Comrade Bernie Sanders' reveals his 'hit list' of anti-endorsements

I want my pudding

Communist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a list of 13 "anti-endorsements" as he put it, on Wednesday.  He bragged that he is "proud" to be opposed by "modern-day oligarchs" including Disney CEO Bob Iger, billionaire Haim Saban, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone. In fact, anyone who makes more money than he brings in, or has more or bigger homes than he has, is a worthless capitalist oligarch.

Others on the list were former Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam (who has called Sanders' socialist views "contemptible"), former General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein (who has implied that Sanders' efforts could be "dangerous").

The politics of communism and socialism is the politics of envy and loathing. It is immoral at its core.

Conspicuously absent from the list was Rahm Emanuel, the former Democratic Obama-buddy and failed Chicago mayor, whom Sanders condemned during the 2016 presidential campaign.

"I want to thank Rahm Emanuel for not endorsing me," Sanders wrote at the time. "I don’t want the endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers."

Sanders actually wants to pay "awl teachas sixty-thousand dollahs," and use American taxpayer money to pay for it.

Sanders' anti-endorsements were posted to his campaign website, and they began with a headlining quote from far-left President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

And Sanders has made his share of enemies starting with the leaders of the commune who had to fire him years ago for not doing his "fair share" of the work. And speaking of teachers, there's the college his wife headed that failed and she allegedly lied about the needed funding, which created legal enemies for the Sanders clan.

In an accompanying statement, Sanders threw in some fiery rhetoric of his own.

“You can tell who is truly fighting for working families by the enemies they make, and we've made a lot of enemies,” Sanders said truthfully, because nobody likes a lazy communist who wants you to pay them for being alive. “We understand that nothing will fundamentally change for working Americans unless we have the guts to take on the most powerful corporate interests in this country. [By "take on the most powerful corporate interests" he means, 'to have government take over corporations and all businesses and make him the leader.] "Therefore, it should come as no surprise that corporate CEOs and billionaires have united against our takeover movement. These people have a vested interest in preserving the status quo so they can keep their grip on power and continue to exploit working people across America [instead of allowing me the opportunity]. We welcome their hatred.” [Bracketed text are my thoughts.]



Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger was named to Sanders' anti-endorsement list.

"While Kenneth Langone has a net worth of $3.7 billion, Home Depot pays wages so low that many of its workers are forced to rely on food stamps, Medicaid and public housing subsidized by U.S. taxpayers," read one blurb on the anti-endorsement list. 

"Today, cashiers at Home Depot make as little as $9 an hour -- the very definition of a starvation wage." [But it's a wage that workers agreed to, and is a wage that doesn't really reflect the average wage of the company. Often the people making that wage are new employees or retirees wanting to remain in the workforce.]

Sanders, briefly the Democrat presidential frontrunner, has trailed former Vice President Joe Biden in fundraising and polling since Biden's entrance into the race. Apparently, normal Americans realize that his promises are on par with the "you can keep your doctor" promise made by another Democrat several years ago.

In a related bit of business, Sander, Independent senator from Vermont, on Tuesday criticized liberal mega-donor Tom Steyer's decision to throw his hat in the ring for the 2020 presidential election.


"I like Tom personally," Sanders told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. "But I do have to say as somebody who in this campaign has received two million campaign contributions, averaging I believe $19 a person, I am a bit tired of seeing billionaires trying to buy political power."

Earlier this year, Sanders sparred with progressive activist groups that pointed out that he has since largely dropped his criticisms of "millionaires and billionaires," opting instead to single out "billionaires" only -- ever since Sanders himself became a millionaire, because he is a hypocritical leftist hack.

Sanders has released tax returns showing that he and his wife paid a 26 percent effective tax rate on $561,293 in income, and made more than $1 million in both 2016 and 2017. Sanders donated only $10,600 to charity in 2016 and $36,300 in 2017, the records showed, followed by nearly $19,000 in 2018.

Those relatively minimal charitable contributions led critics on both sides of the aisle to accuse him of hypocrisy. But Joe Biden gave far less than even Sanders gave.

"People like Sanders ... would have more credibility if they didn’t engage in such hypocritical practices, condemning the big, bad rich people whose greed they want to harness for their own allegedly benevolent bidding," Liz Wolfe wrote in The Federalist.

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