Who could have guessed that "shut up and get out of the race, you snake!" wouldn't work?

[AGeddy]

The #1 trend on twitter for most of yesterday was #WarrenEndorseBernie.

And if you read the posts with that hashtag, you saw a shit-ton of tweeters yelling at Liz Warren to get out of the race to help Bernie. And they did so by calling her names and questioning her bonafides as a progressive and all kinds of nasty stuff.


In contrast, when moderates were asking Pete and Amy to drop out of the race, there was no vitriol. Just gentle requests for them to look at the math and come to the obvious conclusion. No name-calling, no harassing, no immaturity.


"You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" is an old cliche, but it is undoubtedly true here.

[George II]

1. For a week it was #PrimaryWarren.

[MineralMan]

2. I think it is very likely that Elizabeth Warren will suspend her campaign

after today's primary elections. She will do OK in a couple of states, but won't be viable in the rest. I think that Mike Bloomberg will do the same thing on Wednesday or Thursday.

Then, we will be in a two-person primary race. Supporters of candidates other than those two will have to make a choice in future primary elections. And they will.

[hlthe2b]

4. The question will be whether or not she'll endorse Bernie... or Biden

[MineralMan]

6. She might endorse neither, actually.

That would be my guess. She'll let her supporters decide for themselves.

On the other hand, Mike Bloomberg will almost certainly endorse Biden. He doesn't much like Bernie Sanders. I don't know how Bloomberg will do in today's elections. It will be interesting to see the results.

[relayerbob]

29. She will support the real Democrats in my opinion

She has made it clear that she is a Democrat, a capitalist and plans to stay that way.

She may choose to not endorse anyone, but she will not endorse Sanders.

[thesquanderer]

39. I was disappointed in her answer on that one.

The location of the embassy can't be left to the parties involved, because at the moment, those parties will not agree, so if we want to have an embassy there, we can't leave the decision as to where it will be to the Israelis and the Palestinians. Hers was not an answer to the question of whether she would leave the embassy in Jerusalem or move it back to Tel Aviv.

[Ninga]

11. "Nevertheless, she persisted." "You cant win what you don't fight for." Nt

[MineralMan]

13. She Is Not Elizabeth Quixote.

She is a practical politician. She will not continue to run when it is clear she cannot possibly win. That would be stupid, and Elizabeth Warren is not stupid, by any means.

[Ninga]

15. I understand. I do not have the ability to predict the outcome of today's voting. What I do

have is belief. I believe she will do better than predicted.

[Celerity]

27. Elizabeth Quixote

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Elizabeth Murphy with company dancers in Alexei Ratmansky’s Don Quixote

[hlthe2b]

3. At ther risk of sounding like a broken record, when you put someone as aggressively divisive and

frankly, overtly abusive (nasty?) as Nina Turner, of course, at least a minority of the supporters are going to emulate.

Sirota has been scarcely better, but for whatever reason doesn't end up on tv as much. Briahna Joy Gray is a close second on the obnoxious scale

[PatSeg]

19. And you have to question the candidate's judgement

letting such a spokesperson for on TV again and again. Actually you have to question his judgement hiring her in the first place. What role would she play in a Sanders administration?

[Mike 03]

5. You'd think they would have learned this a month ago

when they were trending hashtags like these:

#NeverWarren, #WarrenIsASnake and (I won't spell it out): #Fu--Pocahontas

What kind of a strategic advisor do you need to tell you this is not a winning approach? A game theorist? A stable genius specializing in public relations? The author of "How to Make Friends and Influence People"?

Most children could have warned them the results of this tactic for free.

[MineralMan]

7. Fanatics will Fanaticize.

Anyone who takes positions like those is a fanatic.

[Mike 03]

10. Well, I'm very relieved that things seem to be moving in the right direction.

We still have to work tremendously hard, but at least some worries appear to be receding.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Did you not read DU posts?

When moderates were asking Pete and Amy to drop out of the race, there was no vitriol???????

Obviously you have not been reading the posts here.

[AGeddy]

12. Nobody called Pete and Amy disgusting names. There wasn't any anger.

There was some exasperation and desperation, but Pete and Amy were treated with respect here.

Yes, I was reading the posts here. You'd be hard pressed to find an Biden supporters who were calling Pete and Amy names or being offensive.

[Farmer-Rick]

34. So it is vitriol when Bernie supporters ask but it is exasperation

When Biden supporters ask.

[AGeddy]

35. No, not when they "ask".

That's not what was happening, though. It was belittling, name-calling, attacking.


Merely "asking" isn't an issue. But, at least on twitter, Bernie supporters were attacking and name-calling and yelling at Warren. Juvenile LACK OF RESPECT.


There's a difference.

[SoCalNative]

36. Pretty much tells you all that you need to know

about Bernie's supporters.

[TwilightZone]

16. Were they calling Pete and Amy snakes?

I did see one campaign's supporters calling Pete a rat, but it wasn't the supporters of any of the "moderate" Democrats. Care to guess who they were supporting?

Over on that other "progressive" site, they've been calling Warren the "C" word.

Seen anyone do that with Pete or Amy?

[PatSeg]

23. I never saw that

Wanting some candidates to drop out was only because they didn't have enough delegates to be viable and we need to rally around the one(s) who could win. Biden voters have been very supportive and appreciative of Pete and Amy.

[Codeine]

38. Who coined the term "MayoPete"?

Who is currently driving the hashtag #pocahantas on Twitter? Who uses a snake emoji to represent Warren and a rat emoji to represent Buttigieg? What campaign’s supporters use #bendtheknee?

None of that shit came from anybody but Sanders fans. Point out a particularly vituperative post on DU aimed at Pete from a Biden or Warren person. Or one aimed at Warren from a Biden or Buttigieg person. I’m very curious about what you consider to be “vitriol.”

[Yavin4]

9. When the conservative movement took over the Republican party....

They did it over a long period of time and slowly swallowed the liberal/moderate wing of the party. Compare and contrast Nixon's policies to Reagan's. Nixon looks like a total liberal. Yet, the next Republican president was hyper conservative.

[thesquanderer]

14. How many is a shit-ton?

Maybe hundreds, out of probably millions of Sanders supporters? We're Dems, we're not supposed to blame entire groups for the actions of a few.

[MineralMan]

17. They're very visible, though, that group of rabid fanatics.

[AGeddy]

18. Enough to make anti-Warren hashtags in the Top 10 all day yesterday

[coti]

41. It's actually a measurement of weight. nt

[barbtries]

20. on a Warren tweet this morning

I found myself blocking several people who are probably democrats. the vitriol. omigawd. any woman who gets close to power is a target. Hillary took so much bullshit from the left as well as the right.

I'll die before the US leaves the dark ages and it makes me feel so sad and frustrated.

[DanTex]

21. And "go away Bernie Bros" might not be the best way to bring the party together for November...

It was always a myth that Bernie supporters were uniquely rude on the internet. The establishment pushed that myth because they didn't want Bernie to be president. Which, OK, politics is politics.

But seeing that the real enemy is Trump, not random people on the internet who support Bernie, it's probably a good idea to let that myth die now that Joe is likely to be the nominee. We need those so-called "Bernie Bros" to vote for us.

[AGeddy]

22. Anybody who says "go away Bernie Bros" is an idiot

But anti-Bernie hashtags with sentiments like that seldom ever are "trending" on twitter. Because the number of people doing that is very, very small.

When abusive anti-Warren hashtags are trending, it is because thousands of people are doing that.

[DanTex]

24. True. Unfortunately, the establishment and the media is full of such idiots.

That's why there are stories about "Bernie Bros" but not "Biden Bros". There are just as many abusive anti-Bernie posters on twitter as anyone else. It's just that the media decides to ignore them because it doesn't fit their narrative.

[AGeddy]

25. If there were "just as many", then those hashtags would be trending.

The fact that anti-Bernie hashtags are almost never trending shows that the numbers are small. Or at least that the opposition to Bernie isn't any organized effort.

[DanTex]

28. There are plenty of anti-Bernie hashtags, and also anti-Bernie twitter trolls.

#WarrenEndorseBernie, by the way, is not an abusive hashtag. It's just calling for one progressive to endorse another.

The idea that Bernie people on twitter are uniquely abusive, again, is pure myth, pushed by the media. It is not based in reality.

Pushing myths that insult millions of Bernie supporters might be a good strategy for the primary, but it is most definitely not a good strategy for defeating Trump. Biden looks pretty much assured to be the nominee right now. There is no reason whatsoever to continue the "Bernie Bro" myth.

[AncientGeezer]

37. "There are plenty of anti-Bernie hashtags.."...BUT not nearly enough to get them trending.

That's a vast difference in the amount of people posting the crap.

[LanternWaste]

33. Much as "I'm fighting against establishment Democrats" might not be the best way either

"I'm fighting against establishment Democrats" ~ B. Sanders, 30 year career establishment politician

Sure. Politics is politics.

[greenjar_01]

26. The snake emoji explosion told me all I need to know

Deplorable.

[RandySF]

30. Didn't anyone themto ask nicely?

[nolabear]

32. Nevertheless, she persisted.

I love Liz. I wish she’d back Joe but I do love her.

[LaelthsDaughter]

40. Twitter sucks

What ever twitter says must be taken with a grain of salt. Twitter is where all of the worst and rudest people post. It’s just true. Facebook is where the grandmas go, that’s just how they work. I stagram is where the decent people seek refuge. Of course they have accounts on other platforms, but insta is where people discuss things and have fun with debates.

It is true that there are many Bernie supporters that are harsh, but remember the rule of thumb about twitter.