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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