According to the DNC Networks Putin Is Supporting Bernie Sanders: Does Putin Want to Impose $15 per Hour Minimum Wage on the US?

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Executive Summary

The establishment media has told the public that Putin is now interfering in the 2020 election for Bernie Sanders.
Let us review how Putin’s views line up with Bernie Sanders.

Introduction

With Bernie Sanders looking like he will win the Democratic nomination for president, the establishment media has been working hard to try to keep this from happening.

Here is the crackerjack coverage from ABC.

How Many Putin Assets?

As with Trump, anyone who opposes Goldman Sacks/Hillary/Obama, etc.. is, therefore, a Russian asset. The video refers to Russians sowing discord is from one indictment of around $100,000 spent by Internet Research Agency on ridiculous ads that were even according to the FBI, ultimately inconclusive.

Here is one of the ads run by the Internet Research Agency. Does this make you feel like voting for Trump? It had a grand total of 97 reactions, 15 comments, and 29 shares.

How about this one? Does this make you feel like voting for Trump?

The FBI admitted that the small number of ads run by Internet Research Agency could not have had any effect on the election.

The Reality of the Russian Meddling Claims

The intelligence community presented precisely zero evidence of meddling.

What should sow far more discord is that 5 out of 6 presidential candidates just admitted in the Nevada debate that they will not recognize the individual with the most delegates as the winner.

What was that about having a democracy? Was Putin on the stage arguing against democracy, or was that the establishment democrats arguing against it? The only person supporting democracy was Bernie Sanders…who, as MSNBC is telling us, is being supported by Putin.

Do you know how else agrees with the five establishment candidates? The DNC.

In a courtroom in South Florida last week, a DNC lawyer said openly that if the party wanted to do things like the old days and pick a candidate over cigars in back rooms, it would be within their legal rights to do so.

“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’” Bruce Spiva, lawyer for the DNC, said during a court hearing in Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corp., according to court filings exclusively obtained by TYT Politics.

The class-action lawsuit has been deliberated since October, 2016. It was filed by Bernie Sanders voters and donors against the DNC, and has largely been ignored by mainstream media, many of whom have labeled Sanders supporters as a collective group of sour grapes who should simply unite with the establishment Democrat wing of the party against President Trump.

“There’s no right to not have your candidate disadvantaged or have another candidate advantaged. There’s no contractual obligation here…it’s not a situation where a promise has been made that is an enforceable promise,” Spiva said. – TYT Network

For Putin to interfere in our democracy, first, we would have to have one. The best Putin could hope for would be to interfere in our plutocracy.

Let us list the people accused of being helped by Putin.

Tulsi Gabbard
Jill Stein
Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders

Putin sure has a thing for non-DNC friendly candidates. Putin also must love single-payer and wants to reduce the power of billionaires…..but wait one second, billionaires entirely control Russia. And Putin is himself a billionaire.

So that must be the logic, Putin does not like income inequality and $15 per hour minimum wage. Yes, that all makes sense?

Furthermore, how concerned is MSNBC with tampering with US democracy? Because while MSNBC created this evidence-free segment, the case of the DNC’s attorney stating in open court that there is can be no expectation of neutrality was not covered by them. I just checked for an article from MSNBC on this story, and there is nothing. Major media blackout would be the correct description.

Only smaller progressive entities covered the DNC fraud lawsuit.

Why would the establishment media not cover this story? What could the reason be? It was not newsworthy to MSNBC. This is clear evidence that MSNBC does not care about the rigging of the US “democracy” as it hides when real rigging occurs.

When Discovering the Truth About the US’s Sham Election System is “Sowing Discord.”

Here is more coverage on supposed Russian support for Bernie Sanders from MSNBC. This is the time from 2018.

MSNBC Exterminates its Credibility with a Contrived Story About Putin

Notice this shows the “discord” that was sowed. And the discord is that the emails that there is no evidence were hacked over the Internet but rather were downloaded with a thumb drive, that the DNC conspired against Bernie Sanders.

This video explains how forensic analysis of the download rate of the DNC emails is evidence that the emails were downloaded locally to a thumb drive, and not over the Internet. This undermines the claim that Russia provided the emails. Furthermore, Julian Assange has stated that the emails were provided to Wikileaks by an entity that was not a state actor — and therefore that includes not Russia.

Learning the Truth Around Rigging the Primary Sows Discord?

This MSNBC video promotes the sowing discord was Putin’s plan. But shouldn’t discord exist if the DNC is lying to the population about the nature of who its primary system works.

The logic of this MSNBC video appears to be that it would have been better if the DNC had gotten away with cheating Sanders voters and handing the nomination to an establishment candidate that does not reflect the interests of the voting population. And that the citizens should go on being lied to. This would be like claiming that Putin helped sow discord by helping the police solve a murder. The US repeatedly points out that Putin’s elections are rigged, isn’t that sowing discord under this logic?

When “Allegedly “is Applied to Proven Black and White Issues

Notice also that the video states “allegedly” concerning the DNC cheating Bernie Sanders and his supporters. It is not “allegedly.” The emails are clear that the DNC cheated Bernie Sanders. It is now 2020, and the DNC is again conspiring to replace Bernie Sanders, who has the popular vote, with an establishment candidate. In 2016, even though there is no debating the authenticity of the DNC emails, the establishment media had to somehow discredit or cast a negative light on the process by which the emails came to light. At one point in the video, the host declares that when Sander’s representative stated that he did not want a foreign power influencing a US election, that this was the “right answer.”

However, was it?

First, there is no evidence these emails came from Putin, but let’s assume for a minute they did, why is the learning of the lies being told by the DNC a bad thing, regardless of the source? If a US-based source leaked the emails, but the emails are the same, then is that a good thing? Because learning the truth about the DNC chicanery will also cause “discord” to occur. Publishing income inequality would also sow discord. Doing anything but repeating the false claims by concentrated power is also sowing discord, which is essentially the same claims used by China to punish citizens who “disrupt harmony.”

Later in the video, in a segment taken from Rachel Maddow’s show, she proposes that Russian bots increased the differences between Sanders and Clinton. This is based upon the ads run by a Russian firm Internet Research Agency, which ran $100,000 of ads. However, the US establishment media, as well as the DNC itself, consistently lied about how close Sanders and Clinton were in terms of their policy. This lying happened again in the 2020 race when the storyline was presented that Sanders and Warren were roughly the same and that a vote for Sanders was, therefore, a vote for sexism.

If you don’t support the establishment candidate over Bernie Sanders, you are a sexist. This woman, Emily Tisch Sussman, works for the Center of American Progress, which is an establishment DNC entity.

Even if the Russian government was behind the Internet Research Agency, how do the roughly $50,000 in ads run before the election ($50,000 in ads were run after the election) compare against the enormous US establishment media apparatus’ attempt to minimize the differences between Sanders and Clinton falsely?

Emails Were Criminally Stolen?

Ari Melber proposes that the emails were “criminally stolen property.”

But is that true? What was the crime?

Secondly, why do the US political parties not merely have all of their emails published for the citizens to see? Why do political parties have any right to privacy? Aren’t they running for public office? Ari Melber seems to entirely ignore the fact that the DNC was lying to its voters. It is saying that it does not tolerate voter suppression, but the DNC engages in massive voter suppression. Why is that fact something that should be hidden?

Is MSNBC in favor of the persistent delusion of the populace and do they prefer that the DNC gets to run this scam continually and for the system never to be reformed? MSNBC’s coverage tells us the answer.

Sanders Shamed for the DNC’s Plot Against Him Coming Out…and Therefore Benefiting Sanders

Sanders is then asked by Ari Melber why he asked for the resignation of DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is a specialist in rigging elections as her own election was rigged if he benefited from the Russian meddling. But again, Ari might as well ask if Sanders benefited because the DNC’s dishonest plan came to light. Without the emails, the establishment could have claimed the attempt to steal the primary election from Bernie Sanders was a conspiracy theory. And many still do. Now that the theft was declared by the DNC in emails, Sanders is mostly being asked if he benefited from the truth of the real conspiracy against him coming to light.

Ari Melber then tells the lie that the US is a democracy. But if he believes this, then why would he have an issue with it coming to light that the DNC does not follow democratic rules? Was the democracy interfered with by the release of the emails, or the fact that the emails clearly demonstrated that the DNC is undemocratic? People that learn that a claim is false should focus on the falsity of the claim, not call the information by which they learned of the falsity of the claim as interfering with the false claim from continuing to be perpetuated.

What is Putin’s Logic Again?

Ari Melber then proposes that Putin interfered in the election to help Trump, and then interfered in the primary to help Sanders, which helped Trump. However, polling performed during the Democratic primary indicates that Sanders performed better against Trump. So how is helping Sanders helping Trump? If Putin had wanted to help Trump, he would have helped Clinton.

Ari Melber then proposes that the information contained in the emails was “weaponized information.” Seeming to propose that the information should be ignored. However, if the DNC continued to delude the voters that their votes counted (if they voted for a non-establishment candidate), then apparently this is no weaponizing information. Under this definition, information that is false is not weaponized, but information that is true and contradicts false information is weaponized. He refers to it as “cyber war” on the US primary. But again, the war that was waged, (if we accept the logic presented as there is zero evidence the emails came from Russia) is that the population learned the truth about how the DNC works. It seems that the correct response is to thank whoever leaked the emails.

Melber states.

“Leaks may reveal real information, but on the other hand they are also agitating for fake news and for division.”

If information is “real” and truthful, then how does it agitate for fake news?

Isn’t the fake thing, what the emails contradict, that the primaries are honest and based upon democratic principles. Hasn’t the DNC been selling this fake story for hundreds of years? It seems simple enough. Ari Melber/MSNBC do not appreciate true information if it undercuts their power base, which MSNBC shares with the DNC as they are connected to the same elite system. MSNBC takes advertising from the same companies that donate to the DNC.

Who is Engaging in McCarthyism?

Ari Melber then proposes that the nation needs to stay away from digital McCarthyism. However, Joseph McCarthy accused people he did not like being Communists, associated with the Soviet Union, etc. A significant reason for this was both McCarthy and people like Walt Disney, who reported union organizers at Disney to the McCarthy’s House of UnAmerican Activities Commission, did so to silence them by smearing them with false claims about being connected to Russia.

This is exactly what Ari Melber/MSNBC did in this segment. Therefore it is odd to hear Ari talk about the importance of not doing something that he is actively doing.

There are repeated statements in this segment that are entirely false. This article is calling out these false claims. No doubt, Ari Melber/MSNBC would claim that this article is also sowing discord. There is, of course, only one explanation. Putin.

The New York Times Weighs In

The NYT supported the same story of Putin supporting both Trump and Sanders. See the following quotes.

Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders represent the most divergent ends of their respective parties, and both are backed by supporters known more for their passion than their policy rigor, which makes them ripe for exploitation by Russian trolls, disinformation specialists and hackers for hire seeking to widen divisions in American society. Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders disagree on almost everything, but both share an instinct that the United States is overcommitted abroad: Neither is likely to pursue policies that push back aggressively on Mr. Putin’s plan to restore Moscow’s influence around the world, from the former Soviet states to the Middle East.

Trump has been continually accused of being controlled by Putin because he does not support the current overextended and meddling US military posture and expenditure. Any president who does not support the current exorbitantly costly military expenditure where the US spends more than the rest of the world combined will be called a “Putin puppet.” This prevents discussion around why the US military expenditure is more as a percentage of GDP than at the peak of the cold war.

The US has attacked 1/2 of the Middle East, mostly using a false storyline around Islamic Terrorism to control the region and to grab natural resources. Is that expansionist and disastrous military policy ever going to be analyzed? The US has far too many nuclear weapons. Can that be a critiqued and changed it is that also playing into Putin’s hands?

The US has over 800 bases internationally. Is critiquing these bases and these expenditures playing into Putin’s hands. Russia has only 21 bases outside of Russia. That is 40x the number of bases. Are Putin and Russia the reason the US has so many bases, or are there other reasons.

This is what Lockheed Martin wants, and as they are big advertisers in the NYT, it is what the NYT wants. ABC, MSNBC, and the NYT all agree that Sanders is being supported or assisted by Putin and that any questioning of the current US military expenditure is enabling Putin.

Furthermore, this video shows that the arguments against Trump’s policies being mostly undesirable for Putin do not stand up to scrutiny. It also demonstrates the claims against both Trump and Sanders to have been contrived.

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Conclusion

There is not much more to say. This is a contrived story by networks that are pretending to be independent but are rigging the news against any candidate who is not establishment democrat. The entire logic of the smear on the part of MSNBC falls apart under analysis. It is rare for people to write down each point of broadcast and evaluate it, and this is most likely MSNBC is not worried about the overall story holding together.

This goes further into their non-stop vilification of Trump. Trump is not an establishment democrat candidate. Therefore he must be presented as pure evil.

References

https://medium.com/theyoungturks/dnc-we-can-legally-choose-candidate-over-cigars-in-back-room-e3026730e252

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_military_bases_abroad

*https://www.amazon.com/Base-Nation-Military-America-American-ebook/dp/B00SENTA92/

*https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics/russia-election-meddling-trump-sanders.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee

More details about the DNC lawsuit.