Posted on 05/12/2025 10:30:23 AM PDT by John Semmens
For many weeks now, self-identified democratic-socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have been jetting around the country in private aircraft for their their "Fighting Oligarchy Tour." Federal Election Commission reports show that this campaign has spent more than $221,000 on private jet travel in the first quarter of 2025.
Fox News' "Special Report" host Bret Baier asked "don't these private flights cost around $15,000 per hour? Isn't this the way that oligarchs travel?"
"Yes it is," Sanders admitted. "Fortunately, not all oligarchs are bad people. Some of them are earning brownie points by funding the needs of those of us who are fighting for socialism. You run a campaign and you do three or four or five rallies in a week. That's the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United while 30,000 people are waiting for me?"
"I, myself, might be considered an oligarch," Sanders continued. "I own three homes. I'm a millionaire. However, my campaign for socialism demonstrates that I, like George Soros, am one of the good guys. When you are on the right side of history you have the right to do whatever it takes to smash the capitalist system and bring about the revolution that Marx advocated for ending economic injustice in the world. This means wresting political power out of the hands of bad oligarchs like Trump and Musk and putting it into the hands of the dictatorship of the proletariat--folks like Alexandria and me."
Whenever I’m arguing with leftists who are screaming that the US is an oligarchy, this question always shuts them up”
What first world nation is NOT an oligarchy of some form?
My oligarchy is better than your oligarchy!.................
I have no problem with folks renting private ....”stuff” unlike what I can afford. If their party pays for it or they pay for it outta contributions, so what?
What I hate, condemn, and loathe are these same arseholes who whing on about rich folk doing the same as they do.
But, what can you expect of a commie trash jerk like Bernie — AND ANYONE WHO STILL SUPPORTS THIS ARSEHOLE??
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