Biden: Facebook Told Staff Of Russian Bots | Talking Points Memo

Zuckerberg has spent his adult life getting revenge for being disliked by almost everyone. So he’s OK with hurting almost everyone. That he has profited immensely from it means he’ll never change. He and Trump are soulmates.

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None of them have foreign policy experience besides Biden. It’s actually a bit demoralizing.

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Yeah, though, honestly, that may be less of a worry this time around…there are plenty of people that you could bring in at State who will work to fix all the broken bits. I mean, Taylor, Yovanovitch, people like that would come back to mend fences, and there are heavy hitters who could come in too. If it was me, I’d ask Obama (either one) if they wanted to be Secretary of State; Hillary was great in that role but I’m not sure that anyone would want to go there.

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I find it deeply demoralizing. The entire globe is in flux. The Presidency is actually way more about foreign policy than domestic policy which is really up to Congress. So to me the whole goddamn thing is off kilter.

Yes Biden is it.

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Eff the whole lot of them!

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After saying that he doesn’t know if he can stop Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) given his momentum so far in the Democratic primary, Biden told CBS’ Margaret Brennan about how “the Russians don’t want me to be the nominee” and that “they spent a lot of money on bots on Facebook.”

Putin is sowing distrust and chaos with the Ds/Is by boosting Sanders because it helps the Criminal IMPeetus in the 2020 elections and it is easy for the Criminal IMPeetus/ReThugniCONs to scare their base with ‘Sanders is a socialist and worst than a Russian communist’ smear campaign.

Remember in November to VOTEBLUE2020 because the alternative is worst not only for the American people but for our country’s rule of law and democracy!

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Anyone who can’t see the decline from five years ago is deluding themselves.

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Yes you’re right. I should have said deeply. It’s an isolationist election. It’s all about domestic policy, and I’m not sure why that is. Because Trump is so xenophobic and centered on his national audience who don’t give a hoot about anything beyond their front yards? So we’ve got to beat him in America’s front yards and the rest be damned?

The people who don’t give a damn if Trump blows up the UN seem to be running the show.

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:face_vomiting::face_vomiting::face_vomiting:

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Dare to be stupid!

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Don’t know that that’s so bad, if the candidate is willing to hire and listen to competent, qualified people. It seemed to work for Clinton and Obama.
And, Cheney & Co. had plenty of foreign/defense policy experience, or so they claimed. (Ed.)
Given the choice, I’d always take the first two and pass on the last. (Ed.)

Well you have a phony populist president and a populist democratic front runner. Populism is by definition, isolationist, anti-trade and runs over into xenophobia 100% of the time. And that’s because it’s nationalism.

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You know I don’t fully agree about Sanders being a populist. I think he’s a socialist who uses some populist methods to campaign. In effect, it’s the same, but to me there’s a difference because he isn’t a racist or really a nationalist.

I think he has an interest in foreign affairs. As a young man it was kind of his thing. But I think he’s happy to avoid FP discussions now because it’s his weak point, and he knows it. That’s not a point in his favor but the rest of them don’t even seem to know they’re weak in this area and at least Sanders does. He introduced the Yemen bill specifically to have something to point to in terms of foreign policy. Or not totally. He does have an active interest in the Middle East, and that’s a bit more than the rest of them – other than Buttigieg. But it’s all theoretical with him. Completely. And he’s 37 years old.

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For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall go hard

— Prince Hamlet, in Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4.

Shakespeare for the win.

P.S.: Le Petard would’ve been a good name for his rocket.

Not completely theoretical with Buttigieg. He spent a brief amount of time in Naval Intelligence, and time on the ground as a grunt in Afghanistan. He’s also on the board of advisers of the Truman National Security Project, a leftie organization dealing with Afghanistan and related FP issues.

It isn’t remotely comparable to Biden’s FP experience, but at least he knows what Afghanistan is like at the ground level, which is one of the top two or three things the next President will have to deal with. Not that I think Pete can win, and wish he’d drop out at this point to help clear the field.

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Thanks for that. I wasn’t fully knowledgeable about Buttigieg’s resume and didn’t know about the Truman National Security Project. That’s good to know.

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Perhaps but he is the only one I’ve heard say much that was intelligent about foreign issues.

Bernie and his supporters were identifying him as a populist last time around. Maybe they decided that wasn’t working. Don’t know. But his movement is a populist movement.

And I think he’s a demagogue, like those who lead populist movements are,

I don’t much trust his instincts on foreign policy but he is lightyears ahead of Trump just the same. And none of the rest of them besides Biden has any experience with foreign policy at all.

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I know he rolls into populism for you and you have your reasons, which aren’t simply bias. But to me he really is a socialist and trade-union activist.

And you’re right, Buttigieg has been intelligent on foreign affairs. I just, well, find him so young. It’s like considering making a graduate student the leader of the free world. Yes, yes. That goes a bit far, but you know what I mean.

I found this article in the Times of Israel interesting. Because they find American foreign policy vitally interesting, they’ve been looking at the candidates in depth. So, just in case you want to take a look… And if you’ve already been seeing their stuff, just forget I mentioned it!

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POPULISM
a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

NATIONALISM
identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

LIBERALISM
a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.

CONSERVATISM
the holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.

SOCIALISM
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

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