Bernie Sanders
I think I’m not quite sure what the fuss is about. I had understood from the report I read that the Russians aimed to sow discord by boosting Bernie Sanders’ campaign[1] and frankly hadn’t bothered with reports that the Russians were at again also on behalf of Donald Trump.
Apparently, the correct interpretation, at least for now, is indeed that this mischief is aimed at sowing discord. But other folks understood that this meant the Russians want either Sanders or Trump to win and apparently these are not conclusions that U.S. intelligence has reached.[2] Maybe I missed something.
When Trump won, it made me realize that a lot of the stuff they said about the right—stuff I used to dismiss as overblown—was true.
If Bernie wins the nomination, it will confirm that a lot of what we always thought about the left was also true.
They are who we think they are.
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) February 23, 2020
What did "we" always think about the left? https://t.co/ZkdKAhsfmC
— Palli Davis Holubar #HandMarkedPaperBallots (@palliddh) February 23, 2020
I think I need to define another fallacy, a fallacy of appeal to moderation, in which the "middle way" is presumed, utterly without basis in fact, to be coherent, and people outside that "middle" are equivalent and extreme.
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) February 24, 2020
Jeremy Diamond, Jake Tapper and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence briefer appears to have overstated assessment of 2020 Russian interference,” CNN, February 23, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/intelligence-briefer-russian-interference-trump-sanders/index.html
Richard Nixon’s posthumous impostor
Holy shit:
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 23, 2020
This is just about the last place I’d expect an endorsement of a John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. The posthumous Ron Ziegler replies,
Our systems have apparently been “hacked,” we are working to delete. – RZ
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 23, 2020
But in the comments, it is clear that Nixon’s impostor meant that exactly as it sounds.
I have long suspected that we’ll never know for sure what happened on that day.
- [1]Shane Harris et al., “Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign,” Washington Post, February 21, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bernie-sanders-briefed-by-us-officials-that-russia-is-trying-to-help-his-presidential-campaign/2020/02/21/5ad396a6-54bd-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html↩
- [2]Jeremy Diamond, Jake Tapper and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence briefer appears to have overstated assessment of 2020 Russian interference,” CNN, February 23, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/intelligence-briefer-russian-interference-trump-sanders/index.html↩