Posted on 10/18/2013 7:56:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says global warming poses "a far more serious problem than al Qaeda" and accuses energy companies of being willing to "destroy the planet" for profits.
In an interview with Playboy magazine, Sanders targets coal and oil companies who he says have outsized influence over lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
“Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits,” Sanders said.
“And because of their power over the political process, you hear a deafening silence in the U.S. Congress and in other bodies around the world about the severity of the problem. Global warming is a far more serious problem than Al Qaeda,” he said.
The comment arrives in a broader economic critique of what Sanders, the Senate's most left-leaning member, calls a “hypercapitalist” society plagued by huge inequalities in wealth and political power.
Sanders alleges the Republican Party has become “extremist” but also criticizes Democrats. A tidbit from the interview:
Let me tell you a story outside of school. I go to the Democratic caucuses every week, and every week there is a report about fund-raising—Republicans have raised thus and thus; this is what we have done. In the six years I’ve been going to those meetings, I have never heard five minutes of discussion about organizing. It’s about raising money. Not five minutes to say, “Look, West Virginia, we have rallies, we’re doing this, we’re doing that, we’re knocking on doors.” In six years, I have heard no discussion about that at all.
” Can we just nuke Vermont? It has Bernie Sanders, my ex wife’s family and a whole bunch of yogurt-douching america-hating neohippy skumbags”
Thanks for the laugh, that’s awsome!
I’ve got an idea Bernie... You swear off of using fossil fuels to get to and from Washington, to cool and heat your homes and offices in DC and VT, setting a good example, and I might stop thinking you’re a crazy SOB. Granted, you’re the only leftist congress-critter whose honest enough to say you’re a socialist (though the ministry of propaganda refers to you as an “independent”).
But as an elected representative of the people, you need to set an example by leading.
Mark
Can we debate defunding Bernie Sanders for a while?
And the vast majority of the starvation and human misery in the world isn't caused by a lack of resources, but by evil human beings, usually either leftists, islamists, or arabs, using starvation as a tool to further their evil goals.
Mark
Bernie Sanders is a sick old Marxist nutcase. If we could peer into his brain we’d probably get so nauseous we’d puke our guts out.
Bernie, Bama, Chuckie, Durbin, Patty, Rangle, S. J. Lee, Nancy, Boxer, Fineswine and hundreds of others are more dangerous than Al Qaida.
Global warming is a fairy tale for fairies.
I guess I didn’t really buy them for the articles after all. LOL!
Bernie Sanders? Playboy? For some reason the two just don’t seem to go together.
“And the vast majority of the starvation and human misery in the world isn’t caused by a lack of resources, but by evil human beings, usually either leftists, islamists, or arabs, using starvation as a tool to further their evil goals.”
True, including liberals that prevent helping people or using military force to stop genocides.
Photoshop help needed here please.
Really? You know what’s worse, fkn democraps! That’s more of a threat! I am pissed this morning, don’t give me this global warming shiite.
“I would be perfectly willing to destroy the planet to get Bernie Sanders. Well, and the rest of his ilk”
I would too.
“I would be perfectly willing to destroy the planet to get Bernie Sanders. Well, and the rest of his ilk”
I would too if you mean by his ilk , democrats/socialists/leftists/liberals , then yes
No it isn’t Bernie. These jerks will never go away. We could be in the middle of an ice age and they’d still be insisting in global warming or some other crack pot idea to waste tax dollars and make a nuisance of themselves.
we are in the Sun's solar cycle 24 which is much smaller than previous ones
the next one solar cycle 25 will be almost non-existant , signaling the start of a mini-Ice age.
Now that the insurgency feels that they’ve won, I expect that amnesty, global warming, and gun control will all be pushed hard, along with Common Core and “free” college tuition for all, citizen or not.
I can’t help but wonder if the EBT card goofup followed by the USDA memo saying that EBT money distribution would stop in November “until further notice” was a threat that the pubbies responded to by capitulating.
we are in the Sun's solar cycle 24 which is much smaller than previous ones. already this winter will be much colder
the next one solar cycle 25 will be almost non-existant , signaling the start of a mini-Ice age. the next few decades are going to be cold
It’s a good thing they didn’t name VT after Ethan Allen; he would not be happy with the VT people today.
yes the news media is trying to invent more fake crisis as they did for the debt ceiling. there was never any chance for default nor collapse but the news media said it in EVERY news story that if the Republicans didn’t agree to raise the debt ceiling that the USA would default on the debt and collapse of the world economy. this was the most blatant,. the most universal(said in every story as if it were a fact), and pervasive lie the media ever told and that i have ever seen. I will write a letter to every Republican explaining to them how they were fooled and how they better not pass amnesty.
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