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Sanders Doubles Down on Defending Castro, Praises China for Lifting ‘People Out of Extreme Poverty’
National Review ^ | February 25, 2020 | Zachary Evans

Posted on 02/25/2020 6:07:51 AM PST by karpov

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To: chris37

CRAZY BERN ALWAYS REMARKS HOW COMMUNISM HAS RAISED PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY? CRAZY BERN WANTS TO PUT PEOPLE INTO POVERTY. BERNS MEDICAL SITUATION IS DETERIORATING RAPIDLY.


21 posted on 02/25/2020 6:33:46 AM PST by chopperk
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To: chopperk
OKAY!
22 posted on 02/25/2020 6:36:48 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: CatOwner
A vast majority of this country does not think like the average Freeper.

A vast majority of this country does not think.

Fixed it!

23 posted on 02/25/2020 6:37:08 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: karpov

Not to mention the reeducation camps and draining blood from folks about to be executed. The blood was sent to North Viet Nam during the war. Of course we can’t forget;
“Fidel Castro shed blood on a scale unimaginable in American terms. His butchers executed perhaps 15,000 prisoners, according to academic estimates cited by Wikipedia:

British historian Hugh Thomas, in his study Cuba or the pursuit of freedom[22] stated that “perhaps” 5,000 executions had taken place by 1970,[21] while The World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators ascertained that there had been 2,113 political executions between the years of 1958–67.

Professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, Rudolph J. Rummel estimated the number of political executions at between 4,000 and 33,000 from 1958–87, with a mid range of 15,000.”


24 posted on 02/25/2020 6:37:25 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Hey Bernie - do you know what has been the most successful force in human history in lifting billions out of extreme poverty? It starts with a “C”.

He needs a second letter!

25 posted on 02/25/2020 6:43:19 AM PST by karpov
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To: alloysteel

he knows how he was lifted from poverty to millionaire status. Theft from the people by their govt officials seems to work every time.


26 posted on 02/25/2020 6:45:36 AM PST by allwrong57
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To: karpov

LOL. That’s right - its not “O”. Its “A”.


27 posted on 02/25/2020 6:46:47 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Swamp Report: Peter Schweizer Reveals How Bernie Sanders Enriches His Family with Campaign Funds (emphasis added)
by ROBERT KRAYCHIK , 13 Feb 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has repeatedly used his political position to steer money — both contributions to his campaigns and government funding — to his family members, explained Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, senior contributor to Breitbart News, and author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.

In the 13th installment of the Drill Down, Schweizer walks through how the self-described “democratic socialist” senator from Vermont channels campaign funds to his wife, Jane Sanders.

Schweizer stated: [In] 2000, Bernie was in Washington D.C, serving in Congress.

<><>Throughout his congressional career in the House and Senate, Bernie Sanders has used campaign funds to procure media-buying services from a consulting company founded and operated by his wife and her children.

<><>Jane and her children formed a new LLC called Sanders and Driscoll. The new firm was a for-profit consulting company, and was run by Jane, daughter Carina, and son David. The family ran this new business out of the Sanders family home. Because of the way it was structured, it’s impossible to know just how much money Bernie’s wife and children made from his congressional campaign. But critics would claim that Sanders doled out more than $150,000 to his family through the new company.

<><> Jane set up a media buying company; she would get paid every time candidate Bernie Sanders bought television advertising for his Congressional campaigns.

<><>Then, during his 2016 presidential run, the Sanders campaign would funnel $82 million dollars through a mysterious media buying company run by Jane’s former colleagues. That company, known as Olde Towne Media, was located in private home in a cul de sac in Virginia.

<><>As mayor of Burlington, VT, Bernie Sanders appointed his wife to an initially unpaid position in his municipal administration. Against the city council’s objections, he later put her on the payroll at local taxpayers’ expense.

<><>Schweizer recalled Jane Sanders’ previous role as head of Burlington College, a private school with fewer than 200 students. One of the college’s board members admitted that hiring Jane Sanders was a function of her marriage to Bernie Sanders — then a member of House of Representatives from Vermont — believing it would help the school’s fundraising endeavors.

<><>Despite its financial difficulties at the time, in 2009, Burlington College contracted with an unaccredited woodworking school run by Jane Sanders’ daughter, Carina Driscoll. Over $500,000 was funneled to from Burlington College to the woodworking school.

<><>“Carina Sanders' Driscoll school also received at least one federal grant from the US Department of Agriculture,” added Schweizer, noting that Bernie Sanders had oversight over the USDA’s funding at the time as a member of the Senate Budget Committee.

<><> “I don’t believe in Charity,” said Bernie Sanders while mayor of Burlington. Schweizer concluded, “While Sanders may not be a fan of charity, he seems to have no problem awarding jobs and contracts to those closest to him.” “The biggest charity in Bernie’s life is Bernie,” said Schweizer in January.

Read the full video report’s transcript here (link at web site).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/13/swamp-report-peter-schweizer-reveals-how-bernie-sanders-enriches-his-family-with-campaign-funds/

28 posted on 02/25/2020 6:47:33 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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29 posted on 02/25/2020 6:51:57 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: karpov

There needs to be a serious concerted effort to turn Vermont red.

Surplus republicans nationally need to obtain residency in Vermont and vote sanders out and put in a hard core conservative.

50k people is all it would take.

It’s much easier than turning Texas blue. Vermonters like guns and dislike illegal immigration.


30 posted on 02/25/2020 6:52:25 AM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: karpov

We lifted the Chinese people out of poverty.

Ask any Wal-Mart employee.


31 posted on 02/25/2020 6:54:28 AM PST by moovova
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To: karpov

He’s after the illegal vote.


32 posted on 02/25/2020 6:55:44 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Leep

The dirty “not so secret” of Chinese economic success is forcing 2/3rds of its population to remain in small town and rural areas, with very little opportunity to improve their lives. Horrendous working conditions, lack of health care and education, little infrastructure. These are the people that mine the coal, grow the crops (many on poisoned land), and do the hard lifting necessary to support the westernized cities. Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, etc., could not survive if there was true freedom of movement within China. They would be overwhelmed by country folk seeking opportunity in the cities. The Chinese government considers these people expendable which, come to think of it, is the exact same attitude of the Democrat coastal elites in the United States.


33 posted on 02/25/2020 7:02:35 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Obama was not as blatant as Sanders, though.


34 posted on 02/25/2020 7:03:03 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: alloysteel

brand of economic theory known as capitalism.
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‘capitalism’ is term coined by K Marx (with J Stalin, one of Bernie’s heroes) - best to use the more accurate argument winning phrase ‘free market’


35 posted on 02/25/2020 7:03:30 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: karpov

How about the people Castro and Che put in the ground? Will Bernie defend that?


36 posted on 02/25/2020 7:08:57 AM PST by Spok
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To: CatOwner

Neither do they think like Comrade Bernie

And your point is....

Virtually every “Democrat” when asked what they would do if Bernie is the candidate is to vote for anyone BUT Bernie, or not vote

The ones who look at him lovingly as Comrade Bernie are in the minority

Period


37 posted on 02/25/2020 7:22:20 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: PghBaldy

Yes. Obama was smart enough to keep it somewhat hidden and he had some charisma to a lot of rubes.


38 posted on 02/25/2020 7:36:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Saltmeat

You said what I was going to say.

The only thing I would add is that we also hurt our Middle and Working classes and our governments lost a lot of tax payers in the process.


39 posted on 02/25/2020 7:38:50 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: karpov

Before Castro, Cuba was the third most prosperous country in this hemisphere.

Compare it to any other Latin American country at the time, and then look at how others have progressed since then. They have left it in the dust.

Chile, once they got rid of the communists... Colombia, once they got rid of FARC and the drug lords... Many of these countries are places that people immigrate to. Argentina almost collapsed entirely, under their “Obamas”, but its still a country others move *to*... Venezuela used to weep for their poverty before Chavez (back when they were merely petro-socialist), but thanks again to the communist mafia have been driven into the dirt.

Leftists have romanticized the utter destruction Castro brought to the country, and they have libeled what Cuba was and what it would have become without the communists. Don’t like Batista? They prospered then, and in any case, he’d have been long dead by now.


40 posted on 02/25/2020 7:56:30 AM PST by marron
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