Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."
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Now that every American's identifying and banking information has been recklessly comprimised, I don't think any sitting congrassman will be able to hold their seats. We pay them $174,000 a year to manage our govornment and keep us safe from what's happening rn. Magats will turn on their's too.
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
Looking? Come on, man. Either start doing something that shows "tangible results" or get the hell out of the way so that someone capable can do the job at hand. Over the last nine days, the house has been out of session while the Democracy is sold for parts.
100%.
This has ALWAYS been my biggest complaint about Sanders. He has no constituency. No one collaborates with him. They let him join them, but no one joins him. Where is his signature legislation? Decades in politics but no Sanders policy.
I think Bernie is almost ready to get off his chair, unfold his arms, take his mittens off, roll up his sleeves and get to work writing a harshly worded letter. I hope the letter is the outline of a plan.
He is correct. How do we get the apathetic people who do not pay attention and do not vote to understand this and join us to stop this? How do we reach them? How bad will it have to get to make them pay attention and get angry and join us in this fight for our democracy?
Don’t know Bernie’s plan exactly but please check for #usprotestdates especially if you live in or near a state capital
And indivisible events https://Indivisible.com
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
But that's what the majority of the people voted for. I mean, all this shit is wrong but this is what they wanted and are getting.
Even blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and other minorities. 45% of Gen Z wanted this, and don't forget those expecting U.S. to save Gaza.
Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, he should have unconditionally supported HRC in 2016 as opposed to whining about losing and giving his supporters a reason to sit the election out.
Please @sanders.senate.gov Dems need to can the word “oligarchs”. Dems should use words that everybody understands. Everybody understands “Corporate Billionaires”.
Oh yeah! Everybody is LOOKING at it but so far not one person of importance has bothered to even mention the word, NAZIS. Naive or stupid? You decide. 🤔
He's only been warning publicly about the oligarchy for thirty years; it takes at least fifty to get ideas through democraps' thick skulls to reach their miniscule brains.
Most of them were of course chosen by the oligarchs precisely for that learning disability.
Unless the Democrats find their Trump, their Alex jones we are going to keep losing. As much respect as I have for Bernie he’s part of the reason we are here today! He wants to be their friends and practice civility we are at war with #MAGA we need war time representatives
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
Bernie is right. We are witnessing the rise of oligarchy, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy. Billionaires buy our democracy, Christian nationalists push theocracy, and Trump fuels division. But we are not powerless. Organize. Educate. Vote. Protest.
The fight for democracy is now. We must resist tyranny with truth, justice, and collective action. Stay vigilant. Stay united. The people—not the corrupt elite—will decide our future.
The better and far easier fight for democrat was the 2024 election! We’d be breathing relatively easily if Harris had won. Better late than never, though. Do NOT give up!
You’re right—the 2024 election was a critical battle, but the fight for democracy doesn’t end at the ballot box. We must stay engaged, hold leaders accountable, and resist authoritarian threats every day. Late, but not too late. The people still have power. Keep pushing forward. Never give up!
I have a feeling that putting people on the streets is exactly what FOTUS wants. He has the 'proud boys, Jj6ers are primed to cause problems ........damage enough he can call the military in. You do not want that. Be Creative j/s https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co
You’re right to be cautious authoritarians thrive on chaos to justify crackdowns. But silence and inaction aren’t options either. Resistance must be strategic:
Just be careful
Surround any problem makers
Try to help the military by not getting them involved
Pretty sure they are dreading an illegal order or to go against own citizens
Be very creative j/s
Complaining alone won’t save democracy—but action will. Many ARE fighting back: organizing, protesting, voting, and exposing corruption. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but surrendering guarantees defeat.
Sorry, James. This isn't the rise. That was the last 70 years. This is what happens once the authoritarian, thieving, oligarchs are confident enough in what they've bought, to step out of the shadows.
Now, like in the ‘70s, Americans face a choice: stand up and resist or submit and let Trump’s movement rewrite democracy in their image. The future isn’t written yet. We must fight for it.
Oligarchy is just the rich people in charge if everything and treating everyone else like shit. Kleptocracy is them literally stealing what is ours - our money, our land, property, etc.
I love Bernie but speak in ways average Americans can understand. Musk might control who gets social security or Medicaid payments or hell maybe who gets their tax return. Who knows.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security.
Sanders has been predicting this since he ran for President and now it’s become obviously true. A man ahead of his times. We need to keep listening to him.
What can a Senator do without a majority? He's not in state government so he can't cause Vermont to retaliate like Newsom is.
Just seems odd to lump Bernie in with the Democrats who pushed him aside when he tried to warn us what was coming.
MAGites have no idea the meaning of those words even though they've got a hand-held computer at their disposal. They just don't want to know what those words mean.
“Unprecedented” is the word we heard over and over during the sociopath’s first term. We knew what was going to happen this time yet so many act surprised. That time is over. We expected contingency plans. We get more words. That’s not action.
Propaganda initiated by Tulsi Gabbard when she fled to his campaign. Now look at where she is. A TRUMPER who was a plant.
She played him, he played y’all by being the biggest democratic attacker, and now he’s trying to absolve him self. But we aren’t gonna forget how this began
He’s one of the few that’s speaking up. Where is Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the corporate dems? They’re as quiet as ever bc they only care abt their stocks.
Funny you say that because Sanders actually hurt Harris and Biden. Sanders is no hero. Yes, he is generally on the right side of things, but I don't see him being too effective for our cause or stopping our current mire, and he courts and wins the very type of young men populists that got us here.
That man said he would work with trump quicker than Clinton, quicker than Harris. (He loved him some Biden though). He helped people like Tulsi gain prominence by being anti Democratic Party. He’s just not stupid. He’s speaking pretty words so ppl forget he was anti immigrants long before trump.
The election was stolen from Harris. Republicans made sure millions of votes were not counted and purged. Secular Talk and others have reported on this. Harris should’ve demanded a recount. Now we’re all fighting each other just like they want - divide and conquer.
Naw a lot of leftists helped suppress votes with protesting her every step of the way. Not trump who moved the embassy, but a black woman with no political power but tie breaking in the senate
You are looking at Bernie as a modern politician. He is a socialist; who is represents the working class. His stance is oblivious to political dogma (for the good or the worse). The other two sides present issues with personal wrappers on top of it. Bernie presents it as it is.
Exactly. Bernie and progressive democrats got thrown under the bus by Hillary’s team and now they want us to stand up and fight? I’ll fight but not for them. You didn’t want us then. I stand with the progressives who have not sold out.
This is coming from a fly-on-the-wall observer since America is not my country. Bernie is the most logical choice for the working class and the educated. He refuses to be attached to strings and become a mouthpiece/puppet of the established. Unfortunately, his fight is a losing fight.
the Dems need to hold a press conference daily, as a form of shadow gov't, to keep the public informed. We know trump will gladly KILL ppl (see COVID), & dems must point out the methods he will use. Regrets later won't suffice, they must try to protect the public
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
Until Red State voters show up with pitchforks at their Congressman's office nothing can get done. Until then there will be the Luigi Mangiones hiding in the dark.
Can someone with the know-how organize these Zoom meetings we had during the Harris campaign so we can determine how we'll protest? We can also discuss other matters that entail this train wreck
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He's a big reason why Trump 'won' in 2016. Mediocre, old, wyt guy who keeps hijacking a party he's not even a member of needs to sit tf down and shut tf up.
When half of American adults can only read to 5th grade level, there are too many big words in his statement. They wouldn’t have a clue what he is talking about. New messaging needed by the Dems. Always teach to the lowest educated person in the room.
Thanks to you as well, Bernie. If you didn't jump in front of Hillary, she would win. I blame you the most as you are supposed to be a friend, not putin's stooge. Since then all you tell is hear as blah blah blah.
Yep. Someone ought to be able to say, "This is government by rich pricks, government by mob thugs, government by criminals, we all know Trump is all three."
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
People have failed many times. Folks sat around and did chickenshit when there was over a decade to repeal Citizens United. I knew folks working to get an amendment added to remove CU back in 2012. Everyone else was eating chips and watching films--and gave zero fucks.
I appreciate him saying this. But the average voter has no real connection to those words. Paint a picture. Tell a story that people can understand so they grasp how fucked up this all is.
No, he did not say yes...but he clearly didn't say no...As a strong voice, I had hoped that he would have said NO and encouraged other to do so as well...
I'm pretty sure he is not going to vote for him but I wanted that NO!!
I watch this interview & several times the host asked if he was a no vote for RFK. He said there were some things that he agreed with RFK.
It is my opinion that he could have been a definite no rather than, you will see when I vote. Maybe adamantly was the wrong word? Should have been firmly.
Uh-huh. And we knew this was the plan at least 8 years ago and the reaction is the same, appear on news shows and whine, "we have here a President who is lawless..." YEAH. WE KNOW. NOW DO SOMETHING.
Most Americans do not know words ending in -archy, -ism, -ocracy. They have a 6th grade level of education. Hitler they know and tie things to movies. I hate that I know this, but teaching them the horror is telling them this is how the Walking Dead starts and it will help them understand better.
We need more than Bernie complaining. How about suggesting what to do about it? When people don't feel that they can trust the government to protect them, our society will break down into violent tribes. We are months away from this. And exactly what MAGA wants.
Bernie needs to change his vocabulary so it has more impact. How about “ a few very wealthy people have taken over the government. They are using it to increase their wealth while making our daily needs more expensive and making us less safe.”
Spot on assessment. Few people understand the words: oligarchy, kleptocracy and authoritarianism. So they definitely don’t understand the gravity of those things.
It’s important we the people apply pressure to change things. Let’s target every single employee of Nazi Musk at Twitter, Tesla, Space X, The Boring Company, Neuralink to leave their jobs. We need to destroy Nazi Musk before he destroys our democracy. Target company sites, and his cars, anything.
Read Walter Isaacson's book on Musk to better understand what makes this guy tick. Give him his own well-guarded playground and let him go. But stay the hell out of US politics!!!
Read it and Isaacson’s book is a marketing exercise. Musk is a Nazi plain and simple and he considers all others subhuman. As Hilter liked to refer to the Jews, as rats.
Maybe they are waiting for our leading the way. They will have no choice but to follow. We keep complaining, but no one is out there. Black women do it all the time, the DEI. I keep posting the same post in an effort to coordinate a Zoom meeting where we can start organizing our protests. Ready?
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
(Putin was Existential level desperate for tRump to win - his regime, & probably life, depended upon it!! Putin didN't Just 'sit back' & hoped tRump won!) musk & Putin have been developing their relationship since 2022
If only we could time travel back to when you vowed to campaign for Hillary and didn’t. Creating doubt in your followers mind that you endorsed her. Hmmm
My letters have been sent. I'm definitely going to not cow any fellow fighters into silence. I don't understand how people can expect one senator who has always stood up for people, introduced bill after bill knowing the GOP (and the DNC itself) will be knocking him down time after time to fix all
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Because the broad public perception is that you were doing Jack and Shit.
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Get it together. You're pissing us off, man.
This has ALWAYS been my biggest complaint about Sanders. He has no constituency. No one collaborates with him. They let him join them, but no one joins him. Where is his signature legislation? Decades in politics but no Sanders policy.
And indivisible events
https://Indivisible.com
Bernie started the largest progressive movement in the country.
Join "Our Revolution,"
https://ourrevolution.com/take-action/
or"Indivisable."
GET INVOLVED!!
wir nehmen auch Amerikaner auf.
You do NOT balance your budget by going to the bank to see what everyone else is financially doing.
You are allowing a COUP to happen on your watch.
Little people have just lost their freedom and handed their democracy to a convicted rapist & criminal.
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Fear what it will do to our country
Can’t destroy our resolve to see him & his family punished
Joining a list
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Even blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and other minorities. 45% of Gen Z wanted this, and don't forget those expecting U.S. to save Gaza.
Like who votes against amber alert?
Crickets
Most of them were of course chosen by the oligarchs precisely for that learning disability.
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GET OFF YOUR ....!
John Locke said that political legitimacy derives from popular explicit and implicit consent of the governed: "consent of the governed."
Is a law breaking president legitimate?
If not then what?
living in
looking at
fearing
But not taking any fcking action. Dems are voyeurs rolling over like dogs.
🚨 DO SOMETHING !!! 🚨
WE TOLD YOU SO!
#Resist #DemocracyMatters
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co
Surround any problem makers
Try to help the military by not getting them involved
Pretty sure they are dreading an illegal order or to go against own citizens
Be very creative j/s
💙 #ILoveBernieSanders 🇺🇸👴🏻🧤
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security.
DO SOMETHING NOW!!
Just seems odd to lump Bernie in with the Democrats who pushed him aside when he tried to warn us what was coming.
The Dems can corner the Republicans and get them on board. They are not even trying.
Imagine the Chamber when all Dems walk across the isle and demand action. Do that at least.
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She played him, he played y’all by being the biggest democratic attacker, and now he’s trying to absolve him self. But we aren’t gonna forget how this began
Bernie connecting to a new generation of voters & the dem party shoving war criminal neoliberals down our throats.
I do agree Bernie sold out his followers in 2020 but he sold them out for the Democratic Party.
When I was watching the nominee hearings, there were MANY Dems I haven't seen in a LONG time, if ever.
Is there such a thing as an ENABLEGARCHY??
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1 old senator from Vermont, needs to be 60 to get anything done in the Senate, you got 59 others that we don't know about?
Senate working with AGs and govs
House back in sess on Tuesday
We the People have plenty to do. Check muh feed for Action Items. 🫡
I feel all the takes depending on the time of
Sometimes I’m beyond frustrated and other times I feel that there are things happening and just because I can’t see it, doesn’t make it untrue
So I’m thankful for all the concrete “here is something that’s being done” posts
You guys have co-power, don’t allow him do the unthinkable…
@sanders.senate.gov
Start a protest, share a meme, make a meme, and start a protest! Remove Elon!
This is an easy win for us. Get this billionaire out of our government! Scare Trump into making an easy decision to save himself!
Focus on the Oligarchy!
When clips get shared they need to be 6th grade reading level.
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/ˌklepˈtäkrəsē/
noun
a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources.
government by people who use their power to steal their country's resources.
Thiel wrote the forward. ⬇️
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism
I'm pretty sure he is not going to vote for him but I wanted that NO!!
It is my opinion that he could have been a definite no rather than, you will see when I vote. Maybe adamantly was the wrong word? Should have been firmly.
It's on us!
GET INVOLVED!!
https://ourrevolution.com/take-action/
These are not normal times, so the Dems need to take actions that are not normal.
https://youtu.be/Td09Yghu_h0?si=HLImL6vP8ANy_xFE
US Treasury thank you Cy Vance SDNY.
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So he knows when he needs to define with purpose
Thus, he’s speaking to the audience that is watching the show.