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Ben Norton
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Now that Mueller's report was a flop and Russiagate has fallen apart, neoliberal centrist Democrats are dishonestly moving the goalposts

They now claim the scandal is obstruction, not collusion—although they said it was collusion for 2 years and MSNBC pushed this conspiracy 24/7
What's more incredible is some of the neoliberal centrist Dems who spent 2 years fantasizing over Robert Mueller, portraying him as our savior, are now turning on him!

And they are painting Bob Barr as part of a conspiracy too, although he quoted verbatim from Mueller's report
But this is what conspiracy theorists do: When their allies admit they have no evidence and are wrong, they turn on these former allies and say they're part of the conspiracy too.

Russiagate was always the neoliberal centrist Democrat's version of QAnon
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I explained why it's great Tulsi Gabbard is running for president and making ending regime-change wars a key issue—in this interview with @Lauren_Steiner

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She added, "we must pursue a foreign policy that is based on cooperation with other countries, rather than confrontation" armenianweekly.com/2019/03/25/haw…
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It's curious how this neoliberal activist that went on TYT and other media to make the "progressive" case for a Trump-led right-wing coup in Venezuela never mentions she has lived in the US *since 1986* -- over a decade before Chávez won his first election
It's common for rich, right-wing elites to lie about when they left Latin American countries that *later* had leftist governments.

Marco Rubio has built his entire career on this blatant lie.
It's qwhite noteworthy how racist the Venezuelan rich elite is. This is the "diaspora" that the wife of Venezuela's Trump-appointed right-wing coup leader met with in NY

This is NOT what Venezuela looks like. It's the elite whose families came from Europe
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The US State Department just approved the sale of $4.8 billion of fighter jets to Morocco's authoritarian monarchy.

While the US tries to overthrow Venezuela's elected leftist government, it continues to arm actual dictatorships that repress their people
thedefensepost.com/2019/03/25/us-…
In fact while the US (and France) supports the Moroccan dictatorship that is occupying and colonizing the Western Sahara, Venezuela's elected leftist government recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and has good relations with the Polisario Front
mppre.gob.ve/2019/01/30/act…
The US/France-backed Moroccan monarchy showed its loyalty to its neo-colonial masters by being the first Arab country to recognize Venezuela's Trump-appointed, unelected right-wing coup leader Juan Guaidó
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