Biden's 'Bernie brothers' remark lights up social media

[brooklynite]

Politico

It took Joe Biden all of 10 minutes to unleash a social media phenomenon Friday.

In a brief phone address to donors, the Democratic presidential candidate warned of the potential for a nasty primary against Bernie Sanders. But then Biden riffed on the name for a hardline group of Sanders supporters: the “Bernie brothers.”

It was a more polite, if not old-fashioned version of “Bernie bros,” the term often used to describe male Sanders supporters who aggressively go after opponents online.

“What we can’t let happen is let this primary become a negative bloodbath," Biden told more than 100 donors gathered at a private residence in Bethesda. "I know I’m going to get a lot of suggestions on how to respond to what I suspect will be an increasingly negative campaign that the Bernie brothers will run. But we can’t tear this party apart and reelect Trump. We have to keep our eyes on the ball, in my view.”

[MineralMan]

1. I like it. A "more polite" version of Bernie Bros."

You go, Joe!

[tavernier]

2. The Bernie Brothers. Do they make ice cream?

Stick to Ben and Jerry, Joe...

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I woulda gone the other way

‘Bernie Bastids’

And thats one reason I’ll never get elected to any office.

[cwydro]

4. "Bullies" works too.

That seems to fit their modus operandi.

[TwilightZone]

5. I think it's hilarious.

I also wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Would "Sanders Siblings" be more correct?

I'm a recovering Bernie Bro from 2016.

Now a recovering Amy Amigo.

[k8conant]

8. and now a Biden Bro?

[Sapient Donkey]

12. We call ourselves Biden Associates

[Cha]

9. Thank you, Joe Biden!

[Hortensis]

10. It's Bernie and Trump brutes, bullies and brownshirts for myself, but

I do expect those I would vote for to always remember they represent everyone, including those they need to draw back from the brink by improving conditions and lessening their angry anxiety.

Biden has a very long reputation for acceptance that "the people" have many differences, not approval of occasionally despicable acting out, but that we are all citizens.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

11. I like Bernie Brothers because it kind of emasculates them

But doesn’t seem rude. I will tell you now—ANYONE who is old enough to vote in November who says they wain’t vote if Bernie is not the nominee is someone you should ignore. The catalogue of crimes, human rights abuses, policy failures is clear to anyone. We the people have to be the ones who kick the criminal out of the White House since the criminal GOP in the senate wouldn’t do it.