I know. He sounds entitled. I see that being mocked at Instapundit — "FIGHTING THE OLIGARCHY LOOKS A LITTLE… OLIGARCHIC" — but I just want to join the pile on so I can comment on the language: "sitting on a waiting line, at United, waiting."Bernie Sanders: "You think I should wait on line at United? No apologies for my private jets."
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1. There's no sitting. One stands in line.
2. A line's a line. It's not a "waiting line." Is there some other line that could be relevant to this discussion? I know there's line dancing. For the annals of Things I Asked Grok: "When can people be in a line that is not for the purpose of waiting?" There are a few things — military formations, dance formations, games, team-building exercises, protests, picket lines, posing for photographs, walking on a narrow trail — but none of these other possibilities make Sanders's use of "waiting line" sound idiomatic. People say "I was waiting in line" — or, in New York, "waiting on line" — but not "I was in a waiting line" — and "I was sitting on a waiting line" is, to my ear, weird, as if dealing with lines is so alien to Sanders that he can't call to mind the words ordinary people use.
3. There's that extra "waiting." He tells us what he'd be doing while "sitting on a waiting line": He he'd be waiting. The repetition of the word "waiting" suggests that he feels it has an immense power.
4. In context, however, he makes perfect sense. Play the clip. He's talking about getting to events where 30,000 people are waiting for him. Any delay for him should be multiplied by 30,000. An extra hour in the airport for me or you is only one lost hour. But for Bernie, it's 30,000 human hours lost.
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First among equals.
Imagine a world in which we have such advanced technology that a politician could talk to 30,000 people remotely, without the need to travel and burn all that carbon. Oh to live in such a world.
Bernie's Oligarchy whining... thru the ages.
Poor Bernie - still obedient and loyal to the party that screwed him over.
Journalistic malpractice not to follow up with, “Ah, so you’re saying that flying private is excusable because your mission is so important, with no time to waste. Doesn’t every oligarch, as you call them, feel the same?”
He should sit in one of his three mansions and campaign from one of those. This is another example of rules for thee, but none for me that the elites throw in our faces every day, whilst they have the NERVE to lecture us about our carbon footprint??
I won't stand on a hot stove until Bernie figures it out. His appeal becomes more selective as this continues.
His attitude is directly responsible for the decades long mess at DCA, and the resulting near-collisions and actual deaths. He should GFH.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. --George Orwell
An old communist trying to justify a long life devoted to hate and envy, and personal enrichment.
Youtube - owned by Google(D) dutifully removed all the "Millionaire and Billionaire" Bitching by Bernie.
LOL.
Only Bernie's "Billionaire" bitching is still allowed... but even that is mostly "disappeared."
A blast from 1985 showing the hypocritical Bernie “l need three house” Sanders:
"You know, it's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food," Sanders said. "That's a good thing. In other countries people don't line up for food. The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death."
Lines for the average citizens, no lines for the oligarch.
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Yea - capitalism is like the Cops. Easy to hate on it until you need it.
But if I’m getting this right, he had to fly private to be in multiple states so he could spread a message that’s demonizes others who fly private. He flies private, in order to restrict other peoples ability to fly private. It’s always OTHER people who are greedy…how convenient.
He's talking about getting to events where 30,000 people are waiting for him. Any delay for him should be multiplied by 30,000. An extra hour in the airport for me or you is only one lost hour. But for Bernie, it's 30,000 human hours lost.
Or he could schedule events so that there are not 30,000 people waiting for him to board a plane elsewhere to fly to where they are waiting - you know, get there the night before or something. Particularly when he is not up for reelection until 2030.
Waiting for the next "Blue suit" moment. Then = dutiful leftist pouncing! Oligarchy!
The waiting is not at the United gate. It's at the TSA. He's skipping the aspect of flying that's most burdensome for regular people.
Maybe he means he would be sitting while one of his assistants would actually be standing in line for him.
Some animals are more equal than others.
The waiting is not at the United gate. It's at the TSA. He's skipping the aspect of flying that's most burdensome for regular people.
@Kate, damned right!
It would appear that United Airlines does not recognize the Importance of being Bernie. Besides, Bernie is in that age group where he gets to board first, needing ' a little extra time'.
In context, however, he makes perfect sense. Play the clip. He's talking about getting to events where 30,000 people are waiting for him. Any delay for him should be multiplied by 30,000. An extra hour in the airport for me or you is only one lost hour. But for Bernie, it's 30,000 human hours lost.
@Althouse, so is there some reason why he cannot plan ahead and put some slack into his schedule to allow for the possibility of delays? Besides the obvious fact that he’s a dim lightbulb, I mean.
What Kate said (evergreen statement). TSA was the longest queue for my recent travel. Also, I believe the airlines refer to the line to board the aircraft as the boarding line. Some may call it a embarkation line for a sense of adventure.
Poor poor sad government whore. boo hoo.
Get a real job.
"Sittin on a waitin line" sounds Dylanesque. Fake-but-real dialect; extra words to fit the meter.
Oh I was sittin on a waitin line in DCA
They told me United had one more delay
So I turned to my best amiga AOC
"Thirty thousand's waitin on you an me"
...best I could do on short notice.
JSM
The old Bernie of 2016 would have used the waiting in line for hours to get even more exposure for his cause. Imagine the viral videos that would proliferate if Bernie flew coach to his Eat the Rich rallies! He doesn't quite care as much as he used to.
Bernie's a fake and always has been. He talks of economic populism and blathers about the "Working class" but votes with Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Senator Billionaires and millionaires. He threw the election in 2016, and refused to attack Biden in 2020.
Funny he won't wait in an Airport line because, usually, socialists love their lines. Rationed, socialized "medicine" in Canada, Sweden, UK.... socialized food lines in Germany and Russia remember all the fun that caused?
Yes those national socialists luuuuuvvvvvv their lines! <3
Having said that, I agree with Sanders that its stupid to expect Senators to "fly commerical". Assuming they can have someone finance their private Jet travel. Or they can pay it out of their own pocket.
Get a real job.
@Peachy, he can’t. He’s never had any job that wasn’t a political office. (You can look it up.). In the 1970s he was thrown out of a Vermont commune for shirking his chores. (See We Are as Gods, available from the Althouse Amazon portal.)
That’s the thing about Marxists; they all assume they would — rightly — be in the Nomenklatura. In fact, they’d be serfs.
Not only will 30,000 human hours be lost if Bernie has to stand in a boarding line at United Airlines. 30,000 human hours will also be lost the minute Ol Bernie opens his yap at the rally.
Send him to Russia permanently. Let him take his grifted wealth and buy a dacha where he can revel in his desired lifestyle as an actual oligarch. Until he has an unfortunate window accident.
Hitler didn’t stand in line.
Isn’t that how you play the game?
Thirty-three comments and no one's mentioned Jasmine Crockett's approach to the problem? It's only been two days since she was filmed shoving in front of two passengers in wheelchairs to get on a flight in Atlanta. Is Bernie's approach better or worse than hers? Discuss.
If someone is waiting an hour for Bernie Sanders, they don't have anything to do in the first place.
Back in the 1980's when he was the mayor of Burlington, this worthless heap of shit lauded the government of Nicaragua for forcing its people to stand in line for bread rations.
Leftists LOVE it when basic human needs are doled out at the whim of government commissars and apparatchiks. It is a great help to them in maintaining their tyranny over the population.
When he started out in Vermont he had an anything for a buck business, it’s as if Larry of Larry, Daryl, and Daryl, got elected to the Senate.
I was just driving in a car with a Bernie guy. We noticed a sweet vintage pickup, and he commented about how overdone modern pickups are, which I agree with, I don’t mind that they exist, I just wish they still made the simple ones. Anyway, I didn’t ask him if that means he was MAGA now.
"Do you know who I am!"
Ah, yes. The ol' "Affairs of State" excuse.
As someone alluded to above: does he only get on the flight after the 30,000 people are already assembled?
Or is it that the 30,000 are already on a flight or bus to the rally location, when he has to depart?
Bernie is a Socialist, Man of the PEOPLE..
that Means, that he flies Private (or USAF) jets.
He's NEVER been in a waiting line, in his life; so he Doesn't know if you sit or stand.
ps. in the unlikely event, that he DID have to take a airliner, he'd be in 1st class, and AGAIN wouldn't have to wait..
But seriously, he's got the USAF to fly him around
“There's no sitting. One stands in line.”
Back in the days of my youth, I remember going with some friends to buy tickets for a concert. The box office opened at 9. We got there before 6, and there was already an orderly line of people there who had camped out the night before. Some were still sleeping in tents. Others were sitting on folding chairs. We went to the end of the line, sat on the ground and played euchre for the next couple of hours. Almost nobody was standing. If we weren’t waiting in line, what were we doing?
Related to Big Mike’s response to Althouse point number 4, I don’t recall John Madden being late and holding up football games with larger crowds. Madden didn’t like flying and took the bus.
It is simple planning, which socialist claim to be good at doing yet never seem to be.
Maybe he should sweep through with an entourage, like Jasmine Crockett is fond of doing. She goes straight in from the front, with her luggage and her support team, while all the wheelchair folks and active duty service members and people with babies watch, waiting their turn in the Proper Order of Things.
We can all be equal, as long as she's first.
"It's not a "waiting line."
It's probably a translation issue. Not all Soviet-era idioms convert seamlessly to English.
He should just send his waving right arm and hand ahead via UPS to make sure it gets their on time. The rest of him could show up late. Everyone is there to see him waving that arm and hand around. Not even sure they hear the words coming from the other part of his body.
Funny. People attack Trump all the time. Yet, when you watch Trump, even in his 90 minute take-all-questions press conferences, Trump is full of humor, smiles, wry comments, candor, more smiles, long stories.
Then there's Bernie. Bernie is always miserable. Looks miserable. Sounds miserable. He is just a 60s activist who simply cannot stop. It's the New York in him. He is such a classic leftist raised in New York. And he can't help himself. Miserable is a state of being to these people. Waving his right arm, ranting about EVERYTHING. He'd make the sunrise seem like a bad thing.
“ An extra hour in the airport for me or you is only one lost hour. But for Bernie, it's 30,000 human hours lost.”
30,000 Bernie-bro hours lost sounds like a net gain for humanity.
Also, while I support freedom of speech in general, using the locution “standing on line” should be punishable by at least a month in jail.
Every time I fly there are millions waiting at my destination and I still fly coach. Nobody ever complained.
We have arrived at the place where everybody is just assumed to be a fraud, because so many are. They never pay any price for it, and we move on. It's a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia, which keeps coming up everywhere now.
But it's a long, long while from May to December
And the days grow short when you reach November
Bernie's lost one tooth and he walks a little lame
And he hasn't got time for the waiting game
Bernie's miserable, but that is also entertaining. We should have elected Rodney Dangerfield when we had a chance, and we'd have gotten the routines without the ideology, but we let that opportunity pass, and this is what we get instead.
Start the rally an hour later?
“Then there's Bernie. Bernie is always miserable. Looks miserable. Sounds miserable. He is just a 60s activist who simply cannot stop.”
So never doing even a day of real (honest) work hasn’t helped Bernie’s “demeanah”?
Do like many of your fellow senators do and fly general aviation…
I appreciate Bernie. He is so transparently a fraud that even his dumbest supporters can’t really defend the whole system he is a part of.
If they had one, I would buy a motion activated garden gnome of Bernie that yells "GET OFF MY LAWN."
Is this about real ID? I have a feeling this is about real ID.
I walk the line.
First off, if he is afraid about being late for his events, he should just leave earlier.
Second, waiting in line to board a plane doesn't really slow you down because the plane leaves at a scheduled time. (No matter how long you've been waiting to board)
He's on the list.
Lines, lines, everywhere lines
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
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Ironic that a self proclaimed socialist doesn’t like to stand in line since that’s what people do in socialist countries. It’s just for food, gas, and medical attention—not flights on United.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in 1985 praised countries where people "line up for food," calling breadlines a "good thing."
The video of Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, resurfaced on Tuesday after the senator announced that he is running for president in 2020. In the interview from the mid-80s, Sanders was asked about breadlines in Nicaragua and his support for the socialist Sandinistas who ruled the country at the time.
"You know, it's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food," Sanders said. "That's a good thing. In other countries people don't line up for food. The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death."
What a lazy, entitled, dishonest whore of Marx. Goodby Colombus.
Bernie is fighting the oligarchy...when the Dems have had 10 times the $ from oligarchs for a decade. In fact, not more that a couple of billionaires have ever contributed to republicans.
Leland: remember Pascual Perez, the baseball player who forgot to get off the perimeter highway and circled Atlanta several times looking for the stadium before missing the start of the game? After that, they called him Perimeter Perez. He isn't much missed. Nor will be Bernie, the limousine Marxist with a freakish, musty, obsession with menstruation. He's the Robert Crumb of politics, if Robert Crumb had been an asshole.
"You know, it's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food," Sanders said. "That's a good thing. In other countries people don't line up for food. The rich get the food, and the poor starve to death."
We have long experience with such things, and we know this man is full of shit.
The best example is from the aftermath of World War II. Under the thumb of the Labour scum and filth, England continued rationing and price controls on food and fuel well into the 1950's, causing much suffering among its population.
West Germany, starting from an even lower baseline with much more wartime destruction, removed all price regulations and rationing on even basic foodstuffs in 1947 or so, and the shelves of every grocery were groaning with abundant food within six months.
Socialism kills. Socialism destroys. Socialists are ontologically evil enemies of all humanity. They should be treated just like Nazis and communists, starting with excising them from all classrooms, government bodies, and other positions of trust and influence.
As a senior citizen wouldn't he be one of the first to board?
Agree with other poster. Manage your schedule better and waiting in line is not an issue. This also explains why TSA remains terrible and pointless, but it never changes--because the Important People never wait on TSA anyway. Finally, why is Bernie travelling to multiple states to do speaking engagements? Doesn't he have a job? As a senator, representing Vermont? Do your job in DC or do your job in Vermont. I don't think either one entails speaking to big crowds in other states.
Sanctimonious limousine socialists. "Do as I say, not as I do!!". Says Bernie, says AOC. Two self-made millionaires on supposed Fed payroll. Bernie wife is a crook with many mansions. AOC's wealth accumulation rivals Pelosi. Ugh.
Sanctimonious limousine socialists. "Do as I say, not as I do!!". Says Bernie, says AOC. Two self-made millionaires on supposed Fed payroll. Bernie wife is a crook with many mansions. AOC's wealth accumulation rivals Pelosi. Ugh.
Good point! Bernie is 30,000 times more important than anyone else!
It’s probably Bernie’s staff that wants him to fly private. Anyone who’s seen him at the Burlington VT airport knows he can be a capital a—hole to his staff.
The issue is not the issue. That oligarch tour was to gin up donations for that fourth mansion he's been needing.
"Claim:
Bernie Sanders wrote an essay in which a woman fantasizes about being "raped by three men simultaneously."
Rating:
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“There's no sitting. One stands in line.”
Yes, you stand in the TSA line, but there is sitting on a plane on a taxiway and sitting in.a waiting area at the gate.
I think that Bernie’s thought process evolved mid-sentence from “sitting on” a plane, which isn’t the best wording for the point he is trying to make, to standing in “line”, which would have sounded in elitism, to sitting in a “waiting” area. That mashup of thoughts came out as “sitting on a waiting line”.
As to why Bernie threw “waiting” in again, he may have wanted to shift the imagery away from sitting to waiting because that picture of Bernie Sanders with mask and mittens at Joe Biden’s inauguration is the most famous sitting meme of all internet time.
Any hour that any human spends listening to Bernie is a lost hour for that human. Multiply that by a factor of 2, because it's not just lost, it sets that human back in terms of understanding the world. Multiply that by 30,000.
Keep Bernie on the ground!
The Oligarchy is funding the "grassroots" Democrat street activism and government activism by Judges and Prosecutors.
Owning three homes = member of the oligarchy
A long way from the kind of rhetoric a young Althouse is said to have been moved by.
Dear Comrade: plan ahead. Take the bus. Stay at Motel 6 the night before. They'll leave the light on for you.
Sanders:"We do this because we HAVE to!" That is the most effective rebuttal there is. What's the oppositions counter to that? Well played.
Slimy POS. We do not have nobility in this country. The money you have stolen from taxpayers tells us your god. You worship Ba'al, and have left the God of your fathers. May you have much joy of it.
I HAVE to fly private to fight the Oligarchy. I HAVE to fly private to Davos to save the world from climate change. I HAVE to... spend my life in great comfort and insulated from the troubles of the common folk to help the common folk.
I'll even bet the snacks on the private jet are real peanuts.
Allergies for THEE, not for ME.
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