Bernie Soldiers Practicing to be Tea Party

They sure made this post easy for me. I’ve wanted to do a blog post comparing Sanders and Soldiers (although soldiers isn’t what I call them but, hey, if they want to emulate right-wingers right down to war language*, I’ll call them what they want to be called) like the people who called themselves teabaggers and then threw temper tantrums when people called them teabaggers. Will be interesting to see if the soldiers do the same when we call them what they’re calling themselves in this directive put out by, I’m assuming, the campaign. 

 

In true tea party fashion, Bernie Soldiers have been flooding the internet with misinformation for close to two years now. I’ve watched carefully as they devolved into caps-locked, hash-tagging, bullies** who hate facts and cry up storms that would probably end California’s drought if their tears could only be directed to something more worthwhile than flooding the internet with pure obnoxiousness. 

I can think of few things more disingenuous than using war language – soldiers, battle plan – or encouraging people to spam (well, to be fair, he did say ‘copy and paste that joker’ but it’s the same thing, while encouraging people to be classy and positive. To me, posting facts instead of rhetoric and hashtags, and following rules of grammar would be classier. Original comments that are pertinent to the article that I’m guessing he doesn’t want Sanders Soldiers to bother reading would be classier.

It says a lot, though, that the Sanders General had to call back his Soldiers from continuing to regurgitate hateful lies (that have been discredited repeatedly) about Hillary Clinton. Tells me the Sanders War Machine must finally realize that people are seeing through all that crap, and it’s not working in his favor. How do they stuff that mess back in the bottle after it flooded the internet all this time?

I don’t think they can.

Flood the internet with joy and hope? Does this remind anyone else of the Bush Administration trying to convince people that the Iraqis would welcome us with open arms and flowers? Who sends soldiers to battle with joy and hope? And who reads tripe like this without choking back puke and saying WTF?

*Other people I don’t like who also use war language

**A person who crashes the primary race of a party that he has continuously criticized, and who lies about that party’s sitting President, and claims he is only doing it to force that party to do things the way he wants them done is a bully. It’s no surprise that his followers also bully people on the internet. Show of hands of the people who have had multiple Sanders Soldiers follow them on Twitter so they’ll have easy access to bulling them every time they post support for a real Democrat in the primary. My way or NO way – that’s a bully.


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