Real socialists don't want fake socialist, real communist Bernie Sanders
Fake Democrat Bernie Sanders (a fake independent from Vermont who caucuses with whoever or whatever will have him) is also a fake socialist. Democrats in Florida have awakened to this basic understanding and are suing to keep him off the ballot there using this sensible and clear reasoning: "because he's not a member of the party."
The lawsuit, which was filed this week in Leon County, argues that Mr. Sanders of Vermont is an independent and thus ineligible for the March 17 primary."Florida is a closed primary state, yet here we have someone who is an independent on the Democratic ballot," Karen Gievers, attorney for the two plaintiffs, told Politico for a report filed Tuesday. "You can't be an independent and be a member of the party."
Of course Sanders is no independent, either; he's a proud communist — go Cuba! go Venezuela! and of course yay USSR for honeymooning! which for him were nice places to visit but (alas! for us) he doesn't want to live there. Because the U.S. of A. — boo! — is the only place he could thrive, let alone survive.
While he self-labels, or identifies, to use a woke term, as a "Democratic Socialist," even the socialists — democratic or not — don't want him. According to an article in the Washington Free Beacon published four years ago, prior to his first attempt at winning the Democratic presidential nomination:
Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for "sitting around and talking" about politics instead of working, according to a forthcoming book ... We Are As Gods by Kate Daloz[.]
Yes, that certainly sums up the current Democratic presidential frontrunner — even the socialists don't want him because even socialism demands work instead of climate change hot air theorizing. And he hasn't changed in the nearly 50 years since he first visited the commune, Myrtle Hill, in Vermont as a 30-year-old who had never collected a paycheck. (And you think today's Millennials are bad!)
Sanders spent his time at Myrtle Hill in "endless political discussion," according to Deloz.Sanders' idle chatter did not endear him with some of the commune's residents, who did the backbreaking labor of running the place. Daloz writes that one resident, Craig, "resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie's orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day."Sanders was eventually asked to leave. "When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle's allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on," Daloz writes.
Like other idealistic, unrealistic ventures of this kind, the commune itself eventually disintegrated and broke up as real life intruded and members more or less matured. More or less. Sanders, who never matured, never learned from reality, remained in Vermont where he continues to live off the labor of others with his talk — amazingly, with their permission. He was elected mayor of Burlington, then senator from Vermont.
And now, although he is not a Democrat, he is once again trying to win the Democratic nomination for president. Once again with their permission. It tells you a lot about the state of the Democratic Party. Even years ago, the kiddie socialists knew better.
Image: Phil Roeder via Flickr.
That baggage in Bernie's closet is bulging the closet door
Bernie Sanders thunders about 'corruption' ... and gives Joe Biden a pass
That baggage in Bernie's closet is bulging the closet door
Bernie Sanders, who demonstrated his appeal to Latino voters in Nevada by winning 53% of their votes, seems impervious to any critical examination of his actual record.
But it turns out his political closet is bulging with anti-Latino secrets — not the Castro kind, but the kind that might just vaporize his support as word gets out.
Here's Tucker Carlson with just a whiff of what's brewing:
Carlson points out that Sanders was against illegal immigration before he was for it and essentially understood that helping the working class here might just mean not importing competition from abroad to drive their wages down. An illegal alien from Honduras, for instance, often consents to earning starvation wages and living in a room with 12 other people in some place like Lancaster, Calif., simply because his dollars earned can be converted to a princely living when sent back home. The effect on the American workers? Wages driven downward to compete with the illegally present new entrants. Too bad about those guys.
Sanders knew this, until he didn't. Carlson points out that this is a major flipflop in Sanders' position, given that he now supports open borders, and not just open borders, but free health care, free college, and free everything else to all comers who manage to sneak past the border guards he incidentally wishes to abolish. And sure enough, now that he's the Democratic frontrunner, riding in on his wave of Latino support.
Fine and dandy, maybe they forgive him that or, at least as likely, don't know and don't care. Maybe they don't believe that this would drive their own wages to Guatemalan levels, not realizing that they're now in an argument with math.
But there's more to it than just a Sanders flip-flop to an open-borders position as a pander to the Latino vote.
Sanders, according to Townhall's Guy Benson, who found some interesting opposition research dug up by an anti-Sanders #NeverTrump, has a mean streak when it comes to Latinos.
In one of the very few things he ever did legislatively (and he did very little, indeed), Sanders co-sponsored a bill to dump Vermont's and Maine's toxic nuclear waste onto a little Latino Texas town against the locals' wishes, giving them the stiff arm when they protested and turning a tidy profit for his wife, who's still drawing checks. Benson writes:
Out of pure curiosity, I clicked the link in one of his tweets, and...wow:(1) In 1998, then-Rep. Sanders cosponsored a bill that would allow Vermont and Maine to dump their nuclear waste in a poor and largely Latino town in Texas called Sierra Blanca.(2) A Texas Observer article in 1998 covered protestors from Sierra Blanca confronting Rep. Sanders and being given the stiff arm. The story's headline was "Sanders to Sierra Blanca: Drop Dead." Sanders even rebuffed an offer to visit Sierra Blanca, telling its residents, "Absolutely not. I'm gonna be running for re-election in the state of Vermont."(3) Liberal hero Paul Wellstone—an actual progressive Democrat—gave a speech on the Senate floor calling this dump "environmental racism." Former Texas Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes called Sanders actions "insanely callous."(4) After Congress approved the proposal, environmental regulators rejected the Sierra Blanca site. But a different site in Andrews County, Texas gained approval a few years later and Vermont/Texas maintain an interstate waste agreement.(5) In 2016, Sanders' tax returns revealed that as of 2014 Jane Sanders was still drawing a small salary as an alternate commissioner for the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission as part of the agreement with Vermont that her husband pushed.
He hasn't made any amends or flip-flops on that one, and his wife is still drawing checks, maybe hoping no one notices.
It goes to show the essential heartlessness of socialism in action, as checks and balances are erased in a system of all power going to the government, and people, in the name of "the people," count for nothing, particularly if they get in the way with protests.
That's a pretty good skeleton from Sanders's closet for anyone, but it ought to end Latino support for Sanders in particular, unless these Sanders Latinos actually like it. Since establishment Democrats now say they will do anything to stop Sanders from becoming the Democratic nominee, even if it means destroying their own party, one can be fairly sure that these kinds of stories are going to be getting out, courtesy of their mainstream media allies, pretty soon.
Good.
PHONY “POPULIST” BERNIE SANDERS
For all of Bernie Sanders talk about leading “political revolution” against the “billionaire class,” Sanders backed Clinton, a shill of Wall Street and the Pentagon, who has nothing but contempt for the tens of millions of workers devastated by the 2008 financial crash and Obama’s pro-corporate policies.
MILLIONAIRE PHONY SOCIALISM BERNIE’S LA RAZA SOCIALISM to keep the “cheap” labor flowing into our jobs
Bernie supports immigration reform that will address the legal status of the 11 million undocumented people (EXCEPT THERE ARE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE ALREADY) in our country, protect American jobs by way of visa reform, secure the border, and protect undocumented workers from labor exploitation.
The website states that Sanders supports a pathway to citizenship for all people who are in the United States illegally, the Dream Act, “Visa reform” and border security “without building a fence.”
Sanders also voted for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013 that would have given amnesty to all of the people in the United States illegally.
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are a massive burden on American taxpayers.
BERNIE SANDERS MAKES DIRECT APPEAL TO RUST BELT MIDDLE-AMERICA… but fails to tell them he wants amnesty for 40 million looting Mexicans so they can bring up the rest of their families and vote Democrat for more.
Bernie Sanders thunders about 'corruption' ... and gives Joe Biden a pass
Bernie Sanders is famous for railing about billionaires as corrupt. He thunders about corruption, positioning himself as the austere but honest socialist, the guy who sets no store on having tons of money the way those notorious billionaires do.
You don't need that many choices of deodorant, see. His socialism of yeoman simplicity is what makes him supposedly honest and fair.
Or at least that's the message he's got all over his website as he tries to downplay his socialism and up-play his probity. See, he may be socialist and all, but he's Mr. Clean:
"The corruption is out there," his video headline thunders, attempting to halt the Republican tax cut a couple years ago, calling it "corrupt." He even ran photos of Red Chinese soldiers and Vladimir Putin in his video to argue that the tax cut that has since lifted the entire American economy is actually corruption.
This corruption is so blatant, it's no longer seen as remarkable. Just the other day, the lead sentence in a New York Times story about Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson was this: 'The return on investment for many of the Republican Party's biggest political patrons has been less than impressive this year.' The idea that political donors expect a specific policy result in exchange for their contribution is the very definition of corruption. It is right now, absolutely out there in the open. It is no longer even seen as scandalous. This sort of corruption is common among authoritarian regimes...
During a portion of an interview with CBS News released on Monday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pushed back on an op-ed from Sanders supporter and Fordham Law Associate Professor Zephyr Teachout that said 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden “has a big corruption problem and it makes him a weak candidate.” Sanders stated that it is “absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way.”
Sanders said, “Joe Biden is a friend of mine. I’ve known him for many, many years. He’s a very decent guy. Joe and I have strong disagreements on a number of issues, and we’ll argue those disagreements out. But it is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way.”
Which is extremely bizarre stuff, given that the average Joe on the street can see that Biden's son Hunter turning up in country after country that he knows nothing about on the heels of Joe's vice presidential visits, somehow managed to end up with $80,000 a month paychecks from corrupt energy companies and more, just by following old dad with his satchel out wherever he went.
His remarks come on the heels of the release of Peter Schweizer's new book which showcases Biden family corruption in spades. Biden didn't just benefit ne'er-do-well Hunter during his political terms, Schweizer unveils and airtight case showing that Biden benefitted five family members, using his political office.
There's a reason Democrats don't want any Biden witnesses called during the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of President Trump, which in fact was premised on Trump's investigation of House Biden corruption.
Now Bernie's denying it? One can probably conclude a couple of things from this ridiculous barefaced lie about Biden's probity. One, Sanders was also named as a pocket-liner in Schweizer's book, and he's just as dirty as Biden.
Two, Sanders is essentially unserious when he talks about ending corruption. He's got no intention of ending the kind of corruption that made Hunter Biden's life such a partyfest. If anything, he wants more of it. And he's probably protecting himself.
This paints one heck of a hypocritical picture and it's about time some enterprising reporter called him on it.
A new Gilded Age has emerged in America — a 21st century version.
The wealth of the top 1% of Americans has grown dramatically in the past four decades, squeezing both the middle class and the poor. This is in sharp contrast to Europe and Asia, where the wealth of the 1% has grown at a more constrained pace.
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