Bernie is just in it for the money

[UglyGreed]

ranked 340 richest person in Congress.....


340.Sen. Bernard Sanders I-Vt.


RANK NET WORTH MINIMUM ASSETS MINIMUM LIABILITIES
This year #340 $0.16M $0.19M $0.03M
Previous year #338 $0.15M $0.18M $0.03M
Change -2 8.67% 7.44% 0.00%
Roll Call Member profile »
Assets by type

Investments $0.19M
Real estate $0.00M
Trusts $0.00M
Bank accounts $0.00M


http://media.cq.com/50Richest/

[daleanime]

1. ........

[UglyGreed]

2. .

[daleanime]

66. ........

[LiberalArkie]

3. If he had just had his dad give him a million......

[valerief]

57. Romney said to just borrow from your parents, too.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/04/27/473096/romney-borrow-money-parents/

Mitt Romney told students that, his friend, Jimmy John, started a business by borrowing $20,000 from his parents at a low interest rate. Romney suggested anyone in the audience could do the same:

Cuz so many parents in America have 20 grand to piss away.

[bravenak]

4. The book/speaking tour will pay well.

[UglyGreed]

5. Not as well as

speaking fees......in front the Fat Cats of Wall Street huh Hillary and Bill, nod nod wink wink say no more!!!

[bravenak]

6. He is not as famous. Nobody willing to pay as much. Too bad. He can still make money.

[UglyGreed]

8. He also does not have any friends

on Wall Street You know the ones that Hillary scolded and told them to....

[bravenak]

15. Not many friends in the black community either...

[randys1]

54. That can change if Bernie and Bernie alone addresses it. i.e. no help from you know who

[bravenak]

56. Damn straight!!! He needs to lead. He could maybe shut me up for a few days.nt

[Fearless]

68. I doubt it.

[bravenak]

69. I doubt he cares enough to say ANYTHING. He does not care.

[Fearless]

83. That's not true.

[bravenak]

86. Yeah right. He only cares about his Vermont type crowd.

I never seen him go down and spend time with folks that resemble ME! Execpt at a college or somthin, where he cannot be soiled by us lowly peons. He won't even tell his revolution to 'knock it off' with calling us names or using 'race card' as an epithet against us. He won't even lift a finger to tweet one tweet about it. His grassroots can abuse us at will and he cares not. They are his special folks, the rest of us are just a bucket of votes.

[Fearless]

87. Again, that's not true.

[bravenak]

88. How do I know that?

He goes to where they at and give them PLENTY of attention, won't even tell them to not harass us. How we know he cares if he ignores stuff? Won't say boo to his favorite children while we sit over here like red headed step children of a different and inferior color.
We know who has time for us and who creates a place for us that is safe within their groups of support. Not him!

[Fearless]

90. You complain a lot about being "harassed"

It's really getting very old. I haven't seen one, single, instance of you being harassed. Not one. At all. Zero.

Everything you have against Bernie Sanders is in your head.

Bernie has spoken with BLM, has engaged POC with a platform that makes sense to reform the prison system, gun control, economic and social disparities for POC, and on and on.

But none of it is good enough for you.

Why?

Hillary hasn't done anything at all.

But you're going to vote for her because Bernie is to your "right" on issues?

You literally have no clue.

We are not your enemy. We are all friends on DU. We are NOT racist. We do not condone racism. We are voting for Bernie in part because a vote for him is a vote for EQUALITY for POC and other minority groups.

We love you. And everyone else too. Even the idiot Republicans.

So please just stop. No one is out to get you here.

[bravenak]

91. Then stop reading me. Just stop. Do not read my posts.

Then you will not see me complain.
When you decide to jump on shit like this:http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251788136
I will take you seriously.

[Fearless]

92. "A super-privileged white woman with a hundred million foundation that fucked over third world..."

You do realize that the poster is DEFENDING POC right?

[bravenak]

93. That poster does not defends us EVER.

There is a history with that poster.

So, telling us we get what we deserve is defending us? No fucking wonder there is no progress. If you think we are all going to see tgat as a defense, not a race based attack, I can see why you have never seen anything wrong come from that side. Nothing about poor whites, who there are moany more of on welfare, just targets us for the 'you get what you deserve, you blacks, if you don't vote bernie'. How is that supposed to not make us hurl?

[Fearless]

95. If we vote for Hillary over Bernie we ALL get what's coming to us.

That's the fact.

And by percentage, more POC are on welfare than white people, but that's irrelevant, there was simply no reason for you to even bring it up.

[bravenak]

96. Yes. So singling us out is perfectly fine with you?

Not fine with me at all.

[Fearless]

97. I'm gay myself. It's not singling me out

And it's not singling out black people as a group.

Clinton does not care about black people.

She cares about being elected.

She will say and do anything to be elected.

[bravenak]

98. I'm black, so. I felt singled out.

Just cause it don't bother you, doesn't mean the rest of us will feel the same. It is why Bernie gets absolutely nowhere with us. We see that and say something? His fans jump through hoops to try to defend it instead if just seeing why people would see it that way, and stepping up to say, THIS IS WRONG. That's all it takes. His fans to step up and say, THIS IS WRONG, instead of beating US up to defend the indefensible.

[Fearless]

99. The OP allegedly singled out gays and black people

As a gay person I do not feel singled out. I believe that if a gay person votes for Hillary they also get what they deserve. It would be a profoundly gigantic slap in the face to people who actually care about LGBT people and don't use them as stairs to reach the presidency.

No one is making racist comments.

You keep claiming they are.

They're not.

Criticism of Hillary is NOT a racist comment.

These are factual statements.

She is AWFUL for POC.

She is playing you.

I'll repeat that.

SHE IS PLAYING YOU.

Good night.

[bravenak]

100. I am not stupid.

They are BOTH politicians. Nobody is putting halos on her so I am not talking about her.

Everybody tells us bernie is the best. He voted for mass incarceration. Stahp! Just be real. Politicians. Both want to use us. Only one takes time to be bothered with us. One lets their fans go all out at us and says nothing. If he stepped up I'd shut up. He is not strong enought to say anything. He might lose some Vermont fans if he tried to help us.

[Fearless]

101. Of the two he IS best.

Hillary IGNORED YOU. She had BLM protesters arrested! Bernie let them speak. She condescended to them. Bernie listened to them, installed a campaign manager who is a POC, he reached out to groups and spoke directly to POC of the plans he has and how they would help him.

She continues to promote programs that HURT YOU.

Vermonters are NOT racists.


In summary...


HILLARY HURTS YOU.

Please just understand that.

[bravenak]

102. His campaign manager does NOTHING. Facebooks. Shoulda hired ME!

I at least give a fuck.

[Fearless]

104. Baseless accusation. Why would he hire you?

[bravenak]

106. Show me some work she has done since he hired her.

I do not have time to work for him. Too many art classes. Plus I plan on working for Hillary soon.

[Fearless]

107. How about voicing his racial justice platform??

https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/

Speaking to crowds before his events, scheduling him events with POC... and on and on... like a campaign manager, you know... does.

[bravenak]

108. What about getting him more support?

I bury you, my grudges
deep inside
The coal black cavern that is my heart
Light no fire within my lonely vessel
For there sits a candle,
flame burning low.
The flicker felt,
shadows dancing,
Catching on remnants of pain and passion
Derision and laughter
Stay apart, oh grudges, rest, rest.
Time forgot you, oh!
The fields of my heart left fallow.
I bury you there, my grudges
Deep, oh, so deep!
That you may be born again
From the extant loam of life
That bears the acid sting of remembrance
Hide, my grudges, don’t tarry,
Grow behind my smile and laughter
The eye twinkle,
A gentle friendly seed
Patient ,patient, my grudges, lo!
Your dawn rides in
High on the wings of memory
To deracinate forgiveness
And steal revenge

[eridani]

109. Um, no. The organizers of the event turned over the mic to the BLM protesters

It wasn't his place to allow or disallow. He left the decision to the organizers, as was 100% appropriate. Apparently that makes him insufficiently macho to lead the country.

[RobertEarl]

9. They won't hire him

One, because he won't be hired, and two, because he stands in opposition to their greed. When he speaks to them he tells them to change their ways.

[bravenak]

17. The yelling is my guess.

[RobertEarl]

33. The shouting?

Why is it when a man speaks up against the rich and powerful that some people say he's yelling?

Bravenak, frankly, I've given up on you. Your haven't anything new to say and I held such hope for you when we first met here on DU. Oh well.....

[bravenak]

40. The pointing. Yelling.

His supporters. That is why. When they stop being nasty and start checking each other instead of all checking me one by one, I'll stop. They have learned NOTHING. Nothing. Helping Bernie lose the black vote, one day at a time. Pisses me off. He could have done something if only they had been smart enough to realize that they do not know everything just because they read a bunch of books.
I crack up watching them make nasty comments and kamikaze me like this is ww2. One at a time, mean, rude, nasty, then all of a sudden they are dissappointed at ME! They never see one damn thing wrong with themselves.

[polly7]

26. You're probably right.

Our chamber of commerce' in various cities and big banks up here paid Ms. Clinton hundreds of thousands/millions? to school us uneducated Canucks on, in part, the 'terror!' dilemma. It's not like Canadians hadn't fought and been lost in Afghanistan or anything, or committed suicide since, .... or that we haven't had the same access to info on the horror in the ME and NA since the invasion of Iraq as anyone else in the world.

Bernie probably wouldn't have gotten that same support (from the Chamber of Commerce' and Big Banks).

[bravenak]

31. I would not have paid JACK. Just sayin.

I think it's stupid. But nobody cares what I think.

[polly7]

38. Completely agree, I wouldn't have paid JACK either. If I'd been in one of those cities I'd have

been outside carrying a sign.

[bravenak]

43. Me too..

She ain't cute neither. None of them are really. After Gaza fuck them all, they all suck. Have to find the lesser of a thousand evils to vote.

[polly7]

52. Yes. What was and is being done to the people of Gaza is heartbreaking and it being ignored by most

leaders in the whole world just disgusting. Not sure how anyone can come up with a good reason for ignoring or supporting it, no matter who it is.

[bravenak]

55. Nobody CARES!!!

They play games and pretend they give a shit, but them when it's time for bombs, they pay. All of them. Might be one of the reasons I see both candidates as opportunistic.

[kenfrequed]

7. Is there nothing you won't say?

I am serious. I had thought we had a decent conversation a few weeks ago, but it seems like you will say anything to smear Bernie. It doesn't matter if it is factual or based on anything reasonable. You just seem willing to say it.

[bravenak]

11. If you promise to go check the people who follow me around and tell them to stop.

I might give a damn. The same people who love to tell me about myself, sit and ignore their peers following me and calling me every name in the book. You do know that Bernie has problems with the black vote? (This is why his crowds look the way they do)
If you think I will stop saying things while being followed and harassed and talked crazy to, you have another thing coming. This is merely a response to negative stimuli. Go correct your peers. All of your peers seems to spend all their du time 'correcting' me, one by one, sniping and race carding and being nasty as possible. But MY POST IS THE ONE YOU NOTICE? WTF???

[Dawgs]

21. I agree with kenfrequed.

And you're the last person that should be blaming others for being nasty and calling others names.

[bravenak]

27. I do not care what you think. I am way out numbered. Keep piling on the few black folks here.

Helps Bernie and shuts me all the way up, right? Nope? Look at those crowds. I know why. I see why every day. I can go all day. The school called. Cancelled. I can make this a Hillary day just like all the others.

[Dawgs]

39. Good. I don't care what you think either.

And, how was I supposed to know you were black, if that should matter?

[bravenak]

44. I do not care what you were supposed to know. Bye!

[Dawgs]

50. Bye! n/t

[kenfrequed]

42. Everyone here is electrons.

I have no idea what anyones race is here.

In real life I know activists of all colors and creeds that are supporting various candidates. In the Twin Cities Bernie is doing rather well with people of all ethnicities. And these are real life people, not internet people.

[bravenak]

46. I am a real life person.

I am tired of the constant sniping from his fans. Check them.

[kenfrequed]

49. I am here to argue for Bernie

I am confident that if you choose to that you can jury alert often enough to manage whatever sniping is occuring.

[bravenak]

53. I always manage. Easy. But hate getting checked while everyone ekse dan say whatever they want

to me. It just like my regular life where white folks can say anything to me and if I say something back, I'm the angry black lady. That is how you look when you check me but make excuses as to why you don't do the same to them.

[kenfrequed]

61. I just don't think that is the case

I had a hide once or twice and it taught me to craft my arguments more carefully and to maybe not kick in the damned message board with a verbal flamethrower. When I get a hide I step back and think more carefully about what I write and I start thinking more judiciously.

Other people here get a hide and they decide to rachet up their language for some reason. I don't get it.

All I see is van Gogh.

I cannot factor in a poster's race unless they insert it into every paragraph somehow. I only have their words and their arguments. That is it.

[bravenak]

63. I had my photo on here for a while. Nuff said.

[kenfrequed]

37. I am not on here often.

I guess you just must be coincidentally posting negative things about Bernie 24-7. Obviously I missed all the decent things you have said about him. My mistake.

For me, doing political activism in the real world makes a big difference. Just hanging out here argung with internet people is dehumanizing and allows people to too easily carve themselves deeper and deeper niches that they cannot or willnot see out of.

[bravenak]

48. I started negativing Bernie as a respinse to the racist accusations of 'race nagging'

And 'race baiting', and 'race carding', harrassing BLM, one sending me a letter to my home, and the constant attempts to bully me here. I will continue until the bullying attempts stop.

[randys1]

58. You aint the only one, as you know.

The endless stalking and hiding of our posts has made it near impossible to take anything of value from here anymore.

[bravenak]

59. It has been bullshit. They see nothing wrong and are in fact PROUD of how they treat us.

[randys1]

62. I tried to do two threads, one about registering voters, the other about calling reps re TPP

and both were almost completely ignored.

Two reasons:

1. anything I post, someone who supports all Democratic candidates, is ignored no matter what unless it can be used against me

2. just a whole lotta talk around here and little else

[kenfrequed]

64. Uhm

That isn't a good sampling.

Most threads that aren't completely about the primary are sinking right now. That isn't an indictment of people chasing you around. It is an indictment of the way people are so fixated on the presidential election.

[randys1]

65. Not about NOT chasing me around, about ignoring positive and inclusive threads about

resolving issues.

Some here are guilty of just being argumentative for fun but I am too so that is OK, what bothers me is many are here ONLY to criticize a certain person.

[bravenak]

67. But they all showed up to your thread about threads calling for third party write ins.

[randys1]

70. OH yeah, right, forgot .... Truth is, if all of us focused ONLY on registering new voters

and following up with them and getting them to the polls, the Dem party would be that much better positioned to win.


But this is NOT the agenda of everyone here.

It is my agenda, to promote the party, but not many.

Now, I dont much like the Democratic Party anymore because it is FAR too NOT liberal for me, but given the alternative, well, you know.

Again, work 24/7 to change the system and take 5 minutes out (8 hours if you are Black) and vote on election day for the least objectionable so there is still something left to change.

[bravenak]

72. I must be white cause I usually only spend five to ten in line.

After I pick classes this month for next semester, I can get my volunteer schedule in order. They call but I keep shining them on so I can get these stupid essays written and go to the art museum.

[whatchamacallit]

41. NPD n/t

[arcane1]

73. No. There isn't. n/t

[bravenak]

76. I see you answer for me now.nt

[JaneyVee]

10. He has zero dollars in his bank account?

[UglyGreed]

13. Just like Hillary and Bill

after leaving the White House

[JaneyVee]

16. That's not an answer.

But dodging questions is a pattern.

[immoderate]

77. I think the M indicates it's rounded.

Accurate to the nearest million.

--imm

[VanillaRhapsody]

12. He could always try to revive that writing or singing career!

[UglyGreed]

18. Just waiting for a chance to

post this thanks!!!

[VanillaRhapsody]

22. Oh good gawd....do you think that will help his career?

Perhaps he will get a recording contract after he drops out and endorses Hillary Clinton!

[JaneyVee]

29. American Idle.

[VanillaRhapsody]

30. hahahahaha ....Idle hands are the devil's workshop!

[UglyGreed]

35. Well we do have this video

[VanillaRhapsody]

36. Difference being...Bernie actually DID record his ridiculous excuse for a record.

[UglyGreed]

51. ok then

I tried to be funny but now

just look at the joy in her eyes..............sick!!! I rather endure bad singing then celebrating death.

[Thinkingabout]

14. I don't think I would be bragging about a small net worth considering having been

In congress for twenty five at a much larger salary than large majority of workers. I wonder about the management skills.

[UglyGreed]

20. I wonder about the others

getting rich while most are getting poorer.............

[Thinkingabout]

80. Some people work hard, are in the right place at the right time. If you are

Hinting at the Clintons, they got good book deals and their books sold very well, they are good speech givers, they made money. Others in politics are not going to be very lucky like the Clintons. This couple did not get million dollar loan from their parents, it I their money. Their ancestors was not in politics as the Bush family.

[UglyGreed]

85. Some do favors to get rich

others compromise their values and leave their morals outside the door of the bank.

[Sheepshank]

19. wonder what he did with all of his earnings for the last 20 years?

poor money management skills?

[UglyGreed]

23. spent it on

crack.....

[Sheepshank]

25. well I don't know about that...but if you say so, I really have no info on that. n/t

[VanillaRhapsody]

28. You mean like Butt Crack??

[JaneyVee]

24. If he has zero dollars in his bank account...

That should set off red flags at the IRS. But it's most likely BS.

[Sheepshank]

34. totes BS

[demwing]

75. There are so many answers that would get me booted

almost worth it...

[Sheepshank]

84. I would never encourage anyone to post stuff that would get them booted

so you made a wise choice.

[SidDithers]

32. Bernie doesn't own a home?...

Having no real estate and few investments, by the time you're 74, isn't the greatest resume for someone who wants to lead a trillion $ economy.

Sid

[Trajan]

47. Click

Gone ... Took a while ...

[immoderate]

78. What does he think he is — some sort of socialist?

--imm

[liberal N proud]

45. I don't believe that for a minute

[UglyGreed]

60. Seems most of the Hillary supporters believe

in the prophet Gordon Gekko. Can't be a good representative of the people unless you are greedy and rich.... Maybe if Bernie get the nomination they are going to vote for Trump......

[lovemydog]

71. He has nowhere to go but up!

[SunSeeker]

74. Bernie did not disclose his rental properties and his two homes.

In 2012 he reported rental income in the 6 figures from his rental properties.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/assets.php?year=2012&cid=N00000528

But for some reason, for purposes of disclosure for his presidential nomination run, he did not report his two homes nor the rental properties, and what he did report was all in his wife's name:

Bernie Sanders on Thursday reported less than $750,000 in assets — all of it in his wife’s name — according to his presidential personal financial disclosure form.
...
Sanders’ $174,000 salary as a member of the Senate was not listed on the form. The couple’s real estate assets are not disclosed, either. According to campaign spokesman Michael Briggs, the senator owns at least two homes, one in Vermont and one on Capitol Hill.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-wife-accounts-for-reported-assets-120261#ixzz3r1pUUs90

[SoapBox]

79. Gee...78 replies and I only show 12...

The non-showing ones must be the usual suspects.

So now that Bernie has been reamed over this...let's talk about the poor, poor Clintons.

[redwitch]

82. I've got 9.

I have rarely used the ignore feature but last week I just decided "why the hell not?" and got to work. Threads in GDP are much shorter than they used to be.

[MohRokTah]

81. Everything is in his wife's name. eom

[bravenak]

89. Umm hmm. Wonder why?nt

[Fearless]

103. Because this is a COMMON practice for people of his age to do?

Wives tend to outlive husbands. It ensures she is cared for.

And don't give me the "women aren't weak and don't need to be cared for" argument. That's not what I said. It's what any loving husband does. And what any loving wife does too. They protect each other financially upon untimely death.

[bravenak]

105. Ok.nt