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I have my issues with Warren, but if Bernie Sanders really wanted to pass his agenda he would not have run but would have instead endorsed and campaigned for Warren because she would not incite the visceral disgust and hate he does thanks to his spitefulness in 2016
I know many of Bernie's supporters would not support her anyway, despite his support because a hefty chunk of his supporters draw g#merg#te losers and incels who hate women. But she certainly could have united far more people than Bernie ever will.
And yes, there are some people who really are disgusted by Warren, too, but they are a smaller number. I think there are fewer #NeverWarren than there are #NeverBernie.
The thing is, Bernie put his ego and himself ahead of the issues he claims to care about. As ever.
The thing is, Bernie put his ego and himself ahead of the issues he claims to care about. As ever.
We looked at the last six months of tweets containing the various #Never<candidate> hashtags, limited to the eight Democratic candidates still in the race. #NeverBernie was the most frequently used, followed by #NeverWarren, #NeverBiden, and #NeverPete.
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
@ZellaQuixote Usage of #Never<Candidate> hashtags increased sharply in the opening weeks of 2020. #NeverWarren, #NeverBernie, and #NeverBloomberg have each experienced boosts or spikes in volume tied to specific events during that time (further info in figure.)
@ZellaQuixote Who's using the #Never<candidate> hashtags? The retweet network for recent tweets is comprised mostly of obscure accounts (not candidates/journalists etc) and breaks down into 3 clusters:
• right-wing accounts
• pro-Sanders left-wing accounts
• anti-Sanders left-wing accounts
• right-wing accounts
• pro-Sanders left-wing accounts
• anti-Sanders left-wing accounts
Back in March 2018 we reversed engineered / identified just over 250 Twitter accnts of the 600 Russian influencer accts monitored by the German Marshall Fund at the #Hamilton68 dashboard. Over time we expanede this list and broke them into subcatgories dashboard.securingdemocracy.org
Without giving away too much part of the reverse engineering involved an oversight in how the @SecureDemocracy dashboard displayed its trending data. We reverse engineered enough accounts as seed accounts to then grow out the set over time. We are completely independent of @gmfus
Fast forward to 2day. We looked at the discussion of candidates within the Kremlin-aligned #Hamilton68 subset of accnts most focused on Russian Geopolitics. This wordcloud in first week of Feb. shows positive support to Bernie Sanders #Bernie2020 #elections2020 #nvcaucus
Aaaand zero lessons learned.
It continues. Yes, all the angry Berners you can easily see for yourself by clicking the trending hashtags are actually Russian bots. That is a perfectly sane claim from the faction that spends its energy calling dissidents "conspiracy theorists".
#ElizabethWarren's bill reminds me of Romney's advice to youths in 4/2012, "Borrow money, if you have to, from your parents. Start a business... [Jimmy John Liautaud] borrowed $20K from his dad..."
The loan was c. 7/82 and was actually $25K.
$25K in 7/82 = $59K in 4/12
#Warren
The loan was c. 7/82 and was actually $25K.
$25K in 7/82 = $59K in 4/12
#Warren
Warren declined to be interviewed for this story. In May, at request of media, her campaign released a summary of her outside work. As a senatorial candidate, Warren released a shorter version, which omitted her work for Dow Chemical.
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