Comrade Sanders! Your guests have arrived!
Posted on 08/09/2016 12:03:00 PM PDT by TigerClaws
After losing to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is back to his day job as a US Senator for Vermont.
Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take corporations and rich people down a peg or two.But now that his campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad.
According to Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake house.
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.
Sanders’ new waterfront crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
“We’ve traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips,” Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, told Seven Days in a written statement. “We’ve been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner. St. Anne’s Shrine in Isle La Motte is my favorite church and it is nearby.”
Twitter was swift to respond to the irony:
I’m sure he’s sending invites to his open house to the Occupy crew....
I believe that in Soviet circles, that is known as a “dascha.” All the elite Party officials have them.
Bernie had some mysterious, never did any other business, doing his ad buys for his campaign. No telling how much he pocketed off of the $27 donor types. Broke 20somethings mailing in their pizza money to the fraudster.
This proves that running for president is a very, very, very profitable political business. For Bernie, it is cream on the top for doing nothing in 25 years in Congress but Rat-holing under the table perks. The political oligarch class no how to create wealth the easy way.
Bernie was pretty cheap.
Obama’s net worth while in office has gone from a million or two to $25 million.
Politics is very profitable.
Dog and pony shows pay well, apparently.
His masses are too stupid to figure out what is going on.
I thought Bernie was dirt poor, but his wife had some money.
Maybe he has more now, after folding for Hil.
Actually, he make $174K as Senator, so a $600K (=3.5X) house is not extravagant.
Heard he got a plane too.
I’m sure he’s sending invites to his open house to the Occupy crew....
And the illegals.
In my haste, I forgot to edit:
This proves that running for president is a very, very, very, very profitable political business. For Bernie, it is cream on the top for doing nothing in 25 years of Congress but Rat-holing under the table perks. The political oligarch class knows how to create wealth the easy way.
Just like the old Soviet Commies and their dachas! Old Commies follow the same playbook. All for me, none for thee!
Comrade Sanders! Your guests have arrived!
He sold out all his followers...and now they’re going to buy a Hillary in a poke? I think they are likely pretty disgusted with the whole thing. Easy to find something else to do on a Tuesday in November.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
“The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.”
I like making fun of leftist hypocrites (redundant I know) as the next guy, but “plopped down” means no mortgage. Given the woeful state of “journalism” today, I’d plop down a fiver myself to bet that he actually went the way of the vast majority of home sales and got a mortgage. I wouldn’t be waving this in front of a liberal and scoffing until I was sure.
Shouldn’t he donate all his money to help his poor brothers and sisters?
Why does he want to have a second house when so many suffer?
He’s a capitalist pig who sold his soul to Hillary and her Wall Street cronies.
Is the “Szander” family related to the Escariot family?
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