I have to tell you I'm shocked, SHOCKED that a so-called Socialist Man-of-the-people actually wanted to be treated like the upper echelons of the Soviet elites he so admired.

SHOCKED!

From The UK Daily Mail:

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Bernie Sanders demanded a private jet for his 2016 campaign travel for Hillary Clinton, her bitter former staffers revealed in the wake of the Vermont senator's presidential announcement.

'I'm not shocked that while thousands of volunteers braved the heat and cold to knock on doors until their fingers bled in a desperate effort to stop Donald Trump, his Royal Majesty King Bernie Sanders would only deign to leave his plush D.C. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe,' Zac Petkanas, who was the director of rapid response for the Clinton campaign, told Politico.

The staffers were quick to point out Sanders railed against the fossil fuel industry in his campaign announcement video last week.

Bernie and the jets: Socialist hero Sanders demanded the use of a private plane at the cost of $100k when he campaigned for Hillary, claim her bitter ex-staffers who dubbed him 'His Royal Majesty'

And Hillary, Queen High Champion of the Down Trodden, pushed a broken down Greyhound bus filled with baby polar bears and with an overflowing lavatory, by herself, uphill, in a blizzard, to get to her campaign stops without incurring carbon emissions.

What's the surprise? He's a politician - by definition, a professional liar or hypocrite who has a private agenda that only benefits himself.

Socialism, like AOC, is just his way of separating from the heard. (misspelled on purpose)

Isn't that the way most people travel? I'm a little shocked. My private helicopter pilot that takes me to work told me everyone travels that way

Bernie Calls For Socialist "Revolution" In America

Following President Trump's vehement rejection of the socialist uprising in America during his State of The Union address, various members of the Democratic Party's presidential nomination circus have escalated one another's efforts to out-socialism each other - from Wealth Taxes to Green New Deals, with 'free shit' for all in between.

However, everyone's favorite three-home-earning, private-jet-flying socialist, Bernie Sanders has ratcheted his campaign's rhetoric to '11' this morning with an op-ed directly calling for a socialist revolution in America - and based on the majority of Americans' views, he may just get one!



It's Time To Complete The Revolution We Started

authored by Bernie Sanders via The Guardian,

One week ago, when we launched our campaign for president, I asked people from across the country to sign up to be part of an unprecedented grassroots campaign. The response from the American people has been historic.

In six days, more than one million people have answered the call. Americans from every single Congressional district in the country have signed up to help lead a movement that is not only about defeating Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history, but about creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.

This task will not be easy. Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than at any time since the 1920s, and the three wealthiest Americans own more wealth than the bottom half of our country.

Despite relatively low unemployment, millions of people work multiple jobs because they earn starvation wages, 34 millionAmericans have no health insurance, and we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Shamefully, we treat our most vulnerable people with disdain. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major nation and a dysfunctional and unaffordable childcare system. While many Republicans want to cut Social Security, about half of older Americans have no retirement savings.

And, in the midst of all of that, we have a president who is a pathological liar, a fraud, racist, sexist, xenophobe, religious bigot and someone who is moving this country in an authoritarian direction.

To be successful in creating a government and economy that works for the many, we will have to take on powerful special interests that dominate our economic and political life – Wall Street, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the military-industrial-complex, the private-prison industry and multinational corporations. These special interests have extraordinary power, and they will spend enormous sums of money to maintain the status quo and their wealth.

The only way we will defeat Donald Trump and the special interests that support him is with a grassroots movement - the likes of which has never been seen in American history. We must stand together - women and men, black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American, gay and straight, young and old, native born and immigrant - to address the challenges we face as a nation.

At a time when our infrastructure is crumbling and we have an affordable housing crisis, we can create millions of good paying jobs rebuilding our country. Together, we can raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $15 an hour, provide pay equity for women and guarantee all workers paid family and medical leave.

We cannot afford to wait any longer to address the existential threat of climate change. We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels toward energy efficiency and sustainable energy, creating millions of jobs in the process.

While we spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any nation, our health outcomes are worse and life expectancy is in decline. It is time for us to join every other major country and guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege, through a Medicare-for-all program.

Unbelievably, Americans are saddled with $1.5tn in student loan debt and many young people can’t afford the cost of college. We must lower the egregious level of student debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and African Americans are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of white people. Our job is to end the destructive “war on drugs,” eliminate private prisons and cash bail and bring about major police department reform.

Instead of demonizing undocumented immigrants as our current president has done, we should fight for comprehensive immigration reform, a path toward citizenship, immediate legal status for the young people eligible for the DACA program and a humane policy for those at the border who seek asylum.

At a time when women’s rights are under attack at the local, state and federal level, we must defend a woman’s right to control her own body.

To confront the epidemic of gun violence, we need to take on the NRA, expand background checks, end the gun show loophole and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons.

And finally, we must end Trump’s support for authoritarian leaders. We need a foreign policy which focuses on democracy, human rights, world peace, global wealth inequality, climate change and massive corporate tax evasion.

In 2016, our campaign began the political revolution. The ideas we fought for, which then were considered “radical” or “extreme,” are now supported by a majority of Americans. Now, it is time to defeat Donald Trump, complete that revolution and implement the vision we fought for.

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Be afraid America.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...t-revolution-america

Did 'em a lot of good, didn't it?*s*

Bernie and the Jets....


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All these things that are now coming out about Sanders, including some 30+ year old video of him praising communism, which was put out last week- does anyone have any doubt at all where this stuff is coming from? It's blatantly obvious to me, as is the motivation for the attempts to smear the guy.

It's funny how the media sat on all this information the last time around. You know they knew this and more. You don't even hear about the big fraud investigation with his wife. Nothing.

Well, I would like to see and read the ruckus, if Bernie and Harris have to fight over seat 1A.

Once again, Bernie will NOT be the DEM nominee.
Of course, it would be great if he ran as an INDEPENDENT.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Once again, Bernie will NOT be the DEM nominee.
Of course, it would be great if he ran as an INDEPENDENT.

I'm feeling THAT Bern!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
All these things that are now coming out about Sanders, including some 30+ year old video of him praising communism, which was put out last week- does anyone have any doubt at all where this stuff is coming from? It's blatantly obvious to me, as is the motivation for the attempts to smear the guy.

Bingo. The DNC doesn't want ole Bernie mucking up the primary. They don't want ole Bernie casting a shadow or drawing oxygen away from one of their new and younger shining stars.

Bernie's apparently a mega moron. He didn't learn anything from having been sandbagged in the last DNC primary.

He just wanted to see what living large is all about. A commercial flight might have had him sitting next to a Republican.

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And Hillary, Queen High Champion of the Down Trodden, pushed a broken down Greyhound bus filled with baby polar bears and with an overflowing lavatory, by herself, uphill, in a blizzard, to get to her campaign stops without incurring carbon emissions.

I wonder how much leverage (positive or negative) that it will take to get comrade Bernie to decide to sit the next election out?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
All these things that are now coming out about Sanders, including some 30+ year old video of him praising communism, which was put out last week- does anyone have any doubt at all where this stuff is coming from? It's blatantly obvious to me, as is the motivation for the attempts to smear the guy.

It is what the FBI would call a clue.... well, now days maybe not.

He is on TV right now claiming that he will make medical, education, and child care free. He said a simple tax in wall street will pay his $2.8 trillion dollars a year spending plan, and it will create jobs.

Not sure, but if people are already going to college, kids are already going to child care, and we have Obamacare, how will new jobs be created?

Watching it now. Let’s see:
Make WA D.C. a state
Reparations a good thing
Raise min wage $15.00hr (won’t work; everything else increases in price)
Free college
Guaranteed health care for all.
Leave Venezuela alone

Sounds like a recipe for a looong recession.

Bernie doesn't want to be president, he wants to be dictator. Probably even has a few surplus general uniforms he got from a Gaddafi going out business sale he struts around in on the weekends.