Meme - "When Bernie makes it to a Trillion dollars due to inflation he helped cause
FIGHT Quadrillionaires"
Bernie Sanders on X - "I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people."
Enguerrand VII de Coucy on X - "Making a ruckus over introducing stupid bills that’ll never pass is all Bernie does. In all his time in Congress Bernie’s only successfully passed 3 bills into law, 2 of which were for renaming post office branches in Vermont. The last successful bill he introduced was in 2013"
Bernie Sanders on X - "U.S. Oligarchy - 2025: Elon Musk owns as much wealth as the bottom 53% of U.S households. The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 90%. Real weekly wages are $30 lower than 52 years ago. 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Yes. We can do better than that."
Scott Adams on X - "I would measure how much wealth Musk created that never existed before. Then I'd calculate what percentage of that wealth he kept. Then I'd figure out what percentage of it he spent on his own lifestyle versus paid in taxes. Then I'd calculate the incomes of the employees of his companies and their impact on the economy. Then I'd look at the societal benefits of his companies because it's not all about cash. Then I'd compare to the benefits Bernie Sanders brought to America. (Mostly complaining.)"
Meme - Arthur MacWaters: "Capitalism is a system so good that even the socialists can become millionaires"
Bernie Sanders: "You want to keep the minimum wage low, and give tax breaks to millionaires, @realDonaldTrump, that is not what makes America great." - Not a millionaire
Bernie Sanders: "Are we comfortable to see a huge increase in millionaires and billionaires but have more people living in poverty than ever? I know I'm not." - Not a millionaire
Bernie Sanders: "Are we comfortable as a nation to see a huge increase in millionaires and billionaires but have more people living in poverty than ever?" - Not a millionaire
Bernie Sanders: "Billionaires should not exist." - MILLIONAIRE!
Meme - Bernie Sanders: "I USED CAPITALISM TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE WHO OWNS MULTIPLE HOMES. THEN I USED SOCIALISM TO BECOME POPULAR WITH LAZY AND ENTITLED LEFTISTS"
Meme - Bernie Sanders: "Claims to be a socialist.
Sells $95 tickets for his "It's Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism" book tour.
Owns three houses worth over $2 million.
LITERALLY Got kicked out of a commune for being too lazy."
Bernie Sanders Spent $221K on Private Jets Amid 'Fighting Oligarchy' Tour - "The revelation is just the latest contrast between his socialist rhetoric and his millionaire lifestyle. The Vermont senator used to rail against "millionaires and billionaires" in his speeches denouncing oligarchy—until he became a millionaire himself shortly before his 2020 presidential campaign, at which point he trained his fire on "billionaires." During that campaign, fellow candidate Michael Bloomberg mocked Sanders for amassing wealth while preaching socialism for the masses. "The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses," Bloomberg said in a 2020 debate... The Vermont senator has been joined by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), who usually introduces him at the events. Ocasio-Cortez, for her part, was spotted flying first-class to one of the rallies in Las Vegas last month."
Bernie Sanders Proposes Taxing Income Over $1 Billion At 100% And Urges It's Time To Make 'Greedy Billionaires' Pay Their Fair Share
Clearly, if your marginal tax rate is 100%, that will incentivise you to earn more money and generate more tax revenue. Socialists are really intelligent
More Perfect Union on X - "BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing a bill to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half. A chunk of the money would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K."
Rock Chartrand🤑 on X - "If lifting the poor were the focus, you’d see emphasis on production and mobility. When confiscation comes first, punishment is the point. Halving fortunes signals that success is politically conditional. And when the payout maps neatly onto a voting bloc, it’s fair to question whether this is compassion or coalition math."
Meme - Geepers808 @GeepersNFT: "Oligarchy is a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. Bernie has been in congress so long isn't he describing himself and other lifetime politicians like him."
"YOUR HOUSE UNDER SOCIALISM *slum*
YOUR REPRESENTATIVE'S HOUSE UNDER SOCIALISM *mansion*"
Bernie Sanders: Is America Ready for President Noam Chomsky? | National Review - "Asked in a 60 Minutes interview about old statements praising Fidel Castro’s supposed achievements in health care and education, Sanders stayed true to himself... No, literacy programs aren’t a bad thing, but they usually don’t require seizing power in a violent revolution, jailing and killing political opponents, seizing private property, or outlawing the free press. Teaching children to read is something that happens in free societies, too. That Bernie continues to believe a literacy program is some kind of recommendation for a regime that has otherwise oppressed and immiserated its people for decades is a sign of his skewed view of what’s important and just for a polity... The Left has nonetheless always viewed Fidel Castro as some kind of social worker who happened to take and hold power — or “come to office,” as Sanders delicately puts it — via force. Back in 1989, Sanders wrote, “Cuba — the one country in the entire region that has no hunger, is educating all of its children and is providing high-quality, free health care — is hated with a passion by the Democrats as much as Republicans.” Besides the moral obtuseness of arguments like this, the factual basis for such claims is dubious. Cuba was already doing well on measures of health care and education before the revolution. By one estimate, Cuba’s per capita income in 1955 was about half that of the most advanced Western countries and on par with Italy’s. By 2000, after the collapse of the Soviet Union that had provided Cuba an economic crutch for so long, Cuba’s per capita income was half what it had been in 1955. Cuba went from being a leader in Latin America on key economic measures to a laggard by the time Castro was done with it. The Washington Post has noted that “in terms of GDP, capital formation, industrial production and key measures such as cars per person, Cuba plummeted from the top ranks to as low as 20th place.” Bernie’s perspective on Cuba isn’t an outlier. It is characteristic of his worldview that has a sympathy for America’s enemies, at least if they are Communist or Islamist; that assumes the worst of the United States; and that opposes nearly all U.S. military interventions as misbegotten or malign. (Sanders voted for the Afghanistan War after September 11 and now regrets even that vote.) Electing Bernie Sanders would be almost indistinguishable from putting the late radical historian Howard Zinn, or the America-loathing linguist Noam Chomsky, or the tendentious left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore in charge of American foreign policy. The country would be in the hands of an opponent of its power with no faith in its goodness. Bernie would make Barack Obama’s overly solicitous attitude toward our enemies and Donald Trump’s bizarrely warm statements about foreign dictators look like American foreign-policy orthodoxy by comparison. There is almost no enemy of the United States that wouldn’t be heartened by a Sanders victory and see it as an opportunity to make gains at the expense of the United States and its allies. If his decades-long track record is any indication, Sanders would be inclined to make excuses for our adversaries and look on the bright side of their repression and rapine."
From 2020
Bernie Sanders on X - "Jeff Bezos is seeking $100 billion to put robots into factories. Millions of manufacturing jobs — GONE. Driverless vehicle companies are expanding rapidly. Millions of transportation jobs — truckers, cab drivers, Uber drivers — GONE. We are not ready for what’s coming."
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "I couldn’t help but notice that Senator Sanders chose to use electric lights. Millions of lighting jobs — GONE: lamplighters, linkboys, wick-trimmers, candle-snuffers, tallow chandlers, wax chandlers, spermaceti refiners, whale oil renderers, harpooners, whaling coopers, gas mantle makers, gas fitters, gas-meter readers, kerosene lamp makers, lamp shade fitters, gasolier makers, lamp-chimney sweeps, lamp-chimney glassblowers, oil-lamp fillers, dairymen’s lamp-boys, mine candlemen, miners’ tallow-dip makers, pit-lamp keepers, theater limelight operators, theater gasmen, Drummond-light operators, calcium oxide cylinder suppliers, Argand-lamp lighthouse keepers, wick-spinners, wick-weavers, rushlight makers, beeswax taper makers, candle moulders, candle dippers, bayberry wax gatherers, taper-stand makers, hand-lantern makers, bull’s-eye lantern makers, ships’ lamp trimmers, railway lamp-men, signal-lamp lighters, lantern-bearing watchmen, night-soil men, knockers-up, match girls, white phosphorus match dippers, match-box makers, fusee makers, vesta makers, flint-and-steel makers, tinderbox makers, lamp-cleaning charwomen."
Was Bernie Sanders America’s Corbyn? - "The very success of Corbyn and Sanders as coalition builders uniting the left contained the seeds of their defeat. The reason is simple—all of the various factions of the left put together make up a minority of the electorate, in both Britain and the United States. To win a general election, a party of the left must appeal to nonleftists. But this will not happen if some of the elements of the left-wing coalition repel nonleftist voters. In the United States as in Britain, it can be argued, there are three lefts: the labor left, the socialist left, and what has come to be known as the woke left. These are entirely different movements, with different worldviews, constituencies, and histories... Of the three lefts, the only one that has ever had broad popular support in modern industrial democracies is the labor left. Its traditional agenda—higher wages for poorly paid workers, decent working conditions, affordable health care and other necessary services, adequate retirement income—is popular among many voters on the right side of the political spectrum as well as in the center and on the left. Indeed, polls showed widespread public support for many of the economic proposals of both Sanders and Corbyn. What did Corbyn in, and what may have already done Sanders in, are the other two lefts: the socialist left and the woke left, since neither has significant support in the electorate. Foregrounding the obsessions of these noisy but tiny movements by denouncing “capitalism” as such or devoting a disproportionate amount of attention to issues involving the minuscule portion of the population that is transgender, drives off voters who are not socialists and who do not share the fad-driven woke culture of a portion of the highly educated elites of the United States and Britain... The Sanders campaign was too odd for most black American Democratic primary voters, who are far from being conservatives, no matter what some embittered white hipsters claim in the aftermath of their hero’s defeat. Here the difference between Sanders in 2016 and Sanders in 2020 is instructive: In 2016, Sanders did relatively well among rural and white working-class voters, because he campaigned on classic labor-left issues, some of them shared with Trump, like protection of American manufacturing from unfair competition with low-wage foreign workers. In his first presidential campaign, Sanders was criticized by the woke left for “class reductionism” and neglect of race and gender, and his followers were caricatured as anti-black, misogynist “Bernie bros.” Sanders was also denounced for sharing the labor left’s traditional worry that mass immigration would undermine worker bargaining power with employers. In 2020, in contrast, Sanders engaged in an arms race with the other major progressive candidate, Elizabeth Warren, to ingratiate himself with the various groupuscules and coteries of the woke left. Sanders reversed himself on immigration and adopted the woke left’s hostility to any effective enforcement of immigration laws. He uncritically endorsed the propaganda of the crackpot fringes of the climate change movement, claiming that if elected he would outlaw fracking, prosecute oil and gas company executives as criminals, and transition to wholly renewable energy in a decade, something that no credible engineer or physicist believes to be possible. To his discredit, even though he is the regular victim of Russia-baiting tactics by his neoliberal and conservative critics, he even repeated the false claim that Vladimir Putin and his army of Russian trolls had swung the U.S. presidential election from Clinton to Trump and threatened to control American democracy. The result? By Super Tuesday, the Bernie Sanders who could present himself as the rumpled, avuncular avatar of common sense and the tribune of working-class people of all regions and views had been replaced by a politician who, like his rival Warren, seemed to be competing to win college campuses and hipster havens like Brooklyn, Oakland, and Takoma Park. On Super Tuesday, Biden defeated Sanders in rural areas, small towns, and suburbs. Meanwhile, the wave of youthful leftist voters who were supposed to be inspired by Sanders to go to the polls did not materialize... Creative politicians on the right, like Boris Johnson in Britain and Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio in the United States, may be able to incorporate elements of the labor left agenda into a new conservatism that is at the same time patriotic and pro-business. If they do, then the choice of Corbyn and Sanders to embrace, rather than distance, themselves from the loud but numerically insignificant socialist left and woke left in hindsight will seem even more misguided."
The Futility of Bernie Sanders - "He isn’t like the socialists whom we know from other countries, where this kind of politics is much more common than it is in the United States. Socialist politicians usually emerge from powerful social movements like the old labor movement or from political parties like the Labour Party in the United Kingdom or the Social Democrats in Germany. Sanders does not come out of, nor has he done anything to build, a significant social movement. That wouldn’t be an easy task in the United States today; in any case, it hasn’t been his task. He has, moreover, never been a member of a political party—not even of the Democratic Party whose nomination he is now seeking. He has never attempted to create a democratic socialist caucus within the party. For all the enthusiasm he has generated, he has no organized, cohesive social or political force behind his candidacy. If he were elected, it is hard to see how he could enact any part of his announced program. Several conservative writers have said it: Sanders is best understood as a left populist. He stands to the Democratic Party today very much like Trump stood to the Republican Party in 2016... he stands in the political arena without the political support necessary to do that or even to begin to do that. He claims to be leading a movement. Look closely: He is alone with his excited followers... Like any populist politician, Sanders is promising many things that he must know he can’t deliver. Nor has he been willing (unlike Elizabeth Warren, who is more engaged in party politics) to hint at the kinds of compromises he might be prepared to make—to win or to govern. His most fervent followers sound very much like sectarian leftists who regard any compromise, any deviation from the “progressive” program, as a betrayal... He was not able anywhere to increase the number of people voting. He could not do what victorious populists have to do: pull new people, previously passive and voiceless people, into the electorate. His numbers, even among the young, compare poorly with those of Obama in his first run in 2008. He is (maybe we should be grateful) a revolutionary manqué... The party of the New Deal is a useful model. It required the hard work of politicians inside the party, like Robert F. Wagner of New York and Frank Murphy of Michigan, and of labor organizers like the Reuther brothers working outside. The truth about Sanders is that he doesn’t look anything like those necessary people."
Meme - Elon: "$1 TRILLION: *built on* TESLA ELECTRIC CAR, STARLINK SATELLITE, ROBOT, SPACEX ROCKET"
HE BUILT THINGS.
Burnie: *Speech 1995, Speech 2005, Speech 2015, Speech 2025*
HE COMPLAINED ABOUT THINGS."
Meme - Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders: "Elon Musk's rise to trillionaire status is not a time to celebrate. It's a call to action to take on the unprecedented income and wealth inequality that now exists and the greed and power of a ruling class that is destroying the social fabric of America. Our democracy cannot survive when one man, who contributed $290 million to get Trump elected, becomes $700 billion richer since Trump's election. Our economy cannot sustain itself when one man owns more wealth than the bottom half of our society, when 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major nation and when our kids will have a lower standard of living than their parents. This is not just about wealth. It's about power. Musk and his fellow Oligarchs want it ALL. Together, we must fight back. We can and must create an economy and a government that works for all of us, not just Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires."
Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas: "Elon Musk creates 4400 millionaires to include hundreds of working-class people in one IPO. Bernie has created 1 millionaire. Himself. Stop listening to socialists. They don't know how to create wealth, only how to steal it."
Handre on X - "Bernie Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988. Yaroslavl, to be exact, a year before the Berlin Wall fell and the whole rotten edifice collapsed under the weight of its own central planning. This is the man who, in 1985, praised the Sandinistas and once said breadlines were a good thing. His exact reasoning: in poor countries the rich get the food and the poor starve, so breadlines mean rationing is at least spreading the misery around. Read that again. He looked at people queuing for hours to receive a government allotment of bread and saw fairness, not failure. Price controls destroy the signal that tells producers what to grow and how much. When the Politburo fixes the price of bread below cost, farmers stop producing, shelves empty, and people line up. A breadline is the visible result. The Soviets ran this experiment for 70 years and killed millions doing it. Sanders saw the wreckage up close in 1988 and still wanted more of it. Now look at the man today. A lakefront property in North Hero, Vermont. A home in Burlington. The democratic socialist who wants to seize your wealth has accumulated his own through book deals and a Senate salary, then locked it down in real estate the way every capitalist does. Sanders understands property rights perfectly well when the property is his. He understands that incentives matter when his own incentives are on the line. The system he condemns is the one that let a man who never held a real private-sector job until his 40s end up owning three homes and lecturing you about greed. He spent his life cheering for the economic order that produced breadlines and gulags, then cashed out under the one that produced grocery stores stocked with 40,000 items. He knows which one works. He just wants you to live under the other one."
