Bernie Sanders let the cat out of the bag yesterday.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/bernie-sanders-aoc-2028-presidential-election">Axios</a>, he said what I think we&#8217;ve all been thinking: that AOC is almost certainly going to run for president in 2028 — with the backing of Bernie Sanders.
<blockquote>“She is an incredibly intelligent person and in the best sense of the word, a very, very good politician,” he declared. “I&#8217;ve been out on the streets where the people come up and how she responds to people is so incredibly genuine and open, you know, it&#8217;s just something. That&#8217;s a gift that she has. It&#8217;s a quality that she has. She&#8217;s a great speaker out there. She comes from the working class. She was a kid who was cleaning houses with her mother. She knows what it&#8217;s like not to have any money. And she&#8217;s going out fighting for working families all over this country. And I think as a young person who six years ago was a waitress, becoming politically prominent has been incredibly inspiring.”</blockquote>
She&#8217;s not inspiring.
To the wild Left, however, she is inspiring.
Sure, she is a dunderhead who says unintelligent things every five seconds.
But Bernie Sanders is also a dunderhead, and he&#8217;s been able to get away with it for 2,000 decades at this point. I believe he was a contemporaneous follower of Methuselah.
Sanders has taken over the Democratic Party wholesale at this point.
They are moving further and further to the Left. And one of his chosen acolytes is Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat running for the Senate who leads in the polls by leaps and bounds.
According to new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-senate-candidate-graham-platner-socialist-group-linked-to-ice-attack-tesla-bombings?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=24&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Maine+Dem+Graham+Platner+Belonged+To+Socialist+Group+Linked+To+ICE+Attack%2C+Tesla+Bombings">reporting</a> from our own Luke Rosiak:
<blockquote>Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner was a member of a radical Left group whose members have been linked to a slew of attacks, including an assault on an ICE facility that was designated a terrorist attack this month as part of a crackdown on Antifa.
Maine’s Democrat Senate primary was upended after <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/kfile-graham-platner-maine-senate-candidate-deleted-reddit-posts">CNN</a> reported that Platner had called himself a “communist” in posts on the Reddit forum r/SocialistRA, where he wrote that if people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history.”
The forum name refers to the Socialist Rifle Association, a group whose members have been repeatedly linked to violent political crimes.
On July 4, a group of militants allegedly swarmed law enforcement at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas and “opened fire at the unarmed DHS correctional officers.” One of them, Benjamin Hanil Song, is charged with shooting a police officer in the neck. Song was a member of the Socialist Rifle Association’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter, a fellow group member told <a href="https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-07-22/shooting-at-alvarado-ice-facility-other-attacks-the-new-normal">KERA</a>.
Last week, the Department of Justice charged two suspects in that attack, Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts, with providing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-hits-antifa-with-very-first-terrorism-charges-in-anti-ice-attack">material support to terrorists</a>, calling their crew an “Antifa Cell.” It was the first use of the terrorism statute against domestic extremists since Trump ordered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-ups-the-ante-orders-cabinet-to-label-antifa-a-foreign-terror-organization">crackdown</a> on far-left political violence. Arnold, like the founders of the Socialist Rifle Association, is transgender and goes by the name Autumn Hill.
Membership in the Socialist Rifle Association isn’t required for users to post on the Reddit forum. But a New England publication, the <a href="https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/ex-marine-graham-platner-taught-military">Robinson Report</a>, revealed that Platner explicitly described his membership in the group.
“Check out the Maine SRA chapter, we’re quite active,” he wrote in April 2020. In August 2020, he said “my local SRA chapter” does “lots of range days, firearms education classes, and developing mutual aid networks in our community.”</blockquote>
Images of the main chapter include a man training in a pink tutu shooting a gun, and one who has facial hair matching Platner’s.
This is a person, a Nazi-tattooed Antifa-training pseudo-man-of-the-people oyster farmer, who went to a $75,000-a-year prep school when he was younger.
And he’s Sanders’ chosen guy in the Senate race in Maine. If the Democrats wish to embrace this sort of radicalism, I do not think the American people will move alongside them.
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I know there are a lot of Republicans who are rooting for the socialists to take over the Democratic Party.
I am not.
I&#8217;ve been saying this since 2020, when Bernie Sanders was running against Joe Biden. I said I preferred Joe Biden to be the nominee rather than Bernie Sanders, even if Bernie was more likely to lose to Donald Trump.
Why? Because the risk factor in having a socialist leader was higher than the risk factor in having a “dead” leader like Joe Biden.
Even if Joe Biden had slightly higher odds to win the presidency than Bernie Sanders, if I had to calculate the damage that a Bernie Sanders presidency would do versus a Joe Biden presidency, it would be astronomically higher under Bernie Sanders than Joe Biden, no matter how bad Joe Biden was.
I feel the same way about the Democratic Party falling wholesale to the wild-Left democratic socialists. If they do that, it’s true there&#8217;s a lower chance that they will win power anytime soon.
But to pretend that chance doesn&#8217;t exist is to whistle past the graveyard.
Let&#8217;s say, for example, that the Democratic Party has a 40% shot of winning the White House in 2028 right now with some sort of pseudo-moderate, like a Gavin Newsom or a Wes Moore. And let&#8217;s say they have a 30% shot of winning the White House with a clear, insane socialist like AOC at the top of the ticket.
The damage that would be done by Wes Moore or Gavin Newsom would be a seven out of ten, and the damage done by an AOC would be a ten out of ten.
I would rather take the low-risk scenario, even if there&#8217;s a greater risk that the person might become president, than take the absolutely disastrous apocalyptic scenario of having a Democratic party controlled by the nutjobs.
This is why the rise of the Zohran Mamdani Left is truly, truly troubling.
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Bernie Sanders And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hold “Fighting Oligarchy” Rally In L.A.

Sanders Backs AOC For 2028. The Radical Left’s Grip On Democrats Tightens.

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Ben Shapiro

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Democrats

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Maine

Opinion

Zohran Mamdani

What do you call seven million old white people gathering all over the country?
Not a Barry Manilow reunion tour.
It is, of course, the “No Kings” rallies, which happened over the course of Saturday with seven million protesters, nearly all of them members of the AARP, gathering around the nation in order to protest kings.
You may have noticed we don&#8217;t have kings here in the United States. We have a constitutional republic.
No matter what you think of Donald Trump, Donald Trump has been subject to the dictates of Congress. He has been subject to the dictates of courts. There are actual laws and regulations on the books that prevent the president of the United States from instituting tyrannical power over the rest of the country.
One of the most amusing things about these “No Kings” rallies is the supposition by the Left that they stand in opposition to grand expansions of executive power.
That is absolute bull. It is nonsense. I&#8217;m old enough to remember Barack Obama. I&#8217;m old enough to remember Joe Biden, who tried to use the Occupational Safety and Health Organization in order to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans, and our company had to sue to stop him.
I remember President Biden telling the Supreme Court that while they were attempting to stop him from getting rid of student loans, he would circumvent them and find another way to do it.
The idea that these people who are opposed to Donald Trump do so to oppose expanded executive power is ridiculous. It is the Democratic Party in the United States which has, writ large, expanded the power of the executive branch wholesale over the course of the last century. Since Woodrow Wilson, the expansion of the executive branch of government has been nonstop. It has sometimes been paused under some Republicans, but it is rarely reversed.
When it comes to the modern Democratic Party, the idea that they want to delegate power back to the states or delegate power back to Congress is a lie. As soon as a Democrat is in power, they simply want to run roughshod over the Constitution of the United States.
Thus the very premise of these “No Kings” rallies is false.
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Left-wing Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/18/no-kings-protests-october-18-turnout">reported</a>:  “According to a statement from the ‘No Kings’ protest organizers, Saturday&#8217;s turnout was ‘one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history’ with over two million more people taking part than participated in similar protests in June of this year.”
Of course, you remember how much of a difference it made when they protested in June.
You don&#8217;t? You forgot already?
You forgot already because it didn&#8217;t matter at all. It is now Monday and everyone already forgot.
“More than 2,700 events were planned as part of the protests across 50 states as of Saturday, as well as several internationally, including in London, Paris, Rome and Lisbon, Portugal.”
I get a kick out of places that actually have kings saying that they&#8217;re going to have “No Kings” rallies.
These rallies are ridiculous. If you look at the pictures of people who are dressed up as lobsters in Massachusetts or Superman in New York City or inflatable chickens, you think to yourself, “I don&#8217;t think these are the folks who are going to change America in any real way.”
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And that&#8217;s putting aside the people who arrived at these rallies in order to promote violence against the president of the United States, or against people on the right-wing. Those people were in plentiful supply. Politicians showed up. They spoke alongside radical agitators and organizers.
We&#8217;re all supposed to pretend that that never happened, speaking alongside terrorist supporters, people who despise the country. If you&#8217;re a politician, like Bernie Sanders or Chris Murphy from Connecticut, and you speak alongside Qatari mouthpiece Mehdi Hasan, or you speak alongside people who have openly promoted terrorism, that&#8217;s kind of a big deal.
My favorite moment of media coverage came when MSNBC <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/msnbc-interviews-a-unicorn-and-bear-at-no-kings-rally-looking-as-ridiculous-as-we-can-to-protest-ridiculous-trump/">interviewed</a> a person dressed up as a unicorn.
(A rally is truly serious when people dress up as inflatable unicorns.)
<blockquote>Reporter: Angel, I&#8217;ve never interviewed a unicorn live on MSNBC.
Unicorn: Always a first time for everything.
Reporter: Angel. Talk as loud as you can. Because you got kind of a big snout here. … I&#8217;ll say that again. I said it&#8217;s hard to hear you, but tell me what brings you out and to be inside this high unicorn costume today?
Unicorn: Well, we&#8217;re here to represent the loving, hardworking community of Los Angeles. We&#8217;re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he is a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power, and we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.
Reporter: I&#8217;ve never heard a more serious message come out of a pink unicorn.</blockquote>
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s true because I think that half of the MSNBC staff are pink unicorns.
It was an impressive showing, with great intellects. People like actor John Cusack, who was last relevant when he was standing outside a bedroom window holding a boombox in a movie from 1989.
But if you thought that Cusack was the only old actor who showed up to pay tribute to the “No Kings” rally, I present to you: (drum roll) Robert De Niro, who seems to have chosen poorly when he drank from his choice of Holy Grails. He is now aging extraordinarily rapidly and also apparently turning into a hobbit.
He praised Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, for saying F.U. to Trump, (which she may be saying from jail soon, depending on how her mortgage falsification case goes).
“I like what Letitia James is doing,” he declared “She&#8217;s fighting back. She&#8217;s saying F*** you. &#8230; I will not be taken down by this person. I am not afraid of him.” He also had comments about Stephen Miller, calling Miller, who happens to be Jewish, a Nazi.
Bernie Sanders yelled, “We&#8217;re here because we&#8217;re going to do everything we can to honor the sacrifices of millions of men and women who, over the last 250 years, fought and sometimes died.”
I can&#8217;t take him seriously. Nothing you do can make me take him seriously, because he&#8217;s not a serious person. The fact that the Democratic Party has elevated him as an ideological thought leader after spending his entire life being a useless pustule on the ass of American society is indeed a reflection of what their party stands for.
Sanders spoke of how much these people loved America.
Yet there were a shocking number of non-American flags over the Washington, DC rally. There was a giant Palestinian flag in solidarity with Hamas, of course. In Los Angeles there were tons of Mexican flags, so many that the CNN reporter noted it.
Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts decided that he was going to give a speech while donning a trans flag. J.B. Pritzker, the would-be presidential candidate from Illinois (who typically has to be lowered into these things by crane) stood in front of a bunch of signs, including a F*** ICE sign.
For the sake of his bodily health, I hope it was a very short march.
A Barry Manilow reunion tour would have been a heck of a lot less screechy.

People Protest in Washington, DC as Part of the No Kings Rallies

Old White People Rally Against ‘Kings’

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attempted to tie President Abraham Lincoln — America&#8217;s first Republican president — to Democratic socialism based on one line from his famed Gettysburg Address.
Sanders joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; where the cohosts pressed him on everything from the ongoing government shutdown to his recent campaign stops with New York City&#8217;s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist.
Cohost Sara Haines asked about the shutdown, and Sanders brushed off the idea of a standalone vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies — one of the main sticking points for Democrats as the shutdown drags on — despite a promise from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to hold such a vote.
Sanders claimed that he wanted to end the shutdown &#8220;tomorrow,&#8221; but that he couldn&#8217;t vote to reopen the government as long as Republicans refused to undo the parts of the Big Beautiful Bill that he didn&#8217;t like.
&#8220;50,000 people will die unnecessarily every single year,&#8221; Sanders insisted, waving his hands to punctuate his point. &#8220;50,000 of our fellow Americans.&#8221;
He then claimed that Trump and Republicans were taking away health insurance from the poor in order to &#8220;pay for&#8221; a tax break for the wealthy.
WATCH:
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Sunny Hostin praises Sanders for campaigning far-left extremist Zohran Mamdani and tees him up to call on Democrats to move further to the left:
&#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race: democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. He&#8217;s… <a href="https://t.co/YvTduTORrg">pic.twitter.com/YvTduTORrg</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1980301961707544997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin pivoted to ask about Mamdani, saying, &#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve been campaigning with the front-runner in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race: Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. He&#8217;s leading by double digits. He probably will be the next mayor of New York. Now, a recent Gallup poll showed that over half of Democratic voters prefer socialist aligned figures like yourself, like AOC, like Mamdani, to more establishment, centrist politicians. Is this the direction the Democratic Party needs to go?&#8221;
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&#8220;You know what? People are saying here&#8217;s a radical idea,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;This is what Democratic Socialism basically means: let&#8217;s have a government that works for all the people, not just the billionaire class. Let&#8217;s end a corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires in both political parties to determine who wins elections.&#8221;
Sanders concluded by suggesting that Lincoln was actually talking about the same goal when he gave the Gettysburg Address: &#8220;Let&#8217;s try to create the kind of democracy that Lincoln talked about way back when, when he said &#8216;a government of the people, by the people, for the people.'&#8221;

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearings For HHS Secretary Nominee Robert Kennedy

Bernie Sanders Suggests Abraham Lincoln Was Actually A Democratic Socialist

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After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on a CNN town hall to discuss the government shutdown—and repeatedly attacked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) while issuing demands for President Donald Trump to meet—Johnson fired back, “With every ounce of Christian character that I can muster &#8230; bless her heart.”
Ocasio-Cortez accused Johnson of “choosing to punish the American people,” declaring that she would not “enable it by acquiescing and enabling the behavior of bullies.” She added, “So it ends today,” and warned, “If I were Mike Johnson, you should be in that office negotiating with Hakeem Jeffries every damn day until we reopen this government.” Ocasio-Cortez also demanded, “I will not accept a measly one-year extension of the ACA,” and argued that “health care is a human right &#8230; the minimum wage should be a living wage in this country &#8230; [and] public colleges and universities should be tuition-free.”
“Does AOC, does she have both oars in the water here, thinking that the president is going to bow down to these demands?” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham asked Johnson.
“With every ounce of Christian character that I can muster, Laura, let me just say, bless her heart,” Johnson replied. “This would be comical if it were not so dangerous. You’re looking at the two leaders of the modern Democratic Party. We say all the time, ‘This is not your father‘s party.’ It’s not. These guys are full Marxists. You hear how vapid their ideology is; what empty suits they are.”
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“But they are the leaders of the party,” he continued. “They are dragging the rest of the old guard, the old party leaders, around by the nose, and they are subservient to their wishes. Chuck Schumer has picked a fight over this very simple clean CR to just keep the government funded for 21 additional days, till November 21, seven more weeks, so we can get this appropriations process done. And the reason he did it is because he’s afraid of that voice you just heard on that stage. He’s afraid AOC  is going to challenge him.”
“There’s a rise of Marxism in the party; it’s happening in New York, in their state, and he’s terrified. That’s why everybody around the country is feeling such pain right now, because of this nonsense,” he concluded.
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🚨“Bless her heart.”
“This would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous. <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> and her fellow Marxists are dragging the Democratic Party into chaos while Schumer panics to keep his job.” — <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> <a href="https://t.co/DdGQ3pAcfN">pic.twitter.com/DdGQ3pAcfN</a>
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1978972928789073984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Bless Her Heart’: Speaker Johnson Torches AOC After She Attacks Him, Makes Demands On Trump

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Maine Democratic Governor Janet Mills launched a Senate campaign on Tuesday to challenge incumbent moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins. 
Mills enters a crowded Democratic primary that already features military veteran Graham Platner, who has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Jordan Wood, a onetime congressional aide for former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA). Collins’ seat is on the ballot in November 2026, and Democrats are targeting it as one of their few opportunities to gain ground in a Senate map that tilts toward the GOP.
Mills&#8217; campaign announcement focused on her feuds with the Trump administration. 
“We stood up to Trump and stopped him from cutting the school lunch program from Maine kids,&#8221; Mills <a href="https://x.com/JanetMillsforME/status/1978053434885484711">said</a>. &#8220;But there are too many politicians in Washington, including Susan Collins, who&#8217;ve forgotten their principles and let bullies like Trump have their way, and it&#8217;s hurting many people. I&#8217;ve never backed down from a bully, and I never will.&#8221; 
“Honestly, if this president and this congress were doing things that were even remotely acceptable, I wouldn&#8217;t be running for the U.S. Senate,” she said. 
Trump’s Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bondi-unleashes-on-maine-announces-new-lawsuit-against-state-for-violating-title-ix?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo+and+Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bondi+Unleashes+On+Maine%2C+Announces+New+Lawsuit+Against+State+For+Violating+Title+IX">sued</a> Maine earlier this year for allowing boys to compete in women’s sports, arguing that the state was violating Title IX protections for women’s spaces. The Trump administration has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-suspending-more-maine-funds-this-time-over-discriminatory-quotas?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Suspending+More+Maine+Funds+—+This+Time+Over+Discriminatory+Quotas">challenged</a> the state’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife over diversity, equity, and inclusion measures. 
While Mills&#8217; ad played up the ties between Collins and Trump, the Maine Republican <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00015.htm">voted</a> against the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense and opposed Trump&#8217;s cuts to foreign aid.
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Republican National Committee Regional Communications Director Delanie Bomar said that Mills&#8217; entrance into the race would only lead to an expensive primary. 
“Janet Mills, Graham Platner, or whatever other leftist emerges from this Democrat primary will be too extreme and socialist for Maine,” Bomar said. “One thing is for certain: Bernie Sanders is right that Democrats will waste millions trying to defeat Senator Susan Collins.&#8221;
The Maine Democratic primary could turn into a fight between different factions of the Senate. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/janet-mills-enters-crowded-maine-senate-race-00597876">reportedly</a> wanted Mills to run, while Sanders, a leftist independent who caucuses with the Democrats, urged her to stay out of the race. 
“Graham Platner is a great working class candidate for Senate in Maine who will defeat Susan Collins,” Sanders wrote on X last week. “It’s disappointing that some Democratic leaders are urging Governor Mills to run. We need to focus on winning that seat &amp; not waste millions on an unnecessary &amp; divisive primary.”

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Blue-On-Blue Brawl: Democrat Governor Eyes GOP Senate Seat, Triggers Leftist Power Struggle

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Senate

Susan Collins

If the Left ever needed a masterclass in emotional pandering, grievance politics, and anti-Israel obsession, it got one on full display on Saturday at a town hall featuring New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and Vermont’s socialist-in-chief, Senator Bernie Sanders.
At a town hall that was less about governance and more about political theater, Mamdani kicked off with a tired refrain: “No faculty member should be disciplined for supporting Palestinian human rights.” But make no mistake—this wasn’t a plea for academic freedom. It was a thinly veiled endorsement of radical, anti-Israel activism. Mamdani, who had heretofore refused to denounce the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) resolution threatening to expel members who aren’t sufficiently anti-Zionist, is perfectly comfortable siding with a movement that promotes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and demonizes Israel at every turn.
When previously asked about the DSA’s explicitly anti-Zionist platform — which threatens to expel members for cooperating with pro-Israel organizations like AIPAC — Mamdani had weaseled his way out, saying he took his orders from New Yorkers. Loosely translated, he was saying that he would not dare criticize the radicals whose endorsements he would certainly need.
At one point in the town hall, Sanders parroted the scurrilous lie often purveyed by mainstream media, railing, &#8220;We should not be spending tens of billions of dollars on the government of Israel that is currently starving children to death.&#8221;
Rather than discuss real solutions for New York’s public safety crisis, housing shortages, or spiraling budget deficits at the town hall, Mamdani and Sanders devoted most of their energy to blaming the usual scapegoats: billionaires, corporations, Republicans, and of course, President Donald Trump. Mamdani railed against Trump’s tax legislation — calling it a “wealth transfer” — as if the city’s poverty and housing crisis suddenly began in 2016. He glossed over New York’s decades of Democrat mismanagement, choosing instead to indict the president for everything from hunger to homelessness.
Sanders, for his part, descended into demagoguery that bordered on parody. According to him, the United States is now an oligarchy run by cartoon villains like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Rupert Murdoch. He lamented the “six media conglomerates” that supposedly control everything Americans read and think—oddly omitting the overwhelming liberal slant of most mainstream outlets. The irony of a man who has spent over 40 years in public office raging against “the system” seems to escape him entirely.
On immigration, Mamdani criticized Uganda — his country of origin — for agreeing to accept U.S. deportees. But the real villain, he said, was Trump. Sanders added that deporting illegal immigrants was akin to behavior seen in “two-bit dictatorships.” The idea that a sovereign nation might enforce its immigration laws is apparently unacceptable in their utopia.
The overarching theme of the evening wasn’t policy. It was resentment. Resentment toward wealth, toward Israel, toward police, toward American institutions. Mamdani and Sanders painted a picture of America and New York as dystopian nightmares ruled by elites—without offering any coherent roadmap out. Free child care, free buses, universal rent control, and unlimited legal aid for immigrants were all promised. But how to pay for it? They didn’t say.
Of course they didn’t.
In the end, Mamdani and Sanders continue to divide New Yorkers by class, race, religion, and political allegiance — while offering little beyond slogans, scapegoats, and socialist fantasy.

Sen. Bernie Sanders Holds New York Town Hall With Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani

Bernie And Mamdani Push Socialism, Smear Israel At Town Hall

Israel

Socialism

A lot of people on the Right, in the center, and even on the Left are asking themselves this question: Is peak woke over? 
After all, we suffered through a decade of wokeness, the proposition that any disparity between groups was evidence of discrimination. The wokeness was manifested as DEI, the idea that the government had to constantly rig the system in the reverse direction.
So where does the Left go next? They&#8217;re going back to something old: what could theoretically be titled “economic wokeness.”
Economic wokeness mirrors exactly the same argument as racial wokeness or trans wokeness, except it applies to economic categories.
When I say this is an old argument, it is because it&#8217;s basically the argument Karl Marx made. And it seems the Democrats are moving more and more in that direction.
According to a memo penned by Kamala Harris campaign veterans, what people really want to hear from their favorite politicians is that rich people suck and they should be destroyed.
The reason I&#8217;m calling this economic wokeness is because in order to see the parallel to racial wokeness, all you have to do is replace one word.
The idea for racial wokeness is that disparities are, in and of themselves, signs of discrimination. The idea is that racial discrimination is the norm, not an aberration. It&#8217;s not people who are bad apples. It&#8217;s part of the entire system. And the system is designed purposefully by white people to discriminate against people of color. That is the basis of wokeness.
To get to economic wokeness, all you have to do is replace the word “racial” with “economic.” You simply say economic disparities are in and of themselves signs of economic discrimination. Economic discrimination is ordinary, not an aberration. It&#8217;s not just that there&#8217;s one price gouger out there, it&#8217;s the whole system that is designed for price gouging.
Who is it designed by, according to this theory? “Rich people“ instead of the “white people” of racial wokeness. Rich people who discriminate against the poor.
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The beauty of economic wokeness is that, unlike racial wokeness — which can be debunked by looking at group studies, pointing to a group that outperforms white people, whether they are Nigerians in America or Asians — there will always be some people who are poorer than other people.
But here’s the salient point: People move in and out of these categories. This is why it is a mistake to talk about the “poor” and the “rich.”
There are many people who are poor now who will one day become rich. There are many people who are rich who will one day become middle-class or poor. 
There is tremendous economic mobility in the United States, according to the available studies. If you are born into the bottom quintile of income earners in the United States, there&#8217;s a better than 60% chance that you will not end up there, that you will end up in a higher bracket in terms of income by the time you are an adult. 
With that said, this sort of economic populism is rooted in grievance, and it&#8217;s a real problem because it does have a popular appeal. It is one thing to claim that America is racist or that America is transphobic. Most people look at that and say, “I don&#8217;t know that many racists.” I really don&#8217;t know that many people who are sitting around all day long thinking about whether a man is a woman; that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s basic logic to know the difference. 
But when it comes to economic status, people have an amazing way of dissociating the rich people they personally know from “rich people” in general. Most people in America know somebody who&#8217;s wealthy. I would bet that the vast majority of people who know people who are wealthy also know good people who are wealthy and bad people who are wealthy. I would also bet they know a lot of poor people, some of whom are good and some of whom are bad, because people come in all shapes and sizes and all sorts of moral qualities.
When it comes to how people think of their own economic performance, the easiest pitch you can make to somebody if they are having a tough time economically is to say it can be fixed by ripping down that billionaire over there.
The only thing that is preventing the advent of people like Bernie Sanders is continued economic growth. If we get continued economic growth, then economic wokeness doesn&#8217;t apply. If people feel pretty good about their direction in the economy, then economic wokeness won&#8217;t help because people won&#8217;t feel discriminated against.
If, however, as we are seeing in the polling data, people do feel that they are stuck, that they don&#8217;t have economic mobility and they have an entire legacy media infrastructure pushing this lie as well as people on both the Right and the Left, that you can&#8217;t get ahead in America, no matter what you do; if you have politicians telling you that so they can garner more power, people believe it.
And if they believe it, they start tearing down the very systems that generated prosperity, such as free markets, private property, and capitalism in the first place. 
I understand the art of gaining power in politics requires getting elected, and getting elected often leads to dissimulating, dissembling, and saying things that are not true. Many politicians are willing to say untrue things in order to garner that power.
That doesn&#8217;t make it moral or good.
Any sort of populist notion that capitalism is “stacked against you” falls flat in a country that is the richest country in literally all of human history, and in which people who are at the bottom of the economic ladder (after income and wealth transfers, because we have massive welfare programs in this country) are earning about $45,000 to $50,000 a year — which is about the same as the median household income in Germany or France.
When you point that out, people get mad. But it happens to be the case.
And that&#8217;s why economic success is absolutely necessary. It&#8217;s also why we need to make a robust defense of things like private property and free markets. Why is private property good? Private property is good because you ought to retain the fruits of your labor, because you are an individual human being with creative capacity, and it is immoral for people to steal the things you create.
Private property is an outgrowth of basic individual autonomy. Free markets are an outgrowth of private property, because if I own the fruits of my labor, I can then alienate them, meaning I can trade them, or I can sell them, and we can trade. And both of our lives get better because I traded something I want for something that you want.
That is the predicate of a free market economy. And that right does not begin with the government. That right begins with God, because God made us in a particular way, with creative capacity.
Man has the capacity to create. Man has the capacity to cultivate the garden, to labor. And so keeping the fruits of our labor is something that human beings want.
This is why communism always fails. That’s because if you tell people they don&#8217;t get to keep what they earned, that they basically should be treated as disposable labor widgets, and all of the fruits of their labor will be taken away and redistributed, people won&#8217;t work. They&#8217;ll just stop. It&#8217;s why communism always ends with coercion.
The free market is not rooted in some sort of peculiar institution created by rich people. It is rooted in basic human notions of autonomy and individual worth.
That&#8217;s why it was disturbing to hear Virginia Democrat senator Tim Kaine, who was the vice presidential nominee with Hillary Clinton back in 2016. He said in the Senate the other day that rights come from the government, declaring:
<blockquote>You state and this is a quote from Secretary Rubio, our rights come from God, our creator, not from our laws, not from our government. I find that very, very troubling. I&#8217;m a devout person. I was a missionary in Honduras. We&#8217;ve got other devout folks in this room Christian, Jewish, Muslim-American. 
The notion that rights don&#8217;t come from laws and don&#8217;t come from the government, but come from the creator, that&#8217;s what the Iranian government believes. It&#8217;s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis Bahais, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.</blockquote>
That was a gigantic softball over the middle of the plate for Texas GOP senator Ted Cruz, who knows the words of the Declaration of Independence. He responded:
<blockquote>That radical and dangerous notion, in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. And if you do not believe me, and you made reference to this, Mr. Barnes, then you can believe perhaps the most prominent Virginian to ever serve, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator,” not by government, not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God “with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”</blockquote>
This is a fundamental reality.
This is why capitalism and free markets are good things: morally good. You own the product of your hands. You have a right to your own labor.
It&#8217;s time for lions, for people who actually believe in the success of the United States, to robustly defend the free market. This is not something to apologize for.
You are not immoral if you&#8217;re a billionaire any more than you&#8217;re immoral if you are impoverished.

Senate Hearing Held For Foreign Ambassador Nominees

It Will Never Die: Democrats Unleash A New Brand Of Woke

Billionaire

Economics

Poverty

Tim Kaine

Woke Culture

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) turned out a scathing critique of former Vice President Kamala Harris and her 2024 presidential bid, saying that she&#8217;d relied too much on the counsel of billionaires who had steered her away from speaking on behalf of American workers.
Sanders spoke with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; and she asked him to address a comment he&#8217;d made about Harris at a recent rally in West Virginia.
WATCH:
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“How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crisis facing working families?”<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSanders</a> says that one reason Kamala Harris lost in 2024 was because “she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class.” <a href="https://t.co/QRnwxO8znQ">pic.twitter.com/QRnwxO8znQ</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1954533959892631883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bash began with a clip of from the rally, in which Sanders told the audience, &#8220;One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working-class of this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Ouch,&#8221; Bash reacted before she asked Sanders to clarify.
&#8220;Well, no, I think, I mean, I don’t think that that’s — I like her, she’s a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? You know, more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had. You have 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional, and despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about these issues?&#8221;
&#8220;She talked about affordability —&#8221; Bash prompted.
Sanders objected: &#8220;Well, but in a vague — I don’t want to rehash that campaign, but I think the clue to Democratic victories is to understand that you’ve got to stand unequivocally with the working class of this country. You need an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people.&#8221;
Just two months before the election, Sanders sang a different tune. He claimed then that Harris was being &#8220;pragmatic&#8221; in hiding her own Marxist tendencies so that she could win the election.
WATCH:
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🚨QUIET PART OUT LOUD🚨
Welker: &#8220;Do you think Kamala is abandoning her progressive ideals?&#8221;
Bernie: &#8220;I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qtwmgui7vd">pic.twitter.com/qtwmgui7vd</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1832777676811034816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Turns On Kamala In Scathing Critique Of 2024 Bid

Dana Bash

Kamala Harris

The campaign team for U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, which refers to him as a “lifelong Independent” as he challenges incumbent Nebraska Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts in 2026, has launched a group called “Conservatives for Osborn.”
That’s curious, since Brandon Philipczyk and James Vihstadt, the treasurers of the Osborn campaign and also &#8220;Conservatives for Osborn,&#8221; have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Philipczyk “served as director of operations in Nevada for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and national coordinated operations director for the Democratic National Committee until 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile,” The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/veteran-dem-operatives-behind-conservative-group-supporting-nebraska-independent-dan-osborn/">reported</a>, adding that he also worked on Mike Bloomberg’s Democratic presidential primary campaign in 2020. “Vihstadt is a delegate for the Nebraska Democratic Party and has donated exclusively to Democratic political candidates over the years,” the Beacon noted.
Osborn narrowly lost his race against incumbent Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) in 2024, but during the campaign, the Senate Majority PAC, run by then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), gave $3.8 million to the PAC Retire Career Politicians, which supported Osborn. “Nearly $30 million, that’s the amount of money out-of-state Democrats spent trying to buy a Nebraska Senate seat,” Fischer <a href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/05/red-scare-incumbent-fischer-survives-osborn-in-nebraska-u-s-senate-race/">stated</a>. “It did not happen. … They wasted their money.”
“Osborn launched his campaign in 2023 with the help of a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who authored a blueprint on how to achieve ‘socialism in our lifetime,’” the Washington Free Beacon noted.
In September 2024, Osborn <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3157103/nebraska-independent-dan-osborn-praises-bernie-sanders/">gushed</a> over hard-Left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), saying, “I love Bernie. But the bottom line is we do have to peel off some conservatives.” Then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Dan is a ‘Bernie Sanders Democrat’ who does not stand for Nebraska Values, and never will.” Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton said Osborn “supports socialist Bernie Sanders but pretends to be non-partisan. A total fraud.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is right. <a href="https://twitter.com/DebforNebraska?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DebforNebraska</a> is a strong conservative who fights for secure borders and to stop the Biden-Harris inflation. 
Her opponent supports socialist Bernie Sanders but pretends to be non-partisan. A total fraud. 
Support Deb here: <a href="https://t.co/wbtahofbhs">https://t.co/wbtahofbhs</a> <a href="https://t.co/7ci5pWkAzb">https://t.co/7ci5pWkAzb</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1833588954832212232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Dan Osborn is a Bernie Sanders Democrat who apparently can&#8217;t take no for an answer,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez <a href="https://nebraska.tv/news/local-politics/nrsc-launches-digital-ad-targeting-dan-osborns-senate-campaign">declared</a>. “Nebraskans rejected Democrat Dan after Chuck Schumer and national Democrats spent millions to prop up his fake &#8216;independent&#8217; campaign and they&#8217;ll do it again in 2026.”
The NRSC recently released an ad highlighting Osborn&#8217;s admiration for Bernie Sanders and inappropriate internet activity:
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Maybe Chuck Schumer should&#39;ve checked Democrat Dan Osborn&#39;s search history before recruiting him to run as an &quot;independent&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Nr8z2eykjx">pic.twitter.com/Nr8z2eykjx</a>
&mdash; Senate Republicans (@NRSC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRSC/status/1942589276656488706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Dan Osborn Nebraska Senate Candidate

‘Independent’ Nebraska Senate Hopeful Courts Conservatives, But His Democrat Ties Raise Red Flags

Dan Osborn

Independent

Nebraska

U.S. Senate

New York City is on the verge of electing an actual communist mayor of the city, and this requires us to ask a question.
Why?
What is happening with the Left that they&#8217;ve decided to opt for Bernie Sanders over anything like a mainstream Democratic Party candidate?
Of course, this has been coming for a long time. Bernie Sanders ran an incredibly strong race against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Bernie Sanders then ran an incredibly strong race against Joe Biden in 2020.
Thus, there is something happening inside the Democratic Party — and it&#8217;s growing —and it&#8217;s growing — and it&#8217;s growing. That doesn&#8217;t mean the Democratic Party is growing and growing. In fact, the Democratic Party is shrinking even as this movement is growing.
It&#8217;s essentially a tumor destroying the health of the Democratic Party from the inside. But something is happening.
Zohran Mamdani, the former no-name, 33-year-old trust fund kid who’s a socialist and anti-Semite, who has worked for all of three combined years, I believe, in his entire adult life (and that includes him rapping), is now on the verge of becoming the mayor of the most important city in the West.
I think reasonable people look at this and think he is winning in spite of those things. I think that&#8217;s missing the point. He&#8217;s winning because of those things.
That’s because there&#8217;s an Omnicause on the Left; the Scavenger cause, which is to tear down all the systems. Inchoate rage at the system channeled into socialist economics, Howard Zinn-inspired foreign policy, and destructive hatred of traditional institutions.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2226-member-exclusive?elementPosition=6&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
That Scavenger philosophy has gained tremendous credence with the dissatisfied Left, a Left that achieved many of its victories and now has plunged itself directly into nihilism.
The problem with the Left over the course of the last several decades has been that they caught the car. In the 1960s, the Left in the United States began to catch the car with everything from the sexual revolution to the overturning of the constitutional order. In doing so, they then had to construct a system.
The problem is that when you construct a system and then the system fails and fails and fails again, and then the backlash happens in the form of a Donald Trump, you start to lose your mind, you start to become insane.
Thus, instead of them wanting to capture the commanding heights of the system and change the system from within incrementally, “make it better,” which used to be the Democratic way, now they just want to burn everything down.
That is not a particularly attractive message to a broader American public that does not want to burn everything down. The secret about President Trump is that when President Trump ran in 2016, pledging that he was going to burn everything down, the reality is that people realistically believed that he was going to burn some things down, but he was certainly not going to burn everything down.
They actually thought he would be a lot more moderate than he said he would be. It turned out in many ways that he was significantly more institutionalist in his approach from 2016 to 2020 than people expected him to be. Even today, all the crazy people who are yelling about him challenging democracy, won’t recognize that democracy is not under threat, that the courts are not under threat. This idea that Donald Trump is simply running roughshod over our most cherished institutions is a lie.
But Democrats have always used revolutionary language in order to push forward evolutionary ends. Interestingly, Donald Trump did the same thing inside the Republican Party. He used revolutionary language to achieve evolutionary ends. All of that is normal politics in the United States.
That’s what&#8217;s currently happening to the Left. Bernie Sanders and his entire wing of the party are using revolutionary language because they want an actual revolution. This is why you have seen the Left nodding at riots over the course of the last decade, at actual attempts at revolution in the streets.
It&#8217;s why so much of the Left was fine with Luigi Mangione shooting the United Healthcare CEO, because revolution requires a few broken eggs, and it is why Bernie Sanders now has the whip hand in the Democratic Party.
Zohran Mamdani is simply channeling Bernie Sanders at this point, with a few added features. He&#8217;s ethnically diverse, he&#8217;s not originally born in America, his father is a postcolonial studies professor at Columbia University of Shia Muslim descent, and his mother is an Indian-American filmmaker of Punjabi Hindu descent.
All these things add a smattering of exoticism to Zohran Mamdani. The fact that he is a rabid anti-Semite obviously sprinkles a lot of pizazz atop the Omnicause stew. He&#8217;s Greta Thunberg with a beard, with a more ethnically exotic background, and with a lot more charisma.
He is the face of the international Left in a nutshell. In his victory speech, he said:
<blockquote>Let me close with this. In these dark times, I know that it is harder than ever to keep faith in our democracy. It has been attacked by billionaires and their big spending by elected officials who care more about self-enrichment than the public trust, and by authoritarian leaders who rule through fear. But above all, our democracy has been attacked from within. For too long, New Yorkers have strained to find a leader who represents us, who puts us first, and we have been betrayed time and again after so many disappointments. 
The heart hardens, belief becomes elusive, and when we no longer believe in our democracy, it only becomes easier for people like Donald Trump to convince us of his worth, for billionaires to convince us that they must always lead. And I pledge to you that we will remake this great city not in my image, but in the image of every New Yorker who has only known struggle.</blockquote>
“Known struggle?” Are you kidding me? Mamdani has experienced a shocking lack of struggle in his young and non-achievement-oriented life. 
According to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2025/06/24/heres-how-much-new-york-city-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-is-worth/">Forbes</a>:
<blockquote>At a panel in Harlem in February, New York state assembly member Zohran Mamdani discussed a piece of proposed legislation that would strip Columbia University of various tax breaks and redirect the revenue to fund the City’s university system. Mamdani’s no stranger to Columbia—his father is a Harvard-educated, renowned professor there, and he grew up in university-owned housing. “Columbia was our first landlord,” he told the crowd, according to an account in the student newspaper. &#8230; Forbes estimates Mamdani to be worth around $200,000. &#8230; Mamdani attended Bank Street, a prestigious Manhattan private school that now costs as much as $66,000 a year for elementary school students, before graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’s best public schools. &#8230; he studied Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, a private liberal arts school in Maine.
After graduating, he worked on his mom&#8217;s sets. He tried his hand at a rap career using the monikers Young Cardamom and Mr. Cardamom, and “took jobs working on several political campaigns and community organizing efforts.”</blockquote>
That is legitimately his entire work history. This is a person who is campaigning for those who “have only known struggle.”
What is he actually saying?
What he is saying is that if you are unsuccessful in life, what is required is a revolution: a revolution led by someone like Zohran Mamdani, a trust-fund kid.
That&#8217;s what he is. And yet he is treated as though he is a revolutionary.
By the way, a dirty little secret about revolutions: They are very rarely led by true members of the low-income classes. They are usually led by upper-middle-income people who feel upset that they didn&#8217;t get their “fair worth.”
That’s Mamdani. And so he is taking Bernie Sanders’ economics and slapping on top of that all of the spicy peppers that makes so many liberals go absolutely gaga, particularly white, highly-educated, rich, elite liberals.
All the things that normal people see in Mamdani as problems are nectar to the Left.
When I say that Bernie Sanders is taking over the Democratic party, this is what I mean. AOC is Bernie Sanders wearing AOC’s face. Mamdani is Bernie Sanders wearing Mamdani’s face.
There’s a reason that leftists are marching with a queer flag and a Palestinian flag and an Iran flag and also voting for Zohran Mamdani: because they are about destroying the things that work — in the name of nothing.
It is not as though they want to build a better system. They do not have the capacity to build a better system.
This is about a shout and a cry at the “establishment,” screaming at the moon in the name of revolution.
That is Bernie Sanders.
Bernie has never been on a major piece of legislation. Bernie is a lifelong loser. He&#8217;s a loser.
But that doesn&#8217;t mean he’s not dangerous.
Losers can absolutely be dangerous.

New York City Mayoral Candidates Campaign Ahead Of Primary Election

Greta Thunberg With A Beard

Communism

New York City

Bernie Sanders wants to solve AI with socialism — but he doesn&#8217;t know how humans will find meaning in his socialist paradise.
The 83-year-old senior senator from Vermont recently took time off of his &#8220;Fighting Oligarchy&#8221; tour to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYVzme2fybU">appear</a> on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience.&#8221;
During the almost two-hour episode, Rogan asked Sanders how humans will find meaning if artificial intelligence takes jobs and the government provides for everyone&#8217;s needs.
&#8220;Andrew Yang was talking about this giant epidemic of automation in this country and the solution being universal basic income, but that&#8217;s not the solution for meaning,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;And how do we convince all of these people that they have to not just take this money from the government, but also take action to give themselves meaning in their lives?&#8221;
Sanders tried to reframe the question as &#8220;a revolution in human experience.&#8221;
&#8220;So throughout history, people have worked so hard just to stay alive, right?&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t need to do work, right, because we&#8217;re wealthy enough, how do you find meaning in your life?&#8221;
Sanders called it a &#8220;trillion-dollar question&#8221; and said dependence on AI is not the answer.
&#8220;All I would say at this moment is the answer is not to fall in love with your AI creature out there,&#8221; Sanders said.
Rogan wasn&#8217;t satisfied.
&#8220;Yeah, don’t do that,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;But also, how do you find meaning? How do you — if all you&#8217;re doing is just getting a check, and you can just stay at home and stare at the TV, and the money keeps coming, and then you eat processed food all day, and it&#8217;s all subsidized, what is life?&#8221;
Sanders said the immediate solution is to take care of workers who lost jobs to AI.
&#8220;I think you tell those workers, you&#8217;re going to have health care as a human right, you&#8217;re going to have education as a human right, you&#8217;re going to have a decent income as a human right, and we&#8217;re going to lower — substantially lower — the work week,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;What happens later, when even more work is eliminated, and what the purpose of human life becomes, that is a very profound question.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you think happens?&#8221; Rogan asked.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to imagine,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;Then the answer will be that we are going to have to find different meaning in life. We have to find it in ourselves in ways that you don’t know and I don’t know, because we&#8217;re not there yet.&#8221;
Sanders said he doesn&#8217;t know how far out the problem is.
&#8220;But I think human beings are capable of replacing work with other emotionally satisfying things,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;Yeah, I think we can do it.&#8221;
Rogan said the problem would be providing meaning for millions of people.
&#8220;What do you do to all those people to give them some sort of a sense of meaning?&#8221; Rogan asked. &#8220;You&#8217;re essentially redefining life for them.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the answer to that question,&#8221; Sanders admitted again. &#8220;That’s the problem. I don&#8217;t think anybody does.&#8221;
Despite not having an answer, the senator still managed to bring the issue back to taxing the rich.
&#8220;The people who own that technology and the corporations who utilize that [AI] technology are becoming phenomenally richer,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;And that is the issue. Which gets back to things like tax reform, like making sure that in America, we do not have the massive levels of income and wealth inequality that we currently have.&#8221;

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On Wednesday, hard-Left Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was slammed after he joined the antisemites who posit that Israel determines American foreign policy.
Sanders targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu including Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the despotic anti-Israel regime in Iran. On Monday, Sanders introduced the “No War On Iran Act, and attacked Netanyahu again, snapping, &#8220;Netanyahu&#8217;s reckless and illegal attacks violate international law and risk igniting a regional war. Congress must make it clear that the United States will not be dragged into Netanyahu&#8217;s war of choice.”
“Netanyahu is not the President of the United States,” Sanders wrote on X on Wednesday. “He should not be determining U.S. foreign and military policy. If the people of Israel support his decision to start a war with Iran, that is their business and their war. The United States must not be a part of it.”
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Netanyahu is not the President of the United States. 
He should not be determining U.S. foreign and military policy. 
If the people of Israel support his decision to start a war with Iran, that is their business and their war. 
The United States must not be a part of it.
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1935358440500773065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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David Friedman, who was President Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Israel in his first term, savaged Sanders, responding, “You are a sick and hateful old man. Whatever Trump decides, it will be because he deems it best for America. Your completely false charge that Netanyahu is controlling America is a classic antisemitic trope whose only purpose is to foment resentment against Jews. Shame on you!”
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You are a sick and hateful old man. Whatever Trump decides, it will be because he deems it best for America. Your completely false charge that Netanyahu is controlling America is a classic antisemitic trope whose only purpose is to foment resentment against Jews. Shame on you! <a href="https://t.co/8qcManTwoq">https://t.co/8qcManTwoq</a>
&mdash; David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1935502841789243581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Iran started a war with the U.S. in 1979 and hasn’t stopped since,” Fox News commentator Katie Pavlich pointed out.
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Iran started a war with the U.S. in 1979 and hasn’t stopped since. <a href="https://t.co/fNbF6MhJuT">https://t.co/fNbF6MhJuT</a>
&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1935378858737373658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Sorry Bernie maybe you missed the two massive waves of drone and missile attacks launched by Iran against Israel last year? But let’s not let simple facts get in the way of your foolish narratives,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1935056652408930675">fired back</a>.
<a href="https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/04/catering-to-the-democratic-fringe-bernie-sanders-defames-israel-again/">Mosaic Magazine</a> has noted:
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When Sanders wanted to win the Democratic nomination in 2016, he claimed that Israel had killed over 10,000 innocent Palestinians, launched indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip, and shelled hospitals in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The senator not only inflated the numbers by several orders of magnitude, he even outdid the Hamas spokespersons in creating a false narrative that the IDF was intentionally attacking the civilian population.
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In February 2024, Sanders <a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/in-the-news/sanders-welch-break-with-democrats-to-vote-no-on-israel-ukraine-aid-package/">voted against</a> a major foreign aid package to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia because he objected to the funding for Israel as it fought against Hamas. He said Netanyahu and Israel were fighting a “horrific war against the Palestinian people.”

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