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Bernie Sanders: “For the first time in our 250 year history, we have a…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

WHOA! Bernie BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN at PACKED RALLY.

Published March 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 31:12

Let us take a real look at what is going on in our country. And I should tell you that the problems we face are not only domestic. For the first time in our 250 year history, we have a president who is turning his back on democracy and aligning us with, with authoritarianism. No, Mr. Trump, Ukraine did not start this war. Russia did. No, Mr. President, Zelensky is not a dictator. Putin is. We must not abandon the people of. (31:12–31:27)

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Asserts that [Trump] is the first U.S. president to align with authoritarianism.

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“America has been moving toward an oligarchy. Well, we're no longer moving toward that oligarchy.”
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“The oligarchs, led by Mr. Musk, the wealthiest man on Earth are on the war path against the working families of our country.”
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“The most serious addiction that we have is that we are looking at an addiction of greed on the part of the ruling class of this country.”
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“This is not an economic issue. We can talk about it from an economic perspective. This is more of a psychiatric issue.”
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“Millions of kids will be thrown off of the health care that they have.”
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“Nursing homes get two thirds of their funding from Medicaid.”
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“40% of [community health centers'] revenue comes from Medicaid.”
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“22% of seniors are trying to survive on $15,000 a year or less.”
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“50% of seniors trying to get by on $30,000 a year.”
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“Some 30,000 people die every year waiting for understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits.”
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“Trump administration announced that they were going to lay off 83,000 employees at the Veterans Administration.”
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“Musk want to dismantle the Department of Education.”
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“They want to go after nutrition programs to the tune of $230 billion.”
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“Fire, which they are doing, hundreds of thousands of federal employees.”
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“People like Musk are working day and night trying to expand artificial intelligence and robotics.”
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“President Trump is very effective in creating what I would call a parallel universe.”
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“Trump claimed, has claimed over and over again that the 2020 elections was stolen from him and that he won by a landslide.”
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“Before Trump took office by claiming that that legislation, which had been worked on because I was involved in it for months by Democrats…”
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“It's a 3.4% increase, not a 40% increase.”
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“This is an outrageous lie. And in my view, he does this in order to lay the groundwork for, for cuts to Social Security and in fact…”
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“Millions and millions of seniors are kept out of poverty because of Social Security.”
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“We remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right.”
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“We pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.”
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“One out of four Americans cannot afford the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe.”
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“60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.”
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“We have over 20 million people spending more than 50% of their limited incomes on housing.”
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“We have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of our nation.”
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“The three wealthiest people in America own more wealth than the bottom half of American society, 170 million people.”
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“Our life expectancy [in the U.S.] is four years lower.”
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“The life expectancy for the bottom 50% of Americans is seven years shorter than for the wealthy people in this country.”
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“We can create millions of good paying jobs, transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable…”
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“Speech, had not one word to say about the crisis of climate change, except drill, baby, drill.”
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“Ukraine who were invaded by Putin. We must always stand up for democracy, not dictatorship.”
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“Musk spent some $270 million to help Trump get elected, and his reward is that he was made the most powerful person in the US Government.”
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“This corrupt campaign finance system.”
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“Be able to buy elections.”
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“Workers to exercise their constitutional right to form a union.”
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“Musk and Trump and these guys are in the business of cutting Social Security.”
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“The oligarchs are enormously powerful. They control the economy. They control our political system to a large degree. They have enormous…”
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“I will be introducing legislation very shortly to prevent any more funding for the Netanyahu government.”
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“We got 19 senators to support a ban on arms sales for Netanyahu.”
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