Disproving the myth about white-only BernieBros...

[Fawke Em]

First there were cute babies dressing up as Bernie Sanders and now -- in another adorable sign of support -- there are hot dudes who love Bernie Sanders.

A new Instagram account called Men Who Bern is a curation of photos of gorgeous guys showing their support for the 2016 presidential candidate. The name of the account is a play on words from Sanders' campaign hashtag #FeelTheBern.

And boy, are we feeling it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/15-photos-of-hot-dudes-who-support-bernie-sanders_562e3ce2e4b0ec0a3894fd41?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics§ion=politics

[Ed Suspicious]

1. I'm only saddened that my picture is nowhere to be found. Guess I need a bigger Bernie sign.

[winter is coming]

2. Either that, or put on some clothes, dude.

[Ed Suspicious]

3. +1

[Fawke Em]

9. I could comment on the issue of size, but I won't.

Just kidding, Ed!

[Ed Suspicious]

12. Hey! I'm an innie! A grower! It was cold out!

I was in the pool!

[Fawke Em]

16. Hey! I didn't realize you were George Costanza!

Your picture SHOULD be on that page.

[aidbo]

20. Are you feeling it yet?

I mean the Bern! Are you feeling the Bern?!

[Fawke Em]

56. LMAO!!!

[Admiral Loinpresser]

54. ROFLMAO! n/t

[LongTomH]

4. You should have seen the crowd for Bernie at the rally and dinner in Iowa Saturday

There was a young, black Baptist minister, the Rev. Travis Whitfield, firing up the crowd at the rally; then members of the choir from his church sang for us.

When we marched with Bernie across the Women of Achievement bridge, the march was led by Bernie and a drumline group: The Metro Youth Drill Team, all black young people.

I saw a wonderful mix: white, black, latino, young and old. Bernie's not just drawing disillusioned young people back into politics, he's drawing older Boomers and Gen X-ers, who had given up on the system.

[Fawke Em]

10. Yes. I am friends with him on Twitter and we have

"talked" several times.

He is WONDERFUL.

[artislife]

51. That's the crowd I saw back in August as we waited to go in

to see a rally.

Doesn't fit the meme, though.

[zappaman]

5. "hot dudes" and "gorgeous guys"?

If you say so.

[leftofcool]

6. To be fair...................

I would sleep with any of the three. And I do mean sleep because at my age, sleep is pretty much all I want to do at night.

[Fawke Em]

11. There are more than those three.

But, I thought many of them were rather hot, but as the mother of a son not too much younger than many of those guys, it made me feel a bit lecherous. LOL.

[zappaman]

13. Man Buns for Bernie!

[Warren DeMontague]

29. As usual, zappa, you're right.

Like this guy on the left? Ewwwww!!!

[zappaman]

31. Disagree.

That guy has got "it".

[Warren DeMontague]

34. If by "it" you mean "Webb looks like he's got a sphincter clenched tight enough to crack walnuts"

you are, again, correct.

[zappaman]

38. you get me

[Fawke Em]

42. Bernie trying to loosen up Webb is hilarious.

Bernie's relaxed and having a good time despite the seriousness of the debate. It think it's "adorbs," as the kids would say (last year).

[whatchamacallit]

7. Don't let the DU official spokesperson find out

[Autumn]

30. .

[Cali_Democrat]

8. "Hot dudes" and "gorgeous guys" for Bernie.

LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Oh, you have NO idea.

Mmm-mmmm.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. Love those pics.

Looked multi-ethnic to me. Many races covered, not just white BernieBros. Blows that meme all to hell.

DU is NOT representative of how people in the real world feel about Bernie and his supporters. It just isn't. They're just loud HillaryClintonSupporters.com subset who can't accept their candidate is going to lose again. They're also a minority on here, by a HUGE margin.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Fawke Em]

18. Thank you.

That was my real motive in posting this: to show the meme is simply incorrect.

It didn't hurt, though, that the imagery was pleasant.

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. The Imagery is quite lovely.

[DirkGently]

17. But what CARS do they drive?

Or have the sales of Volvo station wagons somehow kept pace with Sanders' increasing popularity?

[Fawke Em]

19. Ha!

I drive a 10-year-old union made American car.

My Mustang was mostly made in Dearborn, MI (I realize no car is completely made in the USA anymore, which is sad, but Mustangs generally are on the top 10 list every year as being a car mostly made here).

[DirkGently]

21. 13-yr-old Acura hatchback!

They don't even make them anymore. We also own a VW -- wait for it -- station wagon though. It's one of those "cheating" diesels that gets 40 mpg but is apparently killing everyone.

I WILL drive this Volvo wagon, if it ever makes it to production.

[Fawke Em]

26. I also inherited my father's 1987 Mustang when he passed.

I learned to drive on that car - and it still runs, although needs some minor work and a paint job - so my step Mom thought I should have it.

It still smells like my Daddy.

[DirkGently]

33. Dad had a '68 he bought brand-new.

Right before the original Mustang really got traction as an American classic, he put her up for sale at "1,000 FIRM," prepared to wait forever for someone to pay that ridiculous sum.

First person that came to see it plunked down the cash.

That's a beautiful way to remember your father!

[Fawke Em]

43. Daddy bought this one brand new, too.

I used to drive go-carts (all manual transmissions, which both my Mustangs are), so it really wasn't hard for me to learn to drive it, but that he LET me drive his brand new car when I was first learning is a testament to his trust in me.

I miss my Daddy. He died of brain cancer in May 2014.

[DirkGently]

48. He used to let me shift the three-speed.

I'd watch for the clutch pedal to go in and shift left-handed from the passenger seat. Years later he taught me to actually drive a stick, and I still drive one today (that old Acura is a slick-shifting Honda six-speed).

I'm lucky to to still have him -- in his 70's now.

I'm sorry to hear of your father's passing. He sounds like an excellent Dad.

[Fawke Em]

59. You know, funny, he wasn't for years.

Always there when I was growing up and after I moved out on my own.

Then I married a Palestinian. I NEVER knew my Dad was a bigot, but he went all "Archie Bunker" on me and disowned me for years. Even after divorcing, he still didn't acknowledge his grandson (who is JUST like him, btw).

He kind of "got into" my son at family gatherings when his sister died, but still went home and ignored us.

I remarried and he saw me pregnant with my second child, a daughter, at these gatherings, too. Nothing.

Then he got sick and I did what everyone, including my Mom, has asked if I'd do: I dropped everything and drove the three hours Alabama to see him. He was supposed to die that weekend.

He didn't.

I learned he'd moved from a Reagan Democrat to an Obama fan (Obama and my son share a middle name, btw). He finally "got it" when Mitt Romney ran. It FINALLY made sense to him how stupid he'd been. He LIKED Obama. He didn't care who his father was, either.

I got to spend the last six weeks of his life with him. No one asked for forgiveness or even discussed the past because we knew it was all we had.

Sometimes, it's best just to acknowledge you have what you have and go with it.

[artislife]

53. Ahh. nice memories for you.

<3

[Fuddnik]

24. I have 3 vehicles.

A Chevy Volt

A Ford C-MAX Hybrid

A 2003 Harley Davidson Super Glide.

The Harley gets the worst gas mileage of the 3.

[DirkGently]

39. I like the look of the new Volt

Bit pricey, but I'm in the market, and given that VW's screwup means their diesels are largely unavailable for the time being, I'm wondering if Chevy doesn't have the next best thing.

[valerief]

22. Lotsa hotties on here.

https://instagram.com/menwhobern/

My lawd, I need to fan myself. I'm overheatin', darlin'.

[Fawke Em]

44. They are all lovely.

P.S. Did you notice they included Mark Ruffalo?

[valerief]

49. Holy crap! How did I miss him? But, of course, he'd be berning. Makes sense.

He's one of the good guys.

[Fawke Em]

52. Oh, M.R. is a BIG Bernie fan.

https://instagram.com/p/71QHUEFZ-s/?taken-by=menwhobern

[mythology]

23. The fact that Sanders draws very limited support from minorities

Is not the same a drawing literally 0 minority supporters. But you can't look at Sanders polling and say that he doesn't have an issue there if he wants to win the nomination over Clinton.

[davidn3600]

27. Odd thing about that is Bernie has done far more for civil rights than the Clintons

Bill signed laws that drastically increased the prison population....that mostly affected minorities far more than whites.

And the private prison corporations support Hillary.

[Cali_Democrat]

40. Which law are you talking about? The 1994 crime bill? nt

[beam me up scottie]

41. The one he signed because it included the Violence Against Women Act and aw ban?

Sanders opposed the Violent Crime Prevention Act of 1991 during his first year in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"All over the industrialized world now, countries are saying, ‘let us put an end to state murder, let us stop capital punishment’," Sanders said in a 1991 speech on the House floor. "But here what we’re talking about is more and more capital punishment."

The bill, which included provisions to authorize the death penalty as appropriate punishment for crimes involving the murder of a law enforcement officer, terrorism and drug trafficking, never reached the desk of President George H.W. Bush.

In 1994, however, Sanders voted in favor of the final version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, a bill that expanded the federal death penalty. Sanders had voted for an amendment to the bill that would have replaced all federal death sentences with life in prison. Even though the amendment failed, Sanders still voted for the larger crime bill.

A spokesman for Sanders said he voted for the bill "because it included the Violence Against Women Act and the ban on certain assault weapons."

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/sep/02/viral-image/where-do-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-stand-/

[valerief]

50. Details, details. They're not useful in tsking Sanders' record.

[1StrongBlackMan]

57. Bernie votes for a bill ... Yayyy! ...

It was for the womens.

Bill signs that same bill ... See he hates Black people.

[bravenak]

58. Yes. The one Bernie also voted for. But he did not SIGN IT!!!

[Major Hogwash]

61. Bernie marched with MLK while Hillary was still in college.

Bernie is going to school Hillary on civil rights during the campaign.

[1StrongBlackMan]

55. For the 4,000,00th time. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

60. Minorities, like Jewish people?

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Funny how some people see everything in just terms of "black and white" around here lately.

[kenfrequed]

25. hmm

The "Berniebros" meme is just a load of nonsense. It really is yet another distraction from policy and actual campaign issues.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. "Hot"? Why are we sexumalifally objectimayfying these young men?

Except for that one older --- hey! How did my picture get in there?

[beam me up scottie]

37. You love being objectimayfyed!

[Fawke Em]

46. I knew that was you!!!

Funny story: I was driving home today - and I'm 45 - no spring chicken - and this young guy in his late 20s or early 30s driving by me in a Jeep smiling and waving and I thought, "Who the hell is that? I don't know him? Is he flirting?" He finally passed me and I saw his "BERNIE 2016" sticker! He'd seen mine as he was passing me and was showing "like-mindedness."

Hey... at my age, I'll take what I can get.

[beam me up scottie]

36. .

[Fawke Em]

45. Well... Joy Beher Felt the Bern today with a peck on the cheek!

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/258127-sanders-kisses-joy-behar

I swear, I had no idea he had comedic timing until this campaign. It's like icing on cake (neither of which I should have, btw).

[beam me up scottie]

47. He was great!

So much for the grumpy old man meme.

[Uncle Joe]

62. Berniessee!

I love that image.

Thanks for the thread, Fawke Em.

[Recursion]

63. The plural of "Instagram" is not "data"

Nobody is saying Sanders has literally no support among persons of color. People are saying (correctly) that Sanders is having trouble getting large amounts of support outside of white liberals, who are only one bloc among many in the Democratic party.

[jfern]

64. Margaret Cho didn't get the memo that Bernie supporters are supposed to be

young straight white males