As I mentioned, I played on Sunday night in Atlantic City with my friends in the karaoke band. The drummer of the band is a hard core Bernie supporter, and as we always do, we ended up discussing politics on the drive down to AC. In the course of the conversation, my friend

- parroted RWNJ talking points about the Clinton Foundation
- expressed disbelief that Clinton won the popular vote
- railed against the superdelegates and DNC ‘collusion’ with the Clinton campaign
- flatly rejected the idea that Russia in any way interfered in the election
- maintained that fake news stories and bogus BLM posts on Facebook influenced the election (his reasoning - they didn’t spend a lot of money)
- straight up laughed in my face when I expressed concern that Russia fucked with us
- denied that Jill Stein has any involvement at all with Russia
- maintained that if Bernie had started a third party in 2016, he would have won the election
- said more than once that Bernie is the most respected politician in the US

He asked me what I thought Russia’s goal was in planting fake stories and starting fake organization pages on Facebook. I told him their goal was to get the country to a place where we didn’t know what to believe and as a result believe nothing.

My friend is not a dumb guy, but he’s been sucked into believing a bunch of bullshit due to saltiness about Bernie not winning the election. I think I’m just going to beg off on discussing politics with him at all going forward, because I had to bite my tongue to avoid telling him he’s been suckered.