'Bernie Democrat' Deletes Tweet Saying He Hopes Obama Gets Cancer....

[George II]

‘Bernie Democrat’ Deletes Tweet Saying He Hopes Obama Gets Cancer, Then Defends Tweet By Saying He Hopes Obama Gets Cancer

Justin Lecea — a self-described “Bernie Democrat” running to unseat Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro — is defending a tweet in which he wished former President Barack Obama would get cancer.

Over the weekend, Lecea retweeted an Obama tweet reminding people about the deadline for enrollment in Obamacare, and added his uncharitable message.

“I just want you to think about all the people who have and will die because Obamacare is pointless and your entire presidency was a waste,” he wrote, and added “If god was just you would get the most malignant cancer imaginable.”

The tweet was later deleted, but preserved in a screenshot by Obamacare enrollment analyst Charles Gaba.



https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-democrat-deletes-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer-then-defends-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer/

[Mister Ed]

1. I'm sure Bernie Sanders wants no part of that nasty punk.

I hate to see Sanders' name tied to the punk in a headline.

[brooklynite]

20. Have you looked at the people Bernie has hired/fired and endorsed/unendorsed?

[Gothmog]

28. sanders has hired a large number of Stein supporters and voters

[totodeinhere]

67. Is there something wrong with that? We need their votes too. n/t

[Hav]

73. We needed their votes in 2016

Instead, they not only voted for Greens, they encouraged other Dems to not vote for the Democratic candidate.

[LongtimeAZDem]

79. And they are gearing up to do it again

[totodeinhere]

80. And so Bernie hired some people to work for him who are planning to vote

for another party or a non Democratic candidate? I don't buy that for one minute.

[Hav]

82. Are you serious?

What you described is what literally happened in 2016. Not only voting for the Greens but encouraging other potential Dem voters to do the same. And then he hired them again.

[Cha]

70. Yeah, not a good look.. Jeff Fecke's response..

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

36. That Obamacare message is Sanders', he's used even

more hostile words.

That said, all candidates draw some duds, just some a lot more than others.

That attack on Obama suggests to me that that person was probably a "PUMA" supporting Hillary against Obama as nastily in 2008 as he did Sanders against Hillary in 2016 and is now against all the Democrats in 2019. Same very recognizable behavior pattern.

As a mother myself, I do hope his mother's as nasty as he is and not some nice woman who always wonders what she should have done better.

[Peregrine Took]

2. Obviously a very sick minded person. Why the indirect knock on Bernie, though?

With all his hundreds of thousands of followers I'm sure there are a few that are unstable as with the other candidates.

[dewsgirl]

4. This asshole, is also labeling himself a socialist democrat.🙄

[MH1]

25. Does Bernie still have Jill Stein supporters in major campaign roles?

Association does matter.

Back on the main topic - Not all, but an unsettling number of Bernie supporters I know IRL, are whack-jobs who say the exact same kind of shit this "very sick minded person" in the OP did. So, why does Bernie attract so many of these people?

[George II]

54. His top three - Turner, Gray, and Sirota.

[OldRed2450]

3. Sanders needs to disavow that guy. nt

[dewsgirl]

5. I'm sure he will.

[NurseJackie]

17. Let's hope. (Did he disavow Cenk yet?)

[dewsgirl]

29. Yes, he rescinded his endorsement I believe.

[George II]

35. He lukewarmly rescinded that endorsement only after Uygur said he was "rejecting"....

....endorsements. In fact that's the reason he gave for rescinding it, not because of Uygur's horrible statements and positions for decades.

Bottom line, he never addressed the misogynistic, homophobic, deviant sex (bestiality), anti-Jerusalem comments at all. It was just a procedural retraction ("he doesn't want any so I'm rescinding mine&quot

[BannonsLiver]

18. Next week or the week after

[OldRed2450]

72. I had no idea some of his followers hated Obama so much.

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[comradebillyboy]

6. More from the tagged article:

Lecea is a socialist running in the Democratic primary for Texas’ 20th congressional district. He’s a strong supporter of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and describes himself as a “Bernie Democrat.”

The rate of uninsured Texans fell precipitously following passage of the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that the state refused Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, but the rate has crept back up under the Trump administration. The Affordable Care Act also made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against consumers with pre-existing medical conditions, including cancer.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-democrat-deletes-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer-then-defends-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer/

[LakeArenal]

21. "So Bernie"Democrat" means no Democrat at all.

[Scurrilous]

7. Obamacare study proves that having health insurance reduces U.S. death rates

<snip>

"The relentless conservative attack on the Affordable Care Act has been based on two deeply-held beliefs: That the individual mandate didn’t prompt people to buy health insurance, and that having coverage does nothing to make people healthier.

A new study conducted by a Stanford University researcher with the help of the Internal Revenue Service explodes both notions. It found that Americans who failed to respond to the individual mandate penalty when it was in effect (through 2018), tended to sign up for coverage when they were reminded about it; and that among those who did sign up, mortality rates fell.

The study is significant for two reasons. First, it undercuts Republican actions that led to the elimination of the penalty by the 2017 tax cut bill, effective in January 2019, while supporting legislation in California, two other states and the District of Columbia that reinstates the penalty within their borders.

Second, it’s the most statistically valid study showing that mortality rates are lower for people with coverage. Indeed, the study found that among those 49 to 64 years old, acquiring health insurance showed up in lower death rates within a year or two."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-09/health-insurance-reduces-death-rates

[Cha]

66. Thank you.. epic tweet to counteract the idiot..

Link to tweet

[TwilightZone]

8. The problem with being the face of a "movement"...

is that you get associated (right or wrong) with every nutjob like this that comes along.

I have to wonder how he thought that this was a smart thing to post. I hope he's not as ignorant as he sounds.

[jalan48]

9. Some people somewhere say something crazy therefore the candidate they supposedly support

is responsible for what they said. Yeah, that makes sense.

[Cha]

43. No, this brainwashed crazy asshole is running against Joaquin

Castro in Texas.

Lecea is a socialist running in the Democratic primary for Texas’ 20th congressional district. He’s a strong supporter of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and describes himself as a “Bernie Democrat.”

The rate of uninsured Texans fell precipitously following passage of the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that the state refused Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, but the rate has crept back up under the Trump administration. The Affordable Care Act also made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against consumers with pre-existing medical conditions, including cancer.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-democrat-deletes-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer-then-defends-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=383297

[jalan48]

56. And therefore Bernie's responsible for what he says?

[Cha]

57. Those are your words.. not mine.. Lecea is still a fucking idiot.

Link to tweet

[jalan48]

58. You're really reaching here

[Cha]

61. Oh, you disagree that Justin Lucea is a fucking idiot?

Link to tweet

[Voltaire2]

71. No the disagreement is over whether the op is attempting to smear Sanders with this idiot.

And obviously that is the intent of the op.

[George II]

75. No it's not. What makes you think so?

[Cha]

77. Lucea will be called out for his fucking

brainwashed idiocy.

[bluedigger]

10. Tarring the candidate's name with the actions of misguided followers

is no way to influence informed voters.

[TwilightZone]

13. He's more than just a follower. He's a Congressional candidate.

Considering the recent backlash regarding Uygur, it would probably be a good idea for the Sanders campaign to quickly distance themselves from this guy, as this likely isn't going away anytime soon if his candidacy continues.

[LanternWaste]

31. I'd pretend accuracy is no way to influence informed voters as well.

(but I'd be honest enough to call it accuracy rather than pretending it's unfair)

[TexasTowelie]

32. From the Lecea for Congress Website:

I do not support our current two party system and disapprove of the leadership of both political parties, and how little they are doing to solve the problems that the average American is facing. However because of the nature of our political system I am running as a Democrat as they are the party that my policies most closely align with.

https://www.justintx20.com

I guess that when a political candidate (Bernie) says that he wants to lead a revolution, it means that some revolting characters will follow. I agree that there should be no guilt by association, but it's difficult not to take notice and wonder.

I read the Twitter post by Lecea and the thread before it was deleted. Needless to say, Lecea's campaign ended before it really even began. It also was a foolish move to challenge Rep. Joaquin Castro (Julian's twin brother) who is very popular in that district. It will be interesting to check Lecea's FEC campaign report in January if he bothers to file one.

[Cha]

44. Lecea is running in the primary for Congress against Joaquin Castro..

Lecea is a socialist running in the Democratic primary for Texas’ 20th congressional district. He’s a strong supporter of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and describes himself as a “Bernie Democrat.”

The rate of uninsured Texans fell precipitously following passage of the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that the state refused Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, but the rate has crept back up under the Trump administration. The Affordable Care Act also made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against consumers with pre-existing medical conditions, including cancer.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-democrat-deletes-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer-then-defends-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=383297

[totodeinhere]

81. If that's all they've got that's what they will use.

But we shouldn't fall for it.

[underthematrix]

11. here's my message to him

Link to tweet

[George II]

12. Good job.

[Cha]

45. Excellent, underthematrix!

[Maru Kitteh]

60. That is PERFECT 👏🏽👍🏼

[NurseJackie]

14. I hope the BS campaign hasn't already endorsed him.

I hope the BS campaign hasn't already endorsed him. It would be embarrassing to have to withdraw another endorsement. Even worse to let it stand.

Anyway, this guy is disgusting. It tells me everything I need to know. Typical. That's about what I expect.

[BannonsLiver]

15. Not at all surprising from someone in the Sanders Left

[Cha]

46. lol..

[beastie boy]

19. I am not passing any judgement on Bernie because of this jerk until

Bernie endorses him. Unless Bernie does, it is not fair to tie him to hateful assholes running for Congressional seats against other Democrats, just because they push Bernie's agenda.

[NurseJackie]

38. I understand. Besides, we already have Cenk (the bestiality-defender/advocate) as a good indicator.

[beastie boy]

41. You got it, Jackie. In the case of Cenk, I sure can pass judgement.

[Scurrilous]

22. I give this guy zero chance of getting elected to anything ever.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Deletes then repeats. "...and I still think he deserves it or worse."

Link to tweet

[BannonsLiver]

24. Classy guy who ticks all the stereotypical boxes

[yardwork]

34. I'm sorry about his family's troubles, but things were much worse before the ACA.

It's too bad that this person is running for office without have a better grasp of facts.

[Cha]

48. JHC! Poor Stupid Brainwashed thing.

[scheming daemons]

23. This is what most Bernie supporters I've encountered online are like

[still_one]

26. Sounds like one of the Will Pitt fan boys

[Cha]

49. Thinking more or less the

exact same damn thing. It certainly brought pitt's ugly whiny screed to mind.

[still_one]

68. ........

[Newest Reality]

27. This topic aside...

I have noted that this online effect and its excess verbiage gets down to micro-reporting/sharing of trivial things people do and say all the time and then the whole hive gets buzzing about it. It resembles a collective form of gossip or even a malignant social entertainment.

I am not implying anything here about doing anything about it. I just thought I would mention the observation. It will continue regardless, but if you think about attention, focus, energy and time, there are actually some really big and important things going on that might deserve the spotlight for more people.

Well, it's a sociological zoo in the noosphere these days

[Scurrilous]

37. It's not so trivial.

Justin Lecea is pretty much a joke but his rhetoric and actions are representative of a more pervasive and serious problem...attacks on Democrats from so-called progressives (with an assist from Russian-bots).

From his twitter account:

"Obama deserves to be in The Hague.."

"...recently bought an 11 million dollar home in Martha's Vinyard, and demonstrated privilege so great that he gives zero fucks about y'all.

Obama is part of the club that is going to let y'all burn in climate change."

"Y'all are defending a war criminal who was in authority during the deportation of over 3 million immigrants, continued the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowed the continued poisoning of citizens in places like Flint, and also."

"I wonder if @JoeBiden is going to run on the Republican ticket when Bernie wins Super Tuesday.

He seems to share more policies with republicans than he does with a large percentage of his own party.
#GOPJoe."

"Biden supporter yelled at me for not being respectful. I don't respect war criminals."

And of course wishing death on Obama.

Then he showed up at a Biden campaign event and heckled him with right-wing smears. Where have we seen this before?

Check out the comments on the commondreams (breaking news & views for the progressive community) article posted in this forum today:

"If the polls are accurate, it shows that a large percentage of Americans are dumb enough to back Biden, despite him being senile, anti-progressive, pro-war, corporate, and basically, a hack.

Let’s hope that enough of the dummies are enlightened and become Bernie supporters.

The Obama/Biden mythology persists."

"From what I can ascertain Biden is: A Warmonger, A Bigot, A Wall Street Puppet and a Right Wing Republican.

We Progressives must come to the obvious realization that Biden is in many ways even worse than the obnoxious arrogant Bigot we currently have in the White House.

I expect the Immoral and Unethical Scandal fomenting with his Son Hunter Biden will soon have even moderate Democrats realizing that Joe Biden and Hunter are a couple of Dishonest Influence Peddling Shake Down Artists.

BERNIE SANDERS - 2020"

"Might as well be candid: the DNC & the GOP have a symbiotic relationship. They NEED each other. They ARE the ruling junta. They both answer only to Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Chemical, Big Pharma and endless war."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/16/leading-among-people-color-and-younger-voters-sanders-right-behind-biden-new-2020


This @#$% is non-stop. And not very entertaining.

Anyway, I think micro-reporting/sharing of these things is a good thing. Justin for Congress got exposed and epically ratioed. And the Democrat he's running against in the primary is picking up donations.

Link to tweet

As one person put it..

"Just chipped into Joaquin’s campaign from roughly 1,500 miles away. It’s the least I could do to keep a sociopath out of office."

[Cha]

50. It sure as hell is Not "trivial" and no one should

be trying to brush it away..

It's endemic of a dangerous disease.

Lecea is a socialist running in the Democratic primary for Texas’ 20th congressional district. He’s a strong supporter of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and describes himself as a “Bernie Democrat.”

The rate of uninsured Texans fell precipitously following passage of the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that the state refused Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, but the rate has crept back up under the Trump administration. The Affordable Care Act also made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against consumers with pre-existing medical conditions, including cancer.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-democrat-deletes-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer-then-defends-tweet-saying-he-hopes-obama-gets-cancer/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=383297

Thank you for that, Scurrilous.

[Scurrilous]

62. You're welcome Cha.

More of this crap...

Why Is the Young Left Out to Get Buttigieg? Here Are Four Theories.

<snip>

"Young progressives on the internet don’t seem to like Pete Buttigieg very much. They’ve called him “the most obnoxious type of Millennial” and “a Boomer wrapped up in a Millennial’s clothing”; a “Build-a-Bear for middling Democrats” and “a candidate seemingly dreamed up by some Democratic National Committee algorithm”; a “baggie full of uncut special interest talking points” and a “grab bag of gifted-and-talented party tricks.” Buttigieg is a young person’s idea of an old person—and, evidently, some sort of bag.

The online left is not the electorate, and its views don’t represent a generation of voters. But youthful distaste for Buttigieg isn’t an internet illusion. In a recent Quinnipiac poll, Buttigieg placed second in the Democratic field among voters over 50. But he earned just 2 percent support among voters under 35. His popularity among those aged 35–49 is about as high as his overall numbers. Buttigieg hate is tightly concentrated among the young."

<snip>

"What’s going on here? Let’s begin with the most straightforward explanation.

1. Don’t overthink it: They hate him because he’s not a socialist—and his early-state poll numbers are rising.

This is the obvious answer and, frankly, it might be the only answer. In the past two months, no candidate has gained more than Buttigieg in the early states. If he wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, he could block Bernie Sanders’s path to the nomination. And this deeply concerns young progressive activists, who rightly see the Democratic primary as a zero-sum competition to lead the party in a winnable election that has the potential to redefine the Democratic platform for a decade or longer. Buttigieg, far more than Biden, has the youth and vigor to command the party for the next generation. And this makes him the graver threat to those arguing for a socialist revolution.

This explanation takes us pretty far. But I’m not sure it quite captures the level of sulfuric hate in the progressive objections to his candidacy."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/why-young-progressives-hate-pete-buttigieg/603619/


Bring on the hate.


"Is this a joke? Is that butt judge’s new campaign slogan? WTF"

"Like someone has correctly described boot geek as a M.F. He seems to be proving the soneones right. Trying to distort, through monkey wrench and confusion factors into the heart of what progressives are trying to accomplish is simply satanic."

"I’d say that if BootyJudge is gay, as he claims to be, he technically can’t be a “motherfu**er” because a mother is a woman and if he’s gay he doesn’t have sex with women.
However, he is a war criminal and a vicious little twit. Take a look at the smug, and then angry face from the little fella when Tulsi Gabbard calls him out on his lies.
I’m sure Tulsi could kick his ass in an MMA fight too."

This guy's a goner.

"Good points. Almost everyone in this comment section is a member of the nihilistic, self-absorbed, “If not Bernie, then let the winner be Trump!” - wing of the left (they even consider Warren to be unacceptable), which the IRA - Агентство интернет-исследований - has been wildly successful at mass-psychologically-manipulating with its trolling and memes. This wing of the left (Never Hillary - Trump won’t be so bad!) was key in Trump winning in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and therefore, the election. This same Russian troll “nihilizing” and dividing of the would-be-left-opposition in other countries has given us Bolsonaro in Brazil, Orban in Hungary, the Brexit-Right in the UK…"

https://commons.commondreams.org/t/progressives-condemn-nonsensical-and-dishonest-pete-buttigieg-ad-attacking-free-public-college/70540/66

[Cha]

64. Exactly.. I didn't "overthink it".

1. Don’t overthink it: They hate him because he’s not a socialist—and his early-state poll numbers are rising.

They do NOT give a damn shite about the Planet or our County.. Wastrels.

[Gothmog]

30. This sanders supporter worries me

[NurseJackie]

39. He represents something systemic. I've seen it before.

[yardwork]

33. This really shocked me. My son has insurance only because of Obamacare.

I am really upset by this.

[Lexblues]

40. Bernie really surrounds himself with great people!

[Cha]

42. "..uncharitable message.."? He's a fucking brainwashed asshole..

that's his message.

[NurseJackie]

47. Yet, he does have his defenders. Amazing, huh?

[Cha]

55. I'm adding "rabid" to Lecea's "message"..

Link to tweet

Justin for Congress
✔@JustinTX_20

People are criticizing me for wishing cancer on Obama. I say that having lost a parent to brain cancer after 12 years of fighting, and getting to see just how terrible our Healthcare system is, and I still think he deserves it or worse.

[samnsara]

51. that persons a nutter and no dem at all!!!

[jcmaine72]

52. Sad thing is, if he were running in a redder area of Texas he'd win hands down because of that

statement.

[highplainsdem]

53. Horrifying and completely disqualifying. Sanders needs to make a statement about that

insane tweet.

[Cha]

69. Yes, since Lecea is running for office.. Jeff Fecke's response..

Link to tweet

He's running for office spouting he's a "Bernie Democrat".

[Turbineguy]

59. A Russian

Bernie Democrat.

[Blue_true]

63. Bernie will endorse him tomorrow. And recind the endorsement on Thursday after the candidate says

that he doesn't take endorsements.

[Cha]

65. Epic Tweet to counteract the Dumbshite!

Link to tweet

[Hav]

74. Unless Bernie endorses this nutjob after the fact,

I don't blame Bernie.
What is far more concerning is that this is a person running for public office on our side (more or less) and this is the kind of rhetoric he feels comfortable using while talking in his echo chamber of like-minded people.

Edited to add: Thankfully, this person has shown his true colors and destroyed his potential political career and maybe even a career beyond politics. He'd have to switch parties. For Dems, he can delete the tweet but this will still remain in his record.

[Drunken Irishman]

76. He also said Mayor Pete should be hanged.

[Tarheel_Dem]

78. These people scare the hell out of me. Zealotry is not a good look, no matter where it comes from.

Wishing a potential life threatening illness on anyone makes you reprehensible human filth. Not sure what distinguishes these people from the MAGAt's.

[BannonsLiver]

83. There is a poster here

A well known Bernie supporter here who had some sort of bizarre, overly euphoric borderline bizarre reaction to Bernie lighting a wooden stove. It was sort of chilling to see/read that someone could be so into a candidate they react that way when they see him light a stove.

[Tarheel_Dem]

84. Cult like behavior scares me s**tless. Especially when there's no logical reason for it. nt