Liberal group mocks Biden with coffin to symbolize his dead campaign

[Takket]

This is LOW........ this is AWFUL. We come to expect this kind of heartless trolling from rethugs but I cannot believe a liberal group has done this. Biden has lost a daughter and wife to a car accident and a son to cancer. To have him mocked in this way by a group with a coffin....... despicable. This group needs to be exposed for this so anyone donating to this cause stops. This NOT what our party is about and NOT what it should be.

For the record this group supports Sanders but I don't believe Bernie wants "help" of this nature. This is HORRIBLE.

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[dewsgirl]

1. This is indeed very low, they should be ashamed.

[MineralMan]

2. Naive, childish Sanders supporters. They hurt the campaign they claim to be supporting.

Sanders needs to make a strong statement telling his supporters to knock this crap off. It's counter-productive in the extreme.

[Nanjeanne]

19. True except it's not Sanders supporters. NY Communities for Change i

But don’t let facts get in the way of your bias.

[zackymilly]

37. I knew Bernie would be blamed for this before I read beyond the headline. LOL. n/t

[Desert grandma]

3. It is this kind of support that turns me off to Sanders.

Why doesn't he disown these type of attacks?? This is one of my problems with Sanders. Many people on his staff as well as many of his supporters are like this. Twitter is full of them. One poster made a comment that the only difference between these type of supporters and Trump supporters is the color of their shirts...and maybe hats.

[Nanjeanne]

20. Sanders? No affiliation to Sanders. NY Communities for Change i

[Vivienne235729]

29. So, has Sanders disowned this attack?

[Nanjeanne]

33. He's not affiliated with them. The EXDir is a Warren supporter.

[Vivienne235729]

34. Good to know. Thank you. I think every candidate should admonish this behavior.

[aikoaiko]

4. This is a mild political protest of Joe Biden in their hometown

What’s the problem? They are happy to see him go down in polls because of his record.

[Cha]

9. It's Disgraceful..

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[hlthe2b]

10. It IS disgraceful and your post defending it is even MORE so!

Shame on you.

[Cha]

51. EXACTLY!!

[mcar]

30. Mild?

Sanders supporters scream bloody murder when BS is simply vetted. This is not mild. It's disgusting and cruel.

[fleabiscuit]

53. Symbols of death are not appropriate in any way.

Remember the target crosshairs the female freak from Alaska liked to paint on Democrats?

[Cal Carpenter]

5. Ugh, that's really messed up

[blue-wave]

6. Cold and Callous

Enough said. Makes me want to

[empedocles]

11. Still another pass for BS? BS bad associations with his hires and messages have been documented

numerous times in the media and here on DU.

[Nanjeanne]

21. Why do you insist it's Sanders supporters? NY Communities for Change not

Affiliated by Sanders and didn’t endorse him.

[zackymilly]

38. I stubbed my toe today. Damn you, Bernie! n/t

[Nanjeanne]

39. Bernie is against wearing shoes. It's all his fault.

[hlthe2b]

8. That is as damned nasty, sadistic and repulsive as what a Trumpster would do.

IF they actually ARE Sanders supporters, Sanders and his campaign ilk need to call this out immediately!

Damn. It may not be Sander's fault, but it leaves one hell of a bad taste in my mouth, as it will others!

[Mersky]

13. Is what I'm thinking, too.

Am having a hard time buying this as being from legitimate Sanders supporters.

[musicblind]

17. I do not believe these are the actions of true Sanders supporters.

But Bernie still needs to come out against this stuff strong and every day until it either stops or the election is over.

He can't afford to be associated with people like that. He just can't. Those people are costing Sanders valuable votes.

[lostnfound]

12. Smells Russian induced to me. The coffin idea, I mean. Nt

[duforsure]

55. I agree

They want Democrats fighting within themselves weakening them, and the party, so who knows .

[Mersky]

14. Is unacceptable.

Seems fishy, and I want to understand more about who is running this group.

[Nanjeanne]

26. Jonathan Westin is the Exec Dir. he's a Warren supporter. You can email him.

https://www.nycommunities.org/about/staff/

“Every time she’s tried to go out there and be more aggressive and really push the envelope in terms of policy and other candidates, there’s been a sharp rebuke from the press and the public against her,” said Jonathan Westin, executive director of New York Communities for Change. Westin was involved in the effort to draft Warren into the presidential contest in 2016.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/warren-strategy-2020-115047

[Mersky]

43. I'm not buying it

That doesn’t tell me what’s occurred in that organization to cause them to rabidly jump into such nasty twitter campaigning, and I’m not about to go putting this at Warren’s feet. Please note, I’ve resisted believing these ‘Bernie supporters’ are being directed from his campaign. Is all circumstantial at this point, except that NYCC’s twitter account is a toxic mess.

I read about the tragic death of the founder in 2012, and am aggravated to no end that an organization of likely wide ranging individuals has somehow arrived at stomping on decency with desperate ratf*cking displays.

[Nanjeanne]

45. Don't believe it. Better to blame it on someone you already have a bias for.

Live in your world.

[Mersky]

46. Meh, I have no choice, but to live in my world.

We all have our biases.

I’m just gonna hold off on running around laying blame, and stick to calling out atrocious behavior in this case.

[Autumn]

62. So, you're not putting this at Warren feet because it's "all circumstantial" at this point

but it's done by a group that supports Warren so your going to somehow blame those "ratf*cking" Bernie supporters...because...someone's' twitter feed is a mess? I don't get it.

[Mersky]

63. That's right, I'm not putting it on Warren or Sanders

I’m calling it tasteless and insensitive - which is something else coming from me. That this is an outside group makes it all the more difficult to pin down what has occurred. The gal in the video that was doing most of the talking isn’t Jonathan Westin. I don’t know how the group is run, as in, are they supporting members who take on protest action? Are they willing to put up clips on twitter of whomever in their org goes out with signs shaped like whatever?

Looks like their primary target is Bloomberg, which seems shortsighted to me - he’s not gonna win the nomination. Imo, he’s doing a pretty good job of hitting tRump and creating awareness.

Speaking of awareness, I’ve already given NYCC too much attention, and generally feel used by them. Is gross. Oh, and they deleted that tweet, so I think I’m done here.

[Gothmog]

15. This is from Fred Guttenberg

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[squirecam]

16. Deleted it

Must have been massive heat on them.

[dalton99a]

18. Eh, every campaign does this

It's all sides. All sides, folks

[Nanjeanne]

24. No in this case it's Warren's supporters.

[blm]

47. This group of protestors are not with Warren or representing Warren.

I doubt they currently support Warren, as they went after Pete last week in NY using the same Wall Street Pete chant Sanders group used at the dinner event in NH.

[Nanjeanne]

58. I didn't say they were. Just saying this isn't a

Sanders supported group. The Exec is an ally of Warren.

Don’t care if he is. I’d never call for Warren to denounce him. Just tired of the Sanders blame for everything.

[Deero]

22. While we're at it.

Let's also toss in a thread where Sander supporters attack a man who lost his daughter in a school shooting.

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[Nanjeanne]

23. Oh Facts?

[Deero]

25. Feel free

to click on the tweet and read the replies, if you'd like.

[Nanjeanne]

27. Huh?

[Locrian]

60. a lot of the replies are in support of Sanders etc - (is what I think poster was saying)

Bernie Derangement Syndrome is out of control

These people are fully indoctrinated in the Bernie Bro narrative and latch onto anything and everything that affirms their belief. It's really creepy, and frankly quite sad.


It seems Mr. Guttenberg is not well. He's really got it out for Bernie.

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I really feel for him. I do but he needs to just go home and grieve. He’s obviously stuck in the anger stage and taking it out on Bernie and his supporters.
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Mr. Guttenbweg has had ample opportunity to learn of his mistake and correct it. Will he do it????
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No one should let him off the hook for exploiting his daughter to blast Sanders

[Nanjeanne]

61. Ok but who cares. This has nothing to do with Sanders. This org is not affiliated with Sanders in

any way.

It really is tiring that people think Twitter is a place to get factual,info. Anything that interests you can be researched for fact before spewing m

[mcar]

28. Sanders needs to strongly condemn this

[redstateblues]

31. Where are all the BS defenders?

Funny how they skim over all the Trumpian behavior

[zackymilly]

40. In this thread. n/t

[Still In Wisconsin]

32. Just another day in the life of the Bernie Bros. And from Burnie? Crickets...

Total lack of class.

[Nanjeanne]

35. The FACTis the organization is NY Comm for Change. Ex Dir is a Warren supporter.

This has nothing to do with Sanders but why let facts get in the way of a good Bernie Bro story.

[zackymilly]

41. You can post this 10 mores times. It's too late. The knives are out for Bernie. n/t

[Nanjeanne]

42. Yeah. I know. It just pains me to see so much blind stupidity.

[blm]

50. He supports both, but, this group stunt bears no similarity to anything

that typifies a Warren supporting group.

[questionseverything]

52. both bernie and liz have policies that benefit the 99

a group that large is gonna have some ill behaved peops in it

no candidate can control every supporter

[Nanjeanne]

57. I'm not one of those people who thinks Sanders or

Warren or any candidate has to apologize for any action by someone else. But Westin is an ally of Warren. That’s how he identifies in interviews.

[democrattotheend]

44. Does the group actually support Sanders?

I looked at their website and couldn't find anything about presidential endorsements, and someone on Twitter said they hadn't endorsed.

This is disgusting, but as you seem to recognize I don't think it's reasonable to blame Bernie for it.

[gembaby1]

48. Wow

Way to keep the party together. Or are they just interested in electing Trump again so this time so they can finally have their ‘revolution’?

You know, with revolution comes the risk of hurting or even maybe killing people. That’s when the choice to become a revolutionary comes, I will stick with being a humanitarian and try to help and heal and not violently overthrow.

[ucrdem]

49. Geez

More of this and we're in for a season of hell that will make the last four years look like a picnic.

[emmaverybo]

54. The group does some good things, but this wasn't. Jon Kest did so much for people. I don't see

that Bernie should be held accountable for this one.

[Gothmog]

56. Has sanders condemned this stunt yet?

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[wyldwolf]

59. At this point, there is NO DIFFERENCE between Sanders and his vile supporters

Sanders is an enabler. My choice in this primary season is easy: ANYONE BUT BERNIE.

[BusyBeingBest]

64. That is not true. Most of Bernie's supporters are good people who don't

act like assclowns. And Bernie himself is a good guy.

[Gothmog]

65. I like this press release by Bloomberg

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