, their entanglements with socialism, Bernie Sanders, and their own unfortunate tendency to flap off at the gums whenever it suits them make that impossible.
It’s a real nightmare, and no mistake; the only thing in this whole entire shebang that I have really had to think about very much. It presents a philosophical problem, an actual problem, and a strategical problem. Plus plenty of personnel problems. But the big problem, the deal-breaker problem, is with these guys, the Justice Democrats, like Cenk Uygur down there in the picture, and their sister organization the Democratic Socialists of America, not to be confused with Nordic social democracy no matter how many times they try to trump it up.
Not our friends.
This is close to the heart of the problem and is good to talk about in heading toward the root of the rot. We cannot fully accept AOC and the other Squad members without fully embracing their often-insane policies, statements, and socialistic views. All of them are close to the heart of the problem, which is good to talk about in heading toward the root of the rot. This is not arbitrary, nor do we have anything less than the most compelling reasons for crafting our policy
How Putin helped Bernie- and why.
The campaign of Bernie Sanders was even more infested with insincere infiltrators and acidic agents than Trump’s was. In fact, his campaign manager, Tad Devine, was the first witness called to testify at the trial of Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort. Turns out they’d been working together for a dozen years, fixing elections at Putin’s behest in Ukraine. Along with Rick Gates, that makes three major strategists involved in opposing Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency who had been doing Putin’s bidding in this regard for more than a decade.
Yeah.
This is a shame because they are adding relevant and important topics into the national dialogue. They are also women of color who got elected on the tide of the Blue Wave in the Year of the Democratic Woman, which we wrote about every day for months. And even when Ilhan Omar shot her mouth off in the most insensitive manner (referring to 9/11, the greatest tragedy in our country’s history, as ‘something’ people did, without a single word spoken in condemnation of Islamic terrorism, which is every bit as despicable and criminal as white nationalist terrorism), we stood with her because Trump was shooting off his mouth so bad we were afraid some ‘lone gunman’ would kill her. That’s the exact truth, and God forgive this country that it should be so.
That is why I’m writing this, even now, to explain why I won’t support her to half my team while explaining to the other half why I won’t join in to crush her.
This is not a half-measure, either. It’s just assorting elements and factors and weighing them. There’s a lot of danger being presented to those girls, and while they may feel exhilarated and invulnerable now, there’s a lot of crazy people out there. Making them front line targets like this is a pretty cold-blooded strategy, even if it does work. But that didn’t much seem to bother the so-called “Democratic” socialists who made them, and who are guiding their hands as they craft policy going forward. Heedless and reckless, and more work for us. One disaster after the next.
Surely, you say, this must be a small price to pay for such energetic new young allies- would that it were true! That would indeed be the case if they didn’t want to spend all their time attacking Democrats. AOC’s first act after getting elected was to go start a protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office- across the nation from them, on the taxpayer’s expense- over climate change which we were doing anyway. She seemed disappointed when she found that out, as if she’d really been looking forward to a good fight-with her own people, during the Trump era.
That is the kind of trouble we have had with the Squad, ever since the Blue Wave hit home hard last November and even before. They want to sit on the sidelines, voting with the Republicans unless we will insanely join them on calling for the abolition of ICE. Ocasio-Cortez did that first when the government needed to be reopened. She said she had made a ‘tough, nuanced call’. ICE funding wasn’t even on the bill! No one had a clue what she was talking about, and that was bad enough. So were dozens of other times she’s shot off her mouth, like when she went on Firing Line and talked about the Israeli “occupation of Palestine (sigh).
But then when it came time to vote on whether or not little children on our southern border, the ones locked in DOG CAGES, ought to receive basic amenities like soap and toothpaste, the socialists stood against us in a bloc and voted no, I was so disgusted I could barely speak for days.
This is how it’s gone for nearly four years now; we try to build something, like a more accurate public portrayal of Democratic sanity and they undermine and destroy it for no reason at all. Now we can’t even come together on little kids being treated not like animals.
We have been stabbed in the back until there’s no more room for fresh scars by the people who promoted and created the Squad in the first place. That means organizations like the Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress, and the Democratic Socialists of America. Each is owned and operated by radical left extremists who hated Hillary Clinton worse than Trump and all but said so every day, as loud as they could. We are not going to forget that, over here. Count on it.
I will never forget.
Ocasio-Cortez got her start in politics working on the Bernie Sanders campaign. All her top strategists were previously his. They were underestimated by Crowley, he got slammed; maybe he had gotten complacent and his time was meant to be over, that’s what they’re saying, but when you’re talking about the seats of high power in the world? The United States Congress? I will take decades of experience and a bad judgment call born of inertia over a bartender socialist who worked for Bernie Sanders, any day of the week, month, or year. I say we got the worst deal imaginable, and the Squad had better own up to that fact and do something to change things drastically, while they still can.
These are the Bernie or Bust believers who rioted in the streets of Philadelphia, without a single regard for ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ as Paul Simon played it outside. That is the problem. Their rioting and nonsense made all this possible. It was done on purpose, and it was done for a cause. That cause is to replace Democrats by taking them out from below. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was discovered and created by these people, savvily rabid promoters, for this purpose and this alone. She was used as a poisoned dart to get rid of Joe Crowley, one of the best Democrats we had in the House of Representatives, and she continues to allow herself to be employed for this terrible purpose.
So while we welcomed her arrival on the scene- we wrote her a congratulatory article, along with some good advice- it’s been a risky bet from the get-go. AOC’s presence thus far has caused more trouble than it’s worth. We look forward eagerly to a day where this statement can be recanted- but when that day is coming, who can say?
Whether this trouble has been done at her behest or in her name really doesn’t matter. So long as she’s got her name in their roster, so long as they’ve got the unnecessary and random “Justice” on their scrolling marquees and business cards, so long as she is advocating for this repugnant new hybrid system of state called “democratic” or corporate socialism but is really just state capitalism like in China, we are never going to get to a point where we can take the Squad in as we might like to.
This could change, of course. It wouldn’t really take much, either. Tell all your people to quit acting like lunatics and make sure they’re registered to vote Democratic. We genuinely would like nothing better than to see the Squad mend their wicked ways, God knows we need the help. But it’s help we can’t accept if they won’t quit acting up.
No one candidate or set of candidates can ever be worth letting either yourself or your Party become polluted, a vector for the plague that is socialism. That will destroy us for 2020 and maybe leave us flat on our backs forever afterward if democracy really does collapse all the way here. We’re not living in a full democracy now, according to the World Freedom Index, and haven’t been since 2016. If we want to see our way of life recover, we had really better come together now.
Going forward, it’s going to be more and more important that we’ve got a solution to the problem posed by the Squad. It just keeps coming up, so we’ve got to have a clear answer. So here it is.
We support them as people, as millennials, and as Democrats. When it comes to their socialistic nonsense and their ravening friends, however, it should be separated from them neatly, packaged like a diaper, and thrown down a well so deep it has no bottom. The political moderate will feel the truth in this approach.
We have to draw a clear line between sticking up for them as human beings when attacked by a cowardly bully and accepting their poisoned bait, a type of ideological Trojan Horse of a time bomb, too deep in the fold to avoid lethal damage should it go off. The stakes are too high for all this messing around. Hopefully they see that before it’s too late.
In the end, you’ve got to take one day at a time, resolve to be fair, and make the best of it. The Squad is who and what they are, and we’ll have to make room for them anyway, so we might as well at least let them know there’s a spot for them on our bench, waiting, one that would be bigger had they themselves not been so impetuous and quick to blow atomic with their mouths.
I just hope I am not doing wrong myself in refusing to throw any boots into the stomping. Socialism!! Socialism, no less. Never ever shall I see the day. You Squad, you! Stop landing this crap on us!
Although even Socrates has argued strongly for the State taking a benevolent stance toward gadflies, this cannot be expected to apply to the African tsetse fly which carries sleeping sickness. You’ll end up looking like Bernie Sanders if you get a bad enough case of that stuff.
The Austrian government has purged itself of would-be far-right Nazis, who were diligent enough to resign en masse. Every far-right Freedom Party minister in the Austrian government has resigned. Austria’s Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache was the first to go. He resigned on May 18 over a scandal he caused while colluding with Russia to subvert his nation’s government. They caught him on a sting tape.
Unfortunately for Mr. Strache, his transgression appeared over the weekend in a video from 2017. He probably wasn’t very happy to be watching it. It showed him on the Spanish island of Ibiza, offering government contracts to a woman who claimed to be the niece of a Russian oligarch. Strache’s party has a cooperation agreement with Russian president Vladimir Putin, just like Marine Le Pen of France did.
These countries, in our opinion, should not just let the Russians do whatever they want in their electoral system, which I have always disliked, but it does seem to help them not get taken off guard by this kind of thing. They’re used to it, and it’s not unexpected.
Strache is gone, which is both positive and sadly ironic. It’s sad he was allowed in that position in the first place. Austria is where Adolf Hitler was actually from, not Germany. It’s positive because, well, anytime there are fewer Nazis someplace, that’s positive. This, we can accept on faith as an axiomatic statement. But it’s sad at the same time, because, well, how quickly we forget! In Germany proper, you’re not allowed to go around spouting Nazi filth anymore. They’ll stick you in a cell for that, although it’ll be in a prison, not a death camp. Why not in Austria? In fact, why not everyplace? A prison is a great place for Nazis in any country.
They should be very grateful that not all of the rest of us are just like them. If we were they’d all be dead.
Getting back on topic, my guess is that what we saw Strache doing on that tape is something he knew full well was illegal, not just something “dumb”, like he tried to say on his way out the door. It was for the same reason I think Paul Manafort never left America, although of course, that is speculative.
He didn’t think his alt-right team was going to lose.
Keep in mind, this was 2017. The alt-right had it all back then. Trump was in office over here, having just begun his term. German chancellor, the interim head of the free world Angela Merkel was being severely attacked by that nation’s alt-right primarily by the Free Democratic Party(FDP). These were the chief culprits, of course. But Merkel was also besieged from a different angle, through Martin Schulz, a far-left, Putin-backed and financed candidate who was called the “Bernie Sanders of Russia“.
The list goes on. Marine Le Pen was still giving Macron a hard time in France. and Austrian far-right leader Norbert Hofer came closer to winning a major election than any far-right candidate has since the end of World War II. All over Europe and elsewhere, far-right militarists who were friends of Putin began taking power. Jinping Xi of China, whose state capitalist system is a more efficient version of the Russians, back then called Putin his “most closest, most dearest friend”.
Certainly, the momentum was there, and they were, for a day, riding the crest of a swastika’s black, white, and red wave. The colors were to replace those of America. They wanted this and dreamed about it, and they thought Putin would be able to get it for them. They even manipulated unwitting dupes of the far left on board with ripping up Democrats
Viewed in this context, of course members of Austria’s far-right would be open to cooperating with Russia. Why wouldn’t they be? They thought he was going to build them a new world, one they’d be on top of. Le Pen summed up their viewpoint very well, hailing him as the herald of what she said was a “stone in the building of a new world destined to replace the old one.” She flicked her wrist around the room with the utmost contempt, as if to indicate what Trump would soon be washing away.
Not long after, one of their guys, a nameless trash can killed a girl named Heather Heyer at a now-infamous rally in Charlottesville, Virginia by running her down with a van, and they all cheered about it, and marched around afterward harassing those who prepared a quiet candle vigil for her. It made them feel strong, to murder a woman. Trump told them they were “very good people” and said not a word about what he had done.
How strong do you chumps feel now?
That was all before the FBI arrested George Papadopoulos and kicked in Michael Cohen‘s door, though. Once they arrested Paul Manafort, and still Trump used his pardoning power on no one but Joe Arpaio, the sadistic Arizona sheriff who built concentration camps in the desert for the prisoners of Phoenix, they must have gotten to thinking.
Every time a member of the alt-right has second thoughts about putting their ideology higher in their value system than their behinds and bails, they inspire a few more of their buddies to join them. One by one, and finally in droves, their “brothers” and them all disappeared. Every one of them was a crack in the reservoir for Putin. Now that guys like Strache are actually resigning because of things he made them do, we can look for that crack to widen rapidly.
Sooner or later, that levee’s going to break.
As soon as the incels and other alt-rightists all see that he can’t protect them, they’ll realize they only have three choices, like in the Choose Your Own Adventure books we millennials read as little kids. There are all kinds of different ways to go at first, but sooner or later they all run together, and then there’s only a few, leading to the same three options every time.
Failure, success, or death.
These guys have seen now that Putin is not going to usher in the new world order. He can’t even keep Russia’s roads up, and even Hitler did that. He’s got a lot of money and Russia’s military is not completely worthless, but compared to the titanic might of the United States he’s just a paper tiger. Our guys can rip him up any time they feel like it, and now all these pretenders are starting to know it.
Given that, there are only three adventures to choose from. And we know how they end.
They can be George Papadopoulos, a young guy with six months in the can and his life back together already, mistake learned from and in the past. Or they can be Paul Manafort, nearly seventy years old and sentenced to seventeen years in prison with two other cases pending, undoubtedly with massive penalties to follow as well
As judges and juries tend to love their countries as much as others do, it’s not unreasonable for a guy like that to be frightened about what they’re going to do to them. Even if you’re a fair-minded professional, it’s hard not to hate a traitor. As famed Roman orator Cicero said, “A murderer is less to be feared”. We refrain from harboring that hatred for our own sakes, not for theirs, and they know it.
These are all the reasons why, by 2018, the alt-right was dead worldwide. Over. Remember the American ones, the guys who ran r/the_donald on Reddit? Their leaders took their money and were gone like the wind.
Richard Spencer, for example. We all remember him. I’ve got an anecdote about this one. A former alt-right individual whose name I promised not to reveal had had some second thoughts and wrote into us one day on Facebook in a message that was then sent over to me. He spent a lot of time with me one afternoon, ripping up his former pals. Spencer was brought up specifically, by him. He said, and I quote with permission, “Here’s what I have to say to anybody following Spencer. That guy is a predator known for seducing the wives of all his comrades. He beats his own wife, according to her. You think he cares about you?”
Those guys really thought they were something, all right, as if they were going to be an army of stormtroopers. Back then they thought they were about to see the whole lousy discard called American democracy go down in flames, lit up by Trump as Hitler did before him. As a private citizen, I did think they might try for some lousy publicity stunt as they did back then, coming to mock the family of the victim, and to stand without permission on the white race’s behalf to embrace a murderer, the nameless trash can who killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville. I try not to dwell on that day.
I remembered his name long enough to glance up when I saw he was up for sentencing a while ago. I read the article, but even before, I didn’t have to wonder if his “brothers” in the movement would show up to show support for him, guys like that never do. The only one there was his mother, God bless her undoubtedly tortured soul. I read that alt-right hero “Baked Alaska” was called, reminded of the upcoming sentencing date, and asked if he was going to show up to support that little psychopath.
Mr. Alaska’s comments on the subject were nothing less than classic. They involved profanity, the word “murderer”, and “I’m out by the pool.”
Finally comes Adventure Three, which ends a bit sooner than the other two. If Manafort and Papadopoulos won’t do, they can stay out on the streets, and end up being Jimmy Hoffa (notorious Teamster union boss who’s been missing for decades. Experts believe the mob disappeared him for becoming a liability. He knew too much, and the bosses probably didn’t feel like they could chance it. What he knew could have buried them- so they buried him instead.
A stubborn old man may not have much to fear in prison. If you’re an alt-right slimebag like Roger Stone who is playing at having honor among thieves and refused to snitch like Cohen and Georgie P., then by this time you know full well that you’ve decided to be Manafort.
At that point, you had better stop and think: How much do they trust me?
If the answer is Not enough, I’m going to be Hoffa long before I can get to Papadopoulos.
All those guys are thinking about this and weighing the equation in their minds. The jig is up, and they know it. Putin was a long shot from the first, but for a while all his rubles made them forget what they now are remembering in earnest- that it’s not going to happen for them and they know it. Now they’re remembering something else, too, something that people in mobs tend to forget.
When I get home tonight, I’ll still be just one man.
Sooner or later, this is going to backfire horribly on Putin, who has been a disaster for Russia. The country is in poverty while he and his pals fly around on private jets holding rallies on American soil. He got them sanctioned heftily, they can’t do business in America, and there’s only so much borscht you can eat.
If you’re a Nazi who’s looking for a job in politics, your prospects are looking pretty thin. All is not lost, though. We’re feeling generous today. So out of a sense of general human charity, a thing no Nazi can understand or legally display in their type of political system, we got something lined up for you, at least in the way of advice. Get out now, before it’s too late. Because if you don’t, it will be too late. And when this is all over, you are going to be cast out.
If you really want to hurt Democrats and help Putin and Trump, we can tell you how to do it in three words.
