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IDK what the Sanders family has, I only see public info about him. Anyway, the point is Sanders, unlike many others, wasn't born with a golden spoon in the mouth. And it seems that Sanders with his $3M is a bigger problem for some than Musk and others with their billions often made in a dubious way.

A typical senator doesn't accomplish jack shit. Remember how for eons the Senate was rulled by Moscow Mitch who would allow vote only about things like tax cut for the rich?

Remember his stump speech used to be "millionaires and billionaires"? And with the money he made running in 2016 he became a millionaire and dropped it from his speeches. FFS.

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He has a point.

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Tax the rich or eat them. Time to stop this BS.

One of the dumbest people in Congress.

Do something, Bernie!! Always standing around, musing.

He’s not wrong, but it would carry more weight if it wasn’t coming from a three home owning crusty apparatchik.

well yes we can still say it. i'm not the one who's excusing the oligarchy in this country

Duh, Bernie is just now warning about this. Bernie, you are late to the prom.

he is correct

The blame is entirely on the DNC. Bernie could've won against trump in 2016. But instead, the corporate neolib elements of the democrat party rallied against him and put Hillary of all people. Bernie is not at fault. Blame the democrats.

And we have had one for many decades. The rich always influence Republican presidents.

Always throws in a defense of Russia.. weird

Comments here are rich, and are exemplary of why Democrats keep losing. "Shut up about the Economy! Biden is doing great!!" - The Losing Party. I remember you people doing this same losing strategy in 2016. Whatever Party opposes the status quo wins.

Yes, we absolutely will be there with the new administration.

We sure do, and with the next round of Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy, we will definitely have an oligarchy.

If you agree, don't just share on this forum. Tell someone elected and in office. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com

Decades of pretty words, and nothing to show for it. Retire.

Since the 19th century, yes

Putin doesn’t have an oligarchy in that sense. The rich businessmen do what they are told, their wealth is kept on sufferance, at the boss’s whim.

Rev. Bernie Sanders spreading the good and honest truth!

Bernie with the truth.

I truly do not understand how people hate this man. Doesn’t take corporate money, had the same policies for decades, cares about the working class and human rights. The only thing I can see is he dared challenge queen Hillary and that seems to bother some people!

Damn Bernie pissed me off agreeing with that bastard musk about cutting spending with DOGE! He said they need to cut spending in Washington, but he knows damn well that it's to cut funding for the people! I've loved Bernie since the early 90s. He's been right on everything,but nothing is fixed!

Nailed it.

And that's the attitude: That it's THEIR party and we should feel lucky to vote for them.

He’s been saying it and no one has been listening !

seems like we have had an oligarchic semi-democracy now moving into oligarchic dictatorship. sure hope I'm wrong.

Yes. FDR was rich. The history of the new deal is very interesting. The USA almost became a communist country.

Thank you. Came here to say the same.

Right... the problem with Sanders is this; he just talks. We know it sucks, but talking into the void doesn't help. If Sander's wants to change this dictatorship, it will take more than words. Bernie... Stop Pretending.

Blah, blah, blah... Talk, talk, talk... Words, words, words. News Flash... the time for words has come and gone. #BlueCrew #USToo #NotMyPresident

Except they can’t deport him because he knows too many secrets. They should take his companies.

When Justice fails, America fails 2024 Election needs investigation 8yrs Election crimes w/ Russia

YES! He's been against wealth inequality for the entirety of his political career! He's pissed @ moderate democrats, so he's trying to take down the entire left to make a 3rd party! Which i want a viable 3rd party but if we're owned and a lot of us dead, it'll be slightly too late.

Bernie was absolutely wrong

Yes, he pointed out the enormous Pentagon and defense budget that supplies the military industrial complex. I have zero issues with that, nor should anyone else but that's not my call. I'm familiar with how Oligarchs operate, I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me here?

Absolutely spot on

Then they will no opposition to their plans. And we will be blindsided. They shouldn’t encourage him, they should babysit him.

He is normalizing musk. Doge is not a department. Musk was not elected. Trump is not even in office. NO ONE should be talking to musk. You want to make cuts??? Do it without involving Doge

Yep 🫤 Thanks maga

bernie's getting a little sluggish on the uptake

Damn right. We are becoming the very place we reviled for decades. Putin has succeeded in using our freedom of speech to mold our nation into a carbon copy of Russia with rampant disinformation. It cost him pennies and he had fun doing it. The joke is on us.

Oh my face! Leopards eats face

He's right

Preach!!!

You're supposed to be watching a preschool play...

Sad beyond words.

The Oligarch wars in 2025 will be entertaining if nothing else.

What can we do to encourage the Oligarch wars? We know they are coming so lets get started pitting these self-serving twits against each other.

I hate him.

Russian oligarchs and politicians stole their country to create their oligarchy. America elected theirs.

So Bernie's saying we're less 'Land of the Free' and more 'Game of Thrones', with a touch of The Godfather? Let's just hope we're not heading for a Red Wedding or an offer we can't refuse, huh?

Sorry, but Bernie walked it straight into our house

Too bad 100% of Trumpers don’t know what that word means. Or care.

Like his endorsement of RFK? Rebuild the middle class and give them polio.

Well he’s not wrong.

I mean we've literally had an oligarchic aristocracy since this nation's founding.

They won't lose their democracy , we have to fight back to protect it !

I couldn’t agree more and I’m terrified 🤬😢

Putin is a dictator. His lackies do his bidding. His opponents fall out of windows. Russia is not an oligarchy. Sorry Bernie. #uspoli

We, the west, have had an oligarchy for decades, it’s just our oligarchs are jealous of those in Russia. Our oligarchs what what they have.

We've had a soft oligarchy for 30+ years. Yes, it's become more obvious with Trump. But look at the legislation and who it benefits and it's clear that nothing is changing but the wealthy's visibility.

I see much more blow back from people here than from the Democrat office holders. I cannot understand why there are Democrat Congress members actually sucking up to Trump. Maybe they believe his ‘retribution’ promise and their cowardice has overcome their integrity. 🤷‍♀️

Bernie is spot on, but how do we avoid his words becoming toothless?

Bernie, you tried to normalize Elon in a Twitter post. Fuck off!

We fell into it too easily. Once the SCOTUS was adequately bribed, we were manipulated into warfare over religion rather than the real divide; class warfare between the obscenely rich and the rest of US. Religion is a powerful motivator.

By the way, he is right.

The guy rallying against Citizens United helped install an oligarchy…?

He is right.

Sadly a lot of voters on the left seem to like oligarchy. Nobody can give them as much as an oligarch can promise and nobody on the center-left will give them permission to hate a group of people openly.

The man talks a lot of sense

Not really an eye-opener. This has been going on for a long time now. Only difference: Putin controls his oligarchs and they know it. Trump thinks he control his oligarchs and he’s wrong Oligarchs think they control Trump and they’re wrong. Welcome to powder keg U.S.A.

Got a plan, Bern?

My view is to be hypercritical of the Trump. One slight misstep. He needs to toe the line. We need to put the energy we put into sporting events into saving our democracy and protest. Yes it is again time to protest for our own rights!

And folks like him are still all talk and no action.

Let’s see, Bernie campaigned in 2016 on raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Most politicians said “Pie in the sky” What is the minimum wage in NJ now? $15 an hour. During the pandemic Bernie was the one who got the $600 bump in unemployment benefits. You all have short term memory problems

Bernie tells the truth.

True Bernie I wish other people could see this

We’ve seen this on a smaller scale in the UK with Russian backed Brexit / Russian oligarchs / Johnson & the Tories making multi-millionaires of their donors and chums off the back of PPE Covid contracts. The Tories, esp Johnson, Rees Mogg, etc REALLY admired what Putin had done with Russia.

Agree

No

Eh, we are a lot to blame thinking a failed game show host could win the presidency. She was right about everything she screamed at us but we never listened.

But he endorsed her as a candidate. His own supporters turned on him like rabid dogs.

cry more hillarybot. She lost because she is awful.

Im sorry you can't accept the truth.

Challenge it if you like but I guess I should tell you up front, it WILL go badly for you, if you do.

Hilary dead-Enders like you have to be the most pathetic people in politics

No. He’s not anyone’s president and he’s a shitty senator.

I've been saying this for years. The pieces are almost complete.

Fuck Bernout. He shares some blame for this disaster. When are people gonna learn that if you want a party to change you have to actually join that party and do the work to get it to change? You don't get to whine about them and then demand their funding for your own personal glory bid.

America is going to be a kakastocratic, kleptocratic, despotic oligarchy under trump & NO ONE is talking about OR doing *anything* to investigate the criminal breaches, bomb threats, purges, & more that happened during the election! I'll never vote D again since they won't stick up for America(ns)!

And yet the owners of all of the mainstream media outlets are part of the oligarchy. Of course they bend the knee.

That man is worthless!

And the Russian oligarchs don't even come close to the concentrated capital we have here. And the power to control us that comes with it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

He lost the Latino vote, the Black vote, the Asian vote, the Minority vote. Only people he won were white leftist who are bigots at best. He’s white grievance from the far left much like Trump from the far right. Liberal populism yes, no to white populism, white progressivism, or white liberalism

Hard to miss.