Apollo Kid
Veteran
I always find it funny when Nap tags all those posters to dap him up 
Essential "The Real Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress": The Offical Bernie Sanders CircleJerk Thread
SAD!I always find it funny when Nap tags all those posters to dap him up
Did y’all forget that When when Sanders was mathematically eliminated dude was getting flagged for a shadow $10 million?!?
What was Tad Devine’s role in this?!?
It was his THIRD FEC violation!!!
Strike Three: Feds Catch Bernie with $10 Million in Mystery Campaign Donations
FEC Flags Bernie Sanders for Excessive Contributions - The Atlantic
What was Tad Devine’s role in this?!?
It was his THIRD FEC violation!!!
Strike Three: Feds Catch Bernie with $10 Million in Mystery Campaign Donations
FEC Flags Bernie Sanders for Excessive Contributions - The Atlantic
You Boys aren’t even trying to be consistent.
Keep that same energy when Tony Podesta goes down.
What the fukk are you talking about? Nobody cares about Tony Podesta b
You sure love getting in your morning yoga.
storyteller
Veteran
What the fukk are you talking about? Nobody cares about Tony Podesta b
Probably worried about this...we see it, we're just consistent.
Robert Mueller Is Going After Shady Democrats Now, Too
Last edited:
The FARA registration and enforcement might be the biggest thing to come out of Mueller's probe.
If that gets enforced it'll change a lot of things on K Street and on Capitol Hill. Everyone is fixated on Russia but they don't do as much formal lobbying or influencing buying here... that's the Israelis, Saudis, UAE, Turkey, and Qatar flooding the city and entangling interests.
intra vires
Glory to Michigan
It's so weird that Hillary stans continue to attack Sanders two years after she lost to Agent Orange.
They complain about Bernie's cult of personality while fully being enthralled by Hillary's.
So very weird.
They complain about Bernie's cult of personality while fully being enthralled by Hillary's.
So very weird.
I'm talking about a sitting US SENATOR and his lack of a thorough vetting of unsavory individuals who have ties to an international scheme of shady political work and money laundering
But fukk me, right?
johnedwarduado
Banned
The deep cynicism of Bernie Sanders’s chief strategist
by Dana Milbank
Tad Devine, during his run as chief strategist for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, railed against the corrupting influence of money in politics.
He repeatedly echoed the Sanders message that “our economy is rigged,” that “special interests” buy politicians, that “all of the new wealth is going to the top of America,” that there is a “corrupt system of campaign finance” of which Hillary Clinton offered an “egregious” example. Sanders, by contrast, “supported the little guy.”
Those who heard Devine’s interviews and watched his Sanders TV ads therefore may be surprised to know that, in the years and months leading up to the Sanders presidential campaign, Devine was making gobs of money to secure the election of one of the world’s most corrupt political figures and then his allies.
Thanks to Robert S. Mueller III’s prosecution of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman and sometime business associate of Devine, we now have an unusual glimpse into the role the Democratic ad man had in electing and preserving the power of Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych, a crooked pro-Putin autocrat. Though American political consultants routinely rake in cash from foreign leaders — even shady ones — Devine’s seamless pivot from advocate for antidemocratic thug to champion of a principled democratic reformer shows extraordinary flexibility.
Yanukovych’s fraudulent election in 2004 as Ukraine’s president was invalidated, but not before his opponent was poisoned by dioxin. Yet testimony in the Manafort trial and documents released by Manafort’s lawyers show Devine helped Manafort on Yanukovych’s comeback as prime minister in 2006 and successful presidential run in 2010. Devine produced a memo of advice for Yanukovych’s party in 2012, even though by then Yanukovych had thrown the leading opposition politician in jail and had built a $100 million mansion — complete with zoo, helipad, golf course and replica galleon on an artificial lake — while his people were, in Devine’s own words, struggling with “joblessness, hunger and the general despair.”
Yanukovych was ousted in 2014 after he halted Ukraine’s movement toward the European Union, yet Devine offered to help Manafort’s efforts in the 2014 Ukraine election — for a price. “We are ready to take on this project,” he wrote to Manafort partner Rick Gates, for $100,000 per month (payable in advance), $25,000 per week of runoff, a $50,000 “success fee” and expenses including first-class airfare. In June 2014 — even as talks about the Sanders presidential run were getting underway — Devine went to Ukraine to help remnants of Yanukovych’s party reforming under a new name. “My rate for something like this would be $10,000/day, including travel days,” he wrote to Gates.
As Sanders likes to say, let me be clear: Manafort is the one on trial for money laundering and other crimes. Devine is a witness for the prosecution; as prosecutors pointed out when he testified Tuesday, he wasn’t the one with a bank account in Cyprus. There is no hint Devine did anything illegal — only cynical.
Manafort, who worked for the world’s sleazebags, made no pretense of scruples. But Devine was the guy molding the Sanders campaign as a righteous, everyman’s insurgency against the corrupt, wealthy establishment. Devine, who had worked on Sanders’s first campaign for the Senate in 2006 (the same year he plotted Yanukovych’s comeback), earned more than $5 million for his firm from the populist Sanders presidential campaign and at least $10 million in commissions split with another firm, according to a Slate tally.
Devine, through an employee, declined to comment Wednesday.
Devine wrote with Manafort a January 2006 memo when Russia was cutting off gas supplies to Ukraine, showing Yanukovych how to ride his “good neighbor” policy toward Russia to victory. He became prime minister. Devine drafted a presidential victory speech for Yanukovych in February 2010 (“We are all Ukrainians first,” the American wrote) and later that year wrote talking points showing how Yanukovych and his party could attack the opposition.
By April 2012, Yanukovych had jailed his opponent and become an international pariah. Devine told Gates, “I regret that we will not be able to work with you” on Ukraine’s parliamentary elections. But four months later, Devine wrote a strategy memo for Manafort. “The number of people who admit they are having difficulty feeding their family throughout Ukraine today is stunning,” he wrote, urging Yanukovych to “signal” his concern and calling for his party to attack. “I would recommend a roughly 3:1 negative to positive ratio in the advertising,” he wrote.
In March 2014, Devine sent Gates a $100,000-per-month proposed agreement “to work on the election in Ukraine.” In court Tuesday, Devine said Gates had recruited him to work for the man who is now Ukraine’s president, billionaire Petro Poroshenko, but Devine didn’t wind up working on the project.
Just as well. It was almost time for him to launch the anti-corruption campaign of Bernie Sanders.
BERNIE SANDERS MUST ANSWER FOR THIS. I fukkING TOLD YALL. THIS IS DISGUSTING.
I WAS BANNED. BUSHED. CENSORED.
THE TRUTH IS OUT. BERNIE KNEW.
@GzUp @wire28 @Atlrocafella @Blessed Is the Man @ezrathegreat @Jello Biafra @humble forever @Darth Nubian @Dameon Farrow @jj23 @General Bravo III @BigMoneyGrip @hashmander @Call Me James @VR Tripper @dongameister @Soymuscle Mike @BaileyPark31 @Lucky_Lefty @johnedwarduado
If you criticize bernie sanders you must be a neoliberal establishment hack that is how his cult group reason, they dont see the truth or chose not to and this is wrong. It is the same thing trump supporters are doing.
Remember sanders called the south the confederacy to try to diminsh black voters because he lost the south?
Imagine tad devine was hillary campaign manager and was brought into court for questioning you think the far left would give hillary the benefit of the doubt and still continue to support her?
intra vires
Glory to Michigan
Not really. I posted it elsewhere, which is why it wasn't specifically directed at you (obviously implied).
Have you ever heard of Fruit of the poisonous tree? That's the lens with which your posts about Sanders are read from.
Your posts on Bernie have never read like someone with legitimate criticisms, which stems from the fact that you have none. It's rarely about ideology or policy implementation, if it were we may end up on the same side depending on the topic. It's a personal vendetta and that's why you aren't afforded the benefit of the doubt when possible issues do arise.
There is cause for concern about Bernie Sanders' former campaign manager and I've been discussing that elsewhere.
The best case is that Tad Devine is an unscrupulous piece of shyt who has no qualms working to get Putin's guy elected in Ukraine. Again, that's the BEST case for Devine.
It's hard to say it means anything about Bernie himself, given he's pretty much held the same positions his entire career.
The point about vetting is fine, however...
It's also not surprising he would have done a shytty job of vetting him. Considering what we know about his campaign infrastructure and his own view of his candidacy in the beginning (ie a message campaign to drag the heir apparent to the left).
The best case is that Tad Devine is an unscrupulous piece of shyt who has no qualms working to get Putin's guy elected in Ukraine. Again, that's the BEST case for Devine.
It's hard to say it means anything about Bernie himself, given he's pretty much held the same positions his entire career.
The point about vetting is fine, however...
It's also not surprising he would have done a shytty job of vetting him. Considering what we know about his campaign infrastructure and his own view of his candidacy in the beginning (ie a message campaign to drag the heir apparent to the left).
Unless you have an agenda, this isn't the correct venue to be discussing the alleged issue. It's apart of the Manafort trial which is already being covered.
1. I've always been critical of Bernie. I LIKED HIS PLATFORM...but I always felt eh was a terrible communicator, he was personally unrealistic, and personally unreliable
2. His ties to Russia worry the shyt out of me. Same with Corbyn.
3. I felt that Bernie and his supporters did irreparable damage to legitimate Democrats and the larger project of rejecting republicanism.
4. I have a legitimate and serious question: How and Why did Tad Devine take the Sanders job? Manafort was quarterbacking serious selections in Trump's camp. Heres one: MIKE PENCE. We MUST get to the bottom of this. Devine clearly was coordinating Sanders movements behind the scenes with Manafort. How high does this go?
@GzUp @wire28 @Atlrocafella @Blessed Is the Man @ezrathegreat @Jello Biafra @humble forever @Darth Nubian @Dameon Farrow @jj23 @General Bravo III @BigMoneyGrip @hashmander @Call Me James @VR Tripper @dongameister @Soymuscle Mike @BaileyPark31 @Lucky_Lefty @johnedwarduado