I can't emphasize this enough: if you gleefully joke ("joke") about some group of people dying,

[Cha]

Link to tweet

Tweeter is red rose.. DSA.. desperate.

[TwilightZone]

1. There are the people Biden is supposed to pander to, right?

If only he'd be nice to them, they'd just all jump on the bandwagon.

What a load on nonsense that is.

[Cha]

7. Right! They can't be reasoned with.. they think they

know everything and are willing to smear and demean Joe Biden and all those who vote for him with their stupid, idiotic "jokes".

"sleepy joe"? Where'd they pick up that from?

They don't deserve anything from Joe Biden.

[CaptYossarian]

18. They're referring to the fact that Joe isn't "wired" on the drugs that their old candidate relies on

He acts like a normal human being and is already presidential. These trolls wouldn't understand.

[showblue22]

12. Exactly!

and there are many of them like that that are not Russian bots. There is only so much you can blame on Russian bots.

[radius777]

80. and the non-bots message is the same as the bots,

thus making it a difference without a distinction.

[brush]

38. One can be young and stupid, for a while, but you don't get old...

being stupid.

let's see how many of those young beach goers crowding together in Florida come down with the virus.

[Butterflylady]

68. With age comes wisdom

So you are right on the money. We've made our mistakes and learned from them.

[George II]

2. What a disgusting sentiment expressed by "Big Structurals"! The "olds" will still win out because...

...the "youngs" just don't show up anyway.

[Cha]

11. "The olds".. Proud to be a part of the

wise sagacious olds who want Joe Biden to be our Next President of the United States of America!

But too sad for those like BStructurals.. Biden has a huge coalition.. across the board. They don't even know that.. too busy making "jokes".

Mahalo, George!

[sheshe2]

43. I agree, it is disgusting

I agree, it is disgusting to cheer the death of millions of elders for political reasons.

She apparently missed the tone deaf update today from Dump.

Dr. Brix I think it was, said they are very concerned that there is a large number of young ones becoming critically ill as well. I posted about a 29 year old healthcare professional that died. Her lungs after an x-ray showed her lower lungs looking like crushed glass. This is what the virus does. A family member works in ICU. They got their first virus patient 47 years old, intubated, critical.

Structuals is a very ugly person rooting for people to die.

[Walleye]

52. Correct!

[BGBD]

3. Rose Twitter

is incredibly toxic. They are mostly trolls, grifters, and likely foreign agents. The problem is that there is a large groups of Sanders supporters on twitter who are influenced heavily by them. Unfortunately some of the very people on Sanders Campaign staff are included in the first group.

[Cha]

13. Yes, they are if this is an example of them on the whole..

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this one who thinks it's a "..super hilarious joke.." has 39.7k followers.. so there's more than a few of them out there.

[CaptYossarian]

19. 39.7? Is someone missing an arm?

[Cha]

24. lol.. I forgot to put the "k" after the number.. Thanks

for pointing that out, Capt!

[NCProgressive]

92. This is a mindset prevalent in many Sanders' supporters

They didn't get their pony so they are lashing out at Biden and his supporters.

They are obviously not Democrats - they are external anarchists probably funded by Russia.

The sad part is that even many sane Sanders' supporters are contaminated by this type of rhetoric. You will never see a single tweet from a genuine Sanders supporter condemning and disavowing such disgusting trash.

[Laelth]

4. Agreed. This is no joke. n/t

-Laelth

[SCantiGOP]

28. It's not funny, but it is also incorrect

The strongest Dem demographic is voters under 35. The strongest Repub group (who also vote in the highest numbers) are over 65.
So natural attrition, with older people dying and young people getting to voting age, is a strong trend running against the GOP.
The tweet not only shows how horrible that person is, but also demonstrates his immense stupidity.

[Pillow talk]

5. there is nothing funny about it at all. at the same time how do get posters here to

take it more serious instead of some twisted badge of honor?

[Cha]

16. What are you talking about?..

".. at the same time how do get posters here take it more serious instead of some twisted badge of honor?"

[LakeArenal]

6. Some of the comments are pretty disgusting as well.

[Cha]

48. Oh yeah.. she has company

wallowing in the sludge.

Gracias, LA:candle

[Beakybird]

8. I I wrote something like Big Structurals, I'd feel shame the rest of my life. OMG.

[Cha]

17. And, she seems to be wallowoing in it.

[Hav]

9. They are angry

and it reveals who they are. It isn't just the anger of the moment talking, they seriously derive fun out of people dying and Trump winning. It's the same kind of sadism you find in Trumpers. Just terrible people who cannot accept losing.
To a degree, BS got dragged down by the amount of terrible followers he has. They behaved bad before SC and they behaved even worse when things went downhill. Is it any wonder that BS barely gained any support after all the other candidates dropped out?

[Walleye]

53. Sadism does seem to be a common trait in some supporters of both trump and Sanders

They spend their lives on Twitter

[Cha]

79. Exactly Hav.. they've behaved poorly throughout..

It's just worse now that they're getting it they've Lost.

They thought they really had it when BS was doing so well in the first 3 states.. 2 of them caucus.

Biden and his supporters always said wait until South Carolina and Super Tuesday.. but who knew it was turn out this well.. right away.

It took a lot of Unity.. people coming together for the country.. not their own personal ambitions. Hallelujah!

[radius777]

81. The alt-left and alt-right

are two sides of the same Putin-backed coin, that infests/dominates social media and influences the minds of young people and others.

[Cha]

86. I think so.. and sadly..

Link to tweet

I wish the best for them

[mcar]

10. And none of the "youngs" will bother to vote

This is deplorable, Cha.

[brer cat]

14. Disgusting.

[Celerity]

15. Jamie Peck (the Tweeter) is a producer and contributor at The Majority Report with Sam Seder

https://muckrack.com/jamie-peck



and she is doubling down

Link to tweet

[CaptYossarian]

21. I didn't know Structurals was a Jewish name.

[Celerity]

22. Big Structurals is just the Twitter display, not her name, you can change the display name anytime

also, she is trolling via sarcasm

@jamie_elizabeth <<< her actual Twitter username

and then, of course, I gave you here real life name, Jamie Peck

Link to tweet

[CaptYossarian]

70. I was making fun of her defensiveness and arrogance.

She seems offensive, yet was offended herself.

I'm not on Twitter, so I didn't know her background. Thanks for posting.

[Celerity]

71. +1

[Cha]

23. Oh wow, BStructurals, how about everyone calling you

out on your stupid "gallows humor" is calling you out on your stupid idiotic gallows humor. End of story.

Thanks for that, Celerity.

[Celerity]

27. I am afraid that inter-generational warfare is going to go insanely OTT very soon in the US

as the virus continues to spread and really starts to kill, especially the older cohorts. The Boomers and above are going to start to massively lash out at Gen X, the Xennials (Carter babies, ie. 1977-80 born) and especially the Millennials, the Zennials/Zillennials (my micro gen, 1992-98 born) and Gen Z'ers as their 'killers' and also as threats that need 'to be dealt with'.

Those attacked gens in turn will return the fire and the shit will truly start to hit the fan. I have already started to see this happen to a certain extent in a number of different arenas. The shit-stirring MSM is already starting to play that angle.

[IluvPitties]

46. As an elder Millennial

I feel this generational war we are living is dumb as fuck. We can learn so much from each other!

[Celerity]

54. this is a VERY age-skewed (older) place

out of 555 responders here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213017831

only 3 of us are under 25

and two of them barely post, especially the one who joined when they were 14 in 2014

11 total are under 36yo (less than 2%)

75% are 56yo or older

so there is pretty much only one-way traffic in terms of younger peoples' points of view

as in we are talked about, but not talked with



I have tried to get some of my age cohort to join and contribute, but as most are UK and other EU (I do know a lot of Americans, but obviously not as many as UK/EU, as I am London raised and live in Sweden now) they have shown a paucity of interest

the Americans have been overall not receptive of the board after they lurked for a bit

One did join back last summer and got swarmed and accused of being a bot within 15 posts, as he likes Michael Harriot and got into it with some on here about a Root article. He is actually (well was) a Kamala Harris supporter who I knew in real life when I was living in Los Angeles for a couple years, and is so not a troll type, he is just very afro-centric (he is mixed race part black like me) and outspoken, so rubbed some the wrong way I suppose. He stopped logging and told me to never recco a political chatboard again, lolololol.

[ecstatic]

61. I have a hard time believing it's real

and not more Russian trollery.

[Cha]

62. Well if you look at the profile of the tweeter.. she's

on the Sam Sedar show and has 39.7k followers.. so not.

[radius777]

84. Sam Seder can't be allowed on MSNBC unless

he condemns her and this sentiment immediately.

[sarge43]

20. One of the things I regret about growing old

I won't live long enough to see creatures like Big grow old and be on the receiving end of vileness like his. However, it would be pleasant to hear him whine about it.

[PatrickforO]

25. This is sick. As are so many things about the Trump supporters.

And I'm not sure if you saw Trump today, the shit, when he was asked if rich people would have better access to the COVID-19 tests, and he said that if they do, "That's life."

That's life.

You know, after what he has done to those poor immigrant children and to the American people, Trump DESERVES life.

In prison.

[Celerity]

29. Jamie Peck is not a Trumper (which does not excuse her outrageous comment)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287676798#post15

[Cha]

42. No, I didn't see what trump said.. typicial

asshole.. he's not a president.. he's an impeached monster on limited time.

Thanks for that, PfO.

[lunatica]

26. And the young's won't even show up

Stupid is as st... oh, why bother?! Whatever.

[getagrip_already]

30. The real irony is that she wouldn't vote for bernie if he were the nominee either because he

isn't radical enough. They are more into the chaos than the cause. It's like a drug.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

31. Let me see if I have this straight . . .

criticize her ageism BS, and suddenly you're anti-Semitic ?

[SunSeeker]

32. Wow. That is fucked up. She's giddy about elderly Dems dying???

[Cha]

35. Yes and the "joke" is on her.. Biden has a broad

coalition across the board. That's why Joe Biden Won and BS Lost.. he only has 35%.

[ramen]

33. The hell is wrong with these people??

[Traildogbob]

34. Us olds have had a long good run

Now the planet is dying and the virus is its Antibody defense.. Trumps poison dumping will help out to rid the cancer that is humans. The young’s, gonna leave young, never reaching old. I taught pathology in our forests for 30 years, in both plants and animals. In those 30 years I have seen many, many species wiped out by pathogens, plants and animals. Overpopulation and environmental corrections. Supposedly, God loves ALL his creations. He never swooped in and saved any of those. And none of those species were as big of asses and destructive as humans. Bug Bye young’s.

[BlueIdaho]

36. Is this "progressive?"

No - it’s cold, it’s cruel, and it’s wrong. An article I read today said 40% of those hospitalized were age 20-40. The notion of youth immunity is wrong. In some cases dead wrong.

[Cha]

37. Exactly, BlueIdaho.. And, it's DSA.

Thank you for that.

[Hav]

67. Would you have called yourself "progressive" during the Gore, Kerry and Obama campaigns?

I surely saw myself in that category, at least in regards to social issues/policies and I was proud about it. Now that label got stolen and the loudest members of that group seem to be the most unpragmatic and intolerant assholes.

[BlueIdaho]

73. Excellent Observation!

I don’t see this as progressive - more like spoiled.

[BootinUp]

39. that was some sick Shit.

[IronLionZion]

40. My parents seem to believe they've built up immunity over the years

a lot of older generations think they're somehow built more resilient than younger generations. So I guess we'll see.

[NCProgressive]

41. Shows the mindset of some supporters of the messiah

[Cha]

45. And, like it's been pointed out.. she's wrong as

well as cruel. Biden has a broad coalition and it's not only the old folks who are vulnerable.. it's everyone.

[NCProgressive]

47. In Italy and South Korea

50% of the patients on respirators are under 50.

[Cha]

49. Oh dear.. I'm so sorry for all

of them

I had read Sunday that one of the Countries with the most cases was Italy with almost 25,000.. I was telling that to some friends and they had no idea... one friend said she heard they had "60".

I just googled and this came up..

35,713 Cases and 2,978 Deaths …

This is hopeful, though..

Recovered:
4,025

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

Thank you, NCProgressive

[BidenBacker]

50. On the bright side

I heard a 103-year old woman in China got it and fully recovered. We gotta find out what her diet is!

Can only imagine how many are dying in North Korea we're not hearing about.

[emmaverybo]

51. Oh, that's great!

[BidenBacker]

55. They said China on TV

but it looks like it was Iran instead...

https://www.france24.com/en/20200318-103-year-old-iran-woman-survives-coronavirus-report

Looks like a 91-year old man also survived.

[emmaverybo]

56. Good news!

[Cha]

58. Thank you for that, BB!

[BidenBacker]

44. Don't know what they're so pissed off about

From the looks of things the federal government is about to resort to some serious-ass socialism on steroids. They're fueling up Bernanke's helicopters as I type to drop money all over the country in the next coupla weeks.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/04/11/what-tools-does-the-fed-have-left-part-3-helicopter-money/

I'd say more but I gotta go finish working on my big net for when the cash chopper flies over our house soon.

Looks like Bernie's Revolution will get here before he drops outta the race or wins another state, whichever comes first.

PS I wonder if Munchkin or Krudlow had the balls to tell Trump today that the market dipped below where it was when Obama left office? I'll bet that put a real big knot in his knickers if they did! Woulda paid one of the $1000 bills I'm gonna catch falling to the ground to have seen that.

[spicysista]

57. This actually makes me sad.

It's all beyond disgusting.

[Jedi Guy]

59. After the news broke that someone at CPAC was infected...

Someone right here on DU said they'd be grateful if conservatives got infected and died. I called it out as a disgusting comment and was told that it wasn't disgusting at all.

I also posited that if someone said the same about progressives people here would be outraged. I think I was right on both counts.

[Cha]

60. Yeah, I don't wish that on anyone.

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[qwlauren35]

93. Not all conservatives.

Just two. McConnell and Trump.

Conservatives have their place in our society. I don't hate most of them. I hate racism, but sometimes a racist is just misguided. I hate sexism, but sometimes a sexist is just ignorant. I hate xenophobia, but again, it's usually ignorance, and poor upbringing.

MAGAts are, by and large, gullible.

This is not a hydra situation. If we lose Trump, we do not get 6 mini-Trumps in his place. Chopping off the head is the kindest thing that could be done for our nation. I would bet anything that Pence could do a better job for the 6 months until the election.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

63. Is it different when DUers do it about Trump voters orrrrrrrrrr

[OnDoutside]

64. 40% of Republicans believe that this isn't a hoax. It logically follows that there's a higher risk

of them not taking precautions and thus more likely to be affected.

[Jedi Guy]

69. That's true but it doesn't mean anyone should be happy about it.

As I said in my post above, someone here on DU said they'd be grateful if the virus sickened or killed a bunch of conservatives. That's a disgusting thing to say. Not one person on the thread except me called that person out... though someone else did defend them.

Evidently some people think it's okay to wish conservatives dead. But of course, if conservatives wish for progressives to get sick and die, they're awful, horrible people. Nothing hypocritical about that at all...

[OnDoutside]

72. You'll always get one or two that think like that, but in the main, most people on either side

wouldn't go in that direction at all.

[LanternWaste]

75. Thing is, wishes have zero effect on reality and change nothing.

Our desires, wishes and hopes are without any consequence at all... unless we act on them. And wishes without consequence are merely thought.

So unless someone acts on them in this instance, I really see little more than an opportunity for self-righteous indulgence at the expense of others.

"Nothing sanctimonious about that at all..."

[Jedi Guy]

77. Hey, there you are, old pal! Shrug emoji and all.

In any case, I never said I believed for a moment that someone saying that had any effect on reality. I did however opine that saying that is disgusting. So maybe respond to what I actually said, rather than what you thought I said, hm?

[catsudon]

65. people need to recognize

that is the same and some people are okay with it.

[sarisataka]

74. Oh yes, it is totally different

See when we do it, it is just an expression of frustration joke, not a serious-not-serious joke. See the difference?

[Cha]

78. Are you excusing those in the OP?

[William769]

66. Kick & recommended.

[WePurrsevere]

76. Sorry but no one should be joking about people dying...

I'm angry as heck at Cult45ers, Stein voters and some of those extremist like this nasty person but I certainly would NOT wish them to die in the horrible way that this virus causes death.

[Jamaal510]

82. Aside from

stealing one of 45*'s playground insults to use against a Democrat and wishing for his voters to die, aren't "jokes" supposed to be...funny?

[Cha]

83. Quite, Jamaal.. Jamie Peck stole it from trump.. good description..

".. playground insults.. ".. unfortunately they do think it's funny.

StaySafe!

[radius777]

85. It was black voters that powered Biden's rise,

and I suspect that the elements of the hard left that wishes harm on the elderly also wishes it on black and PoC voters.

[Cha]

87. Full Meltdown

[Vivienne235729]

88. That is heinous. People like this poster need to get a swift kick in the ass by karma.

[BidenBacker]

89. She's just a 20-something year old Bernie Bra

who thinks "if communism had won we'd all be eating brunch now".

https://twitter.com/jamie_elizabeth

I checked The Russia Tweets to see if she worked for Putin's IRA because it's almost impossible to tell if input like this is Russian in origin or just some young American duped by Vlad's bullshit propaganda.

?v=1559335801

[Cha]

94. I agree, Vivienne.. Let karma

take care of it.

StaySafe!

[Vivienne235729]

96. Thanks Cha! Hugs to you. Stay safe.

[Cha]

97. Virtual Hugs!

U2!

[jmowreader]

90. Nor should you want anything to do with them...

...if they use Trump’s nicknames to describe Democratic candidates. Exactly which side are they on?

[sarisataka]

91. Does this standard apply to everyone

Or are there exceptions?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213150968

[Tarheel_Dem]

95. WoW! That's all I can say.