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highplainsdem

(49,050 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:29 AM Jan 2020

Cenk Uygar just called the article Sanders apologized for the best ever written on politics - UPDATE

Predictably, some of Sanders' noisiest supporters aren't backing away from the smear, and some are even doubling down on it.





This is the best & most accurate article ever written about politics: ‘Middle Class’ Joe Biden has a corruption problem – it makes him a weak candidate | Zephyr Teachout




I saw quite a few tweets from Sanders supporters last night that complained about his apology to Biden, too.

Including the Humanist Report:





Stop fucking apologizing. This is a fight for our lives, and you're literally our last hope. Act like it. The people running against you are ghouls, and you trying to play nicely with them as they relentlessly attack you is infuriating to your supporters.





UPDATING BECAUSE CENK UYGAR IS CONTINUING TO BLATHER ABOUT THIS:





Let me be clear, @BernieSanders is 100% wrong in saying @JoeBiden is not corrupt & for backing away from his surrogates. I think he's the best candidate but he's not my uncle. I don't have to agree with him on everything. He enables the corruption when he doesn't point it out.






In fact, this is exactly why I'm running because I got so frustrated with fellow progressives for not having the courage to point out the OBVIOUS corruption in Washington. They're afraid to offend their colleagues feelings, so they let them take bribes without being challenged.






What does @BernieSanders get for his kindness in not calling establishment corrupt:@HillaryClinton just implied he's a sexist & she might not support him in the general. He did 39 rallies for her! He refused to call her corrupt. And this is how he gets paid back. Wake up, Bernie!
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Cenk Uygar just called the article Sanders apologized for the best ever written on politics - UPDATE (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2020 OP
They've lost it!! Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #1
Totally bizarre PatSeg Jan 2020 #10
I need to make another donation to Christy Smith Gothmog Jan 2020 #2
His head will fly off reading HRC article Watchfoxheadexplodes Jan 2020 #3
See the update with three new tweets from him, posted in the last half hour. highplainsdem Jan 2020 #5
He is so arrogant Watchfoxheadexplodes Jan 2020 #7
How is his congressional campaign going? Jose Garcia Jan 2020 #4
I've updated the OP with three new tweets from Uygar. highplainsdem Jan 2020 #6
'Don't trust Cenk any further than I can throw him. JaneQPublic Jan 2020 #8
Bernie needs to be very careful. It sounds like they're about to turn bite. Quackers Jan 2020 #9
POS is an ardent ratfucking cultist just like Sirota dalton99a Jan 2020 #11
"You're literally our last hope"??? PatSeg Jan 2020 #12
Funny thing about that Quackers Jan 2020 #17
Excellent observation PatSeg Jan 2020 #18
But there was no corruption. Scurrilous Jan 2020 #13
"The people running against you are ghouls." yardwork Jan 2020 #14
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2020 #15
+1,000,000. Thanks for the background and links! highplainsdem Jan 2020 #16
Cenk is Full of Cha Jan 2020 #19
teachout was "WEAK" candidate.. Biden is Cha Jan 2020 #20
Wouldn't expect any less from him Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #21
Cenk's very possibly a RW agent. He came from the right, Hortensis Jan 2020 #22
Now Bernie has a "unhinged, uncontrollable bro" problem NYMinute Jan 2020 #23
 

PatSeg

(47,663 posts)
10. Totally bizarre
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:06 AM
Jan 2020

Its a lot like dealing with Trumpers. Its like a virus!

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Gothmog

(145,694 posts)
2. I need to make another donation to Christy Smith
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:33 AM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)
3. His head will fly off reading HRC article
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:35 AM
Jan 2020

Will pakman, Seder and tyt attack HRC?

BET ON IT

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highplainsdem

(49,050 posts)
5. See the update with three new tweets from him, posted in the last half hour.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:38 AM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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Joe Biden
 

Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)
7. He is so arrogant
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:43 AM
Jan 2020

A progressive in a trump suit.

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Jose Garcia

(2,609 posts)
4. How is his congressional campaign going?
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:36 AM
Jan 2020
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highplainsdem

(49,050 posts)
6. I've updated the OP with three new tweets from Uygar.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:38 AM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
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JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
8. 'Don't trust Cenk any further than I can throw him.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:55 AM
Jan 2020

He was a Republican activist as a young man, but claims he switched politics because of the way those on the right treated Bill Clinton during his impeachment.

Since then, he has spent much of his time attacking both Bill and Hillary just as fervently but from the left.

I don't buy it.

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Quackers

(2,256 posts)
9. Bernie needs to be very careful. It sounds like they're about to turn bite.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:01 AM
Jan 2020

From the tweets:
Bernie lacks courage
Bernie is enabling corruption

And then that first one that chews his ass and says all of the other candidates are ghouls. I’m guessing they’re not voting blue, no matter who....

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dalton99a

(81,648 posts)
11. POS is an ardent ratfucking cultist just like Sirota
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:06 AM
Jan 2020
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PatSeg

(47,663 posts)
12. "You're literally our last hope"???
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:15 AM
Jan 2020

Seriously? What the hell, is Sanders Obi-Wan Kenobi?

I swear, I think some of these people hate Democrats as much, if not more than republicans. This is insane.

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Quackers

(2,256 posts)
17. Funny thing about that
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:33 AM
Jan 2020

First it was Obi-Wan was their only hope, then Luke Skywalker, then Rey. Seems to me if they had just pooled their resources and worked together, they could’ve achieved peace a lot more quickly and without all of the bad shit that happens. I think that point applies here as well.

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PatSeg

(47,663 posts)
18. Excellent observation
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:49 AM
Jan 2020

Democrats are better when they work together, not like mindless sheep of course, but with a common purpose.

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Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
13. But there was no corruption.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:20 AM
Jan 2020

Biden's crime was to disobey Bernie. The one paragraph I read:


"Second, healthcare. On 25 April, the day he announced his campaign, Biden went straight to a fundraiser co-hosted by the chief executive of a major health insurance corporation. He refuses to sign a pledge to reject money from insurance and pharma execs and continues to raise money from healthcare industry donors. His campaign is being bankrolled by a super Pac run by healthcare lobbyists."

Biden went to a fundraiser. The hyperlink leads to an Intercept article, There were lobbyists!! Hence corruption

He refuses to sign a pledge....The hyperlink leads to a NY Times article "Sanders Calls for Rivals to Reject Money From Health Care Industry" The fuck why? Because M4A good. The entirety of the healthcare industry we already have is bad. They don't want M4A. Neither does Biden. He prefers Obamcare. Won't sign Bernie's pledge. Corrupt!

Second hyperlink leads to Open Secrets "Which 2020 Democrats are taking money from the healthcare industry?" Because now this is a crime. Bernie says so. All the Dems taking money, all corrupt. Especially Biden. He got the most.

His campaign is being bankrolled. Another hyperlink to Intercept. What amazing journalism. Link to a billionaires vanity site and let ratfuckers from the left do the heavy lifting. Which is take down names and imagine corruption. They imagine the most about Joe Biden.

Bernie now gets to dictate who you can fundraise from. His is small and pure. So he gets to set the rules. And he gets to write the loyalty pledges and please bring him home some lobster sliders.

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yardwork

(61,729 posts)
14. "The people running against you are ghouls."
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:22 AM
Jan 2020

This is what our democracy is up against.

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highplainsdem

(49,050 posts)
16. +1,000,000. Thanks for the background and links!
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:27 AM
Jan 2020
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Cha

(297,818 posts)
19. Cenk is Full of
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:17 PM
Jan 2020

Shite.

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Cha

(297,818 posts)
20. teachout was "WEAK" candidate.. Biden is
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:19 PM
Jan 2020

strong.

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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,320 posts)
21. Wouldn't expect any less from him
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:20 PM
Jan 2020
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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
22. Cenk's very possibly a RW agent. He came from the right,
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:22 PM
Jan 2020

has association with Russia, and has since served as a CONNECTOR of unsuspecting members of the Sanders left with the right. Messages like this develop and strengthen a bridge of beliefs for both sides to meet on.

Association with Russia raises questions particularly because our intelligence services say Putin is attempting to join the far left with the right to form a majority to defeat the Democratic Party. However, our RW leaders of course are attempting exactly the same, and Uygur could be working directly for them alone, or both. Russia and the Republicans both must defeat the Democrats, or else.

In any case, whatever's going on in his head, even if it's just an ant infestation, his actions consistently benefit the anti-democracy RW McConnell's acting for in the senate and actions speak far louder than any rhetorical disguises not given credibility by action.

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NYMinute

(3,256 posts)
23. Now Bernie has a "unhinged, uncontrollable bro" problem
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 06:24 PM
Jan 2020

The campaign always lacked messaging discipline and this is a clear evidence of that.

It is not a well-run, well-organized campaign - it is every bro for himself/herself.

This will make Bernie sink further and pretty much destroys Uigur's nascent political career.

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