Just in - Mike Bloomberg office in Knoxville, TN, was vandalized.

[Dennis Donovan]

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Josh Lederman ✔ @JoshNBCNews

Just in - @MikeBloomberg office in Knoxville, TN, was vandalized. Campaign manager @ksheekey says the vandalization “echoes language from the Sanders campaign and its supporters,” calls on Sanders to “immediately condemn”

1:27 PM - Feb 21, 2020

I ask EVERYONE to recall Phil Parlock when assessing this.

[aikoaiko]

1. Nope.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. You'd rather immediately believe something before we know all the facts?

[aikoaiko]

5. That's my point. Until we know all the facts, no apology should be forthcoming.

This could easily be Bloomberg's version of B-girl.

[Dennis Donovan]

11. Thank you

I'm sorry for reading that wrong.

Yes, I bring up Parlock because this is coming from an (insurgent) campaign. Let's get the facts before immediately attacking fellow Democrats (Sanders' supporters are, by and large, our fellow Democrats - that gets lost in all of this, sometimes ).

[George II]

2. 3...2...1...Nina Turner "how do we know they're Sanders supporters?"

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Do we? n/t

[democrattotheend]

8. Well, how do we?

I'm not even a Sanders supporter this time around, but it bothers me that every time someone does something out of line, people automatically assume it's Sanders supporters. How is that different from Trump assuming it must be a Muslim when a bomb goes off in NYC? Let's find out what happened and if it was done by people associated with Bernie's campaign, he needs to do something about it.

[Iliyah]

6. Ugh . . .

Who ever did it, fuck off . .

[tiredtoo]

7. Oh man

Saw a guy with a flat tire last week. From my point it appears to be a Bloomberg nail in the tire.

[DanTex]

9. Someone bumped into me on the subway. Bernie should condemn that guy too.

[defacto7]

10. Facts please.. anyone?

[4139]

12. Spray painted: racist, and Oligarch

Could be anyone

[Cuthbert Allgood]

17. Plus, those are just facts.

[ChubbyStar]

13. Memories of Phil Parlock total douche

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/9/17/51596/-

[Dennis Donovan]

15. I could've gone with "Rovian" (attacking one's self and blame the other side), but Phil...

...was such a doofus (and his son) that I just wanted to bring him up again so Google searches on his name will have a recent entry.

[ChubbyStar]

16. When I was on KOS many years ago we used Parlocked as an adjective

Holy shit that guy just got Parlocked, let's bring it back!

[tiredtoo]

18. yes it reminds me of when Bush's brain, name escapes me, had his office raided.

oops name came back. Karl Rove. had his office vandalized so he could blame an opponent.

[nobuddy]

20. it was a, "bug"

called a press conference day before only debate of the election. incumbent spent debate on defensive answering questions about the bug. turns out the bug had a battery life of less than a day.

[nobuddy]

19. Phil Parlock

I always struggle to recall the guy's name.

[Moderateguy]

21. As a Bloomberg supporter, I still want proof that this was the doings of a Sanders supporter

but it would be a good thing for Sanders, and all the other candidates, to condemn this

[tiredtoo]

22. Just going to keep sharing this message i stole from Facebook

"Sure would be great if, no matter who, we would stop with the paranoia and simply vote for who we like and support each other. We are all Dems so remember that devisivness within our ranks will lose the election to Trump as quickly as you can shout "Welcome back DT". If you truly care about the future of this country then act like it. Dems are not our enemy, that's DT, for goodness sake."

[peggysue2]

23. If the Bernie Bros didn't have the reputation they had and still have . . .

this wouldn't be a credibility problem. Everyone would shrug and consider it typical ratf**king from the outside.

However, the behavior of some over-the-top supporters and the language of Senator Sanders senior staff mean the red flags are still up and flapping wildly.

Think about it.

[Dennis Donovan]

31. Is that "reputation" falsely ID'd, though?

Bot Sentinel creator on inauthentic "Sanders supporter" accounts on Twitter

[peggysue2]

33. Have you read David Sirota's tweets?

How about Brianna Gray? These are senior staff members who feel perfectly comfortable with pushing all matter of garbage. Ms Gray was called up just this last week for lying. Or Weaver, for that matter who is still in the mix after his disgraceful behavior in 2016.

These are senior staff people, not a bunch of amorphous, unnamed characters acting on their own misguided purposes. They work directly with the Senator from Vermont. So, if Sanders and his campaign are unfairly accused, the Senator might think about cleaning his own house.

Just saying.

[Dennis Donovan]

34. No, I don't. Not sure why I should.

The Bot Sentinel OP was about how foreign entities are ratfucking authentic Sanders supporters (who are, by and large, still fellow Democrats).

[peggysue2]

36. Why you should be reading them?

These are people representing Bernie Sanders at the highest level, running his digital campaign and making appearances while they lie their faces off. These are people the Senator from Vermont personally chose to run the campaign on his behalf.

You are known by the company you keep.

Again, just saying.

[ibegurpard]

24. That's unfortunate

Hope they catch and prosecute the person

[Docreed2003]

25. Am I the only one who's more surprised that he has an office in Knoxville??

Ktown is a college town, sure, and the city is fairly left leaning but the rest of east TN is a bastion for deep red Trumplandia.....

[brooklynite]

26. A Congresswoman in MI who I know was discussing her plan to campaign in hostile territory...

...She was told that it was pointless because the previous candidate had lost by 90% there.

She said her plan was to lose by 70%. Every vote counts.

[Docreed2003]

29. Oh I agree 100%

Trust me, living in the blue dot in a sea of red in TN, I agree with that completely. My point of surprise, and I guess I should have been more clear, was that he's taking those votes that seriously that he's opening up offices in places some campaigns haven't even thought about.

[lynintenn]

27. He has an office in almost every college town in Tennessee.

[Docreed2003]

30. That's fantastic

I think it speaks to the seriousness with which he's taking this campaign. Where are you located in TN? I'm in the Nashville area

[applegrove]

28. Oh i bet ot was a false flag GOP ratfucking operation. They have been

trying to cleave sanders supporters from the rest of democrats or moderates for months.

[Nanjeanne]

32. Mike - the guy who thinks a woman shouldn't be believed if she says she was raped

unless there is a third person eye witness - spreads a story with zero proof about Sanders.

Me thinks he’s looking desperate.

[counting]

35. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops

bernie supporters, 16-25

[jcmaine72]

37. Yeah, it's all Bernie's fault.

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with his long, well-documented history of racism, sexism and classism, right? No, of course not. If not for Bernie and his Bolshevik brethren, I'm sure people, especially POC and women, would be just lining up outside every Bloomberg campaign office from coast-to-coast to slip love notes under the door thanking him for being such a selfless humanist and healer all these decades.