Bernie Sanders loves the idea of greedy, corrupt institutions. He just wants to run them.
Tickets to see Bernie Sanders in “It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism” are available on Ticketmaster for only $95 to anyone who wants front row seats. Members of the oppressed working classes willing to settle for Seat 208 in Row C can get away with paying as little as $35.
That’s in a city where the black median household income is $45,000 a year.
The event at D.C. Anthem theater promises to be a “progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo.” The co-owner of the theater pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution when he told a massage therapist that he would give her a higher tip “if she were ‘willing to go a little higher’”. He’s also a donor to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. No word on how high she’s been willing to go.
Bernie’s prostitution career is more glamorous with a theater event promoting his book, but the difference between him and the theater’s massage therapist is he’s always willing to go higher.
“It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism”, Bernie’s latest book, which sells for $30 on Amazon, is being published by German ex-Nazi woke publisher Bertelsmann. At $95 for the seat and $30 for the book, that’s a $125 denunciation of the wickedness of capitalism. (Plus another $27 for the t-shirt.) Truly, as Bernie calls it, “a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed.”
When there aren’t enough suckers walking the streets of D.C., the Bernie book tour goes international with an appearance at London’s Royal Festival Hall where tickets are going for £52. A socialist denouncing capitalism on behalf of capitalists at a royal hall defies satire. But Bernie’s wealth is built on getting his followers to pay millions to corporations to read his denunciations of corporations which he can’t abolish as long as they’re paying him his cut.
Bernie’s greed has churned out a series of books with disclosed and undisclosed collaborators who probably did most of the writing, and made him a millionaire with three homes.
After being challenged over his wealth, Bernie Sanders snapped, “I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”
“It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism” claims that “unfettered capitalism is to blame for an unprecedented level of income and wealth inequality”. Unless it makes you a millionaire.
How do you become a radical millionaire author? It helps to start with millions in campaign funds. As critics noted, “Sanders spent almost $445,000 of his donors’ campaign funds with Verso Books, the publisher of Outsider in the White House.”
Bernie Sanders has written quite a few books. “Our Revolution”, available in print and audiobook, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, netted him a $795,000 advance. That book and “Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance” were written for an American subsidiary of Germany’s Holtzbrinck Group. After Holtzbrinck made him a millionaire, he turned to another German megacorporation, Bertelsmann, to make him even richer by bashing capitalism.
But it’s okay for Bernie Sanders to have three houses. It’s okay for him to make millions from German companies. But it’s not okay for you to make money. And it’s okay for his supporters, who are putting money in the pockets of a multinational ex-Nazi company to be angry at you.
Bernie has a plan to replace capitalism and a habit of dealing with some of the most abusive companies around. Ticketmaster was recently the subject of Senate hearings and it took Department of Justice anti-trust intervention to keep Bertelsmann from gobbling up what’s left of American publishing. The socialist politician could go with smaller companies, independent presses and ticket sale venues, but instead he’s getting as much money as he can while hurting small business, writers and musicians by getting into bed with monopolies. And then attacking those same monopolies as if he weren’t enabling them for his own personal gain.
The promo for Bernie’s claim that he “takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people.” But he is the 1%. His greed is not only uncontrolled, but it’s completely detached from any kind of productive labor.
The blunt truth is that Bernie Sanders is a fraud. And always has been.
The co-author of “It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism”, John Harrison Nichols, a hack for The Nation, likely did the actual writing while Bernie posed for a black-and-white cover shot that shows him fussily rolling up one sleeve to do the work that he didn’t actually do.
Despite doing nothing, there’s a massive infrastructure of organizations around Bernie.
Take the Sanders Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, funded by the Sanders campaign, whose fellows include his wife, AOC, Robert Reich, white BLM leader Shaun King, and antisemitic 9/11 truther Cornel West. Its executive director is David Driscoll, Bernie’s stepson. His stepdaughter, Carina Driscoll, tried to run for mayor of Burlington, his old job, with the backing of his political operation.
Bernie Sanders has turned politics into a personal grift for his family in the classic dynastic style. And he’s managed to get very rich denouncing capitalism. Actually putting his name on a book about how much capitalism sucks on behalf of a multinational ex-Nazi corporation that faced anti-trust action perfectly captures every rotten thing that he represents.
It’s okay to loathe, revile, despise and be angry about Bernie Sanders. But Bernie is just characteristic of socialism. Out front are the promises of a brave new utopia, just pay the man. Socialists enable the worst behavior of capitalists and then claim to offer a better answer. Their better answer eventually involves taking all the money, locking it in a box and shooting anyone it used to belong to. All of Bernie’s tantrums about capitalism come down to this simple fact.
Bernie Sanders loves the idea of giant unaccountable institutions robbing people blind. He just wants to be in charge of them. And that’s the corrupt hypocrisy of socialism in a nutshell.
There’s no more liberation here than paying 95 bucks to listen to Bernie ramble about evil corporations like the ones who are helping him pay for a fourth house or whatever he wants.
It’s okay to be angry about socialism. Capitalism has its flaws, but for outright corruption, thievery, greed and megalomania, there’s nothing like socialism. Socialism has killed more people in one year than capitalism has killed in a century. And, as Benie’s entire existence reminds us, it can never be anything other than a parasite living off productive people.
drljr says
The problem is Socialist, like Bernie Sanders, work hard to eliminate real capitalism to insure they stay in control and rule people. And keep in mind people on what is called the “Left” often call other “Left” groups that are inconvenient to the “Left”‘s agenda due to honesty as being on the “Right”. The classic group is the “National Aryan Worker Socialist Party” also known as the “National German Socialist Workers Party” (i.e. NAZI Party). People need to look at Socialism always produces. And one group to look at is the Pilgrims and the “Mayflower Compact”. It was an early attempt at the concept Socialist promote as their real agenda.
tgusa says
Really old white guy wants to steal from future generations. The clown never held a real job in his life (a perfect democrat) so of course he wants to steal from all of them. Why is he still alive? One would think the covid or the vax would have taken the ancient fool.
ME Infidel says
An 82 year old grifter who shows no signs of slowing down.
“It is hard to imagine a more or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” -Thomas Sowell
Keep on electing him and his ilk and America will soon disappear.
milo minderbinder says
ME Infidel,
+1
The quote from Thomas Sowell sums the situation up perfectly.
And yes, by continuing to elect miscreants like Bernie Sanders, the USA will soon disappear. Sadly, isn’t that what happened in the 2022 midterms?
For example, there were 28 people up for reelection in the Senate, according to the grading system by the people at Conservative Review – https://www.conservativereview.com/ – 15 of these people had a failing grade F. Yet, every one of them was reelected, proving once again Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity – “Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result,” is an accurate assessment.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
After the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, I never thought that Communism would ever be a credible ideology anywhere in the world, much less the West. I should have seen the warning signals when I noticed the Leftist leanings of academia once I got into college in New Mexico
Cue 30 years, and people like AOC, Katie Holmes and so on are just prettier (and more vacuous) versions of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Only difference, and the thing in their favor, is that the Corporate West has co-opted the Communists, and now openly bankroll them! In the process, any support that free market capitalists like me had for all those major corporations went up in smoke
Essentially, we’ve gone from a Corporate West that was apolitical to the point of being amorally so to one that is so woke that we’re gonna need 2 economies – one for the woke crowd, and another for the freedom loving traditional crowd. Long term, I see countries splitting along political lines
OLD GUY says
Bernie Sanders idea is to become wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone he can confiscate money and property from, the good old communist ideology. Keep taking from the poor to keep them poor and under your control.
Scotsman48 says
Socialism is taking money away from people who have earned it and handing it over to people who haven’t.
The useful idiots that pay to go and listen to this old bag of crap are the people that follow such a hypocritical old fart.
He knows he has fooled many, just look at his followers… Fools all.
Communism is against human nature.