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  1. 1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-freak-over-joe-bidens-election-resurrection?ref=home

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Much like the Russians, Senate Republicans were caught off guard and visibly disappointed by Biden’s resurgence as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham told CNN’s Manu Raju that Biden is “going to be tough” to beat, as opposed to the self-proclaimed socialist Sanders. According to The Hill, an unnamed Republican senator expressed his hope that the primary fight between Sanders and Biden would scar the Democratic Party, dragging into the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this July: “It doesn’t mean the Sanders folks all fall into line. They didn’t last time. He’s pretty out there.”

    Russian propagandists echoed that anticipation. Appearing on Rossiya 24, analyst Dmitry Drobnitsky predicted that in the event Sanders does not receive a nomination, street protests and violence will follow: “There will be unrest in Milwaukee… There will be a repeat of the 1968 Democratic Convention [riots] in Chicago.” 

    Last year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report identified "dozens" of U.S. political rallies organized on social media by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian troll farm whose operatives were indicted for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 

    The Kremlin’s minions will most certainly amplify any efforts to cause public unrest and disrupt the Democratic convention, while also elevating the standard propaganda theme of “rigged elections.”  

    Describing Biden’s re-established lead as “unexpected,” Russian state TV network Rossiya 24’s headline predicted that “the kompromat will determine the outcome of the elections.” Vladimir Vasiliev, a senior research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: “Don’t forget that Ukraine is hanging around Biden’s neck, along with Burisma Holdings”—the energy company where Hunter Biden had a lucrative seat on the board.

    Moscow's repeated pitch on Russian-language state media for domestic consumption and for the sizable community of Russian speakers in the United States is that Joe Biden is damaged goods and Donald Trump is inevitably going to be re-elected. But the messaging doesn't stop there. The Kremlin's English-language media aim to influence Americans on their home turf. RT actively promotes conspiracy theories targeting Biden while lauding Trump’s efforts to “investigate” his leading political opponent. RT predicted that Trump will win a second term, claimed that Biden is “cognitively unraveling” and surmised that “allegations of corruption… are doing real damage to his presidential bid.”

    Vladimir Soloviev, who hosts an evening news show on the state TV network Rossiya 1, anticipated that Trump would promptly dredge up kompromat—compromising material—against Biden in order to undermine his candidacy. 

    Soloviev suggested that the dismissal last week of Ukraine Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka was directly tied to his decision not to pursue charges in cases related to Burisma Holdings.

    Discussing the reasons for Ryaboshapka's removal, the chairman of Ukraine’s ruling Servant of the People parliamentary faction, David Arakhamia, made no mention of any causes related to the Bidens. But Soloviev insinuated that Ryaboshapka's incoming replacement would pursue an investigation into Hunter Biden in order to please President Trump.

    Russian propagandists and U.S. Senate Republicans seem to be guided by a common belief—or perhaps a goal—that the outcome of the upcoming presidential elections in the United States will be artificially altered by continued pursuit of the proverbial “dirt” against Biden in Ukraine.   

    Soloviev couldn’t hide his glee discussing the fact that one of the Republican senators who voted not to remove President Trump from office for withholding aid to Ukraine on condition it investigate Biden is now leading an investigation of the former vice president. 

    Russian politician Sergey Stankevich asked Soloviev: “Have you heard the latest news? Senator Ron Johnson demanded and stepped out with an initiative to go to court in order to obtain a dossier on Hunter Biden.” 

    Stankevich opined that the outcome of this investigation might determine the outcome of the election. Soloviev readily agreed and added: “Like I said from the very beginning, that’s also why Ryaboshapka is being removed.”

    Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, needed no special introduction on Russian state television. He was one of the Republican lawmakers who elected to celebrate the Fourth of July in Russia in 2018, where all of the GOP visitors agreed to meet with their Russian counterparts in a secret room. Photos, videos and news coverage of the unusual GOP pilgrimage were featured extensively by Russian state media. 

    Upon Johnson's return to the United States, he called the U.S. sanctions against Russia “useless,” which garnered even more attention in the Russian media. In October of 2019, Johnson’s statements about his mistrust for the FBI and the CIA provided priceless propaganda for the Kremlin and were prominently aired on Russian state television.

    The record shows Johnson underwent a remarkable transformation with respect to the former vice president's activities in Ukraine, with Johnson’s views morphing only when Biden became a leading rival to the sitting president. 

    In 2016, Johnson signed a letter urging Ukraine to make "reforms" in the office of Ukraine’s former prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. The United States and other Western nations publicly urged Ukraine to remove Shokin, who was widely criticized for turning a blind eye to corrupt practices. 

    But come 2019, casting the facts aside during the impeachment proceedings, Johnson called for a review of whether former VP “improperly used his office” to have Shokin removed, and claimed to have no recollection of the 2016 letter he'd signed.

    On Wednesday, Johnson said he will likely release an interim report of his committee’s Biden probe within the next one to two months, openly hopingthat voters will take the findings into account. Likewise, Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheyev predicted that Biden’s candidacy would be “drowned” by the Ukraine investigations. 

     

     

    LOL.....quoting an article from a far left-wing web site with far left-wing opinions. Seems about right for this fucking board.

  2. 3 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

    did you quote yourself or did you mean to use a different account?

    Regardless, I was under the impression that Bern and Liz aren't super tight and might actually dislike each other a touch?

    Liz needs to come  along for the ride with the Bern. It will be EPIC......

  3. 6 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

    Holy shit, i missed where Trump, in Charleston, last night basically asked his supporters to go out and vote for Bernie in the primary today.

    I voted for the Bern in the Texas primary. A course, I bypassed the rest of the loons on the ballot until I got to the propositions. You can't write comedy better than that....

    Come on Bern, you can do this...

  4. 2 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    Nope. Facts are on Sanders (and Reagan's) side for making those trips to the Soviet Union at the same time. It helped transition the Soviets to the a world after the Soviet Empire. 

    This line of attack is wishful thinking on the part of Never-Trumpers and Trumpers. We had the Cold War won by then and we were in the process of trying to provide the Soviet Union with a soft landing when the Soviet Empire finally collapsed.. Reagan was in the Soviet Union with the same message as  Sanders. In 1988, there was genuine concern about too hard of a landing for the Soviets - given their nukes. We were in the process of showing them they could enter the first world.

    Reagan gave Gorbachev (Soviet leader who accepted the Soviets had lost the Cold War for those of you born after the Cold War) a copy of the movie - "Friendly Persuasion." The screenwriter of that film was blacklisted for "Soviet sympathies" in the 50's. It was a story of a Quaker family during the Civil War and how they grappled with their devotion to non-violence. Soviet hardliners wanted take a North Korean stance and/or use their nukes. Gorbachev wanted to open the Soviet empire to the West and modernity. There was great concern Gorbachev would be taken out by the hardliners. Our respectful and thoughtful diplomacy (open arms) emboldened younger Soviets to want to be part of the West. 

    Sanders played a small roll with many others in advancing that open arms approach. By telling Soviet citizens they could live better, he allowed them to dream of a better life. He and Reagan had the same central message to younger Soviets. It worked.

    LOL... Nice spin there, chief. Guess what? If the Bern gets the nod, which I hope he does, that video will be played over and over again and it ain't going to help your cause.  Keep spinning though, it's entertaining. 

  5. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I "discovered" rush in 1976, with the 2112 release.  I backfilled the first 3 albums from there, and I was off and running through Moving Pictures.  I always thought Peart was a monster, but it took me years to realize just how brilliant Geddy & Alex were as players in their own right.  I knew the songwriting was nerdy and academically complex, with goofy lyrics, but I didn't care.  I really dug that band, at least until their New Wave phase hit.

    But Peart was always the anchor and the touchstone of greatness.  He gets criticized for his metronomic style, but to me, that's like criticizing Earl Campbell for his power.  I mean, wasn't that his job?  Yeah, he wasn't John Bonham.  John Bonham wasn't Neil Peart.

    This stings, and it's up there with SRV and a couple of others.  I'm not inclined to rank the pain of a death, and I'm for damn sure not looking forward to any more, but I guess that's where we are at this point in the rock era.  Fuck.

    Well said, jimmy. I was in high school when 2112 came out and I could not believe the sound coming from those three guys. Isn't my favorite of theirs, but it was my eye opener. RIP

  6. 5 hours ago, Mole said:

    At least Vader used his anger productively. I'd vote for the regenerated corpse of Karl Marx at this point. 

    Pretty sure most of the people on this board would vote for a live Karl Marx over Trump. Most likely any other GOP that would run as well.

  7. 50+ years in Texas and have spent a total of 10 days in Dfw.  No idea about your part of Texas. Anything within 75 miles of Dallas is Dallas to the rest of Texas.


    Ok, I see you are from Dallas. My bad. LOL


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