#1) Let's get one thing out of the way right now:

The primary was rigged against more than Bernie. Even if you hate Bernie so much that you won't even concede obvious facts, rigging a primary hurts all the candidates AND the voters.

Could Bernie Sanders have won a primary that wasn't 'rigged'? Um.

Right now the question is whether the Clinton campaign's dominance over the DNC (which was alleged at the time, too) helped her win and whether, without it, Sanders would have been the one on the ballot against Trump in November.

The numbers would suggest the answer is still no.

i'm bit confused by "rigged" part. Hillary won VA by 30 pts, FL by 30 pts, MD by 30 pts, NY by 16 pts, OH by 13 pts., CA by 8 pts.... https://t.co/GuVxfv2xof — Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 3, 2017

This is a moronic rationalization in more than one way.

Honest answer: if y'all were cheating and money laundering and you DIDN'T affect the vote, you shouldn't be allowed to run a lemonade stand. pic.twitter.com/X3lPtndyZW — John Graziano (@jvgraz) November 2, 2017

Yes, Eric. Rigging usually results in victories. Lemme know if you want to continue our previous discussion: Why spoons work best for soup https://t.co/5pUloETHHh — John Graziano (@jvgraz) November 3, 2017

#2a) How can anyone say with a straight face what an unrigged race would look like?

#2b) This has got to be the most unethical defense of corruption a person can make.

I hope those who say the Dem primary was "rigged" understand they are denigrating Hillary's voters, not Hillary herself. Profoundly wrong. — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 2, 2017

#3) This is just bizarre. I have no words.

Donna Brazile Sells Out, A Sad Way To End A Career

Her new book will only hurt the party she claims to love.

#4) If this looks familiar, it is. We saw this "kill the messenger" tactic from establishment Dems when Edward Snowden revealed that we were all being illegally spied on.

Brazile is too smart not to know releasing her book now wasn’t going to be used by Republicans to block out everything wrong they are doing from tax cuts for the rich to covering up the disgusting behavior of Trump and his campaign.

#5) Trump and Republican corruption are disgusting, but so is DNC corruption. At some point "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

The DNC, which Brazile claims rigged the primary for Clinton, was the organization saying to states it was OK for Sanders to run in their primaries even though he was not a Democrat. Sanders himself said were he not allowed into the Democratic Primary he couldn’t have run.

#6) See response #1. Plus, who gives a sh*t?

Both campaigns signed agreements with the DNC to raise money.

#7) About those signed agreements.

Secret Clinton-DNC agreement proves @DonnaBrazile right. "It's for the general" is nonsense. Opposite is true. It specifies: Sep 1, 2015: Commencement

Sep 11: Appointment of Clinton picked communications director

Oct 1: First cash payment of $1.2m

Mar 31, 2016: Termination date pic.twitter.com/hvUmdT8iQd — Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) November 4, 2017

Meanwhile...

A joint fundraising agreement between the Bernie Sanders campaign and the Democratic National Committee -- obtained Friday by ABC News and signed at the start of the primary campaign for the 2016 presidential election -- does not include any language about coordinating on strategic decisions over hiring or budget, unlike a fundraising memo between the Hillary Clinton team and the DNC.

Former Sanders staff members argue that the Sanders-DNC agreement refutes the claim by the DNC that the two campaigns were offered similar treatment by the party. What's more, the Sanders team posits that the joint fundraising agreement they signed with the party was never acted on.

Clinton Campaign Manager Robbie Mook Denies DNC Rigged 2016 Primary: "Politics Is Politics"

However, responding to Sanders campaign adviser Jeff Weaver's complaint that it was "pretty clear" the DNC was on the Clinton side, Mook said "politics is politics."

On interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile's claim that after review the DNC did in fact rig the primary in favor of Clinton he said, "this is water under the bridge."

#8) This is a self-defeating argument. If you want to keep people from voting for Democrats, then this is the right strategy.

The question is: what does the DNC actually do, and can it, even if it wanted to, rig 50+ primaries for any given candidate? — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 3, 2017

#9) So if the entire primary wasn't rigged then it doesn't matter? That's like saying, "What are you complaining about? The cards I dealt you from the bottom of the deck are almost as good."

Clinton camp responds: "troubling and puzzling [Brazile] would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda" https://t.co/14b9uuE0Gb — Monica Alba (@albamonica) November 4, 2017

#10) Really? Putin?

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