Meghan McCain confronts AOC over 'deeply misogynistic' Bernie Sanders supporters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Wednesday, Meghan McCain confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over "deeply misogynistic" and "violent" supporters of Bernie Sanders on "The View."

"The one thing that connects women on the left and women on the right, at least a lot of guest co-hosts, guests that come on, is the abuse that we have all been subjected to by the Bernie bros. It is by far the most violent, most misogynistic, the most sexist, the most harmful," McCain told AOC, adding that "it’s disgusting and vitriolic."

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"How do you feel that he’s attached to this deeply misogynistic and I would go so far as to say violent sector of people?" she asked.

Ocasio-Cortez responded that internet culture can be very toxic and the activity online is "difficult to control."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to criticism that Sanders' policies are too radical


New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined "The View" on Wednesday, promoting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as a fighter for the working class, for "people like us."

Ocasio-Cortez, who served as a volunteer for Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, announced her endorsement of the senator's 2020 presidential campaign last fall. She first appeared alongside Sanders at his first rally following his heart attack in October, -- when the pair attracted an estimated 26,000 people to a rally in Queens, New York -- the largest event held by any member of the Democratic field this cycle.

Despite criticism, Ocasio-Cortez said Sanders' campaign intrigued her even before she ran for office herself, especially as progressive became more "en vogue."

When asked by the hosts on why she chose to endorse Sanders, the freshman lawmaker didn't hesitate.

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[JFlash]

1. The online Bernie Bro trolls should save that nasty stuff for Trump and his brownshirts

there should be no limits to how dirty we will fight----but not against other Democrats.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. The problem is they are not democrats.

If BS is not the nominee they will vote for someone else or stay home.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. Among the other message boards I frequent...

...the Bernie Bro types there don't even really venture into the Trump threads much. All their time is spent trashing Democrats. You would almost never see them in the impeachment threads, but they should would make their appearance in the Democratic nomination threads, usually trashing whatever particular Democratic candidate had momentum at that time and seemed like they might be a threat to Sanders. I mean, hell, they spent more time defending Gabbard than they did attacking Trump.

If Sanders were to win, I fully expect them to spend more time trashing Democrats for not being full-throated supporters of Sanders than they will going after Trump.

[Johonny]

23. How many of them are paid Trump brownshirts?

[Autumn]

2. What do they expect Bernie to do about anonymous people online? Hire a detective and sue them or

beat them up? Take away their internet? Call their Mommies? Arrest them? Line them up and slap them? Anyone who thinks Bernie has only the nasty supporters should check out some of the nasty shit Khivers post. Trolls are trolls.

[W_HAMILTON]

7. Model better behavior.

Stop attacking Democrats as the enemy for starters and maybe his supporters won't treat other Democrats as the enemy.

Tell his campaign staff to stop lying about other Democratic candidates.

Stop hiring divisive Jill Stein-supporting types to his campaign.

Stop hiring bigoted and hateful people to the campaign (e.g., Orfalea) and stop boosting endorsements from bigoted and hateful people (e.g., Rogan).

When you are confronted with the problem of your toxic supporters, don't pivot into a """both sides""" argument or, even worse, blame RUSSIANS for the problem (especially given the fact that several people in your campaign openly dispute Russian interference in 2016 and, in fact, the Russians were found to be BOOSTING your campaign -- not hurting it!). Take responsibility!

You can go on and on. It's really not that difficult. None of the other candidates' supporters act in such a consistently asshole'ish way. If he needs help on how to address his supporters' poor behavior, ask the other candidates for pointers.

[Autumn]

8. He's not their fucking daddy, he doesn't own them. There's nothing he can do to make some

anonymous asholes on the internet behave. And you are dead wrong. Other candidates do have supporters that act like assholes, they just amplify the Bernie supporters. Because there is not a damn thing people who don't like Bernie won't harp about.

[W_HAMILTON]

10. Oh bullshit. They act like he's their do-no-wrong messiah.

Let's cut the crap here. If he wanted to stop their behavior, he could. If he wanted to separate himself from that behavior, he could. But he doesn't want to. His campaign's hiring practices in particular have proven that he welcomes their toxicity.

[Autumn]

11. Yeah he's responsible for what they think of him

No you cut the crap. It's all bullshit. Politicians get protested. They fucking deal with it and move on like adults, they don't whine about it forever.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. Then blame it on the type of supporters he attracts.

Either way, he has a problem that the other campaigns do not -- period. The toxicity of his supporters is a feature at this point, not a bug.

He could have nipped a lot of this in the bud by keeping to his commitment to remain in the party instead of leaving it immediately once it no longer benefited him and then take cheap shots at it for years before temporarily joining it again to use its resources to his personal political advantage.

[Autumn]

14. I don't need to blame anyone. Save us time and instead of coming up with another complaint about

that darn Bernie in every response make a list and get it all out at once. You'll feel better.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. Ignore valid criticism all you want.

I look forward to the conspiracy theories that you all will inevitably create when your candidate can only garner ~30% of the vote and then wonders why the rest of the party he and his supporters constantly shit on hates him and won't push him over the edge as our nominee.

Turning off would-be allies is exactly why Sanders has accomplished nothing legislatively despite three decades in Congress.

[Autumn]

16. As soon as I see some valid criticism I'll consider it, So far I haven't seen any here.

[W_HAMILTON]

17. You've been given plenty.

And, as is par for the course with many Sanders supporters, you just refuse to accept it -- so be it.

See you at the convention! Love your hair, hope you win!

[Quixote1818]

3. The attacks on AOC are way off the charts worse than about any politician on the planet

The fact that she was so mellow about how bad they go after her was pretty amazing.

[MrsCoffee]

5. Yeah, ok.

[Autumn]

9. I know one of them. He attacked her all the timon twitter about her office, even after it was open,

because she was "uppity" after she was elected. Such a fucking jerk.

[DanTex]

13. Millionaire heiress gets mean tweets!

Meanwhile, millions live in poverty, millions have no access to healthcare, tens of thousands die of preventable diseases. Cry me a river Meghan McCain.

[George II]

18. What does that have to do with the actual subject, "'deeply misogynistic' Bernie Sanders supporters"

[DanTex]

22. Because it's a millionaire GOP heiress complaining about mean tweets.

It's a complete fantasy that Bernie supporters are more misogynistic or rude than other people on the internet. I'm not surprised that Meghan McCain, a Republican, would be pushing that lie.

But there's something especially ironic when a millionaire right-wing heiress is complaining about mean things people say on twitter. She wants the mean tweets to stop (well, some of them, I doubt she cares about mean tweets directed at other people like Bernie), but she opposes policies that would actually provide people with healthcare. That's how right-wing millionaires see the world.

[Malmsy]

21. You said it! (eom)

[George II]

20. It's not difficult for Sanders to control his OWN people, but he does nothing about it...

I didn't see the debate last night, did he say anything about the blatant online lies from his own National Press Secretary?