Wages Of “Democratic” Socialism

Sanders campaign tries to get a restraining order against a parody:

Yesterday, April 14th, the Bernie Sanders campaign sent a cease and desist letter claiming that I am unlawfully selling my parodies because they used the likeness of the official Bernie Sanders for President logo in this shirt.

Here’s the satirical image (with a click-through to the site where you can buy this samizdat classic):

What next:  Book-Berning?

21 thoughts on “Wages Of “Democratic” Socialism

  1. I used to have a shirt with Wellstone(!) taking VI Lennin’s famous revolutionary pose. Never wore it though, because Wellstoners thought it was a support shirt.

  2. You know there is no greater crime than hurting someone’s feelings.

    But wait, is Bernie complaining that his Intellectual Capitalism is being stolen?

  3. There is a book out there (Kate Daloz author) about a hippie commune in Vermont. The Bern went there in 1971 but got kicked out because he was too lazy to do any of the work. Also….she said the adults there would lead the kids in pro-Ho Chi Minh chants. So we have a lazy commie leading the Democrat party. I guess that pretty much sums up today’s Democrat party

  4. I encouraged them to come out with a follow-up shirt making reference to the gulags and reeducation camps. This is great!

  5. “Bernie–who cares if he could stand in a bread line on his honeymoon and not figure out that something was very, very wrong with the Soviet Union?”

  6. Clottin is claiming total victory after New York. If he knows what’s good for him, the Bern will exit while he still can.

  7. I wonder if Che would have the same complaints about his mug being on all the red t-shirts. If he were still alive, that is.

    I wonder of all those brainless Che-tshirt-wearing snowflakes are aware that he murdered gays simply because they were gay. It’s just as sweet of a leftist dilemma as Margaret Sanger being in favor of eugenics and abortion to cull the black population.

  8. Don’t be fooled by the words “democrat socialist.” Bernard is a true believer. He wants to destroy freedom and replace it with arbitrary rule by people like himself.
    Like Krugman, Sanders wants the government to have the power to micromanage banking, but he is smart enough to know that whatever regulatory system is put in place will be gamed or captured by the banks.
    So, like Krugman, his response is to want to leave the rules-making process arbitrary and lawless. What’s a big bank? You’ll know when we tell you. What are the rules for minority representation on the board? We’ll let you know if you don’t have it right.

  9. We’re being lied to on both sides. On the Republican side, we hear we don’t need taxes for anything, on the Democratic side, we hear how we can have a European Style Welfare state without European level taxes.

  10. I have never in my life heard a Republican say that we didn’t need taxes for anything. A Libertarian, yes, a Republican, no.
    Even before the hated income tax and social security taxes, we still had taxes. There are both liberal and conservative arguments for repealing the 16th amendment, just as there are both liberal and conservative arguments against sales taxes and government lotteries.
    The lack of democratic control of the largest government budget in the history of the universe (yes, we have that) is outrageous.

  11. A lot of Sanders’ popularity is due to our malpracticing journalists. Some people think that soft socialism is okay because it pushes for state ownership of public services. Highways, even airlines can be considered a public good. An argument can be made that health care is public good.
    Bernie thinks you have too many choices of underarm spray and tennis shoes. Only a hardcore commie thinks the government needs to manage your choice of personal hygeine products and of footwear. Bernie believes this with all of his heart.
    One of the remarkable things about the old Soviet Union was the lack of civility strangers showed towards one another. Russians treated friends and family one way, strangers another. Public spaces were squalid. When it rained in Moscow, traffic would stop for a minute while everyone stopped their car to install the wiper blades. If you left them on the outside of your car, they would be stolen.
    There would be riots when the vodka ration was reduced. Bribes were necessary to get anasthesia from the dentist. Drunken cops would extort money from motorists.
    And Bernie was right there in Russia when all this was happening in the 1980s.
    Bernie saw that and thought that the US needs more communism.

  12. On the Republican side, we hear we don’t need taxes for anything..

    Your willingness to put your empty skull on public display is a blessing to all comedy fans, dooshbag.

  13. on the Democratic side, we hear how we can have a European Style Welfare state without European level taxes…

    And your child like penchant for outrageous lies is a tribute to your leftist trash ilk.

    Leftists have no compunction with assuring everyone that their welfare state will cost a CEO’s ransom.

  14. BG: If Cruz wins the GOP nominee, conservatives will no longer have the opportunity to say: “we lost because we didn’t nominate a true conservative.”

    I never imagined anything could convince me to vote for Hillary. But Cruz might do it.

  15. Emery, I keep pointing out that nominating establishment/moderate GOP candidates can’t be the answer because it does not win elections. That does not mean that I believe that Americans will fly to the polls to vote for Cruz.

  16. Emery, I keep pointing out that nominating establishment/moderate GOP candidates can’t be the answer because it does not win elections. That does not mean that I believe that Americans will fly to the polls to vote for Cruz.

  17. “At this point, nobody is getting 1,237. Donald is going to talk all the time about other folks not getting to 1,237; he’s not getting there either. None of us are getting to 1,237. We are definitely headed to Cleveland,” Cruz told reporters today after a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania. “And in Cleveland, the people are going to prevail.”

    I wonder which people he means. Damn… Laughing at this clown is basically a full-time job

  18. I think a look at the rules approved before the start of the GOP convention will tell you what is going to happen. If it is made easier to peel the delegates away from the candidate they were chosen to support, the GOPe (TM) will try to put Kasich or Bush in the driver’s seat.

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