Courtesy of Facebook:
Happy Boston Pride! I'm so proud to be from Massachusetts, a state that leads the country on equality.
How great is it that we have a future VP who is willing to demonstrate her support for the LGBT community?
Yeah well if you are a Bernie Sanders supporter nothing she does will ever satisfy you again.
Here is just a sampling of the comments for this post on her Facebook page:
Rocky Paulk You can't even begin to imagine how disappointed I am to find that you were selling out Bernie.
Brian Allan Thanks for you and Democratic party for breaking election laws and screwing over Bernie
Juan L. Tejeda She has betrayed the liberals in this country by supporting HRC. SHE knows very well who HRC IS... corrupted.
Claudia Stauber Too bad she was all talk and no action, her actions speak louder than her words! Traitor!
Kevan Thompson So disappointed in you. All your passion is just a big act. SELLOUT. #OfThePeople #NotMeUs #StillSanders #ReleaseTheTranscripts #arizonaelectionfraud #DropOutHillary #WheresObama #DonaldDucksDebate #LameStreamMedia #BernieOrBust #SeeYouInPhilly #NeverHillary
Kerri Long Couldn't resist the sellout, could ya? The money must be insanely worth it. I hope you're resting well at night in your cool home. Remember all the homes foreclosed on that you benefited from? I over looked that about you, I mean no one's perfect. But to endorse Clinton with primaries to go and votes to count, shows you're no different. What a shame. Congrats, YOUR state has equality, why don't we stretch that out to the entire country? Oh that's right, we can't, our entire gov't is ran by the Oligarchy. It's a shame we can't ALL have nice things.
To be fair there are a lot of positive comments as well, but they are almost drowned out by the anger and frustration vomited forth by the Bernie Sanders supporters.
On Reddit there are even plans being made to protest a speaking engagement that Warren has today:
Elizabeth Warren will be giving an income inequality speech at the WWII club in Northampton, Ma on Sunday. Doors open at 4. Some of us will be meeting at the park by the Academy of Music downtown around 3:00 to go over details. If you would like to meet directly at the club, please arrive no later than 3:30. Times are subject to change as space is limited and the event may fill up. Please wear all black to represent the grief we feel as we mourn the loss of the person we thought she was. This will be a silent visual Demonstration in reaction to her recent endorsment of Hillary Clinton and to let her know how we feel about it. We feel as if she has turned her back on us and has not acted in alignment with her own message. Please bring Bernie signs. We will stand with our backs facing her holding our Bernie signs for her to read. Please no shouting or interruptions. Sometimes silence speaks louder than words and can send a powerful message. Eye candy for ear candy.
Apparently this was originally posted on Bernie Sanders' official site but somebody had the sense to delete it.
Sanders knows he can't officially endorse this kind of thing, just secretly smile in approval that it's happening.
To be clear Elizabeth Warren was the darling of the Bernie Sanders supporters for quite some time.
Then when she failed to endorse him earlier in the primaries the attacks started coming, sporadically at first.
But then she committed the cardinal sin of endorsing Hillary Clinton, and THAT....well that led to all of this.
By the way as it turns out the unrestrained aggression of the Bernie Sanders supporters might have been why they were caught by surprise at the large turnout of Hillary voters in California:
Just because you bully women into staying silent, does not mean they will not make their voices heard in the voting booth.We didn’t know where Hillary’s votes were coming from bc they didn’t feel it was safe to tell us in the first place. pic.twitter.com/pc4pKY1PiJ— Joanna Castle Miller (@jocastlemiller) June 8, 2016
So the question remains, will these angry, disappointed zealots be able to get their shit together by November and support the Clinton/Warren ticket, or will they take their ball and go home despite the fact that they will be playing right into the hands of Donald Trump?
I guess only time will tell.
Gryphen, just a thought: SOME (emphasis mine) of these comments could be coming from Trump and/or republican supporters.
ReplyDeleteHe knows that. So, much for a "search for truth".
DeleteWhat difference does it make. We are turned off by them. Who cares if they won't vote for Hillary. The Democratic party should never embrace bullies and the uneducated.
DeleteExplain why Bernie had this on his website if you believe he does not condone this bad behavior.
Who are these Bernie Bros.? How did they acquire so much real estate in the mind of the Democrats. I would have never known they were this powerful.
ReplyDeleteI know many supporters of Sanders. They are fine people. Some I have known for years.
Who exactly are the Bernie Bros and why are they still so hated and vilified?
There's this thing called the internet.
DeleteSometimes I am glad I have limited time on at the library. I use to think I missed out, now maybe that's a good thing.
DeleteSame here 2:38. It's as if they google Bernie Bros all day long just waiting for a new hit. Never mind the real face of the movement. That doesn't suit their agenda at all.
DeleteHave you read their comments?
DeleteBernie has a lot to answer for here. This was on his website.
DeleteRight 7:04
DeleteA simple visit to Bernie's website was all it took to expose this shit
Your poor, poor daughter must be facing quite a dilemma.
ReplyDeleteYou can save your faux concern for somebody else, my daughter has been with Hillary since right after the California primaries.
DeleteShe thinks some of these Bernie Sanders supporters are just as fucking stupid as I do.
Oooooohhhhh, all if a whole week! She must be really smart!
DeleteAnonymous6:17 PM,
DeleteShe's got you beat.
@6:17 smart enough to know when it's over for Bernie, and smart enough to do whatever it takes to defeat Deadbeat Donald. How about you?
DeleteAnd SOME people don't like Hillary and will be damned if they'll be browbeaten into voting for her because it's 'for the good of the Party' no matter if the country goes down the tubes. We may have lost a lot of rights thanks to the Patriot Act, but dammit we can still vote or not vote as we choose.
ReplyDeleteThanks for making the post about you, instead of condemning intimidation against women. 2:49
DeleteLOL RAM, you go ahead and vote for Trump, see if anyone cares.
DeleteVote or don't vote as you see fit, but don't harass others for exercising that same right.
Delete"..no matter if the country goes down the tubes"... You've pretty much lost your right to even have an opinion in this election. Go yell at the wall.
Delete2:49 PM Are you yelling at the idiot in the mirror?
Deletehttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/06/amnesty_international_usa_s_tarah_demant_on_violence_against_lgbtq_people.html
ReplyDelete"Anti-LGBTI activism abroad is well-funded and backed by American religious extremism. It’s important to think about what our role is and the way that hate spreads."
I'm sure Ms Warren always knew whom she would support and what the response would be, given that the Bernie Sanders Cult is identical to the Sarah Palin Cult.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm any guess, Elizabeth Warren eats crispy crunchy angry fratboys for breakfast.
Big difference -Bernie had a lot more supporters than did the idiot from Alaska! She lost the race for McCain!
DeleteShe was a racist and it came out during their campaign against our outstanding President Obama! Thank God we won TWO terms!
many Bernie Bros are misogynists and libertarians.
Deleteand bullies and small-membered, easily intimated by strong women
DeleteColorfull headdress she has on, maybe she is performing a rain dance ceremony after the parade.
ReplyDeleteSubtle.
Delete#1 -- She's not wearing a headdress. and #2 -- you're both nasty AND an idiot.
DeleteI cannot believe the open racism about native women here and elsewhere on social media. DISGUSTING. We see you. @3:17
DeleteIdiot, she's wearing a boa. Around her neck. Nothing on her head. Try again, homeskooler.
Delete3:17 PM The "rain dance" was your Mom doing her "golden shower" on her boyfriend.
DeleteMisogyny and racism all in one sentence, I bet you already ironed your Klan hood for the Sunday KKK meeting.
DeleteOnce you thugs lose the minority voters it could be a decade or more, or maybe never, before they think about voting for your side again.
DeleteSo.. laugh it up douchenozzle.
It's your party's funeral.
OT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-lynch-wants-better-public-safety-rural-alaska-002434545.html?nhp=1
Think Elizabeth looks so cute and young in the parade photos! Love seeing her a participant!
ReplyDeleteShe's so in the right place. She and Hillary (if they end up being the ticket together) have my vote.
Hillary Clinton will always have my vote. She'll select the best candidate to run w/her on the ticket!
Trump will go down - perhaps to Hell? Perfect place for him!
Even if you don't know anyone who is L, G, T or B it's still polite to accept their choice to be the way they are. Some of them can't help it, it's biological, some of them choose it, but I don't believe it's an easy road for anyone who is not standard hetero.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a proponent of all the "personal pronoun" stuff that the millennials are using to be identified with but some people really are just subject to biological differences that the rest of us normal people can't relate to but we should be sensitive to.
I feel very sorry for them all but some of them actually seem quite content.
"Normal"?
DeleteAnd no, it's not a choice.
3:49
DeleteNobody cares if you are not a proponent of all the "personal pronoun" stuff. Your comfort with language in not their concern.
This community of people know they are different, and just like everyone else who is different they want to better understand why. They know they are not all the same, but they do know they are born this way and certainly did not make a choice here.
The better question to ask would be why do republicans and anybody who is anti-LGBTQ have children who turn out to be LLGBTQ.
Her boa matches her footwear - how cute can she get?
ReplyDeleteIt seems those Bernie Bros should have educated themselves on how the process works. And their senile hero made the choice of joining the Democratic party, no one forced him.
ReplyDelete"Remember all the homes foreclosed on that you benefited from?"
ReplyDeleteThat's the other guy.
Remember, the one on the New York Post cover that said "I'm with stupid!" Yeah, that one.
BernieBros are spinning so hard they get confused.
Poor berniebros.
"Poor berniebros", guess what, we're not voting for your queen. We're actually quite happy and we'll write him in. Not that it matters because your vote doesn't count either. Electoral college decides the election baby and neither you, or I, or anyone else's vote even matters.
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Delete5:16 - repeats the same thing over and over and over and over and...
Delete5:16, you'd better check the laws of your state. In mine, he can't be a write-in candiate, as he was on the primary ballot. Your vote would be invalid, a literal throw-away.
DeleteAnonymous6:32 PM,
DeleteDon't bother them with facts or reason. Save your breath. They really don't care.
5:16, must we expose your hilarious ignorance of the American political process every night?
DeleteThe electoral college votes based on the popular vote in each state (or, in Maine and Nebraska, each district). Your vote definitely counts, and so does mine and everyone else's, so stop whining about a process you don't even understand. You're not being disenfranchised. You're just being outnumbered.
Go Liz! I think she's wonderful for supporting the LGBT community. Wait for Trump in about, oh three days, to insinuate her sexual preferences for marching in a parade. The boy can't help himself.
ReplyDeleteTo give Trump some credit here, I don't remember him using sexual identity politics in his campaign.
DeleteSad to say, I know BernieBros. They used to be Dems, my friends, and supported Obama. Now they hate "Hitlery", Warren & Obama with a white hot passion. They are convinced that the evil cabal fixed the primaries (except the ones Bernie won). They are writing in Bernie or voting for Trump (same thing) to teach "the establishment" a lesson. They no longer speak to anyone who disagrees with them other than to blast their former friends with hate email & calls. It's sad and very disturbing. Bernie could stop this, but he's either unaware or doesn't care. His campaign staff supports this behavior (like posting info on the Warren protest) until called out for it. But it keeps happening.
ReplyDeleteBy November, they will be few and far between. It's an IQ test, but some need that long to figure it out.
DeleteYou're so correct, I know them too and it's so sad. Bernie was not a bad choice until he became the spoiler of this election. So sad to watch them turn and morph into teabagger mentality. And it's not that his ideas are bad, it's that he's become "Bernie the Spoiler". He wants a revolution. That takes time, it isn't an instant gratification kinda thing. Meanwhile we have a country to run in dangerous times. If the Berner's really want to see his ideas come to fruition then they need to vote for the most likely person who would have his ear and respect. And that ain't Trump.
DeleteHonestly, I don't think Bernie could stop this now. He's created a monster that is beyond his control. They will turn on him, too, the second he drops out. Pure mob action, driven by thoughtless rage.
DeleteI don't know any berniebros. If I did I would laugh in their face.
DeleteWith hate and false allegations from haters like you, I would advise they vote for Trump, then you can have the hate you love so much.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting the essay by Joanna Castle-Miller. She validates my own experience.
ReplyDeleteI know even my own family members would have harsh words for me if I spoke openly about supporting Hillary.
I am not at a point in my life that the energy needed to defend myself and my choice is available,so I stay silent, or say that I will wait until November.