When I say "Russiagate Dead-Enders equal Hillary Dead-Enders", I mean there is a one-to-one ratio. They are one and the same.

The reason that is important is because Russiagate\Hillary Dead-Enders are anti-Bernie\anti-progressive and pro-establishment tools.

So don't believe that Russigate has\had anything to do with "the left", despite what Trump and the GOP is already saying.

Let's start with the Queen of Russiagate, Rachel Maddow.



Maddow’s audience has dipped on her two days back on the air since Attorney General William Barr reported that special counsel Robert Mueller had found no collusion between Trump and Russia’s efforts. Her audience of 2.5 million on Monday was 19 percent below her average this year, and it went down further to 2.3 million on Tuesday, the Nielsen company said.

Maddow got behind Hillary, and against Bernie, as early as February 2016.

Then there is Jonathan Chait, who believes that Trump has been a Russian asset since the 1980's.

Chait was attacking Sanders even before the primaries started.





Chait continues to hate Bernie today.

Then there is Joy Reid, who currently believes that the Mueller report "feels like the seeds of a cover-up".

No one lied and smeared Sanders more than Reid. She lied, lied again, and doubled-down on her lies about Sanders.

Reid rationalized the rigging of the 2016 primary, while her fans told Bernie supporters to leave the Dems and vote for Trump.

Bernie and his followers are like that college friend who stays at your place for weeks, pays $0, eats your food & trashes your aesthetic. — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 12, 2017

Ironically, Joy Reid did a show titled “how to spot a bot” in order to discredit black critics of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker as Russian bots.

It's ironic because actual Russian bots love Reid.



According to an analysis of the raw data by Law&Crime, Joy-Ann Reid–recently and glowingly profiled as a heroine of the #Resistance by the New York Times–received some 267 total retweets by the private sector Russian troll brigade. The next closest pundit favored by the Russian trolls was Sean Hannity–who received only a handful of their retweets during the 2016 election.

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Reid was also heavily mocked after she tweeted that Russia is still communist in 2016–it is/was not. In fact, Joy-Ann Reid has made somewhat of a sport out of criticizing Sanders’ over the Russian issue in particular. Last year, she criticized Sanders and his supporters for repeating claims of Democratic National Committee fraud as little more than a Russian plot. All in all, Reid was elevated by Russian trolls above Sanders by a ratio of roughly five-to-one.

Finally there is Neera Tanden, president of the neoliberal think tank Center for American Progress and a Clinton policy advisor appointed to lead the presidential transition team, who said, “The fact that Donald Trump has colluded with Russia is by and large already proven at this point.”

The walls are closing in. https://t.co/1sQLXNDW56 — Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) January 12, 2019

“I would do whatever Hillary needs always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier.”

- Neera Taden, 2008

Let's never forget where the Russiagate disaster came from.

New book by 'Shattered' by Clinton insiders reveals that "blame Russia" plan was hatched "within twenty-four hours" of election loss. pic.twitter.com/NDUk90Jp5q — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 11, 2017

This wasn't a "progressive" or "leftist" konspiracy theory.

This ridiculous theory came straight from the centrist, "pragmatic" Clinton-wing of the mainstream Democratic Party establishment.

It's important to make that distinction. Remember all of the times the MSM almost begged the real left to get on-board with this garbage.

NYMag: "It is very strange that the self-styled populist wing of the left is so indifferent to this project."

Atlantic: "If Blumenthal and Greenwald are indignant about Kris Kobach’s efforts to limit Americans’ ability to choose their leaders, they should be indignant about Vladimir Putin’s too."

NYTimes: "But as the investigation led by Robert Mueller closes in on more Trump associates like Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, it seems clear that the Russia story is only going to get bigger. Rather than downplay or deny it, the left should embrace it."

Week: "But the Russiagate story matters, and the left should be paying attention."

Of course everyone who got kicked off of DKos already knows this.

Russiagate was a konspiracy theory for the comfortable, overeducated, suburban liberal.

All of those dirty, undereducated leftists that comfortable liberals despise somehow managed to not fall for the lies.