russiainsider--2020-02-27--We Are About to See How Malleable UK Courts Are to US Bullying - the Assange Drama

The CIA and Pentagon are saying , in effect , “ Trust Us.
” What could possibly go wrong ?
— aside from a publisher of accurate information spending the rest of his life in prison .
We are about to see how malleable the British Court system is to diktat from Washington .
Will the British embrace the flimsiest of circumstantial “ evidence ” from U.S. security services that have axes to grind ?
Will British officials turn their back on 800 years of progress on the human rights wrested from King John at Runnymede ?
Are there today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the obscene “ legal ” proceedings aimed at extraditing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to a U.S. prison for publishing the truth about U.S. and UK war crimes ?
At Monday ’ s court hearing in London , James Lewis QC , argued the U.S. case using information the U.S. gave him from “ secret sources ” in Iraq and Afghanistan .
Here ’ s Mr. Lewis : With the CIA and Defense Department saying , in effect , “ Trust Us ” , what could possibly go wrong ?
— aside from a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his life in prison — and all future journalists running the same risk , should they run afoul of U.S. authorities .
Unless the British Court system has become totally subservient to U.S. influence , James Lewis QC will have to do better in the coming weeks to plausibly pin a crime on Julian Assange .
Still , do not underestimate British “ flexibility ” in reaction to orders from Washington .
Recall , for example , that just a short , but havoc-filled 17 years ago , UK Attorney General Lord @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goldsmith was persuaded to abruptly reverse his opinion on the upcoming U.S./UK unprovoked attack on Iraq from “ illegal ” to “ legal ” , for which he was awarded yet additional British honorifics .
Do President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Boris Johnson really wish to take their cue from the sorry pair of Bush and Blair ?
We never did learn very much about the “ secret sources ” that were said to be behind all the poppycock about those elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq , did we ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lewis claimed that hundreds of people across the world had to be warned after the WikiLeaks disclosures .
Some had to be relocated .
Others later disappeared , he said .
But wait .
He was careful to indicate that the U.S. would not try to prove that these events resulted directly from the disclosures .
( Is this not what was once called “ hearsay ” ? )
As an ominous coda to his presentation , Lewis somberly added that some WikiLeaks information was found at Osama bin Laden ’ s hideout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published copious materials on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq , and State Department cables , there was a hue and cry regarding the “ inevitable ” damage to U.S. assets and equities .
On Nov. 30 , 2010 , then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered a more candid appraisal of risks and damage from the WikiLeaks disclosures .
“ Now , I ’ ve heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a meltdown , as a game-changer , and so on .
I think — I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … We are still essentially , as has been said before , the indispensable nation .
So other nations will continue to work with us .
We will continue to share sensitive information with one another .
[ Emphasis added . ]
Is this embarrassing ?
Yes .
Is it awkward ?
Yes .
Consequences for U.S. foreign policy ?
I think fairly modest.
” Shortly after Gates ’ s unusually frank correction , politicians and pundits adjusted their sights on Assange , to allegations that he was a “ terrorist.
” Then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Assange was a “ high-tech terrorist ” , and CNN invited a slew of talking heads to confirm the new meme : Yes indeed , Assange clearly was a terrorist .
Apparently , someone told CNN it might look a little better if they added another head for balance .
I became the token head “ for balance ” — the patsy .
CNN ’ s Don Lemon asked me on Dec. 12 , 2010 to explain why many of my VIPS colleagues and I could conceivably think Assange was not a terrorist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ So , you don ’ t like the way he ’ s been labeled a terrorist or a hacker ?
You actually think that he ’ s a journalist .
I want to get that correct.
” Lemon was right about one thing : “ That will have to be the last word.
” Indeed , I have not been invited onto CNN since .
When I had a chance to review the show , I found it so transparent that I actually felt a bit sorry for Lemon who , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — and perhaps a family to feed .
That turned out to be silly ; he got promoted and now has his on show on CNN .
The gunsight video-cum-audio showing the cold-blooded killing of at least 12 Iraqi civilians , including two Reuters journalists , by gunners in a U.S. Apache helicopter on July 12 , 2007 during the “ surge ” of U.S. forces into the Baghdad area needs to accompany any story on WikiLeaks ’ revelations ; this whether or not it is given much play at the hearing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video will provide some idea as to why Private Chelsea Manning was moved to give it to WikiLeaks .
Every American should watch this video to get some sense of the kind of war crimes WikiLeaks exposed — accurately , with original footage — and to understand why Establishment Washington got so angry at Assange and remains hell bent on making an example of him .
For broader perspective on events surrounding Manning ’ s decision to give the video to WikiLeaks , there is no better source than the account given by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Her work “ Shooters Walk Free , Whistleblower Jailed ” appeared first on the German TV program Panorama ; it is only 12 minutes long , but speaks volumes .
There was nothing like it at the time , so Panorama was persuaded to prepare a version , with Sonia ’ s own voice-over , for English speakers .
Strongly recommended .
( Kennebeck later directed/produced the award winning documentary film about drone warfare , “ National Bird ” ( 2016 ) .
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word , a publishing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Saviour in Washington , DC .
He was an Army/Infantry and CIA intelligence analyst for three decades , and personally conducted the early morning briefings of The President ’ s Daily Brief from 1981 to 1985 .
He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity ( VIPS ) .

The CIA and Pentagon are saying, in effect, “Trust Us.” What could possibly go wrong? — aside from a publisher of accurate information spending the rest of his life in prison .
We are about to see how malleable the British Court system is to diktat from Washington. Will the British embrace the flimsiest of circumstantial “evidence” from U.S. security services that have axes to grind?
Will British officials turn their back on 800 years of progress on the human rights wrested from King John at Runnymede? Are there today no “English Nobles” to thwart the obscene “legal” proceedings aimed at extraditing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to a U.S. prison for publishing the truth about U.S. and UK war crimes?
At Monday’s court hearing in London, James Lewis QC, argued the U.S. case using information the U.S. gave him from “secret sources” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here’s Mr. Lewis:
“The U.S. is aware of sources, whose unredacted names and other identifying information were contained in classified documents published by WikiLeaks, who subsequently disappeared, although the US can’t prove at this point that their disappearance was the result of being outed by WikiLeaks.”
With the CIA and Defense Department saying, in effect, “Trust Us”, what could possibly go wrong? — aside from a publisher of accurate information spending the rest of his life in prison — and all future journalists running the same risk, should they run afoul of U.S. authorities.
Lewis: Offered no proof lives were endangered.
Unless the British Court system has become totally subservient to U.S. influence, James Lewis QC will have to do better in the coming weeks to plausibly pin a crime on Julian Assange.
Still, do not underestimate British “flexibility” in reaction to orders from Washington. Recall, for example, that just a short, but havoc-filled 17 years ago, UK Attorney General Lord Peter Henry QC (now Baron) Goldsmith was persuaded to abruptly reverse his opinion on the upcoming U.S./UK unprovoked attack on Iraq from “illegal” to “legal”, for which he was awarded yet additional British honorifics.
Do President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Boris Johnson really wish to take their cue from the sorry pair of Bush and Blair? We never did learn very much about the “secret sources” that were said to be behind all the poppycock about those elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, did we?
Once Called ‘Hearsay’
Speaking on behalf of U.S. officialdom, Lewis claimed that hundreds of people across the world had to be warned after the WikiLeaks disclosures. Some had to be relocated. Others later disappeared, he said. But wait. He was careful to indicate that the U.S. would not try to prove that these events resulted directly from the disclosures. (Is this not what was once called “hearsay”?)
As an ominous coda to his presentation, Lewis somberly added that some WikiLeaks information was found at Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan. Aha!
Former CIA Director (and later Defense Secretary) Robert Gates.
‘Significantly Overwrought’
After WikiLeaks published copious materials on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and State Department cables, there was a hue and cry regarding the “inevitable” damage to U.S. assets and equities. On Nov. 30, 2010, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered a more candid appraisal of risks and damage from the WikiLeaks disclosures.
Here’s Gates at a formal Pentagon news briefing:
“Now, I’ve heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a meltdown, as a game-changer, and so on. I think — I think those descriptions are fairly significantly overwrought … We are still essentially, as has been said before, the indispensable nation. So other nations will continue to work with us. We will continue to share sensitive information with one another. [Emphasis added.] Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest.”
Shortly after Gates’s unusually frank correction, politicians and pundits adjusted their sights on Assange, to allegations that he was a “terrorist.” Then Vice President Joe Biden said publicly that Assange was a “high-tech terrorist”, and CNN invited a slew of talking heads to confirm the new meme: Yes indeed, Assange clearly was a terrorist.
Apparently, someone told CNN it might look a little better if they added another head for balance. I became the token head “for balance” — the patsy.
CNN’s Don Lemon asked me on Dec. 12, 2010 to explain why many of my VIPS colleagues and I could conceivably think Assange was not a terrorist, but rather a journalist.
Lemon: “So, you don’t like the way he’s been labeled a terrorist or a hacker? You actually think that he’s a journalist. I want to get that correct.”
Lemon was right about one thing: “That will have to be the last word.” Indeed, I have not been invited onto CNN since.
When I had a chance to review the show, I found it so transparent that I actually felt a bit sorry for Lemon who, after all, clearly had his instructions — and perhaps a family to feed. That turned out to be silly; he got promoted and now has his on show on CNN.
Collateral Murder
The gunsight video-cum-audio showing the cold-blooded killing of at least 12 Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by gunners in a U.S. Apache helicopter on July 12, 2007 during the “surge” of U.S. forces into the Baghdad area needs to accompany any story on WikiLeaks’ revelations; this whether or not it is given much play at the hearing in the days ahead. Watching this 18-minute video will provide some idea as to why Private Chelsea Manning was moved to give it to WikiLeaks.
Every American should watch this video to get some sense of the kind of war crimes WikiLeaks exposed — accurately, with original footage — and to understand why Establishment Washington got so angry at Assange and remains hell bent on making an example of him.
For broader perspective on events surrounding Manning’s decision to give the video to WikiLeaks, there is no better source than the account given by video-maker Sonia Kennebeck, nee Mayr.
Her work “Shooters Walk Free, Whistleblower Jailed” appeared first on the German TV program Panorama; it is only 12 minutes long, but speaks volumes.
There was nothing like it at the time, so Panorama was persuaded to prepare a version, with Sonia’s own voice-over, for English speakers. Strongly recommended. (Kennebeck later directed/produced the award winning documentary film about drone warfare, “National Bird” (2016).
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. He was an Army/Infantry and CIA intelligence analyst for three decades, and personally conducted the early morning briefings of The President’s Daily Brief from 1981 to 1985. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).


russiainsider--2020-02-27--BOMBSHELL: Staff Writing Legal Opinions for Charlottesville Judge Hold Egregious Conflicts of Intere

BOMBSHELL: Staff Writing Legal Opinions for Charlottesville Judge Hold Egregious Conflicts of Interest

The judge , Norman Moon , is 84 years old and is known to fall asleep during hearings .
Welcome to woke American justice .
New information uncovered by Jason Kessler reveals that the judiciary clerks drafting opinions for Western District of Virginia federal Judge Norman Moon are directly linked to parties in cases he is presiding over .
The above image , obtained from Facebook , shows two clerks currently working under Moon , Hutton Marshall ( left ) and Joshua LeFebvre ( right , circled in blue ) , posing with Elizabeth Ann Sines ( center ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Sines referring to the group as `` BEST OF FRIENDS . ''
Sines is the lead plaintiff in Roberta Kaplan 's Sines v. Kessler , which Judge Norman Moon and staff members Marshall and LeFebvre are overseeing , demonstrating a shocking conflict of interest .
Kaplan has in the past implied that she has special access to the court .
She is currently touring the country with Sines to build publicity for the suit Moon 's court has pushed through to trial .
According to information on LinkedIn , in 2017 Marshall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead counsel in Sines v. Kessler , when she was Communications Director at the Office of the New York State Attorney General .
A screenshot of Marshall 's friends list shows links to self-admitted members of `` antifa . ''
Lefebvre is named in a 2017 article published by the University of Virginia School of Law as an intimate friend of Sines , who was with her immediately after the car incident that killed Heather Heyer .
Aside from his close friendship with Sines , Lefebve may actually be a witness in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Both Marshall and LeFebvre have long histories of radical left-wing activism .
95 % of federal judges task their clerks with ghostwriting and researching legal opinions .
It is doubtful that 84-year-old Moon , who has been seen falling asleep during proceedings , is an exception to the rule .
Last month , Moon and his clerks issued a ruling in Sines v. Kessler calling for defendant Elliot Kline to be thrown in jail for `` contempt , '' almost unheard of in civil cases , over forgetting the password to a three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over two cellphones that the Plaintiffs later `` lost . ''
Moon 's office has handled most of the high profile civil and criminal cases relating to nationalists and Donald Trump supporters in Charlottesville .
His rulings consistently suggest extreme political prejudice against defendants .
His clerks in previous years may also be to blame .
According to a document uncovered by National Justice , the clerk helping author important opinions deciding the fate of accused `` white nationalists '' and `` anti-Semites '' for Moon during the 2018 term was Dascher Pasco @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Jewish nationalist causes and has previously been employed by the Israeli government .
Pasco has made all of her social media pages private .
Her LinkedIn is open , but omits her stint as Judge Moon 's clerk .
This is unusual behavior , federal clerkships are coveted among law students as the most prestigious experience you can put on a resume .
A biography published by an organization promoting Israel called iTrek states that Pasco has led numerous BirthRight trips and is `` very involved '' in the Jewish Law Students @ @ @ @ @ @ @ motivation for obtaining a law degree is to engage in explicit Jewish ethnic activism and work in the state of Israel .
A separate record of Pasco 's activities shows that she was once directly employed by the Israeli government through Masa Israel Journey .
Kaplan and Integrity First for America have repeatedly pitched their lawsuit as a specifically Jewish ethnic crusade to crush nationalism in the Trump era .
Pasco should 've recused herself from cases involving individuals viewed by Jewish groups she belongs to as enemies , but instead took an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kessler , but related controversial criminal prosecutions that have been thrown out as unconstitutional by Moon 's equivalents in other districts .
While Pasco 's Jewishness on its own is not evidence of bias , her heavy engagement with Jewish nationalist causes and ties to foreign governments require a second look into every dubious ruling emanating from Moon 's court .
Relevant players have indicated that they will be taking legal action based on this new evidence .
This will compel higher courts to either codify this brazen corruption or uphold the most @ @ @ @ @

The judge, Norman Moon, is 84 years old and is known to fall asleep during hearings. Welcome to woke American justice.
New information uncovered by Jason Kessler reveals that the judiciary clerks drafting opinions for Western District of Virginia federal Judge Norman Moon are directly linked to parties in cases he is presiding over.
The above image, obtained from Facebook, shows two clerks currently working under Moon, Hutton Marshall (left) and Joshua LeFebvre (right, circled in blue), posing with Elizabeth Ann Sines (center). Beneath the image is a captioned comment from Sines referring to the group as "BEST OF FRIENDS."
Sines is the lead plaintiff in Roberta Kaplan's Sines v. Kessler, which Judge Norman Moon and staff members Marshall and LeFebvre are overseeing, demonstrating a shocking conflict of interest. Kaplan has in the past implied that she has special access to the court. She is currently touring the country with Sines to build publicity for the suit Moon's court has pushed through to trial.
According to information on LinkedIn, in 2017 Marshall also interned with Amy Spitalnick, the lead counsel in Sines v. Kessler, when she was Communications Director at the Office of the New York State Attorney General. A screenshot of Marshall's friends list shows links to self-admitted members of "antifa."
Lefebvre is named in a 2017 article published by the University of Virginia School of Law as an intimate friend of Sines, who was with her immediately after the car incident that killed Heather Heyer. Aside from his close friendship with Sines, Lefebve may actually be a witness in the case he is helping rule on. Both Marshall and LeFebvre have long histories of radical left-wing activism.
95% of federal judges task their clerks with ghostwriting and researching legal opinions. It is doubtful that 84-year-old Moon, who has been seen falling asleep during proceedings, is an exception to the rule.
Last month, Moon and his clerks issued a ruling in Sines v. Kessler calling for defendant Elliot Kline to be thrown in jail for "contempt," almost unheard of in civil cases, over forgetting the password to a three year old e-mail address and not handing over two cellphones that the Plaintiffs later "lost."
Israeli Authoring Legal Opinions in Moon's Court
Moon's office has handled most of the high profile civil and criminal cases relating to nationalists and Donald Trump supporters in Charlottesville. His rulings consistently suggest extreme political prejudice against defendants. His clerks in previous years may also be to blame.
According to a document uncovered by National Justice, the clerk helping author important opinions deciding the fate of accused "white nationalists" and "anti-Semites" for Moon during the 2018 term was Dascher Pasco, an Israeli citizen who is active in Jewish nationalist causes and has previously been employed by the Israeli government.
Pasco has made all of her social media pages private. Her LinkedIn is open, but omits her stint as Judge Moon's clerk. This is unusual behavior, federal clerkships are coveted among law students as the most prestigious experience you can put on a resume.
A biography published by an organization promoting Israel called iTrek states that Pasco has led numerous BirthRight trips and is "very involved" in the Jewish Law Students Association. Pasco states that her main motivation for obtaining a law degree is to engage in explicit Jewish ethnic activism and work in the state of Israel. A separate record of Pasco's activities shows that she was once directly employed by the Israeli government through Masa Israel Journey.
Kaplan and Integrity First for America have repeatedly pitched their lawsuit as a specifically Jewish ethnic crusade to crush nationalism in the Trump era. Pasco should've recused herself from cases involving individuals viewed by Jewish groups she belongs to as enemies, but instead took an active role in not just Sines v. Kessler, but related controversial criminal prosecutions that have been thrown out as unconstitutional by Moon's equivalents in other districts.
While Pasco's Jewishness on its own is not evidence of bias, her heavy engagement with Jewish nationalist causes and ties to foreign governments require a second look into every dubious ruling emanating from Moon's court.
Relevant players have indicated that they will be taking legal action based on this new evidence. This will compel higher courts to either codify this brazen corruption or uphold the most minimum standards of law.


russiainsider--2020-03-01--High Quality Online Tour of Stunning Cathedral In Kiev (St. Sophia)

Now , the beauty of secrets of the famous cathedral , St. Sophia 's , are accessible to all Orthodox faithful worldwide , even for those who can not visit Kiev St. Sophia ’ s Cathedral in Kiev is a beautiful 11th-century monument of Kievan Rus ’ , erected by Yaroslav the Wise .
It is one of Ukraine ’ s best known landmarks and was the first site to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List along with the Kiev Caves Lavra complex .
Now , the beauty of secrets of the famous cathedral are accessible to all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who can not visit Kiev , as the National Kievan Sophia Museum has launched a high-quality virtual tour online .
“ Thanks to the 3D tour , everyone can see St. Sophia ’ s Cathedral in great detail , ” notes the museum website .
The tour provides an in-depth look at the cathedral ’ s three floors , with multiple rooms , and beautiful and well-preserved ancient icons .
The tour also provides information on several notable icons and sites within the cathedral .
A virtual tour of the Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra @ @ @ @ @

Now, the beauty of secrets of the famous cathedral, St. Sophia's, are accessible to all Orthodox faithful worldwide, even for those who cannot visit Kiev
St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kiev is a beautiful 11th-century monument of Kievan Rus’, erected by Yaroslav the Wise. It is one of Ukraine’s best known landmarks and was the first site to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List along with the Kiev Caves Lavra complex.
Now, the beauty of secrets of the famous cathedral are accessible to all Orthodox faithful worldwide, even for those who cannot visit Kiev, as the National Kievan Sophia Museum has launched a high-quality virtual tour online.
“Thanks to the 3D tour, everyone can see St. Sophia’s Cathedral in great detail,” notes the museum website.
The tour provides an in-depth look at the cathedral’s three floors, with multiple rooms, and beautiful and well-preserved ancient icons. The tour also provides information on several notable icons and sites within the cathedral.
A virtual tour of the Holy Dormition-Svyatogorsk Lavra was also recently launched.


russiainsider--2020-02-29--A Russian Woman Working as a College Professor in the US Writes About the Sovietization of Amerika

I ’ m in the editing and rewriting stage of Live Not By Lies now , but I couldn ’ t pass up the opportunity to talk yesterday with a woman I ’ ll call “ Clarissa , ” whose stories were so good that I ’ m weaving them into the book ’ s narrative .
Clarissa is a college professor who emigrated to the US from Russia as a young woman , a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union .
She is yet another ex-Soviet bloc person who is extremely anxious about the emergence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t use her real name , because she fears professional retaliation .
It should tell us something that not a single academic from a former communist country that I interviewed for this book was willing to speak using their own name — this , in the Land of the Free .
Why not ?
Because they were afraid of facing professional consequences for speaking out against identity politics and the “ social justice ” regime .
Below , some quotes from our interview : I have the feeling of extreme frustration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former Soviet space are constantly dismissed .
I have no idea why .
I think it happens because people still think that the ideas that existed in the Soviet Union are basically good – that it was the execution that was at times excessive .
My father says what happened to us was not about the economic system .
The economic system was just an excuse .
This could happen anywhere – even under capitalism .
Totalitarianism is something that takes away from people the unbearable burden of freedom .
It allows many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That is pleasant in many senses .
There was a practice in the Soviet Union where people would be told to get together in groups at work and write letters to the newspaper to denounce famous poets or artists .
We see that today in Twitter .
People love that because it allows a little person to completely destroy somebody who has done something great .
This is very human .
Once you have removed any moral or religious obstacles to that behavior , what ’ s to stop anybody ?
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had a teacher of Russian literature .
I really admired her .
What we didn ’ t know was that her father was a high ranking KGB officer .
He found out that a little girl in our class , Masha , was attending church with her parents , and not only that , but was singing in the choir .
The teacher one day pulled that little girl out in the class and for an hour unleashed a torrent of abuse on this child .
For what ?
The feeling of power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rest of us .
This is not happening right now in the US , but it ’ s conceivable .
It ’ s American exceptionalism .
You all think you ’ re such special people that you ’ re going to do it right .
If socialism comes here , don ’ t worry , we ’ ll make it happen in the correct way .
Not true !
Ten years ago if you had told me I would be seeing this in the US , I would have laughed in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happening .
I ’ m seeing it happening to my friends .
It ’ s like their minds are disintegrating .
Once your religion is taken away , you still have a need for an overarching moral law .
You ’ re going to look for it somewhere else , even outside religion .
We ’ re seeing it now with this identity politics .
… In the Soviet Union when I was young , cynicism was everywhere .
Nobody believed in anything .
Everybody just went through the motions .
I used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing in the world .
It ’ s not .
The worst thing in the world is the lack of cynicism and critical difference , and accepting everything uncritically .
These people today , they really believe all this woke ideology .
And that ’ s what ’ s really scary I have a friend who is very woke .
The woke ideology is the belief is that if somebody departs from the dogma , even by an inch , that person is an evil , hate-filled bigot .
When I disagree with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genuinely can ’ t comprehend that I disagree with her .
She knows I ’ m a good person , but here I am disagreeing with her .
She can ’ t understand it .
And she ’ s an educated person !
A college professor .
The intellectuals are playing a dangerous game .
They think they can control it .
They think that once their ideas are imposed on society , they can control it .
That ’ s ludicrous .
They ’ re going to be the first ones the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they can be the first ones to spot the flaws in the system .
Nobody is going to be safe .
Nobody can pledge enough allegiance to this kind of system to protect themselves .
I mentor early career academics .
I used to enjoy it , but not anymore .
These graduate students are not producing scholarship .
They ’ re just turning in collections of woke slogans .
I don ’ t even know what to do with that .
When we start talking to the younger academics , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for them .
They were taught this way , and they ’ re reproducing it .
I see this from students who come to college .
It seems like all they get in the schools is dogma .
They are blank slates .
They have no real knowledge of anything – they just repeat slogans , and when you ask them to explain it , they turn blank .
In the Soviet Union , when you were a student and assigned to write a paper , you knew that the thing to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ books in the library and copy the relevant articles , word for word , with no deviations .
That was your paper .
When my family left , we arrived in Canada , and I entered the university there .
When I was assigned my first paper , I found it impossible to believe that the teacher really did want me to think for myself .
It was an incredible feeling !
To think about something , and to say what I really thought about it !
It was so weird , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ m seeing young people who are just like we were in the Soviet Union .
They are afraid to think for themselves .
They only want to know what the “ right ” answer is , and repeat it .
It ’ s depressing .
The problem is that many people still associate totalitarianism with an all-powerful state , and if it doesn ’ t come from the state , it ’ s not totalitarianism .
What we ’ re dealing with now is not coming from the state .
None of us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to send secret police and take us to the dungeon .
That ’ s not going to happen .
No .
We ’ re afraid of being humiliated and deprived of a living .
Of being a pariah , of being marginalized , unpersonned , cancelled .
You don ’ t need the government for that , especially in the age of social media .
It wasn ’ t the government hounding those Covington Catholic boys , or J.K. Rowling .
Voting for someone [ as a protest against political correctness ] is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solve this problem .
Since I started going to church a couple of years ago , I began to understand what was taken from us .
I feel incredibly angry that we were deprived of something that ’ s such a huge part of our culture and civilization , that it taken from us .
I take my little girl to church and Sunday school .
I want my child to know this so she doesn ’ t have to discover it in her forties , and feel clumsy .
I wish we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ on my campus ] .
I know a couple of other professors on campus who I suspect are one of us .
But everybody is so closeted , it ’ s impossible to talk about it .
We have this bias response team that prowls the campus looking for signs of non-compliance , and to justify their existence .
We had the same thing in the Soviet Union .
Right now they ’ re on campus , but eventually , they ’ re going to be in every workplace .
If you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diversity , then you can treat your workers however you like , and nobody will care .
All your co-workers are enemies .
Either they can get you in trouble , or they are out to destroy you with an accusation .
It destroys all sorts of uncontrollable communities – friendship , families , church communities .
When you set people against each other , they are much easier to control .
This is what it was like under totalitarianism .
I hope in this book you can convey a sense of urgency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from this , and not have to confront it , you ’ re dreaming .
This is coming for everybody .
This is coming soon , and people have to think about it now .
If you know how you ’ re going to respond when the persecution comes , you will be in a better position to react to it .

I’m in the editing and rewriting stage of Live Not By Lies now, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk yesterday with a woman I’ll call “Clarissa,” whose stories were so good that I’m weaving them into the book’s narrative.
Clarissa is a college professor who emigrated to the US from Russia as a young woman, a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union. She is yet another ex-Soviet bloc person who is extremely anxious about the emergence of soft totalitarianism here. Of course she can’t use her real name, because she fears professional retaliation. It should tell us something that not a single academic from a former communist country that I interviewed for this book was willing to speak using their own name — this, in the Land of the Free. Why not? Because they were afraid of facing professional consequences for speaking out against identity politics and the “social justice” regime. Below, some quotes from our interview:
I have the feeling of extreme frustration. Our stories of people in the former Soviet space are constantly dismissed. I have no idea why. I think it happens because people still think that the ideas that existed in the Soviet Union are basically good – that it was the execution that was at times excessive. My father says what happened to us was not about the economic system. The economic system was just an excuse. This could happen anywhere – even under capitalism.
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Totalitarianism is something that takes away from people the unbearable burden of freedom. It allows many people to hound and persecute with impunity. That is pleasant in many senses. There was a practice in the Soviet Union where people would be told to get together in groups at work and write letters to the newspaper to denounce famous poets or artists. We see that today in Twitter. People love that because it allows a little person to completely destroy somebody who has done something great.
This is very human. Once you have removed any moral or religious obstacles to that behavior, what’s to stop anybody?
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When I was nine years old, I had a teacher of Russian literature. I really admired her. What we didn’t know was that her father was a high ranking KGB officer. He found out that a little girl in our class, Masha, was attending church with her parents, and not only that, but was singing in the choir. The teacher one day pulled that little girl out in the class and for an hour unleashed a torrent of abuse on this child. For what? The feeling of power of persecuting that child in front of the rest of us. This is not happening right now in the US, but it’s conceivable.
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(On American vulnerability to totalitarianism)
It’s American exceptionalism. You all think you’re such special people that you’re going to do it right. If socialism comes here, don’t worry, we’ll make it happen in the correct way. Not true! Ten years ago if you had told me I would be seeing this in the US, I would have laughed in your face. But now it’s happening. I’m seeing it happening to my friends. It’s like their minds are disintegrating.
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Once your religion is taken away, you still have a need for an overarching moral law. You’re going to look for it somewhere else, even outside religion. We’re seeing it now with this identity politics. … In the Soviet Union when I was young, cynicism was everywhere. Nobody believed in anything. Everybody just went through the motions. I used to think that cynicism was the worst thing in the world. It’s not. The worst thing in the world is the lack of cynicism and critical difference, and accepting everything uncritically. These people today, they really believe all this woke ideology. And that’s what’s really scary
I have a friend who is very woke. The woke ideology is the belief is that if somebody departs from the dogma, even by an inch, that person is an evil, hate-filled bigot. When I disagree with her, I can see that she genuinely can’t comprehend that I disagree with her. She knows I’m a good person, but here I am disagreeing with her. She can’t understand it. And she’s an educated person! A college professor.
The intellectuals are playing a dangerous game. They think they can control it. They think that once their ideas are imposed on society, they can control it. That’s ludicrous. They’re going to be the first ones the system turns on, because as intellectuals, they can be the first ones to spot the flaws in the system.
Nobody is going to be safe. Nobody can pledge enough allegiance to this kind of system to protect themselves.
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I mentor early career academics. I used to enjoy it, but not anymore. These graduate students are not producing scholarship. They’re just turning in collections of woke slogans. I don’t even know what to do with that. When we start talking to the younger academics, they don’t understand what we want for them. They were taught this way, and they’re reproducing it. I see this from students who come to college. It seems like all they get in the schools is dogma. They are blank slates. They have no real knowledge of anything – they just repeat slogans, and when you ask them to explain it, they turn blank.
In the Soviet Union, when you were a student and assigned to write a paper, you knew that the thing to do was to go straight to the correct books in the library and copy the relevant articles, word for word, with no deviations. That was your paper. When my family left, we arrived in Canada, and I entered the university there. When I was assigned my first paper, I found it impossible to believe that the teacher really did want me to think for myself. It was an incredible feeling! To think about something, and to say what I really thought about it! It was so weird, but so liberating.
Now, I’m seeing young people who are just like we were in the Soviet Union. They are afraid to think for themselves. They only want to know what the “right” answer is, and repeat it. It’s depressing.
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The problem is that many people still associate totalitarianism with an all-powerful state, and if it doesn’t come from the state, it’s not totalitarianism. What we’re dealing with now is not coming from the state. None of us are afraid that the government is going to send secret police and take us to the dungeon. That’s not going to happen. No. We’re afraid of being humiliated and deprived of a living. Of being a pariah, of being marginalized, unpersonned, cancelled. You don’t need the government for that, especially in the age of social media. It wasn’t the government hounding those Covington Catholic boys, or J.K. Rowling.
Voting for someone [as a protest against political correctness] is wonderful, but the government cannot solve this problem.
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Since I started going to church a couple of years ago, I began to understand what was taken from us. I feel incredibly angry that we were deprived of something that’s such a huge part of our culture and civilization, that it taken from us. I take my little girl to church and Sunday school. I want my child to know this so she doesn’t have to discover it in her forties, and feel clumsy.
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I wish we had some form of a secret handshake [on my campus]. I know a couple of other professors on campus who I suspect are one of us. But everybody is so closeted, it’s impossible to talk about it.
We have this bias response team that prowls the campus looking for signs of non-compliance, and to justify their existence. We had the same thing in the Soviet Union. Right now they’re on campus, but eventually, they’re going to be in every workplace. If you have everybody in your workplace trained in diversity, then you can treat your workers however you like, and nobody will care.
(On the culture created by diversity and sensitivity training in the workplace)
All your co-workers are enemies. Either they can get you in trouble, or they are out to destroy you with an accusation. It destroys all sorts of uncontrollable communities – friendship, families, church communities. When you set people against each other, they are much easier to control. This is what it was like under totalitarianism.
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I hope in this book you can convey a sense of urgency. If you think you can hide from this, and not have to confront it, you’re dreaming. This is coming for everybody. This is coming soon, and people have to think about it now. If you know how you’re going to respond when the persecution comes, you will be in a better position to react to it.


russiainsider--2020-02-29--Bernie Fans Are Going to Feel Pain and Anger Over the Coming Months - It Will Wake Them Up (Audio -

Bernie Fans Are Going to Feel Pain and Anger Over the Coming Months - It Will Wake Them Up (Audio - Transcript)

Bernie supporters are about to learn the hard way that no matter how much money you raise , no matter how much you fight , no matter how sincere your candidate is , if your candidate is anti-establishment , he will fail .
Even if you get him into office , he wo n't change anything that matters .
Because the system no longer exists to serve the people .
Sanders has become the first legitimate threat to establishment power since Trump in 2016 , and the establishment is striking back .
Bernie is already in the cross hairs of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bros are about to be put through the same wringer that Trump supporters have been going through for 4 years .
It 'll hurt , but pain is a good teacher .
Disillusionment is what we need before anyone is willing to change anything .
The hosts of the FTN podcast predict that this election cycle might be just the experience Bernie supporters need to draw the same conclusions so many Trump supporters already have : that whether you vote left or right , before the will of the people can be represented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go .
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Transcript : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be some errors , but it is surprisingly accurate .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:00:08 ] It 's time to turn back to the horse face horse race as strategies have really started to crystallize .
Bernie Sanders is now maintaining a double digit lead over the rest of the field , and Bloomberg has surged to a second in many polls .
And once a long shot speculation , the thought of a brokered convention has now become a widespread force for foregone foreskin , foregone conclusion .
And the impeachment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , it 's amazing , James , this totally coincidental timing of an intel briefing alleging that Russia is interfering on behalf of Donald Trump and Bernie .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:00:52 ] So if you 're sitting out there saying this is tin foil , you know , the people that straw manning , of course , the people that are out there saying this is tin foil .
You know , these are conspiracy theories .
This is a common charge levied by the media .
If these are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so perfectly choreographed ?
I 've made this point before .
Look , why .
Why are n't why are n't if the world is all these disparate pieces , it 's this like beautiful organic biology , like diversity and all this stuff .
Why are n't the Hong Kong protests happening at the same time as this stuff ?
Like , why is that the focus ?
Why is Venezuela a separate thing ?
It 's almost like the world is this stage and we get to watch the play put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the media , because that 's what it is .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:01:41 ] Right .
Like this this intel briefing shows up out of out of nowhere .
And I guess on one hand you could say , oh , wow , they 're going back to the original playbook .
But the original playbook works really well .
And they 're now deploying that strategy on Bernie Sanders .
It 's just really funny that if Russia , as this sort of independent organic object out there , its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whole time , why is n't that news popping up in the middle of Corona Chan reporting or .
I do n't know .
At Christmas .
Like , why are they why is it just happened to be now ?
Like as Bernie Sanders is surging ahead in the lead , as Donald Trump 's impeachment is over , it 's like it 's almost like a pivot .
James , is n't it perfect choreography .
James Allsup : [ 00:02:27 ] Sure .
And the day after Bloomberg bungles his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the US announces additional actions against Russian contractors and European contractors involved in building Russian pipelines , it 's all very fitting .
And it all fits together very nicely .
And if you 're not if you 're not aware of these other machinations that are going on , one may be led to to believe that , oh , wow , you 're Russia .
James Allsup : [ 00:02:51 ] They 're hacking the election just like just like they did with Trump .
James Allsup : [ 00:02:55 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finds himself in a very unenviable position , as he is so commonly this election cycle where he gave credence to these ideas over the last four years .
He was out there saying , yes , Russian interference is real , Russian hacking is real .
And he now has to find himself defending against that charge of benefiting from Russian hackers .
And of course , Bernie did this as well with with Trump supporters indicating that Trump was responsible for the violent rhetoric and on and on and on .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ against him .
So it really is remarkable to see this playbook .
They sort of tested and prodded and and started fighting around Trump in 2016 .
Now being deployed almost verbatim right back against Bernie .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:03:42 ] Yeah .
And it 's like I guess Bernie thought that maybe he could be immune from it because he 's Jewish .
He thought that they were not going to come after him in this way .
Like the Russia meme is something only reserved for a bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is , is , no , they 're going to deploy this to any outsider who threatens to disrupt their system .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:04:03 ] And they 're doing the same thing against Bernie 's supporters as well .
They 're saying that that a lot of the ugly stuff he said , you know , Bernie was saying in 2016 , Russia used Internet propaganda to sow division in our country .
And my understanding is that they 're doing it again in 2020 .
Some of the some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from our real supporters .
So he 's even going so far now that Trump 's credit , Trump never threw his own supporters under the bus .
And Bernie , maybe he 's just a little bit new at this .
He 's caught off guard .
He 's not really expecting this sort of strategy to be deployed against him .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:04:48 ] It 's like Bernie , like your supporters are a real and authentic .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from anybody else .
So if you 're going to buy this bit that , oh , are this ugly stuff on the Internet coming from our real supporters .
And then what about off the Internet ?
Right .
Like Bloomberg 's office got .
And if Bernie was n't in the race , you know , it would 've been swastikas and everything else and blamed on the Trump campaign .
But no .
Since Bernie Jew is there , the campaign immediately says that Bernie Sanders is to blame .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bernie , and Bernie is playing right into their hands , which is nice .
Yeah , it 's got to be dismaying to his supporters .
I mean , his supporters have to see this for what it is , and they ca n't like the rhetoric .
He 's got to go hard on this stuff .
And I do n't know that he 's gon na go as hard as as maybe Trump did , but it 's it 's the same .
It 's the same intel community , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Trump .
And they 're doing it because they see that he can be successful .
And we 'll talk about how that has changed in the last couple of weeks with the polling , because it 's been a big shift .
And it 's amazing to me that they 're trotting this out there right now .
James Allsup : [ 00:05:59 ] Right .
No , it 's .
It is all amazing .
And it just fits fits together so perfectly .
And Bloomberg has actually already seized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been releasing ads decrying the poor behavior of Bernie Sanders supporters , condemning the radicalism of the Sanders camp .
We saw Pete Butt Grug get into this a little bit as well .
He 's done this in two debates now where he 's come out and said , Bernie , you have to condemn these horrible things your your supporters are saying online .
And you would think this smart move here is similar to what Trump did in 2016 , which is to say , look , I did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know what you 're talking about .
But Bernie , because he already ceded this ground , that election interference is real .
Russian meddling is real .
He has to he he has he has signed his own death warrant basically on this issue and is forced to play along with it because they 're going to the flex here with this Russia stuff and then bringing that back in .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:06:58 ] This is not , you know the media took about a week , you know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impeachment to sort of figure out what they were gon na do .
But these strategies are very well-planned out in the media , often over overextends itself .
This has happened before .
But the idea that they 're just going to pop up and have this story , the idea because it 's not just the media having the story , it 's literally the intelligence agencies have prepared these briefings only for Bernie and only and for Trump .
This is going to be a central part of their strategy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And we do n't have to tell you , but you probably already know any any thing that Bernie does that 's successful from now on can all be attributed to assistance from Vladimir Putin .
Bernie , the Kremlin shill is the label that is going to be a fixed on Bernie , no matter how successfully he is .
And see , this is what I was talking about .
This is why , you know , this is why we have to take this nuanced position , which is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as he possibly can and then get destroyed by the establishment , the intel community in world Jewry .
I mean , yes , I get that Bernie is a Jew .
We get the whole Bernie Jew meme .
But they they they want to destroy this guy and his supporters .
And I 'll keep saying this until I 'm Blue in the face , his supporters have to feel the same pain and anguish that we did .
That 's the only way that you learn .
And we we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Jazz and Jesse last week , somebody who was actually a Bernie supporter in 2016 and then became a Trump supporter and then is exactly where we are today .
And that guy walked us through .
Very interesting .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:08:35 ] It actually sort of slows down some of the the absolutist thinking that people fall into .
And our thing when you hear the transformation that somebody had to go through to get there and these his supporters have to see what happens when they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's part of it 's part of a huge strategy that they 're deploying because they see that Bernie Sanders can actually be successful and he is disrupting what they wanted , which is to force you to buy into neo liberalism .
Like that 's what they wanted .
Right .
They wanted a they wanted a Jeb Bush to be the nominee to lose to Hillary Clinton .
They wanted that to be the perfectly choreographed election of 2016 .
It did n't work out that way .
And this year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ candidates that they wanted to run to the front and they 're all getting blown the fuck out .
Like even even Bloomberg , who is doing very well , had a horrible debate debate performance .
It 's .
I mean , I would argue it 's only going to set him back just a little bit .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:09:36 ] He 's going to rebound because the guy has spent half a billion dollars in the race in nine weeks .
How much should Trump spend in 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spent four hundred and $ 9 million in nine weeks on his campaign .
Yeah , yeah .
There 's no .
And there 's no like there 's no there 's no limit to that .
Right .
It 's not predicated on him raising more money and whatever .
Now , Bernie has access to a ton of cash .
Lots of cash .
He 's got .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:10:05 ] Tons of cash , but it 's I mean , Bernie ca n't just go out there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to spend 150 million on advertising in Super Tuesday states .
But that 's what you have to do if you 're trying to pitch in an authentic message like Bloomberg .
Bloomberg is doing well because he 's saturating the media with Bloomberg product that people like , you know .
It 's it 's good it 's good marketing , but it 's not good in actuality .
And so they have to trot out this this Bernie Kremlin shill meme and his supporters have to feel this pain .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get into this a little bit later , you 're gon na see that they are already plotting how to steal the convention .
And they do n't really seem to be that concerned about what happens to the 40 percent , 50 percent of the Democratic Party who said they will not support the eventual nominee if they if somebody gets screwed in 30 percent of Bernie supporters said they wo n't support the nominee .
James Allsup : [ 00:11:03 ] Yeah , exactly .
And how long do you think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we get Jared Kushner and the other Trump campaign intelligencia in Donald 's ear , advising him to go out at a rally and say , look , Bernie , the Russians , they love him .
He 's the Russian candidate .
How long do you think it 's going to be before the Trump campaign starts putting this forward as their as their message ?
Because that would be that would just be the perfect kosher maneuver for them .
It would it would reinforce the idea that there is Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have some degree of power over the electoral process .
And it would flip it back on on blue team .
So Dems are the real Russians .
It would be great .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:11:43 ] Yeah , there 's a couple .
There are a number of avenues for Bernie Sanders supporters to to feel the pain that I 'd like them to feel .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:11:50 ] Number one is , is if Bernie Sanders does n't fight back against the Bernie Kremlin shill meme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stolen from him and then ultimately supports the eventual nominee .
I just I can envision a world where he is finished .
Bernie is totally finished .
And Bernie ca n't win .
And that whole thing has died .
And then he comes out and says that he 'll support Bloomberg , too .
You know , because we have to defeat Donald Trump .
I can see that him doing that .
It 's just really tough to envision .
And I. I want .
I want his supporters to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I want them to have to come to the same conclusions that we have , which is the whole system is fake and gay and rigged against you .
And you 're never going to get what you want out of it , even when you have a guy that has really strong grassroots support who is winning handily in every primary .
Who may clinch the number of delegates needed , if not a plurality , a plurality , a majority , and and still get destroyed .
Like I want those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it 's not because I get enjoyment out of other people feeling pain .
It 's that pain is a learning experience .
Rain gets you from here to there .
If we did n't feel pain , if we did n't have disappointment , if we did n't see that Donald Trump has become an abject failure , we people look at the people who have n't figured that out .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:13:17 ] People who are either dumb or shills or otherwise who are still in the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Right .
Imagine doubling down on Donald Trump and thinking that this is going to be like he 's gon na go ham in 2020 , fam like , is that what 's gon na happen ?
You know , it 's like the people that are selling you this and it 's like you ca n't take them seriously .
But look .
And I 've said this .
I think I 've said this before .
If I have n't , it 's like the great things about this program and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generally is that we 're not we 're not being paid by anybody but our listeners that we do n't have we do n't have big , big name donors .
We do n't have lobbyists like coming in to tell us what to do or tell us what to say .
And , you know , you you were on YouTube for a very long time , James .
And I mean , you know , it 's it 's nice having the ability to have free and independent thought .
Like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what you do .
You do n't have to feel like you have to toe any sort of line .
It 's good .
It 's nice .
Like , you know , will we tell you exactly what we think ?
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:14:17 ] And I have no I have no like ulterior motive to to tell you anything different .
Like , I want I want Bernie Sanders supporters honestly , like this is a take that that I feel is is very genuine .
I want them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they end up where we do because they 're not that much out of face with us , right ?
James Allsup : [ 00:14:35 ] No , they 're not .
It 's actually this whole experience with 20/20 and being disappointed by Trump has actually been a good opportunity for introspection from for me , because I 'm able to look back to where I was four years ago , five years ago at this point and the types of arguments I was having with people .
And I think back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with people and , you know , I knew a guy who was Bernie bro at the time .
And he was arguing to me that it was it was unfair that that health care costs .
Bankrupt someone , and you know me five years ago , smarmy libertarian .
James Allsup : [ 00:15:09 ] Wow .
Well , actually , that 's the part of the effect of the free market .
People need to make good decisions and good jobs .
James Allsup : [ 00:15:17 ] And , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just mortified , thunderstruck at how much , you know , how bad how how bad that was .
And so people evolve over time and people learn over time and .
Yeah , to to to write off someone who was a Bernie supporter .
Now in this moment , because they have because they 're identifying the correct symptoms .
And this is something we 've said before , the Sanders supporter , many of them the white working class Sanders supporter , they 're probably identifying the correct symptoms of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
They 're being led to believe that it is either , you know , white greed that is doing this or it 's a white supremacy or white men that are responsible for the system we have .
And they just need to be to be guided in the correct direction to focus that energy and that that that analytical perspective they have about our system towards the right targets .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:16:12 ] That 's what guided or just feel pain because you can guide someone so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So , you know , and this is sort of the thing that it goes back to people getting frustrated with , like , why wo n't this person who is where I was 10 years ago not respond to my immediate , like , magic elixir rhetoric , like why ca n't they automatically download everything that I all the accumulated knowledge that I have had in the last 10 years and immediately be where I am today , because that 's not how it works , right .
James Allsup @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shaped by your experience and what you know .
And you have to have .
You have to have both .
And so one day they do have to be exposed .
People do have to be exposed to the correct argumentation to the truth and be shown the truth of the situation .
But they also need to have a jarring experience , such as what we went through with Trump , such as what Bernie Sanders supporters are on the precipice of going through with with Bernie Jew if he is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or if they watch the Democratic establishment throw the general election and allow Trump to win .
So so Bernie does n't become president , or if Bernie just disappoints them in office , something like that has to happen in order to to make real what they 're being told .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:17:26 ] And we know where this is going to go .
Right .
We know how this story ends for Bernie .
Right .
That 's why that 's why I like people .
I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 'm saying as , oh , we 're supporting Bernie Sanders .
No , we 're not like very clearly .
Listen to what I 'm saying .
We want Bernie Sanders to - because we know that Bernie Sanders , like Bernie , is not going to become president .
And if Bernie does become president , we know what happens when someone who is an outsider becomes president .
We see how the system works .
The system is is extremely powerful .
And if Bernie became president , it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for him .
And slowly over time , he would be brought to heel .
Whether that is through impeachment in a special special prosecutor depends on how much he wants to fight back .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:18:18 ] But it 's not even it 's not even to that point .
The point is we know how the story ends .
So now that they are they have put this Bernie Kremlin shill label on him .
We know what they 're going to do .
We know that that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bernie Sanders supporters to understand what 's going to happen next .
It 's like you can fight as hard as you want for this guy .
You can raise as much money as you want for this guy .
You can grassroots and have 50000 people show up at rallies and so on and so forth .
The media is going to wake up and say the very next morning and say , yeah , those are all Russian bots that genuine support , all of that money , everything that 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's rise .
And that 's all fake .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:19:04 ] That 's all coming from the Kremlin .
That 's not a real phenomenon .
James Allsup : [ 00:19:07 ] And it 's very telling they did n't do this with Elizabeth Warren when Warren was setting record breaking crowds and generating a record Internet interest and record amounts of this and that .
They did n't do it for Warren , but they 're doing it for Bernie now .
Ask yourself why that is .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yeah .
This the sowing of of of division , when they always claim that it 's somebody that they 're actually making this claim against Bernie now that he sows division .
It 's one of the one of the reasons that they 've put in put put up here .
It says U.S. prosecutors found a Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Sanders campaign against Hillary Clinton .
Part of a broader effort to hurt Clinton , but also to sow dissension in the American electorate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sanders is sowing division in the country as well .
And of course , they were told about this about a month ago .
But people I get in Trump for obvious reasons was n't disclosing it to the public .
And neither did Bernie .
And in fact , the media is asking him why he did n't disclose this intel briefing publicly .
And he said , because I go to a lot of these briefings and I do n't want to reveal them to the public .
It 's like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not going to want to tell people .
Like , why would Bernie ?
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:20:20 ] I do n't think Bernie does n't know what 's going on with him .
Like , he he he probably is caught off guard , as we sort of surmised .
But it 's it 's not like he ca n't know .
So , of course , he 's not going to go and say , like , oh , Russia .
Russia .
Russia 's meddling in the elections again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guys .
It 's like so fucking dumb .
But meanwhile , Bloomberg can deploy a bot army on Twitter .
And yeah , that 's just a campaign strategy .
He 's road testing , right .
James , like Bloomberg has got these bots out there doing , you know , just hardcore repetitive messaging and a few of them got suspended .
But yeah , that 's not that 's not Russia .
We know .
We know that 's not Russia .
That 's just you know , his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twitter does n't like .
Right .
James Allsup : [ 00:21:07 ] Well , just like just like I 'm paying a million dollars to Tick-Tock influencers to get the zoomers behind Mike .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:21:14 ] Oh , my God .
Yes .
So the media narrative on this is kind of funny .
I 've heard a couple different media narratives on Russia pop up now , which is one of them is - Do we even really need an intel briefing at this point to know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elections ?
We know what Putin wants .
American democracy was made for interfering with , and and no I mean , that 's that 's kind of the line .
Like they 're sort of like , look , do we even need the intelligence organizations , deep state , whatever ?
Do we even need them to lift a finger and put together a briefing for us ?
Do n't we know by now who Russia 's going to intercede on behalf of and who they wo n't ?
And that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And the other side of it is complete and total nihilism , which I think is kind of funny .
Like they want people to be extremely outraged about this .
And this is the greatest part about this .
Like , yes , they 're gon na try to do this to Bernie , too .
But because they beat the shit out of this meme for four years , nobody cares about it anymore .
Listen to Brian Williams .
This is from Friday .
Brian Williams : [ 00:22:20 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that funeral services are pending this evening after the death of outrage .
Earlier today , outrage officially died of exhaustion , though buoyed at the very end by the one bright spot , the realization that as close relative apathy survives and is thriving , we are obviously taking some poetic license here to underscore the gravity of the story that broke late in the day that nobody cares .
From The New York Times , later confirmed by NBC News , The Washington Post and others , the headline is , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tampering with our next presidential election .
More than that .
The Times reports the effort is to tip the result to Donald Trump .
The campaign , they say , will include tinkering with this year 's Democratic primaries , getting Americans themselves to spread mistruths and divisions , and casting doubt upon close elections and recounts .
Jazzhands McFeels : [ 00:23:19 ] Getting Americans themselves involved in the project .
See , this is the code for anybody out there saying anything in support of Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , right ?
Like they the trumps of like this this meme is is being deployed at Bernie right now .
Like Trump .
Trump is mad about it , but that 's not really who the target is yet .
Trump is n't .
It 's not the general election .
This is all about the Democratic primary .
And I think it 's hilarious that that Brian Williams is like , please care about this .
Someone please get upset .
Please get mad about this .
It 's like , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ 00:23:54 ] And they 're setting this up now so they can use it later .
Like they 're seeding this idea in your mind .
And we see this so , so often in American politics with our media , they will seed things like this now for future use .
And this is going to be become a reference point when the general election does come around that they will be able to use against whoever they want if the matchup is Bloomberg versus Trump .
They 'll be able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back in in February twenty twenty when we warned you about Russian interference for Trump , and if it Sanders versus Trump , they 'll be able to say , look , remember , we remember when we warned you not to nominate Sanders because because bunni Jew was the recipient of Russian interference and we told you he could n't win .
It was all fake Russian popularity .
That 's the point of this now .
And it 's curious also that Brian Williams does n't mention foreign interference , such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being spent by the Democratic majority for Israel PAC , it spent in attack ads against Bernie Sanders .
That is much more substantive than any any .
So .
Suppose a Russian interference if uncovered so far , the one and a half million spent in Iowa and in Nevada and .
Negative ads attacking Bernie .
But somehow that does n't make Brian Williams editorial cut for his foreign interference story .

Bernie supporters are about to learn the hard way that no matter how much money you raise, no matter how much you fight, no matter how sincere your candidate is, if your candidate is anti-establishment, he will fail. Even if you get him into office, he won't change anything that matters. Because the system no longer exists to serve the people.
Sanders has become the first legitimate threat to establishment power since Trump in 2016, and the establishment is striking back. Bernie is already in the cross hairs of the Russia collusion myth, and Bernie bros are about to be put through the same wringer that Trump supporters have been going through for 4 years.
It'll hurt, but pain is a good teacher. Disillusionment is what we need before anyone is willing to change anything. The hosts of the FTN podcast predict that this election cycle might be just the experience Bernie supporters need to draw the same conclusions so many Trump supporters already have: that whether you vote left or right, before the will of the people can be represented again, this rotten system needs to go.
From the FTN Website:
Bernie Sanders is on a roll- after winning the popular vote in every caucus and primary so far, he’s pulling out to a formidable delegate lead, and could be on track to enter the Democratic National Convention with a plurality, if not a majority, of pledged delegates. As a result, the DNC and “intelligence community” have begun to treat Bernie less like an annoyance and more like a legitimate threat. The myth of Russian social media manipulation, used effectively against Donald Trump, is being dusted off and presented as the reason Sanders is enjoying success. His Twitter presence? RUSSIANS! Winning Iowa and New Hampshire? COLLUSION! Embarrassing Joe Biden in Nevada, his first big, beautiful, brown electoral firewall? THE KREMLIN! Sanders, who has agreed and amplified accusations of Russian meddling in the past, finds himself unable to tell the truth: Foreign interference is real, but Russians running Facebook memes isn’t the problem. Because he has accepted the Russian hacking premise, he’s left to twist in the wind, offering a convoluted explanation that Russian meddling is real- it’s a big problem!- but only benefits Trump. In this clip, Jazz and James explore the charge of pro-Bernie Russian collusion, how conservatives are picking it up and amplifying it to their own detriment, and how this narrative is being seeded now in order to seriously damage Bernie and leftist populism in the future. Full episode here.
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Some of their episodes are free to the public, while others are behind a $10 monthly paywall, probably the best value in American journalism today because you get access to several excellent shows for that price. We highly recommend Eric Striker's, (editor of the excellent National Justice website), and Mike Enoch's 'Strike and Mike' (1X per week) which are also more hard news focused. The Daily Shoah with Mike Enoch, Jesse Dunstan, and Alex McNabb, (3X per week), which is a less formal, Joe Rogan style radio talk show, is also excellent.
Transcript: the following is machine transcribed. There may be some errors, but it is surprisingly accurate.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:00:08] It's time to turn back to the horse face horse race as strategies have really started to crystallize. Bernie Sanders is now maintaining a double digit lead over the rest of the field, and Bloomberg has surged to a second in many polls. And once a long shot speculation, the thought of a brokered convention has now become a widespread force for foregone foreskin, foregone conclusion. And the impeachment is over now. So, of course, it's amazing, James, this totally coincidental timing of an intel briefing alleging that Russia is interfering on behalf of Donald Trump and Bernie.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:00:52] So if you're sitting out there saying this is tin foil, you know, the people that straw manning, of course, the people that are out there saying this is tin foil. You know, these are conspiracy theories. This is a common charge levied by the media. If these aren't gay ops, why are they so perfectly choreographed? I've made this point before. Look, why. Why aren't why aren't if the world is all these disparate pieces, it's this like beautiful organic biology, like diversity and all this stuff. Why aren't the Hong Kong protests happening at the same time as this stuff? Like, why is that the focus? Why is Venezuela a separate thing? It's almost like the world is this stage and we get to watch the play put on by world Jewry every day on the media, because that's what it is.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:01:41] Right. Like this this intel briefing shows up out of out of nowhere. And I guess on one hand you could say, oh, wow, they're going back to the original playbook. But the original playbook works really well. And they're now deploying that strategy on Bernie Sanders. It's just really funny that if Russia, as this sort of independent organic object out there, its own sovereign country, was meddling this whole time, why isn't that news popping up in the middle of Corona Chan reporting or. I don't know. At Christmas. Like, why are they why is it just happened to be now? Like as Bernie Sanders is surging ahead in the lead, as Donald Trump's impeachment is over, it's like it's almost like a pivot. James, isn't it perfect choreography.
James Allsup: [00:02:27] Sure. And the day after Bloomberg bungles his initial debate performance, a few days after the US announces additional actions against Russian contractors and European contractors involved in building Russian pipelines, it's all very fitting. And it all fits together very nicely. And if you're not if you're not aware of these other machinations that are going on, one may be led to to believe that, oh, wow, you're Russia.
James Allsup: [00:02:51] They're hacking the election just like just like they did with Trump.
James Allsup: [00:02:55] And of course, Sanders now finds himself in a very unenviable position, as he is so commonly this election cycle where he gave credence to these ideas over the last four years. He was out there saying, yes, Russian interference is real, Russian hacking is real. And he now has to find himself defending against that charge of benefiting from Russian hackers. And of course, Bernie did this as well with with Trump supporters indicating that Trump was responsible for the violent rhetoric and on and on and on. And now this playbook is being used against him. So it really is remarkable to see this playbook. They sort of tested and prodded and and started fighting around Trump in 2016. Now being deployed almost verbatim right back against Bernie.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:03:42] Yeah. And it's like I guess Bernie thought that maybe he could be immune from it because he's Jewish. He thought that they were not going to come after him in this way. Like the Russia meme is something only reserved for a bad goy like Donald. When the reality is, is, no, they're going to deploy this to any outsider who threatens to disrupt their system.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:04:03] And they're doing the same thing against Bernie's supporters as well. They're saying that that a lot of the ugly stuff he said, you know, Bernie was saying in 2016, Russia used Internet propaganda to sow division in our country. And my understanding is that they're doing it again in 2020. Some of the some of the ugly stuff on the Internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from our real supporters. So he's even going so far now that Trump's credit, Trump never threw his own supporters under the bus. And Bernie, maybe he's just a little bit new at this. He's caught off guard. He's not really expecting this sort of strategy to be deployed against him.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:04:48] It's like Bernie, like your supporters are a real and authentic. There's no gay up happening out there from anybody else. So if you're going to buy this bit that, oh, are this ugly stuff on the Internet coming from our real supporters. And then what about off the Internet? Right. Like Bloomberg's office got. And if Bernie wasn't in the race, you know, it would've been swastikas and everything else and blamed on the Trump campaign. But no. Since Bernie Jew is there, the campaign immediately says that Bernie Sanders is to blame. So they're playing this game with Bernie, and Bernie is playing right into their hands, which is nice. Yeah, it's got to be dismaying to his supporters. I mean, his supporters have to see this for what it is, and they can't like the rhetoric. He's got to go hard on this stuff. And I don't know that he's gonna go as hard as as maybe Trump did, but it's it's the same. It's the same intel community, Bernie Jew, that is doing this to Trump. And they're doing it because they see that he can be successful. And we'll talk about how that has changed in the last couple of weeks with the polling, because it's been a big shift. And it's amazing to me that they're trotting this out there right now.
James Allsup: [00:05:59] Right. No, it's. It is all amazing. And it just fits fits together so perfectly. And Bloomberg has actually already seized on this. And the Bloomberg campaign has been releasing ads decrying the poor behavior of Bernie Sanders supporters, condemning the radicalism of the Sanders camp. We saw Pete Butt Grug get into this a little bit as well. He's done this in two debates now where he's come out and said, Bernie, you have to condemn these horrible things your your supporters are saying online. And you would think this smart move here is similar to what Trump did in 2016, which is to say, look, I didn't do anything. I don't know what you're talking about. But Bernie, because he already ceded this ground, that election interference is real. Russian meddling is real. He has to he he has he has signed his own death warrant basically on this issue and is forced to play along with it because they're going to the flex here with this Russia stuff and then bringing that back in.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:06:58] This is not, you know the media took about a week, you know, two weeks after the conclusion of impeachment to sort of figure out what they were gonna do. But these strategies are very well-planned out in the media, often over overextends itself. This has happened before. But the idea that they're just going to pop up and have this story, the idea because it's not just the media having the story, it's literally the intelligence agencies have prepared these briefings only for Bernie and only and for Trump. This is going to be a central part of their strategy.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:07:28] And we don't have to tell you, but you probably already know any any thing that Bernie does that's successful from now on can all be attributed to assistance from Vladimir Putin. Bernie, the Kremlin shill is the label that is going to be a fixed on Bernie, no matter how successfully he is. And see, this is what I was talking about. This is why, you know, this is why we have to take this nuanced position, which is that I want Bernie to succeed as much as he possibly can and then get destroyed by the establishment, the intel community in world Jewry. I mean, yes, I get that Bernie is a Jew. We get the whole Bernie Jew meme. But they they they want to destroy this guy and his supporters. And I'll keep saying this until I'm Blue in the face, his supporters have to feel the same pain and anguish that we did. That's the only way that you learn. And we we have evidence. We talked to one on Jazz and Jesse last week, somebody who was actually a Bernie supporter in 2016 and then became a Trump supporter and then is exactly where we are today. And that guy walked us through. Very interesting.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:08:35] It actually sort of slows down some of the the absolutist thinking that people fall into. And our thing when you hear the transformation that somebody had to go through to get there and these his supporters have to see what happens when they are subjected to this as well. It's part of it's part of a huge strategy that they're deploying because they see that Bernie Sanders can actually be successful and he is disrupting what they wanted, which is to force you to buy into neo liberalism. Like that's what they wanted. Right. They wanted a they wanted a Jeb Bush to be the nominee to lose to Hillary Clinton. They wanted that to be the perfectly choreographed election of 2016. It didn't work out that way. And this year, they had a number of establishment candidates that they wanted to run to the front and they're all getting blown the fuck out. Like even even Bloomberg, who is doing very well, had a horrible debate debate performance. It's. I mean, I would argue it's only going to set him back just a little bit.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:09:36] He's going to rebound because the guy has spent half a billion dollars in the race in nine weeks. How much should Trump spend in 2016? One billion. And Bloomberg has spent four hundred and $9 million in nine weeks on his campaign. Yeah, yeah. There's no. And there's no like there's no there's no limit to that. Right. It's not predicated on him raising more money and whatever. Now, Bernie has access to a ton of cash. Lots of cash. He's got.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:10:05] Tons of cash, but it's I mean, Bernie can't just go out there and say yet tomorrow we're going to spend 150 million on advertising in Super Tuesday states. But that's what you have to do if you're trying to pitch in an authentic message like Bloomberg. Bloomberg is doing well because he's saturating the media with Bloomberg product that people like, you know. It's it's good it's good marketing, but it's not good in actuality. And so they have to trot out this this Bernie Kremlin shill meme and his supporters have to feel this pain. And they're going to because as we get into this a little bit later, you're gonna see that they are already plotting how to steal the convention. And they don't really seem to be that concerned about what happens to the 40 percent, 50 percent of the Democratic Party who said they will not support the eventual nominee if they if somebody gets screwed in 30 percent of Bernie supporters said they won't support the nominee.
James Allsup: [00:11:03] Yeah, exactly. And how long do you think it's going to be Jazz before we get Jared Kushner and the other Trump campaign intelligencia in Donald's ear, advising him to go out at a rally and say, look, Bernie, the Russians, they love him. He's the Russian candidate. How long do you think it's going to be before the Trump campaign starts putting this forward as their as their message? Because that would be that would just be the perfect kosher maneuver for them. It would it would reinforce the idea that there is Russian meddling. There are Russian bots that have some degree of power over the electoral process. And it would flip it back on on blue team. So Dems are the real Russians. It would be great.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:11:43] Yeah, there's a couple. There are a number of avenues for Bernie Sanders supporters to to feel the pain that I'd like them to feel.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:11:50] Number one is, is if Bernie Sanders doesn't fight back against the Bernie Kremlin shill meme and then loses or has the convention stolen from him and then ultimately supports the eventual nominee. I just I can envision a world where he is finished. Bernie is totally finished. And Bernie can't win. And that whole thing has died. And then he comes out and says that he'll support Bloomberg, too. You know, because we have to defeat Donald Trump. I can see that him doing that. It's just really tough to envision. And I. I want. I want his supporters to feel that pain. I mean, I want them to have to come to the same conclusions that we have, which is the whole system is fake and gay and rigged against you. And you're never going to get what you want out of it, even when you have a guy that has really strong grassroots support who is winning handily in every primary. Who may clinch the number of delegates needed, if not a plurality, a plurality, a majority, and and still get destroyed. Like I want those people to feel that pain. And it's not because I get enjoyment out of other people feeling pain. It's that pain is a learning experience. Rain gets you from here to there. If we didn't feel pain, if we didn't have disappointment, if we didn't see that Donald Trump has become an abject failure, we people look at the people who haven't figured that out.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:13:17] People who are either dumb or shills or otherwise who are still in the Trump train, who have sold out. Right. Imagine doubling down on Donald Trump and thinking that this is going to be like he's gonna go ham in 2020, fam like, is that what's gonna happen? You know, it's like the people that are selling you this and it's like you can't take them seriously. But look. And I've said this. I think I've said this before. If I haven't, it's like the great things about this program and the great things about t.r.'s generally is that we're not we're not being paid by anybody but our listeners that we don't have we don't have big, big name donors. We don't have lobbyists like coming in to tell us what to do or tell us what to say. And, you know, you you were on YouTube for a very long time, James. And I mean, you know, it's it's nice having the ability to have free and independent thought. Like nobody is coming in to tell you what you do. You don't have to feel like you have to toe any sort of line. It's good. It's nice. Like, you know, will we tell you exactly what we think?
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:14:17] And I have no I have no like ulterior motive to to tell you anything different. Like, I want I want Bernie Sanders supporters honestly, like this is a take that that I feel is is very genuine. I want them to feel what we felt. So they end up where we do because they're not that much out of face with us, right?
James Allsup: [00:14:35] No, they're not. It's actually this whole experience with 20/20 and being disappointed by Trump has actually been a good opportunity for introspection from for me, because I'm able to look back to where I was four years ago, five years ago at this point and the types of arguments I was having with people. And I think back to the times when I was debating with people and, you know, I knew a guy who was Bernie bro at the time. And he was arguing to me that it was it was unfair that that health care costs. Bankrupt someone, and you know me five years ago, smarmy libertarian.
James Allsup: [00:15:09] Wow. Well, actually, that's the part of the effect of the free market. People need to make good decisions and good jobs.
James Allsup: [00:15:17] And, you know, I've looked back just mortified, thunderstruck at how much, you know, how bad how how bad that was. And so people evolve over time and people learn over time and. Yeah, to to to write off someone who was a Bernie supporter. Now in this moment, because they have because they're identifying the correct symptoms. And this is something we've said before, the Sanders supporter, many of them the white working class Sanders supporter, they're probably identifying the correct symptoms of the disease, but they're misdiagnosing it. They're being led to believe that it is either, you know, white greed that is doing this or it's a white supremacy or white men that are responsible for the system we have. And they just need to be to be guided in the correct direction to focus that energy and that that that analytical perspective they have about our system towards the right targets.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:16:12] That's what guided or just feel pain because you can guide someone so far and then they always snap back. So, you know, and this is sort of the thing that it goes back to people getting frustrated with, like, why won't this person who is where I was 10 years ago not respond to my immediate, like, magic elixir rhetoric, like why can't they automatically download everything that I all the accumulated knowledge that I have had in the last 10 years and immediately be where I am today, because that's not how it works, right.
James Allsup: [00:16:41] Your perspective is shaped by your experience and what you know. And you have to have. You have to have both. And so one day they do have to be exposed. People do have to be exposed to the correct argumentation to the truth and be shown the truth of the situation. But they also need to have a jarring experience, such as what we went through with Trump, such as what Bernie Sanders supporters are on the precipice of going through with with Bernie Jew if he is to be screwed out of the nomination or if they watch the Democratic establishment throw the general election and allow Trump to win. So so Bernie doesn't become president, or if Bernie just disappoints them in office, something like that has to happen in order to to make real what they're being told.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:17:26] And we know where this is going to go. Right. We know how this story ends for Bernie. Right. That's why that's why I like people. I think maybe the Grug-Nats will interpret what I'm saying as, oh, we're supporting Bernie Sanders. No, we're not like very clearly. Listen to what I'm saying. We want Bernie Sanders to - because we know that Bernie Sanders, like Bernie, is not going to become president. And if Bernie does become president, we know what happens when someone who is an outsider becomes president. We see how the system works. The system is is extremely powerful. And if Bernie became president, it would come with a certain set of conditions for him. And slowly over time, he would be brought to heel. Whether that is through impeachment in a special special prosecutor depends on how much he wants to fight back.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:18:18] But it's not even it's not even to that point. The point is we know how the story ends. So now that they are they have put this Bernie Kremlin shill label on him. We know what they're going to do. We know that that for Bernie Sanders to understand, for Bernie Sanders supporters to understand what's going to happen next. It's like you can fight as hard as you want for this guy. You can raise as much money as you want for this guy. You can grassroots and have 50000 people show up at rallies and so on and so forth. The media is going to wake up and say the very next morning and say, yeah, those are all Russian bots that genuine support, all of that money, everything that's going on that that's fueling Bernie's rise. And that's all fake.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:19:04] That's all coming from the Kremlin. That's not a real phenomenon.
James Allsup: [00:19:07] And it's very telling they didn't do this with Elizabeth Warren when Warren was setting record breaking crowds and generating a record Internet interest and record amounts of this and that. They didn't do it for Warren, but they're doing it for Bernie now. Ask yourself why that is.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:19:22] Exactly. Yeah. This the sowing of of of division, when they always claim that it's somebody that they're actually making this claim against Bernie now that he sows division. It's one of the one of the reasons that they've put in put put up here. It says U.S. prosecutors found a Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Sanders campaign against Hillary Clinton. Part of a broader effort to hurt Clinton, but also to sow dissension in the American electorate. And they're saying that Bernie Sanders is sowing division in the country as well. And of course, they were told about this about a month ago. But people I get in Trump for obvious reasons wasn't disclosing it to the public. And neither did Bernie. And in fact, the media is asking him why he didn't disclose this intel briefing publicly. And he said, because I go to a lot of these briefings and I don't want to reveal them to the public. It's like, well, obviously, he's not going to want to tell people. Like, why would Bernie?
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:20:20] I don't think Bernie doesn't know what's going on with him. Like, he he he probably is caught off guard, as we sort of surmised. But it's it's not like he can't know. So, of course, he's not going to go and say, like, oh, Russia. Russia. Russia's meddling in the elections again. And they're helping me, guys. It's like so fucking dumb. But meanwhile, Bloomberg can deploy a bot army on Twitter. And yeah, that's just a campaign strategy. He's road testing, right. James, like Bloomberg has got these bots out there doing, you know, just hardcore repetitive messaging and a few of them got suspended. But yeah, that's not that's not Russia. We know. We know that's not Russia. That's just you know, his campaign is trying some things out that Twitter doesn't like. Right.
James Allsup: [00:21:03] Oh, yeah. It's a creative creative marketing.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:21:06] Yeah. Yeah.
James Allsup: [00:21:07] Well, just like just like I'm paying a million dollars to Tick-Tock influencers to get the zoomers behind Mike.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:21:14] Oh, my God. Yes. So the media narrative on this is kind of funny. I've heard a couple different media narratives on Russia pop up now, which is one of them is - Do we even really need an intel briefing at this point to know that Russia wants to meddle in our elections? We know what Putin wants. American democracy was made for interfering with, and and no I mean, that's that's kind of the line. Like they're sort of like, look, do we even need the intelligence organizations, deep state, whatever? Do we even need them to lift a finger and put together a briefing for us? Don't we know by now who Russia's going to intercede on behalf of and who they won't? And that's like one side of it. And the other side of it is complete and total nihilism, which I think is kind of funny. Like they want people to be extremely outraged about this. And this is the greatest part about this. Like, yes, they're gonna try to do this to Bernie, too. But because they beat the shit out of this meme for four years, nobody cares about it anymore. Listen to Brian Williams. This is from Friday.
Brian Williams: [00:22:20] And we begin tonight with sad word that funeral services are pending this evening after the death of outrage. Earlier today, outrage officially died of exhaustion, though buoyed at the very end by the one bright spot, the realization that as close relative apathy survives and is thriving, we are obviously taking some poetic license here to underscore the gravity of the story that broke late in the day that nobody cares. From The New York Times, later confirmed by NBC News, The Washington Post and others, the headline is, The Russians are in the midst of tampering with our next presidential election. More than that. The Times reports the effort is to tip the result to Donald Trump. The campaign, they say, will include tinkering with this year's Democratic primaries, getting Americans themselves to spread mistruths and divisions, and casting doubt upon close elections and recounts.
Jazzhands McFeels: [00:23:19] Getting Americans themselves involved in the project. See, this is the code for anybody out there saying anything in support of Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. But it's really about Bernie, right? Like they the trumps of like this this meme is is being deployed at Bernie right now. Like Trump. Trump is mad about it, but that's not really who the target is yet. Trump isn't. It's not the general election. This is all about the Democratic primary. And I think it's hilarious that that Brian Williams is like, please care about this. Someone please get upset. Please get mad about this. It's like, no, right.
James Allsup: [00:23:54] And they're setting this up now so they can use it later. Like they're seeding this idea in your mind. And we see this so, so often in American politics with our media, they will seed things like this now for future use. And this is going to be become a reference point when the general election does come around that they will be able to use against whoever they want if the matchup is Bloomberg versus Trump. They'll be able to say that. Yes. Remember back in in February twenty twenty when we warned you about Russian interference for Trump, and if it Sanders versus Trump, they'll be able to say, look, remember, we remember when we warned you not to nominate Sanders because because bunni Jew was the recipient of Russian interference and we told you he couldn't win. It was all fake Russian popularity. That's the point of this now. And it's curious also that Brian Williams doesn't mention foreign interference, such as one and a half million dollars being spent by the Democratic majority for Israel PAC, it spent in attack ads against Bernie Sanders. That is much more substantive than any any. So. Suppose a Russian interference if uncovered so far, the one and a half million spent in Iowa and in Nevada and. Negative ads attacking Bernie. But somehow that doesn't make Brian Williams editorial cut for his foreign interference story.