Three or four, whatevs. Net worth is a relatively low, for a Congress critter, $3m, but he’s still a 1-percenter. Totally not an oligarch though, which is nice.
Like many members of Congress, he’s an exemplar of the utility of mandatory retirement and rotation-in-office rules written into constitutions. Better examples would be Malignancy Pelosi and Glitch McConnell, of course. In their case, you could induce much improvement by modifications in parliamentary rules (those of the chambers and those of the caucuses within them). Some pols are satisfactory arguments for minimum age requirements to run for public office and occupational screening for candidates for public office (Barney Frank, Bilge Clinton, Dick Durbin, Steny Hoyer, and James Clyburn being fine examples of who should be screened out).
His economic position is in part a function of the ‘synergy’ between public officials and the persons to whom they are married, which is another piece of evidence that too much of the personal income flow in this country is politically determined. In a sane world, that Jane Sanders was married to a member of Congress should not have interested potential employers.
He is, alas, a fairly useless human being.
You mispelled evil commissar for the vermont oblast he occupies a similar possition to jeremy corbyn in the labour party an alleged stb asset supporter of fatah and other slithy toves
You can grok what my view of this apparatchik is in short
From instapundit, “The department of it’s different when we do it.”
It may be an unfortunate accident of his facial bone structure, but I’ve never seen an expression on his face that wasn’t hugely annoying.
It’s always an angry lecture to the-morally-inferior expression.
Not sure who he’s likely to convince. Probably only those already convinced. Or a particularly gullible undergrad.
It’s the Marxism, I’m pretty sure.
Changes facial structure—decades of standing in front of the mirror practicing your scowling.
(In addition—though this has yet to be confirmed—years and years of ingesting ridiculous amounts of Ben ‘n Jerry’s ice cream…)
Just goes to show you that even someone who isn’t trying to actively amass wealth in congress will nonetheless end up a multimillionaire.
He is, alas, a fairly useless human being.
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You could make that argument. He found his niche in municipal politics and had an impact in that realm which is unusual. However, from 1964 to 1981, his life was an embarrassment. It included a divorce, siring an illegitimate child (his one and only), a failed attempt at graduate school, and attempting to make a bogus claim to his draft board for conscientious objector status. He attempted to learn the building trades up in Vermont and failed comprehensively, (The motor of his 1966 divorce was his inability to earn enough to afford a dwelling with running water; he and his wife were holed up in a sugar house). At the time he ran for Mayor in 1981, he had an ordinary wage job on the staff of the local historical society. NB, if you look at the 1940 Census returns, it’s apparent that his father was a more than satisfactory earner. Larry and Bernie Sanders were able to attend a four year colleges (something 3/4 of their cohort did not do), Larry was admitted to the bar in 1961, and it’s a reasonable wager Bernie was into his brother for money from 1961 to 196?
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(After he lost his graduate school deferment, he hired a lawyer to argue for him in front of his draft board and won so many continuances that he ran out the clock on his eligibility. There haven’t been many actual draft dodgers in presidential politics. There are people who were not on active duty for one reason for another. Partisan Democrats when it’s convenient pretend such situations are the equivalent of dodging the draft even if their service record is a function of a statutory exception awarded to hundreds of thousands of men in each cohort (98% of whom had no pull). There are very few people who were excused due to gaming procedures or receiving special considerations due to someone pulling wires. Among the few were Sanders, Bill Clinton, and Rudolph Giuliani; there’s a reasonable inference that Glitch McConnell’s discharge in 1967 was obtained through pull as well. Interestingly enough, none of these people came from wealthy or influential families, but they did have important patrons in their young professional life).
He’s a corrupt POS, just like the rest of them, until proven otherwise.
What a schmuck. He’s got at the very least a KT number and TSA Precheck, and I’d even bet that every airline that flies to and from DC has a special VIP line for members of congress specifically so they do not have to wait. What Sanders is saying is that he doesn’t have the self discipline or time management skills to get to the airport on time.
Wonder if United can sue…
…or maybe the Bern can get a special deal with Frontier (riding shotgun on “the Airline of the People”)…
I think this might be it for him. As inured to hypocrisy as the left is, the right is finally learning to counter-program by using Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
Any policy prescription he makes in the future, X will light up with the amount of money he received from the drug companies, made manifest in the RFK Jr. confirmation hearings, then his gallivanting around the country with AOC on private jets, then living high on the hog in London.
It’s become patently clear he doesn’t intend to live the way he demands others do. He should and will be hit with that for the rest of his life.
Also, he’s older than Biden. Why else is he still in public other than to cling to power and the attendant benefits?
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He doesn’t own four homes, either…
Three or four, whatevs. Net worth is a relatively low, for a Congress critter, $3m, but he’s still a 1-percenter. Totally not an oligarch though, which is nice.
Like many members of Congress, he’s an exemplar of the utility of mandatory retirement and rotation-in-office rules written into constitutions. Better examples would be Malignancy Pelosi and Glitch McConnell, of course. In their case, you could induce much improvement by modifications in parliamentary rules (those of the chambers and those of the caucuses within them). Some pols are satisfactory arguments for minimum age requirements to run for public office and occupational screening for candidates for public office (Barney Frank, Bilge Clinton, Dick Durbin, Steny Hoyer, and James Clyburn being fine examples of who should be screened out).
His economic position is in part a function of the ‘synergy’ between public officials and the persons to whom they are married, which is another piece of evidence that too much of the personal income flow in this country is politically determined. In a sane world, that Jane Sanders was married to a member of Congress should not have interested potential employers.
He is, alas, a fairly useless human being.
You mispelled evil commissar for the vermont oblast he occupies a similar possition to jeremy corbyn in the labour party an alleged stb asset supporter of fatah and other slithy toves
You can grok what my view of this apparatchik is in short
Say what you want about “The Bern”.
He sticks to his principles!
https://instapundit.com/718948/
(…cue Groucho…)
From instapundit, “The department of it’s different when we do it.”
It may be an unfortunate accident of his facial bone structure, but I’ve never seen an expression on his face that wasn’t hugely annoying.
It’s always an angry lecture to the-morally-inferior expression.
Not sure who he’s likely to convince. Probably only those already convinced. Or a particularly gullible undergrad.
It’s the Marxism, I’m pretty sure.
Changes facial structure—decades of standing in front of the mirror practicing your scowling.
(In addition—though this has yet to be confirmed—years and years of ingesting ridiculous amounts of Ben ‘n Jerry’s ice cream…)
Just goes to show you that even someone who isn’t trying to actively amass wealth in congress will nonetheless end up a multimillionaire.
He is, alas, a fairly useless human being.
==
You could make that argument. He found his niche in municipal politics and had an impact in that realm which is unusual. However, from 1964 to 1981, his life was an embarrassment. It included a divorce, siring an illegitimate child (his one and only), a failed attempt at graduate school, and attempting to make a bogus claim to his draft board for conscientious objector status. He attempted to learn the building trades up in Vermont and failed comprehensively, (The motor of his 1966 divorce was his inability to earn enough to afford a dwelling with running water; he and his wife were holed up in a sugar house). At the time he ran for Mayor in 1981, he had an ordinary wage job on the staff of the local historical society. NB, if you look at the 1940 Census returns, it’s apparent that his father was a more than satisfactory earner. Larry and Bernie Sanders were able to attend a four year colleges (something 3/4 of their cohort did not do), Larry was admitted to the bar in 1961, and it’s a reasonable wager Bernie was into his brother for money from 1961 to 196?
==
(After he lost his graduate school deferment, he hired a lawyer to argue for him in front of his draft board and won so many continuances that he ran out the clock on his eligibility. There haven’t been many actual draft dodgers in presidential politics. There are people who were not on active duty for one reason for another. Partisan Democrats when it’s convenient pretend such situations are the equivalent of dodging the draft even if their service record is a function of a statutory exception awarded to hundreds of thousands of men in each cohort (98% of whom had no pull). There are very few people who were excused due to gaming procedures or receiving special considerations due to someone pulling wires. Among the few were Sanders, Bill Clinton, and Rudolph Giuliani; there’s a reasonable inference that Glitch McConnell’s discharge in 1967 was obtained through pull as well. Interestingly enough, none of these people came from wealthy or influential families, but they did have important patrons in their young professional life).
He’s a corrupt POS, just like the rest of them, until proven otherwise.
What a schmuck. He’s got at the very least a KT number and TSA Precheck, and I’d even bet that every airline that flies to and from DC has a special VIP line for members of congress specifically so they do not have to wait. What Sanders is saying is that he doesn’t have the self discipline or time management skills to get to the airport on time.
Wonder if United can sue…
…or maybe the Bern can get a special deal with Frontier (riding shotgun on “the Airline of the People”)…
“Frontier Airlines agents jeer at passenger after hitting him with surprise fee: ‘You thought you were gonna get on your flight?’”—
https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/us-news/frontier-airlines-staff-taunt-passenger-trying-to-check-in-hit-him-with-25-fee-video/
I think this might be it for him. As inured to hypocrisy as the left is, the right is finally learning to counter-program by using Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
Any policy prescription he makes in the future, X will light up with the amount of money he received from the drug companies, made manifest in the RFK Jr. confirmation hearings, then his gallivanting around the country with AOC on private jets, then living high on the hog in London.
It’s become patently clear he doesn’t intend to live the way he demands others do. He should and will be hit with that for the rest of his life.
Also, he’s older than Biden. Why else is he still in public other than to cling to power and the attendant benefits?