Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. Get ready for me to be attacked viciously by Sanders supporters who know nothing of his past, & Russian bots/disinformation .

One reason I cant support Bernie: His environmental racism in aiding rich Vermonters to the detriment of impoverished Mexican-Americans. And add on..

2...his self-righteous refusal to address the problem he caused by snapping the "how dare you accuse me!" game, then tossing out environmentalists & Mexican Americans who came to him, pleading for him not to do what he was doing. I will only be showing information from 1998...

3...in other words, this is not something that came up in 2016, when the attacks by his vicious, abusive followers who went after my family led me to hold back.

Reality cannot be swept aside to create a false history, no matter how much Sanders and Trump supporters want to...

4...everything I am about to relay comes from the Institute for Social Ecology, about as liberal an environmental as exists. Bernie fans - don't attack them. As I said, I am quoting stuff from 1998.

Vermont has nuclear waste. Vermonters did not want it in their back yard. They..

5...did not want it in the state. Because, you know, I guess they are special. So if it doesn't stay among the lilly-white population of Vermont, where did Bernie decide it should go?

To Sierra Blanca, Texas, a location populated by impoverished, powerless Mexican-Americans...

6...who supported the man who led the fight on this, Bernie Sanders? Governor and future president George W. Bush.

Who opposed it? Great Texas liberal Jim Hightower. The Sierra Club. Liberal activists of West Texas. And members of the Institute for Social Ecology....

7...still, no one paid attention. No one cared about the poor and brown-skinned. Their voices were not heard by anyone - particularly Bernie Sanders, who threw them out of his office when liberal groups came to beg him to save these poor people from radioactive nuclear waste....

8...Here is the story, written in 1998, by one of the liberal activists who led a pilgrimage from Texas to the halls of Congress to meet with Bernie Sanders. If you can't see the entire attachment, click on it. The story is ugly. And...it is the same behavior of the man we see...

9...(apologies. I did not include the attachment above. I will include it on the next tweet after this one.) now. The issue only got attention when a Mexican American city councilman in Sierra Grande went on a hunger strike to raise awareness and fight against....

10. ...the dumping of Vermont nuclear waste in an area populated by impoverished Mexican Americans. He cited environment racism. This made Bernie furious at the man starving himself. Then, when activists came to Bernie, he lashed out (click on attachment to read the ugly story)..

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13...THAT is Bernie Sanders. Once he fixes an idea in his head, he lashes out at anyone who disagrees with him, accepts manipulated data, dumps waste on the impoverished so it benefits the wealthy, and then screams "How DARE you!" when the environment racism is pointed out....

14...but it is worse than that. Yesterday, in tweets responding to @RalphNader where I revealed he had supported my termination from working for him on my first day on the job immediately after they learned I had poorly controlled epilepsy, I mentioned his union-busting...

15...that involved a Ralph business that ran Multinational Monitor. When members of that staff tried to unionize, Ralph fired them all, then had the locks changed on the office. Then, not long after, he gave a speech condemning businesses that fight unions. I tried to find....

16...an article about the event. And I did. It was in an article about Bernie ranting about his staffers trying unionize. Rather than letting this issue play out in public, Bernie demanded a media blackout so that the press would not hear from employees... paydayreport.com/4752-2/

17...and notice, the lead of that story is about the long-ago editor of Multinational Monitor who said what he saw Bernie doing reminded him of Ralph's union busting.

There's a *reason* Bernie fights for free college rather than spending that money on improving public schools..

18...the white well-off supporters of Bernie preen that this is helping the poor. It is NOT. If they knew a damn thing about the polls of the working class and poor, the huge majorities of them who don't go to college - and that is the majority of the country - don't WANT to....

19...go to college. So "free college" - for all including the top .01% as Bernie demands - isnt about helping the poor. It's about helping the well-off. And I have no doubt the majority of his fans fight for this NOT because of the poor. If they *care* they would know the data...

20...they would know they don't want to go. Just like their demands for Medicare for All. They protest for it, but, as the polls show, they are unwilling to pay more taxes for it. Just like Republicans, they want other people to pay, while they reap the benefits. They don't...

21...vote when they don't get Bernie not because theyre fighting for the poor but because they fight for themselves. So when they say now "Bernie or Bust" & imply they wont vote if they dont get their God King, remember: They're saying they don't care about kids in cages, about..

22.. millions who have lost health insurance, the millions more of the impoverished in other nations who are going to die and be turned into refugees quite soon because of climate change, they care ONLY about themselves.

So why don't I support Bernie, and why do I despise his...

23..supporters? Because theyre self-righteous frauds who - like GOPrs - only want for themselves....

24...& are willing to let others die or have families torm apart so they can sip lattes at Starbucks while preening about their purity.

So go ahead, you frauds. Start attacking. And when you're done, go screw yourselves. Real liberals are busy trying to help the poor, not you.