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(89,283 posts)they never supported him.
similar to Putin.
they used the campaign to go after Clinton and help Trump.
RandySF
(59,614 posts)JI7
(89,283 posts)it was all meant to hurt clinton and help trump.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)There are a couple of articles about her. She turned to Trump over a year ago. Politically, she"s all over the place, just trying to stay in the limelight. What a sad pathetic person.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)She was one of numerous "Internet personalities" who latched on to the campaign when it was the cool thing to do for Twitter retweets and Facebook likes.
David__77
(23,598 posts)Voltaire2
(13,244 posts)And failing that please delete your op. It is crap and you know it.
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sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)You cant possibly support Bernie and believe in any of that alt right bullshit
RandySF
(59,614 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)JI7
(89,283 posts)canetoad
(17,208 posts)A high ranking campaign official. Social media 'star', originally anarchist, then Bernie, libertarian, white nationalist...
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37507542
Fairbanks says her conversion came about fairly recently. She began 2016 as a supporter of Clinton's main rival within the Democratic Party, socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. As Clinton progressed towards the party nomination, she says, she grew increasingly frustrated with the Democrats. But what really shifted her political outlook, she says, was the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June by a man who pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
"I thought I was going to vote for [Green Party candidate] Jill Stein. But I think she's wacky and too over the top to appeal to a mainstream audience," she told BBC Trending.
"Then Orlando happened, and the son of one of my mom's really good friends was shot there. I heard this horrific story, and everyone's like 'blame guns', and I was like, 'no, we need to blame terrorism'. I was just offended. Then I started to look more seriously at Trump, and at people who have been pushing censorship on the left."
At first her support was based on her anti-Clinton feelings, and she also cited foreign policy and free trade as key issues. Eventually, Fairbanks says, she warmed to Trump in his own right.
aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:05 AM - Edit history (1)
I hate when journalists use Twitter.
riversedge
(70,414 posts)I do not follow her but occasionally her tweets get into my twitter feed. Mostly vile comments against leftists.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37507542
aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)I'd like Victoria Brownworth or someone who understands how she operates to explain why she thinks Fairbanks served in that role for Bernie or have this tweet denounced as Fake News.
obamanut2012
(26,180 posts)Connected to his camoaign, as well as all the women-hating bros.
David__77
(23,598 posts)...
Expecting Rain
(811 posts)David__77
(23,598 posts)I get that others may find something else to be true.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)David__77
(23,598 posts)I know she used to oppose same sex marriage and had a bad position on gay rights. Those things aren't the case now.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)And her Islamophobia has bled into policy matters, like her opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal.
She has went on Fox News and blasted Obama for refusing to call Jihadists "Islamic terrorists".
She is buddy/buddy with Steve Bannon. She met with Trump and Bannon after the election. When 169 Democrats signed a letter urging Trump to dump Bannon, she refused to sign it.
She is best friends with Narendra Modi...India's PM who started off in a right-wing, nationalist organization that stokes anti-Muslim sentiment
The only reason she stopped calling pro-gay marriage people "homosexual extremists", is because she went to the Middle East and found something she hated more.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Never a staffer
David__77
(23,598 posts)I appreciate your comment. People can disagree without propagating disinformation.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)According to the BBC blog entry, she was also a supporter of Black Lives Matter and Film the Police.
Now she's a Moscow-funded supporter of the alt-right and Trump?
Well there you've got it. Proof positive that those people calling for an end to the police slaughter of young black men and women and asking citizens to film police abuses were nothing but misogynists, racists and Putin puppets out to destroy Secretary Clinton.
Do the Victoria Brownworths of this world ever stop to think about what they are saying?
WTF indeed.
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)ian. All extremes. Now he's a "Republican." I'm sure he voted for Trump. A lot of these people are messed up and hop from one extreme to the other. There is a thin line.
SethH
(170 posts)are you going to stop following her twitter feed?
mucifer
(23,598 posts)Do you realize some people who voted for President Obama have switched and become trump supporters and nazis. As horrible as it is these things happen. People can start out moderate and become extremists later.
Did you read Senator Sander's statement on the horrific events of yesterday?
Would you post that a previous Obama supporter turned nazi?
I wonder.
David__77
(23,598 posts)...
Autumn
(45,120 posts)unc70
(6,125 posts)Her connection to Bernie was brief, limited, and mostly in her own mind. And she was on the payroll of Sputnik.
She is all about wanting to be edgy, and she now thinks the alt right is where it is at.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)many claim it is just an OK sign
Yeah because so many people pose giving the OK sign
People really are giving too many a pass or ignoring it
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Some Sanders supporters despise the concept of social plurality and economic justice for EVERYONE.
David__77
(23,598 posts)...
still_one
(92,492 posts)dividing Democrats.
Anyone who says they were a Sander's supporter and now stands with trump, is either a liar, or a seriously deranged person
David__77
(23,598 posts)What a load of horse shit! And you know it.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)The truth that some people will claim without an ounce of shame that the existence of one deeply disturbed, or patently calculating, woman's conversion to alt-right Trump-ist from former self-proclaimed supporter of Black Lives Matter and Senator Sanders somehow "proves" a connection between the two.
There IS NO CONNECTION between supporting Senator Sander and supporting the alt-right/Putin/Trump;
There IS NO CONNECTION between supporting Black Lives Matter and supporting the alt-right/Putin/Trump
The people who WILL NOT STOP promoting this divisive shit DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS PARTY.
mcar
(42,439 posts)I need to let my MA relatives know.
rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)This is why Sanders was clearly "encouraged". The GOP and Russia wanted to divide the Democratic Party and have low turn-out. Sanders and his supporters walked right into it. They still continue to walk into it.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)SethH
(170 posts)Gothmog
(145,794 posts)David__77
(23,598 posts)...
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)of her stated ties to the Bernie campaign, that were not refuted at the time she was given access to things she should not have been.
I don't blame the Sanders supporters. Ratfuckers are skilled operatives. She is a skilled ratfucker.
seaglass
(8,173 posts)to see some evidence before I believe it.
Fairbanks is an opportunist and attention seeker who likely has no core values. F*ck her.
melman
(7,681 posts)Unbelievable that a garbage thread like this is allowed to stand.
Voltaire2
(13,244 posts)not a Sanders spokesperson. Not connected to the Sanders campaign.
Consider deleting this nonsense.