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Bernie Sanders Was Asked to Leave Hippie Commune for Shirking, Book Claims (He Talked Politics!)
Washington Free Beacon ^
| Apr 19,2016
| Blake Seitz
Posted on 04/19/2016 7:53:22 PM PDT by dayglored
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Bernie was too lazy for a bunch of hippies in a commune? Now THAT is what I call LAZY!!
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posted on
04/19/2016 7:53:23 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: dayglored
I don’t generally post political threads, preferring to stick to the tech stuff I know better. But this was just too good to pass up! :-)
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posted on
04/19/2016 7:54:10 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Our candidates are all successful men in their respective fields.
To: dayglored
More from the article about Bernie at the "Myrtle Hill" commune:
When not reporting on the miracle of life, Sanders spent his time at Myrtle Hill in endless political discussion, according to Deloz. Sanders idle chatter did not endear him with some of the communes residents, who did the backbreaking labor of running the place. Daloz writes that one resident, Craig, resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernies orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day.
Sanders was eventually asked to leave. When Bernie had stayed for Myrtles allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on, Daloz writes.
Deloz does not specify what issues Sanders discussed with commune residents, but earlier passages give the general flavor of political discussion at Myrtle Hill. There were bigger ideas under discussion too: a kibbutz-style school for commune children; the possibility of a coming violent revolution; and the pros and cons of group marriage. In another passage, Deloz describes how one commune resident led the children on marches, chanting Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! Vietcong is going to win!
I am not surprised by that description. Nor am I amused.
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posted on
04/19/2016 7:58:56 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Our candidates are all successful men in their respective fields.So is Bernie. His chosen field is being a bum, and even in 1971 could get people to pay his way.
To: dayglored
Imagine that: Bernie has always been a lazy ass, so politics was the only logical career for him.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:03:55 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(#BlackRiflesMatter)
To: dayglored
Interest in alternative medicine was strong among members of the counterculture as part of their wider suspicion of modern science, which was associated with the sterility of hospitals and the destruction of war.
Some of those nuts and twigs types used the same reasoning and emotional intuition to be anti-abortion. Sanders didn't pick up on that vibe, I guess.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:04:28 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:05:32 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
To: dayglored
Bernie Sanders was asked to leave a hippie commune in 1971 for sitting around and talking about politics instead of working, according to a forthcoming book.
Not the first time I've heard this - outside of government salaries, Sanders has spent most of his adult life as a loafer and a bum, too lazy for hippies living in a commune. And this guy is the darling of the young left.
To: dayglored; 2ndDivisionVet; Redbob; pepsi_junkie; Vince Ferrer; Dr. Sivana
This is akin to being ejected from the Korean Friendship Association for praising Kim il-Sung too much.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:06:16 PM PDT
by
OddLane
To: dayglored
He was harshing their mellow, man,
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:07:01 PM PDT
by
mquinn
(Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
To: dayglored
I suspect the truth for his ouster is more basic. He does have some animus toward deodorant, if I recall.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:07:30 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: LostInBayport
Dude has a spitting problem. As well a horrible oral maintenance and dandruff.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:09:36 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
To: dayglored
Lizzy Warren: Fake Indian
Ted Cruz: Fake Conservative
Bernie Sanders: Fake Hippie
Donald Trump: ... Well ... at least ... authentic Donald Trump. OK Fake Buffoon. FAKE Buffoon.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:12:41 PM PDT
by
tinyowl
(A equals A)
To: OddLane
Bernie hasn't worked a day in his life. They say his first (actually, only) "real job" was as a mayor, then congressman, then Senator. As if being a politician is real work. Prior to that he as an itinerant who mooched off his friends and relatives, griping about politics.
In my mind he's like that political jerk in Forrest Gump who beat up Jenny and then by way of apology said "It's this damn war! and Johnson!". Not that Bernie beat anyone, but that he is and always has been a self absorbed jerk who spouts leftwing agitprop in lieu of reasoned arguments or critical thinking.
So yeah, I could see even hippies thinking he was too lazy.
To: dayglored
No kidding, if a hippy community kicks you out for being lazy, you have a serious problem.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:37:57 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: dayglored
He clearly thought of himself as a leader/intellectual and therefore, above manual labor.
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posted on
04/19/2016 8:41:54 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: dayglored
Shirk - what commies do best....
To: pepsi_junkie
His supporters LITERALLY threw money at Hillary's caravan.
To call them economically illiterate would be an understatement.
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posted on
04/19/2016 9:05:18 PM PDT
by
OddLane
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