Thread by @OurRev305

As Bernie Sanders gears up for a 2nd presidential run (yay #Bernie2020) Twitter is awash with folks who create a mess, point to mess, & say see, we can’t have messes.

We mean the troll army of horrible David Brock’s Shareblue Media.

Here’s a 19 thread tweet for #SOTU19 /1

Who’s David Brock?

Brock’s a self-described “witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine.”

He coined ‘Anita Hill is a little bit slutty, a little bit nutty.’

He wrote The Real Anita Hill, which he freely admits was not so much a book but a character assassination of lies. /2

Bernie Sanders accurately refers to David Brock as scum of the earth. /3

We ❤️ Bernie.

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Some folks running Hillary Clinton‘s campaign thought it would be a good idea to give Brock & his SuperPac, Correct the Record, millions of bucks to smear Bernie Sanders on social media & the press like Brock did to Anita Hill. /4

Brock also filed numerous ethics & FEC complaints about Bernie 2016, tying up staff resources & Bernie’s small dollar donations from working people to defend against baseless charges. /5

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Blue Nation Review was a progressive minded pro-Bernie Sanders but independent media outlet.

So Brock purchased it in November 2015 to turn it into a pro-Hillary/anti-Bernie media outlet. /6

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If you were on social media last night, there was a big furor —led by Shareblue folks—that Bernie’s annual rebuttal on his own social media page would conflict with Stacey Abrams rebuttal to Trump’s SOTU. /7

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When Bernie said hey, everyone should watch Stacey’s rebuttal (whom he endorsed early in her primary), & I’ll be on social media AFTER, which is the case every year since Trump got elected, that didn’t deter the Shareblue folks. /8

They lied, said Bernie’s speech conflicted w/Stacey, then were like oops, it doesn’t & it’s not even on tv. But Bernie’s sexist/racist bc the night BELONGS 💯 to Stacey.

PS: Who can sleep at night letting David Brock call balls & strikes on what’s racist & sexist? /9

Then, Kamala Harris issued a press release that she was rebutting what she thinks Trump’s gonna say before Stacey rebuts what he actually says!

Oh snap. 😳

Mmmmmm..not quite. /10

Mind you, these folks tweet Bernie’s a “fake Jew” w/a “dusty d*ck” who peddles his racist agenda like free college. (Not kidding. Free college & healthcare are racist.) Some admit they voted for McCain over Obama bc Sarah Palin is a woman. So much for who’s “not a Democrat.” /11

What many folks don’t know is last year there were FIVE rebuttals to Trump’s #SOTU.

Maxine Waters didn’t do her rebuttal on social media, but TV.

But nobody tweeted that was an affront to Joe Kennedy III, chosen by Dems to give the formal tv response. Bc it wasn’t. /12

Do ya know who also participated in rebutting the State of the Union last year, dimming the wattage of rising star Joe Kennedy III, THREE women of color, & the Jewish man she compared to Judas?

Debra f*cking Messing. /13 #SOTU #FeelTheBern

After Trump’s last address & Pelosi/Schumer’s formal rebuttal, Klobuchar, Ocasio-Cortez, & others (inc. Bernie) didn’t go to sleep, but gave a late night rebuttal to Trump on TV or social media. Some electeds made media rounds to give their take. /14 #SOTU

https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1082842722770182145?s=21

So if after every Trump speech & formal Democratic rebuttal, multiple electeds give their own perspective on Trump, why all of a sudden is Bernie Sanders singled out? /15 #SOTU #SOTU2019

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/1082833069864898562?s=21

‘Cause folks are damn tired of relitigating 2016. So Shareblue harps on it & smears Bernie w/influencers & bots so people go ‘Bernie, don’t run, no repeat of 2016.’ Which bots?⤵️

Did ya know analytics say 30-40% of Kamala’s Twitter followers are fake?/16 dailydot.com/layer8/kamala-…

David Brock emerged from his troll cave long enough to write an Op-Ed demanding Bernie Sanders not run & complicit NBC decided to defile themselves & run it instead of wiping their tushys w/it.

‘Cause clicks over country, yah?/17

#RunBernieRun #OFB2020
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Shareblue & their minions & celebs who feel important ‘cause they get sent political talking points, create division on purpose, so they can point to the division & say Bernie divides the party.

No. They divide the party. Anyone who cares about democracy should condemn it. /18

We won’t watch Trump twitch & sniff his way through a #SOTU speech some racist wrote. We’ll watch Stacey, Bernie, & check social media to gain as many views as possible from electeds. Bc too many Commander in Chief wannabes haven’t said squat bout Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. 👀/19