Socialistic Bernie would never win the popular vote or electoral college. Democrats know this. Nobody wants higher taxes. I can respect his conviction in those opinions though
His own party would rather run a non viable candidate and take the L than allow him to run and win. They make WAY more money losing than they would by him winning. Listening to Bernie would make them lose money.
This is exactly why he left the Democratic Party. For those who don’t know he left the Democratic Party because he disagreed with their views and is now an independent senator
@@itzahoax934and? If you agree with a party's view point 95 per cent of the time and there is a major ideological disagreement then that is what happens.
@@itzahoax934 Thats because the democrats have populist ideas. Stuff like making Ambulances cheaper and health care better. Unless you want to make healthcare SUPER expensive so you can give the health care companies more money. I wish it was just the immigrants my friend.
That worries me because I'm currently in nursing school. Currently can't afford groceries. Can't imagine getting past this and still struggling. Maybe I'll look into these navy offers I keep getting... they've been spamming me nonstop since last year when I turned 18 and got my selective service card.
Dude is older than Biden but is thousand times more coherent than Biden. It’s a absolute shame how democrats black balled him as the nominee. Democrats choose woke politics instead.
He kept his brain engaged and my dad didn’t retire from surgery until 85 only cuz of the politics and wanted to end with a good name; again he was taking classes in addition to working, so he was using his cranium. In psych we say, “If you don’t use it you lose it.”
he gets a pay day via a book or two, that buys him nice houses. each time to not say anything too bad. don't blame him, its smart because you get to stay in the game and seize your moment and looks like he is now, completely the right timing to capture an audience!
Didn't he and all the other candidates bow out so Biden who was polling last would get the nomination? Even though Biden didn't campaign cause he was hiding from COVID? And then Biden got more votes than any president in history?
My dad hates trump but he said something similar, that democrats lost because they are way too out of touch, stopped being the champions of the working class, and are instead focusing way too much on getting celebrity endorsements. He reacted to an interview from Kamala’s campaign manger boasting about these celebrity endorsements and he said ppl may like Taylor swifts music or the avengers movies but they couldn’t care less about how they think since are too rich to relate to normal people. The economy is in the gutter and prices are high but Kamala wanted to get a bunch of ultra rich celebs who constantly talk down to the middle class, tell people to stop crying about the economy, can’t fathom the idea of people financially struggling, constantly insult people, claim they’re oppressed despite being rich, and are constantly attacking people who slightly disagree with them to endorse her.
Yeah, I much closer relate to Elon Musk. A trillionaire It wasn't the celebrities. Both sides did the clown shows. hulk hogan showed up to the rnc. Hulk hogan It's the inclusivity bs and woke crap that made the Dems lose.
Prices have nothing to do with the government, and the economy is actually at a healthy growth rate currently. You could not be more wrong. The only thing that would drop prices more would be to regulate pricing, and guess what? The Republicans would kibosh that on grounds of being government overregulation, so bada bing bada boom you're shit out of luck. Reap what you sow and enjoy the economy while it's still good. Economists predicts about 2-3 good years then Trump policy will start taking effect.
the two party system has failed america since day 1 You need at least 8 parties, 3 left, 3 right, 1 moderate and 1 oddball, because more parties means less chances of 2 camps being made and staying the same Or get a monarchy, anything to having a symbol of unity in the government to prevent political divisions
give us german system, where there are two major parties, but none of them can get 50% without coalition (except of Adenauer, but he's cool so we'll gonna ignore that)
@@tenshihinanawi4546 I would say yes, but i don't think a German system works for America they don't have the culture and vibe for it A better maybe system could be one they make their own, using many of the liberal democracies of the world as one But still, the German System is good, but i personally don't see them working in the USA at this time, but that's just me
@@tenshihinanawi4546 @michelarsenault4088 funny thing the good old german party system is basically slowly colapsing right now and creating stagnation in alot of states and increasingly also on federal level due to a rising literally facist party and the conservatives getting more and more trumpish regarding the truth with coperate media in their backs. There are 2 states allready where they cannot form a coalition over 50% after election. Kinda like but also different like it was in the 1920s
The 2 party system becomes a uniparty. The only bipartisan legislature that gets passed is that which protects, enforces, or improves establishment interests. Warmongering is one of those things. The GOP and DNC are heavily bought out by the military industrial complex, which is why both had almost an antibody like reaction to Trump and his appointments; Say what you want about Trump, he is not in the pocket of the military industrial complex and has been the most peaceful president since Carter(The only other non-warmonger since before Woodrow Wilson, who was the father of the miltiary industrial complex).
I’m not gonna lie Bernie Sanders was/is the only person that made me even remotely consider voting Democrat, and it’s because he talks about the issues that actually matter to the middle class.
all their old tv appearances, and a bunch of their live stuff... can have the logo's ai'd onto their clothes by stations that have the guts to... they could have done it a while ago, but either never thought of it, or are too chicken.
I don't even necessarily agree with Bernie on all of his views, but i have to admit, he is one of the ONLY democrat candidate in years, that has genuinely given a single shit about the American working class, rather than almost entirely just running on social issues/Identity Politics.
Bernie is a sell out no one should listen to him every time he runs he takes a cash payout to drop out of the races offers more than he can deliver that why he takes the payouts and drops out.
Hes good at noticing theres a problem and thats about it. I always found it funny how he cut out the "millionaires" out of his "millionaires and billionaires" speeches the second he started seeing money
And it's sad when you see him having to cater to the identity politics, socially-radical components of the left. I disagree with his economic policy, but at least he's trying to make a legitimate argument and has a legitimate interest in the wellbeing of our nation. Instead, he has to play ball with clowns from his own party. If that wasn't enough, you had Democrats crucifying him because he doesn't want to do away with the 2nd Amendment.
no he shouldn't of. he's one of the biggest grifters, he was like "The millionaires are evil!!" then when he became a millionaire he switched the goalpost to "its the billionaires who are the evil ones!!". have some self respect.
True. Dem activist group of minority women flamed him on their TV event. But Sanders marched with MLK and went to jail protesting for their right to get into a university. Joy Reid, black MSNBC cable news pr0st!tute, smeared him 24/7 when he raised the most $ and in $20 donations looking like he'd beat Clitnot. lol@Idiocracy
Why would the DNC accept a populist candidate with wide grassroots support when they can run a dementia patient and a crooked DA who got zero delegates in the primary instead? I'm so glad the smart people are in charge.
Yeah, and I knew Bernie was pathetic when he didn't call them out on it and just bent the knee both to Hillary and Biden. He bent the knee twice, ffs. This honestly has nothing to do with his politics, he's just weak and pathetic and now wants to act like he didn't directly contribute to what he's now whining about.
Tulsi would have been better still though. Way more common sense than Bernie. Dems lost their chance with her. Bernie would still crawl back to them if they asked.
Bernie appeal to the working class. Meanwhile Hillary appeal to party donors and senior party officials. Just show how out of touch the democratic party is. Biden winning probably give them a false sense of security
You hear Bernie Bros, Trumpers, and Yang Gangers... But where are the Biden Bros? The Hillary Horde? The Kamala... uhh... Krew? Surely these hotrunners would have SOME loyalists, but you've never actually seen them.
It’s not just paycheck to paycheck. Even if you can save a little bit and you’re doing your best. Still takes one thing to go wrong and your right back down in it or all your savings is gone. Hope and pray that day doesn’t come
And the job market has been abysmal for those who are affected by all the layoffs happening since last year. It makes things all the more worse when people know that the chances of finding another job are so low at this point in time.
I mean, US is not strong because of the hard-working workers. Indians work harder. Chinese work harder. Japanese work harder. The key strength of America is its financial system and how they invest in companies. Where did the money go? you might ask. No where. The key difference is most manufacturing sites outside US is not doing well. China is recessing. Japan is recessing. India is recessing. New generations of workers in these countries know they are doing too much shet works. Less value produced. Same amount of money. So inflation comes. This is why US's economy is not doing well. Simple.
Good question. I got excited when I read that Minnesota under Walz has passed "the broadest Right to Repair legislation in the nation." Wow! Oh, but "...one of the carve-outs was for farm equipment." 😐 THAT is the problem with today's Democrats. They make these little token gestures toward big problems but don't actually FIX them.
@kevinc9065 maybe so, but the republicans atleast talk about their issues. The dems these days call them priviliged and move on to talk about "progressive" issues.
When Obamacare passed and I lost my coverage, I was neither poor enough to qualify for assistance, nor wealthy enough to afford my own healthcare. So I had no healthcare and suffered a $600 penalty on my taxes.
@aaroncamren691 The USA has no left wing party. One party defends the coastal/international elite and the other defends the rural old money elite. Bernie is the president USAmericans needed but never deserved.
This is just one of many examples of how Democrat policies destroy the middle class. You either happen to be above a certain cutoff and don't suffer, or you're below a certain cutoff and benefit from social programs. Those in the middle are forced downwards overtime because now they're left with the problem but no solution. It's literally how the "rich get richer and the poor get poorer". The middle class is the transitionary class between poverty and wealth. Without it, those who are poor do not have upwards financial mobility, and become more and more dependent on the government social programs to survive, meanwhile those who are already wealthy only get wealthier because they have an out to the problem and can continue to use their wealth as a safety net and continue to move upwards financially. It's the stepping stone to socialism, where the wealthy use their money as a hedge to avoid the problems around them, and everyone not wealthy is forced on government dependence since without it, individual efforts cannot overcome the hurdle of digging out of poverty due to the penalties that occur when you do so. This is only compounded by the victim mentality they teach people now, to believe that the government holds the solutions to the problems created by the government, and thus this only accelerates the dissolution of the middle class and increases people's desire to be dependent on government social programs.
But as Americans, don’t you agree with most of his points made in this video? He genuinely seems to be the only US politician to care about you all as individuals.
I have zero respect for Bernie Sanders. Believe it or not, Bernie said exactly the same thing in 2016 election when Democrats lost. This is his talking point since 2016, so this is nothing new. He has been regurgitating the same lines for years. We have to look at his track record. His support for Obamacare cost working classes thousands per year. Over Joe Biden's regime, he never once deviated from Joe's horrible anti working class policy.
Everyone should watch that video of Bernie interviewing oldschool mall punks in 1988. He was just a mayor at the time, but he had a public access show where he went around interviewing his town's citizens. He finds these two punk rock kids fresh out of high school and interviews them. He doesn't make fun of them for the way they dress, he doesn't talk down to them, he just talks to them like they're people. And he's been like that his whole life. I'm fairly conservative and disagree with him on many things, but I still respect Bernie. EDIT: his insistence that we need to raise minimum wage is shortsighted, and that seems to be what a lot of democrats focus on. Raising minimum wage will only make things worse UNLESS we bring down inflation. $15 dollars in the year 2000 is the equivalent of $27.47 now. You want minimum wage to be $15 across the board? Then get inflation down to where that $15 is actually WORTH $15, or at least closer to it.
Im sorry, but respect for Bernie???? Really, this guy had a real movement and real power in 2016 and when the game got a little rough he ran for the sidelines. Abandoning his millions of followers to save his own place in the DNC. This is Bended Knee Bernie on full display, NOW he speaks out when there is no risk to himself and his position in the party. Where was this Bernie last year or three years ago? Whatever you think of Trump, you cannot deny his resolve and his willingness to fight for what he believes. Bernie, first sign of trouble and he is rushing for the off ramp. Imagine, just imagine in 2016 when millions of angry at the establishment Americans on the right where forming Maga. Meanwhile millions of angry at the establishment Americans where voting for Bernie. Imagine if these two sides came together??? Ohh what could have been, but not only did Bernie clear the way for warhawk Clinton, he endorsed her and actively campaigned for her and called Trump racist, but he saved his spot in the DNC and forever left his followers in the wind. Respect for Bernie, this guy is the biggest coward in DC!
I’m not even sure what the terms conservatives and liberal mean anymore . Growing up I was definitely liberal as we often battled the older religious conservatives types on various issues. In the last few years I’ve found myself agreeing with conservatives on several issues but I find it so hard to talk to religious people at times .
My grandfather was a labor protestor. He was a holocaust survivor who was part of the labor movement to promote unionization and shorter work hours maximums, especially for farmers. Everyone deserves to be supported.
dave smith made a point on his show about how the dems said college educated voted for kamala but non college educated voted for trump. smith said another way to phrase is that the working class voted for trump.
Dems have intentionally gone after the college-educated vote since the 70s, when manufacturing started going overseas. Degree jobs with corporations made a lot more money, and that's more money for donations.
the entire educated vs non-educated has been a disaster for dems, because calling people "uneducated" is a flat out insult that pisses off people. it is just another way that they have for some reason decided to become the elitist party.
He’s absolutely right about the middle ground. You could have a neighbor with 7 kids and no job living comfortably, while you have no kids and make $2000 a year more than your neighbor and you’re suffocating because you make “too much” to get help, but not nearly enough to live comfortably.
Well keep in mind it was either her or 2016 Donald Trump. It was a scary time and neither seemed like that great an option. Now in 2024 Trump doesn’t seem that bad an option compared to 2016 Trump.
I totally agree. This is why I like Bernie. He doesn't give a fuck about identity politics. He cares more about the general economic issues facing America. Not identity politics. This is why I like Bernie because identity politics is not a major issue compared to people working paycheck to paycheck unable to save much for retirement or a future.
It's more like he understands forcing those issues are bad and that they will naturally resolve as people get more money. It's a lot easier to show empathy and understanding when your life isn't a steaming pile of shit
"People used to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but somebody turned the light off, so people don't want to be in the tunnel anymore" Just another banger of a quote dropped by Asmon Tzu
ppl like hasan didn't wanna stand up for medicare for all because he got donations from the DNC, so the force the vote campaign never took of because of sellouts like him
I'm a republican. I rarely agree with Bernie, but I respect the hell out of him. The man sticks to his guns. I've always said, "vote the way you want, just please understand what you are voting for."
@@santacruz59Although we don’t know how the tariffs will play out he proposed that idea in hopes of abolishing income tax. Which theoretically would allow working class people to have more money. Who knows what’ll happen tho. Your guess is as good as mine.
@@santacruz59 Chill, dude. Costs were lower than any democrat during Trump’s last presidency even after he implemented tariffs. It’s worked before. Without tariffs and all of our costs have skyrocketed cause of bad policy and inflation. I’m clearly a republican, but like OP, I respect Bernie because he does genuinely care about people. However, his socialist ideas would never work in the US.
@@princeofgreece9054 I agree.....but I work in a subset of building demolition and new construction......Huge general contractors and sub contractors are really worried about the implementation of his Universal tariff plans and insane Chinese tariff proposals.....whether you like it or not we have to import a large amount of our raw materials.....these tariffs if implemented will raise prices of everything.
I didn't agree with Bernie Sanders on most policies but he fights for what he believes and didn't sell out like all Democrats due, for that he has my respect.
I canvassed for Bernie with my friends in the 2016 primaries. Back then, we were idealistic 18 year olds who thought we could change the world, headed by a person with such strong convictions that had stood on his beliefs for decades - and best of all, was not attached to any super pacs with a completely crowd funded campaign. I remember talking to our classmates’ parents, who dismissed us for Hilary’s “years of experience” and our “poor understanding” of politics. Our senior skip day, the entire class decided to go to a Bernie rally instead of school. I always think back on that time, on how things could have been different if we hadn’t been still living in a McCarthyian nightmare where “socialism” is the enemy. Bernie was there for us, and we let him down.
@@PA_Sword You’re right - the centrist right that pretends to be the Democratic Party coordinately pulled the rug from under him multiple times. This system is so broken
Bernie bent the knee and endorsed both Clinton and Biden. He's a sellout, much like AOC. He probably would've turned out to be another establishment puppet even if he did win
damn you really do ignore science brother. You do realize experts tested this medicine? Where are all the v d3aths?? Also its about protecting evveyone not just your selfish as$
To be fair, it's not that he's respecting Tim Walz for not insider trading, but for not taking part in trading at all. As a senator, access to new, private information that affects the economy comes with the job. Even if you don't take part in insider trading on purpose, id imagine decisions you make with your stock will always have some kind of influence from what you know. The respect comes from Tim Walz deciding to not take part in general, so that mistakes/private information is 100% guaranteed to not influence trading, either on purpose or on accident. It's respectable to limit your own financial choices for that.
@@jacksonroy8720 That is true, but that is only because it removes the possibility of insider trading altogether. The fact that they cannot be trusted and we know that is very sad.
Unions: In the UK, the Labour Party (whom were/are financed by the unions) came into existence, after WW1 & the suffragettes movement. The labour party only gained traction after WW2. It was the original working class party. Times have changed & it’s not the same anymore
6:10 I just wanted to point out what a twitch viewer said after Asmons' comment, that went unnoticed: "The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.".
I grew up homeless, hungry, and scared. I’m 29 now, married and with a child. I am now only hungry and scared. The only way to save and get ahead is for my wife and I to save EVERY penny. No, we don’t work in fast food or the service industry. It’s so hard out here for everyone.. I’m working on moving and I find these NICE apartments but they are all subsidized. Like, stuff most people couldn’t afford I can’t live in now because I make “too” much.
Bless you my friend, just curious, do you live in a major city and/or on the coast? If so you should genuinely consider moving to the midwest. I have plenty of new friends who are former New Yorkers (their accent says it all 😂) and they all cannot believe how good life can be.
Best recommendation is wait until the spring/summer next year and first time homebuyers and families should get a break. Talk to landowners who aren't selling property and hash out a good deal for both parties cutting out a broker and get land. Better pricing and then you put the money into building a home.
But identity politics like trans rights are what you want, right? I'm sorry to hear you're not more financially stable. DEI agendas are not helping you, all the post-election meltdown videos have become the face of the Democrat party.
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what is good for THEM." -George Carlin
"It's all a big club, and you ain't in it!" - George Carlin My quote is the short version of yours, the context to make this one work is the one you put up, because it's true.
@@Sorain1 Always a weird quote though. Carlin had something like 14 specials, and died being worth millions. Certainly seems like he was in the club, and used his comedy as a form of controlled opposition.
@@therobustempyrean1436 That means he probably knew what he was talking about. Just like when Trump was saying the rich abuse the tax code and that it's the tax code is a joke. He even admitted to abusing it himself.
I just got fired today from a union job of years, trying to hold on to two jobs, living beneath my means, trying to be at two jobs at one time, with zero social life, and little rest, with not enough hours to gain union benefits. My son is doing better than me, whom now is a Black Hawk mechanic in the Army. Check to check life here.
As a British individual, I respect Bernie’s out look on a lot of these social issues. He’s not a man that leans onto social trends to sway memebers of the public but rather expresses the importance of easy to understand concepts that really seem like troubles within the USA. I think the country and the government itself would run incredibly well if these key thinkers that spoke what they think with key strong intention for the people collaborated as one democracy rather than opposing parties. It’s a shame what the media do to politics, in my opinion it is entirely the media’s fault for what the average person feels towards individuals due to what they want to portray. A serious shame
Bernie is correct that the left tends to the bottom 1% and the top 1% leaving the 98% to battle it out. In general in the usa, no one wants to help a fellow man if it takes away from the same thing that the same man is asking for. The lowerclass say they are starving but don't want food; middleclass have food but can't give it away; the upperclass make the food and throw it in the trash. Americans have a harsh policy of reep what you sow and in today's world neither is possible except for the top .01%
Trump and Bernie are liked because their anti-globalists. Because the American Bourgoisie have spent the past 3 decades conspiring to send jobs overseas for cheap sweatshop labor. The Proletariat end up with fewer jobs and dont even get cheaper goods, because those prices are inflated magnitudes above the pennies it costs to produce. The 60% get poorer, while the 1% gets exponentially richer. We need tariffs to equalize labor-costs NOW. Its impossible to raise the minimum wage without doing so.
He’s a leftist in the best sense of the word - an old school who actually cares about advancing the interest of the working class, and not doing culture war crap
Blue collar worker here, I work in a skilled labor position, in a refinery, I won’t go to doctor unless it’s life or death, everyone I work with will just tough it out because the doctor could quickly become 500+ bill with insurance, we work in one of the most dangerous job environments in the country, and can’t afford to sprain an ankle, meanwhile I see people going to hospital for a cold, our healthcare has failed the group that needs it the most
without any political judgement, do you think that the reps (trump) will help the middle class with these issues (and how) or is it just a 'it will be always shit but I agree with the reps on other issues'? I am not american, it is clear that dems also don't give a real fuck about their average citizens but at least how it is represented, reps don't even try to gaslight the people like the dems do sometimes (student debt forgiveness, obamacare etc. vs. the florida gov going to vacation while his citizens freeze because of bad infrastrcuture policies). Genuinely want just your opinion, cheers
What i find most interesting that US citizens pays double of that of other developed countries pay for healthcare, even cost of public healthcare paid by state is actually similar to that of other countries that simply have public healthcare, when providing much less. I think it's idea of healthcare being business like any other, and from that maximizing profit perspective US model is the best. If country has actual public healthcare, even if not that good it become competition for private services. The need to offer more for less, otherwise customer would just choose public service. And country-wide public insurance can easily push for better deals with hospitals because of it's leverage. And that's why even private healthcare is cheaper in countries with public service.
1000% I'm a welder and even with insurance the costs are wild. Bernie fucking got it exactly right. The bread and butter of this country is guys like us and we're getting absolutely fucked. I don't give two absolute fucks about any of this gender shit, go be/do whatever the fuck makes you happy in your own little world, just don't get kids involved. All I want to do is work 40 hours and be able to provide for my wife and kid and live a comfortable life where I can focus on my goals. They blatantly iced out Bernie and I lost all care about the party. Obama put in so much work and built such an insane base, and Bernie took a lot of that energy. Then the DNC took everything good and lit it on fire with Clinton and here we are
@@ravensbladewe also get better care, in places with state control healthcare like Canada they are like all we can offer you is Medically assisted DEATH and UK force parents to let their child die because they deemed they were worth the resources wouldn't even let them take the child to Italy where a Doctor was willing to try for free. Would rather pay
Starting the car with the anxiety that might not start hits hard. Got out of the navy in 2019 after 10 years just when covid started. Couldn't work or go to school and ended up with a bad fent addiction. Got sober a couple years ago and took me 6 months with just under a hundred applications before i got hired to push carts at home depot. Today at work i had 3 dollars in my account because i spent my entire check on fixing my brakes. Vending machine took that last three dollars so i didnt eat lunch. Now im sitting in my car waiting to get a door dash order to make a few bucks for dinner tonight. This is my daily routine till i get paid this friday as i have no food in the fridge. Still happy though and in touch with God.
'Everytime your car doesnt start', 'everytime your phone doesnt turn on'... learn to fix them yourself. Being a one trick pony is a privilege of the rich. If youre poor, you need to learn how to fix your own things.
You're on to something. I'm not poor(not rich either) and still fix my own things. People with money ask me to fix their things too which is my supplemental income. This is how I avoid being poor.
Before I drop my insurance, it was $1000 a month with a $10,000 deductible. I only make 65,000 a year so yes insurance companies destroy the middle-class.
You only make 65k a year you would be considered higher than average in Europe i only make 25k a year and money is not a problem for me to pay off my house or my cars and living how i want too. This is the problem in the US the dollar is worth so little for Americans while standing strong on the market value
I'd argue that is just a by-product of pharmaceuticals and health services also incidentally costing an absurd amount of money to begin with. Especially medications.
That insurance policy is basically just a polite "Fuck you" from the insurance company. You'll spent 12k a year on premiums and you'll also have to spend 10k on medical expenses before the insurance company pays a dime. 22k a year to get any kind of coverage is crazy.
I was so jaded politically after he lost the nomination, I genuinely felt he stood for people. I canvassed in my circles, I brought people on board for him, I really put in work. When Clinton went up, I literally gave up on it all. The machine bared its fangs, and showed what it was standing for. Afterwards, I was politically homeless. It was 2019 when I finally sat down and ACTUALLY started looking into Trump, who is a clearly flawed character - and I respected the shit out of him for how he conducted himself when he interacted with average people. Slowly, Trump won me over because I felt like he was outside of the machine. If I could have a Sanders/Trump coalition, a balance between two worlds working together for the people, checking one another on things and coming to conclusions, I'd absolutely love something like this.
Bernie is a sell out no one should listen to him every time he runs he takes a cash payout to drop out of the races offers more than he can deliver that why he takes the payouts and drops out.
I mean, it's worth a shot. Pick an idea and a plan of action and maybe one day he and Trump/the cabinet can sit down and try and figure out a solution. It's very telling that the two DNC members I respected teamed up with Trump and were welcomed with open arms. The business man wants solutions to problems.
there's a VERY old Chinese line from roughly 2k years ago: "倉廩足而知禮節 衣食足而知榮辱" "Only when the granary is full will people learn etiquette; only when people are well-fed and clothed will they know honor and shame." think about it.
If that were true, why do white-collar crimes exist? People who commit white-collar crime are on the top 1%. It is almost as if people who have everything can also be shameless or honorless. Think about that.
The one thing I want to say about how people talk about wages; it's not just about the minimum wage threshold, its all wages. In the generations prior a man could work 40 years as a factory employee with benefits and be able to raise a family, build and own a nice home, and still have money left over to buy his wife a string of pearls for Christmas. I have many friends who work in factories today, they make $17-22/hr. Hell I worked my ass off to become an architect. My Dad went to school to become a fire protection engineer and was able to afford a stand alone home with a pool in miami by the time he was 24. I live in Atlanta and make $55k/ year. Do you think I could afford a standalone home with a pool after working for 2 years? Hell no! $300k is the price of an entry level home here in the extreme suburbs of the area. My dad always said you can afford 2.5x you annual salary for a home. Tell me, where the FUCK does someone find a home for $137,000 in todays economy???
This should be a lot of things. I remember hearing about the Prozac hearings because of the suicide rates and every psychiatrist that was at the hearing had a conflict of interest
Properties shouldn't matter. I agree with not owning stocks since your policies directly impact the value of said stocks and make you biased/corrupted. But You cannot make them give up properties just because they hold office. At the end of the day ITS A JOB. They make a salary. As long as their purchases fall within that salary, it should not be a problem. The problem is that they currently (many of them) engage in insider trading.
@@TheDanteBoots Well, there goes almost every Senator and Congress person! There goes Trump! Right? If that’s your point, you can see that this is not doable. You do realize that Bernie is the least wealthiest Senator in the Chamber. He does not own stock, he keeps a basic residence in D.C.-as do ALL U.S. Senators. His primary home is in VT, and his wife inherited a small vacation home in ME from her side of the family. I know all this because I volunteered for his campaign twice. Most U.S. Senators are immensely wealthy.
I gave up on the Democrats when they screwed him on the primary. I went to the voting booth to vote for him and found out later my vote didn't count. And not just mine, about 100k people were in the same shoes as me.
I followed it all in 2016, as a European. How they counted votes slower in states he was leading in, how some "news outlet" in California announced Hillary's win the DAY BEFORE ballots where cast. How the chair for the DNC at that time slipped up TWICE in media and admitted in Freudian slips how "grassroots" candidates wasn't going to win and how the DNC actually PLANNED for Hillary's nomination after Obama. I even have more ...
I am definitely feeling this. I am 51 years old and have been out of work for a year. I am applying everywhere including yes fast food. All these companies want younger employees. I am flat broke and I still don’t qualify for food stamps. I have lost 60 lbs and I am now at 195 lbs. . That’s not from exercise. It’s from me only having oatmeal every day for every meal. I want to work so bad but no one wants to hire a 51year old man.
If you live near a total wine they will hire for help during the season and more than likely keep you on. If companies aren't hiring because of your age that's discrimation to your age. The younger generation doesn't even know how to work.
Well that's because there are no jobs. Like you go inside to apply, they tell you to apply online. When you apply online most companies outsource to a 3rd party that uses AI to scan over the resumes and they delete like 99% of them. I also heard conspiracy theory, which may or may not be true, like there's tax incentives for getting people to apply the state will give them tax cuts for companies bringing in a lot of people. So they simply just put up a bunch of ghosts positions, people apply, they never hire and they get tax breaks. And I hate to say it's worse if you are a man, but it totally is I've seen it first hand. My job has only hired women in my work group. My biological brother went trans at 38 found a job a few months later, in an office mind you, which that probably isn't going to work now due to the current social changes. Studies came out over a decade ago that stated women are twice as likely to be hired as men in STEM fields. It is worse being a man.
Damn, that sounds tough as hell. I really hope you get a chance to make a living soon. I myself am applying to places too, but it ain't easy out here. 🙏
I'm not even remotely a democrat, especially not by today's standards. But Bernie was the one politician I would've happily voted for in my adult life. The way the machine crushes real, genuine people who want nothing more than to be public servants in sickening.
The part about financial anxiety is so fucking real. I spent 6 years as a near broke college student, with 30% of my day-to-day thoughts being not on school but on whether I was going to have enough money to eat by the end of each semester. I would literally pray each time I got into my old car, praying that it would start up, because I knew I'd be fucked if it broke down. After years of living like this, it's so easy to desensitize about how draining that kind of life is. Now, I graduated and got lucky enough to find a good job months after, and even though my pay is just barely enough to rent me a 1-room apartment for myself, the difference is night-and-day. The past few months have been the fucking happiest I've ever been, even though I'm just barely above the poverty line for single men without dependents. I cannot stress this enough, but if this economy gets any more weighted in favor the ultra wealthy, we're all fucked. For the love of god, please let something change for the better.
I'm against the richest taking advantage of us but we REALLY got to be careful what we mean by the rich because if we misterm the culprits the culprits will use "the general" rich as scapegoats and it will further ruin us. Business owners are rich and businesses are what makes economies healthy. This is a very important distinction. Know who your enemy is. Dont let them trick you into policies that say it will take the wealth from the rich when it takes the wealth from genuine people. The real monsters are the ones with trillions and use that influence to control the media (a.k.a. propoganda and censorship)
You are not alone in this. I am a married new mother and can relate 100%. Even with a 2 income household, living below our means, if 1 thing were to go awry, we would be fucked. Something has GOT to give please GOD help us Sincerely, An Atheist
When I try to convince people of the Democrat Party's true nature, I don't point out the countless times they undermined Donald Trump. I point out the countless times they undermined _Bernie Sanders._
Liberals when opposing Trump: "Well, we agree the border is a big problem and we tried to deport even more people than the historically high deportations we had under Obama, but TRUMP veto'd our bill!" Liberals when opposing Sanders: "Universal healthcare will never, ever come to pass. Also, everyone drop out and endorse the #4 runner-up, Biden, to make sure universal healthcare never happens."
He never did kiss the billionaires behinds, which made him their enemy. Had he ever gotten any power I think the corporations and the billionaires would have had him ended, like Boeing ended that guy who was about to testify against them.
Hi guys, I am a British citizen living under a government that represents most of Bernie's ideals. I'd just like to say, stick with Trump. Socialism is bad news and capitalism with socialist government is also bad.
Even though my economic views have shifted since I supported Bernie in 2016, I still have massive respect for the man. The DNC colluding against Bernie was disgusting, and the fact that Debbie Wasserman Shultz just won her house reelection here in Florida is an embarrassment on our state. This year, their corruption was aimed at RFK Jr. I’m so glad it backfired on them. The Democratic Party deserves all the failure they’ve brought upon themselves.
Same here in the UK. The people that our media call "far right" (they call people this for the smallest of things like everywhere else) are people that used to be Labour voters. Now Labour voters are more well off, trendy, university types.
Labor have just passed a censorship bill in the House of Representatives (called the MAD Bill, give it a google). It calls for the banning of social media for teens, including RUclips, and mandatory verification of age and identity for adults, likely utilising the Govt Digital ID software. On top of this, the govt will create a literal ministry of truth to dictate what information is "fact" and what is a lie. In other words, big brother will be watching you, parenting your kids, you won't be allowed to speak the truth if it's unapproved, and if you do, you can be fined or jailed by the government. Welcome to Australia.
Yep. I was in the middle-ground. I got taxed $7,200 thanks to Obamacare, because I couldn't afford healthcare, but made too much to get financial aide from the government. I couldn't afford heat in my casita in someone's back yard. I drove a $700 craigslist sh!tbox that I always had to fix myself because I couldn't afford a mechanic, and the government was taxing me $1,800/year for not being able to afford health coverage
same boat here, and my thought was "well im a 20 y.o healthy male I dont really need the coverage" and i was 100% correct, so instead of being rewarded for not using public services and being healthy, i got punished every year.
Yep. I remember that. It was a huge turning point for me when I became political engaged and aware. I was penalized about $1000. I way paying for a basic private insurance for prior to Obamacare about $115/month which I was okay with as I was a per diem paid contractor and about 20yr old healthy man. Then shit hit the fan with Obamacare and it literally became $325 for a similar plan! Absolute truth.
@@KazzoKiller3890 We gotta get the brackets up, it's universal for most state helathcare but only if you make $ under the poverty line which I believe is 24k
One thing I notice while watching this is that Bernie has an extensive and above average vocabulary with clear speech despite his old age. That's quite impressive to me and I wish the opposite didn't happen for most other elderly government officials.
US presidents have been dumbing down their public speaking since 1940s. Taking purely word length and linguistic complexity, it's gone from college level in the 19th century to upper elementary level in 2010s. In the realm of oratory, it is a frequently underappreciated truth that intricately woven discourses, laden with ostentatious verbosity, do not invariably surpass the profound efficacy and inherent clarity that may be exhibited by utterances characterized by their simplicity and straightforwardness, thereby rendering their impact more accessible to the discerning audience. Or in other words, a complicated speech isn't necessarily better than simple one. But the fact is still there nonetheless, politicians have been getting simpler and simpler in their messaging.
@@miken3963 thank you for the translation for people like me. Anyway yeah I do get that as well because most people before couldn't understand what politicians were saying but now it might be leaning towards the opposite and this is interesting as it is equally concerning.
From my perspective, Bernie actually has a very straightforward way of speaking. Some people say that Trump is that way, but I disagree. Trump is very vague and indirect, he uses simple language for the purpose of obfuscation rather than clarity. Bernie's has integrity, he uses whatever words are necessary to best convey his point.
I dont agree with most of the democratic party but i absolutely admire Bernie's consistency. He has views and he sticks with them. Thats totally respectable.
@@KainWT kind of? he understood that there was a greater good to consider. So he was willing to do so, but he still stayed on message. Just...Hillary didn't
Except that in 2022 undocumented illegal immigrants contributed 96 billion dollars into medicare, social security, and other government programs. Here's to the economy and individual freedoms being seized by fascism. :)
Except that those illegal immigrants contributed to 96 billions dollars towards social security and medicare. Here's to the loss of individual rights and the economy that you are so protective of! :)
Except that those illegal immigrants contributed to 96 billions dollars towards social security and medicare. Here's to the loss of individual rights and the economy that you are so protective of! :)
Dude is so annoying my mom immigrated to this country legally she is going through a process to get her green card she and my sister pay taxes and get zero benefits from it but this people that enter the country illegally get all the benefits from my mom’s and sister paid taxes without working a day in their life in this country while legal immigrants get nothing from the taxes that they pay out of their pockets.
"There used to be a light at the end of the tunnel, yet someone turned the light out, So people don't want to be in the tunnel anymore" good hard quote that hits hard.
Yeah, one party is now much stronger than the other because they actually have a primary and not just a coronation where the candidate is picked by the party "elite".
They actually went downhill long before that. Somewhere in between Carter and Clinton, they decided that it would be better if they could get ultra rich donors like the Republicans, rather than rely entirely on the working middle and lower classes. What you're seeing now is a harvest that was planted back then.
It does feel like that. I also noticed a distinct change in their behaviour since then. Before 2016, they were more level. But after 2016, they entered some kind of panic state. Like they realized they were losing grip but couldnt really comprehend it. All of a sudden their news became "for children", sensationalized. Everything after that was weird. I dont know what kind of CEO calls were made to news outlets but they lost their minds after that. They went the wrong direction.
US health care is complete trash. I spent 2 days in a hospital once, just recovering from medication issues. All I did was sleep and eat. After the first day, I told them I was fine but they literally wouldn’t let me leave. My bill was around 2,700$. I remember seeing on the bill “Ibuprofen : 100$” For two generic ibuprofen pills. Never paid it and still get calls to this day, over 2 years later.
I was 5-7 hours in hospital, in switzerland. My bill was almost 2k lol. And thats only stay, no meds or ambulance (my family drove me) Sadly we dont have the opprtunity to not pay lmao. Id have police at my door and would have to pay even more. Medical care mandatory here, you have to pay on top of that. Which is 3-5k every year even if you never visit the doc or hospital
If collections calls you about medical debt they have to be able to provide an itemized bill to prove the debt. If not then they can't prove the debt and are harassing you. However, if they provide you and itemized bill from the hospital, then they and the hospital have violated HIPAA and can be sued. Medical debt can not legally be pursued by collections in the United States because of how strict and strong HIPAA regulation is.
I was 17 in 2016. Bernie has been the only candidate that actually made me want to vote for him. And then we got Trump. I haven't voted ever, because I don't want ANY of these people in power.
... I mean, I'd DEFINITELY put it in the top 100,000, considering how the bible belt goes, but also goddamn how many problems you think america as a whole has?! I definitely don't think it's top 50, but NOT EVEN TOP 100,000??? LIKE... YOU THINK DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IS A BIGGER PROBLEM?
Kamala did not mention trans people a single time, and refused to answer questions on them the entire time. Trans people were literally not part of the election, but they supposedly lost the election for her anyway. Are you saying Kamala might have won if she came out strongly against trans rights? If she tried to ban trans people accessing healthcare in prison? Is that really what you think is necessary, and would you find it acceptable?
“People used to think there was a light at the end of the tunnel and then somebody turned the light out, and now nobody wants to be in the tunnel” Nailed it here Asmon.
I'd love a political party that is anti woke but also supports progressive policies like universal healthcare. I shouldn't have to choose between healthcare and being called racist, sexist, and transphobic for existing as a white dude. We should be able to address the housing crisis and say that anti white racism has gotten out of fucking control. Can we just be sane again, please?
Your political spectrums have been carefully curated on both sides to make sure you get screwed no matter what you choose. The RNC and DNC are not an expression of the voting base. They are both curated from the top down.
Universal healthcare sucks ass. You pay more in taxes and they have no incentive to provide decent care. Not to mention the wait times are measured in months and years.
The problem with that is the “progressive policies” are the reason why you can’t afford health care on your own. Nothing is free and the government wastes 80% of the money they take in.. If you want healthcare pay for it yourself.. but you can’t because these “progressive policies” are taxing the S out of us all while they “redistribute” the money after skimming 80% off the top. If the government would get their nose out of everything, health care wouldn’t be so expensive in the first place and we’d take more home from our paycheck to allow us all to actually pay for it when we need it.. And truth be told, Healthcare is not as important as people are brainwashed to believe. A lot of the time healthcare and doctors visits to do “preventative” care is just a way for them to make more money indefinitely off those that didn’t need it in the first place.
When Obamacare passed and people lost their coverage, they were neither poor enough to qualify for assistance, nor wealthy enough to afford their own healthcare. So they had no healthcare and suffered a $600 penalty on their taxes. Is this what you want? Not to mention long queues and uncaring incompetent doctors.
I will never understand how right wing people were duped into hating unions so hard. On every level, they exemplify right wing thought. It's free market in labor terms. Not allowing unions encroaches on an indiviluals free agency to do what they fucking want. Who are companies or the government to tell me I can't have a fucking meeting with other trades people to negotiate wages at a company? Controlling who I meet and what I say on my own time? That's un-american. Now should companies be able to look for and hire non-union workers? Of course. It's a free labor market. Unions raise wages as much as they can, corps lower them as much as they can... as long as corps do use dirty tricks and money for unfair advantage, it balances out.
i know there was an interview with bernie not that long ago where he argued that we've been fighting for 15$ for so long that we need 20$ now. not sure which interview though, so i cant source it.
I make 30/hr my wife makes 21.50hr and we still live paycheck to paycheck. We haven’t been able to go on vacation since before COVID when we regularly took one maybe 2 a year. We have 1 child (teenager) and live in the Midwest for reference.
To clarify I’m not for raising the minimum wage. I’m for eliminating it altogether. Make companies compete more instead of just here’s the minimum. Along with abolishing income tax.
Yeah, I've been seeing that and researching it. Don't get me wrong, They should be paid handsomely for bringing the companies' wealth. The problem that I have is CEOs get a fat bonus while they lay off workers, profit is in the gutter compared to the year before that, and still keep their job. Like one CEO got a couple million, but a couple weeks before that had employees laid off... His bonus could have funded those departments for years or at least transitioned those employees to other sectors, places, ect. I guess I am complaining to complain. Some CEO and boards actually care though.
@@xeternalxdreamsx The credit of the companies wealth doesn't actually go to the CEO, it goes to the board of directors. Execs get way too much credit when the Board of Investors are above them on the ladder, and are more responsible for the company's policy and direction.
@danriedi7653 So, like he or she basically reports to the board? They give the person goals (sales, ect), directives, and so on to work towards? My bad for assuming it was just the CEO. Maybe both? ;)
It’s so refreshing to hear someone just expressing their opinions on political topics without excess emotion, especially when you acknowledge someone’s heathy thinking regardless of their political associations. Well done!
A huge problem is the fact they are just printing money. Every time they do that it dilutes (devalues) what you have. That is why you are paying three times the price for what you got at the grocery store a few years ago.
Kroger's already been outed as charging more than inflation accounts for. I'm sure there's others. I'm not saying you're 100% wrong, but there's more to it than that. We live in a free market. The pandemic prices didn't come back down because people couldn't or didn't boycott to force them back down.
And the issue is they print it when they cant fund a bussiness bank or some other institution needed to run country. Just like they did in 2008. If individual goes bankrupt he goes to jail. If goverment does, individuals pay fot it.
@@o-mangaming5042 Inflation is caused by cost-push, where companies go out of business or cut back because they cannot afford wholesale prices. For example, suppliers are shutdown because they don’t have the lobbyist to be considered essential. Other inflation is caused by demand-pull. This is where customers compete with each other bidding up the price. For example, if a store is constantly running out of TP and cannot get more from their supplier, customers start to complain that the store is out, so they raise prices to keep the store filled. We experienced both of these.
They aren't printing money, they are borrowing money. Not only is money pumped into the economy directly via special interests, but future tax payers must pay that money back plus interest. Devaluation, stealing from future generations, enriching those who already have money.
I dont know if youre in the states, but ive lived in germany as an american for 20 years now, inflation is terrible here too, after covid and whats happening in ukraine. That's whats doing it here. That and the massive influx of immigrants who spend more (welfare) than they create.
He was always right. Considering Trump was almost assassinated, he was probably told not to run 3rd party or him and his family would be murdered. Source: Seth Rich.
Bernie is much more honest about calling it - it's not about reaching more people with the "messaging", it's about what the "messaging" contains and how honest it is. Propaganda didn't cut it this time around.
_Our social elites rely on propaganda because they legitimately think that the masses are uneducated and easy to manipulate._ _Funny how the nobility back in medieval times had the same mindset about the peasantry._ _So, still the same class war being waged: The Rich vs The Poor._
It's the same in the UK... I now spend 8 months a year living in Eastern Europe (specifically the Balkans) because, even working full time as a trained chef, i cannot afford to live in my home town, or anywhere really for that matter, in the UK. This is ignoring the huge crime rates, horrible culture, terrible weather and the fact that the UK is now a police state where you can go to jail for making a meme.
Came to the UK in 2014, looking for more opportunities and better life from Bulgaria with the intention to stay here for good. I’m moving back to Bulgaria in January next year … it’s basically unbearable here at this point and it only gets worse
They started targeting him and his family with lawfare like they later did with Trump. He doesn't have deep enough pockets to fight off the entire "justice" system.
@@RychNovsky-ld3hf He never has been in the party. He's the longest serving independent senator is U.S. history. He often votes with Democrats and caucuses with them. But he's not in the party. That's one of the main reasons he didn't get the nomination in 2016 or 2020.
I gotta respect the fact that Asmond is looking at things from the perspective of a citizen, without leaning towards a party. It sounds like you are moving through all of this with information and class. Hats off to my guy here
@@transistor3115I'd call him a libertarian centrist in American terms but prolly libertarian center-right on global terms. I don't think he crossed the overton window so much as it crossed over him. Now those Palestine takes, that's a different story lmao
Bloody good Asmongold quote there: "You used to be able to work for something and be able to think that there was light at the end of the tunnel, and somebody turned the light out, so people don't want to be in the tunnel anymore."
As a former Democrat, i was gonna vote Bernie on my first election in 2016, but they decided to fuck him over. I flipped to republican after. Never looked back, glad i havent.
and that is exactly what I did as well... the best way to send a message is with your vote. No one wants Trump... but he's the biggest slap in the face the the falsely labeled "party of the people"
I'm 19 and I have been working since I dropped out of HS and got my GED at 17; I also was working summers since I was 16. In janurary of 24' I quit my job because I was getting harassed by coworkers and I just hit a breaking point. I feel so discriminated against for my age and I still can't find a job. I am so worried about being able to move out and be a successful adult but my family is flat broke and my mom is in bankruptcy. I have applied to so many jobs I cannot keep count. I have attended over 15 interviews getting ghosted after everytime. I have to do bottle returns to have enough gas to try and make it to the next one. I obviously cannot afford schooling and I am just trying to find anything but no luck yet. My truck is older than me and every day I turn it on I am worried it will break more. I don't have 2nd gear and its at 240,000 miles. I cannot afford insurance so I just hope I don't get hit and caught. I pray to god every day that it will get better but nothing happens. I think everyone is struggling and I pray for the other people in the same situation or worse. I can at least stay with my mom until I find something but it's hard because my girl got kicked out of her house and now stays with me. America needs help. God bless you all.
Don't drop out of HS, it's the fastest way to kill future income unless you start your own business. Go into a heavy labour industry, that at least will pay well and always needs people
@@martijnkoning3354I dropped out and never got my ged in 2012. I make 27/hr soon to be 32. I enjoy working the trades and with my hands. But dropping out definitely made 18-24 substantially more difficult until I started getting things established. The trades are dying for people though. Most companies will take no experience and train you. Don’t worry about joining a union.
@SOC675 yup, go find a community college that can get you a trade in bricklaying, plumbing, construction. Anything, shit pays well and your qualifications dont need to be much.
Ya but bernies leading the fight for womens rights in womens boxing and vollyball and swimming lets give him his due most popular lifelong politician eva. Lead us to free dumness bernie. Thats what really matters not your problems brah.
The anchors trying to steer the conversation to identity politics versus the actual issues in this country says all you need to know. People are hurting.
At like the 2:20 mark, you couldn’t be more spot on. Every time something comes up I hadn’t planned for, I have to redo the entire next few months worth of budget it is so tight. I would be absolutely fucked if one, let alone 2 things broke, died, or went out on me.
The media totally brainwashed me against Bernie. I really had him all wrong. I might not agree with him on a lot of stuff, but at least he fights for the American people. I haven't felt that from a democrat in a long time.
@@freakofferI mean a lot of idiots follow worthwhile people, then again Bernie has no balls and his last campaign was completely infiltrated because he focused so much on Trans crap as if that's a big issue.
ALL media went against him when he was about to win spreading missinformation. Some newsreporters even saying Bernie would make communist storm New York Square like Fidel Castro and that wasent even Fox News. If you REALLY listen to what hes saying, without immediatly going to the default "communist" square, and then think about what you would want yourself and what would benefit your family you will probably find that alot of it makes sense. Oh and dont fall for the "how do you finance it" trap. That is also explained if you listen.
It's sad. I have had Medicare before and I was in the Army for 4 years when I was young. Those were the times where I have had the best healthcare. Now that I am firmly middle class, I can't afford to fix a tooth that got loosened in an accident 15 years ago and I haven't had a checkup in almost 20 years.
It's insane, I went in last year needing a tooth pulled and I wanted to see about uhh a bridge? I think it's called. A fake tooth suspended between two real ones. Dude quoted me $3k. This was supposedly the more affordable option than having one new tooth implanted. Take very good care of your teeth, kids. You got like 100 grand between your jaw and skull.
@@Harding1077 that's absolutely insane pricing, here in Europe, Latvia I paid 1500$ for a full implant, a bridge would cost me a few hundred dollars. (it's obviously euro but I am converting for y'all), getting a filling is like $100, and it's quality work because we have pretty strong local education for medicine. I know it's more expensive in neighboring country Estonia, but I think they have other benefits as their country is more geared towards information technology, and it shows as they literally made skype, recently bolt (which is like eastern european uber) and a ton of smaller tech stuff, but the point is you reap what you sow, and I dont even know what USA is trying to do, I guess unisex bathrooms instead of caring for their people.
Unfortunately, the greediest criminals in politics won so it's about to get a lot worse DESPITE what was said 💯 Make Christmas fun and they will remember it fondly, no matter what 🙏🏼
with the 1% legally sapping the middle class of wealth its ruining families. I honestly dont even want kids because i know situations like you say would most definitely happen to me and many others. ppl wonder why birth rates fall and its because the majority cant afford a family without becoming poor in some way.
It's only going to get worse so long as there's issue with logistics which there is. The war in Israel has made the Suez canal too dangerous to use, so cargo ships are diverting and going around Africa which is time-consuming and expensive. The other big issue is the Panama canal, which used to allow over 100 ships a day is out of water and is now barely able to allow 24 ships a day through. Insult to injury, there's a bunch of tariffs played on imports now which will double in 2025. Who pays for the tariffs? You do. Companies with tariffs levied against them will just put the burden onto their goods, making them more expensive for us to buy. They get more money, our government gets more money and the people will pay for it. To believe this economy is one persons fault or that a single person can fix it is a bit foolhardy. The whole world is in the same shoes, things are more expensive everywhere. I mean maybe Trump can end the war in Israel and the Suez canal can return to normal but he can't get more water into Panama. So prices for goods won't magically get cheaper, quite the contrary if more tariffs are applied.
I’m from NYC. I now live in Dayton, OH. I went to college, got my degree + 30k debt. Had a job all through college, and started working before starting college, never been unemployed longer than 4 months (even during Covid), and maybe a total of 8 months of unemployment in the 12 years I’ve been working, and my 30k college debt is STILL NOT PAID, I SOMEHOW OWE MORE? I NEVER MISSED A PAYMENT! Needless to say I stopped paying my student loan completely when Biden lied and said my loan would be forgiven, since it was never forgiven, I made the executive decision to forgot about it. I have lived check to check my entire life, never able to save over $1000 (although when I was younger it was a lot easier) and when I did the same or the very next day something would happen and I’d have to spend it on an emergency. I get paid 2x more at 30 years old than I was at 18 years old, but I somehow have LESS money in my pocket... When I was 18 I was able to pay rent and do stupid shit like buy a gold chain and a LV belt, today I can’t even fathom buying lunch for work… something needs to change, not tomorrow, not now. It needs to change yesterday. I seriously doubt trump will do anything to help, I’m hoping the current people around him try, but I also doubt it. That’s not to say Kamala would have done anything, she would have been worse. We need to wake up.
850 per month health insurance here. still 1100 deductable and 7000 out of pocket before 100% coverage. otherwise, large copays and hospital bills out of pocket til 7000. Yet I still have to pay extortion prices for insurance cause I've needed 1 surgery every year last 3 years for one reason or another. One of them would have killed me if I didn't and if I didn't have that overpriced insurance I'd no longer have a house. So I have to bend over, and take it
In a nordic country you pay about 12% of every 10$ per month in taxes that goes to the universal healthcare. Dont know how much you earn per month but say its 3k. That would be around 360$ a month and it would cover ALL expenses, including ambulance, X-rays, scans, etc. If you live near Canada, go there for treatment and medicine instead. The "waiting time" is bullshit propaganda.
And to think if he only had a spine, which I think besides his policies that I personally disagree with, is his major flaw. I respected him a lot, disagreement or not, until he allowed himself to be swept aside by the establishment with barely so much as a whimper. The Dems messed up big by trying to maintain the status quo as far he goes, he was very popular.
during the cold and wet months of the year...every day i have to start up my old ass rust bucket it coughs and struggles like a 50 year smoker...can't afford a new one, can't afford the shop, can't afford to not show up at work... the fucking anxiety before even turning the key is real. wonderful way to start your day really, wakes you up real good...
i’m with you there. my 2004 subaru outback has a blown head gasket, dead catalytic converter, brakes r going out, and it overheats… but just paid rent which was $950 so that means i get to eat ramen this week while only being able to drive to work and back to save on gas 👍🏻
As a Republican, I always said Bernie stood on his business. He was the Democratic Party's best shot, but rather, they shot themselves in the foot.
Socialistic Bernie would never win the popular vote or electoral college. Democrats know this. Nobody wants higher taxes. I can respect his conviction in those opinions though
More like they amputated the leg.
They screwed him over, rfk junior and tulsi gabbard too
The democrats keep bernie down just like they did rfk jr.
Agreed I am far right & thought he was the strongest the enemy had to offer. I’m Catholic Latino before people think I’m a white guy.
The sad thing is that no one listens to Bernie, not even his own party.
he was screwed out of the 2016 nomination in my view
Why would they give ground to something they hate?
He is not officially a Democrat, he is self declared independent.
he should start his own party. I'd vote for him. Finally a candidate people want and not just picking the candidate that sucks less.
His own party would rather run a non viable candidate and take the L than allow him to run and win. They make WAY more money losing than they would by him winning. Listening to Bernie would make them lose money.
This is exactly why he left the Democratic Party. For those who don’t know he left the Democratic Party because he disagreed with their views and is now an independent senator
That still caucuses with the dems 99% of the time. 😂
@@itzahoax934 Bernie is a clown
@@itzahoax934and? If you agree with a party's view point 95 per cent of the time and there is a major ideological disagreement then that is what happens.
Still votes the same 😂
@@itzahoax934 Thats because the democrats have populist ideas. Stuff like making Ambulances cheaper and health care better. Unless you want to make healthcare SUPER expensive so you can give the health care companies more money. I wish it was just the immigrants my friend.
You know what sucks. I went to med school, I put in the “work” and I became a fucking nurse, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck.
Same here. I’m literally going back to the navy to get benefits because it’s just ridiculous
That worries me because I'm currently in nursing school. Currently can't afford groceries. Can't imagine getting past this and still struggling. Maybe I'll look into these navy offers I keep getting... they've been spamming me nonstop since last year when I turned 18 and got my selective service card.
@@alatsusright now is probably the best time to get in with Trump fixing to change the whole military leadership
Have you guys ever thought that half of your earnings are being stolen from you as "taxes"? And so is everybody else's.
Lmao
Dude is older than Biden but is thousand times more coherent than Biden. It’s a absolute shame how democrats black balled him as the nominee. Democrats choose woke politics instead.
He kept his brain engaged and my dad didn’t retire from surgery until 85 only cuz of the politics and wanted to end with a good name; again he was taking classes in addition to working, so he was using his cranium. In psych we say, “If you don’t use it you lose it.”
he's more coherent than your daddy trump as well
he is too left and anti rich people.
Just like Ron Paul
@@DrPlans No, but what is true is that Trumps you’re Daddy too 😂
They screwed him out of the nomination in 2016, 2020 and 2024, I'm surprised it took him this long to blast the party
he gets a pay day via a book or two, that buys him nice houses. each time to not say anything too bad. don't blame him, its smart because you get to stay in the game and seize your moment and looks like he is now, completely the right timing to capture an audience!
They stopped giving him enough silver to betray his voters.
Didn't he and all the other candidates bow out so Biden who was polling last would get the nomination? Even though Biden didn't campaign cause he was hiding from COVID? And then Biden got more votes than any president in history?
I still remember how he finessed his supporters out of campaign contributions shortly before endorsing Hilldog for president in 2016 😂
@@KeluMocyand later Biden in 2020 - when you can't beat establishment, join it I guess 😎
My dad hates trump but he said something similar, that democrats lost because they are way too out of touch, stopped being the champions of the working class, and are instead focusing way too much on getting celebrity endorsements.
He reacted to an interview from Kamala’s campaign manger boasting about these celebrity endorsements and he said ppl may like Taylor swifts music or the avengers movies but they couldn’t care less about how they think since are too rich to relate to normal people.
The economy is in the gutter and prices are high but Kamala wanted to get a bunch of ultra rich celebs who constantly talk down to the middle class, tell people to stop crying about the economy, can’t fathom the idea of people financially struggling, constantly insult people, claim they’re oppressed despite being rich, and are constantly attacking people who slightly disagree with them to endorse her.
Democrats made rfk leave, tulsi gabard leave and bernie sanders all leave
Yeah, I much closer relate to Elon Musk. A trillionaire
It wasn't the celebrities. Both sides did the clown shows. hulk hogan showed up to the rnc. Hulk hogan
It's the inclusivity bs and woke crap that made the Dems lose.
That probably why she got the black vote, they are obsessed with celebrity culture.
The economy is not in the gutter, it’s great. All of the rich are doing great, including Trumps friends like Elon.
Prices have nothing to do with the government, and the economy is actually at a healthy growth rate currently. You could not be more wrong. The only thing that would drop prices more would be to regulate pricing, and guess what? The Republicans would kibosh that on grounds of being government overregulation, so bada bing bada boom you're shit out of luck. Reap what you sow and enjoy the economy while it's still good. Economists predicts about 2-3 good years then Trump policy will start taking effect.
the two party system has failed america since day 1
You need at least 8 parties, 3 left, 3 right, 1 moderate and 1 oddball, because more parties means less chances of 2 camps being made and staying the same
Or get a monarchy, anything to having a symbol of unity in the government to prevent political divisions
give us german system, where there are two major parties, but none of them can get 50% without coalition (except of Adenauer, but he's cool so we'll gonna ignore that)
@@tenshihinanawi4546 I would say yes, but i don't think a German system works for America
they don't have the culture and vibe for it
A better maybe system could be one they make their own, using many of the liberal democracies of the world as one
But still, the German System is good, but i personally don't see them working in the USA at this time, but that's just me
@@tenshihinanawi4546 @michelarsenault4088 funny thing the good old german party system is basically slowly colapsing right now and creating stagnation in alot of states and increasingly also on federal level due to a rising literally facist party and the conservatives getting more and more trumpish regarding the truth with coperate media in their backs. There are 2 states allready where they cannot form a coalition over 50% after election. Kinda like but also different like it was in the 1920s
@noctifer4297 the collapse of democracy and rise of the right is happening everywhere in the west
The 2 party system becomes a uniparty. The only bipartisan legislature that gets passed is that which protects, enforces, or improves establishment interests. Warmongering is one of those things. The GOP and DNC are heavily bought out by the military industrial complex, which is why both had almost an antibody like reaction to Trump and his appointments; Say what you want about Trump, he is not in the pocket of the military industrial complex and has been the most peaceful president since Carter(The only other non-warmonger since before Woodrow Wilson, who was the father of the miltiary industrial complex).
I’m not gonna lie Bernie Sanders was/is the only person that made me even remotely consider voting Democrat, and it’s because he talks about the issues that actually matter to the middle class.
He's the only candidate I ever voted for instead of voting against someone else.
He's independent now and still got the votes to rep Vermont
The guy resonated with us, and they screwed him over.
@@Altimit1417 He has always been independent.
@BTrain-is8ch thanks, he ran against Hillary and Biden which confused me. I thought one had to be democratic to do so.
"Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them." -Robin Williams
Wow, so he was very funny and smart!
President Mountain Dew Camacho.
all their old tv appearances, and a bunch of their live stuff... can have the logo's ai'd onto their clothes by stations that have the guts to... they could have done it a while ago, but either never thought of it, or are too chicken.
J
@@felderup mainstream media doesn't want to admit to their entanglement with it.
I don't even necessarily agree with Bernie on all of his views, but i have to admit, he is one of the ONLY democrat candidate in years, that has genuinely given a single shit about the American working class, rather than almost entirely just running on social issues/Identity Politics.
Bernie is a sell out no one should listen to him every time he runs he takes a cash payout to drop out of the races offers more than he can deliver that why he takes the payouts and drops out.
At this point he owes them no favors because they don't like old rich w men anymore
Until he got rich
Hes good at noticing theres a problem and thats about it. I always found it funny how he cut out the "millionaires" out of his "millionaires and billionaires" speeches the second he started seeing money
And it's sad when you see him having to cater to the identity politics, socially-radical components of the left. I disagree with his economic policy, but at least he's trying to make a legitimate argument and has a legitimate interest in the wellbeing of our nation. Instead, he has to play ball with clowns from his own party.
If that wasn't enough, you had Democrats crucifying him because he doesn't want to do away with the 2nd Amendment.
Bernie is the only Democrat candidate I would like to vote for. They lost me when they put Hilary up and stole it from him.
He should have won when he ran, the dems absolutely fucked him over. (What a surprise!)
no he shouldn't of. he's one of the biggest grifters, he was like "The millionaires are evil!!" then when he became a millionaire he switched the goalpost to "its the billionaires who are the evil ones!!". have some self respect.
True. Dem activist group of minority women flamed him on their TV event. But Sanders marched with MLK and went to jail protesting for their right to get into a university.
Joy Reid, black MSNBC cable news pr0st!tute, smeared him 24/7 when he raised the most $ and in $20 donations looking like he'd beat Clitnot. lol@Idiocracy
Why would the DNC accept a populist candidate with wide grassroots support when they can run a dementia patient and a crooked DA who got zero delegates in the primary instead? I'm so glad the smart people are in charge.
Yeah, and I knew Bernie was pathetic when he didn't call them out on it and just bent the knee both to Hillary and Biden. He bent the knee twice, ffs. This honestly has nothing to do with his politics, he's just weak and pathetic and now wants to act like he didn't directly contribute to what he's now whining about.
He made bank doing so. If he did not work for them then the MSM would not be hosting him.
Bernie technically should have been the leading candidate way back in 2016... not Hillary. Nobody actually wanted Hillary over Bernie.
The donors did.
And he would’ve beat Trump
Tulsi would have been better still though. Way more common sense than Bernie. Dems lost their chance with her. Bernie would still crawl back to them if they asked.
Bernie appeal to the working class. Meanwhile Hillary appeal to party donors and senior party officials.
Just show how out of touch the democratic party is.
Biden winning probably give them a false sense of security
You hear Bernie Bros, Trumpers, and Yang Gangers...
But where are the Biden Bros? The Hillary Horde? The Kamala... uhh... Krew?
Surely these hotrunners would have SOME loyalists, but you've never actually seen them.
Financial anxiety for those of us living paycheck to paycheck is completely real.
Amen to that. It pushed me to give up living in the city. I'm so much happier after hopping off the hamster wheel.
It’s not just paycheck to paycheck. Even if you can save a little bit and you’re doing your best. Still takes one thing to go wrong and your right back down in it or all your savings is gone. Hope and pray that day doesn’t come
And the job market has been abysmal for those who are affected by all the layoffs happening since last year. It makes things all the more worse when people know that the chances of finding another job are so low at this point in time.
I mean, US is not strong because of the hard-working workers.
Indians work harder. Chinese work harder. Japanese work harder.
The key strength of America is its financial system and how they invest in companies.
Where did the money go? you might ask.
No where.
The key difference is most manufacturing sites outside US is not doing well.
China is recessing. Japan is recessing. India is recessing.
New generations of workers in these countries know they are doing too much shet works.
Less value produced. Same amount of money. So inflation comes.
This is why US's economy is not doing well. Simple.
@@MrJokerJenkinsthe hardworking man stays at the bottom, working hard till he dies.
"its like playing qwop while they're playing fucking sonic the hedgehog" god i relate to that on a spiritual level
If a farmer cannot repair his own tractor then why would he vote for a party that isn’t doing anything about that.
Good question. I got excited when I read that Minnesota under Walz has passed "the broadest Right to Repair legislation in the nation." Wow! Oh, but "...one of the carve-outs was for farm equipment." 😐
THAT is the problem with today's Democrats. They make these little token gestures toward big problems but don't actually FIX them.
Neither party has done shit. It's not a new issue.
I know a farmer in Central Illinois that voted for Kamala specifically because of the JD tariffs. Confused the shit outta me.
Conservatives aren't going to help either, though.
@kevinc9065 maybe so, but the republicans atleast talk about their issues. The dems these days call them priviliged and move on to talk about "progressive" issues.
When Obamacare passed and I lost my coverage, I was neither poor enough to qualify for assistance, nor wealthy enough to afford my own healthcare. So I had no healthcare and suffered a $600 penalty on my taxes.
Exactly the same omg
@aaroncamren691 The USA has no left wing party. One party defends the coastal/international elite and the other defends the rural old money elite. Bernie is the president USAmericans needed but never deserved.
Me too. And you know who addressed this gap in available coverage for just this reason? Bernie F. Sanders
@@mateusnicolinibezerra9757 this is a wierd coping mechanism.
This is just one of many examples of how Democrat policies destroy the middle class.
You either happen to be above a certain cutoff and don't suffer, or you're below a certain cutoff and benefit from social programs. Those in the middle are forced downwards overtime because now they're left with the problem but no solution. It's literally how the "rich get richer and the poor get poorer". The middle class is the transitionary class between poverty and wealth. Without it, those who are poor do not have upwards financial mobility, and become more and more dependent on the government social programs to survive, meanwhile those who are already wealthy only get wealthier because they have an out to the problem and can continue to use their wealth as a safety net and continue to move upwards financially.
It's the stepping stone to socialism, where the wealthy use their money as a hedge to avoid the problems around them, and everyone not wealthy is forced on government dependence since without it, individual efforts cannot overcome the hurdle of digging out of poverty due to the penalties that occur when you do so.
This is only compounded by the victim mentality they teach people now, to believe that the government holds the solutions to the problems created by the government, and thus this only accelerates the dissolution of the middle class and increases people's desire to be dependent on government social programs.
There's a reason why he's the US Senator with the highest approval rating. He's the only politician I ever felt actually cared about the people.
Make no mistake. No politician ever cared about "the people". He's just good at pretending.
But as Americans, don’t you agree with most of his points made in this video?
He genuinely seems to be the only US politician to care about you all as individuals.
"no. i dont" direct answer. to the point. mad respect for this man
he could have jumped on the trump train but he preferred lying about racism and hitler 2.0
Then why did Bernie lose to Hilary?
I am a commie hater, but damn, these man is just speaking facts right now
@@elmay9268 Money.
I have zero respect for Bernie Sanders. Believe it or not, Bernie said exactly the same thing in 2016 election when Democrats lost. This is his talking point since 2016, so this is nothing new. He has been regurgitating the same lines for years. We have to look at his track record. His support for Obamacare cost working classes thousands per year. Over Joe Biden's regime, he never once deviated from Joe's horrible anti working class policy.
Everyone should watch that video of Bernie interviewing oldschool mall punks in 1988. He was just a mayor at the time, but he had a public access show where he went around interviewing his town's citizens. He finds these two punk rock kids fresh out of high school and interviews them. He doesn't make fun of them for the way they dress, he doesn't talk down to them, he just talks to them like they're people. And he's been like that his whole life. I'm fairly conservative and disagree with him on many things, but I still respect Bernie.
EDIT: his insistence that we need to raise minimum wage is shortsighted, and that seems to be what a lot of democrats focus on. Raising minimum wage will only make things worse UNLESS we bring down inflation. $15 dollars in the year 2000 is the equivalent of $27.47 now. You want minimum wage to be $15 across the board? Then get inflation down to where that $15 is actually WORTH $15, or at least closer to it.
GREAT suggestion! ☺️
It is a great video that illustrates both sanders and punks.
Im sorry, but respect for Bernie???? Really, this guy had a real movement and real power in 2016 and when the game got a little rough he ran for the sidelines. Abandoning his millions of followers to save his own place in the DNC. This is Bended Knee Bernie on full display, NOW he speaks out when there is no risk to himself and his position in the party. Where was this Bernie last year or three years ago?
Whatever you think of Trump, you cannot deny his resolve and his willingness to fight for what he believes. Bernie, first sign of trouble and he is rushing for the off ramp. Imagine, just imagine in 2016 when millions of angry at the establishment Americans on the right where forming Maga. Meanwhile millions of angry at the establishment Americans where voting for Bernie. Imagine if these two sides came together???
Ohh what could have been, but not only did Bernie clear the way for warhawk Clinton, he endorsed her and actively campaigned for her and called Trump racist, but he saved his spot in the DNC and forever left his followers in the wind.
Respect for Bernie, this guy is the biggest coward in DC!
I’m not even sure what the terms conservatives and liberal mean anymore . Growing up I was definitely liberal as we often battled the older religious conservatives types on various issues. In the last few years I’ve found myself agreeing with conservatives on several issues but I find it so hard to talk to religious people at times .
His policies are immoral enough on their own, I don’t care if he’s a good fraud
I like the consistency of Bernie Sanders. Saying the exact same thing for decades.
And yet the Demacrats still don't listen. 🥲
I hate you turtle Chad
exactly why i like trump. trump has been saying the same things since the 1980s.
We love you Turtle Chad
I love you turtle Chad
My grandfather was a labor protestor. He was a holocaust survivor who was part of the labor movement to promote unionization and shorter work hours maximums, especially for farmers. Everyone deserves to be supported.
dave smith made a point on his show about how the dems said college educated voted for kamala but non college educated voted for trump. smith said another way to phrase is that the working class voted for trump.
Helps that Kamal was saying(lying) she’d wipe away their debt.
Kamala got the barista vote. It’s more a hardhat divide.
College educated and 160 IQ and I voted for Trump.
Dems have intentionally gone after the college-educated vote since the 70s, when manufacturing started going overseas. Degree jobs with corporations made a lot more money, and that's more money for donations.
the entire educated vs non-educated has been a disaster for dems, because calling people "uneducated" is a flat out insult that pisses off people. it is just another way that they have for some reason decided to become the elitist party.
He’s absolutely right about the middle ground. You could have a neighbor with 7 kids and no job living comfortably, while you have no kids and make $2000 a year more than your neighbor and you’re suffocating because you make “too much” to get help, but not nearly enough to live comfortably.
This is how it is, it sucks a lot.
This is the problem we have in the UK.
@@deanhenderson5808 same thing in NL. The rich and the poor are living a good life.
what bullshit are you lying about here? noone without a job can feed 7 kids and live comfortably.
RICH PEOPLE DONT HAVE 7 KIDS.
I gave up on the political system when Bernie had to endorse Hillary
Plus he's wealthy and acts like he isn't. Typical Champagne socialist
Exactly
He didn’t have to, he chose to. He chose cowardice and a comfortable life.
Well keep in mind it was either her or 2016 Donald Trump. It was a scary time and neither seemed like that great an option. Now in 2024 Trump doesn’t seem that bad an option compared to 2016 Trump.
'had to'
As a European it's been so easy to see how Bernie was always the best choice for the US and quite maddening to see what was elected instead.
I totally agree. This is why I like Bernie. He doesn't give a fuck about identity politics. He cares more about the general economic issues facing America. Not identity politics. This is why I like Bernie because identity politics is not a major issue compared to people working paycheck to paycheck unable to save much for retirement or a future.
It's more like he understands forcing those issues are bad and that they will naturally resolve as people get more money. It's a lot easier to show empathy and understanding when your life isn't a steaming pile of shit
you should look up "post-left anarchism" ... it takes that critique to a whole other level, it's worth the research
...I'd go further, identity politic are cause by economic pressure. lack of time to dialogue with outhers
@@ElMamutChiquitito-n9ecommon sense right ?
Russian bot sighted.
"People used to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but somebody turned the light off, so people don't want to be in the tunnel anymore"
Just another banger of a quote dropped by Asmon Tzu
im 14 and this is deep
ppl like hasan didn't wanna stand up for medicare for all because he got donations from the DNC, so the force the vote campaign never took of because of sellouts like him
@@crumbopulisI’m deep in this 14 year old
@@walter1515WTF 💀
@@walter1515its actually a great analogy for why men used to work so much harder than now and the change in perceived (or even real) outcomes
I'm a republican. I rarely agree with Bernie, but I respect the hell out of him. The man sticks to his guns. I've always said, "vote the way you want, just please understand what you are voting for."
So you are voting for higher consumer costs and inflation due to universal tariffs and extreme Chinese tariffs…..gotcha…
@@santacruz59Although we don’t know how the tariffs will play out he proposed that idea in hopes of abolishing income tax. Which theoretically would allow working class people to have more money. Who knows what’ll happen tho. Your guess is as good as mine.
@@santacruz59 Chill, dude. Costs were lower than any democrat during Trump’s last presidency even after he implemented tariffs. It’s worked before. Without tariffs and all of our costs have skyrocketed cause of bad policy and inflation. I’m clearly a republican, but like OP, I respect Bernie because he does genuinely care about people. However, his socialist ideas would never work in the US.
@@princeofgreece9054 I agree.....but I work in a subset of building demolition and new construction......Huge general contractors and sub contractors are really worried about the implementation of his Universal tariff plans and insane Chinese tariff proposals.....whether you like it or not we have to import a large amount of our raw materials.....these tariffs if implemented will raise prices of everything.
I kinda felt the same way about Ron Paul. I'd never vote for him, but the guy is gonna get elected on his merits or not at all.
I didn't agree with Bernie Sanders on most policies but he fights for what he believes and didn't sell out like all Democrats due, for that he has my respect.
I canvassed for Bernie with my friends in the 2016 primaries. Back then, we were idealistic 18 year olds who thought we could change the world, headed by a person with such strong convictions that had stood on his beliefs for decades - and best of all, was not attached to any super pacs with a completely crowd funded campaign. I remember talking to our classmates’ parents, who dismissed us for Hilary’s “years of experience” and our “poor understanding” of politics. Our senior skip day, the entire class decided to go to a Bernie rally instead of school. I always think back on that time, on how things could have been different if we hadn’t been still living in a McCarthyian nightmare where “socialism” is the enemy. Bernie was there for us, and we let him down.
We fucking tried
We didn't let him down. The Democrat Party let him down and by extension, us.
@@PA_Sword
You’re right - the centrist right that pretends to be the Democratic Party coordinately pulled the rug from under him multiple times. This system is so broken
Man it's so heartbreaking but so true
Bernie bent the knee and endorsed both Clinton and Biden. He's a sellout, much like AOC. He probably would've turned out to be another establishment puppet even if he did win
"My body my choice" until a big Pharma company needs to make a quick buck on a shoddy product.
Interesting how wom en hate the concept of the govt forcing them to be mothers but are completely for the govt forcing men to be fathers
damn you really do ignore science brother. You do realize experts tested this medicine? Where are all the v d3aths?? Also its about protecting evveyone not just your selfish as$
you help co-create the problem to miraculously sell the solution. oldest play in the book.
hey man, little people like us working for pharma needs to pay our rent too!
the dems could care less if your choice was to keep the baby, literally didn't even care that babies were dying from a lack of access to baby formula.
Respecting Tim Walz for not insider trading is such a sad standard.
To be fair, it's not that he's respecting Tim Walz for not insider trading, but for not taking part in trading at all. As a senator, access to new, private information that affects the economy comes with the job. Even if you don't take part in insider trading on purpose, id imagine decisions you make with your stock will always have some kind of influence from what you know. The respect comes from Tim Walz deciding to not take part in general, so that mistakes/private information is 100% guaranteed to not influence trading, either on purpose or on accident. It's respectable to limit your own financial choices for that.
Everyone stampedes to point every little thing that is negative, positive decision should be recognized as well, not the person.
Insider trading should be banned. Its so dumb that its considered normal and legal.
I'll give Tim Walz credit, I don't agree with his view of America = socialism but at least he isn't part of the wealthy class problem.
@@jacksonroy8720 That is true, but that is only because it removes the possibility of insider trading altogether. The fact that they cannot be trusted and we know that is very sad.
Unions:
In the UK, the Labour Party (whom were/are financed by the unions) came into existence, after WW1 & the suffragettes movement.
The labour party only gained traction after WW2. It was the original working class party.
Times have changed & it’s not the same anymore
6:10 I just wanted to point out what a twitch viewer said after Asmons' comment, that went unnoticed: "The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.".
Yea bro was probably a basement dweller, who cares? He got drowned out for a reason, that person’s opinion is irrelevant
@@NA-lh7lbhe's correct though. Lol
So deep 😱
Metallica
Was that you who wrote it?
I grew up homeless, hungry, and scared. I’m 29 now, married and with a child. I am now only hungry and scared. The only way to save and get ahead is for my wife and I to save EVERY penny. No, we don’t work in fast food or the service industry. It’s so hard out here for everyone.. I’m working on moving and I find these NICE apartments but they are all subsidized. Like, stuff most people couldn’t afford I can’t live in now because I make “too” much.
Bless you my friend, just curious, do you live in a major city and/or on the coast? If so you should genuinely consider moving to the midwest. I have plenty of new friends who are former New Yorkers (their accent says it all 😂) and they all cannot believe how good life can be.
Best recommendation is wait until the spring/summer next year and first time homebuyers and families should get a break. Talk to landowners who aren't selling property and hash out a good deal for both parties cutting out a broker and get land. Better pricing and then you put the money into building a home.
I’m gonna offer some advice. Your young. Wait and see if the housing market goes back down and buy. Buy buy buy. Don’t think you can’t. You can.
But identity politics like trans rights are what you want, right? I'm sorry to hear you're not more financially stable. DEI agendas are not helping you, all the post-election meltdown videos have become the face of the Democrat party.
Can I get here on time? Before this scam finishes?
"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what is good for THEM."
-George Carlin
"It's all a big club, and you ain't in it!" - George Carlin
My quote is the short version of yours, the context to make this one work is the one you put up, because it's true.
Yup.
@@Sorain1 Always a weird quote though. Carlin had something like 14 specials, and died being worth millions. Certainly seems like he was in the club, and used his comedy as a form of controlled opposition.
@@therobustempyrean1436 Was he supposed to jump ship when he became successful?
@@therobustempyrean1436 That means he probably knew what he was talking about. Just like when Trump was saying the rich abuse the tax code and that it's the tax code is a joke. He even admitted to abusing it himself.
I just got fired today from a union job of years, trying to hold on to two jobs, living beneath my means, trying to be at two jobs at one time, with zero social life, and little rest, with not enough hours to gain union benefits. My son is doing better than me, whom now is a Black Hawk mechanic in the Army. Check to check life here.
As a British individual, I respect Bernie’s out look on a lot of these social issues. He’s not a man that leans onto social trends to sway memebers of the public but rather expresses the importance of easy to understand concepts that really seem like troubles within the USA. I think the country and the government itself would run incredibly well if these key thinkers that spoke what they think with key strong intention for the people collaborated as one democracy rather than opposing parties. It’s a shame what the media do to politics, in my opinion it is entirely the media’s fault for what the average person feels towards individuals due to what they want to portray. A serious shame
Bernie is correct that the left tends to the bottom 1% and the top 1% leaving the 98% to battle it out. In general in the usa, no one wants to help a fellow man if it takes away from the same thing that the same man is asking for. The lowerclass say they are starving but don't want food; middleclass have food but can't give it away; the upperclass make the food and throw it in the trash. Americans have a harsh policy of reep what you sow and in today's world neither is possible except for the top .01%
Blame the media instead of the corrupt people they describe and report on? Sounds downright Trumpian!😮
Trump and Bernie are liked because their anti-globalists.
Because the American Bourgoisie have spent the past 3 decades conspiring to send jobs overseas for cheap sweatshop labor.
The Proletariat end up with fewer jobs and dont even get cheaper goods, because those prices are inflated magnitudes above the pennies it costs to produce.
The 60% get poorer, while the 1% gets exponentially richer.
We need tariffs to equalize labor-costs NOW. Its impossible to raise the minimum wage without doing so.
He’s a leftist in the best sense of the word - an old school who actually cares about advancing the interest of the working class, and not doing culture war crap
The media is closely intertwined with numerous other institutions that support the establishment. You can't simply blame a single cog in the machine.
Blue collar worker here, I work in a skilled labor position, in a refinery, I won’t go to doctor unless it’s life or death, everyone I work with will just tough it out because the doctor could quickly become 500+ bill with insurance, we work in one of the most dangerous job environments in the country, and can’t afford to sprain an ankle, meanwhile I see people going to hospital for a cold, our healthcare has failed the group that needs it the most
without any political judgement, do you think that the reps (trump) will help the middle class with these issues (and how) or is it just a 'it will be always shit but I agree with the reps on other issues'?
I am not american, it is clear that dems also don't give a real fuck about their average citizens but at least how it is represented, reps don't even try to gaslight the people like the dems do sometimes (student debt forgiveness, obamacare etc. vs. the florida gov going to vacation while his citizens freeze because of bad infrastrcuture policies).
Genuinely want just your opinion, cheers
What i find most interesting that US citizens pays double of that of other developed countries pay for healthcare, even cost of public healthcare paid by state is actually similar to that of other countries that simply have public healthcare, when providing much less. I think it's idea of healthcare being business like any other, and from that maximizing profit perspective US model is the best.
If country has actual public healthcare, even if not that good it become competition for private services. The need to offer more for less, otherwise customer would just choose public service. And country-wide public insurance can easily push for better deals with hospitals because of it's leverage. And that's why even private healthcare is cheaper in countries with public service.
Call emergency, go to the emergency room. You don't have to be poor to take advantage of the you don't have to legally pay that
1000% I'm a welder and even with insurance the costs are wild. Bernie fucking got it exactly right. The bread and butter of this country is guys like us and we're getting absolutely fucked. I don't give two absolute fucks about any of this gender shit, go be/do whatever the fuck makes you happy in your own little world, just don't get kids involved. All I want to do is work 40 hours and be able to provide for my wife and kid and live a comfortable life where I can focus on my goals.
They blatantly iced out Bernie and I lost all care about the party. Obama put in so much work and built such an insane base, and Bernie took a lot of that energy. Then the DNC took everything good and lit it on fire with Clinton and here we are
@@ravensbladewe also get better care, in places with state control healthcare like Canada they are like all we can offer you is Medically assisted DEATH and UK force parents to let their child die because they deemed they were worth the resources wouldn't even let them take the child to Italy where a Doctor was willing to try for free. Would rather pay
Starting the car with the anxiety that might not start hits hard. Got out of the navy in 2019 after 10 years just when covid started. Couldn't work or go to school and ended up with a bad fent addiction. Got sober a couple years ago and took me 6 months with just under a hundred applications before i got hired to push carts at home depot. Today at work i had 3 dollars in my account because i spent my entire check on fixing my brakes. Vending machine took that last three dollars so i didnt eat lunch. Now im sitting in my car waiting to get a door dash order to make a few bucks for dinner tonight. This is my daily routine till i get paid this friday as i have no food in the fridge. Still happy though and in touch with God.
hang in there man! it gets better ! going to any meetings?
I feel you so hard with that. Going thru the same thing praying I can get a job pushing carts after 100 applications.
Be strong brother! You will get good fortunes soon due to the regression of the mean.
Hang in there bro and thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service. Where were you stationed?
'Everytime your car doesnt start', 'everytime your phone doesnt turn on'... learn to fix them yourself. Being a one trick pony is a privilege of the rich. If youre poor, you need to learn how to fix your own things.
You're on to something. I'm not poor(not rich either) and still fix my own things. People with money ask me to fix their things too which is my supplemental income. This is how I avoid being poor.
Amen!
Before I drop my insurance, it was $1000 a month with a $10,000 deductible. I only make 65,000 a year so yes insurance companies destroy the middle-class.
You only make 65k a year you would be considered higher than average in Europe i only make 25k a year and money is not a problem for me to pay off my house or my cars and living how i want too. This is the problem in the US the dollar is worth so little for Americans while standing strong on the market value
I'd argue that is just a by-product of pharmaceuticals and health services also incidentally costing an absurd amount of money to begin with. Especially medications.
Can confirm. High deductible insurance is bullshit.
That insurance policy is basically just a polite "Fuck you" from the insurance company. You'll spent 12k a year on premiums and you'll also have to spend 10k on medical expenses before the insurance company pays a dime. 22k a year to get any kind of coverage is crazy.
@@Odadianbut again, it highly varies varies from state to state. 65k for California or NY is nothing, but good for Texas or some other state
I was so jaded politically after he lost the nomination, I genuinely felt he stood for people. I canvassed in my circles, I brought people on board for him, I really put in work. When Clinton went up, I literally gave up on it all. The machine bared its fangs, and showed what it was standing for. Afterwards, I was politically homeless. It was 2019 when I finally sat down and ACTUALLY started looking into Trump, who is a clearly flawed character - and I respected the shit out of him for how he conducted himself when he interacted with average people. Slowly, Trump won me over because I felt like he was outside of the machine. If I could have a Sanders/Trump coalition, a balance between two worlds working together for the people, checking one another on things and coming to conclusions, I'd absolutely love something like this.
Bernie is a sell out no one should listen to him every time he runs he takes a cash payout to drop out of the races offers more than he can deliver that why he takes the payouts and drops out.
Trump might be from "outside the system" but I *promise* you he does not give a shit about anyone but himself and other ultra rich ghouls.
Trump is a classic democrat, it’s only now he’s considered a tyrant far right wing dictator because the left is literally insane.
Did you ask him why he didn’t even fight and then bought a 3 rd house
I mean, it's worth a shot. Pick an idea and a plan of action and maybe one day he and Trump/the cabinet can sit down and try and figure out a solution. It's very telling that the two DNC members I respected teamed up with Trump and were welcomed with open arms. The business man wants solutions to problems.
there's a VERY old Chinese line from roughly 2k years ago: "倉廩足而知禮節 衣食足而知榮辱"
"Only when the granary is full will people learn etiquette; only when people are well-fed and clothed will they know honor and shame."
think about it.
If that were true, why do white-collar crimes exist? People who commit white-collar crime are on the top 1%. It is almost as if people who have everything can also be shameless or honorless. Think about that.
Whats granary?
@@nadanada-xy5kh A building used to store grain and other types of food. Usually called a grain bin now, at least in the US.
@ Thank you
Sieg Zeon
The one thing I want to say about how people talk about wages; it's not just about the minimum wage threshold, its all wages. In the generations prior a man could work 40 years as a factory employee with benefits and be able to raise a family, build and own a nice home, and still have money left over to buy his wife a string of pearls for Christmas. I have many friends who work in factories today, they make $17-22/hr. Hell I worked my ass off to become an architect. My Dad went to school to become a fire protection engineer and was able to afford a stand alone home with a pool in miami by the time he was 24. I live in Atlanta and make $55k/ year. Do you think I could afford a standalone home with a pool after working for 2 years? Hell no! $300k is the price of an entry level home here in the extreme suburbs of the area. My dad always said you can afford 2.5x you annual salary for a home. Tell me, where the FUCK does someone find a home for $137,000 in todays economy???
You shouldn't be able/allowed to own stocks and multiple properties if you're a politician. You're elected to serve the people not your pockets.
This should be a lot of things. I remember hearing about the Prozac hearings because of the suicide rates and every psychiatrist that was at the hearing had a conflict of interest
Yup, and Bernie is part of that group
You're funny if you think the Founding Fathers didn't also own multiple properties after the war ended.
Properties shouldn't matter. I agree with not owning stocks since your policies directly impact the value of said stocks and make you biased/corrupted. But You cannot make them give up properties just because they hold office. At the end of the day ITS A JOB. They make a salary. As long as their purchases fall within that salary, it should not be a problem. The problem is that they currently (many of them) engage in insider trading.
@@TheDanteBoots Well, there goes almost every Senator and Congress person! There goes Trump! Right? If that’s your point, you can see that this is not doable. You do realize that Bernie is the least wealthiest Senator in the Chamber. He does not own stock, he keeps a basic residence in D.C.-as do ALL U.S. Senators. His primary home is in VT, and his wife inherited a small vacation home in ME from her side of the family. I know all this because I volunteered for his campaign twice. Most U.S. Senators are immensely wealthy.
I gave up on the Democrats when they screwed him on the primary. I went to the voting booth to vote for him and found out later my vote didn't count. And not just mine, about 100k people were in the same shoes as me.
I followed it all in 2016, as a European. How they counted votes slower in states he was leading in, how some "news outlet" in California announced Hillary's win the DAY BEFORE ballots where cast. How the chair for the DNC at that time slipped up TWICE in media and admitted in Freudian slips how "grassroots" candidates wasn't going to win and how the DNC actually PLANNED for Hillary's nomination after Obama. I even have more ...
Shouldnt of endorsed Hillary and shouldnt of been loyal to his party. Wouldv made a great ally with the Republicans.
I am definitely feeling this. I am 51 years old and have been out of work for a year. I am applying everywhere including yes fast food. All these companies want younger employees. I am flat broke and I still don’t qualify for food stamps. I have lost 60 lbs and I am now at 195 lbs. . That’s not from exercise. It’s from me only having oatmeal every day for every meal. I want to work so bad but no one wants to hire a 51year old man.
I would hire you at my place if I could man
If you live near a total wine they will hire for help during the season and more than likely keep you on. If companies aren't hiring because of your age that's discrimation to your age. The younger generation doesn't even know how to work.
Well that's because there are no jobs. Like you go inside to apply, they tell you to apply online. When you apply online most companies outsource to a 3rd party that uses AI to scan over the resumes and they delete like 99% of them. I also heard conspiracy theory, which may or may not be true, like there's tax incentives for getting people to apply the state will give them tax cuts for companies bringing in a lot of people. So they simply just put up a bunch of ghosts positions, people apply, they never hire and they get tax breaks.
And I hate to say it's worse if you are a man, but it totally is I've seen it first hand. My job has only hired women in my work group. My biological brother went trans at 38 found a job a few months later, in an office mind you, which that probably isn't going to work now due to the current social changes. Studies came out over a decade ago that stated women are twice as likely to be hired as men in STEM fields. It is worse being a man.
I'd spend less time watching asmongold videos and more time applying for jobs
Damn, that sounds tough as hell. I really hope you get a chance to make a living soon. I myself am applying to places too, but it ain't easy out here. 🙏
It is a shame there were (and probably would not be) no Trump/Sanders debates.
I'm not even remotely a democrat, especially not by today's standards. But Bernie was the one politician I would've happily voted for in my adult life. The way the machine crushes real, genuine people who want nothing more than to be public servants in sickening.
Is that why he is a multimillionaire while only having a non government job for a few weeks his entire life? He is a commie shill and always has been.
Dude is still a commie in policies, you can respect him, but he isn't a Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller of the past
He got robbed of the candidacy. I strongly believe if he ran, he would've gave Trump a real challenge
If we keep the same pace bernie is going to be called far right in 5 years
@@dolanduk7946 he already is.
The part about financial anxiety is so fucking real. I spent 6 years as a near broke college student, with 30% of my day-to-day thoughts being not on school but on whether I was going to have enough money to eat by the end of each semester. I would literally pray each time I got into my old car, praying that it would start up, because I knew I'd be fucked if it broke down. After years of living like this, it's so easy to desensitize about how draining that kind of life is.
Now, I graduated and got lucky enough to find a good job months after, and even though my pay is just barely enough to rent me a 1-room apartment for myself, the difference is night-and-day. The past few months have been the fucking happiest I've ever been, even though I'm just barely above the poverty line for single men without dependents.
I cannot stress this enough, but if this economy gets any more weighted in favor the ultra wealthy, we're all fucked. For the love of god, please let something change for the better.
It's not going to change for the better though
@@DeosPraetorian Everything eventually becomes better.
I'm against the richest taking advantage of us but we REALLY got to be careful what we mean by the rich because if we misterm the culprits the culprits will use "the general" rich as scapegoats and it will further ruin us. Business owners are rich and businesses are what makes economies healthy.
This is a very important distinction. Know who your enemy is. Dont let them trick you into policies that say it will take the wealth from the rich when it takes the wealth from genuine people.
The real monsters are the ones with trillions and use that influence to control the media (a.k.a. propoganda and censorship)
You are not alone in this. I am a married new mother and can relate 100%. Even with a 2 income household, living below our means, if 1 thing were to go awry, we would be fucked. Something has GOT to give please GOD help us
Sincerely,
An Atheist
I just gave insight unto this issue but youtube censored me. That may be a source of anxiety because are they really protecting us?
When I try to convince people of the Democrat Party's true nature, I don't point out the countless times they undermined Donald Trump.
I point out the countless times they undermined _Bernie Sanders._
manny '''farright''' people ( like me ) would vote bernie over trump ,. but their forcing me into trumps hands its pathetic
It's a tragedy that they didn't allow Bernie and his policies to be the front runner of the left
Liberals when opposing Trump: "Well, we agree the border is a big problem and we tried to deport even more people than the historically high deportations we had under Obama, but TRUMP veto'd our bill!"
Liberals when opposing Sanders: "Universal healthcare will never, ever come to pass. Also, everyone drop out and endorse the #4 runner-up, Biden, to make sure universal healthcare never happens."
He never did kiss the billionaires behinds, which made him their enemy. Had he ever gotten any power I think the corporations and the billionaires would have had him ended, like Boeing ended that guy who was about to testify against them.
Hi guys, I am a British citizen living under a government that represents most of Bernie's ideals. I'd just like to say, stick with Trump. Socialism is bad news and capitalism with socialist government is also bad.
Bernie one the few Democrats that actually make sense. He doesn't pander an issue for "likes".
Even though my economic views have shifted since I supported Bernie in 2016, I still have massive respect for the man. The DNC colluding against Bernie was disgusting, and the fact that Debbie Wasserman Shultz just won her house reelection here in Florida is an embarrassment on our state. This year, their corruption was aimed at RFK Jr. I’m so glad it backfired on them. The Democratic Party deserves all the failure they’ve brought upon themselves.
JFK Jr decided he wasn’t going out like sanders and be relegated to a mere voice crying out in the wilderness.
The "No i don't" response with no follow up by Bernie Sanders on the resignation question was a G move
Same has happened in Australia. The traditional "Labor Party" has really abandoned the working class.
Same here in the UK. The people that our media call "far right" (they call people this for the smallest of things like everywhere else) are people that used to be Labour voters. Now Labour voters are more well off, trendy, university types.
Same here in France, with the "Parti Socialiste".
Liberals become power hungry Socialist aka Fascist/Communist.
The only people honest with you are the right. Life requires hard work, and most of you will fail, but it's the only way. That is merit based.
Labor have just passed a censorship bill in the House of Representatives (called the MAD Bill, give it a google).
It calls for the banning of social media for teens, including RUclips, and mandatory verification of age and identity for adults, likely utilising the Govt Digital ID software. On top of this, the govt will create a literal ministry of truth to dictate what information is "fact" and what is a lie.
In other words, big brother will be watching you, parenting your kids, you won't be allowed to speak the truth if it's unapproved, and if you do, you can be fined or jailed by the government.
Welcome to Australia.
Someone turned the light out, now no one wants to be in the tunnel. Well said.
Yep. I was in the middle-ground. I got taxed $7,200 thanks to Obamacare, because I couldn't afford healthcare, but made too much to get financial aide from the government.
I couldn't afford heat in my casita in someone's back yard. I drove a $700 craigslist sh!tbox that I always had to fix myself because I couldn't afford a mechanic, and the government was taxing me $1,800/year for not being able to afford health coverage
same boat here, and my thought was "well im a 20 y.o healthy male I dont really need the coverage" and i was 100% correct, so instead of being rewarded for not using public services and being healthy, i got punished every year.
Yep. I remember that. It was a huge turning point for me when I became political engaged and aware. I was penalized about $1000. I way paying for a basic private insurance for prior to Obamacare about $115/month which I was okay with as I was a per diem paid contractor and about 20yr old healthy man. Then shit hit the fan with Obamacare and it literally became $325 for a similar plan! Absolute truth.
Damn, if we're paying for it anyways, let's make it universal
@@KazzoKiller3890 We gotta get the brackets up, it's universal for most state helathcare but only if you make $ under the poverty line which I believe is 24k
One question who here knows who wrote obama care?
As a Vermonter, I voted for both Bernie and Trump in this election cycle.
populist power
Are you really a Vermonter or do you just go to college in Vermont?
@@grantkeller4634even Kamala is a populist, but at least trump cares for the country BEFORE caring for everyone else
@@xLuis89xOnly populist Kamala policy was her "first home buyer benefit"
@ I grew up a minute from the Vt border in NY and have lived in Vt for 10 years
One thing I notice while watching this is that Bernie has an extensive and above average vocabulary with clear speech despite his old age. That's quite impressive to me and I wish the opposite didn't happen for most other elderly government officials.
US presidents have been dumbing down their public speaking since 1940s. Taking purely word length and linguistic complexity, it's gone from college level in the 19th century to upper elementary level in 2010s.
In the realm of oratory, it is a frequently underappreciated truth that intricately woven discourses, laden with ostentatious verbosity, do not invariably surpass the profound efficacy and inherent clarity that may be exhibited by utterances characterized by their simplicity and straightforwardness, thereby rendering their impact more accessible to the discerning audience.
Or in other words, a complicated speech isn't necessarily better than simple one. But the fact is still there nonetheless, politicians have been getting simpler and simpler in their messaging.
@@miken3963 thank you for the translation for people like me. Anyway yeah I do get that as well because most people before couldn't understand what politicians were saying but now it might be leaning towards the opposite and this is interesting as it is equally concerning.
Average UChicago chad
From my perspective, Bernie actually has a very straightforward way of speaking. Some people say that Trump is that way, but I disagree. Trump is very vague and indirect, he uses simple language for the purpose of obfuscation rather than clarity. Bernie's has integrity, he uses whatever words are necessary to best convey his point.
This is one of your best videos, sometimes you suck and sometimes it’s good but this is top tier bro, well done!
I dont agree with most of the democratic party but i absolutely admire Bernie's consistency. He has views and he sticks with them. Thats totally respectable.
He bent the knee immediately after being sabotaged during the primaries.....
@@em3sisyea he’s a bit of a hypocrite.
@@em3sis Right ? He always fall in line instead on standing on his beliefs
@@KainWT kind of? he understood that there was a greater good to consider. So he was willing to do so, but he still stayed on message. Just...Hillary didn't
Being consistently wrong about everything is nothing to admire.
The democrats made a mistake not running this guy in 2016
The DNC
Sanders is a loser. Literally. He only runs to keep getting paid to fail.
They sued him to death, and cheated primaries
Nah Sanders is 🗑️🚮
They don’t want his agenda. They want theirs. To them it’s not a mistake. They would rather lose to trump than to win with Bernie.
Well, letting 10 million illegals come and giving them food, shelter, etc while americans cant buy food pissed a lot of people off
Except that in 2022 undocumented illegal immigrants contributed 96 billion dollars into medicare, social security, and other government programs.
Here's to the economy and individual freedoms being seized by fascism.
:)
But bread lines are a good thing /s
Except that those illegal immigrants contributed to 96 billions dollars towards social security and medicare.
Here's to the loss of individual rights and the economy that you are so protective of!
:)
Except that those illegal immigrants contributed to 96 billions dollars towards social security and medicare.
Here's to the loss of individual rights and the economy that you are so protective of!
:)
Dude is so annoying my mom immigrated to this country legally she is going through a process to get her green card she and my sister pay taxes and get zero benefits from it but this people that enter the country illegally get all the benefits from my mom’s and sister paid taxes without working a day in their life in this country while legal immigrants get nothing from the taxes that they pay out of their pockets.
"There used to be a light at the end of the tunnel, yet someone turned the light out, So people don't want to be in the tunnel anymore" good hard quote that hits hard.
Feels like the democratic party has just gone downhill ever since they decided to not go for Bernie back in 2016.
Yeah, one party is now much stronger than the other because they actually have a primary and not just a coronation where the candidate is picked by the party "elite".
They actually went downhill long before that. Somewhere in between Carter and Clinton, they decided that it would be better if they could get ultra rich donors like the Republicans, rather than rely entirely on the working middle and lower classes. What you're seeing now is a harvest that was planted back then.
It does feel like that.
I also noticed a distinct change in their behaviour since then. Before 2016, they were more level. But after 2016, they entered some kind of panic state. Like they realized they were losing grip but couldnt really comprehend it. All of a sudden their news became "for children", sensationalized. Everything after that was weird. I dont know what kind of CEO calls were made to news outlets but they lost their minds after that. They went the wrong direction.
US health care is complete trash. I spent 2 days in a hospital once, just recovering from medication issues. All I did was sleep and eat. After the first day, I told them I was fine but they literally wouldn’t let me leave. My bill was around 2,700$. I remember seeing on the bill “Ibuprofen : 100$” For two generic ibuprofen pills. Never paid it and still get calls to this day, over 2 years later.
I was 5-7 hours in hospital, in switzerland.
My bill was almost 2k lol. And thats only stay, no meds or ambulance (my family drove me)
Sadly we dont have the opprtunity to not pay lmao. Id have police at my door and would have to pay even more.
Medical care mandatory here, you have to pay on top of that. Which is 3-5k every year even if you never visit the doc or hospital
If collections calls you about medical debt they have to be able to provide an itemized bill to prove the debt. If not then they can't prove the debt and are harassing you. However, if they provide you and itemized bill from the hospital, then they and the hospital have violated HIPAA and can be sued. Medical debt can not legally be pursued by collections in the United States because of how strict and strong HIPAA regulation is.
@@owneddiagonal I thought Switzerland paid medical care with taxes.
@@Tentites You’re totally right, man
Brazil is poor and a mess, but healthcare is free. Even high cost meds, we can use the law to force the city to give
The best health insurance is simply giving the ER a different name every time you go in.
do they use finger prints and keep sample of your blood? just make sure you dont have an id on your when you go into the ER
money moves
Healthcare debt can't affect your credit score directly. If I get a huge medical bill I'm just not going to pay it lol
No, it’s when you’re homeless/have no money. Then you can use the ER as much as you want
@grantkeller4634 wrong.
I was 17 in 2016. Bernie has been the only candidate that actually made me want to vote for him. And then we got Trump. I haven't voted ever, because I don't want ANY of these people in power.
As a transgender individual, I agree that trans rights are not at the top of America's problems, fuck, it's not even in top 100000.
... I mean, I'd DEFINITELY put it in the top 100,000, considering how the bible belt goes, but also goddamn how many problems you think america as a whole has?! I definitely don't think it's top 50, but NOT EVEN TOP 100,000??? LIKE... YOU THINK DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IS A BIGGER PROBLEM?
yes,daylight savings is a far bigger problem
I don’t think we even have that many problems
@@titusfortunus2916 Daylight savings is America's biggest issue.
Kamala did not mention trans people a single time, and refused to answer questions on them the entire time. Trans people were literally not part of the election, but they supposedly lost the election for her anyway. Are you saying Kamala might have won if she came out strongly against trans rights? If she tried to ban trans people accessing healthcare in prison? Is that really what you think is necessary, and would you find it acceptable?
“People used to think there was a light at the end of the tunnel and then somebody turned the light out, and now nobody wants to be in the tunnel”
Nailed it here Asmon.
Mamre is a cave not a tunnel
100%
I'd love a political party that is anti woke but also supports progressive policies like universal healthcare.
I shouldn't have to choose between healthcare and being called racist, sexist, and transphobic for existing as a white dude.
We should be able to address the housing crisis and say that anti white racism has gotten out of fucking control.
Can we just be sane again, please?
Your political spectrums have been carefully curated on both sides to make sure you get screwed no matter what you choose.
The RNC and DNC are not an expression of the voting base. They are both curated from the top down.
Universal healthcare sucks ass. You pay more in taxes and they have no incentive to provide decent care. Not to mention the wait times are measured in months and years.
The problem with that is the “progressive policies” are the reason why you can’t afford health care on your own.
Nothing is free and the government wastes 80% of the money they take in..
If you want healthcare pay for it yourself.. but you can’t because these “progressive policies” are taxing the S out of us all while they “redistribute” the money after skimming 80% off the top.
If the government would get their nose out of everything, health care wouldn’t be so expensive in the first place and we’d take more home from our paycheck to allow us all to actually pay for it when we need it..
And truth be told, Healthcare is not as important as people are brainwashed to believe. A lot of the time healthcare and doctors visits to do “preventative” care is just a way for them to make more money indefinitely off those that didn’t need it in the first place.
When Obamacare passed and people lost their coverage, they were neither poor enough to qualify for assistance, nor wealthy enough to afford their own healthcare. So they had no healthcare and suffered a $600 penalty on their taxes. Is this what you want? Not to mention long queues and uncaring incompetent doctors.
We will eventually. We need to weed out the influence of the sources of insanity. The next 4 years is going to be largely about this.
I will never understand how right wing people were duped into hating unions so hard. On every level, they exemplify right wing thought. It's free market in labor terms. Not allowing unions encroaches on an indiviluals free agency to do what they fucking want. Who are companies or the government to tell me I can't have a fucking meeting with other trades people to negotiate wages at a company? Controlling who I meet and what I say on my own time? That's un-american. Now should companies be able to look for and hire non-union workers? Of course. It's a free labor market. Unions raise wages as much as they can, corps lower them as much as they can... as long as corps do use dirty tricks and money for unfair advantage, it balances out.
$20 an hour is the old $10. If you're making $15.. That's only like $7.50 an hour. That's not a livable wage. That's not even a getting by wage.
i know there was an interview with bernie not that long ago where he argued that we've been fighting for 15$ for so long that we need 20$ now. not sure which interview though, so i cant source it.
Yeah my bottom line “friend/family price” is at least 20… its a solemn wakeup call when i thought about it
I make 30/hr my wife makes 21.50hr and we still live paycheck to paycheck. We haven’t been able to go on vacation since before COVID when we regularly took one maybe 2 a year. We have 1 child (teenager) and live in the Midwest for reference.
And increasing the minimum wage "will absolutely" fix these problems😂
To clarify I’m not for raising the minimum wage. I’m for eliminating it altogether. Make companies compete more instead of just here’s the minimum. Along with abolishing income tax.
CEO pay is out of control. There are plenty of statistics out there showing CEO pay since the 80's has gone up by, at least, over 1,300%.
Yeah, I've been seeing that and researching it. Don't get me wrong, They should be paid handsomely for bringing the companies' wealth. The problem that I have is CEOs get a fat bonus while they lay off workers, profit is in the gutter compared to the year before that, and still keep their job. Like one CEO got a couple million, but a couple weeks before that had employees laid off... His bonus could have funded those departments for years or at least transitioned those employees to other sectors, places, ect. I guess I am complaining to complain. Some CEO and boards actually care though.
Nobody with popularity and power talks about this because they have no idea what it's like
And yet you have no problems with scum like Bernie that never worked a single day in his life becoming a millionaire by stealing your tax dollars.
@@xeternalxdreamsx The credit of the companies wealth doesn't actually go to the CEO, it goes to the board of directors. Execs get way too much credit when the Board of Investors are above them on the ladder, and are more responsible for the company's policy and direction.
@danriedi7653 So, like he or she basically reports to the board? They give the person goals (sales, ect), directives, and so on to work towards? My bad for assuming it was just the CEO. Maybe both? ;)
It’s so refreshing to hear someone just expressing their opinions on political topics without excess emotion, especially when you acknowledge someone’s heathy thinking regardless of their political associations. Well done!
appreciate the content! I would like to listen to Bernie talk for longer than 5 seconds at a time though!
A huge problem is the fact they are just printing money. Every time they do that it dilutes (devalues) what you have. That is why you are paying three times the price for what you got at the grocery store a few years ago.
Kroger's already been outed as charging more than inflation accounts for. I'm sure there's others.
I'm not saying you're 100% wrong, but there's more to it than that. We live in a free market. The pandemic prices didn't come back down because people couldn't or didn't boycott to force them back down.
And the issue is they print it when they cant fund a bussiness bank or some other institution needed to run country. Just like they did in 2008. If individual goes bankrupt he goes to jail. If goverment does, individuals pay fot it.
@@o-mangaming5042 Inflation is caused by cost-push, where companies go out of business or cut back because they cannot afford wholesale prices. For example, suppliers are shutdown because they don’t have the lobbyist to be considered essential. Other inflation is caused by demand-pull. This is where customers compete with each other bidding up the price. For example, if a store is constantly running out of TP and cannot get more from their supplier, customers start to complain that the store is out, so they raise prices to keep the store filled. We experienced both of these.
They aren't printing money, they are borrowing money.
Not only is money pumped into the economy directly via special interests, but future tax payers must pay that money back plus interest.
Devaluation, stealing from future generations, enriching those who already have money.
I dont know if youre in the states, but ive lived in germany as an american for 20 years now, inflation is terrible here too, after covid and whats happening in ukraine. That's whats doing it here. That and the massive influx of immigrants who spend more (welfare) than they create.
He is right ! Sanders called it.
He was always right.
Considering Trump was almost assassinated, he was probably told not to run 3rd party or him and his family would be murdered.
Source: Seth Rich.
"These horses wouldn't have escaped if you closed these Barn doors" Bernard Sanders
*Bernie Funded Ukraine Not America...Bernie Gladly Gave Free Health & Housing For Illegals & Not Americans...Stay Clueless Tho Sunshine.*
WTF….he called it after the election. Where was he last week….oh yes… licking the boots of his “friends”.
Bernie is much more honest about calling it - it's not about reaching more people with the "messaging", it's about what the "messaging" contains and how honest it is. Propaganda didn't cut it this time around.
_Our social elites rely on propaganda because they legitimately think that the masses are uneducated and easy to manipulate._
_Funny how the nobility back in medieval times had the same mindset about the peasantry._
_So, still the same class war being waged: The Rich vs The Poor._
The soothing light at the end of your tunnel, was just a freight train coming your way.
It's the same in the UK... I now spend 8 months a year living in Eastern Europe (specifically the Balkans) because, even working full time as a trained chef, i cannot afford to live in my home town, or anywhere really for that matter, in the UK. This is ignoring the huge crime rates, horrible culture, terrible weather and the fact that the UK is now a police state where you can go to jail for making a meme.
Came to the UK in 2014, looking for more opportunities and better life from Bulgaria with the intention to stay here for good. I’m moving back to Bulgaria in January next year … it’s basically unbearable here at this point and it only gets worse
Brexit utterly fucked the British economy (even though the Brits like pretending the problem isn't there in the hope it goes away).
Another perk; cheap Raki
i agree man same story in scotland
@@Dimi.Petrov😮wow for real I knew it’s bad here in uk but is our that’s bad ??? ( I can’t blame you)
As a Bernie supporter and donor…. He still bends the knee to the democrats…. I just wish he’d walk the talk…..
Did he leave the Democratic Party?
@@RychNovsky-ld3hf yeah he is independent
I fairness he's an old-school guy, he's trying to work within the system.
They started targeting him and his family with lawfare like they later did with Trump. He doesn't have deep enough pockets to fight off the entire "justice" system.
@@RychNovsky-ld3hf He never has been in the party. He's the longest serving independent senator is U.S. history. He often votes with Democrats and caucuses with them. But he's not in the party. That's one of the main reasons he didn't get the nomination in 2016 or 2020.
I gotta respect the fact that Asmond is looking at things from the perspective of a citizen, without leaning towards a party. It sounds like you are moving through all of this with information and class. Hats off to my guy here
idk about "without leaning towards a party" but i agree with you otherwise
You’re joking right?
He’s moved almost exclusively from being a variety streamer to a right wing commentator over the past couple years.
He hates the right wing and you know it
@@transistor3115everything outside of communism is right wing to you guys
@@transistor3115I'd call him a libertarian centrist in American terms but prolly libertarian center-right on global terms. I don't think he crossed the overton window so much as it crossed over him.
Now those Palestine takes, that's a different story lmao
Bloody good Asmongold quote there: "You used to be able to work for something and be able to think that there was light at the end of the tunnel, and somebody turned the light out, so people don't want to be in the tunnel anymore."
As a former Democrat, i was gonna vote Bernie on my first election in 2016, but they decided to fuck him over. I flipped to republican after. Never looked back, glad i havent.
They really picked Hillary Clinton over this dude who was having crazy rallies in 2016 😂
and that is exactly what I did as well... the best way to send a message is with your vote. No one wants Trump... but he's the biggest slap in the face the the falsely labeled "party of the people"
Ok thats fine but you still need to look at what you ARE VOTING FOR
you can still vote bernie as an independent you just don't
And what exactly have reps done for you to never look back?
I'm 19 and I have been working since I dropped out of HS and got my GED at 17; I also was working summers since I was 16. In janurary of 24' I quit my job because I was getting harassed by coworkers and I just hit a breaking point. I feel so discriminated against for my age and I still can't find a job. I am so worried about being able to move out and be a successful adult but my family is flat broke and my mom is in bankruptcy. I have applied to so many jobs I cannot keep count. I have attended over 15 interviews getting ghosted after everytime. I have to do bottle returns to have enough gas to try and make it to the next one. I obviously cannot afford schooling and I am just trying to find anything but no luck yet. My truck is older than me and every day I turn it on I am worried it will break more. I don't have 2nd gear and its at 240,000 miles. I cannot afford insurance so I just hope I don't get hit and caught. I pray to god every day that it will get better but nothing happens. I think everyone is struggling and I pray for the other people in the same situation or worse. I can at least stay with my mom until I find something but it's hard because my girl got kicked out of her house and now stays with me. America needs help. God bless you all.
Don't drop out of HS, it's the fastest way to kill future income unless you start your own business. Go into a heavy labour industry, that at least will pay well and always needs people
Do a trade
@@martijnkoning3354I dropped out and never got my ged in 2012. I make 27/hr soon to be 32. I enjoy working the trades and with my hands. But dropping out definitely made 18-24 substantially more difficult until I started getting things established. The trades are dying for people though. Most companies will take no experience and train you. Don’t worry about joining a union.
@SOC675 yup, go find a community college that can get you a trade in bricklaying, plumbing, construction. Anything, shit pays well and your qualifications dont need to be much.
Ya but bernies leading the fight for womens rights in womens boxing and vollyball and swimming lets give him his due most popular lifelong politician eva. Lead us to free dumness bernie.
Thats what really matters not your problems brah.
The anchors trying to steer the conversation to identity politics versus the actual issues in this country says all you need to know. People are hurting.
Exactly, we must resist any group/entity that promotes this garbage as cover for the failure of the left.
At like the 2:20 mark, you couldn’t be more spot on. Every time something comes up I hadn’t planned for, I have to redo the entire next few months worth of budget it is so tight. I would be absolutely fucked if one, let alone 2 things broke, died, or went out on me.
The media totally brainwashed me against Bernie. I really had him all wrong. I might not agree with him on a lot of stuff, but at least he fights for the American people. I haven't felt that from a democrat in a long time.
What got me to not really like bernie was hassan was a bernie guy for awhile suprisingly enough and i always thought rip
So you were a Hillary or Biden voter? At least you've started to see the truth.
@@freakofferI mean a lot of idiots follow worthwhile people, then again Bernie has no balls and his last campaign was completely infiltrated because he focused so much on Trans crap as if that's a big issue.
ALL media went against him when he was about to win spreading missinformation.
Some newsreporters even saying Bernie would make communist storm New York Square like Fidel Castro and that wasent even Fox News.
If you REALLY listen to what hes saying, without immediatly going to the default "communist" square, and then think about what you would want yourself and what would benefit your family you will probably find that alot of it makes sense.
Oh and dont fall for the "how do you finance it" trap. That is also explained if you listen.
Lil bro almost made a breakthrough... Almost...
It's sad. I have had Medicare before and I was in the Army for 4 years when I was young. Those were the times where I have had the best healthcare. Now that I am firmly middle class, I can't afford to fix a tooth that got loosened in an accident 15 years ago and I haven't had a checkup in almost 20 years.
You can’t go to the VA?
United we stand.
Seriously man, use your VA benefits. I’ve gotten medical care, surgery, loan for my house, the list goes on.
It's insane, I went in last year needing a tooth pulled and I wanted to see about uhh a bridge? I think it's called. A fake tooth suspended between two real ones. Dude quoted me $3k. This was supposedly the more affordable option than having one new tooth implanted.
Take very good care of your teeth, kids. You got like 100 grand between your jaw and skull.
@@Harding1077 that's absolutely insane pricing, here in Europe, Latvia I paid 1500$ for a full implant, a bridge would cost me a few hundred dollars. (it's obviously euro but I am converting for y'all), getting a filling is like $100, and it's quality work because we have pretty strong local education for medicine.
I know it's more expensive in neighboring country Estonia, but I think they have other benefits as their country is more geared towards information technology, and it shows as they literally made skype, recently bolt (which is like eastern european uber) and a ton of smaller tech stuff, but the point is you reap what you sow, and I dont even know what USA is trying to do, I guess unisex bathrooms instead of caring for their people.
My kids arent going to have a good Christmas I know it's not about gifts but getting nothing still hurts. Shits got to change
Bernie Biden pelosi and Harris say you are welcome
Bernie Biden pelosi and Harris say you are welcome
Unfortunately, the greediest criminals in politics won so it's about to get a lot worse DESPITE what was said 💯 Make Christmas fun and they will remember it fondly, no matter what 🙏🏼
with the 1% legally sapping the middle class of wealth its ruining families. I honestly dont even want kids because i know situations like you say would most definitely happen to me and many others. ppl wonder why birth rates fall and its because the majority cant afford a family without becoming poor in some way.
It's only going to get worse so long as there's issue with logistics which there is. The war in Israel has made the Suez canal too dangerous to use, so cargo ships are diverting and going around Africa which is time-consuming and expensive. The other big issue is the Panama canal, which used to allow over 100 ships a day is out of water and is now barely able to allow 24 ships a day through.
Insult to injury, there's a bunch of tariffs played on imports now which will double in 2025. Who pays for the tariffs? You do. Companies with tariffs levied against them will just put the burden onto their goods, making them more expensive for us to buy. They get more money, our government gets more money and the people will pay for it.
To believe this economy is one persons fault or that a single person can fix it is a bit foolhardy. The whole world is in the same shoes, things are more expensive everywhere. I mean maybe Trump can end the war in Israel and the Suez canal can return to normal but he can't get more water into Panama. So prices for goods won't magically get cheaper, quite the contrary if more tariffs are applied.
I’m from NYC. I now live in Dayton, OH. I went to college, got my degree + 30k debt. Had a job all through college, and started working before starting college, never been unemployed longer than 4 months (even during Covid), and maybe a total of 8 months of unemployment in the 12 years I’ve been working, and my 30k college debt is STILL NOT PAID, I SOMEHOW OWE MORE? I NEVER MISSED A PAYMENT! Needless to say I stopped paying my student loan completely when Biden lied and said my loan would be forgiven, since it was never forgiven, I made the executive decision to forgot about it. I have lived check to check my entire life, never able to save over $1000 (although when I was younger it was a lot easier) and when I did the same or the very next day something would happen and I’d have to spend it on an emergency. I get paid 2x more at 30 years old than I was at 18 years old, but I somehow have LESS money in my pocket... When I was 18 I was able to pay rent and do stupid shit like buy a gold chain and a LV belt, today I can’t even fathom buying lunch for work… something needs to change, not tomorrow, not now. It needs to change yesterday. I seriously doubt trump will do anything to help, I’m hoping the current people around him try, but I also doubt it. That’s not to say Kamala would have done anything, she would have been worse. We need to wake up.
850 per month health insurance here. still 1100 deductable and 7000 out of pocket before 100% coverage. otherwise, large copays and hospital bills out of pocket til 7000. Yet I still have to pay extortion prices for insurance cause I've needed 1 surgery every year last 3 years for one reason or another. One of them would have killed me if I didn't and if I didn't have that overpriced insurance I'd no longer have a house. So I have to bend over, and take it
Same boat bro
In a nordic country you pay about 12% of every 10$ per month in taxes that goes to the universal healthcare.
Dont know how much you earn per month but say its 3k.
That would be around 360$ a month and it would cover ALL expenses, including ambulance, X-rays, scans, etc.
If you live near Canada, go there for treatment and medicine instead.
The "waiting time" is bullshit propaganda.
Come to Europe, you're welcome to work here!
Bernie's the only.. Democrat with the right attitude & making 100% complete sense right now. Who would've thought. I love it.
And to think if he only had a spine, which I think besides his policies that I personally disagree with, is his major flaw. I respected him a lot, disagreement or not, until he allowed himself to be swept aside by the establishment with barely so much as a whimper. The Dems messed up big by trying to maintain the status quo as far he goes, he was very popular.
Very surprising! Last I heard, he wanted to defect to Venezuela as a self proclaimed “communist”
during the cold and wet months of the year...every day i have to start up my old ass rust bucket it coughs and struggles like a 50 year smoker...can't afford a new one, can't afford the shop, can't afford to not show up at work...
the fucking anxiety before even turning the key is real. wonderful way to start your day really, wakes you up real good...
i’m with you there. my 2004 subaru outback has a blown head gasket, dead catalytic converter, brakes r going out, and it overheats… but just paid rent which was $950 so that means i get to eat ramen this week while only being able to drive to work and back to save on gas 👍🏻
The light at the end of the tunnel wasn’t just shut off, the end of the tunnel was bricked up and reinforced with concrete.