This is your must watch clip from the Bernie townhall.@marthamaccallum explains to Bernie that Sweden and Denmark are not even remotely close to being socialist countries.— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2020
His response is "I'm not an expert on the current economy in Sweden." pic.twitter.com/Txb3DemHtI
Cj also Bernie has never worked a job he got his first Jon at 40 as mayor- he’s only been on the government payroll his whole life. No experience running a business- never had a bill sponsored in his time in senate!— Joel Trout (@BishopJoelTrout) March 8, 2020
Stop pushing the false narrative in the liberal indoctrination factories that the only was to be successful is by going to college. Tell them how you've never had a job, lived off unemployment until winning your first election & how you scammed your way to becoming a millionaire— Go fuck yourself (@Gofucky51215277) March 10, 2020
#SpecialReport @RoKhanna so what you're saying is communist @BernieSanders who's never had a real job, or run a business or a payroll, has basically passed nothing in legislation, and hates capitalism and free enterprise is "the guy" to fix our bad trade deals and economy...LMAO— Big10inch (@Big10inch2) March 10, 2020
This is your daily reminder that Bernie Sanders has never had a real job in his life— Sgt. Standenko (@sgtstandenko) March 6, 2020
He ran for Senate—lost
Ran for House of Representatives—lost
Ran for Mayor—won by 10 votes
And he's been in politics since 1981
Yet he's worth millions of dollars?
If there were such a thing as “white privilege,” @BernieSanders would be the poster child.— Salt Jarr (@saltjarr) March 3, 2020
Millionaire
Three houses
Never produced a thing
Never had a real job outside of politics
Great legislative achievement: renaming a couple Post Offices
Blames billionaires for everything.
“I don’t believe in charities” https://t.co/eyulXgXVhy— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 23, 2020
National Review
written by Jim Geraghty
December 31, 2018
The Vermont senator’s history of taxing hospitals, getting slapped, and IRA meetings, and his “honorary woman” status
1) Longtime friend and supporter Garrison Nelson, a political scientist at the University of Vermont, told The New Yorker in 2015, “Bernie’s the last person you’d want to be stuck on a desert island with. Two weeks of lectures about health care, and you’d look for a shark and dive in.”
2) In 2016, he probably received more write-in votes for president, without running in the general election, than anyone else in American history. Only eight states count write-in votes for candidates who did not file paperwork to run in the general election.
In 2016, 18,218 Vermont voters wrote in his name in the presidential general election, which was 5.8 percent of the total vote. That was more than libertarian Gary Johnson and Green-party nominee Jill Stein — combined. In California, Sanders got 79,341, which was more than Evan McMullin; in Pennsylvania, Sanders had 6,060; in New Hampshire, Sanders won 4,493; and in Rhode Island, 3,497 (again ahead of McMullin). Among the states that counted write-in votes, Sanders had 111,609 votes.
In 1996, Green-party nominee Ralph Nader received 685,297 votes, but he was a write-in candidate in some states and listed on the ballot in others.
3) His first campaign for public office started because he simply showed up and volunteered. In 1971, Vermont Republican senator Winston Prouty died, setting up a special election. A young Bernie Sanders chose to attend the meeting of the newly formed Liberty Union party, which he described in his memoir as “a small peace-oriented third party.” (The party called for “nonviolent revolutionary socialism” and compared the draft to slavery.)
In Sanders’s account, he became the candidate for Senate because at the meeting the party needed a candidate; he raised his hand and volunteered. He won 2 percent statewide. In the subsequent decade, Sanders twice ran as the Liberty Union party’s candidate for Senate and twice for governor, never winning more than 6 percent of the vote. During this time, he declared on the campaign trail that the Central Intelligence Agency was “a dangerous institution that has got to go,” and that “right-wing lunatics use it to prop up fascist dictatorships.”
By the time Sanders was elected to Congress, the Liberty Union party saw him as a sellout, calling him “Bernie the Bomber,” charging “Bernie became an imperialist to get elected in 1990” and declaring, “Bernie’s selling out says clearly to working people and those unable to find work that even leftists become mainstream politicians, when and if they win office.” The group also observed that, at the time, Sanders had “no person of color on his staff.”
4) His first successful campaign, for mayor of Burlington in 1981, was largely driven by opposition to higher residential property taxes.
The city’s five-term Democratic mayor, Gordon Paquette, proposed raising property taxes by 65 cents per $100 of assessed value and barely bothered to campaign. Sanders contended that the city’s needs could be funded by a 25-cent increase, and the voters preferred the lower hike.
As the New York Times described it, “Mr. Sanders did not campaign as a Socialist and Mr. Paquette did not make an issue of it.” He told the paper, “I’m not going to war with the city’s financial and business community and I know that there is little I can do from City Hall to accomplish my dreams for society.”
Sanders called property taxes regressive because “they are not based on ability to pay” and boasted that he held off any additional residential property tax increases for seven years. But while he was mayor, the city implemented taxes on meals and hotel rooms, raised commercial and industrial property taxes, and taxed cable television.
5) It didn’t take long for Sanders to start pushing policy in unorthodox directions, most notably declaring in 1987 that the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, now known as the University of Vermont Medical Center, was no longer tax-exempt; he sent the hospital a tax bill for $2.9 million. Sanders declared, “There are a heck of a lot of people up there making a heck of a lot of money.” This led to a court fight; a superior court judge ruled against the city on all counts, declaring that “statutes should not be construed in such a way that will lead to irrational or absurd consequences.” Twelve years later, after Sanders had departed the mayor’s office to become Vermont’s lone representative in the U.S. House, the hospital and Burlington reached an agreement on payments in return for municipal services and higher levels of charitable care.
6) Shortly after being elected as mayor, Sanders kicked off of the 40th annual Chittenden County United Way fundraising drive by announcing to gasps, “I don’t believe in charities.” Sanders went on to argue that government, rather than charity organizations, should take over responsibility for social programs.
7) As mayor, Sanders liked to pursue his own foreign policy. In 1985, he lamented that Americans were unfairly and unreasonably hostile to the Soviet Union, telling the Los Angeles Times:
A handful of people in this country are making decisions, whipping up Cold War hysteria, making us hate the Russians. We’re spending billions on military. Why can’t we take some of that money to pay for thousands of U.S. children to go to the Soviet Union?
(In the preceding few years, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan, shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007, and pushed for the institution of martial law in Poland.)
The city of Burlington issued many proclamations about U.S. foreign policy. “I did not want to see taxpayer dollars going to the CIA for an appalling war,” Sanders wrote in his 1998 autobiography, Outsider in the House. “While most of the Democrats and Republicans on the Board of Alderman disagreed, to us this was very much a municipal issue.”
8) He argued that bread lines in Communist countries were a sign of the system’s success:
It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don’t line up for food: The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death.
He said in a 1985 interview that he espoused “traditional socialist goals — public ownership of oil companies, factories, utilities, banks, etc.”
In the mid 1980s, Burlington’s minor-league baseball team was named the “Vermont Reds,” but this was not, as some Internet sites claim, a salute to Communism. The team was affiliated with the major-league Cincinnati Reds. However, Sanders’s softball team was indeed called “the People’s Republic of Burlington.”
9) In 1985, Sanders was invited by the Nicaraguan government to Managua to visit for the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the rebel Sandinista takeover. According to Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald, “Republicans also had video of Sanders at a 1985 rally thrown by the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua where half a million people chanted, ‘Here, there, everywhere, the Yankee will die,’ while President Daniel Ortega condemned ‘state terrorism’ by America.” A UPI wire service report described the chant; Sanders has many times discussed attending the rally, calling it “a profoundly emotional experience,” but he has never mentioned the chant.
10) That 1985 Los Angeles Times article also noted that “representatives from the Irish Republican Army have stopped by Sanders’ office during the past four years.” A subsequent Boston Globe article stated, “members of the Irish Republican Army were regularly invited to City Hall.”
11) Many profiles of Sanders mention that he and his wife Jane “honeymooned in the Soviet Union,” which is technically accurate but a bit misleading. Burlington had a “sister city” program with Yaroslavl in Russia, and a foreign-exchange trip with the Soviet Union was scheduled in 1988. Sanders later said that he and his wife “set their wedding date to coincide with that trip because they didn’t want to take more time off.”
12) For much of his career, Sanders has theorized that there is a psychological or psychosomatic aspect to cancer: “When the human spirit is broken, when the life force is squashed, cancer becomes a possibility,” the 28-year-old Sanders wrote in the Vermont Freeman, an alternative newspaper, in December 1969. In 1988, discussing the death of Nora Astorga, a Sandinista politician who had died of cervical cancer. Sanders said:
I have my own feelings about what causes cancer and the psychosomatic aspects of cancer. . . . One wonders if the war did not claim another victim of another person who couldn’t deal with her tremendous grief and suffering that’s going on in her own country.
In one of his infamous essays in the Freeman, Sanders wrote, in 1969, “The manner in which you bring up your daughter with regard to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things.”
13) In 1988, Sanders attended a non-binding Vermont Democratic-party caucus in Burlington, supporting Jesse Jackson. In Outsider in the House, he writes, “A number of old-line Dems stood up and turned around as I delivered my speech. And when I returned to my seat, a woman in the audience slapped me across the face.” Sanders said it was the first and last time he ever participated in a formal Democratic-party function. Because Vermont has no formal party registration, he has never formally registered as a Democrat, although by 1994, the Vermont Democratic party stopped running candidates against him. In early 2015, he filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president as a Democrat.
14) In 1989, Sanders taught at the Institute of Policy Studies at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and came away somewhat disappointed. “I know that conservatives worry a great deal about Harvard,” Sanders wrote in Outsider in the House. “They see it as a bastion of progressive thought, the brain trust for revolution. Trust me. They can stop worrying. Harvard has many wonderful attributes, but the revolution will not start at Harvard University.”
15) In his 1986 campaign for governor, Sanders declared he would be a better feminist than the incumbent, Democratic governor Madeleine Kunin. He dismissed her in an interview, declaring, “Many people are excited because she’s the first woman governor. But after that, there ain’t much.” Feminist groups didn’t seem to mind; at a 1996 rally for his congressional campaign, feminist Gloria Steinem called him “an honorary woman.”
16) Sanders relationship with another liberal Vermont politician, Howard Dean, is surprisingly complicated. In 1996, then-governor Howard Dean said he had never voted for Sanders, who was then in his third term as a congressman. Dean said he had left his ballot blank. In 1993, when Sanders was pushing for the state to embrace Canadian-style single-payer health care, Dean accused Sanders of being dishonest about the costs:
I don’t think it’s fair for politicians to raise these kinds of expectations and pretend it’s going to cost everybody less because it’s not going to happen. That’s just not fair. People have had that done to them for a long time. Ronald Reagan was a master of that kind of stuff.
Sanders responded, “I have never been attacked for being like Ronald Reagan. I find that very amusing.”
As a superdelegate, Dean voted for Hillary Clinton over Sanders in 2016. In December 2017, Howard Dean said during an appearance on MSNBC that older members of the Democratic party need “to get the hell out of the way and have somebody who is 50 running the country.”
17) In 2015, a Vermont alternative newspaper held a “Bernie Sanders sound-alike contest,” and more than 40 people participated. The winner was comedian James Adomian, who imitated Sanders insisting that pizza and cheesy bread are “a right for all people, and not just a privilege for the few.”
18) During his 2016 presidential campaign, Sanders said he wanted to end fracking entirely, that there has never been a single U.S. trade agreement with a foreign country that he’s been comfortable with, and declared, “It makes no sense that students and their parents pay higher interest rates for college than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.” The comparison ignores the concept of collateral and the fact that most homeowners and car buyers put money down at the time of purchase. It is difficult to repossess an education.
19) In 2016 and 2017, Sanders made more than $1 million, mostly from book advances and royalties. He received a half-million-dollar advance for this year’s book, Where We Go from Here. (Ironically, back in 1974, Sanders told the Burlington Free Press, “Nobody should earn more than $1 million.”) When the senator received some grief during the 2016 campaign for not releasing his tax returns, he said his wife does the couple’s taxes. Days later, he released his 2014 returns, showing adjusted gross income of $205,271. Despite Sanders’s 1981 statement that he didn’t believe in charities, he and his wife donated $8,350 to charity, according to the return.
20) The population of Vermont is so heavily white that the NAACP didn’t establish a branch in the state until 2015. Progressives among the roughly 1.2 percent of Vermonters that are African-American have at times accused Sanders of neglecting them.
In December 2018, the Sanders Institute — a think tank founded in 2017 by Sanders’s wife, Jane, and her son from a previous marriage, David Driscoll, who previously worked at a snowboarding company — held a three-day conference on the progressive agenda. Fourteen progressive and African-American community leaders objected to a lack of local representatives invited or speaking. They signed a letter declaring, “This is either a major oversight or just one more example of how institutional oppression looks, even among those who are progressive.”
Some of the criticism was even harsher. Curtiss Reed Jr., executive director of the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, told a local newspaper,
This is a well-established pattern that Sanders has illustrated over the decades of marginalizing people of color, of not extending himself to understand our experiences here as they relate to micro-aggressions, micro-invalidations, micro-injustices. He has shown himself incapable or unwilling to do what it takes to engage us, one-to-one or collectively, in terms of understanding what our experiences are in this state and how he might be able to mitigate the negative effects of systemic racism.
A nervous democratic socialist in first class. #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/XbONXNBZNn— Hank Thomas (@HankThomasDC) February 13, 2020
More, from @michaelkruse: "the summer house … with rustic wood sides, a silver-colored tin roof, four bedrooms and 500 feet of waterfront that Bernie and Jane Sanders bought for $575,000, cash, through an entity they created called the Islands Trust."https://t.co/AvoxjGQsX1— Zack Stanton (@zackstanton) February 20, 2020
Everyday Socialist who is very opposed to the global menace of climate change just happens to board the wrong private jet, could happen to anyone. https://t.co/uj9bArpwrN— Razor (@hale_razor) March 1, 2020
Bernie Sanders consistently tries to be a “champion” for the middle class,— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) December 28, 2019
But people always forget he only paid 13.5% on his taxes,
Owns 3 mansions and is a part of the 1%.
He’s a fraud.
This is your daily reminder:— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders made $1,062,626 in 2016
His charitable donations that year?
$10,600—less than 1% of his income
He campaigns against greed and then hoards 99% of his income for himself
For a committed socialist—he doesn't seem to live like one
🤔
Bernie has been a bum his entire life. He’s never had a job where he has to answer to anyone. He just sucks the tit of the taxpayers and tries to tell you how to run your life. 3 houses, gives nothing to charity, and pounds his chest.— Peterman (@PetermanPrest) March 5, 2020
Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack w a dirt floor & she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter.”https://t.co/WZJTYOb7Dp— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) March 1, 2020
Investor's Business Daily
written by Paul Sperry
January 26, 2020
2016: Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday his parents would never have thought their son would end up in the Senate and running for president. No kidding. He was a ne’er-do-well into his late 30s.
“It's certainly something that I don't think they ever believed would've happened,” the unabashed socialist remarked during CNN’s Democratic town hall forum, as polls show him taking the lead in Iowa and New Hampshire.
He explained his family couldn’t imagine his “success,” because "my brother and I and Mom and Dad grew up in a three-and-a-half-room rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn, and we never had a whole lot of money."
It wasn’t as bad as he says. His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck -- and it was a government check.
“I never had any money my entire life,” Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985, after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington.
Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the power to run your life and your finances -- “We will raise taxes;” he confirmed Monday, “yes, we will."
One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps, and it was all downhill from there.
Sanders took his first bride to live in a maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried carpentry but could barely sink a nail. “He was a shi**y carpenter,” a friend told Politico Magazine. “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.”
Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about "masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was "always poor" and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment -- and this is what his friends had to say about him.
The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”
So he tried politics, starting his own socialist party. Four times he ran for Vermont public office, and four times he lost -- badly. He never attracted more than single-digit support -- even in the People’s Republic of Vermont. In his 1971 bid for U.S. Senate, the local press said the 30-year-old "Sanders describes himself as a carpenter who has worked with 'disturbed children.’ ” In other words, a real winner.
He finally wormed his way into the Senate in 2006, where he still ranks as one of the poorest members of Congress. Save for a municipal pension, Sanders lists no assets in his name. All the assets provided in his financial disclosure form are his second wife’s. He does, however, have as much as $65,000 in credit-card debt.
Sure, Sanders may not be a hypocrite, but this is nothing to brag about. His worthless background contrasts sharply with the successful careers of other “outsiders" in the race for the White House, including a billionaire developer, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and a Fortune 500 CEO.
The choice in this election is shaping up to be a very clear one. It will likely boil down to a battle between those who create and produce wealth, and those who take it and redistribute it.
Bernie could run as the Socialist Party nominee for president.— Bryan Dean Wright (@BryanDeanWright) March 3, 2020
Yet he doesn’t.
Instead, he’s using another party as his parasitic host to boost his chances of victory.
So don’t get cranky when the host tries to eradicate him. He’s a foreign body.
He doesn’t belong. https://t.co/0XNvXWO1ge
It's because Marxism/Communism/Socialism is not legal in America.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) March 4, 2020
All immigrants applying for US permanent residence or US Citizenship have to answer specific questions about having any associations with Communist groups. If they say yes they will have their applications DENIED!
We all have a right to believe and support whatever the heck we want. We even have a right to peaceably assemble.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) March 4, 2020
However, you won't see a Communist candidate or even Socialist candidate on the ballot.
That's why Bernie Sanders is an "independent" Senator, not a Communist.
The sad thing is even if you double the minimum wage, it will remain the minimum wage.— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) February 26, 2020
Young Americans support Bernie Sanders because they have no idea what socialism would actually mean for this country. pic.twitter.com/D1eN8Yctny— Morgan Zegers (@MorganZegers) February 27, 2020
What does "economic justice" mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 25, 2020
“27 percent of Cubans earn under $50 per month; 34 percent earn the equivalent of $50 to $100 per month; and 20 percent earn $101 to $200.” What an achievement! https://t.co/rLa7OYYJeb https://t.co/Qph0zFgl6V— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 25, 2020
Revealing & instructive juxtaposition: Bernie, in 24 hours, has gone out of his way to praise the repressive Cuban Castro regime — while announcing that he cannot countenance AIPAC, a mainstream, bipartisan pro-Israel organization. While Israeli civilians are under rocket attack.— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 24, 2020
CUBAN AMERICAN OUTRAGE at @BernieSanders!!— Rey Anthony (@ReyAnthonyFL) February 29, 2020
MASSIVE #MIAMI rally supporting @realDonaldTrump sanctions towards Castro dictatorship in #Cuba 🇨🇺🇺🇸#MAGA #KAG 🇺🇸🇨🇺🇺🇸🇨🇺🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/GNYGk5vlpj
I don't speak Spanish, but it looks like the Democrats are screwed. pic.twitter.com/oYFGd9SUBw— Joel Fischer (@JFNYC1) February 28, 2020
NEW from me:— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 4, 2020
Alan Gross, an American who was a prisoner in Cuba, said that when Sen. Bernie Sanders visited him behind bars, the senator commended the Communist country, saying:
"I don't know what's so wrong with this country." https://t.co/JSc98XlPn1
When Sanders visited Gross in a Cuban prison, he brought a copy of The Atlantic magazine.— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 4, 2020
Graeme posits what the cover of that magazine might have been based on the time:https://t.co/HWdGWQkeJn
Gross spent 1,841 days in detention, losing five teeth and over 100 pounds. He also said interrogators threatened to pull out his fingernails and to hang him.— Tim Mak (@timkmak) March 4, 2020
In prison pajamas, he met with the Congressional delegation. Sanders was mostly silent until he blurted out at the end.
Democrats are about to nominate a Communist for President.— Benny (@bennyjohnson) February 4, 2020
This is an abomination.
Before any of you lecture me about how great socialism/communism is - take a quick 20 minute flight from Miami to Cuba.
I did.
Everything you think you know about Cuba is a lie.
Here is the reality pic.twitter.com/ALmxf0Favi
Fidel Castro launched a literacy program after seizing power.— Rep. Jody Hice (@CongressmanHice) February 26, 2020
Why?
So the people could read his political propaganda and be indoctrinated into Communism.
Even today, schools and media outlets are state-run and push a pro-government message.
This is the Left's dream.
How did the Democratic Party allow a Socialist with an affinity for Communist governments to dominate its ranks? It’s a cosmic joke.— The Middle (@TheMiddle123) February 26, 2020
This Marxist movement has been brewing for a long time.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) February 26, 2020
How Obama and ACORN are Sabotaging America.
America’s Community Organizer-in-Chief used to, and continues to collaborate with, ACORN–the nation’s best known urban terrorist group. [6/9/2011]https://t.co/AdjwStkPb9
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