How bernie got rich

[TNHarley]

The govt is so bad! Thats why i want them to expand their power even more! Take over entire sectors of the economy!
They can fix their problems with more power!
Completely illogical

 

[TNHarley]

I realize Bernie isn’t perfect. He has many flaws. What pol doesn’t? However ending war, limiting the power of Wall Street and the billionaires, and providing HC and higher education for the American people should be supported by all.

Im with you on no wars, stop fed pumping into wall street. It's not the government's job though to provide us with anything other than our protection which is specifically enumerated.

Come on now. The government violates the constitution every day and has done do for years. Funny you decide to impose it in this instance. The oligarchs love you.

That just says you want some freebies. Lol. Hey I don't know any oligarchs. I'm not a privileged one. I have to work.

Gipper must have lost his job

Silly. Retired at 55 living the good life. Unlike you I recognize that millions of Americans are suffering, due to the enormous scam the government, corporations, and billionaires are running.

Unlike you I care about my fellow Americans. I’m tired of the scam that is our government. A government that is only concerned with the needs of the 1%.

No one who claims to be anti-war, would ruthlessly condemn Bernie as you have. Why lie? Just admit you are a typical warmongering hegemonic American.

Im pro war because i rail against a guy whos HISTORY is FULL of war and killing civilians

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

bernie before he became a multi millionaire " there should be no millionaires"
Bernie after becoming a multi millionaire "there should be no billionaires"
What a fucking fake

AMD when he become a billionaire he will scream let me be the first trillionaire and let the buck stop with me...

 

[gipper]

Im with you on no wars, stop fed pumping into wall street. It's not the government's job though to provide us with anything other than our protection which is specifically enumerated.

Come on now. The government violates the constitution every day and has done do for years. Funny you decide to impose it in this instance. The oligarchs love you.

That just says you want some freebies. Lol. Hey I don't know any oligarchs. I'm not a privileged one. I have to work.

Gipper must have lost his job

Silly. Retired at 55 living the good life. Unlike you I recognize that millions of Americans are suffering, due to the enormous scam the government, corporations, and billionaires are running.

Unlike you I care about my fellow Americans. I’m tired of the scam that is our government. A government that is only concerned with the needs of the 1%.

No one who claims to be anti-war, would ruthlessly condemn Bernie as you have. Why lie? Just admit you are a typical warmongering hegemonic American.

Im pro war because i rail against a guy whos HISTORY is FULL of war and killing civilians

You don’t know that you have accepted propaganda. Wake up.

 

[TNHarley]

Come on now. The government violates the constitution every day and has done do for years. Funny you decide to impose it in this instance. The oligarchs love you.

That just says you want some freebies. Lol. Hey I don't know any oligarchs. I'm not a privileged one. I have to work.

Gipper must have lost his job

Silly. Retired at 55 living the good life. Unlike you I recognize that millions of Americans are suffering, due to the enormous scam the government, corporations, and billionaires are running.

Unlike you I care about my fellow Americans. I’m tired of the scam that is our government. A government that is only concerned with the needs of the 1%.

No one who claims to be anti-war, would ruthlessly condemn Bernie as you have. Why lie? Just admit you are a typical warmongering hegemonic American.

Im pro war because i rail against a guy whos HISTORY is FULL of war and killing civilians

You don’t know that you have accepted propaganda. Wake up.

It's his voting history. You realize its public record?
Lol what a stupid post.

 

[TNHarley]

You heard it first here folks. Judging a candidate by their voting history is propaganda

 

[gipper]

That just says you want some freebies. Lol. Hey I don't know any oligarchs. I'm not a privileged one. I have to work.

Gipper must have lost his job

Silly. Retired at 55 living the good life. Unlike you I recognize that millions of Americans are suffering, due to the enormous scam the government, corporations, and billionaires are running.

Unlike you I care about my fellow Americans. I’m tired of the scam that is our government. A government that is only concerned with the needs of the 1%.

No one who claims to be anti-war, would ruthlessly condemn Bernie as you have. Why lie? Just admit you are a typical warmongering hegemonic American.

Im pro war because i rail against a guy whos HISTORY is FULL of war and killing civilians

You don’t know that you have accepted propaganda. Wake up.

It's his voting history. You realize its public record?
Lol what a stupid post.

What’s stupid is you thinking Trump is better.

 

[TNHarley]

Gipper must have lost his job

Silly. Retired at 55 living the good life. Unlike you I recognize that millions of Americans are suffering, due to the enormous scam the government, corporations, and billionaires are running.

Unlike you I care about my fellow Americans. I’m tired of the scam that is our government. A government that is only concerned with the needs of the 1%.

No one who claims to be anti-war, would ruthlessly condemn Bernie as you have. Why lie? Just admit you are a typical warmongering hegemonic American.

Im pro war because i rail against a guy whos HISTORY is FULL of war and killing civilians

You don’t know that you have accepted propaganda. Wake up.

It's his voting history. You realize its public record?
Lol what a stupid post.

What’s stupid is you thinking Trump is better.

I dont like Trump. I didnt vote for him like you did. And im not going to vote for him this time around.
Another stupid post.

 

[TNHarley]

Derail derail derail.
Communism 101

 

[OldLady]

Bernie rails about taxes and giving to the poor but he doesnt do much charity work and he gets out of paying taxes as much as he can.
He is such a fucking fake

He never became a millionaire until 2016, due to the income from his book. That's only a couple years ago.
Bernie makes no secret of not believing in giving through charities. He wants the government to take responsibility for helping people that need it, not private organizations.

Interesting article here, TN. I'd read it:
Socialism, like Bernie Sanders, is anti-charity

Yea, he wants to use force like a good little commie

Just trying to help. You don't need to make it so obvious that this is a help-ol-Trump-out thread.

 

[OldLady]

Peter Schweizer: Bernie Sanders rails about common good but public service has made him (and his family) rich
hen Bernie was first elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he appointed his then-girlfriend, Jane Driscoll, to head his administration’s Youth Office. Though the position was originally unpaid, Bernie eventually put Jane on the payroll over objections of the city council. The job was never advertised so that others could apply. A local paper noted that Sanders never bothered to provide evidence as to Jane’s “qualifications” for the position.
The appointment would remain a source of controversy for Sanders. After Bernie and Jane got married in 1988, his new wife received a big pay increase. As one local newspaper reported, “Political sparks flew at Burlington’s annual city meeting Monday night as Democratic aldermen raised a series of questions concerning a hefty pay raise for Mayor Bernie Sanders’ new wife and whether she should continue to hold her job as director of the Mayor’s Youth Office.”

In Washington, Jane became one of her husband’s top aides, serving at various times as his chief of staff, press secretary and political analyst. After a decade in Congress, Jane and family went about setting up a company that operated under three different names to provide income tied to Bernie’s political career.

On Sept. 27, 2000, the family formed Sanders & Driscoll LLC, a for-profit consulting company run by Jane, her daughter Carina, and son David. The business also operated under two trade names: Leadership Strategies and Progressive Media Strategies

The fact that this entity and its aliases were formed just weeks before the 2000 election is significant. The Sanderses ran these out of their home on Killarney Drive in Burlington. These entities served as financial conduits to run cash to the Sanders family.

It is impossible to know precisely how much because Sanders' financial disclosure forms, which he is required to release as a member of Congress, only listed “more than $1,000” as the amount of income they earned from these consulting firms. We do know that some of Bernie’s campaign dollars flowed through the LLCs. While running for House reelection in the early 2000s, critics claimed, “Sanders doled out more than $150,000 to his wife and stepdaughter for campaign-related work between 2000 and 2004.”
Some of the campaign money flowing to the family from Bernie’s campaign came as Jane served as a “media buyer” for his reelection. Media buying is a murky but potentially highly lucrative stream of income for those involved in political campaigns. Modern American political campaigns spend large sums of money on television and other forms of media. A media buyer handles the purchase of airtime and secures the contracts with media outlets.

Typically, a media buyer receives a commission of about 15 percent of the cost for a media campaign. So if a campaign were to spend, say, $1,000,000 on television ads, the media buyer would pocket a $150,000 commission. But here’s the kicker: the media buyer commission is not actually disclosed anywhere. Filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) only require disclosure of the bulk amount of the media buy. In this example, the FEC report will only disclose the $1,000,000 media buy. And as for the fact that Jane Sanders is the spouse of a politician, she is only required to disclose that she earns “more than $1,000” from her businesses.

What is interesting about the Sanders family foray into media buying, in particular, is that Jane Sanders had no apparent background in media buying. But in her husband’s 2006 campaign, she worked with two media buyers named Barbara Abar Bougie and Shelli Hutton-Hartig – two names that would become significant when Bernie’s political ambitions went national.

Bernie Sanders’s insurgent 2016 presidential campaign brought in a huge sum of money. A large chunk of it — nearly $83 million — flowed to a mysterious limited liability company with no website, no phone number, and no office space. Indeed, the LLC was registered to a private home on a cul-de-sac in suburban Virginia.

The mysterious company is called Old Towne Media LLC. Two names connected to the company are Barbara Abar Bougie and Shelli Hutton-Hartig, Jane’s associates from the 2006 campaign.

The Sanders campaign purchased a whopping $82.77 million in political ads through Old Towne Media, which could have earned the company a media fee of more than $12 million, based on the industry standard for ad-buy commissions. Was Jane Sanders somehow involved in this financial arrangement? FEC disclosures make it easy to hide where media buying fees actually go. Jane listed her income from her professional work at the time as simply “more than $1,000.”

When a highly respected Vermont reporter named Jasper Craven, working for the nonprofit VTDigger.com, asked Jane about Old Towne Media during a phone interview, she replied, “I have no idea what Old Towne Media is.” Then she hung up the phone.



Not surprised. This is what socialists are known for. That and mass murder.
What a lying POS

Are you saying (s)he did something illegal with campaign funds?

If you are going to bash the rich for living off the poor, you had better not be engaged in getting rich off the backs of the poor.

That's what aggravates me. I don't see Trump running around saying all rich people are evil, and they shouldn't exist, and they are living off the poor people, and they do not earn their wealth.

I don't see him saying that.

I see Bernie and other left-wingers saying this all the time. "They don't earn their wealth!" And then you see AOC, funneling money to her live-in boy-toy, getting what was it... $200,000 in consulting fees through a front company, and Bernie's wife collecting massive money for what was an unpaid position.

All living off the backs of the poor tax payers.

Hypocrisy never ends with the left-wing.

He's not "rich," he's got enough to keep himself in a nursing home for awhile if he needs to. And his wife.

I get your point though. I just think he's been careful/smart with his money and he's worked for it, so I don't think his message is so hypocritical, but I get your point.

 

[TNHarley]

Bernie rails about taxes and giving to the poor but he doesnt do much charity work and he gets out of paying taxes as much as he can.
He is such a fucking fake

He never became a millionaire until 2016, due to the income from his book. That's only a couple years ago.
Bernie makes no secret of not believing in giving through charities. He wants the government to take responsibility for helping people that need it, not private organizations.

Interesting article here, TN. I'd read it:
Socialism, like Bernie Sanders, is anti-charity

Yea, he wants to use force like a good little commie

Just trying to help. You don't need to make it so obvious that this is a help-ol-Trump-out thread.

This thread has nothing to do with our peaches in chief

 

[TNHarley]

Peter Schweizer: Bernie Sanders rails about common good but public service has made him (and his family) rich
hen Bernie was first elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he appointed his then-girlfriend, Jane Driscoll, to head his administration’s Youth Office. Though the position was originally unpaid, Bernie eventually put Jane on the payroll over objections of the city council. The job was never advertised so that others could apply. A local paper noted that Sanders never bothered to provide evidence as to Jane’s “qualifications” for the position.
The appointment would remain a source of controversy for Sanders. After Bernie and Jane got married in 1988, his new wife received a big pay increase. As one local newspaper reported, “Political sparks flew at Burlington’s annual city meeting Monday night as Democratic aldermen raised a series of questions concerning a hefty pay raise for Mayor Bernie Sanders’ new wife and whether she should continue to hold her job as director of the Mayor’s Youth Office.”

In Washington, Jane became one of her husband’s top aides, serving at various times as his chief of staff, press secretary and political analyst. After a decade in Congress, Jane and family went about setting up a company that operated under three different names to provide income tied to Bernie’s political career.

On Sept. 27, 2000, the family formed Sanders & Driscoll LLC, a for-profit consulting company run by Jane, her daughter Carina, and son David. The business also operated under two trade names: Leadership Strategies and Progressive Media Strategies

The fact that this entity and its aliases were formed just weeks before the 2000 election is significant. The Sanderses ran these out of their home on Killarney Drive in Burlington. These entities served as financial conduits to run cash to the Sanders family.

It is impossible to know precisely how much because Sanders' financial disclosure forms, which he is required to release as a member of Congress, only listed “more than $1,000” as the amount of income they earned from these consulting firms. We do know that some of Bernie’s campaign dollars flowed through the LLCs. While running for House reelection in the early 2000s, critics claimed, “Sanders doled out more than $150,000 to his wife and stepdaughter for campaign-related work between 2000 and 2004.”
Some of the campaign money flowing to the family from Bernie’s campaign came as Jane served as a “media buyer” for his reelection. Media buying is a murky but potentially highly lucrative stream of income for those involved in political campaigns. Modern American political campaigns spend large sums of money on television and other forms of media. A media buyer handles the purchase of airtime and secures the contracts with media outlets.

Typically, a media buyer receives a commission of about 15 percent of the cost for a media campaign. So if a campaign were to spend, say, $1,000,000 on television ads, the media buyer would pocket a $150,000 commission. But here’s the kicker: the media buyer commission is not actually disclosed anywhere. Filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) only require disclosure of the bulk amount of the media buy. In this example, the FEC report will only disclose the $1,000,000 media buy. And as for the fact that Jane Sanders is the spouse of a politician, she is only required to disclose that she earns “more than $1,000” from her businesses.

What is interesting about the Sanders family foray into media buying, in particular, is that Jane Sanders had no apparent background in media buying. But in her husband’s 2006 campaign, she worked with two media buyers named Barbara Abar Bougie and Shelli Hutton-Hartig – two names that would become significant when Bernie’s political ambitions went national.

Bernie Sanders’s insurgent 2016 presidential campaign brought in a huge sum of money. A large chunk of it — nearly $83 million — flowed to a mysterious limited liability company with no website, no phone number, and no office space. Indeed, the LLC was registered to a private home on a cul-de-sac in suburban Virginia.

The mysterious company is called Old Towne Media LLC. Two names connected to the company are Barbara Abar Bougie and Shelli Hutton-Hartig, Jane’s associates from the 2006 campaign.

The Sanders campaign purchased a whopping $82.77 million in political ads through Old Towne Media, which could have earned the company a media fee of more than $12 million, based on the industry standard for ad-buy commissions. Was Jane Sanders somehow involved in this financial arrangement? FEC disclosures make it easy to hide where media buying fees actually go. Jane listed her income from her professional work at the time as simply “more than $1,000.”

When a highly respected Vermont reporter named Jasper Craven, working for the nonprofit VTDigger.com, asked Jane about Old Towne Media during a phone interview, she replied, “I have no idea what Old Towne Media is.” Then she hung up the phone.



Not surprised. This is what socialists are known for. That and mass murder.
What a lying POS

Are you saying (s)he did something illegal with campaign funds?

If you are going to bash the rich for living off the poor, you had better not be engaged in getting rich off the backs of the poor.

That's what aggravates me. I don't see Trump running around saying all rich people are evil, and they shouldn't exist, and they are living off the poor people, and they do not earn their wealth.

I don't see him saying that.

I see Bernie and other left-wingers saying this all the time. "They don't earn their wealth!" And then you see AOC, funneling money to her live-in boy-toy, getting what was it... $200,000 in consulting fees through a front company, and Bernie's wife collecting massive money for what was an unpaid position.

All living off the backs of the poor tax payers.

Hypocrisy never ends with the left-wing.

He's not "rich," he's got enough to keep himself in a nursing home for awhile if he needs to. And his wife.

I get your point though. I just think he's been careful/smart with his money and he's worked for it, so I don't think his message is so hypocritical, but I get your point.

 

[OldLady]

Bernie rails about taxes and giving to the poor but he doesnt do much charity work and he gets out of paying taxes as much as he can.
He is such a fucking fake

He never became a millionaire until 2016, due to the income from his book. That's only a couple years ago.
Bernie makes no secret of not believing in giving through charities. He wants the government to take responsibility for helping people that need it, not private organizations.

Interesting article here, TN. I'd read it:
Socialism, like Bernie Sanders, is anti-charity

Yea, he wants to use force like a good little commie

Just trying to help. You don't need to make it so obvious that this is a help-ol-Trump-out thread.

This thread has nothing to do with our peaches in chief

No one in the world can live up to your pie-in-the-sky ideals of fairness. How many people do you think AREN'T hypocrites? I can't remember many.

 

[gipper]

Silly. Retired at 55 living the good life. Unlike you I recognize that millions of Americans are suffering, due to the enormous scam the government, corporations, and billionaires are running.

Unlike you I care about my fellow Americans. I’m tired of the scam that is our government. A government that is only concerned with the needs of the 1%.

No one who claims to be anti-war, would ruthlessly condemn Bernie as you have. Why lie? Just admit you are a typical warmongering hegemonic American.

Im pro war because i rail against a guy whos HISTORY is FULL of war and killing civilians

You don’t know that you have accepted propaganda. Wake up.

It's his voting history. You realize its public record?
Lol what a stupid post.

What’s stupid is you thinking Trump is better.

I dont like Trump. I didnt vote for him like you did. And im not going to vote for him this time around.
Another stupid post.

Okay. Enlighten us as to who you think you will vote for?

 

[Brain357]

Bernie rails about taxes and giving to the poor but he doesnt do much charity work and he gets out of paying taxes as much as he can.
He is such a fucking fake

He never became a millionaire until 2016, due to the income from his book. That's only a couple years ago.
Bernie makes no secret of not believing in giving through charities. He wants the government to take responsibility for helping people that need it, not private organizations.

Interesting article here, TN. I'd read it:
Socialism, like Bernie Sanders, is anti-charity

Yea, he wants to use force like a good little commie

Just trying to help. You don't need to make it so obvious that this is a help-ol-Trump-out thread.

This thread has nothing to do with our peaches in chief

This thread is nonsense. Bernie isn’t all that rich. Didn’t trump get fined more for running a fake charity than Bernie has?

 

[gipper]

Bernie rails about taxes and giving to the poor but he doesnt do much charity work and he gets out of paying taxes as much as he can.
He is such a fucking fake

He never became a millionaire until 2016, due to the income from his book. That's only a couple years ago.
Bernie makes no secret of not believing in giving through charities. He wants the government to take responsibility for helping people that need it, not private organizations.

Interesting article here, TN. I'd read it:
Socialism, like Bernie Sanders, is anti-charity

Yea, he wants to use force like a good little commie

Just trying to help. You don't need to make it so obvious that this is a help-ol-Trump-out thread.

This thread has nothing to do with our peaches in chief

This thread is nonsense. Bernie isn’t all that rich. Didn’t trump get fined more for running a fake charity than Bernie has?

The msm has duped many about Bernie. Hopefully this doesn’t result in the Oligarchy getting another establishment candidate to do their bidding. I’m not optimistic.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

There are two kinds of Politicians in Washington:

1) Corporatist
2) Elitist

Bernie is an elitist. He would have no problem making every American lower middle class, most living in small humble apartments, owned by the government of course. Dependent on the government for most of their needs. While he himself, his family and other chosen people live like Kings.
Right along with all of the other regressives.

Where Bernie wants Americans to live:

Where Bernie and other government elites would live...

 

[LeftofLeft]

A typical Socialist elite. Preaches income equality and redistribution for everyone else yet behind the scenes he is a closet capitalist seeking to lock himself in to the 1 percent.

Bernie needs to explain why there is such a huge income and wealth gap between himself and many of his voters. Rather, his voters should wake up and realize how full of shit he is when it comes to income equality.

 

[gipper]

There are two kinds of Politicians in Washington:

1) Corporatist
2) Elitist

Bernie is an elitist. He would have no problem making every American lower middle class, most living in small humble apartments, owned by the government of course. Dependent on the government for most of their needs. While he himself, his family and other chosen people live like Kings.
Right along with all of the other regressives.

Where Bernie wants Americans to live:

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Where Bernie and other government elites would live...

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A typical Socialist elite. Preaches income equality and redistribution for everyone else yet behind the scenes he is a closet capitalist seeking to lock himself in to the 1 percent.

Bernie needs to explain why there is such a huge income and wealth gap between himself and many of his voters. Rather, his voters should wake up and realize how full of shit he is when it comes to income equality.

^^^ Unknowingly doing the bidding of the globalist corporate Oligarchy.