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NEWS: Sanders Statement on the Results of the 2024 Presidential Election
November 6, 2024
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election:
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.
Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.
Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.
Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.
Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government's all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.
Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power?
Probably not.
In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.
Stay tuned.
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I WROTE MUCH MORE ABOUT BERNIE
BELOW IS A SAMPLE- JAMES PITCHERELLA
No single reason explains why America’s life expectancy has declined, with chronic disease, poor nutrition, insufficient access to care and political decisions all linked to premature deaths. There also is no single strategy to turn it around — and no agreement on how to do it. Some public health leaders and policymakers have called for sweeping reforms to how the health-care system operates, while others home in on discrete factors such as lethal drug overdoses, which have spiked in recent years and received considerable attention but are not solely responsible for the decline in life expectancy.
The paralysis over how to address the nation’s declining life expectancy extends to Congress, where a handful of lawmakers — mostly Democrats — have repeatedly portrayed the slide as a crisis, but most other lawmakers have said little or nothing.
“We don’t talk about life expectancy, because it just makes it clear what kind of failed system we currently have,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has repeatedly warned about the rise in premature deaths, including organizing a July 2021 Senate hearing on the issue. Just 11 of the panel’s 18 senators attended, several only briefly; just five asked questions.
“I talk to other senators about life expectancy data and watch their eyes glaze over,” Warren said.
FROM:
The Washington Post
America has a life expectancy crisis. But it’s not a political priority.
December 28, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST
Actually there is a single is a single reason why "America has a life expectancy crisis. We don't have Medicare For All.
If the Democratic Party had let primaries chose a president instead of inserting Hillary Clinton we would have had President Bernie Sanders.
The Peter Thiel/Harlin Crow Nazis would have remained scurrying in the dark recesses of the billionaire class.
Instead the United States is a Republican Nazi horror show.
Kevin DeAnna – who met with Thiel on the evening of July 29, 2016, in the midst of the 2016 election cycle – was not merely a participant in a white supremacist subculture when he met Thiel but also was immersed in its most extreme elements, including literature admired by terrorists. Deanna wrote under the pseudonyms “Gregory Hood” and “James Kirkpatrick” over a decade for white nationalist publications such as VDAREand American Renaissance, as Hatewatch reported in a four-part series published in March 2020. He cited texts like “SIEGE” and used terminology drawn from such other books as “The Turner Diaries” in his work and in private conversation. “The Turner Diaries,” originally published in 1978, has influenced some of the most infamous acts of U.S. domestic terrorism, including the murder of Alan Berg in 1984 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. “SIEGE,” once an obscure neo-Nazi newsletter, has resurfaced in recent years as the preferred text of neo-Nazi terroristic organizations such as the now-defunct Atomwaffen Division.
DeAnna was also connected to people in the U.S. government. About six weeks prior to his meeting with Thiel, DeAnna discussed recruiting for a white nationalist group withState Department official Matthew Q. Gebert. Gebert, who used the pseudonym “Coach Finstock” online, recruited members for “D.C. Helicopter Pilots” – a Virginia and Washington, D.C.-based organizing chapter of white nationalist organization The Right Stuff. Gebert was suspended from his job in the Bureau of Energy Resources, but the State Department has never clarified whether or not he is still being paid.
Hatewatch confirmed reporting first published in Buzzfeed suggesting Thiel met with DeAnna, using a cache of images provided by former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh, who has since renounced white nationalism. McHugh captured a picture of DeAnna’s exchange with Thiel, as well as of several other emails, in August 2016. Hatewatch was able to compare a screenshot of one of these photos, given to us by McHugh in November 2018, with a series of cached images uploaded to her iCloud. Hatewatch has also been able to verify another email thread between DeAnna and his editors at VDARE, a white nationalist website where he wrote under the pseudonym “James Kirkpatrick,” discussing the meeting in the same manner.
MORE AT:
SPLC
White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature
March 18, 2021
By Hannah Gais
"The magazine reported that Crow's collection includes two of Hitler's paintings, a signed copy of Mein Kampf, the fascist dictator's 1925 manifesto, other Nazi trinkets, and a garden filled with statues of some of the most reviled leaders from the 20th Century.
Crow has reportedly said he maintains the controversial collection because he despises communism and fascism...
I still can't get over the collection of Nazi memorabilia," an individual who has remained anonymous and who attended an event at Crow's home told the magazine. "It would have been helpful to have someone explain the significance of all the items. Without that context, you sort of just gasp when you walk into the room."
"The news of Crow's collection comes after a bombshell ProPublica report, which detailed how Thomas has taken luxury vacations funded by the megadonor for more than 20 years without disclosing the excursions. Two ethics law experts told the publication that Thomas appears to have violated a law passed after the 1970s-era Watergate scandal that requires members of the judiciary and members of Congress to report most gifts."
FROM:
Business Insider
John L. Dorman Apr 8, 2023, 3:48 PM EDT
Posted by James Pitcherella at 5:27 PM
FROM:
Thursday, December 28, 2023
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SEE VIDEO BELOW
While Hillary Clinton is running for office the New York Times is worthless for political news. Read it for recipes and fashion news.
Below are the first few lines of the New York Times article buried deep within the Time’s website:
"VATICAN CITY — On Thursday night, Bernie Sanders was standing under the lights in Brooklyn, being pressed by journalists and his rival at the Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton, to provide details about his often-vague policy ideas.
Less than 12 hours later, and more than 4,000 miles away, near the residence of Pope Francis, Mr. Sanders was basking in the attention of appreciative figures from around the world and fielding questions he seemed to enjoy."
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Bernie Sanders Makes Quick Transition From Brooklyn to Rome
The video embedded in the New York Times article does have some very important statements of Mr. Sanders. Those statements don't appear in the text.
The Guardian wrote an article that does not assume the readers are Clinton supporters that work on Wall Street.
The Guardian's article of Bernie Sanders at the Vatican is their lead article.
"Bernie Sanders launched one of the most powerful indictments of modern capitalism of his campaign in the Vatican on Friday, saying that the greatest challenge facing the world was a moral imperative to redirect “our efforts and vision to the common good”.
The sweeping remarks were delivered in the shadow of St Peter’s dome, about an hour after the Democratic presidential candidate touched down in Rome for a short stay in the Eternal City to take part in a Vatican-sponsored academic conference...
But his most effusive praise was reserved for Pope Francis, whom he heralded for raising the “most profound issues” of the day – from the problems of the dispossessed, to the loneliness of the elderly who cannot afford their medication, to the challenge of climate change – with a “vision and articulateness”, while others chose to ignore the issues.
The pope, he said, had tapped into an “instinctual” belief held by many that there was something “profoundly wrong” with society today.
'I have been enormously impressed with Pope Francis speaking out and his visionary views about creating a moral economy, an economy that works for all people, not just the people on top,' Sanders told a group of reporters who had gathered just outside the Vatican gates.
'And what he has said over and over again: we cannot allow the market just to do what the market does, that is not acceptable.”
Bernie Sanders is one of the very few politicians that could have given the speech he wrote in Rome and not be an obvious hypocrite.
If Hillary Clinton said this at the Vatican, it would be a confession:
“Speculation, illicit financial flows, environmental destruction, and the weakening of the rights of workers is far more severe than it was a quarter century ago,” Sanders said. “Financial excesses, indeed widespread financial criminality on Wall Street, played a direct role in causing the world’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.”
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Bernie Sanders stresses 'common good' in Vatican attack on capitalism
Chances are there won't be much mention of Bernie Sanders at the Vatican from American News sources. That is a demonstration of how incredibly corrupt our political system has become.
Posted by James Pitcherella at 3:32 AM
FROM:
Saturday, April 16, 2016
New York Times writes about Bernie’s Roman Holiday. Actual news can be found at The Guardian
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Hillary Clinton has a mammoth political machine backed by a $3 billion personal fortune and Wall St. She is the most wealthy, powerful and feared politician in the United States and possibly the world.
Bernie Sanders tried to nudge the Clinton juggernaut it a little to increase social security, fund education, drop support for the TPP and have Medicare for all. And a $15.00 minimum wage.
He might get the $15.00 minimum wage.
"In the beginning, no one thought Sanders could win—not even Sanders. Unlike Clinton, who has been preparing herself for the grind of her second presidential campaign for years, the Vermont senator split his time between Congress and campaigning in the months after announcing his run.
"He thought he could compete effectively by campaigning about three days a week while the Senate was in session and then making weeklong trips when Congress was on break," the New York Times reported in April. "As a result, he had limited time to campaign in crucial states like South Carolina; he canceled a visit to Charleston in mid-June after the church shootings there, and he did not return to the city until late August."
The problem, according to the Times, was that "he was originally skeptical that he could beat Mrs. Clinton, and his mission in 2015 was to spread his political message about a rigged America rather than do whatever it took to win the nomination." He certainly spread that message, but by the time it became apparent he might have a shot to win the nomination, he wasn't well positioned to actually do so."
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Vice
By Harry Cheadle
But the real story isn't the unexpected success of Sanders or Trump.
No one expected the extreme anger over the coddling of Wall Street master criminals. The master criminals that stole jobs, retirement plans and homes from most of the people of America.
They robbed the American people of the "American Dream"
The deep reservoir of pain, anger and hate of Wall Street master criminals & the politicians that leech off them.
As they moved across America Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump felt rumblings from the reservoir of hurt and hate and dug into it. The gusher of pain, anger, betrayal and hate coming from that reservoir surprised almost everyone. I think it surprised Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
The Sanders and the Trump campaigns were not the usual campaigns of empty platitudes and dry position statements.
Pain, anger, betrayal and hate propelled the Sanders and Trump campaigns. But in markedly different ways.
Since President Nixon's time Republicans had barely hidden suggestions of racism and ethnic hate. Donald Trump made sure that hate had very clear ethnic targets. He shouted out the hate. The overwhelming popularity of Trump's hate speech among registered Republicans revealed the true nature of the Republican Party.
Most politicians were deaf to the rumblings.
If you walked on the ground of America you could hear the rumbling. But politicians were deaf to the problems of ordinary people. They were too busy calling Wall Street bankers, oil and gas companies for handouts.
It seems that politicians and political journalists still don't understand what happened.
It might be that no matter what the results of the election our country is heading into a violent period.
That reservoir of pain, anger and hate could erupt in the form of extreme violence.
I've heard people on TV shows saying there hasn't been an armed insurrection in the United States for more than 100 years. That's not true:
The textile workers strike was a fast moving guerrilla war between working people, factory owners private armies and state militias, police and U.S. Army units across most of the Eastern United States.
A few heavy machine guns were used by all sides in that strike. But guns were strictly regulated in the twenty and thirties. Most common autoloading firearms used today would be illegal in most states in 1934.
If such an uprising were to occur today the increased firepower of small arms and ammunition in the hands of people inclined to hate government could lead to a severe loss of life.
The US national textile workers' strike, 1934 - Jeremy Brecher
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Thursday, July 4, 2019
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