Since Joe brutally crushed Bernie on Super Tuesday, Bernie and his supporters have kicked their attacks into OVERDRIVE.

When Bernie won the first few states and the media was counting Joe out of the race, Joe did NOT ONCE attack Bernie.

Joe didn't take to Twitter or the media or his rallies to attack or smear Bernie.. this is the difference between Bernie and Joe.

Joe is running to win the backing of the Democratic party, Bernie is running AGAINST the Democratic Party.

While Joe Biden was defending Bernie Sanders yesterday from a terrible attack…

x I don't care who you're supporting, attacks like this against a man who could be the first Jewish President are disgusting and beyond the pale. Hatred and bigotry have no place in America Ã¢ÂÂ and it's up to all of us to root out these evils wherever they're found. https://t.co/Q1Pz3hRUDS — Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 6, 2020

This is what Bernie was posting Twitter… this is just ONE of MANY attacks Bernie has directed at Joe Biden.

x On many difficult votes, whether it was Iraq, whether it was DOMA, whether it was DonÃ¢ÂÂt Ask Don't Tell, I was on the right side of history, and Joe Biden was not. pic.twitter.com/yCCCFkVYnW — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 6, 2020

I am going to DESTROY the arguments in this tweet.

Let’s start with DOMA.

Yes, DOMA was a terrible law, and at the time, Democrats did NOT actually support it, I was around back then and remember quite clearly, Democrats hated the idea of DOMA, but there was another bigger fight brewing. The Republican Party was ramping up their war against Gay Marriage and they were winning.

The Republican Party was calling for a Constitutional Amendment to BAN Same-Sex outright, and they had the support of most Americans and the power to make it happen.

DOMA was the compromise.

If you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe the man who authored DOMA, Bob Barr.

Yes, that is Bob Barr explaining that DOMA was used to subvert the political momentum for a US Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage.

In 2009, Bob Barr penned an oped in the LA Times, asking that the law be overturned.

No defending the Defense of Marriage Act

DOMA was indeed designed to thwart the then-nascent move in a few state courts and legislatures to afford partial or full recognition to same-sex couples. The Hawaii court case Baehr vs. Lewin, still active while DOMA was being considered by Congress in mid-1996, provided the immediate impetus.

Contrary to the wishes of a number of my Republican colleagues, I crafted the legislation so it wasn’t a hammer the federal government could use to force states to recognize only unions between a man and a woman. Congress deliberately chose not to establish a single, nationwide definition of marriage.

Hillary tried explaining this in 2016, but as usual, she was called a liar.

Hillary Clinton Accused of Revising History on Defense of Marriage Act

Washington Post Factcheck said:

Which is funny, since Bob Barr published his explanation in 2009 in the LA Times, and I was able to find it with a quick search on Google.

There were also numerous Supreme Court documents and briefs that explained in great detail that DOMA was used as a means to prevent a Constitutional Amendment banning Same-Sex Marriage, which I have copies of. Of course, for some reason Fact Checkers and younger activists couldn’t seem to find those either, which is rather strange, since they are of public record.

It’s easy to look back at laws that were created in the 1990’s and judge them by standards of today, but when you do that you are missing the nuances and intricacies and the attitudes of many Americans.

While it sounds progressive to say that Bernie didn’t support DOMA in the 1990’s, it is a twisting of what was going on, because it was a very good chance that without the compromise of DOMA, and the numbers and support the Republican Party had to ban Same-Sex marriage, a Constitutional Amendment was more than possible, it was at the time it was very probable.

Bernie likes to pretend that he was there fighting the good fight for the LGBTQ community, but in reality, he wasn't.

In an interview Bernie was asked: If there was a gay rights proposal for job discrimination, general harassment, would you support it? Bernie Sanders Answer: “Probably not.”

He then goes on to say that while he supports civil liberties, he would not make this a major priority.

Bernie is NOT a man who was fighting for people’s civil rights as he’s now claiming he’s been doing for 50 years, in fact.. he felt civil rights was secondary to everything else.

Now, lets talk about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

This will be quick.

x Flawed as it was, not voting for DonÃ¢ÂÂt Ask DonÃ¢ÂÂt Tell was not a progressive, pro-LGBTQ position. Bernie was essentially voting to allow queer military personnel to continue to be treated like criminals and put in jail for being queer. — Digital Gayface Ã°ÂÂÂ³Ã¯Â¸ÂÃ¢ÂÂÃ°ÂÂÂÃ°ÂÂÂ (@SJGrunewald) March 6, 2020

YES, it really is as simple as that.

So, while it may seem like Bernie’s vote was so progressive and pure.. thank god other Democrats voted for Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, who are now taking the hit for their votes… this allowed Bernie to keep his purity while the Democrats who voted for it made small progress for the LGBTQ community.

Had everybody voted like Bernie and DADT failed to pass, Gay’s would have continued to have been banned from serving in the military.

NOT too progressive when you look at it like that.

By the way, a LOT of votes that Bernie got to remain pure on like DADT, other Democrats did the RIGHT things, even when it was hard, and they now take the hit while Bernie is free to run around screaming about how PURE and progressive he’s always been.

It’s a bunch of crap and twisting of history!!!!

Had Democrats voted the same way Bernie did on both of those bills DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, it’s very possible that Same-Sex marriage would still be illegal, and that Gays would not have been able to serve in the military.

Does that sound like PROGRESS to you?

Sometimes votes are not quite as black and white as people would like you to believe.

With how long this diary turned out, I will crush his Iraq War vote in a separate post, cuz that is a very long and detailed history.