Wages Of “Democratic” Socialism
By Mitch Berg
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?
April 20th, 2016 at 10:10 am
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.
April 20th, 2016 at 11:03 am
You know there is no greater crime than hurting someone’s feelings.
But wait, is Bernie complaining that his Intellectual Capitalism is being stolen?
April 20th, 2016 at 11:12 am
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
April 20th, 2016 at 11:19 am
I encouraged them to come out with a follow-up shirt making reference to the gulags and reeducation camps. This is great!
April 20th, 2016 at 11:20 am
“Bernie–because 100 million people dead in the gulags is not enough!”
April 20th, 2016 at 11:20 am
“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?”
April 20th, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Clottin is claiming total victory after New York. If he knows what’s good for him, the Bern will exit while he still can.
April 20th, 2016 at 4:31 pm
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.
April 20th, 2016 at 5:03 pm
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.
April 20th, 2016 at 9:21 pm
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.
April 20th, 2016 at 9:52 pm
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 5:57 am
I look forward to a budget from Congress…..
April 21st, 2016 at 7:07 am
You didn’t like Ted Cruz’s negotiating style with POTUS?
April 21st, 2016 at 7:23 am
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 7:50 am
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 7:58 am
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 3:59 pm
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 6:05 pm
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 6:05 pm
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.
April 21st, 2016 at 7:24 pm
“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
April 21st, 2016 at 9:57 pm
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.