November 15, 2024

"So what happened in this campaign is Donald Trump said to the American people, you are angry. You're really pissed off."

"And I know that, and you're right. And then he gave his explanation and his explanation, which was obviously nonsense and false and racist, et cetera, was that millions and millions of undocumented people were coming across the border. They were invading. America, we're an occupied country. They were taking your jobs, taking your benefits, eating your cats and your dogs. That is why you are hurting. Now, that is a crazy explanation, but it is an explanation. Now you tell me what the Democratic explanation was.... Well, the Democratic explanation was, hey, we have passed some good things, very important things in the Biden administration, which happens to be true.... There was no appreciation — no appreciation — of the struggling and the suffering of millions and millions of working class people.... You know, you can't fight something with nothing. You gotta have an alternative vision. Trump had his vision. It was incorrect, it was dishonest. It was in many cases racist and sexist. He had a vision, he had an explanation. To my view, Democrats really did not."

Said Bernie Sanders, in the new episode of the NYT "Daily" podcast, "Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way."

68 comments:

Lexington Green said...

Bernie is right Trump had a vision and is a brazen liar when he says it was "racist" -- record numbers of Black and Hispanic voters proves that. Ds still cannot face reality.

Jersey Fled said...

I hope the Democrats keep believing the kind of BS Bernie is peddling.

Quaestor said...

Bernie is completely wrong. He understands very little as a rule, but this time he's 180 degrees out of phase of REALITY.

The Democrats haven't lost their way. They chose their way and stayed on it all the way to the edge of the cliff and over it and all the way down to smash on the rocks far below. November 5 wasn't an accident. It was suicide.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"millions and millions of undocumented people were coming across the border. They were invading. America, we're an occupied country. They were taking your jobs, taking your benefits, eating your cats and your dogs."

Millions and millions of illegal immigrants have come across the border and have by all jurisdictional law and legal precedent invaded (and would be considered invaders if this was any other country than the USA). America is an occupied country, both by elitist idiots and people who don't belong here, who are in fact working jobs that are illegal, are taking benefits that would've otherwise gone to actual citizens, and not only eat cats and dogs, but other pets as well.

Couldn't have said it better Bernie!

rhhardin said...

$1.8 trillion in new regulatory costs isn't helping

RideSpaceMountain said...

Bernie Sanders is the archetypal boomer communist, the type whose croaking I can't wait to hear reported. Not just an idiot, but a coward (...look what he let his own party do to him) and a traitor as well.

chuck said...

Did Bernie put forth his own vision? Can't argue religion without the vision.

Sebastian said...

"his explanation, which was obviously nonsense and false and racist, et cetera, was that millions and millions of undocumented people were coming across the border". Do progs believe their own BS? Though it violates the Althouse theorem, it would explain a lot. And lucky for us deplorables. But of course Trump didn't "explain" people's troubles by referring to illegal immigration, and of course as a matter of fact millions of "undocumented" people did cross the border.

Bob Boyd said...

Once again the explanation is, Trump voters are stupid, racists and
the Dems have been working hard to help the ungrateful Trump voters but they just didn’t get their message out.

RideSpaceMountain said...

High On Their Own Supply
If they want to be HOTOS
They should never be POTUS.

RCOCEAN II said...

I was actually rooting Bernie in 2016. I thought he was a sincere leftist who'd shake things up if elected. Sure, I wouldn't like a lot of what he'd do, but given the alternative was Hillary....

Now, Ive become the hate the faker. After throwing 2016, he refused to hit Biden hard in 2020, and is now a sellout. Even worse, he's a liar. The massive influx of immigrants, legal and illegal, lowers wages and hurts the people here already. That's econ 101. Increase supply of labor = lower wages. And help bust unions. Not to mention 3rd world immigration, increases racial tensions, and many of these "salt of the earth" illegals end up committing crimes or going on Food stamps, welfare, etc.

That's why all the Billionaires agree with Bernie: Keep those millions of illegal pouring in. "Socialist bernie" and Billionaires agree. LOL!

And of course, he's big phony on Foreign policy too. Strangely silent on Genocide in Gaza aren't you Bernie? And rather muted on Ukraine, eh what? Like Rand Paul on the Right, Bernie is just all talk and no action.

So, he statement that "there's a problem that needs to be addressed" is actually correct. Its just he's not the one to correct it.

RideSpaceMountain said...

"Why aren't we 50 points ahead!?!" - Bernie & Co.

Tomcc said...

In my area of the PNW, Democratic candidates were saying that they were working on making the border secure in their advertising. They heard the message. Reversing Trump's border policies was not the only terrible decision visited upon us by the Biden-Harris administration, but it resonated with a lot of the populace.

boatbuilder said...

Just a figment of the imagination of all those deplorable bigots, clinging to guns and God.
Sure, Bernie. In Vermont, that sells.

Robert Cook said...

Nothing can or will bring home the vast calamity of Trump's election but the actual results that will issue from Trump's appointments and policies he and they will bring down on all our heads. Our only hope is that Trump is as lazy and ineffective as he was in his first term in actually accomplishing his promises. It's easier for him just to claim he did something than actually to do it, and that has been a hallmark of his career. After all, he's really in it for the scam, to walk away at the end with filthy (foreign) lucre in hand.

wild chicken said...

Didn't he used to be an immigration restrictionist himself? For the workers! What a phony.

Mikey NTH said...

Wow, Trump really broke Robert Cook. 😶

West TX Intermediate Crude said...

The same people who are pissed off that American voters chose Trump are the ones that are PO'd that Trump is doing what he said he would do once elected.
That includes nominating a cabinet that pisses those people off.
Those people can just piss off.
I'm fine with Tulsi and Matt and Pete and anyone else that our President elect wants to appoint. They could never do as bad a job as the present people have done.

rehajm said...

That rotten constituency Bernie! You should go ice fishing on thin ice…

Former Illinois resident said...

Bernie with his millions, pretending to be friend of the working-class folks. Phew! He got the Democratic side sorta right, about passing stuff important to Democrats, catering to the rich guys and ignoring the working-class peoples. Fundamental problem here for Democrats is that they like the huge campaign contributions from the corporations, the fed unions, the AWFLs and their spouses, but only pander to the working-class with empty words and virtue-signaling lectures.

n.n said...

It was incorrect, it was dishonest. It was in many cases racist and sexist. He had a vision, he had an explanation.

Biden et al were motivated by Diversity: racism, sexism, etc.? Yes, they were. Also, American Civil Liberties Unburdened, Special Peculiar Liberal Corporate interests, Catastrophic Anthropogenic Immigration Reform, human rites, redistributive change, Democratic gerrymandering, etc. The Iranian-backed genocide in Gaza, the Western-backed Spring in Ukraine, and black lives don't matter in Sudan... slavery in China, boys in girls' spaces, faces, excess murder, rape-rape, rape, and other criminal progress exercised with liberal license in sanctuary states. The "burden' of evidence aborted and sequestered in darkness to protect rabid Diversitists operating for and non-profit.

Dixcus said...

These people are LITERALLY taking benefits (Obamaphones, pre-loaded debit cards, free housing in hotels paid for by taxpayers).

First thing Eric Adams did after Trump was elected was cut off the debit cards.

Bernie Sanders is full of shit. Trump didn't make this stuff up. It's in the frigging newspapers every day.

AMERICA.

FIRST.

ASSHOLES.

Dixcus said...

Bernie Sanders got a free million-dollar lake house - his THIRD - from Hillary Clinton for running as her opponent in a fake Democrat primary in 2016. It was 100% fake from the get go.

But this time, he got nothing.

If you're wondering why he's butthurt about the primary process this time around.

Maynard said...

I have a simple rule: Once you play the race card, I assume that you have no coherent argument and I will no longer listen to what you have to say.

Dixcus said...

Democrats told us that men could get pregnant and little boys could decide to cut their wieners off and if we disagreed we would lose our jobs.

F*CK. THAT.

That is not a winning message. That is a message that will get you thrown out of office and that's the BEST outcome you better hope for because we want to do very violent things to you and are holding back. But we will do it if push comes to shove.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

In my area of the PNW as well. It’s all lies as not one of them had done anything of substance. It’s a bit like when Donk candidates say they “support the 2nd Amendment”. It’s absolutely meaningless, but it says something hopeful about the zeitgeist that they felt the need to lie.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Another lying scumbag government parasite popping off delusional horseshit. Sanders is a full of shit asshole.

DanTheMan said...

>>his explanation, which was obviously nonsense and false and racist, et cetera

That "et cetera" gives the game away. He knows that it's all just boilerplate crap that the D's repeat every 4 years.
Maybe if they call us racists even more next time....that will bring us over to their side.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

It is funny how pro forma his comments are.

Racist? Sexist? I’m done here. Give the check to my manager.

As with the Harris candidacy, the Donks are the prisoners of their own bullshit.

Craig Mc said...

By all means lefties, please continue to learn nothing.

Big Mike said...

Trump had his vision.

He did.

It was incorrect,

Politically incorrect, yes, but otherwise no, it wasn’t.

It was dishonest.

No it wasn’t.

It was in many cases racist and sexist.

The black people and Latinos and women who voted for a trump think you’re full of it, Bernie.

He had a vision, he had an explanation. To my view, Democrats really did not..

Yes, Trump had — has — a vision. But wrong about the Democrats — their vision was along the lines of “You think you got it bad now? Just wait!”

RideSpaceMountain said...

Kook was busted long before Trump.

Gospace said...

I just copied that part of Bernie's statement and was going to say the same thing. Now I don't have to. History throughout the age have proved that if you allow "peaceful migrants" to come in to your country, and allow them to keep their original identity- eventually they overthrow the existing establishment. They're invaders, initially, just peaceful. I think it's fair to argue a lot of the South American immigrants aren't even peaceful.

Big Mike said...

Poor Cookie. Poor Bernie. The Workers of the World finally united — behind Donald Trump! People who work for a living (does not include Cookie) want nothing to do with Bernie or Cookie or Karl Marx.

Quaestor said...
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NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

...There was no appreciation — no appreciation — of the struggling and the suffering of millions and millions of working class people....

He got that part right, but the rest is one yuge crock of shit!

RideSpaceMountain said...

The liberal world order and the revelation of its insanity and inefficacy will continue apace along with its eventual collapse. We haven't even seen the best parts yet. Once the momentum of its collapse really hits home people like Bernie will be dead and his acolytes will cease making death threats and throwing shade on social media and begin the violent street/color revolution they really want...you've tasted a toned-down version of this already several times since skittles-lover Trayvon Martin.

They're unable to learn from this. Not only has this crested, we're nowhere near the summit. Keep your swords bright.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Trillions in damage to our social order through neglectful immigration is ok with these old farts. I expect "the people" will go crazy when the bills start coming due. With Trump in charge, those costs will be made very public.

doctrev said...

Bernie Sanders was always a fake grifter, and I'm astonished that you of all people would fall for his obvious schtick. I think his miraculous pro-Gaza "anti-establishment" pose is the most ridiculous switch since Thomas Friedman pretended to become an environmentalist. Well why not?! Everything else he's done is absolutely shot!

BUMBLE BEE said...

There are reasons no one has described the invasion funding.

Lucien said...

Quaestor: 90 degrees out of phase.

Lucien said...

Quaestor: 90 degrees out of phase.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Also, there's still no appreciation of what the average American is going through.

Skeptical Voter said...

Ah Bernie--spouting nonsense like a android Vesuvius. There's a reason why the Dims were so scared of him that they all fell in line behind Senile Old Joe in 2016.

donald said...

BernIs is forever nothing but a corrupt dirty filthy communist.

Koot Katmandu said...

Bernie only half gets it. Yeah we are angry about the economy but just as angry at being called a racist every day day. We want controlled immigration and do not give a rats what color they are.

Dixcus said...

The drug cartels are laundering to the DNC via ActBlue small donation money laundering. So Democrats had no choice but to open the border. The drug cartels are making BILLIONS trafficking humans.

Narr said...

I just got here and haven't read the comments, so maybe someone has already suggested a 'fight something with nothing' tag?

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...
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tcrosse said...

Bernie's idea of working people is Chad and Buffy, who met at Harvard and left their high pressure jobs on Wall Street to move to Vermont, raise llamas, make artisanal cheese, and write childrens books.

Quaestor said...

Lucien, it's reality I'm talking about, not a sine wave.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

The corrupt left cannot stop calling Trump a "racist" and a "misogynist". So so so Tired and lazy and lame.
LOSE HARDER, ASSHOLES.

Leland said...

Hey Bernie, Democrats ordered a SWAT team to kill a squirrel. It really takes the wind out of countering the dogs and cats stuff.

tcrosse said...

Trump has been called worse things by better people.

Moondawggie said...

Well, it's good to have lots of trust funds...

Kakistocracy said...

The Washington-based Democratic party has become the party of wealth concentration. The median American family has not been able to keep up with the Joneses of the Upper East Side for several decades while their economic insecurity has rapidly grown. Health care is a source of insecurity, not security, while the prospect of children someday being able to buy a house in a nice neighborhood as diminished by the year. Ruchir Shamar's column last week dramatically showed how the "good life" has been concentrated in the top 20 percent while the bottom 40 percent have been diminished while the middle languishes.
The US economic boom is a mirage
https://www.ft.com/content/8af2ad3b-dca0-4add-bbc8-55fc28184f34

Rana Foroohar's column last week had some great insights into America now following the PE model while excess leverage runs wild (guaranteeing yet another Washington mediated financial crisis). Trump will cede the entire global shift towards green industry to Chinese leadership and as this sector takes hold in the Global South while the advanced economies wall themselves off behind protectionism to the biggest industrial shift of this century. The discontent is just beginning. When America goes Peronista, then the next Argentina can't be far behind.

America Inc’s new CEO https://www.ft.com/content/d3b6af49-f6fe-4cd7-905b-1ba853b002d5

Ampersand said...

The career of Bernie Sanders is powerful testimony to the hypocrisy, credulousness and foolishness of the people of Vermont. Why don't they try Socialism in One State? Then we'll see what True Socialism really looks like. All that trust fund money should be redistributed.

Drago said...

"Poor Cookie. Poor Bernie. The Workers of the World finally united — behind Donald Trump! People who work for a living (does not include Cookie) want nothing to do with Bernie or Cookie or Karl Marx."

It truly is so very magnificently perfect that the working class has coaliesced almost fully behind Trump while the utterly exposed fake wannabe Parisian cafe-beret-wearing marxist "Rebel" against the man" Cookie turned out to be just another NPC foot soldier.

It's so perfect really.

Drago said...

LLR-democratical Rich quoting others: "The discontent is just beginning. When America goes Peronista, then the next Argentina can't be far behind."

LOL

Can you beieve this crap?

The "next Argentina" was at Mar a Lago last night and hugging Trump as the steps taken to rescue Argentinian society begins to really take hold there.

Thanks for playing Abacus Boy! Again!

traditionalguy said...

Trump gave a true diagnosis and has a Rx to cure a dying patient.

you cannot fool Musk, RFKjr, Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan and me with the crap Bernie slanders Our leader with.

AndrewV said...

It says something then the Senates resident communist says the Democrats have done too far left.

Hassayamper said...

After all, he's really in it for the scam, to walk away at the end with filthy (foreign) lucre in hand.

... He claimed without evidence.

In reality, Trump's net worth has gone down by something like $1.5 billion thanks to his service to the nation. Few have ever given up more for their country in monetary terms, and he damn near sacrificed his life too.

Dave Begley said...

I think a big part of Bernie’s scam is that, I think, his wife “owns” an advertising agency and the agency got a commission on all the presidential campaign ads. Bernie is very rich considering that he’s a communist. Hypocrite.

Dave Begley said...

Isn’t Bernie Jewish? Jews who hate Israel are losers.

Maynard said...

People are unfair calling Bernie a hypocrite for being a millionaire Socialist with three homes, all earned from government jobs.

That is what Marxism is all about. Workers of the world unite ... to support and enrich their masters in government.

I suspect that Cook knows that. He will finally become wealthy (and gain all the power and respect he truly deserves) when we become a socialist Utopia and he is elevated to one of our masters.

Creola Soul said...

The Ds are like the NTSB guys….they’re looking at the wreckage, waiting on it to cool enough so they can dig out the black box and see what went wrong.

Creola Soul said...

The Ds are like the NTSB guys….they’re looking at the wreckage, waiting on it to cool enough so they can dig out the black box and see what went wrong.

walter said...

Note Rogan was a Berno Bro because he seems so nice.