2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can someone explain to me why POC [View all]angrychair
(8,678 posts)Who am I to argue.
That you are trading in right-wing memes and hate speech is in little doubt. Why?
You are posting websites as sources that are known neo-Nazi, anti-semetic, holocaust-denying hate-sites like tomatoebubble (that FYI, has very choice words about HRC as well).
More importantly, your entire rant is debunked falsehoods. First, it was not "Russia" when he took his trip in 1988, it was the USSR. It was the same year a sitting US president gave a speech from Red Square.
Lastly, while yes the trip was taken right after they were married, it was not a honeymoon as they were part of a 12-person delegation, traveling to a sister-city on city business. 10 seconds of research would validate that very important distinction:
https://www.rt.com/usa/320098-bernie-sanders-ussr-honeymoon/
"Had all this been widely known at the time"? You mean, besides the entire city of Burlington and the entire state of Vermont and the international press that reported on it?
He had a Soviet flag in his office? Sorry Senator McCarthy, is that against the law? (FYI, I could find zero MSM news stories about a USSR flag in his mayor's office but I would suspect it had to do with their sister-city, not because he was a commie-loving American hater)
While I am not going to get into some long drawn-out debate about Nicaragua and Ortega, the FSLN freed their country from a brutal dictator. The long and illegal involvement of the CIA and their propping up of a brutal dictator that led to the formation of the FSLN and let us not forget the CIA-backed Contras and the awesome Iran-Contra scandal. Your rant on them and Cuba sounds more like a Raygun-era neocon than a Democrat.
Actually, your whole rant could be right out of the neocon playbook. When you Google the things you bring up, people like George Will and a list that gets worse from there, pops up.
Continue as you will but don't be surprised when your called out for actions like posting sites like tomatoebubble and that it haunts you when you say things that hark back to those type of posts.