Another day, another despicable tweet from a prominent Sanders supporter

[dsc]

Link to tweet

And so you know this isn't some random person.

https://twitter.com/meaganmday

And of course not one word from the Sanders campaign will be forthcoming.

[Sloumeau]

1. It seems like the Sanders camp may be going after both Biden and Buttigieg.

However, I do not expect him to go after Warren. They apparently have had a truce for a long time now.

[stopdiggin]

18. just a caution here. for what it's worth ...

this tweet (unlike those from a day or so back) does not appear to come out of the campaign itself. A "supporter" sure, Sanders "camp" perhaps so. But I'm not sure that Sanders can be expected to control what is coming out of his supporters. What's coming out of his campaign? ... hell yes! But there's a distinction there. Right?

(and I was one of those on here criticizing Sanders strongly when his people were circulating the edited video)

[stopbush]

2. Despicable is the right word.

[OnDoutside]

3. What a disgusting, cowardly, lying POS.

[OKNancy]

4. I just saw that. I was tempted to post it here

but I try ...I try not to. But this is truly disgusting. So typical of the supporters of you-know-who. I looked at her twitter feed just to make sure.

Disgusting.

ETA: took a capture just in case

[George II]

16. I'm sure she fits in well with Turner, Gray, Sirota, et. al.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Dirty politics.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. That's disgusting.

And it's not even true. For one thing, nobody joins the military just so they can run for office someday (if that were true, why don't we have more politicians who have served in the military? Most have not, including Bernie). More importantly, Buttigieg had already been elected Mayor of South Bend in 2012, which was before he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014. He was in the Navy Reserve from 2009 to 2017.

Bernie's people are going to alienate a whole lot of voters who might otherwise have supported him. He needs to get control over these people - if he even wants to. Great way to piss off veterans, Bernie. Anybody who's been to Afghanistan knows it's a dangerous deployment no matter what your job is.

[Docreed2003]

33. Agree completely

This is a disgusting attack and completely ill informed and divisive

[brush]

7. That's pretty disgusting. Must be something in the water in the...

Sanders camp.

[highplainsdem]

8. What sewer are these people crawling out of? How sick and vicious do you have to be to call

Buttigieg's deployment in a partularly dangerous area of Afghanistan "a photo op"?

Some facts, as opposed to insane propaganda from that Sanders supporter:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442082-documents-provide-glimpse-into-buttigiegs-military-service

According to the documents, Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in “an imminent danger pay area” from late March to mid-September 2014, while the then-32-year old was still serving his first term as mayor.

[Scurrilous]

40. There is no 'front line' no 'rear' in Afghanistan.

The whole country and the air above are one big designated hazardous zone. No place is safe.

[Scurrilous]

41. There is no 'front line' no 'rear' in Afghanistan.

The whole country and the air above it are one big designated hazardous zone. No place is safe.

[Gothmog]

9. I agree with Malcome Nance-this attack is BS

I am not supporting Mayor Pete but this attack on Mayor Pete disgusts me. Mayor Pete served our country with honor and this attack on Mayor Pete is sad

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. "It's not like he went to the USSR for his honeymoon."

[Corgigal]

20. Wait, what?

Did she do that? Damn..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Bernie did that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bernie-sanderss-1988-10-day-honeymoon-in-the-soviet-union/2019/05/02/db543e18-6a9c-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html

[Corgigal]

24. Thank you.

I didn’t know that, and I should have when I backed him the last time out.

Interesting.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. From the same article:

"Sanders, who in 1988 had been mayor of Burlington for seven years, took the trip at a time when he was trying to put himself on the national stage." So it's OK for a mayor of a small city to spend his honeymoon being wined and dined in Russia, praising socialist systems, in order to put himself on the national stage, but it's not OK for a mayor of a small city to be deployed to a region of Afghanistan where soldiers were being killed by IEDs for (allegedly but not actually) the same reason?

[Corgigal]

27. It's a stupid attack,

and while I have no problem with how candidates orchestrate how they will run against each other, they are on the ticket. They are responsible for who they are paying, and what they publicly put out for their opinion.

This lady vet, is not impressed. When we serve, we are aware we can be put anywhere at anytime. It’s our trust and love for our country that allows us to make that jump. Silly Bernie supporter isn’t wise enough not to go there.

[Qutzupalotl]

23. Bernie did. n/t

[Gothmog]

35. Attacking Mayor Pete on this is dumb

Link to tweet

[TidalWave46]

10. That's revolting.

Jacobin. Par for the course.

[lapucelle]

26. Meagan Daly works for Bhaskar Sunkara. That tells me everything I need to know.

Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara Conned and Fired 3 Union Journalists, Then Lied About It
After journalist Mike Elk broke the story of how Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara misled, ripped off, and fired 3 staffers of the British socialist publication Tribune after he bought it for “a mid five-figure sum,” Sunkara put out a statement full of lies defending his actions.

https://medium.com/@pplswar/jacobins-bhaskar-sunkara-lied-about-firing-tribune-staffers-f92f2fecc249

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New owners of Tribune shrug off criticism from former staffers
New owners of leftwing publication, relaunched this week, reject accusations of asset-stripping
The new owners of the leftwing magazine Tribune have said their business model can give the magazine a sustainable future after decades of turmoil, despite criticism from former staff members who accused them of being asset-strippers.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/27/new-owners-of-tribune-shrug-off-criticism-of-former-staffers

[Kahuna7]

11. Yep. A Sanders supporter. It's in her twitter bio. nt

[George II]

15. Here's her twitter profile:

Staff writer at @jacobinmag, member of @demsocialists. Co-author of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism

[left-of-center2012]

13. Sanders should denounce this !

Sanders won't.

[Kahuna7]

17. He won't. I also won't hold my breath waiting for him to denounce

David Sirota and Warren Gunnels spreading falsely edited videos yesterday,

[George II]

14. Disgusting. In case she didn't know, here's a bit about his "photo op":

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442082-documents-provide-glimpse-into-buttigiegs-military-service

According to the documents, Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in “an imminent danger pay area” from late March to mid-September 2014, while the then-32-year old was still serving his first term as mayor.

The ATFC “identifies and disrupts Taliban, Al-Qaida and other insurgent financial support networks in Afghanistan.”

Buttigieg represented ATFC at “high level briefings,” the documents say, and “coordinated intelligence sharing and targeting deconfliction” methods with multiple organizations.

[redstatebluegirl]

19. Sanders won't say a thing.

[Renew Deal]

21. People should be like Meagan Day.

She doesn't even pretend to love America.

[applegrove]

28. Link doesn't work.

[Hav]

30. Someone took a screenshot

Link to tweet

[applegrove]

34. Oh i did see that. It was not necessary for her to be so dismissive. I get

that she is fighting for lives as she fights for Bernie, i know medicare-for-all health care is great, i am canadian, but she is not serving him by tweeting out of anger with no context for that anger and with anger goggles on.

[BannonsLiver]

39. Utterly disgusting.

Only the best people.

[Hav]

29. Seems it was deleted

But I can guess what it was judging from the feedback.
I don't know whether that has always been the case but social media certainly amplified the ability to talk with so much self-righteousness and conviction that you are right even though you don't have the slightest clue.

I don't see an apology because as another sign of our times, you don't have to take responsibility for the ignorant garbage you spew. But she is definitely getting roasted now with others talking about their loved ones taking photo ops in Afghanistan.

[walkingman]

31. Keep fighting among yourselves while Trump runs away with the election. Stupid but reality.

[George II]

32. Not surprisingly, and predicted by someone here, she's deleted it. BUT, there's a screen shot....

....so that no one will forget what she said about war veteran Pete Buttigieg. But even with her deleting it, she took one last shot at Buttigieg:

[Docreed2003]

36. This attack from Day is turning my stomach

That's me in the glasses

Wonder if she'd call my seven month deployment to afghanistan a "photo op" since we were so busy piecing kids back together in OR tents in 120 temps that the AP had a journalist documenting our medivac and forward surgical teams.

[Peacetrain]

37. I am a Biden supporter, but I do not understand why this type of attack on Buttigieg

this makes no sense to me..

[crazytown]

38. Pre-emptive strike.

Pete is strong on FP, and can explain it better than any, other than Wes Clark.