The Knoxville campaign office of Michael Bloomberg was vandalized Thursday night — and the campaign manager is blaming the Bernie Sanders camp.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1292614
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1292614
Ugh, keep it on the debate stage, folks.
That said, it would not be hard to impersonate a Bernie supporter with buzz words in spray paint.
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We don’t need a Trump 2
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Likewise, it would not be hard to envision a group of Bernie-stans vandalizing another candidate’s offices…
Just four years ago:
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this will work to bloomberg’s advantage. nice move berniebros.
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It wouldn’t, but a whole lot easier to just stand back and watch them do it themselves, which is way likelier. Have you actually met any of these people?
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IDK, this looks suspicious. Bernie Bros can be pretty obnoxious, but I doubt even the worst of them are this stupid. My guess is this was staged to look like it came from Sander’s supporters to frame him. The only question is, who did it?
On the other hand, if the Bernie Bros hadn’t been allowed to act so obnoxious for so long, this would never have been a story.
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There is no evidence this was done by Bernie Bros so I don’t want this to turn into a bash Bernie Bros session, but the down side to a red hot base is stuff like this.
On the other hand, a red hot base has a lot of advantages that most candidates would love to have.
Bill Maher says only Bernie can beat Trump because his people will show up at the
inauguration to insure Trump really vacates the office.
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Why are people surprised? Isn’t this what revolution looks like?
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And it was Russian bots who were harassing the Culinary Union leaders, I suppose?
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Snopes long ago cited that NYT article as false. There were no chairs thrown and death threats. It was lazy third-hand reporting of a blog post about a rumor.
Bloomberg needs sympathetic coverage to deflect from his unacceptable past actions and terrible debate performance. Bernie haters will jump on the accusation without proof and keep it alive. Coincidence?
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“We don’t know who is responsible for this vandalism.”
Should have stopped there.
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What people do you mean? I know plenty of Bernie supporters (grew up in VT) but I don’t think I know actual Bernie Bros. How would I find out?
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Better make sure the “B’s” aren’t backwards before we start pointing fingers…
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But if someone did it precisely to implicate Sanders supporters, they might not be “cool” enough to wait!
(Not that I’m accusing anyone, of course.)
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The chair throwing was debunked – not the death threats.
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What about the 3 years since 2016 where “HillaryScolds” shit on 35% of the democratic electorate painting them with all with a broad brush. Even though virtually all of them turned out for HRC.
Pretty sure that has caused more “BernieBros” and dischord in the party that the actions of a group proven to be smaller than the PUMA’s of 2008.
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Fuck Bloomberg!
My kids say that all the time!
They probably get it from me.
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Now I feel bad there’s no Bloomberg HQ near me.
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