Buttigieg: Graham and Bernie

Pete Buttigieg has been in the news lately for a couple of reasons ...

- Franklin Graham to Buttigieg: Homosexuality 'sin' to be 'repentant of' not 'flaunted'.

Graham, the son of Billy and an Evangelical Christian preacher, has views that are now a very minority view among Christians - a majority of Christians and many Christian denominations are accepting of LGNTQ people and marriage, and this is not surprising considering the misinterpretation of scripture used to defend homophobia. At the same time, Graham supports Trump, a pussy-grabbing, porn star screwing, sociopathic bigot. He must be so proud.

- Pete Buttigieg compares Bernie Sanders’ supporters to Donald Trump’s

Liberals were upset and conservatives loved this, but as a liberal I have to say I think Buttigieg was absolutely correct. Back when Bernie and Hillary were competing for the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie's supporters were acting very much like Trump supporters: recall this one of many examples from The New York Times ...

From Bernie Sanders Supporters, Death Threats Over Delegates

Thrown chairs. Leaked cellphone numbers. Death threats spewed across the Internet.

No, this is not the work of Donald J. Trump supporters, some of whom have harassed critics of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. It was angry supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders who were directing their ire at the Nevada Democratic Party — and its chairwoman, Roberta Lange — over a state convention on Saturday that they think was emblematic of a rigged political system.

“It’s been vile,” said Ms. Lange, who riled Sanders supporters by refusing their requests for rule changes at the event in Las Vegas. “It’s been threatening messages, threatening my family, threatening my life, threatening my grandchild.”

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The backlash against Ms. Lange in Nevada echoes what happened in Colorado last month when supporters of Mr. Trump bombarded Steve House, the chairman of the State Republican Party, with complaints of disenfranchisement. He received thousands of calls after his cellphone number was disseminated online.

Supporters of Mr. Sanders used similar tactics to exert pressure on Ms. Lange, who has received more than 1,000 calls since Saturday night and as many as three text messages per minute. The threats, which came from men and women from across the country, were haunting and personal.

“Loved how you broke the system,” one person wrote in a text message that said he or she knew where Ms. Lange’s grandchildren went to school. “Prepare for hell. Calls won’t stop.”

Another person left a voice mail message saying he thought Ms. Lange should be “hung in public execution” for her actions.

“I’m scared for my family,” Ms. Lange said. “Scared for my kids.” ...