Bernie Sanders calls for a "political revolution," pushing Wall Street taxes to fund programs like Medicare for All, while praising communist figures—Eugene Debs (Lenin admirer) and Fidel Castro—displaying their portraits in his Senate office. His 1961 honeymoon in the USSR and trips to Cuba/Nicaragua under dictators highlight ties to anti-American regimes, with supporters advocating mansion confiscations and re-education camps akin to Nazi Germany’s or Stalin’s gulags. Sanders’ vague funding claims and historical alignment with Marxist violence, Elijah Schaffer warns, risk normalizing socialism—a threat he argues has killed more than fascism—demanding Democrats reject him to preserve U.S. values. [Automatically generated summary]
If you're like me and you saw those clips and you just thought to yourself, a good thing nobody's giving that guy a platform.
I mean, that guy's crazy.
America isn't about those kinds of things, then you probably are like me.
But then you switched on the news and you go, hold up.
Not only is that guy in politics in the United States, but he's not just like some far-out mayor from Indiana like Mr. Pee-Pee-Butt.
This man is the top contender to lead the Democrat Party in the presidential election, and he's holding foreign ideas that are dangerous to our republic.
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Those of you guys that don't know, Bernie Sanders is ahead in the elections.
And I think the clips that we're going to go over today and the topics that we're going to look at and then the quotes that he said.
Genuinely, I want the audience to know this.
I am concerned for the well-being of our country because when I see how much Americans like this guy, I think I finally know what the people who hate Trump feel like.
In fact, he had his own TV show when he was, when I think he was the mayor, or I think it was when he's first the mayor.
But before that, he got into politics by making a documentary on Eugene Debs.
And if you're like my viewer, if you're like one of the viewers of the show and you don't know who Eugene Debs is because you don't go that far into politics, I know who Eugene Debs was before this.
Okay, so Eugene Debs, he makes this glowing documentary about a Marxist.
And I want to read you a quote from him because I, because this is, because before you like think I'm exaggerating, you know, and thinking, oh, you're just making it up like he loved this person.
You know, because it's like someone looking at one of our videos and be like, oh, he's promoting leftists or whatever.
So this is his quote.
He said this: I had that feeling when I first read Eugene Debs.
For example, if you read what Debs said about the goals of socialism, it's no different from what I've been saying that all socialism is about democracy.
And of course, you hear Eugene Debs, you're not upset, right?
You just think, whatever, that's just whatever, right?
That's probably what comes to your head.
Okay, so he was a subversive hero of Sanders, right?
And was even denounced by the liberal Democrats.
So Sanders has a tradition of looking up to people in his life that are not looked at as being real liberal Democrats.
That's not surprising, but I mean, I didn't know that.
Okay, so this person is famous for bashing the barons of Wall Street and for praising the Bolsheviks, which isn't looking good.
So this is a quote from Eugene Debs.
This is his hero, right?
He said that he's looking at socialism like this person's looking at it.
This quote says, Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on earth.
Debs proclaimed they have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that drew the breath of life in the world.
And in 1918, a speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery.
Sanders also hung a portrait of Debs on the wall in his Senate office.
So he started out early on with his hero being somebody who looked up to Lenin and Trotsky in those that were leaders of Russia, for those people that don't know, who were murderous people.
He looks up.
This is why I'm not buying his stick.
He's his heroes.
He made a documentary.
This is his past.
He actually has nothing.
That's very communistic, too, right?
To put up a picture of someone you look up to, like on your wall, like in your office, but like that's not somebody from your own country.
Well, having said, there is no redeeming value, though, in communism.
And I got to say, Sanders also failed to run for Congress.
But besides that, he also had a honeymoon in the USSR.
He also had trips to cities inside of Russia.
He sent a delegation to Russia as well.
And he took goodwill trips to Cuba, Nicaragua, and basically everywhere where dictators took over and where communists are.
So he's had goodwill trips.
And I want you to watch this video of Sanders in Nicaragua talking positively about the Nicaraguan communist dictator while bashing the United States.
Does that sound like the Democrat debates?
Sounds like the Democrat debates.
Anyway, load the clip.
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What's going on in Nicaragua today?
It's not important to get into all the details of whether the Sandinistas are right or wrong on this issue.
If we understand that in the last 30 years, the United States has overthrown governments in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, they murdered Salvador Allende in Chile.
They've overthrown the government of Grenada.
They attempted to overthrow the government of Cuba.
They overthrew a government of Brazil.
And now they're attempting to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.
The basic crime being committed by the people of Nicaragua today is that the government there has the strange and unusual idea that they should attempt to do something for the people of Nicaragua rather than for the United States corporations.
It's a very strange idea for an independent nation to have.
And if the history of the United States' relationship to Latin America for the last 50 years, which is Somoza, yes.
Ortega, no.
Batista, yes.
Castro, no.
And we are not prepared to accept this nation dominating poor nations and weak nations.
He's like, you know, advising people to go against Americans' best interests.
And that's kind of something we see with his followers.
Not all of them, but a lot of his followers, they do have an anti-American aspect to their entire narrative, their entire point of view.
And that's where I think people don't realize that the left and liberals are not the same thing.
The Bernie, radical, progressive AOC left has nothing in common with the MAGA people, but the liberals, I think, have more in common with the MAGA people, moderates, conservatives, than they actually do with the progressives.
Because liberals are still for free speech, anti-censorship, stuff like that.
The progressives and how they identify, it's like in order to be involved and like in lockstep with their agenda and their narrative, you have to believe that fundamentally America is flawed and not a great place.
And that's like a huge thing I'm noticing in all these protests.
I go talk to the supporters.
It's like, you know, there's some moderate people that like like Joe Biden.
They like America.
They'll wear an American flag shirt.
The Bernie people, the AOC types, those radical far left, they're ashamed to be an American.
But they're trying to destroy it to kind of like redeem themselves and make themselves feel special.
And what I realized, and I don't take this out of context, but I realized that in the past decades, we fought wars overseas and Americans gave their lives to prevent leaders from coming into power that held similar views to some of the people who I will not mention by name who are starting to rise to power in this country.
And I intentionally not talk about anybody specifically, just ideas that are starting to float around in certain corners.
And I'm not going to say that Bernie Sanders has those exact ideas, but a lot of his supporters do.
Check out these, do you see this right now?
What's on the screen?
These messages from a friend of mine.
They're obviously blurred out.
But this is a communist friend of mine, pro-communist.
Of course, he's a vegan, vegan communist.
Can't go wrong there.
And explaining that basically if Bernie comes into power, they're going to, that's what he's saying is that they're going to take people's mansions away from them.
Then this guy posts the picture right here of the gun, and you go, okay, that's a big rifle, right?
Basically, you need to stop trying to take people's stuff.
That's not how our country works.
Someone tries to defend him right under right here and goes, oh, they're not saying they're trying to take people's houses.
And the guy says, yeah, I am trying to take people's houses.
Like, he literally said that.
He's right there on Facebook.
That's not against the rules.
You can literally threaten to have a Bolshevik revolution, you know, like a trusted in, like, actually instill a deadly ideology.
And Facebook's like, that's pretty cool.
But then you upload a history video from World War II and they're like, that's propaganda.
And it's like, wait, but I was making Hitler look bad.
Like, this was about how it was a bad idea.
I'm not saying it was good.
These guys are promoting communist takeovers, which brings us to our next segment.
Communism sucks.
This is an old returning one.
You were mentioning earlier, James O'Keefe of Veritas exposed the truth of not Bernie Sanders' supporters, but Bernie Sanders' campaign workers of the intensity of really what revolution they're looking for.
Watch this.
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Do you even think that some of these like Mega people could even be re-educated?
I mean, we gotta try.
I mean, like, so like in Nazi Germany, after the fall of the Nazi party, there was a shit ton of the populace that was notified.
And like, Germany had to spend billions of dollars re-educating people to not be Nazis.
Like, we're probably gonna have to do the same thing here.
And that's kind of what Bernie's like, whole re-education for everybody, because we're gonna have to teach you not to be a f ⁇ ing Nazi.
There's a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags, right?
And actually, gulags were a lot better than like what the CIA has told us that they were.
I mean, people like to say, he's praising gulags, re-education camps, burning cities, beating cops, and killing anyone who resists the revolution as a plan all along.
And as much as people say that this is just insanity, it's right-wing propaganda.
You're looking at these people.
No, these are people working in the office of this candidate who are genuinely there.
And what concerns me the most is that the response from Sanders' team in this video was nothing.
They actually had, what was this?
What was this guy?
They had a quick dismissal of this by an Iowa staffer who said this was political gossip.
It was like, these people are insane.
They're planning a revolution before our eyes, telling us they want to put us into camps, that they want to kill us, that they want to remove the systems we put in place.
They want a revolution.
And then they call it, they say, oh, it's political gossip.
We can't let it happen, but we also can't call, you know, have violent calls to action.
But here's what I'm saying.
When they have the Kyle Jurek, those types, and they get really mad when they lose the primary or they get really mad when they lose to Trump, whatever it is, and they start taking it to the streets, the police and the law enforcement and city by city, it's on them to handle it properly.
And if they handle it properly, I think it gets squashed out.
But if the shoe fits, the point is, so we see the history, right?
The background is that this guy praises Bolsheviks.
He praises Lenin.
He praises these people.
He puts their picture up.
It's kind of like how someone would go, oh, yeah, well, like, I don't really, I don't really like things that are satanic, but everyone that I worship and adore are all Satanists.
And it's like, well, you're pretty close.
If the shoe fits, you know, that's pretty much where you're at.
But on to our next segment, which is Orange Man Bad, because there's always a way to tie this back.
Bernie Sanders is trying to flip this on Trump.
He's trying to shroud his evilness by trying to blame Trump as the evil guy.
And there's a 60 minutes interview, and I'm going to prove this.
And you can tell that he has communist ideas because of this interview where he's asked by Anderson Cooper about if he knows how much his plans cost and he can't even put a number or even begin to articulate it.
Because if Bernie gets selected, he's going to reverse everything that's been done.
And they're going to double, triple, quadruple down and make up for all that lost time.
They're going to have a vengeful spirit and they're going to come for us worse than I think in recent history.
And it's close.
And he has a big group behind him.
All we can hope for is a Democrat establishment strong enough to keep Bernie out.
So we're rooting for the establishment.
Because they're both bad.
But at least, like, I think Trump will beat Bloomberg and the establishment winning will make the Bernie people mad enough to split the group up, which is good.
But either way, I'm rooting for the establishment to beat Bernie.
And that's what I want to end on is that we cannot let socialism into our country.
And I heard it said before, oh, socialism isn't a modern problem.
It's outdated.
Why are we focusing on that?
We're focusing on it because the top contender for half the country's beliefs is a socialist.
That being said, one of the congressional leaders from one of the biggest states in the country and one of the most popular congressional leaders inside of that party is also an open socialist.
So yes, this is a damn big problem and it's our problem.
And we have to realize that people gave their lives for it.
Let's not ever let or call for anything to lead to that.
Let's fight this in a way that we know best as Americans, which is through diplomacy and through voting people out.