What the heck are Bernie Bros??

[AmBlue]

Are they even real? Or a figment of someone's imagination? I've supported Bernie with my time and my money for nearly a year and I don't even know what they are.

[CoffeeCat]

1. Same here...I just spent a good six weeks canvassing in Iowa

and working in several Iowa offices. I must have met thousands of Bernie supporters, from all over the country.

I have yet to meet this "Bernie Bro." If he wasn't in Iowa, I doubt he exists.

I'll keep looking though

[winter is coming]

8. What's the local rank-and-file reaction to today's editorial in the Register? n/t

[CoffeeCat]

16. It's kinda like how Birdcage's Nathan Lane described his feelings...

"...betrayed, bewildered."

Check out the comment section at the Des Moines Register. People are not happy.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/caucus/2016/02/03/editorial-something-smells-democratic-party/79777580/

[840high]

24. Thanks.

[AmBlue]

10. CCat!! How exciting!

That you were able to go to Iowa! Thank you for the fabulous reports from on the ground.

[Maedhros]

2. Here is one answer:

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/31/the-bernie-bros-narrative-a-cheap-false-campaign-tactic-masquerading-as-journalism-and-social-activism/

If you’re a Clinton media supporter, the last thing you want to do is talk about her record in helping to construct the supremely oppressive and racist U.S. penal state. You don’t even want to acknowledge what Alexander and Coates wrote. You most certainly don’t want to talk about how she’s drowning both personally and politically in Wall Street money. You sure don’t want to talk about what her bombing campaign did to Libya, or the military risks that her no-fly zone in Syria would entail, or the great admiration and affection she proclaimed for Egyptian despot Hosni Mubarak, or revisit her steadfast advocacy of the greatest political crime of this generation, the invasion of Iraq. You don’t want to talk about her vile condemnation of “superpredators,” or her record on jobs-destroying trade agreements, or the fact that she changed her position from vehement opposition to support for marriage equality only after polls and most Democratic politicians switched sides.

Indeed, outside of a very small number of important issues where her record is actually good, you don’t want to talk much at all about her actual beliefs and actions. Watch how many progressive endorsements of Clinton simply ignore all of that. It’s much better to re-direct the focus away from Hillary Clinton’s history of beliefs and policy choices onto the repugnant, stray comments of obscure, unknown, anonymous people on the internet claiming (accurately or not) to be supporters of Bernie Sanders. The fact that it may be an effective tactic — mostly because most Democratic media figures are equally fervent Clinton supporters and thus willing to unite to prop it up and endorse it — does not make it any less ugly or deceitful.

[Dragonfli]

21. That is the only true answer, thank you for re-posting /nt

[SoapBox]

33. Thank you for posting!

I hadn't seen this.

#berniebro

[redruddyred]

36. i'm sick and tired of these personal smears, comrade Maedhros

if you have something to say, just say it!

[nc4bo]

38. So basically, anyone who uses facts in an debate against a HRC candidancy is a BernieBro?

or engaging in smear tactics.

or being sexist.

or whatever?



I don't understand how HRC or her supporters can broad brush another candidate's supporters like that. Of course, there always is a small number of obnoxious assholes but it certainly is not an entire supporter base.

Heck, the same can be said about Hillary campaign supporters.

Seems like there's some hypocrisy going on with this silly meme.

[earthside]

3. I just now Googled that ... because it's new to me.

Here what I found:

[AmBlue]

7. Well, that's just the biggest load of crap!!

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Truly sounds like the product of someone's desperate and delusional spin machine.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that has no clue what it means. I had a feeling I wasn't alone.

[Dragonfli]

22. See post #2 /nt

[Zorra]

37. ^This^

Thank you, earthside.

[Wilms]

4. Well according to a poster that accosted me in GD: P, it's me!!

Not that I know what it means. , too.

[ErisDiscordia]

5. A marketing tool--a figment of a Mad Man's imagination

or maybe a madwoman's.

[appalachiablue]

6. I've always thought it was a negative, pejorative term. Never heard it used by B. supporters.

Lord, MSNBC Mathews/Tweety has on DWS, looking confident. And he just pulled out a paperback Webster's Dictionary, and read (dem) socialism. Blah, blah. Newly revealed pharma lobbyist Howard Dean is trying to smooth it over. MSNBC is horrible.

"Claire McCaskill will bring out the hammer 'n sickle!" he says. Now Andrea Mitchell is adding in. What a 'group'.

[AmBlue]

9. MSNBC is now 24/7 HRC or Trump.

Sad, sad, sad.... Guess the plutocrats got tired of being fair and balanced.

[appalachiablue]

14. And Mathews has 'The Red Scare' hour. It's definite, no joke, McCarthy-like dedux.

[Warpy]

11. It is, it means young, male, mostly urban and educated Sanders supporters. It's a pejorative.

It was undoubtedly brought to us by the same people who, in 2008, gave us "tinglers" and "fainters" as pejoratives for Obama supporters.

Clinton's staff and supporters are her worst enemies sometimes.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. They tried the same shit with Obama supporters. The "misogynist obamabros"

Basically, anyone who doesnt accept the self-evident wisdom and inevitability of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee is a backward baseball cap-wearin', keg-tappin', soul patch growin', woman-hatin', frat lovin', nickelback-listenin' chucklehead.

[TIME TO PANIC]

12. They're a myth trying to imply that Sanders supporters are mostly male chauvinist.

It kind of faded away once Trump's campaign took off, but now the Hillary camp is trying to bring it back out of desperation.

[Bjornsdotter]

13. Not really sure...

...a long time friend accused me of being one because I support Bernie.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. I'm a gay Bernie supporter and the three strongest Bernie supporters I know are a transgender woman

an African American man and an 18 year old suburban white girl. They are very ardent supporters. My transgender friend would not care for being characterized as a 'Bro' I can testify to that.

The whole thing is a transparently constructed trope made possible by the fact that on the internet, anyone can claim to be anything and then proceed to say anything and this is a constant on the internet, cats and socks. I understand the sense of loss that branch of the Party feels now that they can't get votes by demonizing LGBT and proclaiming their belief in God and I get that they would like to find or create some group fill that need they used to fill by going down to Rick Warren's church to praise Rick and oppose equality but I think this is poorly crafted and they should have shopped around for a more coherent minority to bash at. They should ask Rick, he must have a hate list.

[Xipe Totec]

17. The opposite of Clintonistah Sistah. nt

[hopemountain]

27. de veras! nt

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Answer- another in a long line of memes manufactured by the Clinton camp, for the purpose

Of desperately changing the subject away from her record, her policy proposals (or lack thereof) and her continual inabilty to inspire and connect with the electorate.

[TBF]

20. Bernie Bros (photos)

WE are all Bernie Bros.

[SoapBox]

34. Absolutely!

I really want a #berniebro bumper sticker.

[valerief]

23. An invention from non-Bernie supporters to use to discredit Bernie supporters. nt

[jillan]

25. It's starting to remind me of the "new" Black Panthers that were scaring people at voting places in

2008. Remember that? It was such a Huuuuuuuuge (non) story from the rw wackos.

I'm like you - I'm clueless. Steve Schmidt brought it up tonite on msnbc.

[Donkees]

26. Bernie's brother Larry in England is the only "bro" I know of :)

[libodem]

28. I think it might be the other left's

Way of saying men.

[ljm2002]

29. Um, older women like me and my next door neighbor...

...and our neighbor across the street, all of whom are enthusiastic Bernie supporters?

[Mufaddal]

30. I think they're like the Mario Bros but younger and maybe less Italian?

Just a guess.

[dana_b]

31. Me! I'm a 50 year old female Bernie "bro"

I bully Hillary supporters, drink a bunch of beer and chase women.

Alright, maybe not so much. But evidently it has to do with the idea that Bernie's supporters are mainly young males who ridicule or bully Clinton supporters. I have seen that kind of behavior rarely with the Dems. I see more of it coming from Republican supporters than either Democratic candidates' supporters.

[Bernin4U]

32. It's your basic ad hominem

Supporting Bernie makes you a frat boy. Just as having a problem with Hillary makes you a right winger. Or being a liberal makes you a freeloader, etc.

[SoapBox]

35. It was meant of course, to be derogatory and insulting.

And was created by supporters of...well, you all know who.

Sooooo...the best way to irritate the shit out of the Turd Wayers is to adopt the phrase.

We're all BernieBros!

#berniebros

[Duppers]

39. It's a disgusting, inaccurate term. Ck this

article on Hillary-leaning Huff Post:

Sanders Condemns 'Bernie Bros'
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_56b75a28e4b08069c7a79b1e


They even have Bernie on the defensive apparently. I clicked off before reading the article.

[kath]

40. I know (per the meme) that "bernieBros" are sexist. but are they sexist AND racist? I.e. is the

Clinton campaign getting a two-fer out of this bullshit?