I seem to remember a lot of hostility from Bob toward Bernie Sanders but a search of his tweets doesn't find them. I assume he deleted them.
Nope. I have the receipts:
Moviebob, 2016.09.11 (1st, 2nd): "Bernie Sanders [...] was never 'too left' for me, but too OLD-left. His [...] vision of progress [...] is arrested in 60-style [sic] Folk Politics: Small-picture, anti-technological, quasi-isolationist. I'm for 21st Century progress."
Moviebob, 2017.01.06: "I [...] think [Bernie Sanders is] naive about the rotten core of Middle America, and would waste time and empathy."
Moviebob, 2017.01.06 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th): "This is why idealism hobbies [sic] politicians like [Bernie] Sanders: He actually BELIEVES that the racist yokels who broke for Trump are 'real America' and help them take power in their districts and [...] States. [...] Dems shouldn't go to the red states, it's that they shouldn't go there an [sic] embrace backwards policies or kiss up to regressives for votes."
Moviebob, 2017.04.19: "This is where I'm less fond of Bernie [Sanders]. An old white man should not be the one who gets to define what 'progressive' means in 2017."
Moviebob, 2017.12.14: "To me [Bernie Sanders is] Trumpism with a non-evil/fascist solution (populism is cancer--'The Regular Folks' should not be in charge of shit, thinkers should). [...] I'd prefer to let better candidates with better, newer ideas at least take the shot."
Moviebob, 2018.10.02: "[...] *neither* [Elizabeth Warren nor Bernie Sanders seem] to have more appeal to Garbage America than Trumpist white-nationalism [sic]. 'Red America's' bitter-clingers are a lost cause we should [...] not [...] need--the Left should be figuring out how to win OVER them, not win them over."
Moviebob, 2018.12.28 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th): "[Bernie Sanders is] an unhelpful 'bad ally.' He [...] should have bowed out, [...] I have my own disagreements with [Sanders'] brand of Leftism; reflexive anticorporatism [...] removes a weapon from the arsenal and treats systems/tools as having morality of their own rather than being subserviant [sic] to the morality of their operators (wielded by the correct person or against the correct enemy, any power can be good and any tactic can be righteous). [...] Bernie isn't my enemy any more than Hillary or Obama were my "pals"--but their general policy-focus was getting me closer to seeing the world remade into the future as it ought to be; whereas Sanders and Trump are (in different ways) about stagnation."
Moviebob, 2019.02.05 (1st, 2nd): "[Bernie Sanders'] [...] romanticism of the 'white working class,' [...] props up obsolete people (and the hate that springs from their ignorant small mindedness) rather than embracing [sic] societal evolution. Protectionism and 'small towns' wont [sic] save us. Technology, diversity, automation, globalism and forward-thinking [sic] will."
Moviebob, 2019.02.05: "The root of my 'just irritates me' problem with Bernie [Sanders] is it's impossible to miss that he seems to dislike 'liberals' (as a personality type) more than he dislikes 'conservatives;' the latter of whom he seems to feel are merely reachable and misled. It's deeply flawed idealism."
Moviebob, 2019.03.02 (1st, 2nd, 3rd): "Again and again, [Bernie] Sanders [...] retreat to [...] stating that what's needed are 'across the board' or 'universal' solutions; [...] but it ignores the reality that beyond the realm of an economic spreadsheet the deck is so historically stacked against minorities in the U.S. that any 'universal' advancement still ends up placing whites unfairly ahead because they were ALREADY unfairly ahead."
Moviebob, 2019.04.03: "[Bernie Sanders is] an old man, and old men fall prey to binary thinking and outdated ideas. He's bad on guns, he's too deferential to white America, he sees the trash-humans [sic] as something to be 'won over' rather than defeated. No."
Moviebob, 2019.04.03 (1st, 2nd): "'Trump America' and 'Progressive America' represent two distinctly divergent, irreconcilable paths of societal development, and they are in conflict--one will defeat the other, and there will either be a future for the U.S. or there will not be. If the [Bernie] Sanders camp sees the MAGAs as anything other than a problem to be dealt with, they don't really understand what the world is now."
Moviebob, 2019.04.16 (1st, 2nd, 3rd): "[...] my antenna go up [sic] in the bad way with how 'worker' is [Bernie Sanders'] go-to word for 'people who need help/focus/are-of-interest-to-me' [...] it's a take that reinforces what I don't like about this guy and his version of Leftism, namely that they seem [sic] Trump and the worst of what he embodies [...] as a minor, negotiable distraction from the 'real work' of his various causes. I look at Sanders I see the 'Left' that's ok w/ compromise [...] because what really matters is job security for some blue collar industry that shouldve [sic] been automated out of existence 30 years ago b/c theyre [sic] still wet for [Bruce] Springsteen."
Moviebob, 2019.04.16 (1st, 2nd): "An actual president of MY disposition openly taking on Red America is a pipe dream. [...] [Bernie] Sanders [...] actually sees the MAGAs as something worth salvaging... which [...] is like setting a giant pile of money on fire, if the burning money was then all but guaranteed to somehow walk into MY house and burn it down."
Moviebob, 2019.05.24 (1st, 2nd): "[...] [Bernie Sanders] contributed to the false narrative of white working class 'economic anxiety' and helped, [...] inflame the idea of Democrats' natural evolution to a 21st Century post-white, post-patriarchal party of the dynamic, diverse urban vote as 'elitism.' The stark and meaningful difference between the Democrat and Republic visions of America--[...] a party of the worthwhile future versus a party of the stagnant, obsolete past--is hampered at behest of this well-meaning Old Left codger."
Moviebob, 2019.10.17 (1st, 2nd): "[Bernie] Sanders will waste time, money and resources better needed for building tomorrow on things that don't warrant or deserve it [...] I could be assured had their priorities straight and were keeping societal-transformation on the correct track. Bernie... won't set it BACKWARDS like the Republicans, but [Bernie] won't help it speed forward."
Moviebob, 2019.10.29 (1st, 2nd, 3rd): "My worry about Bernie [Sanders] is that his view of 'working class' America is still arrested too much in that outdated space--and that pulling undeserved attention and resources toward it means NOT helping the *real* working class of the 21st Century--the knowledge workers, service workers, creators, designers, thinkers and builders who are sustaining the America that matters, building the future that will matter and getting us closer to the unified global post-national, post-labor world that we not only DESERVE but is the only real hope for sustaining an existence worth having for humanity on Earth."
Moviebob, 2019.12.01 (1st, 2nd, 3rd): "'President Bernie would «leave cultural conservatives alone»' is an argument AGAINST him as Democrat nominee, not for. He doesn't represent [...] the America that matters in the 21st Century [...] I don't *want* a Dem President who 'leaves garbage America alone'--I want one who's as committed to facilitating the full-on transition of this country into it's [sic] proper, better, 21st Century state [...] making sure the natural and necessary regional/demographic shifts we've been seeing--the 'hollowing out' of Middle America [...] more accurately described as the rise of cosmopolitan America--continues apace."
Moviebob, 2020.01.11: "When [Sanders] says 'working class,' I know he's not thinking about 21st Century workers--that's an issue for me."
Moviebob, 2020.01.16 (1st, 2nd, 3rd): "Bernie [Sanders] [...] still accepts right-wing populism [...] buying into the narrative that they're motivated by legitimate grievance rather than simple bigotry [...] if he's not willing to accept that ignorant/obsolete red state white bigots are the ENEMY to be DEFEATED by the 21st Century America he's running to represent as a Democrat President not a 'deprived' people to be salvaged or valued votes to be won over--whether they're 'working class' or not. And if he DOESN'T get that, his approach to leadership on those terms will put the rest of the 21st Century American progressive coalition at risk of their safety."
Moviebob, 2020.01.21: "In a country with a voting population worth a damn, [comedian Joe Rogan's] endorsement would SINK [Bernie Sanders'] candidacy [...] We don't have that country, so this will probably help Bernie if he gets to the nomination [...] I hate this stupid world so much now."
Moviebob, 2020.01.29: "My worry is that Bernie [Sanders] actually CARES about the fates of the red state garbage-people [sic] who think their jerbs are threatened by migrant workers, and would seek compromise. By contrast, [...] 'establishment' Dems understand [...] those people are *the enemy,* [...] even if they're 'right' on some level [...]"
Moviebob, 2020.02.21: "Bernie [Sanders] [...] believes in wasting time trying to save the garbage-people, because some of them are 'workers.'"
Moviebob, 2020.02.22 (1st, 2nd): "When the leaps forward present themselves that would advance the best of us but leave the brutes and the bullies behind--where they belong--I know [Bernie Sanders is] the type who will hold progress back asking sympathy for the angry, obsolete white man; lashing out in 'disenfranchised' bigotry, MAGA cap pulled tight over a brow furrowed in 'economic anxiety.' And I just don't have the stomach for that."
Moviebob, 2020.03.01: "[Bernie Sanders'] [...] expanded his base because he was also the 'fuck Hillary' option for 'disenfranchised' blue-collar dipshits who hate 21st Century Americans [...] in 2016 and now the 'fuck the DNC for favoring Evolved America over us' option."
Moviebob, 2020.03.09: "Bernie [Sanders] [...] only [offers] ME about 30-40% if [sic] what I want..."
Moviebob, 2020.04.11: "No one but Hillary had any shot at that nomination in 2016 and [...] she'd have been The One this time if Bernie had stepped back and endorsed her instead."
Moviebob, 2020.04.30: "[...] the 'Bernie fans are just MAGAs' takes are dumb [...] And always unhelpful."
Moviebob, 2020.06.19 (1st, 2nd): "Bernie Sanders threw away a political comeback [...] to chase [comedian Joe Rogen's] endorsement. It didn't help, and [Sanders] squandered the biggest comeback asset he got--AOC's endorsement and her huge (and superior to his) organizing network in order to chase Rogan's audience instead. [...] bad advice."
Moviebob, 2020.08.25: "Y'know what feels good? Being able to hear [Bernie Sanders being taken advantage of by Democrats] and feel absolutely 0% cognitive dissonance, especially about 'trade' and who/what gets 'taken advantage' of. Because populism is CANCER, nationalism is just racism + geography, and no one who belongs in this Century needs either."
This doesn't really surprise me, since they were stuff that would get him in trouble with other Democrats. (
Bob believes Hank Hill from King of the Hill would vote for Hillary Clinton. And also that he would respect troons preferred pronouns and consider them true and honest women.)
That's because Moviebob is a fucking moron.
Bob will choose the establishment over the reformers every single time, so I'm not sure what he's hoping to get out of the Democratic party splitting into two parties.
There are few Democrat boots Moviebob won't lick. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex is an exception; not only does Moviebob will not only lick AOC's boots, it would not surprise me if Bob would use them as condoms them if given half a chance.
