"Bye Honey" Bernie supporters celebrating Pete's withdrawl...

[SidDithers]

Last edited Mon Mar 2, 2020, 03:37 PM - Edit history (4)

Link to tweet

East Bay DSA. They've got the rat emoji and everything.

I laugh at the delusion that Pete's supporters will flock to Bernie.

Sid

ETA: they've deleted the tweet. Screenshot added.

Note the emojis used in the tweet.
The nail polish emoji directed at a gay candidate.
The rat emoji.

Fuck 'em.

Sid

[RandySF]

1. Anyone see a pattern yet?

[Cha]

3. raises hand

[58Sunliner]

7. +1. It starts at the top.

[c_junk]

81. Which Top?

I'm still undecided, with my top two choices being Sanders and Warren. In a world of internet FUD I wonder who these supposed Bernie Bros really are. It's true I'm an old fart but my adult children are supporters of similar policies. They wont refuse to vote for whoever the Democratic candidate eventually is if it isn't Bernie. Are we sure that these online disruptive voices aren't from a Russian bot farm?

[LongtimeAZDem]

103. Yes, we are sure these aren't from a Russian bot farm; they're from the official feed of the DSA

[58Sunliner]

106. They are not Russians.

[obamanut2012]

17. Me

[Peacetrain]

21. Yep!!

[nolabear]

30. Ayup.

Just donated to Joe again.

[cmeneer]

51. Pushing!

This pushes me in the same direction.

[Blue_Tires]

37. I've pointed it out on occasion

[gollygee]

39. Yes nt

[Cha]

2. That's bizzare.

[evertonfc]

4. A good chunk of Bernie

supporters are not Democrats. Perez got a mess on his hands

[SidDithers]

10. I'm waiting for "how do you know they're Bernie supporters?"...

The Bernie shirts, life-size Bernie cut-out, and giant "Volunteer for Bernie" letters on the window give it away.

Plus, this isn't some rando twitter account. This is the official twitter of the East Bay DSA.

Sid

[NurseJackie]

76. See 72

[mopinko]

15. has had from day one.

one more case of trying to save the world w bernie's baggage tied around your ankles.

so many of the people i know who are berners are also old campaign hands. i keep asking them why they want to send me to war w all that baggage when all liz warren has is this nice little handbag. always crickets. always.

and ya know, that was actually the reason i didnt want hillary to be the nominee. desperately wanted her to be the nom, but did not want to be her face at the doors.
so, how come i am the only one who doesnt want to repeat '16?

[TwilightZone]

5. But, he's the unity candidate!!!

Sanders has a good PR department, I will give him that. He's managed to convince people that alienating basically everyone at one point or another means that he's the best candidate to unify the party. It helps to have legions of followers who repeat the talking points non-stop.

I'm sure the usual suspects will be along shortly to declare that these are just random nobodies or Russians.

[George II]

12. He actually IS unifying the party, but not behind him. They're all unifying to defeat him.

[Celerity]

19. so true!!! They created a staunch foe (and now Biden supporter) in me, with all their vicious lies

and smears of Pete over the past year plus.

[Demsrule86]

42. I would bet that Democratic moderates not Bloomberg probably are working on the best way

to get out or stay in in order to stop Sanders...It helps us for Warren and Klobachar to stay in ...Buttigieg did not help. He really is a patriot...and wants Trump gone. Now Bloomberg is the wild card what is stronger his ego or his desire to get rid of Trump?

[honest.abe]

6. WTF??

[AGeddy]

8. This is how they plan on bringing more voters into their fold??

Unity candidate, my ass.

[Initech]

79. I did like the line I saw yesterday in an article:

"How can Bernie unite the country when he can't even keep Public Enemy together?"

And I say this as a Bernie supporter.

[George II]

9. Disgusting. Of course we'll hear "How do we know they're Sanders supporters?"

[highplainsdem]

11. They couldn't be more childish, mean-spirited and stupid.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. These people aren't very smart, are they?

Politics 101: Don't insult people and piss them off, then expect them to vote for you.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

34. I await you going after the Bernie Bro posts

and others posts on here that aren't exactly making Sanders' supporters feel like people want them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. If they'd stop acting like they were the only people who had The Truth,

and that anyone who disagreed with them was corrupt, stupid, and/or a corporatist tool of the oligarchy, maybe they'd feel more wanted. Like it or not, the Democratic Party has always been a big, diverse tent that welcomes a wide range of ideas. If Bernie and his spokespeople and supporters would STFU about purging from the party (of which Bernie is usually not even a member) all so-called "moderates" - whose votes, by the way, will be needed as much as anyone else's - they'd find more friends here. It's their rigid ideology that's turning people off.

[Demsrule86]

43. Please we would probably be shown the door if any here posted anything close to what the

Sanders supporters posted. It truly is disgusting but will IMHO help Biden on super Tuesday.

[OKNancy]

14. It's not going over too well with some Pete supporters

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cha]

20. i'm officially Retweeted That..

Thank you, Nancy!

[DanTex]

25. LOL. You mean people who supported Biden and hated Bernie the whole time?

Link to tweet

[sweetloukillbot]

36. I think he means PETE supporters

You know, like he said. Probably don't like the homophobia being displayed by the Bernie supporters. But go ahead and attack the messenger.

[Demsrule86]

45. I want that too...it is called politics. Sanders wanted everyone but Warren to stay in so?

[IronLionZion]

16. Pete's supporters are relatively moderate

and will most definitely NOT be flocking to Bernie. My neighbor is a Pharma lobbyist (I know ) and she's a big Pete supporter because she opposes M4A.

[kcr]

18. But Bernie is his supporters' second choice

And there's no such thing as Bernie Bros. So, it will all work out.

[Demsrule86]

47. I find the second choice stuff to be BS...no way Sanders who doubled down on M4A will get Pete's

supporters.

[kcr]

109. I agree. It's typical bs spin.

[Demsrule86]

111. Now some could go to Warren. But there were hard feelings about the wine cave.

[tblue37]

22. That's pretty obnoxious. nt

[Me.]

23. I'm Going To Remember THat When BS Loses

[awesomerwb1]

24. Shocker!!

This stuff while very common, is mild compared of the other stuff from Bernie supporters online.

Never ceases to amaze how divisive so many people are.

[LisaM]

26. It may look mild, but it's not. A bunch of privileged-looking gloaters.

Dancing on a grave, and throwing in a little homophobia to boot. There is no room for this. None.

Pete Buttigieg was not one of my top choices, but I have been uniformly impressed by the absolutely gracious behavior of his disappointed supporters. They speak really well for the candidate himself.

[Demsrule86]

49. Yes unlike another candidates supporters on twitter who bring shame on their candidate...and I

don't mean EW who is my second choice.

[deurbano]

82. Bern-it-Downers are the MAGAts of the "LEFT." Obviously they don't reflect all of his supporters,

but there are too many high profile ones... not to mention the unfortunate hiring decisions in terms of his actual campaign staff.

(And LEFT is in quotes for a reason.) Warren is my first choice, but my second is Biden, because before we move forward (like we should have been doing since Jan., 2017), we first have to reset to NORMAL, and a Sanders administration would be anything but that.

[Codeine]

27. Nothing like a little casual homophobia

to win over voters.

What a bunch of fucking assholes.

[Cha]

28. +1

[cwydro]

40. Ditto.

[SidDithers]

62. Nothing casual about it...

I couldn't figure out what the emoji was in front of the rat, so I went looking.

It's the fucking nail polish emoji. Directed at a gay candidate.



Sid

[Democrats Ascendant]

29. Pretty shitty dancers to boot.... (eom)

[58Sunliner]

31. So much hostility. I understand the anger, but this isn't going to be constructive.

Pete went after Bernie's policies. But that is how it plays. These people take it personally with a sense of malignancy I've only seen in DT supporters, minus the violent racism and sexism of course.

[Demsrule86]

50. I don't know about that. Homophobia is pretty terrible in my view. These are not nice people.

[58Sunliner]

105. No, some don't seem to be nice people. But they haven't advocated for violent policies-

and neither has Bernie. I am certain some are homophobic, and definitely sexist, and probably racist as well. But they don't compare to the malignancy of a DT supporters, i.e.-white supremacists, etc..

[Demsrule86]

112. Ridicule is used to dehumanize targeted groups...it is part of the path that

leads to violence often. And these folks are not liberal nor progressive either.

[58Sunliner]

113. I agree they are on a slippery slope. And that ridicule is hostile.

It's disturbing that they see people as enemies.

[LisaM]

52. They aren't Bernie's policies!

Ted Kennedy was trying to get some sort of socialized medicine at least as early as 1980 and probably before. I remember "arguing" with Carter supporters about it, even before I had ever voted.

And that's just one example.

[58Sunliner]

101. I agree, these youngsters have no historical perspective.

[sheshe2]

32. Disgusting 🙁

[dalton99a]

33. Juicebox revolutionaries

[Jirel]

38. Literally couldn't care less.

Bernie’s supporters aren’t Bernie. Bernie has never invited or supported that behavior. Bernie has asked his supporters - a very small subset of his supporters - not to be asshats to other candidates’ supporters.

While I think Bernie needs a lot of improvement in some areas, should Warren drop I will strongly support him. Attacking him because some supporters are jerks is the last refuge of people who can’t convince others that their candidate is better for substantive reasons.

[TwilightZone]

46. The OP said nothing about Bernie.

Pointing out abhorrent behavior in his supporters isn't an attack. It's the latest data point in a clear pattern of behavior that we've now seen for five years in a subset of his supporters. This isn't an isolated incident. It happens all the time.

At some point, we should probably stop waiving it off and making excuses for it.

[Demsrule86]

53. Their behavior reflects on Bernie...and he has people in high places in this campaign that have

behaved badly as well...a campaign offers a glimpse into how a person would govern. Sander's isn't looking good in this area.

[themaguffin]

41. Wow, just so unnecessary and in poor taste (at best).

[sdfernando]

44. Can't open it....says the tweet is "unavailable" /nt

[SidDithers]

48. Yup. Tweet has been deleted...nt

Sid

[LongtimeAZDem]

56. Screengrab

[SidDithers]

63. I just realized what the emoji is in front of the rat...

It's the fucking nail polish emoji. Directed at a gay canadidate.



Sid

[greenjar_01]

54. Gawd, they're such trash

[MontanaMama]

55. How is this different from

what spews forth from the MAGAts? It is not. Actually it’s worse. Is this part of the revolution?

[Paladin]

57. As if I needed another reason to be against Bernie. (nt)

[True Blue American]

61. Check the supporters at the top. Who is going up? Going down?

[blue-wave]

58. Tweets been deleted but if past behavior is indicative, I can imagine what they are saying

More bile from that side.

Pushing through their garbage, I'd like to say again, Thank you Mayor Pete!! Keep pushing through too!!

[emmaverybo]

59. Leadership. Bernie has a hot mess on his hands among his own supporters whom he can't control.

He doesn’t disavow their tactics, he disengages. Then he has got surrogates telling lies, appearing
on Russian TV, and playing dirt ball politics.

His movement. His supporters. No leadership.

[mr_lebowski]

60. They are denigrating my hometown, man ... this pisses me off ...

I am curious though ... have they done this same thing for other candidates when they dropped out? Or is 'Bye Honey' specific to Pete, and is it meant as a jab at his sexuality ... which would make this doubly worse.

[blue-wave]

64. I would venture to guess

that you are correct.

[Demsrule86]

80. Pretty horrible...well Sanders was never big on social justice...he is all about economics...seems

to think that his economics policy will breed equality. I disagree. You have to think that he has more than a few of homophobic followers...I don't blame him completely as you can't choose your followers really. But it does his candidacy no good.

[Hav]

65. They aren't the brightest

The supporters of other candidates know the importance of winning over those whose preferred candidates dropped out.
I surely don't blame Bernie for these deplorables but there is a similarity between him and some of his followers that is behind this behavior: An inability to recognize the importance of compromise and forming coalitions to reach a common goal.

[DonaldsRump]

66. That is absolutely disgusting

All I can see the still screenshot, but if what's being described here, that is appalling.

And this is a Bay Area group. I wonder how other Bernie groups behaved.

It does start from the top and the non-Democratic Senator from Vermont who wants to be head of the Democratic Party and who didn't mention he was getting Russian aid for at least month could stop it. I don't see issues like this from the other campaigns.

Gee, I wonder why I'm voting for Joe?

[Botany]

67. "Honey" could kick all their asses together

From Wiki

Military service

In 2014, Buttigieg began his deployment at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Buttigieg joined the U.S. Navy Reserve through the direct commission officer (DCO) program and was sworn in as an ensign in naval intelligence in September 2009.[59] In 2014, he took a seven-month leave during his mayoral term to deploy to Afghanistan.[60][61][62] While there, Buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. Part of this was done at Bagram Air Base, but he was also an armed driver for his commander on more than 100 trips into Kabul. Buttigieg has jokingly referred to this role as "military Uber", because he had to watch out for ambushes and explosive devices along the roads and ensure that the vehicle was guarded.[63] In order to better communicate with the local Afghans, he learned some Dari (a dialect of the Persian language). Buttigieg was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal[5] and resigned his commission from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2017

[Kerrycrat]

68. Someone saved the video

Here it is

https://mobile.twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1234524403297374208

[ramen]

69. What on earth is wrong with these people?

Why would Democrat do this type of nonsense bile? It makes no sense to me.

[Duppers]

70. ....

[renate]

71. I hope that tweets like these are actually from Russian bots and trolls

There are some really lovely Bernie supporters here and in the real world. (And there are others I have blocked here because they are tiresome and repetitive.)

I don't doubt that some of Bernie's supporters are like this. And some (not all!) of his spokespeople and staff are undeniably gross, which doesn't give me a lot of confidence in his ability to choose good people to be around him as president. His message resonated with me in 2016 and still does, but I'm so turned off by so many of the people around him. I don't understand why he doesn't even try to stop this kind of behavior; that's a failure on his part, and it's definitely making him an unattractive candidate this time around, but it's not a flaw in his message.

I hope Russia's attempts to split the Democratic party are called out in time for us to unify again, no matter who the candidate is.

[LongtimeAZDem]

74. It was their own twitter feed, and you can see some of the people in their other Facebook posts

These are not Russian bots; these are Bernie people.

[renate]

78. thank you for clarifying

It raises my blood pressure too much to read too many of their comments and tweets. At a time when we desperately need unity or we lose our country, it's beyond frustrating to watch this truly ugly infighting happening.

It's as if some (not all) of them would rather let the world burn (literally--what do they think four more years of Trump would do to the climate) than compromise and even grudgingly accept another Democratic candidate.

I am NOT saying that all of Bernie's supporters are like this--in fact, the vast majority aren't--but some of them kind of remind me of Trump's.

[LongtimeAZDem]

88. I'm no longer willing to stipulate that "the vast majority aren't" like this; too many examples

[Sienna86]

72. Please show these are not Russian bots

We are playing into Putin’s hands. Please think about this.

[LongtimeAZDem]

73. Please show that they are; the burden of proof is on the affirmative claim

Since they posted it on their own twitter feed, I doubt you can do so.

[Codeine]

89. Stop with that nonsense. nt

[TwilightZone]

98. I hope that was sarcasm.

It's the official twitter feed of the East Bay DSA.

The DSA is the Democratic Socialists of America, a group that endorsed Sanders.

https://www.dsausa.org/

[Demsrule86]

75. K&R forgot to do it the first time...great post Sid...

[Farmer-Rick]

77. More Bernie bashing

It makes me really want to support Bernie. I love an underdog and people who are constantly attacked for their liberal progressive opinions. It's why I'm a Democrat and always have been...since I could vote.

That's why I did support Biden, because Trump attacked him so much.

But this new wave of Bernie hate just makes me want to vote for Bernie even more. I think I will go out, call people to vote Bernie and take people to the polls now too.

So keep up the insults, they frequently backfire.

[blue-wave]

83. LOL! Did you even watch the video?

The bashing was directed at Mayor Pete. So who's insulting whom?

As a matter of fact, I'm insulted that you are trying to gaslight us. We're on to it. Now just stop!

[Farmer-Rick]

86. No, I couldn't.

It wouldn't play for me. I assume your comments about Bernie supporters gay bashing were enough since you mention the tweet has been removed. If you weren't bashing, you need to be more explicit because it sure sounds like it.

[blue-wave]

87. The video was saved

There is a link in one of the comments above, so you can watch the video, as I did. My comment about the video being deleted was posted before I saw the the good video link.

[Farmer-Rick]

102. Ok, I'll look for a better link.

[LongtimeAZDem]

90. The insults were from Bernie people

Not only did they use the veiled homophobic "honey", they used a "nailpolish" emoji as well as a rat.

You are right about insults backfiring, however; the overwhelming majority of responses to the tweet were outraged, with posters stating that they would now support Biden, and never Bernie. This is why the reprehensible cowards deleted the post.

Calling normal reaction such disgusting antics "Bernie hate" is pretty revealing.

[Codeine]

92. How the actual fuck is this Bernie bashing?

This was a tweet from a group of his supporters. Posting that isn’t bashing by any stretch of the imagination.

[Grokenstein]

94. Is Dems supporting Bernie to "pwn" the Dems really a thing?

Switching one's support to and fro based on simple spite seems even less clever than, say, gay-bashing a Dem candidate on Twitter.

[LanternWaste]

96. Seems irrational (at best) to predicate support of a candidate...

on who we pretend is or is not attacked. But I get it... we keep up the pretense even though doing so frequently backfires.

[TwilightZone]

99. The source was the official twitter feed of the East Bay DSA.

The DSA, as you're probably aware, endorsed Sanders. AOC is a member.

[Sloumeau]

84. These homophobic Mayor Pete bashers...

expect Mayor Pete's voters to flock to Bernie? Un-freaking-believable.

[woundedkarma]

85. Strange...

Anyway... I think Pete's votes will mostly go to Biden.

Since Sen. Warren shows no sign of dropping out today, I think Biden will get a big lead tomorrow. Then it'll be a matter of time before Sen Warren drops out. She might stay in all the way to the end.. if the DNC is putting their foot on the scales, they just need to keep Warren in until the convention to sap away Sander's progressive voters.

Once that's done, congratulations we end up with a guy who wants to go back to the old days where we give republicans everything they want PLUS some extra just so they don't hurt us. Wet noodle politics.

But at least he won't deliberately continue the destruction of our constitution... maybe.

[Under The Radar]

91. Conduct Unbecoming a Democrat

[vercetti2021]

93. So how are Bern Bros any different from MAGAts?

It's like they have the same spectrum of bullshit and childish remakes. Bernie really needs to tell these people to knock off their shit

[Grokenstein]

95. The difference is:

Trumpanzees fully acknowledge that they're doing it.
Sandersnistas claim it's the work of Not Me and Ida Know.

[vercetti2021]

100. I really don't see the difference

I think they fully acknowledged that they're being assholes

[OnDoutside]

97. You stay classy, Sanderistas ! How not to win friends ....

https://mobile.twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1234519582007812098





And after that

[MineralMan]

104. Hi, kids! That's why you don't get free college, see?

Brats. Each and every one of them. Homophobic, nasty little brats.

[SunSeeker]

107. Wow. Disgusting.

[Gothmog]

108. Who is surprised byt his behavior from sanders supporters??

[Gothmog]

110. Sanders folks deleted their disgusting homophobic video...but it's been captured for posterity.

Link to tweet