Posted on 02/22/2019 7:10:23 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has never shied away from his embrace of a hard-left agenda, but the democratic socialist is facing renewed scrutiny over a catalog of comments he made in the 1980s praising the Soviet Union, offering advice to Nicaragua's socialist government -- and even saying breadlines in communist countries are a "good thing."
“It’s funny sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food. That’s a good thing,” he said in one vintage video unearthed by conservative activists. “In other countries, people don’t line up for food, rich people get the food and poor people starve to death.”
... The clip is one of a number where Sanders is seen extolling the supposed benefits of Marxist and socialist governments, while casting aspersions on the U.S. government. After a trip to the Soviet Union in 1988, he held a press conference, along with his wife Jane, and said he was “extremely impressed” by the USSR’s public transportation system.
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He also said he was fond of the USSR’s “palaces of culture,” which he told an audience were much better than anything the U.S. had mustered: “I was also impressed by the youth programs that they have, their palaces of culture for the young people, a whole variety of programs for young people, and cultural programs which go far beyond what we do in this country.”
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Jane Sanders was equally enamored with their tour, as well as "the enthusiasm and the optimism" of the people they met there, and praised the concept that work and free time were merged.
“Instead of compartmentalizing their lives into a job and hobbies, it’s all interrelated and all under the banner of community involvement,” she gushed.
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What a psycho. He has zero chance. But his ideas are being embraced by Kamala, Booker, Ocasio-Cortez, Beto, and others, who in the wrong nightmare, could actually win.
Of course, The Stupid Party won’t take advantage of Mad Bernie’s ravings.
He never was anything but a bum.
“...people are lining up for food. That’s a good thing,” ...”
Gee, Bernie...
I don’t see YOU standing in a bread line to buy bread for one of your three houses.
What a piece of sh*t this commie pr*ck is.
the corrupt establishment media fears Bernie, they will not underestimate him this round and will try to destroy him early.
What’s his take on lines for toilet paper? Are the rich doing all of the really good pooping in America?
I was extremely impressed by the subway system in Wuhan, China, when I visited two years ago. It makes New York’s look like that of a third-world country. But that doesn’t mean I’d ever want to live in that Commie hell hole (China).
Didn’t Bernie and Jane go to the USSR for their honeymoon?
In 1971 Bernie was expelled from a Vermont hippie commune because of “shirking,” that is, he was a lazy slob who refused to do his share of the communal work.
Bwah hah hah, who gets kicked out of a doper hippie commune for being lazy?
Hey if it was still the USSR and not Russia Sanders and the Dems would be celebrating Trump, not condemning him.
Hey if it was still the USSR and not Russia Sanders and the Dems would be celebrating Trump, not condemning him.
I dont even need to watch it. I heard this clown back in 2015 in L.A when I passed by CNN with my GF.
he’s a total loser who talks commie crap 24/7..
btt
“..He never was anything but a bum....”
Most don’t realize how exactly true that is. Never had a legitimate job in his entire life. A total bum on the take...who got some wealth by being on the take. Then deciding that being a raving commie would continue his prosperity and following.
A disgusting creep of a “human being”.
“A disgusting creep of a “human being”.
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Also took part in the white flight from NYC-—moved to Vermont that has a 2% black population.
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yeah, managed to get kicked out of a commune because Bernie always sat on his commie ass.
I would hope Bernie doesn’t feel that way any more. Why would he? By now he has seen what happened and knows the corruption.
Before he became mayor of Burlington, VT, I recall seeing him in his dirty, torn jeans and unkempt hair sleeping on a park bench outside City Hall. Most aren’t aware, but for the entire time he was mayor, he wouldn’t allow the American flag to fly over City Hall.
I don’t need to watch it either. Commies is as commies do.
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