By Caitlin Johnstone
March 03, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Back in January, well before the Democratic primary
race had taken on its current composition,
independent journalist
Ruth Ann Oskolkoff reported that a source had
heard from high-level Democratic Party insiders that
they were planning to install Joe Biden as the
party’s nominee, and to smear Bernie Sanders as a
Russian asset.
“On January 20, 2020 at 8:20 p.m.
PDT I received a communication from a reliable
source,” Oskolkoff wrote. “This person had
interactions earlier that evening with high level
party members and associates of the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) who said that they have now
selected Biden as the Democratic Party nominee, with
Warren as the VP. They also said the plan is to
smear Bernie as a Russian asset.”
Now, immediately before Super Tuesday, we are
seeing establishment candidates
Pete Buttigieg and
Amy Klobuchar drop out of the race, both of
whom,
along with former candidate Beto O’Rourke, are
now suddenly endorsing Biden. Elizabeth Warren, the
only top-level candidate besides Sanders who could
be labeled vaguely “left” by any stretch of the
imagination, has meanwhile
outraged progressives by remaining in the race,
to the Vermont senator’s detriment.
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The day before Super Tuesday also saw The
Daily Beast,
whose corporate owner IAC has
Chelsea Clinton on its board of directors,
publishing an article titled “Kremlin
Media Still Like Bernie, ’Cause They Love Trump”
which aggressively smears Sanders as a tool of the
Kremlin
This latter development is becoming a
conspicuously common line of attack against Sanders
and, while we’re on the subject, also tracks with
a prediction made by journalist Max Blumenthal back
in July of 2017. Blumenthal told Fox’s Tucker
Carlson that “this Russia hysteria will be
re-purposed by the political establishment to attack
the left and anyone on the left–a Bernie
Sanders-like politician who steps out of line on the
issues of permanent war or corporate free trade,
things like that–will be painted as Russia puppets.
So this is very dangerous, and people who are
progressive who are falling into it need to know
what the long-term consequences of this cynical
narrative are.”
So we’re seeing things unfold exactly as some
have predicted. We’re seeing the clear frontrunner
smeared as a tool of Vladimir Putin, accompanied by
a deluge of op-eds and think pieces from
all the usual
warmongering
mass media narrative managers calling on
so-called “moderates” to rally around the former
Vice President on Super Tuesday.
Sanders
has not been pulling in anywhere near the numbers
he’d need to pull to prevent a contested convention.
This means that even if he gets more votes than any
of his primary opponents, party leaders can still
overrule those votes and appoint Biden as their
nominee to run against Trump. Establishment
spinmeisters as well as
all Sanders’ primary opponents have been
working to normalize this ahead of time.
The only problem? Biden’s brain is turning into
sauerkraut.
There are two new clips of video footage making
the rounds today, one featuring Biden at a rally
telling his supporters that
tomorrow is “Super Thursday”, and another
featuring the former VP saying (and
this is a direct quote), “We hold these truths
to be self-evident. All men and women created– by
the– you know, you know the thing.”
I’ve
written about Biden’s recent struggles to form
coherent sentences before, and it seems to be
getting worse. There’s simply no comparing the
befuddled, fuzz-brained man we see before us today
with the sharp, lucid speaker we were seeing
even a few years ago. The man’s brain does not
work.
And yeah, it’s unpleasant to have to keep
pointing this out. I’m not loving it myself. I
resent Biden’s handlers and the Democratic Party
establishment for making it necessary to continually
point out an old man’s obvious symptoms of cognitive
decline. But it does need to be pointed to, and it’s
creepy and weird that they’re continuing to prop up
this crumbling husk of a man while pretending that
everything’s fine.
Not that Biden would be an acceptable leader of
the most powerful government on earth even with a
working brain; he’s a
horrible war hawk with an
inexcusable track record of advancing right-wing
policies. But even rank-and-file Americans who don’t
pay attention to that stuff would plainly see a man
on the debate stage opposite Trump who shouldn’t be
permitted near a pair of scissors, much less the
nuclear codes. And Trump will happily point that
out.
It’s been obvious since 2016 that the Dems were
going to once again sabotage the only candidate with
a chance of beating Trump in favor of a scandalously
inappropriate candidate, but wheeling out an actual,
literal dementia patient for the role is something
not even I would have imagined.
2020 is weird, folks. And it’s
going to get a whole lot weirder. Buckle up.
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